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quietus writes:Do you think Internet SEARCH has gone sucky-sucky-so-so? Can you imagine a better experience? Do you have some coding (dis)ability, perhaps even friends-with-similar-benefits?Then you -- yes, you -- might be interested in a project a bunch of European research institutions have been working on for the past two years, and now -- June 6 -- have released to the public.The project -- imaginatively named the Open Web Search Initiative -- offers all elements of a modern day search engine in convenient open source packages; along with 6.61 billion urls, 923 TiB total, and 1 TiB of daily crawled data. The only thing left for you to do is to download a partial index of all that data to your own server(s) and develop your own custom software on top of that. Then ...

upstart writes:'We're definitely on the back foot': U.S. risks losing fusion energy race to China, industry leaders warn:

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upstart writes:An agency-wide LLM called Elsa was released weeks ahead of schedule:

upstart writes:Part science outlet, part Radio Shack, part curio cabinet-American Science & Surplus is unique:

janrinok writes:New technologies help wood-burning stoves burn more efficiently, produce less smoke

canopic jug writes:Several sites are reporting that the legendary programmer Bill Atkinson has died. He contributed QuickDraw to the early Macintosh and was even responsible for MacPaint and Hypercard. The former, MacPaint, inspired Photoshop. The latter, Hypercard, can be considered an important milestone in computing even though it lacked the networking which the WWW is built upon.

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upstart writes:Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought?:

_-iNT13- writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/europe/france-crypto-kidnappings-detained-intl

upstart writes:The system can take a passenger's profile into account to better protect them during crashes:

upstart writes:Mac fan paid $900 to color-match iconic Apple beige-gray "Platinum" plastic for everyone:

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canopic jug writes:The KDE community has an outreach campaign encouraging the use of the Plasma desktop by people with older, but usable, laptops. Vista10 support will come to an end and Vista11 has been designed not to run on many still viable models of computer due to several factors including Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) requirements centered around TPM-2.0. GNU/Linux can not only keep the old system working, it can improve its performance, ease of use, and general security. KDE Plasma can be part of that.

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upstart writes:Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit':

upstart writes:Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service:

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The following article was submitted via upstart:X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its contentSocial network X, formerly known as Twitter, has updated its developer agreement to officially prohibit the use of its platform's public content for training artificial intelligence models. This move solidifies the platform's control over its vast dataset, particularly in light of its relationship with Elon Musk's own AI company, xAI.The updated terms of service now include a specific restriction against this practice:

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janrinok writes:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483366-japans-resilience-moon-lander-has-crashed-into-the-lunar-surface/

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day of the dalek writes:The Real ID Act was passed in 2005 on the grounds that it was necessary for access control of sensitive facilities like nuclear power plants and the security of airline flights. The law imposed standards for state- and territory-issued ID cards in the United States, but was widely criticized as an attempt to create a national ID card and would be harmful to privacy. These concerns are explained well in a 2007 article from the New York Civil Liberties Union:

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[Editor's Comment: This is the first two parts of a planned 4-part series]MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters-Part 1

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Tech Review reports on a US startup that claims to have modernized and cleaned up the magnesium refining process, https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/28/1117481/metal-magrathea/ The light weight metal has many applications.

owl writes:https://www.theverge.com/law/678334/right-to-repair-texas-hb-2963

pdfernhout submitted the following article:'One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT': the workers who lost their jobs to AIThe increasing sophistication and adoption of Artificial Intelligence are no longer abstract future concepts but a present-day reality reshaping the workforce, as detailed in a recent Guardian piece. The story gives voice to journalists, illustrators, copywriters, and voice actors who have found their livelihoods threatened or lost to AI tools, raising critical questions about the future of creative professions and the ethical implications of this technological shift.Mateusz Demski, a journalist from Poland who lost his radio job, describes a particularly jarring experience when his former station introduced AI hosts:

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c0lo submitted the following article:Mount Etna erupts as large plumes rise from Italian volcano:

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upstart writes:Even when instructed to allow shutdown, o3 sometimes tries to prevent it, research claims:

owl writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz70p0qevlro

An Anonymous Coward writes:[Ed. note: This is an older blog post (2023), but has a lot of background information that some people might find interesting --hubie]https://intezer.com/blog/unraveling-malware-encryption-secrets/