Look what I can do! writes:"We are especially proud to present you Tails 5.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It brings new versions of a lot of the software included in Tails and new OpenPGP tools."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
hubie writes:The Italian research center SISSA has announced a paper proposing a new property, called "non-minimal coupling" [PDF - 232Kb] to address the mystery of the nature of dark matter:
canopic jug writes:Science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist, Cory Doctorow, has written an article at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) covering the self-censorship that social control media participants exercise when playing to the algorithms, a behavior sometimes called algospeak. In pursuing algospeak, participants avoid certain words, phrases, and topics while boosting others to play to the automated moderation algorithms. If played correctly the algorithm will actually raise the visibility of the content in question. If played incorrectly the content disappears off the radar. However, since the algorithm itself is unknown to the participants, the result usually falls somewhere in between even after a lot of trial and error.
hubie writes:A study of nearly 9,000 children found those who eat a vegetarian diet had similar measures of growth and nutrition compared to children who eat meat:
canopic jug writes:Technology journalist Nathan Willis has taken a look at the election at the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The election appears to have brought with it several severe conflicts of interest. Several sponsors are running candidates and several corporations are running multiple candidates for multiple seats. Little information was available about some candidates and their stances on Open Source Software and its community.
An Anonymous Coward writes:An article about how the Russian military stole farm equipment from a John Deere dealership in the Ukraine, only to find it all remotely disabled when trying to use/sell it on the other side:https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/01/europe/russia-farm-vehicles-ukraine-disabled-melitopol-intl/index.html
upstart writes:The Texas Blockchain Council has donated three S9 bitcoin miners to Fort Worth, Texas for a six-month trial allowing the city to experience mining from within:
upstart writes:Researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps:
The American Automobile Assn. (AAA) took a look at the performance of automatic lane keeping systems. They found that in simulated moderate to heavy rain, cars that employed ALKS veered from their lanes 69% of the time. Even worse, in testing at moderate speed (56 kph/~40 mph), about a third of the cars struck a static vehicle target (note, these targets look like a car, but are lightweight, fly apart on impact, and are quickly re-assembled).Trade magazine article here:
looorg writes:Turns out that virtual meetings are more or less just like real meetings. A lot of people arrive late. Most people don't say or do anything, they are just there. The more people that are invited to the meeting the worse it apparently is. Bad meetings are bad meetings no matter if they are live or not.
A story found by both einar and upstart:NASA and DLR to end SOFIA operations - SpaceNews:NASA and the German space agency DLR announced they will end operations for SOFIA, which is an airborne astrophysics observatory that flies a 2.7-meter infrared telescope on a Boeing 747. Operations will end no later than Sept. 30, at the conclusion of its current extended mission.
hubie writes:NASA has announced that the last stage of mirror alignments for the JWST are complete. Phased and focused images are being delivered to all of the science instruments. With the optics taken care of, the last operation before it is ready is to commission the science instruments. The instruments will be run through their paces and calibrations to make sure they are operating as expected. This last stage is expected to take up to two months.
DannyB writes:Amazon's crazy cheap satellite internet antenna is a huge advantage rivals like SpaceX's Starlink may 'struggle to overcome' industry experts say