America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration "said on Tuesday that it will rewrite its vehicle lighting standards," reports Reuters, "to address concerns about headlight glare and allow for the latest safety-improving lighting technologies." NHTSA said it plans to improve rules for LEDs, dusk sensors, automatic high beams and replaceable light sources. The agency will also evaluate headlamp height and aim and how they impact driver visibility and address headlight glare and make appropriate changes. Complaints about glare from headlights have increased and some lawmakers have urged the government to set a maximum headlight brightness standard. A growing number of taller trucks and SUVs on roads has also led to more complaints about glare. LEDs, which now account for most headlights in new cars, are much brighter than traditional halogen headlights... The issue still accounts for a small number of nighttime crashes, according to a study last year from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS). The study noted that headlight glare contributes to far fewer crashes than insufficient visibility... Federal headlight standards for minimum and maximum brightness have not changed since 1997, IIHS noted. The study found that drivers older than 70 appear to be most affected by headlight glare. In 2022, NHTSA said it would allow automakers to install adaptive driving beam headlights on new vehicles. The devices adjust the headlight beam pattern to dim portions directed at other vehicles. Thanks to Slashdot reader technology_dude for sharing the news.

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食事中でも布団の中でもスマートフォンを触り続けてしまうという人は多いはず。iPhoneはApple公式システムの「Apple Configurator」を使うことでインストールするアプリを制限してSNSや動画アプリの使いすぎを防ぐことができます。

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Samsungが本体を横折りで折りたためるスマートフォン「Galaxy Z Fold8 Ultra」「Galaxy Z Fold8」と、縦折りで折りたためるスマートフォン「Galaxy Z Flip8」を2026年8月にリリースしました。Foldは8世代目、Flipは7世代目で、それぞれ歴代最薄ボディに進化を遂げているということなので、どんな端末なのかを借りて確かめてみました。

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話題のマルチツール端末Flipper Zeroの新モデル「Flipper One」の開発が進行中。Linux搭載でRaspberry Pi 5を超える性能やスペック、発売予定について解説します。

登場から40年以上を経て今でもなお人気のテトリス。いわゆる落ちものゲームの元祖で、非常にシンプルなパズルですが、そのシンプルさがクセになります。ミラノ発のファッションウォッチブランド「D1 Milano」が、テトリスとコラボ。テトリスのブロ…

こんなのあったらいいなをすべて形にしてくれるサンコー。冬用ガジェットとして、すでに暖かい系アイテムが登場していますが、商品名を聞くだけであったかくなるアイテムがあります。その名も「おなかぽかぽかポッケ」。ポケットの中って冬は指先の避難場所で…

Googleの新しいAIゲームプラットフォーム「Playground」で、チャット形式で簡単にゲーム開発や共有が楽しめる魅力を紹介します。

"What did four astronauts see, notice, and document as they traveled around the Moon during NASA's Artemis II mission?" asks a new NASA web page, offering some fascinating pictures and video: Through photographs, spoken observations, drawings, and annotations, the Artemis II crew created a unique scientific record — one that is now available to the science community and the public for further study... As part of the mission science plan, lunar scientists asked the Artemis II crew to watch for tiny flashes sparked by rocky fragments hitting the Moon. Even so, some scientists were astonished when astronauts reported seeing five extremely faint "pinprick" bursts of light from 46,000 miles away. After ruling out other sources — cosmic rays or reflections from the spacecraft — the science team confirmed the sightings... The impact flash observations happened during a planned loss of communications while the Artemis II crew was on the far side of the Moon... Apollo astronauts saw similar flashes from lunar orbit, but the Artemis crew likely caught the faintest ever seen with the unaided eye. From the brightness of the flashes, scientists estimated that incoming rocks were each no more than a couple of inches wide. Despite their size, they were traveling thousands of miles per hour, producing just enough light upon impact to be visible. The nearly hour-long total solar eclipse that the crew experienced while passing by the Moon's far side created ideal dark conditions for spotting such subtle bursts. With no atmosphere to slow or burn up incoming debris, projectiles slam freely into the lunar surface. The crew's direct observations of this process on the Moon's far side provided a rare dataset that will help us understand how often these small impacts occur, which is essential for assessing long-term risks to future lunar habitats and infrastructure... The crew reported seeing subtle hues of gray, black, brown, tan, white, green, and blue across the Moon's surface. This muted rainbow offers clues to the rocks and minerals that make up different lunar regions, helping scientists piece together how the Moon — and, by extension, Earth — evolved over time. "Amazing news," Mission Control responded when they heard about the flashes. Space.com reports that when a Mission Control operator looked over at the Science Evaluation Room, "they were jumping up and down, literally." NASA blogged this week that more than 800 gigabytes of Artemis II lunar science data — some previously unreleased — "have been uploaded to NASA's Planetary Data System, the public archive for NASA's planetary missions." This data release includes more than 11,000 full-resolution images and video of the Moon from the crew's handheld cameras and the Orion spacecraft's cameras, 8.5 hours of audio recordings of the crew's scientific observations of the lunar surface, and crew-annotated images... Along with this data, NASA has released the Artemis II Preliminary Lunar Science Report, the Artemis II Lunar Science Operations Report, and the Artemis II Lunar Science Data User Guide.

