We had a few hours this evening where there were issues we didn't notice with new submissions. We had been mothballing (setting the number of matches necessary beyond what would ever match anything) some spam filters exclusive to submissions and managed to somehow confuse one of the Apache web frontends. The offending filters are now just deleted entirely and incapable of confusing even MS Paint.Please excuse the embuggerance. We now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments.TMBRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardCryptos Stride Further Into Mainstream As New Paypal Feature Lets Users Pay With Bitcoin, Ethereum & More:
upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website:
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:
[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:
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:
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?
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.