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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:OpenAI's Text-Generating System Gpt-3 Is Now Spewing Out 4.5 Billion Words A Day:

t-3 writes:https://www.nber.org/papers/w28600

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers discover how animals grow their pointy body parts:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzardBackdoor Disguised as Typo Fix Added to PHP Source Code:

takyon writes:High anxiety over federal weed loophole

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enough/

takyon writes:Consent to being surveilled or risk getting fired, says Amazon

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:As the Arctic warms, lightning strikes are more frequent -- even near the North Pole:

martyb writes:According to real-time updates, the container ship "Ever Given" has now been freed and is under way:You can follow its progress at VesselFinder.com. (The web site seems to be struggling under the load.) At the moment of this writing, it is headingon a Course of 349.2° (nearly due north) at a speed of 2.3 knots.It is headed to Great Bitter Lake. Once there and out of the path of other shipping, it will undergo technical inspections.According to various reports, the Suez Canal carries anywhere from 10-15% of the world's shipping. The effort to dislodge the ship is led by Smit Salvage who is renowned in the ship salvage industry. They successfully took on the task of raising the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Powered by two nuclear reactors, it sank August 14, 2000 while a full complement of torpedoes and missiles.What Next?

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:These techniques may help reduce the acrimony in the comments.Bad at public speaking? The trick is to distill your message to these 15 words, says speech trainer:

Anti-aristarchus writes:The people over at Ars Technica have an interesting, in-depth article.Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call:

An Anonymous Coward writes:APT Encounters of the Third Kind:

Eratosthenes writes:SciTechDaily reports that there is a moon in the sky, and it is waxing dangerously!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Landmark brain cancer vaccine passes first phase of human trials:

[Ed. note: As much as this goes against the norm here, I strongly encourage folk to read the entire linked article. We continue to witness dramatic advances in computer capabilities. Just consider what we already have today: AMD's Epyc and Threadripper processors, Apple Silicon (of which the M1 processor is only a taste), multi-terabyte DDR6 memories, huge farms of SSD storage all help leverage the tremendous capabilities of the latest ray-tracing video cards. Consider this a PSA (Public Service Announcement): You' ve Been Warned.-martyb)upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:FBI Warns Imminent Deepfake Attacks "Almost Certain" - The Debrief:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Salon has an article on Ingenuity.

Anti-aristarchus writes:NASA's TESS planet hunter spied 2,200 candidate worlds in its first 2 years

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Sea-level rise is accelerating to its highest levels in at least 2,000 years across the Northeast, including New York City, study says:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:WWII codebreaker Turing honored on UK's new 50-pound note:

takyon writes:Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level crimes

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:"Expert" hackers used 11 0-days to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Event Horizon Telescope captures new view of black hole in polarized light:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:'Double mutant': What are the risks of India's new Covid-19 variant:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Amazon Workers Describe Struggle for Historic Union Vote in Alabama:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:AstraZeneca lowers efficacy claim for COVID-19 vaccine, a bit, after board's rebuke:

aristarchus writes:The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn Out Sham Science:

fleg writes:Reproduction without pregnancy: would it really emancipate women?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Optical fiber could boost power of superconducting quantum computers:

Previously thought to be science fiction, a planet in a triple-star system has been discovered:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cern experiment hints at new force of nature:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Firefox 87 Adds Stronger User Privacy Protections:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Radio Shack Once Again Crawls Out of the Grave:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Semiconductor qubits scale in two dimensions:

Freeman writes: Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board:

canopic jug writes:Programmer Ian Henry has written a blog post about using datalog to optimze home bar ingredients. That is to say, given what is in his bar already which cocktails can he already mix and which one new ingredient would provide the largest possible number of additional recipes?

takyon writes:New York lawmakers reach deal to legalize marijuana

Freeman writes:GameStop (the stock) and GameStop (the retailer) continue to be worlds apart:

datapharmer writes:A 15 year old XML file created a stir in the Ruby on Rails world today as it was discovered that freedesktop.org.xml which is GPL 2 licensed was included improperly in the mimemagic project which was MIT licensed. The author accepted this notification as valid, pulled prior versions, and switched licenses but as this was a dependency of Rails it promptly got the attention of programmers worldwide that rely on the Rails gem for their applications.Since Rails itself is MIT licensed this makes for a difficult day of sorting out licensing options for many people.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Rich writes:Recent reports concerning a paper about lepton universality in beauty-quark decays are coming in. One report rather close to the source can be found at New result from the LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physicsThe core point of the research is that "beauty quarks", particles that existed around the time of the big bang, should decay evenly into mesons with electrons and mesons with muons, which is implied by the standard model. However, in recent experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, for 100 mesons with electrons, only 85 mesons with muons could be found.This implies that a deviation from the standard model was found in a hands-on (for large values of hands-on) experiment. Further research might yield interesting insights in the mechanisms of the universe.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Melting Glaciers Contribute To Alaska Earthquakes:

takyon writes:Whether Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:FCC wants to hear from Americans who've been ignored by broadband industry:

martyb writes:(NB: Follow real-time graphical updates by zooming in at https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000Grounded 'Mega Ship' Blocking Suez Canal in Both Directions:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA to offer funding for initial studies of commercial space stations - SpaceNews:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA lays out plans for its first flights on Mars:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Scientists Detect 55 Chemicals Never Before Reported in People – 42 "Mystery Chemicals" Whose Sources Are Unknown: