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WorkWorkHypervelocity Stars Hint at a Supermassive Black Hole Just outside the Milky Way - Scientific American (No paywall) An astonishing fact only known for the past few decades is that every big galaxy in the universe has a supermassive black hole at its heart. This was suspected in the 1980s, and observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, which has peered deep into the cores of galaxies all across the sky, confirmed it. The normal kinds of black holes made when stars explode range from five to about 100 times the mass of the sun, more or less. But these central galactic monsters are millions of times more massive, and some have grown to the Brobdingnagian heft of billions of solar masses. WorkInto The Tunnel The NASA Ames low speed open wind tunnel is a cavern: A vast 120 foot wide yawning gulf, its ceiling studded with lights, it makes humans look puny & insectile. In its centre, a rotating disc holds full size aircraft or trucks. Shadow swallows the rear as the cylcopian duct disappears into a bank of colossal fans, relentlessly grasping. Up front, a huge grid shapes and straightens the air as it builds past gale force to 115 miles per hour. Supplying this colossal energy takes 104 megawatts, a small city’s worth of power. It’s the largest wind tunnel in the world. WorkWhat did dinosaurs sound like? You'd feel it more than hear it – a deep, visceral throb, emerging from somewhere beyond the thick foliage. Like the rumble of a foghorn, it would thrum in your ribcage and bristle the hairs on your neck. In the dense forests of the Cretaceous period, it would have been terrifying.
WorkWorkHow to Disappear - The Atlantic (No paywall) You could easily mistake Alec Harris for a spy or an escaped prisoner, given all of the tradecraft he devotes to being unfindable. Mail addressed to him goes to a UPS Store. To buy things online, he uses a YubiKey, a small piece of hardware resembling a thumb drive, to open Bitwarden, a password manager that stores his hundreds of unique, long, random passwords. Then he logs in to Privacy.com, a subscription service that lets him open virtual debit cards under as many different names as he wishes; Harris has 191 cards at this point, each specific to a single vendor but all linked to the same bank account. This isolates risk: If any vendor is breached, whatever information it has about him won’t be exploitable anywhere else. WorkWork
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WorkWorkDiscord might use AI to help you catch up on conversations Discord has become the place for gaming communities on the internet. The company just celebrated its 10th anniversary, and its impact is now big enough that it’s available directly on PlayStation and Xbox and was ripped off by Nintendo for the Switch 2’s GameChat. WorkI Hated Smart Glasses, but Google's Android XR Let Me See a New Future For 5 minutes on Tuesday, I felt like Benji in Mission: Impossible -- Rogue Nation. But instead of wearing smart glasses at the Vienna State Opera and hearing Tom Cruise's voice, I was standing in a 5-by-5-foot wooden shed at the Google's I/O developer conference with Gemini AI in my ear. Work
WorkFind the Place You Love. Then Move There. - The Atlantic (No paywall) Several years ago, I was sitting on a flight to San Francisco, when my seatmate, a man a little older than me, struck up a conversation. Perhaps you hate it when that happens; I love it. In addition to being an extrovert, I’m a social scientist, so I’m always fascinated by what I can learn about people through conversations. Have you ever wanted to know how I come up with column topics? Now you know. WorkAuthors Are Accidentally Leaving AI Prompts In their Novels Fans reading through the romance novel Darkhollow Academy: Year 2 got a nasty surprise last week in chapter 3. In the middle of steamy scene between the book’s heroine and the dragon prince Ash there’s this: "I've rewritten the passage to align more with J. Bree's style, which features more tension, gritty undertones, and raw emotional subtext beneath the supernatural elements:" WorkWork
WorkJupiter Was Formerly Twice Its Current Size and Had a Much Stronger Magnetic Field Understanding Jupiter's early evolution helps illuminate the broader story of how our solar system developed its distinct structure. Jupiter's gravity, often called the "architect" of our solar system, played a critical role in shaping the orbital paths of other planets and sculpting the disk of gas and dust from which they formed. WorkWorkWhy 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever - WIRED (No paywall) WIRED senior writer Andy Greenberg has been reporting on ghost guns for more than a decade. He first used a 3D printer to assemble a gun in 2015, and he says that today's process is not only faster but cheaper. We talk to Andy about how he legally printed the same gun Luigi Mangione allegedly used in the alleged killing of the United Healthcare CEO last year, and whether US law is keeping up with the technology of 3D-printed guns. WorkThe Payroll Law You Are Probably Breaking - Inc (No paywall) If shes a salaried exempt employee, you probably havent crossed a legal line. Its frustrating, but this is one of those trade-offs that go with paying people by salary. Its always legal to pay people by the hour, but then you owe overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a week.
WorkWorkWorkWorkTwelve injured in knife attack at Hamburg station Twelve people have been injured in a knife attack at the main railway station in the German city of Hamburg, local media is reporting. Local media reports say three of the victims are in critical condition, with three others seriously injured.
WorkIn its flagship journal, the CDC keeps publishing papers after firing scientists who made the research possible - STAT (No paywall) Before it became a national scandal, the lead-poisoning-from-applesauce case was just two little kids with concerning blood test results in Hickory, N.C. A state inspector drove out with local health officials in June 2023 to try to find the source. He powered up his X-ray fluorescence analyzer like a cross between a laser gun and a power tool which emitted a beam that dislodges electrons, coaxing out chemical fingerprints, and pointed it at surface after surface. Doors, door jambs, walls, couches, windowsills, blinds, toys, siding strips, 150 or 200 shots in all. WorkWorkUS banana giant Chiquita fires thousands over Panama strike Workers have been on strike for more than a month, as part of nation-wide industrial action protesting new social security laws lowering pensions. The government has branded the strikes “illegal” and said the sackings are the result of workers’ “intransigence”. Work WorkDigg co-founder offers to save Pocket as Mozilla winds it down - 9to5Mac Pocket has helped millions save articles and discover stories worth reading. But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today. Discovery also continues to evolve; Pocket helped shape the curated content recommendations you already see in Firefox, and that experience will keep getting better. Meanwhile, new features like Tab Groups and enhanced bookmarks now provide built-in ways to manage reading lists easily. WorkWorkA pro-doping sporting contest is coming to Las Vegas - The Economist (No paywall) IT IS NOW official: the worlds first sporting contest to encourage the use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs) will take place in Las Vegas in May 2026. The Enhanced Games, as the controversial event is known, will feature track, field, swimming and strength competitions and will be held at purpose-built venues at Resorts World, an entertainment complex. It is expected to feature between 60 and 100 athletes, some of whom will compete without chemical assistance. WorkSomething has gone very wrong: how the carers scandal was exposed The injustices and cruelty of the system may be with us for some time. The Shahars are appealing against the overpayment demand. "It just seems so unfair that it's not even real," said Guy, words that would undoubtedly echoed by hundreds of thousands of other carers. "In any sort of ethical world, this would not happen." 
WorkWorkWorkUkraine and Russia Begin Largest Exchange of Prisoners of War Russia and Ukraine began their largest exchange of prisoners of war on Friday, with each side returning 390 soldiers and civilians, according to both governments. More swaps were expected on Saturday and Sunday, as the two countries have committed to exchange 1,000 prisoners each. Work 
WorkThe Father of Modern Metal - Nautilus (No paywall) Sometime in 1882, a skinny, dark-haired, 11-year-old boy named Harry Brearley entered a steelworks for the first time. A shy kid—he was scared of the dark, and a picky eater—he was also curious, and the industrial revolution in Sheffield, England, offered much in the way of amusements. He enjoyed wandering around town—he later called himself a Sheffield Street Arab—watching road builders, bricklayers, painters, coal deliverers, butchers, and grinders. He was drawn especially to workshops; if he couldn’t see in a shop window, he would knock on the door and offer to run an errand for the privilege of watching whatever work was going on inside. Factories were even more appealing, and he had learned to gain access by delivering, or pretending to deliver, lunch or dinner to an employee. Once inside, he must have reveled, for not until the day’s end did he emerge, all grimy and gray but for his blue eyes. Inside the steelworks, the action compelled him so much that he spent hours sitting inconspicuously on great piles of coal, breathing through his mouth, watching brawny men shoveling fuel into furnaces, hammering white-hot ingots of iron. WorkWhat the era of sovereign AI means for chip makers - WSJ (No paywall) Nvidia and rivals including Broadcom, Marvell and Advanced Micro Devices design the key components that supply the massive computing horsepower required for AI services. They are all recipients of the hundreds of billions of dollars that megacap tech companies based in the U.S. are investing to build those services. WorkWork 
WorkTrump Threatens Apple With 25% Tariff on iPhones In a post shared via TruthSocial on Friday, the President said: "I have long ago informed Tim Cook of Apple that I expect their iPhones that will be sold in the United States of America will be manufactured and built in the United States, not India, or anyplace else. If that is not the case, a Tariff of at least 25% must be paid by Apple to the U.S." WorkWorkWorkWith REAL ID, America now has national ID cards and internal passports I don't have a REAL ID–compliant driver's license and don't plan to get one. I figure if the federal government wants to implement internal passports in the U.S., which after 20 years of political and legal battles is now happening, we might as well be honest about it and use actual passports. So, from now on, I'll enter the secure areas of airports and federal buildings with my actual passport, which is good for travel both external and internal to the U.S. Or we could call REAL ID–compliant licenses, which must adhere to federal standards, "national ID cards." A little honesty is a good thing. Work TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us | Advertise | Privacy PolicyUnsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs.
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