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canopic jug writes:Volume 189 of The PCLinuxOS Magazine has an article on Bill Gates' evil prophecy from 40 years ago where he aims for ending general-purpose computing. He achieves that goal a step at a time over the decades, with the help of many a mole and quisling. Lately, the Pluton chip and Restricted Boot play both play key roles towards ending this era of general-purpose computing. The Pluton chip is an extension of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) used by Vista10 and required by Vista11. Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, and even its upstream source, Debian, folded years ago in regards to secure boot by using Microsoft's signing key, possibly cementing that as the norm. The article covers that and many other incidents leading up to the current situation.There is an ever-decreasing amount of time left to keep general-purpose computing alive and the author signs off with how to approach the political maneuvers going on:

hubie writes:Researchers have measured how uncomfortable and 'creeped out' using apps can make us feel:

upstart writes:'The Onion' filed a real brief with the Supreme Court supporting man jailed for making fun of cops:

upstart writes:The Pi Shortage Pricing Changes the Equation:

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Snotnose and an AC write:Adafruit's Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy:

upstart writes:NASA Wants To Mine The Moon, But Law Experts Say It's Not That Simple:

hubie writes:Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day is linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee:

upstart writes:Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold:

upstart writes:The countries say the pact will help combat serious crimes, but privacy advocates have raised concerns:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Exoplanet hunters should check for NO:

owl writes:http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-mos386-source-code/

upstart writes:NASA's DART asteroid impact test left a trail over 6,000 miles long:

hubie writes:Biomarkers used to track benefits of anti-ageing therapies can be misleading:

canopic jug writes:The New Yorker has a non-technical article, The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time, about the Network Time Protocol (NTP) from both the software and protocol perspectives. It gives a surprisingly good summary of the background of both as well as the current situation and the issues holding back the next steps. If you have networked computers, especially servers, in any capacity then you are certainly familiar with the NTP or at least its supporting utilities. NTP was developed by David Mills, who by the late 1970s, after a *little*-bit-of-improvementer his PhD, eventually ended up at COMSAT where he started working on it for ARPANET. He still works on it despite failed eyesight.

upstart writes:Uber's Former Security Chief Convicted of Covering Up 2016 Data Breach:

takyon writes:Samsung announces 36 Gbps GDDR7 memory standard, aims to release V-NAND storage solutions with 1000 layers by 2030

upstart writes:The first step will be figuring out the extent of the damage and then the difficulties really begin:

upstart writes:The American chess grandmaster at the centre of the sport's biggest scandal has been accused of cheating more than 100 times on a major online platform:

upstart writes:A patch is already available:

upstart writes:Most developers aren't particularly good at building authorization into their applications, but would they trust a third-party provider like Oso?:

upstart writes:The future heart of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will soon make its way to Chile:

upstart writes:Nobel Prize in Physics won for quantum entanglement findings:

hubie writes:A person's distrust in humans predicts they will have more trust in artificial intelligence's ability to moderate content online:

Snotnose writes:So you thought you bought some software

upstart writes:NASA's Mars Helicopter Snags Mysterious Foreign Object on 33rd Flight - ExtremeTech:

CheesyMoo writes:The White House has published a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights:https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/ai-bill-of-rights/

upstart writes:Former Co-Owner of Russia's Baikal Microelectronics Goes Bankrupt:

upstart writes:Know about five oceans on Earth? The sixth has just been discovered

upstart writes:Watch Live as SpaceX Attempts Its Fifth Crewed Launch to the ISS:

upstart writes:FCC will start kicking voice providers out of its robocall database:

upstart writes:Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups:

Linux 6.0 Releases Stable Branch Supporting Latest Architectureupstart writes:Linux 6.0 releases stable branch supporting latest architecture:

hubie writes:New Theory Concludes That the Origin of Life on Earth-Like Planets Is Likely:

upstart writes:Asus Wants to Spark a 'Revolution' to Hide All PC Cables - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Another person outsmarted a state government trying to confiscate firearms via a gun buyback program with merely a 3D printer and PLA filament:

Ometecuhtli writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348

upstart writes:SEC Charges Kim Kardashian for Unlawfully Touting Crypto Security:

upstart writes:Can methanol move beyond its dirty roots?

upstart writes:From archive.ph:

hubie writes:The Strange Behavior of Sound Through Solids:

SomeGuy writes:Polyon reports that players will be required to link an SMS phone number to their Battle.net accounts if they want to play Overwatch 2. "The same two-factor step, called SMS Protect, will also be used on all Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 accounts when that game launches, and new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare accounts," the report adds.As the name suggests, this requires SMS "texting". That means normal landlines, VoIP numbers, some prepaid cell phones, and messaging apps are not allowed.From the report:

upstart writes:Modern hunter-gatherers offer insight into how our distant ancestors ate:

upstart writes:Las Vegas and NTT deploy largest private 5G network in US:

upstart writes:After Ian caused the latest delay for the moon mission, NASA puts a November takeoff on the calendar:

upstart writes:China spins up giant battery built with US-patented tech:

upstart writes:Scientists Create AI-Powered Laser to 'Neutralize' Cockroaches - ExtremeTech:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Fungi find their way into cancer tumors, but what they're doing there is a mystery

upstart writes:US intelligence researches improved radiation detection:

hubie writes:Astrophysicists have discovered that a gamma-ray burst detected on earth came from an explosion that occurred when the Universe was only 880 million years old: