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Grindavík Volcano Has Begun Erupting
canopic jug writes:The region of the Reykjanes Peninsula north of the town Grindavik in Iceland remains closed due to a now active volcanic eruption. Below are two video links.
Tesla's Trash Won't Get Picked Up as Union Actions in Sweden Escalate
mrpg writes:https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/23999848/tesla-sweden-union-autoworkers-transport-trash-waste-pickup
Google Groups Ending Support for Usenet in February 2024
canopic jug writes:Google is announcing the end of support for its Usenet client and servers in February 2024. This is a significant turning point because Usenet predates the Internet. Much of the Internet and, later, the WWW, was designed and built around Usenet discussions. That includes Linus Torvalds' now famous announcement about his then hobby, which he asserted at the time would not be big and professional like GNU:
Managing Open Source Software and Software Bill of Materials
canopic jug writes:The US Department of Defense has published a report entitled, Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Managing Open Source Software and Software Bill of Materials (warning for PDF) about aligning government activities with industry best practices. It covers principles that software developers and software suppliers can reference, including managing open source software andsoftware bills of materials to maintain and provide awareness about software security. The reports a follow up to the much hyped 2021 executive order on cybersecurity. Much focus is given to making and using Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and incorporating them into the work flow:
Elon Musk's X Ad Revenue Reportedly Fell $1.5B This Year Amid Boycotts
Freeman writes:Elon Musk's X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid boycotts
Meeting Announcement: Governance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, December 20, 2023 @ 21:00 UTC
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, December 20th, 2023 at 21:00 UTC (4pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community, welcome to observe and participate, is encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Two Interesting XOR Circuits Inside the Intel 386 Processor
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/12/386-xor-circuits.html
Putting Truth to the Test
hubie writes:BC psychologists probe the roots of truth judgments in the 'post-truth' era:
NASA Donates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Prototype to Smithsonian
upstart writes:NASA donates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prototype to Smithsonian:
Research Reveals the Secret Sites Where America's Migrating Songbirds Stop to Rest and Refuel
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reveals-secret-sites-america-migrating.html
How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras
upstart writes:How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras:
Needle-Free Covid Vaccines are (Still) in the Works
upstart writes:Vaccines delivered through the nose or mouth should help stop infection where it begins:
Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-Year Love Triangle
canopic jug writes:Public Domain Day 2024 is coming up in a few weeks. The Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a briefing document, Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle, about what happens when the earlier versions of Mickey Mouse finally elevate to the public domain at the start of 2024. Included is a Venn diagram of what you can and can't work with.
Turing Test on Steroids: Chatbot Arena Crowdsources Ratings for 45 AI Models
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/turing-test-on-steroids-chatbot-arena-crowdsources-ratings-for-45-ai-models/
E-Books are Fast Becoming Tools of Corporate Surveillance
upstart writes:A new report reveals that the world's largest publisher may be selling readers' intimate personal data to the highest bidder:
Intel Unveils Core Ultra, its First Chips With NPUs for AI Work
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Neanderthals May Have Been Morning People
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-neanderthals-morning-people.html
Michael Cohen's Lawyer Cited Three Fake Cases in Possible AI-Fueled Screwup
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/michael-cohens-lawyer-cited-three-fake-cases-in-possible-ai-fueled-screwup/
New Ideas Are Out There—We Just Need to Look for Them
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Dropbox Spooks Users With New AI Features That Send Data to OpenAI When Used
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/
Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade
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Netflix Finally Reveals Viewing Data Across its Entire Catalog
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/netflix-finally-reveals-viewing-data-across-its-entire-catalog/
Study Shows it Might Never be Too Late to Live Longer by Dieting
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/live-longer-calorie-restriction/
Google's Turning Off Third-Party Cookies Entirely in the Second Half of 2024
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Engineers Work to Fix Voyager 1 Computer
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YouTube Throttling Traffic to 'aarch64' on Arm
canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting that YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems and that misreporting the browser as running on an x86 CPU appears to be a work around.
After Losing Everywhere Else, Elon Musk Asks Scotus to Get SEC Off His Back
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He Blew the Whistle on Amazon. He’s Still Paying the Price
upstart writes:Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed - except for him:
Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor [2021]
owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor
A ‘Living Skin’ is Protecting the Great Wall of China From Erosion
taylorvich writes:https://www.science.org/content/article/living-skin-protecting-great-wall-china-erosion
Apple Has Seemingly Found a Way to Block Android's New Imessage App
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How a Drought Led to the Rise of Skateboarding in 1970s California
taylorvich writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231212112320.htm
Advanced Packaging, Software Bolster Amd's 30X25 Goal
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What Happens When You Can't be Yourself at Work
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ULA Chief Says Vulcan Rocket Will Slip to 2024 After Ground System Issues
upstart writes:The Colorado-based launch company will end 2023 with just three launches:
DNS Provider Quad9 Wins Case in German Court Appealing Against Sony's DNS Censorship
Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresdenhttps://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-turns-the-sony-case-around-in-dresden/
The Quiet Plan to Make the Internet Feel Faster
upstart writes:Engineers and major companies are pushing a technology called L4S that they say could make the web feel dramatically faster:
Eat Your Vegetables to Protect Your Brain
hubie writes:A new study shows that brains with Alzheimer's disease have subnormal levels of important dietary antioxidants:
A Financial News Site Uses AI to Copy Competitors — Wholesale
fliptop writes:One of the most highly-trafficked financial news websites in the world is creating AI-generated stories that bear an uncanny resemblance to stories published just hours earlier by other competitors:
The EU Has Reached an Historic Regulatory Agreement Over AI Development
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Meeting Announcement: Governance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 @ 21:00 UTC
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 at 21:00 UTC (4pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community, welcome to observe and participate, is encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Verizon Fell for Fake “Search Warrant,” Gave Victim's Phone Data to Stalker
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A Superconducting Junction Made From a Single 2D Material Promises to Harness Strange New Physics
janrinok writes:Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation
Attacks Abuse Microsoft DHCP to Spoof DNS Records and Steal Secrets
upstart writes:Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged:
NASA's Aging Hubble Space Telescope to Come Back Online
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'Appetite for Drumsticks': First Prey Found in a Tyrannosaur Stomach
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Pluralistic: "If Buying Isn't Owning, Piracy Isn't Stealing"
owl writes:https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill
Judge Allows Major ‘Right to Repair’ Lawsuit Against John Deere to Move Forward
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Stealthy Linux Rootkit Found in the Wild After Going Undetected for 2 Years
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The Longstanding Mystery of Mars' Moons—and the Mission That Could Solve It
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