Harvard researchers have localized a radio signal to an exoplanet for the first time, targeting Beta Pictoris B. Planets in our solar system emit RF, so no credible scientist is calling this alien contact. The paper on arXiv is worth reading for the detection methodology alone, not the headline.
Asteroid 1981 EC26 is now officially (14331) Alyankovic, named after Weird Al Yankovic by planetary scientists who lobbied the International Astronomical Union. A separate asteroid was simultaneously named for Tom Lehrer. The original Tucson Star report details how the naming campaign actually worked inside the IAU, which is the part worth your time. Separately, postmarketOS, the Alpine-based Linux distribution for mobile hardware, has rebranded to Nura, named after 5,000-year-old Sardinian granite structures called Nuraghe. The team cited poor name recall. The rename announcement at nura.eco includes a FAQ that raises more questions than it answers.
p5.js, the Processing-derived creative coding library that shares DNA with Arduino and Wiring, now exposes GPU access via WebGPU. Dave Pagurek's writeup on compute shaders in p5.js is a concrete, code-level walkthrough of what GPU access actually means for browser-based computation, not a press release.
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