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upstart writes:NASA considers SpaceX to rescue ISS leak astronauts:

upstart writes:Soon You'll Be Able To Buy Your Own 9 GHz Record Breaking LN2 Pot:

Some of you may have seen the claims in certain journals that SoylentNews is blocking new accounts. I have been looking at the actual figures for accounts created during December 2022.A total of 2198 accounts have been successfully created during December. Unfortunately the vast majority of these were created by a bot and they will never become active because the bot does not have access to the email addresses being quoted. The email address is required so that the initial password can be issued. The site is designed to handle a much larger number of accounts and at a far greater rate than the bot is using. This causes us no problems whatsoever. It must be keeping somebody amused though. I think it would be nice to have some form of 'captcha' (NOT Google's fire hydrant, bicycle, bus and pedestrian crossing counter!!!) to prevent bots such as these.It is possible, indeed likely, that there will be a small number of genuine accounts buried in there somewhere but it is difficult to identify them until they become active.In those accounts we have successfully identified 28 attempts at creating sock-puppets which have been disabled automatically. This gives 1.27% of all attempts to create an new account are blocked, which is significantly less that the the claim that 'all new accounts' are being blocked.The latest UID to be created is 22820.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Tesla broke labor laws by telling workers not to discuss pay, NLRB claims:

fliptop writes:Google workers in Switzerland sent a letter this month to the company's vice president of human resources, outlining their worries that a new employee evaluation system could be used to cull the work force:

upstart writes:Farewell to Dark Sky, which didn't keep us dry, but forever changed the way we get our forecasts:

upstart writes:Advances may make it easier to build dangerous biological materials from scratch:

upstart writes:Is Putting Tape Over Your Webcam Actually a Good Idea?:

hubie writes:BBC Replacing Robot News Studio Cameras In Hope Of Consigning Viral Tech Fails To History:

upstart writes:The Magic of mRNA Will Push Medical Advances for Everyone:

As we have now welcomed in 2023, heartfelt thanks go out to everyone who makes up the Soylent News community. As most of you probably know, from both the hardware and software side of things we ended the calendar year with some challenging and unstable months, and on the whole 2022 at least seemed more volatile than previous years. We've even done more soul-searching since perhaps the site was first established.We are entirely community run and exist by the grace of those who volunteer their time, big and small. Many thanks go out not only to those who put in a considerable number of hours to make the enormous and visible contributions to keep our software and hardware operational, but also to those who do the behind-the-scenes work of managing finances and keeping services like IRC running in the background. But most importantly, thank you to all those who support the site, whether that is through financial contributions, by submitting stories, writing in their journals (when there are journals to write in), or even just by participating positively, asking/answering questions, or by adding their expertise in the various topics and discussions.Here's hoping for a bright and prosperous 2023.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:As AI assumes more software development work, developers may eventually be working with training models more than they do with coding tools:

upstart writes:The Canta is a compact four-wheeled, two-seat microcar that's unlocking micromobility in the Netherlands:

upstart writes:The most sought-after talent want ultimate flexibility:

upstart writes:A shift to the cloud is opening the industry up to new attacks:

fliptop writes:An overview, including specs, is available at tom's HARDWARE:

New York Governor Signs Modified Right-to-repair Bill at the Last Minuteupstart writes:Bill passed the state legislature with overwhelming majorities over the summer:

upstart writes:Discrete GPU Sales Plummet to Historic Lows:

upstart writes:Scientists Discover 'New' Organ Hidden Within Your Face:

hubie writes:By studying an exotic atom called muonium, researchers are hoping misbehaving muons will spill the beans on the Standard Model of particle physics:

takyon writes:Samsung to lower memory prices and expand production capacity to regain market share

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upstart writes:China's New Breeder Reactors May Produce More Than Just Watts:

upstart writes:Another step towards technological self-sufficiency:

upstart writes:One of biggest (and dullest) big tech acquisitions ever may be blocked by the European Commission:

fliptop writes:Amazon has officially begun making shipment deliveries with drones to customers in both Lockeford, California and College Station, Texas, the company confirmed to Nexstar's KTXL on Friday:

fliptop writes:The system takes 28 minutes to boot up but it can multitask:

upstart writes:Meta settles Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m:

upstart writes:The carrier first tested free wireless internet access on its planes in 2019, but now could make the change permanent:

