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upstart writes:MSU researchers discover honeybees can detect lung cancer:

canopic jug writes:cURL (established 1998) is one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, especially if the development library libcurl is included. As has become tradition, the founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg has published a detailed analysis of the annual cURL survey.

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upstart writes:A study of medieval warrior monks at Zorita de los Canes castle revealed their high-society diet and violent deaths, including the unexpected discovery of a female warrior among them:

Microsoft and Chinaanubi writes:It looks like Chinese routers aren't the only things that come loaded with bonus software...https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/microsoft-vows-fix-security-gaps-china-hackers-government-emails-rcna156995NBC news reports:Microsoft's president told Congress on Thursday his company accepted responsibility for major security failures that let China-linked hackers penetrate federal government computer networks, but defended his company's presence in China.Brad Smith struck a humble tone in his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee and promised that the giant tech firm would fix security gaps in its products, which are widely used across federal agencies.----------------------------------------------------Somehow, I think it's so ironic that my own government is such a fan of security, yet, by enforced ignorance, the very things that they implement give only the illusion of security. No one knows if there's a backdoor or not, and who can verify?Gone are the days just a homebrew CRC16 digester, knowledge of exact file length, and a list of files to check, would tell me with almost absolute certainty if my system files had been monkeyed with. If so, which ones? And what did they do? ( File compare... FC.EXE to known good backup copies of the critical files stored on another floppy )"We acknowledge that we can and must do better"An Anonymous Coward writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/13/tech/microsoft-president-congress-cybersecurity-failures/

looorg writes:News consumption is down. The reasons appear to be multiple from that the readers don't trust the sources anymore, disinformation, journalistic agendas, AI (fake-) news or that news in general are just downers and sad to read.

Inescapable Conclusion: USC Researchers Prove Earth's Core is Losing Speedmrpg (and 2 more Anonymous Cowards) write:Inescapable Conclusion: USC Researchers Prove Earth's Core Is Losing Speed:

c0lo writes:AdobeJune 8 - Adobe users are furious about the company's terms of service change to help it train AI

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upstart writes:FAA investigating how titanium parts with falsified records wound up in Boeing and Airbus planes - Japan Today:

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Although it might seem that the site is not progressing there is nothing that could be further from the truth...The New Company and Transfer Of AssetsA new company has now been formed, along with IRS agreement that we are a registered as a 501(c)(3) company (donations will be tax deductible for anyone under the US IRS system) , and we have our own bank account and Board. Therefore, I informed the current Board of this at the end of last week requesting that we initiate the transfer of site ownership and its assets. I also proposed a way that we could do this with the minimum of disruption to the site itself. Ideally, it should from the community point of view be nothing more than a redirection of URLs to different IP addresses. The proposal has to be studied and accepted by the current Board, or they might suggest an alternative proposal. NCommander is moving home for much of this week and so I do not expect a response in the next few days.Site DowntimeWe are experiencing a recurring problem with a drive that keeps filling up. Several of our community have offered suggestions which have been implemented but they do not appear to be having the desired effect. Further investigation is ongoing but, for now at least, the problem has been resolved by freeing up space by moving files that did not have to be on that particular drive to a different drive on that server. I would like to thank the community for their patience but there are only 3 people who have easy access to that particular server, and I am one of them. The configuration of the infrastructure is not straightforward, and I am not a sys-admin. So to some extent we are still reliant on NCommander and kolie for some of the technical expertise or advice that is sometimes necessary, and to whom I am grateful for any assistance that they can give.SubmissionsWe have had a small number of our community helping by making submissions that meet our stated interests and topics of discussion. There has also been a handful of submissions on the '/dev/random' topic which have also received a very healthy number of comments. But for the majority we are still relying on upstart and Arthur (both bots) to bring fresh material to our submission queue. Any relevant submissions from the community would be welcome and I encourage you to think about the more unusual and loosely-tech-related topics that you would like to see discussed. A fully prepared submission would be ideal but if all we get is a URL then that is just putting a greater workload on the small number of active editors that we currently have. Try to at least provide some kind of summary and perhaps ask your own questions to prompt the community to respond. We can do all of the formatting to meet the site's needs for you. But if all you have is a URL then we will try to make a submission from it. Off-topic submissions that are just a URL will probably not be processed.SpammingThere has been a significant reduction in the amount of spamming anywhere on the site over the last few weeks. It hasn't gone completely but it is currently manageable by normal moderation by the community, and occasionally by the staff.ComplaintsComplaining about things you don't like on the site by means of public comments is not recommended and is usually a waste of your time and ours. If it is something that can be rectified immediately then we will, of course, do so but anything more significant takes a lot of time for the few staff that we have. Complaining anonymously will not be actioned. If you wish to make a complaint then we must have a way of contacting you privately. This can be any email address that you choose, providing that it lasts until the problem can be investigated and any necessary action taken to remedy the problem. We will probably have further questions to help us resolve the Issue and we will also need to inform you of the progress of our investigations and the final decision. That will be at least several days as an absolute minimum. If you keep repeating the same complaint anonymously in different threads and over a period of time it will be treated as spam - as was explained about 3 years ago in a Meta by Martyb.If it is not important enough to justify an email then it is possibly your personal problem and not something on the site that must be changed. Any alternative response could result in the staff being tied up in malicious anonymous complaints which we have not got the resources to address.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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hubie writes:Digital-only consoles are a trap, not a blessing:

For those that don't follow webtoon "Least I Could Do", the current story arc might be amusing...and a basis for discussion?

upstart writes:X-Force discovers new vulnerabilities in smart treadmill:

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c0lo writes:Tech Exec Predicts Billion-Dollar AI Girlfriend Industry

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An Anonymous Coward writes:So I came across this article : Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio and it inspired me to do more research and I plan on trying it out very soon!The person behind the article had this to say in the start of his article:

mhajicek writes:https://spacenews.com/fifth-helium-leak-detected-on-starliner/

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upstart writes:Google Wallet takes over app duties, but it looks like Google is quitting P2P payments:

upstart writes:Apple is to boost its Siri voice assistant and operating systems with OpenAI's ChatGPT as it seeks to catch up in the AI race:

upstart writes:When an earthquake rocked Taiwan, hundreds of Gogoro's battery-swap stations automatically stopped drawing electricity to stabilize the grid:

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DannyB writes:Water frost detected on Mars' volcanoes in 'significant' first discovery: StudyResearchers say the frost patches equate to '60 Olympic-size swimming pools.'

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owl writes:http://www.os2museum.com/wp/learn-something-old-every-day-part-xii-strange-file-resizing-on-dos/

canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on an article in Nature Ecology & Evolution about communication between African elephants (paywall). Using machine learning to analyze the low rumblings that elephants make, they researchs conclude that elephants have names for each other and use them.

janrinok writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2eeg9gygyno

AnonTechie writes:Source: General RobotsA very interesting article about programming Robots, written by BENJIE HOLSON:

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upstart writes:OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior:

Windows Recall Demands an Extraordinary Level of Trust That Microsoft Hasn't Earnedupstart writes:Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary:

Motor Trend is running a story that summarizes a number of different sources that look at vehicle privacy, https://www.motortrend.com/news/connected-cars-data-privacy-issues-sex-speeding/ It isn't favorable to the car companies, which (historically) is a change of direction for Motor Trend--long ago accused of making back room deals over their long-running "Car of the Year" award and other industry-favorable coverage.As well as stories covered here earlier from Mozilla and NY Times, they also link to this possibly interesting page,

quietus writes:Historically, high-speed rail travel by Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) in France was the monopoly of the French national rail service, SNCF.Under EU rules, all national operators have to make their rail system available to other willing operators. So in 2021, Trentalia, a unit of Italy's state rail operator, decided to offer high-speed train rides in France too.Now a third company has decided to enter the fray. The difference is that this is a private company named Proxima, backed by a (French) private equity firm (Antin Infrastructure Partners) to the initial tune of $1.1bn.Proxima will offer high-speed rail trips between Paris and four cities in western France - Bordeaux, Nantes, Rennes, and Angers, using 12 Avelia Horizon Trains. This will add 10 million new passenger seats on these lines, per year. According to the company,

fab23 writes:Thomas A. Limoncelli writes in Make Two Trips:

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