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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/3cx-knew-its-app-was-flagged-as-malicious-but-took-no-action-for-7-days/

upstart writes:This once secretive scientific field is embracing openness in a big way:

upstart writes:Heat batteries could help cut emissions by providing new routes to use solar and wind power:

fliptop writes:Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun:

upstart writes:The stream could keep the galaxy supplied with star-forming fuel for a billion years:

upstart writes:New editor is integrated with Python lessons:

upstart writes:"You can call it a lie by omission":

upstart writes:What Flight 50 Means for the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter:

upstart writes:Videos obtained by WIRED from public transit vehicles reveal self-driving cars causing delays and potential danger to buses, trains, and passengers:

upstart writes:The 3D5000 has come out of the oven:

upstart writes:Ether is finally untethering itself from mining—and driving renewed debate about bitcoin's environmental impact:

upstart writes:Europe's JUICE probe will investigate three of Jupiter's largest ice moons for signs of potential habitability:

upstart writes:They even shared a clip of a child being hit by a car:

upstart writes:The analysis could help researchers study storms that strike in the winter:

upstart writes:Drivers in Europe net big data rights win against Uber and Ola:

upstart writes:Routing 4G cellular data to a BSD network using bridge mode on the RUT-240:

upstart writes:Now We Know How a Solar Storm Took Out a Fleet of Starlinks:

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/