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Updated 2025-01-16 07:16
Completing the Oregon Trail If You Wait at a River for 14272 Years: A Study
canopic jug writes:Developer and reverse engineer, Scott Percival, took a long look at a bug in the Oregon Trail game's river crossings.
Tech Trends and Breakthroughs of 2025
looorg writes:Kicking the year 2025 off with some predictions. I guess we can return to this in December to see how far they have progressed into fantasy land.https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1109178/10-breakthrough-technologies-2025/01. Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile
Technology is Supposed to Decrease Teacher Burnout—It Can Sometimes Make ItWorse
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High Court Ruling Ends Man's Hopes of Recovering $750M Bitcoin Hard Drive From a Welsh Landfill
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Paleolithic Ingenuity: 13,000-Year-Old 3D Map Discovered in France
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-paleolithic-ingenuity-year-3d-france.html
Bricking Teslas - Whose Auto is it Anyway?
fliptop writes:You may have heard about Teslas equipped with what is styled "Full Self-Driving" capability bricking - that is, going inert - as a result of a computer failure. "Tesla drivers are reporting computer failures after driving off with their brand-new cars over just the first few tens to hundreds of miles," says the web site Elektrek, which covers EVs and EV-related issues. "Wide-ranging features powered by the computer, like active safety features, cameras, and even GPS, navigation, and range estimations, fail to work":
Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.
upstart writes:Rational or Not? This Basic Math Question Took Decades to Answer.:
Scientists Just Excavated An Unprecedented Specimen From Antarctica
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TSMC's Arizona Fab 21 is Already Making 4nm Chips - Yield and Quality Reportedly on Par With Taiwan
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"Forever Chemicals" in Water and Wildlife
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Google Researchers Can Create an AI That Thinks a Lot Like You After Just a Two-Hour Interview
upstart writes:After an average of 6,000 words, Stanford and Google researchers can spin up a generative agent that will act a lot like you do:
De-smarting the Marshall Uxbridge
owl writes:https://tomscii.sig7.se/2025/01/De-smarting-the-Marshall-Uxbridge
Velvet Ants Have The Swiss Army Knife Of Venoms
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Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool
upstart writes:Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet:
Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness
owl writes:https://theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents
German Router Maker is Latest Company to Inadvertently Clarify the LGPL License
NotSanguine writes:According to Ars Technica:
It's Remarkably Easy to Inject New Medical Misinformation Into LLMs
upstart writes:Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate:
Former MoviePass CEO Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
upstart writes:Ted Farnsworth, former CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, lied about the success of MoviePass to attract investors:
Kicking Datacenters' Drinking Habit is Nearly Impossible
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Kids Can't Use Computers... and This is Why It Should Worry You (2013)
owl writes:http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: FUTURISM
AI Unveils Strange Chip Designs, While Discovering New Functionalities
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-ai-unveils-strange-chip-functionalities.html
US Reports First Human Death Related To Bird Flu
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Gentrified Doom Remake Trades Chainsaw for Cheese Knife
upstart writes:Remake of 1993 classic lets you drink wine and eat hors d'oeuvres as you admire masterpieces from art history:
How I Program With LLMs
Freeman writes:https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms/
Prepare for the New Season as a Fish Doorbell Ringer
c0lo writes:The 2024 Fish Doorbell season is over
Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computing is Still 20 Yrs Away
Frosty Piss writes:Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast
Chick-fil-A’s Lemon-Squeezing Robots Are Saving 10,000 Hours of Work
owl writes:https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-chick-fil-a-lemonade/Archive link: https://archive.is/xQDaH
Eutelsat Oneweb Blames 366th Day for 48-Hour Date Disaster
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Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: Techdirt
Firescam Android Malware Masquerades As Telegram Premium App
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Ants Hold Grudges, Study Suggests
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ants-grudges.html
New Orleans Attacker Used Meta Ray-Bans To Plan The Massacre
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TSMC's Wafer Pricing Now $18,000 for a 3nm Wafer, Increased Over 3X in 10 Years
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EU Court Fines European Commission for Breaching its Own Data Privacy Laws
owl writes:They can't even follow their own rules:https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/eu-court-fines-european-commission-for-breaching-its-own-data-privacy-laws/
Iron-Nitride Magnets Eliminate Need for Rare Earths
Motor Trend is reporting on early production of a new permanent magnet material https://www.motortrend.com/features/niron-magnetics-clean-earth-permanent-magnets-ces-2025/ suitable for replacing the rare-earth magnets used, for example, in electric car motors, as well as loud speakers and many other products.Invented some time back by university researchers and now in the pilot production stage (with suitably large investors like car companies),
Facebook Is Ditching “Fact-Checkers” and Going to Community Notes Similar to X
fliptop writes:Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Improved Memory via Gut Bacteria Changes
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-mediterranean-diet-linked-memory-gut.html
Pornhub Pulls Out Of Florida, VPN Demand 'Surges 1150%'
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Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google's Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
fliptop writes:Lukasz Olejnik opines:
Massive Space Debris Crashes Into Kenyan Village
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Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-pollution-widespread-iq-declines-ancient.html
Neutered: Federal Court Strikes Down FCC Authority to Impose Net Neutrality Rules
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Hackers Injected Malicious Code Into Several Chrome Extensions In Recent Attack
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Hybrid Work a Cause of Techno-Stress: ‘You Have to be There All the Time’
mrpg writes:https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-22/hybrid-work-a-cause-of-techno-stress-you-have-to-be-there-all-the-time.html#?rel=mas
MIT Scientists Pin Down The Origins Of A Fast Radio Burst
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Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024
Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024hubie writes:EV Sales, Including Hybrids, Surge for Auto Giants Not Named Tesla:
‘Mystery Volcano’ that Erupted and Cooled Earth in 1831 has Finally Been Identified
owl writes:https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html
Data Exposure at MyGiftCardSupply Highlights Risks of Digital ID Regulations
fliptop writes:The incident exposes the growing vulnerabilities tied to digital ID systems and mandatory KYC (know your customer) data collection:
The Effects of ‘Brain Rot’: How Junk Content is Damaging Our Minds
hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:
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