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upstart writes:There is not enough evidence to prove an ingredient used in a popular weed killer causes cancer, a Federal Court judge has found:

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owl writes:https://blog.mattstuchlik.com/2024/07/21/fastest-memory-read.html

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owl writes:https://techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage/

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fliptop writes:A "battle of the giants" is unfolding in the market for chips for real-time artificial intelligence systems:

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owl writes:https://nrk.neocities.org/articles/cpu-vs-common-sense

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Chimpanzees gesture back and forth quickly like in human conversations:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Today I'd like to revisit an often ignored/known method for tracking/hacking for SN discussion![Editor's Comment: Much of the discussion in the links originates from 2013-2016. That could mean several things. 1. It wasn't shown to be very effective, or 2. It is effective but very difficult to detect and counter. ]Ultrasound Tracking Could Be Used to Deanonymize Tor Users

PiMuNu writes:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13924Fermilab is a major US national lab with a budget of several 100M$ per year, focusing on particle physics. All is not well at the lab, however, following project delays and huge cost overruns for the flagship DUNE project. The organisation that operates Fermilab, led by University of Chicago, has had its contract withdrawn and the lab director Lia Merminga has been laid off. Now a pair of senior and well-respected scientists have put their oar in as well, blasting the management of the lab over the past decade that has led to the current situation in a paper posted to the arxiv preprint server. The pair point at many problems, based on a toxic working environment, giving anecdotal examples supported by indicators such as a fourfold increase in sick leave over the past decade.The PDF is available here.It's a fun read![Ed. note: It appears Lia Merminga has not been laid off]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:You're not going crazy - you may actually be paying higher prices than other people | CNN Business:

Inorganic production of oxygen in the deep ocean JoeMerchant writes:https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-dark-oxygen-discovered-at-bottom-of-ocean-stuns-scientists

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upstart writes:Botanists vote to remove racist reference from plants' scientific names:[ Editor's Comment: caffra means 'infidel' in Arabic, and it was used as a racial slur against black (non-arabic) people, predominantly in South Africa. ]

upstart writes:Academic journals are a lucrative scam - and we're determined to change that:

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owl writes:https://pldb.io/blog/JohnOusterhout.html

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Editor's note: Due to the extensive use of buzzwords, the submitter questions whether this was written by a human or not, but perhaps those who are knowledgeable in network architecture can comment on whether this idea is as revolutionary as TFA suggests.Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:

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hubie writes:CrowdStrike broke Debian and Rocky Linux months ago, but no one noticed:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/spaceballs-sequel-amazon-mgm-mel-brooks-josh-gad-1235017862/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/dirty-diaper-resold-on-amazon-ruined-a-family-business-report-says/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/07/crowdstrike-fixes-start-at-reboot-up-to-15-times-and-get-more-complex-from-there/

upstart writes:106 rare crocodile eggs are found in Cambodia, the biggest such discovery in 20 years:

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[Ed. comment: This story has been updated with a recent decision from MLB]"dalek" writes:What do Don Denkinger and Jim Joyce have in common? If you're a baseball fan, you might recognize them as umpires who are known for famously missing a critical call late in a game on national TV. Before Major League Baseball (MLB) embraced video-assisted replay (VAR), which it resisted long after other sports like football had demonstrated that replaces could be used successfully, there was no way to reverse the missed calls. Even after MLB finally allowed VAR to be used, by far the most frequent call in a game still cannot be reviewed: whether a pitch is a ball or strike.The technology to track the fight of a baseball and reliably determine balls and strikes has been in use for a couple of decades. Systems like QuesTec, PITCHf/x, and Statcast can accurately track the flight of a baseball and determine whether its trajectory crossed the strike zone when it reached home plate. Statcast not only determines each pitch's horizontal and vertical location when it crossed the plate, but a plethora of other data like the pitcher's release point in three dimensions, the velocity when the pitch left the pitcher's hand, it's spin axis and rate, the pitch's acceleration in three dimensions, and a classification of the pitch type. Despite the capability to accurately call balls and strikes automatically, MLB still relies solely on human umpires this call.The horizontal location of the strike zone is identical for every pitch, requiring that some portion of the baseball pass above home plate. However, the vertical location is defined as being from the bottom of the hitter's kneecap to the midpoint between the top of the hitter's pants and the hitter's shoulders. This is affected by the hitter's height, body shape, and their batting stance. A hitter won't have exactly the same batting stance on any two pitches, so the actual strike zone varies slightly from pitch to pitch, even for the same hitter. This data is determined by Statcast while the pitch is in flight, and is recorded in the sz_bot (bottom of the strike zone in feet above ground) and sz_top (the top, with the same units) fields in Statcast data. The flight of the baseball is currently tracked by 12 Hawk-Eye cameras stationed throughout each stadium, five of which operate at 300 frames per second. The images from the different cameras can be used to pinpoint the location of the baseball within a few millimeters. The same type of camera is used for VAR in tennis matches to determine if a ball was out of bounds.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Breaking: CrowdStrike code update bricking Windows machines around the worldc0lo writes:Announcement

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upstart writes:FTC Warns Gaming Companies Over Warranty Stickers:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/07/will-space-based-solar-power-ever-make-sense/