Slashdot reader sandbagger brings news about the classic science ficdtion magazine Starlog. It's 33-year run from 1976 to 2009 is now available on the Internet Archive.

And 17 years after publishing its final issue, Starlog is relaunching, publishing one issue a year starting November 13, according to The Hollywood Reporter:

The magazine launched in 1976 and gained a fanbase for being one of the few places to get reliable news and interviews about geek culture. It launched with a cover focusing on Star Trek, one of its key areas of expertise, but the magazine's editors and writers also pioneered coverage of Star Wars. (The new issue chronicles some of the rumors it put out a year before the movie opened). In all, Starlog published 374 issues and more than 25,000 pages... In addition to the film and TV-focused features Starlog was known for, the new Starlog will also delve into futurism, as the cover from Gabriel Yeganyan highlights. The opening story of issue No. 1 looks at the viability of humans farming crops on planets outside of Earth, for example... The revival was announced earlier this year, and includes a podcast hosted by Jordan Hoffman, a veteran journalist who has contributed to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Are you a ghoster, meme machine or last-minute responder? Do you fail to pay back your more organised friends? My message, if so: this is not OK

If you want to completely bore a child, try telling them about how there were only four TV channels when you were growing up. Or that if you wanted to hear a pop song you had to buy a physical copy, or sit by your boombox – yes, boombox – listening to the radio with your finger hovering over the record button, hoping the DJ wouldn’t talk over any of it and that you wouldn’t end up in prison for piracy.

To that eye-glazing list we can now add that once upon a time, if you were attempting to make plans with a bunch of friends, you had to message every single one of them individually. Can you even imagine, sonny? This was back in the prehistoric period, before the invention of the group chat.

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In a war driven by drones and battlefield sensors, access to space is essential. After Starlink speed restrictions and Russian Oreshnik missile strikes, Kyiv is racing to develop its own space capabilities

For people in the Russian industrial city of Samara on the banks of the Volga, the first they knew of the Ukrainian attack were detonations that sent a column of smoke into the air.

If the Kremlin was vague about the target, video footage on social media soon made it clear what had been hit in the early hours of 15 August: the Progress Rocket and Space Centre, manufacturer of Russia’s Soyuz-2 rockets.

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President urges US for support, saying ‘Ukraine must not be left to face this alone’ as barrage plunges cities into darkness. What we know on day 1,719

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russia of intensifying strikes across the country to put pressure on Kyiv at upcoming talks after an overnight barrage triggered power cuts as temperatures drop. “By intensifying its attacks on Ukraine and our infrastructure at this very moment, Russia is trying to additionally lay the groundwork for putting pressure on Ukraine’s position and that of its partners,” the Ukrainian president said. “Russia perceives diplomacy in its own peculiar way – as a form of aggression.”

Ukraine’s energy ministry said “a massive attack on a number of energy facilities” on Saturday had plunged five regions into darkness and significantly hampered electricity transmission in Kyiv and surrounding regions. Russia had throughout the night launched 172 drones and 36 ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy said, among which were KN-23 missiles manufactured and supplied by North Korea.

The strikes came before a US-brokered trilateral meeting in Abu Dhabi scheduled for next week aimed at reviving stalled diplomatic efforts towards peace. Ukrainian officials are expected to sit down with Russian negotiators and US envoys on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first such talks in months. The diplomatic track has been stalled since February when Washington shifted attention to its war with Iran.

Zelenskyy also urged the US to increase its flagging aid to Ukraine. “Unfortunately, there is still a significant shortage of interceptors for Patriot systems, and the United States is in the best position to help address it,” he said.

Italy’s foreign minister, Antonio Tajani, on Saturday said he had been targeted by pro-Russian hackers over his backing for Ukraine. Tajani said in a post on X that “backing in a transparent way the freedom and independence of a sovereign state” had made him a target. Tajani said his personal data had been published on the dark web and that the hackers were seeking further information about him and his family and were ‌willing to pay for it.

The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, who has been one of the strongest backers of Ukraine among western leaders, expressed her support for Tajani and said the sale of confidential information relating to public officials was “a matter of serious concern”. Moscow has not commented ‌on the incident. ‌

France’s far-left presidential contender Jean-Luc Mélenchon said on Saturday that settling the Ukraine conflict could not be done by granting territorial concessions without consulting the people concerned. Melenchon, who polls suggest could reach the second round of next year’s presidential election, set out his France Unbowed party’s foreign policy positions at a rally just outside Paris.

Mélenchon has been criticised in the past for questioning the legitimacy of Zelenskyy. But in a campaign speech to thousands of supporters, he said an administration run by his party would take an active role in settling the war in Ukraine. Europe would have to play an active role in peace talks, he said. “We cannot accept that one could consider a peace with territorial concessions in Ukraine without asking the populations concerned if they agree or not to be on one side or other of the border,” he said. “It is for the people themselves to decide what they want,” he added.

A Ukrainian attack killed one person in Russia’s Belgorod region when a drone hit a private home in the town of Grayvoron, local officials said on Saturday. Russia’s defence ministry said its forces shot down 411 Ukrainian drones overnight over 10 Russian regions, including Belgorod. Drones were also destroyed over the annexed Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and the Black and Azov seas, it said. Russian media outlets later reported that the Saratov Oil Refinery had been hit and shared images of plumes of smoke over the city.

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The Tartu Punch visual identity lets sound shape the visuals: typography crumples as if hit by a kick drum, patterns pulse with the bass, and vibrations tear backgrounds apart. Rooted in the physical sensation of music?the kind of bass felt through the whole body?the graphic language translates sound into distortion, rhythm, and contrast. This approach carries across posters, merchandise, and stage screens, bringing the same energy to every format. Bold colour combinations and shifting patterns keep the identity in motion, even in print, while distorted letterforms give it a distinctive voice. Music becomes a visible presence, felt before it's even heard.

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MONTEVIDEO (ANP/AFP) - Paus Leo XIV heeft jongeren in Uruguay zaterdag opgeroepen te trouwen en kinderen te krijgen. "Durf de stap te zetten door te trouwen en een gezin te stichten. Wees niet bang voor 'voor altijd'!", zei hij tijdens een gebedswake in het Centenario-stadion in hoofdstad Montevideo.

Tienduizenden gelovigen woonden de bijeenkomst bij. De paus betreurde de toenemende ontkerkelijking en religieuze onverschilligheid. In Uruguay noemt 35 procent van de bevolking zich katholiek, volgens onderzoeksbureau Latinobarómetro.

Het gemiddelde aantal kinderen per vrouw in Latijns-Amerika daalde van 5,8 in 1950 naar 1,8 in 2024, blijkt uit onderzoek van het VN-bevolkingsfonds.

De 71-jarige paus is op rondreis door Zuid-Amerika. Eerder zaterdag bezocht hij een door drugsgeweld getroffen wijk in Montevideo, waar hij het dodelijke geweld tegen kinderen veroordeelde. Zondag reist hij door naar Argentinië. Daar is iemand aangehouden die de paus met de dood zou hebben bedreigd in verband met zijn bezoek, meldde de Argentijnse inlichtingendienst SIDE zaterdag.

We zijn geneigd doorzettingsvermogen te prijzen, en toch is soms stoppen de moedigste beslissing. Maar hoe stop je met iets wat je identiteit bepaalt?

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