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upstart writes:Mars is only going to get colder and darker for the next 10 weeks as winter deepens:The Ingenuity helicopter has made 28 flights traveling about 7 km across the surface of Mars. Lately it has been accumulating dust on its solar panels making it hard to recharge its batteries. Recently they lost contact with the vehicle and they figured that its battery had run out, but after sunrise the batteries would charge enough that it would boot up and try to contact the rover, Perseverance.

upstart writes:COVID-19 Vaccines May Be Significantly Less Effective in People With Severe Obesity:

upstart writes:Nvidia's anti-cryptomining GPUs have finally been 100% unlocked:

wirelessduck writes:A marker that could help identify babies at a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has been discovered by Sydney researchers.

upstart writes:UK sanctions Russian microprocessor makers, banning them from ARM:

upstart writes:An interesting article over at PCMag that is worth the read as this brief summary cannot do the topics justice. It discusses the issues with getting employees back into the office after two years of working remotely.

upstart writes:Unusual ridge networks on Mars may provide clues about the history of the Red Planet:

hubie writes:Colorful nonpareils can uniquely identify drug capsules and counterfeit fashions:

upstart writes:China's Government, State-Backed Firms to Scrap Foreign PCs Within Two Years:

digitalaudiorock writes:Changes made during the past week to Cloudflare's "Browser Integrity Check" used by many web sites result in an infinite redirect loop for many non-mainstream browsers. So far it appears this affects Palemoon, Waterfox, older Firefox, and Firefox developer edition:https://www.ghacks.net/2022/05/05/fix-pale-moon-browser-not-passing-cloudflares-checking-your-browser-verification/https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=70&t=28227As it stands, this is effectively blocking a significant portion of the web from these browsers. Attempts to work around this by changing the user agent string do not appear to work. While the specific cause is not yet known, and Cloudflare doesn't appear to have acknowledged the issue, it's suspected that they might be moving to some sort of whitelist of browser signatures. So far, every thread on the issue entered at Cloudflare has been locked:https://community.cloudflare.com/t/locked-threads-without-a-solution/381829Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Drone swarms that can navigate dense forest burst out of science fiction into real world:

upstart writes:Nvidia hid how many GPUs it was selling to cryptocurrency miners, says SEC:

hubie writes:Study Links Urbanization to Poor Ecological Knowledge, Less Environmental Action:

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Samuel Greengard speculates Elon Musk buying Twitter is more about freedom to control speech:

hubie writes:Virgin Galactic pushes back commercial suborbital flights to 2023:

hubie writes:In-Person Socialization Down, but Social Media Isn't to Blame:

Puffin writes: Super Flower Blood Moon EclipseTotal eclipse of the moon, May 15-16. Should be fun.

upstart writes:Canada considers adding moon crimes to its Criminal Code:

MrPlow submitted via IRC for Runaway1956:Tor project upgrades network speed performance with new systemThe Tor Project has implemented three new algorithms in the latest protocol version (0.4.7.7) to address network congestion and increase browser speeds. The new system, called Congestion Control, promises to eliminate speed limits on the network. The algorithms are designed to minimize packet loss (Tor-Westwood), estimate queue lengths (Tor-Vegas), and estimating bandwidth delays (Tor-NOLA).

upstart writes:Google fights doxxing with updated personal info removal policy:

upstart writes:EchoStar Mobile launches pan-European satellite-based LoRa IoT early adopter programme:I realise that LoRaWAN is much more popular in Europe than in the USA, and perhaps this is because of the relatively poor LoRa coverage there. Furthermore, LoRa is limited to a few kilometres or perhaps 10s of kilometers in most cases. However, one possible interesting solution is described here - satellite relays.