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近年は特に先進国における出生率低下が著しく、多くの国では合計特殊出生率が人口を維持するのに必要な「2.1」を下回っています。そんな中、フィンランドのヘルシンキ大学が主導した研究では、「出産した回数」が母親の寿命に影響を与える可能性があることがわかりました。

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パソコンの熱を冷却に利用する画期的な新技術を解説。形状記憶合金の膜を使った驚きの逆転発想で、未来のエコな冷却システムを紹介します。

ベンキュージャパンは、「Amazon プライム感謝祭」と先行セールに注目のディスプレイやプロジェクターを出品予定だ。

WireGuardでVPNを運用していると、新しい端末を追加するたびに公開鍵やIPアドレスを確認して設定ファイルを書き換える作業が発生します。「wg-admin」は既存のWireGuard設定をそのまま引き継ぎ、Peerの追加や編集、QRコードの生成、接続状況の確認などをブラウザから行えるオープンソースの管理ツールです。

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外出時の荷物を最小限に！モンベルのパッカブルギアをご紹介。バーサライトパックやジャケットなど、コンパクトで便利なアイテムの魅力をまとめ担当者が解説します。

生成AIの発達により、写真やイラストなどのアート作品がAIを使って大量に生み出されています。そんな中、イギリスの公共放送局であるBBCが、1996年に放送した「絵画を制作できるAI」について取り上げた番組のアーカイブを公開しています。

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サーモン、まぐろ、イクラ軍艦を忠実に再現したカシオのG-SHOCK寿司モデルが登場。ユニークなデザインと気になる価格を紹介します。

CNN reports: The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive and ransomware expert as part of the investigation of a damaging hack that exposed the sensitive data of current and former FBI employees, according to court documents and people familiar the investigation. Edward Dubrovsky was arrested in the Philadelphia area in recent days... Dubrovsky is facing charges related to extortion and making threats. He has been transferred to Texas's Eastern District for a scheduled detention hearing, according to court records and a law enforcement official. FBI Director Kash Patel announced the arrest on Friday but did not disclose where it occurred or what role the man is suspected of playing in the hack. Patel also didn't name Dubrovsky, but CNN confirmed the defendant is believed to be tied to the FBI hack through multiple people familiar with the investigation... A LinkedIn profile under Dubrovsky's name lists years of experience in the Canadian cybersecurity industry and describes Dubrovsky as a 'globally recognized cybersecurity expert.' An Ed Dubrovsky is also the author of a book on handling ransomware negotiations with cybercriminals... There has also been an inquest at the FBI over how such a critical security lapse happened. The FBI determined that a contractor managing the bureau's jobs portal failed to update software "explicitly issued to secure the platform," [senior FBI cyber official, Brett Leatherman said last week]. The FBI has "removed the contractor," he said. The software in question is a human-resources platform made by Oracle, ShinyHunters has said. The hackers previously used a flaw in the software to attack targets in the education sector in May and June, according to Google's Threat Intelligence Group. But months later, the FBI contractor apparently still had not applied a security patch that was available for the software. "The inmate locator at the U.S. Bureau of Prisons website reports that a 54-year-old Edward Dubrovsky is currently being held at a federal facility in Philadelphia," reports security researcher Brian Krebs. Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 for sharing the news.

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240Hz表示や90W給電対応USB Type-Cを備える26.5型 Amazon.co.jpにて、BenQの26.5インチゲーミングディスプレイ「MOBIUZ EX271UZ」がセール中。通常価格180,000円から2 […]

キッチンの水ハネ対策にマーナのキッチンスキージーがおすすめ！ふきんの生乾き臭やペーパーのゴミを出さず、清潔に調理台の水気をシンクへリセットする方法をご紹介。

バーガーキングのピクルスだらけバーガー「ピックルボールバーガー」を食べた結果をお伝えしたいと思います。これ、ピクルスが11枚もサンドされた、まさにピクルス好きのためのバーガー。バーガー全体からムラなくピクルスを感じられる仕上がり単にピクルスがサンドされて...続きを読む

On Thursday those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources on Thursday found the site "inoperable," reports Phoronix, with the disruption confirmed as a distributed denial of service attack. "Our team is working diligently to resolve the incident," according to a Thursday post on Ubuntu Discourse — followed by a later announcement. "At this time our team continues to work on restoring affected services, most of them are now available. We appreciate your patience and understanding." Ubuntu's status page shows the Ubuntu.com outage lasting for 2 hours and 27 minutes on Friday — though with four-hour outages Wednesday (and other outages affecting other Ubuntu sites). Today "All components are Operational," the status page reports.

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