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upstart writes:Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed - except for him:

owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor

taylorvich writes:https://www.science.org/content/article/living-skin-protecting-great-wall-china-erosion

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taylorvich writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231212112320.htm

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upstart writes:The Colorado-based launch company will end 2023 with just three launches:

Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresdenhttps://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-turns-the-sony-case-around-in-dresden/

upstart writes:Engineers and major companies are pushing a technology called L4S that they say could make the web feel dramatically faster:

hubie writes:A new study shows that brains with Alzheimer's disease have subnormal levels of important dietary antioxidants:

fliptop writes:One of the most highly-trafficked financial news websites in the world is creating AI-generated stories that bear an uncanny resemblance to stories published just hours earlier by other competitors:

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janrinok writes:Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation

upstart writes:Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged:

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owl writes:https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill

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upstart writes:Carbon emissions that cause climate change are on track to hit a record high this year, while efforts to remove them from the atmosphere are still minuscule:

canopic jug writes:Back in August the Tor Project and the EFF launched an advocacy campaign for getting more Tor relays running at universities. Now it is December and they have published an update on how the Tor University Challenge has gone so far.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/nasas-asteroid-mission-struck-its-target-but-then-dodged-a-bullet/

canopic jug writes:Low-tech Magazine has built a bicycle generator for a public exhibition on energy at the Pavillon d'Arsenal in Paris, France. Their two other bike generators can be seen and experimented with in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Barcelona, Spain.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/intel-accuses-amd-of-selling-old-cpus-with-new-model-numbers-which-intel-also-does/

An Anonymous Coward writes:systemd's newest contribution to FOSS is the BSoD - but this time, new and improved, with QR codes!Not a joke, truth. QR codes!https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/

upstart writes:I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life.:

KritonK writes:As reported on the Vivaldi browser blog:Just when you thought the Do-Not-Track (DNT) privacy setting was gathering dust, a court in Berlin, Germany decided to exhume it. The Berlin Regional court ruled in favor of the Federation of German Consumer Organization (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, vzbv), in their lawsuit against LinkedIn for ignoring users who had enabled 'Do-Not-Track' in their browsers. According to the German judge, companies must respect DNT settings under the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/us-regulators-will-now-have-access-to-years-of-binance-transaction-data/

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DannyB writes:SpaceX acquires parachute supplier

canopic jug writes:Several sites are reporting on the 40 anniversary of Turbo Pascal.At the vintage computing web blog, Byte Cellar:

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canopic jug writes:Retired self-proclaimed ordinary guy Bryce Wray has written an analysis of the situation with Mozilla's Firefox, the tipping point it is rapidly approaching, and the factors behind it heading towards that tipping point as it descends towards 2%. The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) guides those building US government web sites, but the influence extends much further in practice:

upstart writes:Tesla whistleblower casts doubt on car safety:

fliptop writes:Hackers have been able to gain access to personal information from about 6.9 million users of genetic testing company 23andMe, using customers' old passwords:

fliptop writes:One of the oldest distinctions in information access is between searching and browsing. Does a user initiate an information-seeking journey by typing keywords into a search box, or by browsing a category hierarchy?

In the early days of autonomous driving development, there was some press about researchers using the "trolley problem" (kill one person "on purpose" vs "do nothing" and kill many) to think about how robot cars should work. Now researchers at North Carolina State U have broken that big moral question down into smaller, more mundane pieces, in an attempt to see what ordinary human drivers think and do. Press release at: https://www.autonomousvehicleinternational.com/news/adas/ncsu-researchers-ditch-the-trolley-problem-to-help-autonomous-vehicles-make-moral-decisions.html and full paper at https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-023-01813-y

upstart writes:IBM releases first-ever 1,000-qubit quantum chip:

mcgrew writes:I decided a few years ago that I was sick of standing in the snow at a gas station waiting for the person inside the building to finish selling that lottery ticket and turn the pump on so I can stand there some more babysitting it while it fills up and I freeze. The answer, of course, was to buy a car that didn't need gasoline, one I could plug into the house and go inside where it's warm.I'm not a rich man, I'm a pensioner who is still paying a mortgage, so I looked for an affordable EV. Used ones are almost nonexistent, and I found out why when I finally bought one: it has a ten year warranty. They haven't been making them much longer than that.I swore off new cars decades ago when my month old VW stranded me ninety miles from home with a bad alternator, but if you want an EV, new is your only choice. I kept seeing the Chevy Bolt advertised, but could never find one for sale at all. Then I found that they had stopped making them two years earlier.Why? Well, battery problems, they claimed. Why just the not so expensive one, $30,000? GM is still selling electric Cadillacs and Corvettes, why no cheap cars?I discovered after buying an EV that the only two advantages of a piston car to an electric one are the lack of infrastructure for long trips, and the high purchase price of the vehicle. Why high? Because only their flagship autos have electric motors, the ones that formerly had V8s.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/gmails-ai-powered-spam-detection-is-its-biggest-security-upgrade-in-years/

fliptop writes:Spying has always been limited by the need for human labor. A.I. is going to change that:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/amazon-faces-trial-after-selling-bathroom-spycam-used-to-abuse-minor/

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canopic jug writes:Software engineer Miguel Grinberg is getting a jump on the new year and has already published the Flask Mega-Tutorial, 2024 Edition. As he introduces its 23 chapters,

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Tomorrow, Wednesday, December 6th, 2023 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 are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community, welcome to observe and participate, is encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.