MrPlow submitted via IRC for Runaway1956:Keep your rock walls and quirky perks: Employees want actual benefits

upstart writes:AST SpaceMobile gets US approval to test satellite-based cellular broadband:

upstart writes:Microsoft Edge Is Getting a Built-In VPN:

DannyB writes:Piece Falls Off Boeing Starliner as It Trundles Toward Launchpad

oaklandwatch writes:We made a mistake, argues developer Andrew Duensing. We let the world's social networks become profit-driven enterprises. "We don't really tolerate it for almost any other centers of community (like book clubs, churches/mosques/temples, running groups, schools)," Duensing says. "But for some reason, we tolerate it as soon as it becomes 1s and 0s?"I want to show that there isn't necessarily an economic reason it has to be that way."He's one of several developers who've discovered another secret about social networks: they're actually really easy to build. The article identifies at least three developers who have now coded up their own social networks, just for friends and interaction (and never for profit). Like a backyard barbecue that didn't feel the need for a sponsor.And because they're privately owned, they can explore entirely new ideas. Alex Ghiculescu and Jillian Schuller are the creators of a special social network designed to be checked just once a week -- on Sunday.

canopic jug writes:The sudo project has a short article about fine tuning access and logging for sudo. Sudo can be used for fine grained access to system level utilities and functions, though some distros have made it infamous by intentionally misconfiguring it to stand in for su. Unfortunately the example in the above article comes dangerously close to that by granting root access to the shell, Bash. So the better parts of the article about logging and JSON should be focused on instead:

hubie writes:Wi-Fi May Be Coming Soon to a Lamppost Near You:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/stung-by-3-court-losses-isps-stop-fighting-california-net-neutrality-law/

upstart writes:New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy:

upstart writes:This time, can Boeing's Starliner finally shine?:

Dog Coronavirus Jumps to Humans, With a Protein Shiftupstart writes:Dog coronavirus jumps to humans, with a protein shift:

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upstart writes:Facebook employees knew that a computer-curated feed increased the time users spent on the social network—and that it led to unhealthy behaviors:This piece is part of Gizmodo's ongoing effort to make the Facebook Papers available to the public. See the full directory of documents here.

upstart writes:Is there a First Amendment right to assemble in the metaverse?:

upstart writes:This California Greenhouse is Run by Robots - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Attackers Use Event Logs to Hide Fileless Malware:

Look what I can do! writes:"We are especially proud to present you Tails 5.0, the first version of Tails based on Debian 11 (Bullseye). It brings new versions of a lot of the software included in Tails and new OpenPGP tools."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Every ISP in the US has been ordered to block three pirate streaming services:

upstart writes:Largest known cave art images in US by Indigenous Americans discovered in Alabama:

hubie writes:The Italian research center SISSA has announced a paper proposing a new property, called "non-minimal coupling" [PDF - 232Kb] to address the mystery of the nature of dark matter:

AnonTechie writes:Yahoo

canopic jug writes:Science fiction novelist, journalist, and technology activist, Cory Doctorow, has written an article at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) covering the self-censorship that social control media participants exercise when playing to the algorithms, a behavior sometimes called algospeak. In pursuing algospeak, participants avoid certain words, phrases, and topics while boosting others to play to the automated moderation algorithms. If played correctly the algorithm will actually raise the visibility of the content in question. If played incorrectly the content disappears off the radar. However, since the algorithm itself is unknown to the participants, the result usually falls somewhere in between even after a lot of trial and error.

hubie writes:New experiments have shown the source of the aurora borealis

upstart writes:Open-source security: It's too easy to upload 'devastating' malicious packages, warns Google:

upstart writes:Judge dismisses "insufficient" copyright claims in Destiny 2 cheating case:

hubie writes:A study of nearly 9,000 children found those who eat a vegetarian diet had similar measures of growth and nutrition compared to children who eat meat:

upstart writes:Rocket Lab launches smallsats, catches but drops booster - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:Linux gaming surges in popularity – is this the Steam Deck effect?:

hubie writes:The European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA) has cleared a big hurdle to becoming a law: