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upstart writes:Scientists Stunned as Tiny Algae Keep Moving Inside Arctic Ice:

upstart writes:Researchers investigated giant prehistoric trash piles to reveal where animal remains came from:

upstart writes:Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked:

upstart writes:Pluralistic: Fingerspitzengefuhl (08 Sep 2025) - Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow:

upstart writes:Wyden says default use of RC4 cipher led to last year's breach of health giant Ascension:

upstart writes:Researchers created a strange quantum crystal from a material found in smartphones-the first of its kind visible to the naked eye:

upstart writes:The RTX 4090 48GB looks like a whole different card:

upstart writes:AI's free web scraping days may be over, thanks to this new licensing protocol:

upstart writes:Scientists urge EU governments to reject Chat Control rules:

quietus writes:ASML, Dutch multinational producer of EUV lithography machines, has announced an investment of 1.3bn in French AI startup Mistral, which positions itself as an European alternative to ChatGPT and similar.It is to become "a long-term collaboration agreement to explore the use of AI models across ASML's product portfolio as well as research, development and operations, to benefit ASML customers with faster time to market and higher performance holistic lithography systems ..." in a "first-of-its-kind partnership between a semiconductor equipment manufacturer and a leading AI company".The deal brings together Europe's top AI start-up and one of the continent's most valuable public companies, which supplies the equipment to make the advanced chips that are used to train and run AI models.Arthur Mensch, current CEO of Mistral, was quoted by the Financial Times as saying that "it's important for European companies not to have too much dependency on US technology", while his counterpart at ASML claimed that sovereignty was an additional benefit, but they didn't "pick Mistral because they were European", rather because AI will become "a strategic technology ... I think this will help the European ecosystem, but we do it because it's good for Mistral and it's good for ASML.".In the short term, he claimed, ASML would begin using Mistral's AI expertise to help develop new chipmaking tools, as well as offering customers new capabilities as they use its existing systems. "We started to look for a partner, because we thought that this is not something we should try to do ourselves ...the company's expertise is in chipmaking equipment and we are not AI experts".In case you're groaning now while reaching for that special bottle of whisky under your desk, labeled peak AI hype, there was an intriguing comment on the Interwebs about the true purpose of the deal.

upstart writes:Ten years after LIGO's historical detection of gravitational waves, the project is cracking black hole mysteries at an astounding pace:

upstart writes:Dead Internet Theory Lives: One Out of Three of You Is a Bot:

upstart writes:This Is the First Time Scientists Have Seen Decisionmaking in a Brain:

HeadlineEditor writes:Martian rock contains 'clearest sign' yet of ancient life on Mars, NASA says

Mojibake Tengu writes:New Unicode version 17.0.0 specification, datafiles and algorithms is now released:Unicode(R) 17.0.0

upstart writes:Advances in perovskite technology are moving sensors and everyday gadgets closer to operating without batteries:

upstart writes:Current and former staffers have come forward:

Cannabis Might be Messing With Female Fertilityupstart writes:New research shows that eggs and embryos exposed to THC are more likely to develop chromosomal abnormalities:

upstart writes:Tiny11 Builder update lets users strip Copilot and other bloat from Windows 11:

upstart writes:Powered by plutonium, running on pure stubbornness:

upstart writes:A new study presents an innovative approach to CO2 removal that addresses two environmental crises at once:

As per The Register, many frustrated users on Reddit and other forums, and my own experiences, accessing Ubuntu's software repositories was very difficult during the weekend. According to the Ubuntu status page, security.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com began experiencing an outage during the evening (for US time zones) of September 4. Following the initial major outage, both also experienced intermittent periods of maintenance and additional outages that persisted through the weekend. Despite Canonical indicating the outages had been resolved, many users including myself experienced very slow software updates or could not access the servers altogether. From The Register's article:

upstart writes:JetBlue planes will start using Project Kuiper satellite Wi-Fi in 2027:

upstart writes:Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage:

upstart writes:Brain scans reveal a common neural signature when people see red, green or yellow:

upstart writes:Microsoft software reselling dispute heads back to UK court:

upstart writes:Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance:

looorg writes:Since there is apparently nothing these days that can't be improved by some AI. The Amazon fueled AI-company Fable Studio wants to re-create the chopped 43 minutes of Orson Welles movie "The Magnificent Ambersons". The recreation will be done from set images and other sources. The original was re-cut after RKO thought the movie was too long and that the ending was not happy enough. A new ending was created.But it won't have any commercial re-release and is purely a noncommercial academic project, due to rights and ownership. Also it might not be Welles more famous work so there might not be anything more then a minor cult following and not any kind of commercial success. So they do it cause they can and "AI" something something.https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/lost-ending-orson-welles-magnificent-ambersons-ai-remake-1235148945/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:A spectacular glacial demise, 40 years in the making:

looorg writes:https://carbuzz.com/mazda-6-stroke-hydrogen-combustion-engine/

upstart writes:Chagas disease, which can be deadly, is now considered endemic in the U.S.:

upstart writes:But what goes up will also have to come down:

upstart writes:Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits:

upstart writes:The Trump family just became $5 billion richer (on paper) thanks to its latest crypto venture:

upstart writes:Microsoft shows off its latest Analog Optical Computer:

upstart writes:This Unlikely Chemical Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against Climate Change:

upstart writes:What the hell is going on right now?:

upstart writes:France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies:

upstart writes:Nvidia's next-gen AI chip could double the price of H20 if China export is approved:

upstart writes:Porsche's New Cayenne Will Charge Itself Like No Other EV:

upstart writes:Bill Gates' 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source:

upstart writes:Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users:

upstart writes:China likely to land on Moon before US does again:

upstart writes:New hollow-core fiber outperforms glass, pushing data closer to light speed:

upstart writes:New law emboldens complaints against digital content rentals labled as purchases:

upstart writes:AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex:

upstart writes:'Doomer science fiction': Nvidia blasts proposed US bill that would force it to give American buyers 'first option' in AI GPU purchases before selling chips to other countries, including allies:

upstart writes:Ice generates electricity when it gets stressed in a very specific way, new research suggests:

upstart writes:Google's penalty for being a search monopoly does not include selling Chrome:

upstart writes:But TSMC vows to continue making chips on the mainland: