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upstart writes:Arm and Qualcomm are playing a dangerous game of chicken:

upstart writes:So much for enthusiasts championing the decentralization of cryptocurrencies:

upstart writes:Florida is fighting to feed starving manatees this winter:

upstart writes:The discovery by scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory could shed light on topics ranging from quantum computing to astrophysics:

A SoylentNews contributor writes:Emergency Steering Support (ESS) is a recent entry into the suite of advanced driver assistance (ADAS) technologies. Starting years ago with anti-lock brakes (ABS) and then stability control (ESC) these separate systems are proliferating in new cars. Here's a press release on ESS which also describes one system used to test and validate system operation, https://www.vehicledynamicsinternational.com/news/vehicle-testing/ess-test-method-developed-for-new-euro-ncap-protocol.html

upstart writes:Mysterious lime clasts, dismissed as defects, turn out to serve a useful purpose:

hubie writes:The lines between gaming and gambling have begun to blur, state researchers:

mcgrew writes:My (not so) old Dell Windows 10 notebook that poorly converts to a tablet is on its last legs; the E, A, and 5 keys are troublesome. Annoying; I have an old HP laptop running XP that mostly works; the headphone jack and DVD are shot, but everything else works, albeit with a noisy fan.So I replaced it with a new, non-convertible Asus notebook running Windows 11, and it was an incredible surprise. For the first time I've seen since DOS 6.2 (I skipped Windows 8 after finding out it was just a test to see how much grief Windows' customers were willing to take), Microsoft actually produced an operating system that not only didn't suck worse than the last iteration, but is an actual improvement in a few ways.It seems to be snappier than 10. Usually a brand new Windows on a brand new computer is slower than the old one, if you've maintained it, because of the bloat. Yes, that's not always true for everyone, but the hardware looks to be mostly compatible with the old Dell. It actually does some things, like copying to or from a thumb drive, faster than Kubuntu and Dolphin.Microsoft may have actually started listening to their customers! Setting up the new computer was far less hassle and nonsense than the old Windows 10 computer, but not nearly as effortless as installing Linux on a new, clean drive. Like 10, it gave me nonsense when I tried to install open source software, but I didn't have to jump through nearly so many hoops to install everything that is on all of my Windows computers. And Audacity will play on Windows 11, unlike 10 after their last "upgrade". I don't know if it will record because like the Dell, its sound input is hard-wired to the microphone, which you can record with.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Germany will continue "critically" monitoring Twitter for disinformation:

fliptop writes:A long-standing coding choice has seen an unexpected rise in popularity, according to one tracker of programming languages:

upstart writes:Big Telecom's Quest To Tax Big Tech For No Reason Will Cause Massive Internet Instability, Group Warns:

fliptop writes:Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve has become a woke, sanitized shell of its former self. The crowd of rowdy, inebriated locals and tourists is long gone. What you see now is bouncing and screaming for the latest flash-in-the-pan artists while industry veterans like Duran Duran barely elicit a cheer.Youtuber and music industry veteran Rick Beato recently posted an interesting video on how Auto-Tune has destroyed popular music. Beato quotes from an interview he did with Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan where the latter stated, "AI systems will completely dominate music. The idea of an intuitive artist beating an AI system is going to be very difficult." AI is making inroads into visual art as well, and hackers, artists and others seem to be embracing it with enthusiasm.AI seems to be everywhere lately, from retrofitting decades old manufacturing operations to online help desk shenanigans to a wearable assistant to helping students cheat. Experts are predicting AI to usher in the next cyber security crisis and the end of programming as we know it.Will there be a future where AI can and will do everything? Where artists are judged on their talents with a keyboard/mouse instead of a paintbrush or guitar? And what about those of us who will be developing the systems AI uses to produce stuff? Will tomorrow's artist be the programming genius who devises a profound algorithm that can produce stuff faster, or more eye/ear-appealing, where everything is completely computerized and lacking any humanity? Beato makes a good point in his video on auto-tune, that most people don't notice when something has been digitally altered, and quite frankly, they don't care either.Will the "purists" among us be disparaged and become the new "Boomers"? What do you think?.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Bankruptcy Judge Says Celsius Crypto Investors Don't Own Their Accountsupstart writes:Bankruptcy Judge Says Celsius Crypto Investors Don't Own Their Accounts:

upstart writes:He founded Creative in 1981 and ran it ever since:

upstart writes:It's not clear whether phishing attacks against scientists were successful:

fliptop writes:'This trend looks irreversible,' supplier exec says of tech industry's production shift:

upstart writes:How these gliders keep level flight is different from the stability of airplanes:

owl writes:https://hackaday.com/2023/01/05/excuse-me-your-tie-is-unzipped/

owl writes:http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-mos-6502-is-mostly-turing-complete.html

upstart writes:A bacterial infection called American foulbrood can destroy an entire colony:

upstart writes:The Netgear spinoff has announced a new "end-of-life policy" for its cameras — which revokes one of their biggest selling points:

Quantum Computers Can Break Major Encryption Method, Researchers Claimupstart writes:Quantum computers can break major encryption method, researchers claim:

upstart writes:Japanese government will offer 1M yen per child for families to move out of Tokyo:

hubie writes:Lunar landing pads will have to keep people and equipment from being sandblasted by moon dust and particles traveling at more than 10,000 miles per hour as a rocket takes off or lands:

fliptop writes:Amazon.com Inc. is laying off more than 18,000 employees — the biggest reduction in its history — in the latest sign that a tech-industry slump is deepening:

canopic jug writes:As projected here back in October, there is now a class action lawsuit, albeit in its earliest stages, against Microsoft over its blatant license violation through its use of the M$ GitHub Copilot tool. The software project, Copilot, strips copyright licensing and attribution from existing copyrighted code on an unprecedented scale. The class action lawsuit insists that machine learning algorithms, often marketed as "Artificial Intelligence", are not exempt from copyright law nor are the wielders of such tools.The $9 billion in damages is arrived at through scale. When M$ Copilot rips code without attribution and strips the copyright license from it, it violates the DMCA three times. So if olny 1% of its 1.2M users receive such output, the licenses were breached 12k times with translates to 36k DMCA violations, at a very low-ball estimate.

hubie writes:Mild levels of stress force your body to optimize brain cognition, body function:

upstart writes:Scientists Develop Blood Test That Detects Alzheimer's Years Before Onset:

WordPress Sites Under Attack From Newly Found Linux Trojanupstart writes:Researchers who discovered the backdoor Linux malware say it may have been around for more than three years:

upstart writes:This was a rough year for customer experience:

upstart writes:Google's keynote at the RISC-V Summit promises official, polished support:

upstart writes:A Caltech solar power project has a payload on the latest Falcon 9 launch:

Like it or not, pornography is often at the forefront of audio-visual technology. But the State of Louisiana has taken a step that I thought I was going to see in the UK a few years back. Still, we have to think of the children....Submit Govt-issued ID to Watch Porn: Louisiana Law to Combat Child Pornography Has Flawsupstart writes:Submit govt-issued ID to watch Porn: Louisiana law to combat child pornography has flaws- Technology News, Firstpost:

upstart writes:Real-Time Radiation Tracking Unlocks Safer Cancer Treatment:

upstart writes:Remains of a Viking Hall Found in Denmark:

mhajicek writes:https://www.yahoo.com/news/world-first-flying-motorcycle-could-150000413.html

fliptop writes:Intel has raised the pricing of its 12th-gen Alder Lake processors in its online Ark product database, reflecting a 10% increase in pricing for the company's previous-gen desktop PC chips. In some cases, that can be a ~$60 increase in the price for a chip:

hubie writes:Researchers Eye Embroidery as Low-Cost Solution for Making Wearable Electronics:

fliptop writes:The company is also unveiling an ergonomics-monitoring safety vest:

upstart writes:Twitter's landlord says the company is $136,250 behind on payments:

upstart writes:Police chase ensues after Tesla driver falls asleep with autopilot on:

takyon writes:Should open source sniff the geopolitical wind and ban itself in China and Russia?

upstart writes:Maintenance of the software that's used for the hardest physics calculations rests almost entirely with a retiree:

upstart writes:Big Trouble in Little Interconnects:

hubie writes:DeepNash learns to play Stratego from scratch by combining game theory and model-free deep RL:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-8086-processors-instruction.html

fliptop writes:Experts uncover Google Home flaw that could have affected user privacy:

fliptop writes:The shoebox-shaped device, designed to capture fingerprints and perform iris scans, was listed on eBay for $149.95. A German security researcher, Matthias Marx, successfully offered $68, and when it arrived at his home in Hamburg in August, the rugged, hand-held machine contained more than what was promised in the listing:

upstart writes:Need a New Year's resolution? How about stop paying for memory you don't need:

upstart writes:JPL and Argotec's relay satellites could deliver bandwidth for more than 90 missions: