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canopic jug writes:The Finnix project and DistroWatch are observing the 25 anniversary of the Finnix live distro a few days ago:From Finnix:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-decades-quest-antibiotic-compounds.html

taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/jumping-robot

fliptop writes:US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/materials/carbon-negative-cement-sand-substitute-seawater-electricity-co2/

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fliptop writes:Gaia runs faster on Ryzen AI PCs, using the XDNA NPU and RDNA iGPU:

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/italian-court-orders-google-to-block-iptv-pirate-sites-at-dns-level/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-trust-signing-service-abused-to-code-sign-malware/

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taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-drug-reestablishes-brain-mouse.html

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Booga1 writes:https://petapixel.com/2025/03/19/us-court-of-appeals-unanimously-denies-copyright-protection-for-ai-created-images/

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-slab

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Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in future versions of Ubuntu - which also means changing the software license. Canonical plans to replace the current core utilities - from the GNU project and implemented in C - with the newer uutils suite, which is written in Rust. Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of the GNU project, the existing coreutils are licensed under the GPL - specifically, GPL 3. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity:

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taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-naturalness-seasonal-basis-modern-criticism.html

North Korea's Bitcoin Reserve Thought to be 3rd Largest in World: Reportupstart writes:North Korea's bitcoin reserve thought to be 3rd largest in world: report:

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upstart writes:Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/

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upstart writes:UK's internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Published: March 13, 2025 5.53pm CETTobacco's hidden friendly side: how the controversial plant could be used for good of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.

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upstart writes:Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-iguanas-world-colonize-fiji-genetic.html

upstart writes:Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant:

upstart writes:People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images:

upstart writes:Michael Faraday's illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London's Royal Institution to go online:

Ken_g6 writes:People really are getting dumber. Futurism echoes a paywalled Financial Times report:

liar writes:https://deltiasgaming.com/forget-windows-11-steamos-for-desktops-may-be-released-soon/

JoeMerchant writes:A new concept of quantum gravity arising from entropy may be useful not only in the ever-present need to explain dark energy and dark matter, but might also edge closer to a grand unified theory of everything that we observe, and infer from our observations.

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BenFenner writes:For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better:

VLM writes:From https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryptionNIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm for general encryption.

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Quaise Energy reaches back to push geothermal power forwardtaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-reaches-back-push-geothermal-power-forward/

upstart writes:Apple's encrypted data case against the UK government has begun in secret at the Royal Courts of Justice:

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