upstart writes:Chinese engineers claimed to have created a "revolutionary" dual-mode rotating detonating and straight-line oblique detonation engine setup:
From the Staff of SoylentNews.Org, may we wish every member of our community a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.In a little over 1 month's time we will have been active as a site for 10 years. Hopefully by then we will also have created the new site and will be looking at another 10 years or more ahead of us. That still requires some more work from everyone as it is the community who will be deciding how the site is run, what the new policies will be, what subjects are discussed and how we grow our community in the future. The entire Board will consist of volunteers elected from the community by the community.But for now let us all look forward to the new year and celebrate together!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
New York Times Sues Microsoft, ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Copyright Infringementfliptop writes:The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the companies of creating a business model based on "mass copyright infringement," stating their AI systems "exploit and, in many cases, retain large portions of the copyrightable expression contained in those works:"
canopic jug writes:At the beginning of this month, Security Space published a comprehensive survey of all mail servers visible on the Internet. Out of some 1.2 million servers polled only about 600 thousand produce identifiable header information, and of those over 93% are either Exim or Postfix. Then old Sendmail weighs in at just over 3% and that is followed by a very long tail of a great many all under 1% each.Description Number of Servers PercentTotal Number of MX Servers Queried1,201,857100.0%Number of Servers that didn't respond232,02719.31%Server didn't open socket229,11019.06%Server didn't provide banner2,9170.24%Server provided banner969,83080.69%Server banner identifies software in use609,37850.70%See below for a breakdown by type.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes:Three of the world's biggest pornography sites have been told their users in the European Union may have to use age verification technology:
fliptop writes:Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have kept a low profile as the Big Tech firm weathers a series of critical antitrust court battles - and it's part of a long-running pattern of avoiding federal scrutiny, experts say:
Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:Some of you will have enjoyed a good meal over Christmas, perhaps also at Thanksgiving if you are an American. It possibly included potatoes in some form; mashed, boiled, roasted, baked or in some other form of cooking. You would have probably considered them a vegetable. But the US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee is planning to change that.
canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting from Reuters that new digital restrictions management requirements in Vista11 will send an estimated 480 million kg of otherwise viable desktops and notebooks prematurely to the landfill as e-waste.
canopic jug writes:Ethan Zuckerman asks, how big is YouTube?. Using a statistical sampling method, their current estimate for the size of YouTube is 13.325 billion videos.
fliptop writes:Court holds that state officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop talking about math in public:
janrinok writes:Scientists have been looking for health-promoting microbes in the feces of people from traditional communities-some of whom feel exploited:
Motor Trend reports on recent gov't. actions that will lead to drunk & drowsy driving detection built into new cars, https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-anti-drunk-driving-tech-rules-coming/
canopic jug writes:The US Surgeon General has published his 2023 advisory on social control media and youth mental health [warning for PDF]. The report's scope is only on the health and mental health effects, not the weaponized nature of the phenomenon. The body of the report is 17 pages long and includes a call to action.