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Qualcomm Wants to Buy a Stake in Arm Alongside its Rivals
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/qualcomm-wants-to-buy-a-stake-in-arm-alongside-its-rivals/
Tapping Mineral Wealth In Mining Waste Could Offset Damage From New Green Economy Mines
Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:
Hot-Blooded or Cold-Blooded? Chemical Clues Solve One of the Oldest Mysteries in Paleontology
mrpg writes:Hot-Blooded or Cold-Blooded? Chemical Clues Solve One of the Oldest Mysteries in Paleontology
AI Systems Can Detect Patient Race, Creating New Opportunities to Perpetuate Health Disparities
upstart writes:AI systems can detect patient race, creating new opportunities to perpetuate health disparities:
Learning on the Fly
pkrasimirov writes:
Fjords Emit as Much Methane as All the Deep Oceans Globally
hubie writes:Fjords emit as much methane as all the deep oceans globally
Scientists Try to Bring Australian ‘Tiger’ Back From Extinction
upstart writes:Scientists try to bring Australian 'tiger' back from extinction:
Geology From 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds
upstart writes:Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds:
Frontier Supercomputer Breaks the ExaFLOPS Barrier, Tops the TOP500 List
takyon writes:The Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has exceeded 1.1 exaFLOPS (Rmax), leading the June 2022 TOP500 list as the world's fastest supercomputer and the first truly "exascale" system.Frontier uses 9,408 64-core Epyc 7A53 CPUs and 37,632 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. It has 4.6 petabytes each of DDR4 and High Bandwidth Memory.Frontier also reached #2 on the June 2022 Green500 list at 52.227 gigaFLOPS/Watt, behind the smaller Frontier Test & Development System:
CubeSat Set to Demonstrate NASA’s Fastest Laser Link from Space
upstart writes:CubeSat Set to Demonstrate NASA's Fastest Laser Link from Space:
Gene Editing Can Change the Social Behavior of Animals in Unexpected Ways
upstart writes:Gene Editing Can Change The Social Behavior of Animals in Unexpected Ways:
Nokia CEO Says 6G Will be Here by 2030 - but You Might Not Access It Via Your Smartphone
An Anonymous Coward writes:Nokia CEO says 6G will be here by 2030 — but you might not access it via your smartphone
NASA-Supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights
upstart writes:NASA-Supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights:
Digitization Wars, Redux
canopic jug writes:Digital librarian, Karen Coyle, has written about controlled digital lending (warning for PDF), where an artificial scarcity is applied to digital artifacts to limit concurrent access similar to the limitations that a finite number of objects exhibit in libraries' physical collections. This concept raises a lot of questions about not just copyright and digital versus physical, but also about reading in general. Some authors and publisher associations have already begun to object to controlled digital lending. However, few set aside misinformation and misdirection to allow for a proper, in-depth discussion of the issues.
Did Our Solar System Lose a Planet?
upstart writes:A giant planet may have "escaped" from our solar system, study finds:
Massive New Mexico Fire Started by U.S. Forest Service
upstart writes:Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service, but widely reported elsewhere:
AV 2.0 - Another Approach to Self Driving Cars
Tech Review is running a piece on a new/recent approach to self driving, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/27/1052826/ai-reinforcement-learning-self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-wayve-waabi-cruise/
Russia Says It Has Test-Fired Another Hypersonic Missile
takyon writes:Russia says it has test-fired another hypersonic missile
25% of the World’s Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That is Susceptible to Attacks
upstart writes:25% of the World's Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attacks:
Most Doctors Still Believe in Prescribing Unnecessary Antibiotics
hubie writes:Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections, study suggests:
Hackers Target Windows Security Experts With Fake Exploits
upstart writes:Instead of getting exploit PoC, they're getting something a lot more sinister:
The 19th Century French Embroiderer Who Made Modern Organ Transplantation Possible
upstart writes:An interesting history story about a French embroiderer who helped revolutionize surgery:
High Cost of Cancer Care in the U.S. Doesn’t Reduce Mortality Rates
hubie writes:High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn't reduce mortality rates:
Expired Certificate Causes Major Retail Card Payment Outage in Germany
