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Updated 2024-04-28 17:32
US To Hospitals: Meet Security Standards Or No Federal Money
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All About Google's Phasing Out of Third-Party Cookies
Why Google is Phasing Out Third-party Cookies - Marketplaceupstart writes:Google will roll out a set of new tools that still track your behavior online - so we'll still be getting those targeted ads:
Which Countries Back South Africa’s Genocide Case Against Israel at ICJ?
upstart writes:Which countries back South Africa's genocide case against Israel at ICJ?:
Ancient DNA Reveals Reason for High Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Rates in Europe
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-ancient-dna-reveals-high-multiple.html
NASA Finally Removes Last Two Fasteners to Access Historic Bennu Asteroid Sample
upstart writes:The two fasteners from the sampler head haven't budged for nearly 4 months, keeping the precious material inside:
AI Comes Up With Battery Design That Uses 70 Per Cent Less Lithium
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PC Prices To Jump As Cost Of Memory Rises, Say Analysts
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Re-Frame of Mind: Do Our Brains Have a Built-in Sense of Grammar?
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-01-mind-brains-built-grammar.html
AI Threatens to Crush News Organizations. Lawmakers Signal Change Is Ahead
fliptop writes:Media outlets are calling foul play over AI companies using their content to build chatbots. They may find friends in the Senate:
Celebrating 20 years of OpenWrt with Hardware Design
canopic jug writes:The OpenWRT project is turning 20 years old this year. During that time they have adapted to existing hardware products. Now the team has the idea to produce their own, fully supported hardware to run their software on:
AI Upends Long Held Belief That All Fingerprints Are Unique
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Microsoft Distributes Broken Security Update, Tells Users to Manually Repartition Their Drives
An Anonymous Coward writes:One of the Windows updates in the current cycle is for KB5034441, which addresses CVE-2024-20666. From what I can tell, exploiting this vulnerability requires physical access, so there's no risk of this being used in remote attacks. The actual risk to most users is probably very low. Still, it allows security features to be bypassed, so it should be fixed.The problem is that this update is failing for many users with error code 0x80070643. Microsoft claims that this is due to the recovery partition not being large enough on some systems, though the error code is cryptic and unhelpful. Here's what Microsoft said about that:
Researchers Discover Eco-Friendly Fungicide Alternative
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-eco-friendly-fungicide-alternative.html
Radio Station Owner Audacy Files Chapter 11
As reported in USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2024/01/08/audacy-radio-bankruptcy/72147915007/ and many outlets:
Piracy Is Surging Again Because Streaming Execs Ignored The Lessons Of The Past
owl writes:https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/piracy-is-surging-again-because-streaming-execs-ignored-the-lessons-of-the-past/
NASA Expected to Announce ‘Months-long Delay’ for Crewed Artemis Moon Mission
upstart writes:NASA expected to announce 'months-long delay' for crewed Artemis moon mission:
Cannibalistic Cells Could Provide an Edge in Future Cancer Treatments
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/rac2-protein-macrophages-cannibalize-t-cells-cancer-immunotherapy/
Ryzen News from A to GPU
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Saturday Citations: Snippets of Stories You Might Have Missed
mrpg writes:Here are a few stories to launch into the new year:
Canada Vows to Defend its Drug Supply Against Florida Importation Plan
upstart writes:Canada adds that importing its drugs will not solve America's drug pricing problems:
Scientists Find Megalodon Tooth In A Really Unexpected Place
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American Dialect Society 2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”
canopic jug writes:The American Dialect Society has chosen the neologism "enshittification" as its 2023 word of the year:
Meeting Announcement: Governance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, January 10, 2024 @ 21:00 UTC
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, January 10, 2024 at 21:00 UTC (4pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information have a page on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceExpected topics include the formation of a new corporation and the peaceful transfer of assets. Committee members, you don't want to miss this one!The community, welcome to observe and participate, is also encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
How to be More Anonymous Online
upstart writes:Being fully anonymous is next to impossible-but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules:
FDA Finds Chromium, a Second Metal Contaminant, in Applesauce Pouches
upstart writes:FDA finds chromium, a second metal contaminant, in applesauce pouches:
A Burgeoning U.S. Fusion Industry: What 2024 Could Bring
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Wickr is Dead. Long live wickr-crypto-c!
upstart writes:Wickr is DeadThe app was a privacy-championing startup, before becoming an app of choice for drug traffickers and being acquired by Amazon Web Services:
NASA Just Spotted An Exploded Star Blasting Vital Elements Into Space
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FAA Grounds Roughly 171 Boeing 737 Max 9 Planes After A Cabin Panel Blew Out During Flight
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A Method to Straighten Curved Space-Time
mrpg writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-method-straighten-space.html
India's Sun Probe Reaches Solar Orbit
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Kohler's Newest Bidet Finally Brings Alexa and Google to Your Butt
upstart writes:It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024:
Steam Stops Supporting Windows 7, 8, and 8.1
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New Transistors Based on Monolayer Black Phosphorus and Germanium Arsenide
mrpg writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-transistors-based-monolayer-black-phosphorus.html
Ancient Roman Wine Production May Hold Clues for Battling Climate Change
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-ancient-roman-wine-production-clues.html
ULA's Vulcan Centaur Rocket Set to Launch Monday, a Challenge to SpaceX
upstart writes:The 200-foot Vulcan Centaur, in development since 2014, is set for its first flight and poised to make a big impact in the industry:
NES Tetris Beaten
canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on 13-year-old Tetris player, Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti, who played until the NES version gave out. New play methods, such as rolling and hypertapping, were needed to reach a skill level where one can play as long as endurance and the software hold out. In his case it took over half an hour on the NES using rolling:
SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk, US Labor Agency Says
upstart writes:SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk, US Labor Agency Says:
Oldest Known Version Of DOS Unearthed - MS-DOS Ancestor 86-DOS Version 0.1c Is Now Available
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'Giant' Predator Worms More Than Half a Billion Years Old Discovered in North Greenland
upstart writes:'Giant' predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland:
23andMe Tells Victims it’s Their Fault that Their Data was Breached
fliptop writes:Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame to the victims themselves in an attempt to absolve itself from any responsibility, according to a letter sent to a group of victims seen by TechCrunch:
Gentoo Linux Now Offers Binaries...
Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/gentoo_starts_offering_binaries/I'm not one of these Nancy-Boys who just downloads some binaries and call it an operating system. I compiled my Gentoo, right here on my own computer, but now that's history.In what many thought might be a prank, The geeks at Gentoo announced they will now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.Although this is exactly how basically all other current Linux distributions work, it is a significant departure for Gentoo, which previously was an almost entirely source-based distro. With Gentoo, the install disk that gets you started must by definition be pre-compiled, up to now, when you install Gentoo, it fetches the source code and compiles it on your machine for your machine, specifically optimized for your computer's specific CPU and the individual functionality and configuration you chose.For now, the full range of pre-compiled binary packages will focus on x86-64 and Arm64.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
In a Breakthrough, Diabetics’ Damaged Cells Regenerated to Produce Insulin
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/regenerate-pancreatic-beta-cells-insulin-type-1-diabetes/
Microsoft Adding New PC Button in its First Significant Keyboard Change in Decades
takyon writes:Microsoft adding new PC button in its first significant keyboard change in decades
Starlink Launches First “Cellphone Towers in Space” for Use With LTE Phones
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-first-starlink-satellites-that-will-work-with-t-mobile-phones/
Digitization Puts Many at a Disadvantage
fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Herbert Bruderer posits:
Making Progress in the Battle Against Superbugs
New antibiotic family kills superbugs in a way they can't resisttaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/antibiotic-polymer-family-kills-superbugs-resistance/
Making AI Stand The Test Of Time
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iPhone Sideloading: Here's Why It Might Happen in the US and Japan
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E-Mail Addresses Are Not Good 'Permanent' Identifiers for Accounts
canopic jug writes:System administrator and prolific blogger, Chris Siebenmann, has a brief note that e-mail addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts.
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