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canopic jug writes:Democracy Now has a brief interview with a representative from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on their latest attempt to meet Julian Assange inside Belmarsh high-security prison in the UK. Despite being granted approval, the RSF secretary-general and executive director Christophe Deloire and the others with him were denied entry. No other non-governmental agency has been able to meet with Assange in the last four years either.

upstart writes:Inside the bitter campus privacy battle over smart building sensors:

upstart writes:An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler:

upstart writes:Even developers who want to pay for the API are having trouble:

upstart writes:The first large-scale comparison of mutation rates gives insights into how quickly species can evolve:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/04/meta-introduces-ai-model-that-can-isolate-and-mask-objects-within-images/

upstart writes:Palantir's Plan to Decipher the Mysteries of Long Covid:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2020/06/die-shrink-how-intel-scaled-down-8086.html

upstart writes:NASA's TEMPO Mission Could Bring You Hyper-Local Pollution Alerts:

upstart writes:Regulators have to figure out how to get them on the market:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Australia will ban tiktok on government devices despite claims by chinese officials that the application is safe to use.Is any application on a mobile device really safe to use? What personal data do they collect? Where do they send it? Why don't mobile devices come with the firewall enabled?

Alcohol Recovery Startups Monument and Tempest Shared Patients' Private Data With Advertisersupstart writes:Alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest shared patients' private data with advertisers:

upstart writes:Hackers can inject malicious code into a car's electronic network via headlight or taillight wires, fooling the car into thinking the key is present:

upstart writes:New research offers an intriguing variation on the famous experiment:

RamiK writes:Bloomberg reports:

upstart writes:Somebody wants to copyright a rhythm – get ready for the dembow tax if they succeed:

upstart writes:Synthetic embryos made without eggs and sperm are looking increasingly like the real thing—raising thorny ethical questions:

upstart writes:With Zen 5 CPU and RDNA 3+ iGPU, Strix Point could be a game changer:

OpenAI threatened with landmark defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT false claimsFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/04/openai-may-be-sued-after-chatgpt-falsely-says-aussie-mayor-is-an-ex-con/

upstart writes:How to update copyright: Nigeria shows the way for Africa – and the world:

upstart writes:As the world gets drier, do we need to turn to the ocean?

upstart writes:Mediterranean cave clues show that islanders ingested mind-bending plants around 3,000 years ago:

upstart writes:A new map boosts the count of fiery formations to about 85,000:

NotSanguine writes:Ars Technica is reporting on a new (published 5 April 2023) paper combining ice core, tree ring and textual analysis to "more accurately date medieval volcanic eruptions."The primary author's inspiration to pursue this line of research included:

upstart writes:Without an information sharing and analysis center, the country's food and agriculture sector is uniquely vulnerable to hackers:

upstart writes:Battery materials dot the ocean floor. Should we go get them?

upstart writes:The company is now the first in China to send a liquid fueled rocket to space:

Ometecuhtli writes:Open garage doors anywhere in the world by exploiting this "smart" device

upstart writes:Virgin Orbit files for bankruptcy:

A researcher used ChatGPT to create dangerous data-stealing malwareupstart writes:The malware even escaped detection on VirusTotal:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/04/8086-microcode-string-operations.html

fliptop writes:Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12 light-years away from Earth. The signal suggests that the Earth-size planet may have a magnetic field and perhaps even an atmosphere.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/fda-details-slew-of-failures-at-plant-that-made-eye-drops-linked-to-deaths/

takyon writes:Kioxia, formerly Toshiba Memory Holdings, has demonstrated "hepta-level-cell" NAND memory:Kioxia Researchers Demo Hepta-Level Cell NAND Flash, Nearly Doubling the Capacity of QLC

hubie writes:Intricate glass designs can be made with origami and cutting techniques, which can be combined with 3D printing to make more complex shapes:

upstart writes:noyb will take immediate action to stop this illegal practice:

upstart writes:Microsoft is the latest US tech giant under investigation by Germany's competition watchdog:

upstart writes:89% of citizens want them gone – at least among the 7.46% who showed up to vote:

upstart writes:Fear also plays a part:

upstart writes:The RISC-V alternative to Raspberry Pi is almost ready to ship:

hubie writes:Using running to escape from negative experiences rather than using it to escape to positive ones may lead to exercise dependence:

upstart writes:The invasion of Ukraine supercharged the decline of the country's already struggling tech sector—and undercut its biggest success story, Yandex:You may think, as I did, that Russia's current tech woe's are as a result of their invasion of Ukraine, or perhaps the annexation of Crimea. But it seems that the real problem started back around 2011 when it decided that the population having free access to information was not a good thing and, anyway, there must be money to be made if someone can take the tech industry under their control.

upstart writes:German Police Raid DDoS-Friendly Host 'FlyHosting':

canopic jug writes:The Tor Project and Mullvad VPN have both announced collaboration on a privacy-oriented web browser. The joint browser, which is based on Firefox, has the features of the Tor Browser but operates over the Mullvad Virtual Private Network rather than Tor's onion routers. The collaboration has helped polish interface improvements and address several long standing issues.

upstart writes:Uber Eats and other food-delivery drivers will receive paid sick leave under rules approved by the Seattle City Council:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/03/ads-are-coming-for-the-bing-ai-chatbot-as-they-come-for-all-microsoft-products/

upstart writes:Images of the previously unknown snailfish species were taken deeper than 8,000 meters, off the coast of Japan:

upstart writes:Mozilla won't abandon Microsoft's tried and tested platform anytime soon:

fliptop writes:These read like a proof of concept for replacing human writers:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/ftc-chair-refused-musks-meeting-request-told-him-to-stop-delaying-investigation/