Rich writes:A digital certificate that expired after 10 years is causing a major outage in German retail payment handling. The involved Verifone H5000 card reader was introduced in 2012 but is still widely in use. Acceptance points have been advised to not power off their devices, because on startup, the failing certificate locks out the device even from updates. The vendor is trying to come up with a solution, which will likely involve USB sticks for local updates.Report in English: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-05-27/aaefes-esso-credit-card-outage-6146620.htmlDetails in German (with screenshots): https://www.borncity.com/blog/2022/05/27/strung-der-verifone-h5000-ec-kartenlesegerte-einige-insights-zur-zertifikateproblematik/While in the past, many issues could be fixed by cleverly scraping together remaining data, this is one of the first nationwide occurrences of a new class of security-related bugs that actively lock out any solution attempt. What is your experience in this field?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Instability Can Benefit Teams with Different Expertise
hubie writes:Knowledge-Diverse Work Teams Benefit from Fluid Hierarchies:
Climate Change Reveals Unique Artifacts in Melting Ice Patches
upstart writes:Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches:
Dutch Researchers Teleport Quantum Information Across Rudimentary Quantum Network
hubie writes:Quantum information teleported across a rudimentary quantum network:
Why Disinformation Has Flourished During the Pandemic
AnonTechie writes:https://phys.org/news/2022-05-disinformation-flourished-pandemic.html
Why are Male Mice Afraid of Bananas?
upstart writes:Why are male mice afraid of bananas?:
Clearview AI Fined in UK for Illegally Storing Facial Images
upstart writes:Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images:
Broadcom to Acquire VMware in Massive $61B Deal
upstart writes:Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal – TechCrunch:
Priceless Seeds, Sprouts Key To US West's Post-Fire Future
Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:
World's Largest Vertical Strawberry Farm Opens
upstart writes:World's largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City:
FTC Fines Twitter $150M for Using 2FA Info for Targeted Advertising
upstart writes:FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA info for targeted advertising:
Low-Cost Gel Film Can Pluck Drinking Water from Desert Air
upstart writes:Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air:
US Postal Service Wants to Provide Digital ID and Collect More Biometric Data
upstart writes:US Postal Service wants to provide digital ID and collect more biometric data:
Innovative 3D-Printing Technology Creates Glass Microstructures With Rays of Light
Phoenix666 writes:SciTechDaily:
Lotus 1-2-3 Ported to Linux
canopic jug and owl write in with news about some classic software:Hacker Tavis Ormandy has ported IBM's Lotus 1-2-3 to GNU/Linux and writes in his blog about how he did it. It's 100% usable even if the DOS emulation version still looks a little better.
Microsoft Announces a Brand-New Arm-Powered Desktop PC and Arm-Native Dev Tools
takyon writes:Microsoft announces a brand-new Arm-powered desktop PC and Arm-native dev tools
Why Are Catfish in Sweden Living as Long as Humans?
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/05/21/why_are_catfish_in_sweden_living_as_long_as_humans_833078.html
Scientists ‘See' Puzzling Features Deep in Earth’s Interior
upstart writes:Scientists 'see' puzzling features deep in Earth's interior:
Build your own SoundBlaster - Presenting the Snark Barker
An Anonymous Coward writes:Do you miss having an original SoundBlaster card? Now you can build your own! Take a look at the Snark Barker on GitHub.
People Enter a ‘Dissociative State’ When Using Social Media
hubie writes:'I don't even remember what I read':
Department of Energy (DOE) Lays Out Plan for Four Carbon-Capture Facilities
upstart writes:Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities:
Lockheed Martin, Filecoin Foundation Plan Demonstration of Decentralized Data Storage in Space
upstart writes:Lockheed Martin, Filecoin Foundation plan demonstration of decentralized data storage in space - SpaceNews:
DuckDuckGo Browser Allows Microsoft Trackers Due to Search Agreement
upstart writes:DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement:
“Tough to Forge” Digital Driver’s License Is... Easy to Forge
upstart writes:A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap:
The Sci-fi Technology Tackling Malarial Mosquitos
upstart writes:The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos:
Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating. Science finally knows why.
DannyB writes:Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating and science finally knows why:
NASA Shows Off Early Plans to Send Astronauts to Mars for 30 Days
upstart writes:We have a glimpse now of NASA's latest vision for its first crewed Mars mission:
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