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upstart writes:Lilium achieves main wing transition on its Phoenix 2 eVTOL aircraft:

Crocodile-faced Dinosaur May Have Been Europe's Largest Ever Predatorupstart writes:Crocodile-faced dinosaur may have been Europe's largest ever predator:

hubie writes:Hydrogen Peroxide E-Bandages Treat Wound Infections:

Google Engineer Suspended After Claiming AI Bot SentientFrosty Piss writes:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/12/google-engineer-ai-bot-sentient-blake-lemoineA Google engineer who claimed a computer chatbot he was working on had become sentient and was thinking and reasoning like a human being has been suspended with pay from his workGoogle placed Blake Lemoine on leave last week after he published transcripts of conversations between himself, a Google "collaborator", and the company's LaMDA (language model for dialogue applications) chatbot development system. He said LaMDA engaged him in conversations about rights and personhood, and Lemoine shared his findings with company executives in April in a GoogleDoc entitled "Is LaMDA sentient?"The decision to place Lemoine, a seven-year Google veteran with extensive experience in personalization algorithms, on paid leave was made following a number of "aggressive" moves the engineer reportedly made? Including seeking to hire an attorney to represent LaMDA, the newspaper says, and talking to representatives from the House judiciary committee about Google's allegedly unethical activities.Google said it suspended Lemoine for breaching confidentiality policies by publishing the conversations with LaMDA online, and said in a statement that he was employed as a software engineer, not an ethicist. Brad Gabriel, a Google spokesperson, also strongly denied Lemoine's claims that LaMDA possessed any sentient capability.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Orit Hazzan (a professor in the Technion's Department of Education in Science and Technology) and Koby Mike (a Ph.D student) make the case that machine learning guides learners to ignore the application domain even when it is relevant for the modeling phase of data science:

upstart writes:The skin can realistically bend, stretch, and wrinkle as the finger curls and extends:

takyon writes:Astra launch fails on first TROPICS flight for NASA

DannyB writes:BBC: UK will not copy EU demand for common charging cable

upstart writes:NASA's plan to get Ingenuity through the Martian winter:

upstart writes:Japan asteroid probe finds 23 amino acids, researchers confirm:

hubie writes:Soylent readers, you'll need to click through to TFA to see the illusion referenced below.An illusion new to science shows that the pupillary light reflex, which controls the width of the pupil in anticipation of expected changes in light, depends on the perceived environment rather than the physical reality:

upstart writes:'Copyright Troll' Has Already Filed Over 1,000 Piracy Lawsuits This Year * TorrentFreak:

upstart writes:Scientists Create Cement Entirely Out of Waste Material:

upstart writes:New Research Shows That Probiotics Can Help Alleviate Depression:

Booga1 writes:According to Car and Driver: 830,000 Teslas with Autopilot under NHTSA Investigation, Recall Possible

upstart writes:A possible relationship between infant infections and the risk of cardiovascular disease has been discovered:

upstart writes:NASA's second mobile launcher is too heavy, years late, and pushing $1 billion:

upstart writes:Quantum computer succeeds where a classical algorithm fails:

hubie writes:Researchers study society's readiness for AI ethical decision making:

AnonTechie writes:MIT researchers uncover 'unpatchable' flaw in Apple M1 chips – TechCrunch:

upstart writes:Research team including Göttingen University studies kombucha cultures under extraterrestrial conditions:

upstart writes:Apple's macOS Ventura leaves trusty 2015 MacBook Pro behind:

owl writes:California-based Huy Fong Inc says the shortage is due to drought affecting its peppers – will it lead to battles in condiment aisles?

An Anonymous Coward writes:I was browsing my media and decided to rewatch this, as I hadn't looked at it in fifteen years or so.I was mainly struck by the unalloyed optimism of pretty much everyone who contributed, including Linus, Richard Stallman, Eric Raymond, Alan Cox, Ted T'so, Eric Allman and many other original neckbeards (I use that appellation affectionately, and in a bunch of cases, literally).In the 20-plus years since the film was released, much has changed.I think much of the optimism embodied by RMS and the FSF has waned a good deal (and more's the pity), and the complete reversal of Microsoft from Ballmer's "Free Software is communism" to Nadella's embrace of GNU/Linux in both Azure and WSL, to the co-opting of Linux for Google/Android, as well as aging and slow drift towards retirement/death/irrelevance of those who championed Free Software for nearly four decades have really hurt the movement, while boosting Open Source.I think that refocusing on "free as in beer" instead of "free as in freedom" across the development community may have been inevitable as GNU/Linux (although I guess it could have been GNU/Hurd or one of the BSDs) became mainstream a couple decades after the commoditization of IBM PC-like hardware.That got me thinking, where does that leave us and "who are the new neckbeards tht can carry the vision of Free Software into the middle of the century?" Are there really any such folks with the passion and drive to champion Free Software moving forward?Or is Free Software (as originally defined and advocated for by RMS and the FSF) dying a slow death in favor of "Open Source" and more permissive licenses like MIT and Apache?What will Open Source look like in 2050, 52 years after Bruce Perens and the OSI's Open Source definition?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:NASA is assembling a team to gather data on unidentifiable events in the sky:

Freeman writes:You may want to think twice before giving the parking attendant your Tesla-issued NFC card.

upstart writes:New Chip Can Process and Classify Nearly Two Billion Images per Second - Technology Org:

upstart writes:Car tyres produce vastly more particle pollution than exhausts, tests show:

upstart writes:'Make VPN Detection Tools Mandatory to Fight Geo-Piracy' * TorrentFreak:

Twitter reportedly will give Musk the full "firehose" of user data he demandedFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/06/twitter-reportedly-will-give-musk-the-full-firehose-of-user-data-he-demanded/

upstart writes:Ad-block developers fear end is near for their extensions:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/06/microsoft-wont-say-if-it-will-patch-critical-windows-vulnerability-under-exploit/

upstart writes:HP Dev One is the first non-System76 computer offered with Pop!_OS:

upstart writes:All patients treated with the drug are in remission, a result that seems unprecedented in cancer research:

upstart writes:Microsoft could finally kill HDD boot drives for good:

upstart writes:The space telescope's mirror was hit by a micrometeoroid, but it's still in great shape to carry out its mission:

DannyB writes:Company That Turned 'Excited Delirium' Into A Thing Thinks It Can Prevent School Shootings With Drone-Mounted Tasers

upstart writes:Economist says China must seize TSMC if the US tightens sanctions:

upstart writes:NASA and SpaceX stand down on Dragon launch to study hydrazine issue:

upstart writes:Technology is alienating people:

upstart writes:AI Trained on 4Chan Becomes 'Hate Speech Machine':

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/06/pulsed-plasma-ignition-that-boosts-fuel-efficiency-has-passed-testing/

upstart writes:Lobbying ramps up as Congress prepares to vote on landmark legislation:

upstart writes:OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic:

upstart writes:Biomedical engineers have developed an edible silk tag with a QR code, which scanned by a smartphone can then confirm authenticity of the whiskey or other liquids, such as liquid medications:

DannyB writes:Keeping Our Sense of Direction: Dealing With a Dead Sensor

upstart writes:Volocopter's longer-range drone taxi completes its first test flights:

hubie writes:The brain uses data compression for decision-making:

upstart writes:Elon Musk accuses Twitter of thwarting his due diligence, threatens to walk out of $44 Billion Twitter deal- Technology News, Firstpost:

USB-C to be mandatory for phones sold in the EU by autumn 2024zocalo writes: