upstart [soylentnews.org] writes:Autism Prevalence Reaches 61.8 Million Globally, Study Shows:[Editor's Note - See disclosure that several authors have ties the to pharmaceutical industry--JR]
fliptop writes:Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud:
upstart writes:A review of 3,000 studies indicates that these microscopic plastic particles in the air could be contributing to male and female infertility:
canopic jug writes:The videos are online from the 38 Chaos Communication Congress (38C3). It took place in Hamburg, from Friday the 27 through Monday the 30 2024. The conference is organized every year by the Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) which is Europe's largest association of hackers. The CCC also organizes campaigns, events, lobbying, publications, anonymizing services, communication infrastructure and even hackerspaces.The Congress is always interesting, so picking semi-randomly from the English subset of talks at the 38C3 highlights include:
upstart writes:The research demonstrated that participants could detect faces quicker under surveillance without being consciously aware of this enhanced perception:
As Kiribati (and in particular the island of Kiritimati) is now beginning 2025 I think that this is as good a time as any to wish everyone a very Happy New Yearand all the very Best Wishes for 2025.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes:The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer:
James Earl Carter Jr. (October 1, 1924 - December 29, 2024) was an American politician who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, Carter previously served from 1963 to 1967 in the Georgia State Senate and from 1971 to 1975 as the 76th governor of Georgia. He was the longest-lived president in U.S. history and the first to live to 100 years.Please see drussell's journal for discussion.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
looorg writes:Volkswagen accidentally leaked, or left open to the public via the cloud, location data and personal information of the owner for more then 800,000 electric cars.
upstart writes:As machine learning and generative AI reshape the world, MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing is integrating these and other advanced computing technologies into classrooms and labs across campus:
canopic jug writes:EcoWatch has an article about a new species of pitcher plant discovered in mountains of Borneo. The rims are quite dark red. Nepenthes are a tropical vine which generally grow in very acidic soil and have pitchers dangling from the end of their leaves to capture rainfall and insects. [nitrogen]. The pitchers can occur up in the air, rest on the ground, or even be found slightly underground in various species.
Undersea Power Cable Connecting Finland And Estonia Experiences Outage Capacity Reduced To 35%Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
SAE is running this https://www.sae.org/news/2024/11/refrigerant-fight story about near-term changes in the working fluid used in car air conditioning systems. Your boomer submitter remembers when Freon/R-12 was universal. By the 1990s R-134a was the standard, more recently followed by much lower global warming potential (GWP) gas R-1234yf which is nearly universal at present. However,