Eufy Publicly Acknowledges Some Parts of its "No Clouds" Controversyupstart writes:Eufy changed some cloud behavior, admitted it can do more, ignored some issues:

Runaway1956 writes:OK, so, we recently had the article on 2023 public domain copyrights. I watched (again) Fritz Lang's Metropolis from 1927. I've also stumbled across The Quake (2018) very recently, and watched it. The only other Euro movie I can think of, offhand, is Pan's Labyrinth. All Quiet on the Western Front?So, what do some of you Euros consider to be important cultural items, that Americans should be familiar with? (British answers will be acceptable here, I think. You're almost Euro . . . )Yeah, sure, I could do an internet search with the same question, alternating the term slightly if I don't get good results. But, where better to ask, than on a more-or-less international forum filled with fellow geeks and nerds? The man in the street isn't going to have the same answers as our Soylent community, on this, or any other subject!And, it isn't necessary to restrict the discussion to Euros - Asians, South Americans, Islanders, even Canadians can suggest important cultural works for us to watch, or read, or listen to! We may have to draw the line with 'Strayans though . . . Do we really have to hear 'Play me Didgeradoo' again?[Ed. note: The way global entertainment has been dominated by only a handful of companies over the last two or three decades, I tend to feel that it is almost impossible to produce culturally important pieces on a large scale any more for fear that they would only have limited mass appeal and not get funded, so I would also love to hear what items I should to add to my watch/listen list that I might be missing out on. --hubie]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:It was all to let drivers skip the taxi wait line:

Ometecuhtli writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/22/fbi-ad-blocker/

upstart writes:Manhattan Project physicist was infamously stripped of his security clearance in 1954:

hubie writes:Walnuts the new brain food for stressed university studentsStressed university students might want to add walnuts to their daily diet in the weeks leading up to their next exam:

owl writes:https://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2022/happy-holidays-2022.html

fliptop writes:Micron cuts costs as demand for 3D NAND and DRAM drops:

Booga1 writes:Science magazine reports: Glass frogs become see-through by hiding their blood.

upstart writes:For Arianespace, this is now the third failed launch of a Vega rocket in the last eight attempts:

canopic jug writes:The Times Higher Education has an essay by Professor Andy Farnell where he rethinks digital technologies which disenfranchise, dehumanize, excludes, and even bully both students and teachers. These unfortunate technologies with their problems and misfeatures have been plaguing institutions of higher education for quite some time now. Not too long ago, universities took the lead in creating and advancing performant technologies. The triumvirate of LDAP, Kerberos, and AFS is just one which comes to mind, though there are also the original Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and many more. Now these institutions have mostly lost their way and have become followers and "consumers" of products that not only don't meet their needs but actively work against institutional goals. He starts by asking which digital technologies could, or rather ought to, be removed from higher educational environments.

upstart writes:If harassment isn't tackled soon, many women will go permanently offline to avoid online abuse:

Perseverance Rover Begins Setting Up Sample Depot on Marsupstart writes:Perseverance Rover Begins Setting Up Sample Depot on Mars - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:The company plans to keep mining as it reaches a deal with its lenders, who harbor most of the debt:

fliptop writes:Two men, alleged to be senior members of an international crime syndicate, face charges in Taiwan:

upstart writes:US Postal Service Announces Shift Toward Electric Delivery Vehicles - ExtremeTech:

liar writes:https://gizmodo.com/mgs-facial-recognition-msg-rockettes-show-1849919528

fliptop writes:The draft publication features updates intended to help fight online crime, preserve privacy and promote equity and usability:

owl writes:https://blog.otterstack.com/posts/202212-doom-calculator/

hubie writes:Physicist strikes gold, solving 50-year lightning mystery:

owl writes:https://evoniuk.github.io/posts/pitfall.html