fliptop writes:Court holds that state officials violated the First Amendment when they ordered retired engineer Wayne Nutt to stop talking about math in public:
janrinok writes:Scientists have been looking for health-promoting microbes in the feces of people from traditional communities-some of whom feel exploited:
Motor Trend reports on recent gov't. actions that will lead to drunk & drowsy driving detection built into new cars, https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-anti-drunk-driving-tech-rules-coming/
canopic jug writes:The US Surgeon General has published his 2023 advisory on social control media and youth mental health [warning for PDF]. The report's scope is only on the health and mental health effects, not the weaponized nature of the phenomenon. The body of the report is 17 pages long and includes a call to action.
vux984 writes:Never submitted a story before, but thought this was interesting, and it was the first I'd heard of it. I thought it was actually a pretty good idea.https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/turquoise-taillights-tell-you-this-mercedes-is-driving-autonomously/
kreuzfeld writes:Help please: here in Lawrence, Kansas the public school district has recently started using Gaggle," a system for monitoring all digital documents and communications created by students on school-provided devices. Unsurprisingly, the system inundates employees with false 'alerts' but the district nonetheless hails this pervasive, dystopic surveillance system as a great success. What useful advice can readers here offer re. successful methods to get public officials to backtrack from a policy so corrosive to liberty, trust, and digital freedoms?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
hubie writes:I came across an interesting blog post that suggests the Web is splitting into two with an offshoot made up of a commercial dystopia that is increasingly viewed as the "normal web," leaving an insurmountable chasm developing between the two. Regular readers of SN will appreciate the points made, but do you agree with them, particularly where you'll eventually need to pick one side or the other?https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html
hubie writes:Mathematicians have found a new way to impose order on chaos in the form of an answer to a challenge which has puzzled them for nearly a century:
canopic jug writes:The region of the Reykjanes Peninsula north of the town Grindavik in Iceland remains closed due to a now active volcanic eruption. Below are two video links.
canopic jug writes:Google is announcing the end of support for its Usenet client and servers in February 2024. This is a significant turning point because Usenet predates the Internet. Much of the Internet and, later, the WWW, was designed and built around Usenet discussions. That includes Linus Torvalds' now famous announcement about his then hobby, which he asserted at the time would not be big and professional like GNU:
canopic jug writes:The US Department of Defense has published a report entitled, Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Managing Open Source Software and Software Bill of Materials (warning for PDF) about aligning government activities with industry best practices. It covers principles that software developers and software suppliers can reference, including managing open source software andsoftware bills of materials to maintain and provide awareness about software security. The reports a follow up to the much hyped 2021 executive order on cybersecurity. Much focus is given to making and using Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and incorporating them into the work flow:
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canopic jug writes:Public Domain Day 2024 is coming up in a few weeks. The Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a briefing document, Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle, about what happens when the earlier versions of Mickey Mouse finally elevate to the public domain at the start of 2024. Included is a Venn diagram of what you can and can't work with.