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Tue 10 Aug 2021

We are pleased to announce a new, major privacy enhancement to Firefox’s cookie handling that lets you fully erase your browser history for any website. Today’s new version of Firefox Strict Mode lets you easily delete all cookies and supercookies that were stored on your computer by a website or by any trackers embedded in it.

Source: Firefox 91 Introduces Enhanced Cookie Clearing, an article by Paul Zühlcke, Johann Hofmann, and Arthur Edelstein.

Neither Star nor Planet: A Strange Brown Dwarf Puzzles Astronomers

Astronomers now think Caselden found a brown dwarf — a failed star that lacks the necessary bulk to begin nuclear fusion in its core. “It forms like a star,” said Sarah Casewell, an astronomer at the University of Leicester in the U.K. “However, it never gains enough mass to fuse hydrogen into helium and start burning anything.”

Source: Neither Star nor Planet: A Strange Brown Dwarf Puzzles Astronomers, an article by Jonathan O'Callaghan.