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canopic jug writes:Digital librarian, Karen Coyle, has written about controlled digital lending (warning for PDF), where an artificial scarcity is applied to digital artifacts to limit concurrent access similar to the limitations that a finite number of objects exhibit in libraries' physical collections. This concept raises a lot of questions about not just copyright and digital versus physical, but also about reading in general. Some authors and publisher associations have already begun to object to controlled digital lending. However, few set aside misinformation and misdirection to allow for a proper, in-depth discussion of the issues.

upstart writes:A giant planet may have "escaped" from our solar system, study finds:

upstart writes:Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service, but widely reported elsewhere:

Tech Review is running a piece on a new/recent approach to self driving, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/27/1052826/ai-reinforcement-learning-self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-wayve-waabi-cruise/

takyon writes:Russia says it has test-fired another hypersonic missile

upstart writes:25% of the World's Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attacks:

hubie writes:Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections, study suggests:

upstart writes:Instead of getting exploit PoC, they're getting something a lot more sinister:

upstart writes:An interesting history story about a French embroiderer who helped revolutionize surgery:

hubie writes:High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn't reduce mortality rates:

Rich writes:A digital certificate that expired after 10 years is causing a major outage in German retail payment handling. The involved Verifone H5000 card reader was introduced in 2012 but is still widely in use. Acceptance points have been advised to not power off their devices, because on startup, the failing certificate locks out the device even from updates. The vendor is trying to come up with a solution, which will likely involve USB sticks for local updates.Report in English: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-05-27/aaefes-esso-credit-card-outage-6146620.htmlDetails in German (with screenshots): https://www.borncity.com/blog/2022/05/27/strung-der-verifone-h5000-ec-kartenlesegerte-einige-insights-zur-zertifikateproblematik/While in the past, many issues could be fixed by cleverly scraping together remaining data, this is one of the first nationwide occurrences of a new class of security-related bugs that actively lock out any solution attempt. What is your experience in this field?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Knowledge-Diverse Work Teams Benefit from Fluid Hierarchies:

upstart writes:Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches:

hubie writes:Quantum information teleported across a rudimentary quantum network:

AnonTechie writes:https://phys.org/news/2022-05-disinformation-flourished-pandemic.html

upstart writes:Why are male mice afraid of bananas?:

upstart writes:Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images:

upstart writes:Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal – TechCrunch:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes:World's largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City:

upstart writes:FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA info for targeted advertising:

upstart writes:Low-cost gel film can pluck drinking water from desert air:

upstart writes:US Postal Service wants to provide digital ID and collect more biometric data:

Phoenix666 writes:SciTechDaily:

canopic jug and owl write in with news about some classic software:Hacker Tavis Ormandy has ported IBM's Lotus 1-2-3 to GNU/Linux and writes in his blog about how he did it. It's 100% usable even if the DOS emulation version still looks a little better.

takyon writes:Microsoft announces a brand-new Arm-powered desktop PC and Arm-native dev tools

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2022/05/21/why_are_catfish_in_sweden_living_as_long_as_humans_833078.html

upstart writes:Scientists 'see' puzzling features deep in Earth's interior:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Do you miss having an original SoundBlaster card? Now you can build your own! Take a look at the Snark Barker on GitHub.

hubie writes:'I don't even remember what I read':

upstart writes:Biden administration lays out plan for four carbon-capture facilities:

upstart writes:Lockheed Martin, Filecoin Foundation plan demonstration of decentralized data storage in space - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:DuckDuckGo browser allows Microsoft trackers due to search agreement:

upstart writes:A litany of security flaws allows forgeries that are easy, quick, and cheap:

upstart writes:The sci-fi technology tackling malarial mosquitos:

DannyB writes:Octopuses torture and eat themselves after mating and science finally knows why:

upstart writes:We have a glimpse now of NASA's latest vision for its first crewed Mars mission:

upstart writes:Vangelis, composer of Chariots of Fire and Blade Runner soundtracks, dies aged 79:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes:Scientists Just Measured a Mechanical Quantum System Without Destroying It:

Phoenix666 writes:SciTechDaily:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://tails.boum.org/security/prototype_pollution/index.en.html

upstart writes:Broadcom In Talks To Buy Cloud Computing Firm VMWare - Benzinga:

An Anonymous Coward writes:link: https://news.yahoo.com/mountains-sugar-found-ocean-under-192535826.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/05/cdc-reports-6th-child-death-from-unexplained-hepatitis-180-cases/

upstart writes:All your favorite dead products from the past are back:

hubie writes:Research team makes mind-reading possible with electronics and AI:

upstart writes:Apple display supplier BOE may lose all iPhone 14 orders after trying to cheat:

upstart writes:Scientists have discovered "proto-peat" forming in the Arctic as the Earth naturally sequesters carbon, but it could take centuries to mature:

takyon writes:AMD has announced "Mendocino", a mid-range chip for Windows and ChromeOS laptops that will launch in Q4 2022. The Mendocino die has a quad-core Zen 2 CPU and an unspecified amount of RDNA2 graphics cores, and uses LPDDR5 memory. It looks similar if not identical to the Van Gogh chip used in Valve's Steam Deck, except that it uses TSMC's "6nm" process instead of "7nm".