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As per The Register, many frustrated users on Reddit and other forums, and my own experiences, accessing Ubuntu's software repositories was very difficult during the weekend. According to the Ubuntu status page, security.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com began experiencing an outage during the evening (for US time zones) of September 4. Following the initial major outage, both also experienced intermittent periods of maintenance and additional outages that persisted through the weekend. Despite Canonical indicating the outages had been resolved, many users including myself experienced very slow software updates or could not access the servers altogether. From The Register's article:

upstart writes:JetBlue planes will start using Project Kuiper satellite Wi-Fi in 2027:

upstart writes:Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage:

upstart writes:Brain scans reveal a common neural signature when people see red, green or yellow:

upstart writes:Microsoft software reselling dispute heads back to UK court:

upstart writes:Multiple undersea cable cuts in the Red Sea, hampering internet performance:

looorg writes:Since there is apparently nothing these days that can't be improved by some AI. The Amazon fueled AI-company Fable Studio wants to re-create the chopped 43 minutes of Orson Welles movie "The Magnificent Ambersons". The recreation will be done from set images and other sources. The original was re-cut after RKO thought the movie was too long and that the ending was not happy enough. A new ending was created.But it won't have any commercial re-release and is purely a noncommercial academic project, due to rights and ownership. Also it might not be Welles more famous work so there might not be anything more then a minor cult following and not any kind of commercial success. So they do it cause they can and "AI" something something.https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/lost-ending-orson-welles-magnificent-ambersons-ai-remake-1235148945/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:A spectacular glacial demise, 40 years in the making:

looorg writes:https://carbuzz.com/mazda-6-stroke-hydrogen-combustion-engine/

upstart writes:Chagas disease, which can be deadly, is now considered endemic in the U.S.:

upstart writes:But what goes up will also have to come down:

upstart writes:Defrauding search with custom malware, Potato-family exploits:

upstart writes:The Trump family just became $5 billion richer (on paper) thanks to its latest crypto venture:

upstart writes:Microsoft shows off its latest Analog Optical Computer:

upstart writes:This Unlikely Chemical Could Be a Powerful Weapon Against Climate Change:

upstart writes:What the hell is going on right now?:

upstart writes:France fines Google, SHEIN for undercooked cookie policies:

upstart writes:Nvidia's next-gen AI chip could double the price of H20 if China export is approved:

upstart writes:Porsche's New Cayenne Will Charge Itself Like No Other EV:

upstart writes:Bill Gates' 48-year-old Microsoft 6502 BASIC goes open source:

upstart writes:Jury orders Google to pay $425 million for unlawfully tracking millions of users:

upstart writes:China likely to land on Moon before US does again:

upstart writes:New hollow-core fiber outperforms glass, pushing data closer to light speed:

upstart writes:New law emboldens complaints against digital content rentals labled as purchases:

upstart writes:AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex:

upstart writes:'Doomer science fiction': Nvidia blasts proposed US bill that would force it to give American buyers 'first option' in AI GPU purchases before selling chips to other countries, including allies:

upstart writes:Ice generates electricity when it gets stressed in a very specific way, new research suggests:

upstart writes:Google's penalty for being a search monopoly does not include selling Chrome:

upstart writes:But TSMC vows to continue making chips on the mainland:

upstart writes:Think twice before you put anything in a form-even if it looks legit:

canopic jug writes:Andrew Eikum has updated his blog post on passkeys. The revised title, Passkeys are incompatible with open-source software (was: "Passkey marketing is lying to you"), says it all.

Snotnose writes:People of a certain age remember when artificial blood was all the rage. Only problem was, it's recipients kept dying at a pesky rate. But now the Department of Defense is taking it seriously.

upstart writes:TechSpot published an interesting article about NVIDIA revenue:While Nvidia's soaring revenues continue to command attention, its heavy reliance on a small group of clients introduces both opportunity and uncertainty. Market observers remain watchful for greater clarity around customer composition and future cloud spending, as these factors increasingly shape forecasts for the chipmaker's next phase of growth.A new financial filing from Nvidia revealed that just two customers were responsible for 39 percent of the company's revenue during its July quarter - a concentration that is drawing renewed scrutiny from analysts and investors alike. According to documents submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission, "Customer A" accounted for 23 percent of Nvidia's total revenue, while "Customer B" represented 16 percent.This level of revenue concentration is significantly higher than in the same period one year ago, when Nvidia's top two customers contributed 14 percent and 11 percent, respectively.Nvidia routinely discloses its leading customers on a quarterly basis. However, these latest numbers have prompted a fresh discussion about whether Nvidia's growth trajectory is heavily dependent on a small group of enormous buyers, particularly large cloud service providers.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:People who believe in conspiracy theories process information differently at the neural level:

upstart writes:CRLite: Fast, private, and comprehensive certificate revocation checking in Firefox:

hubie writes:French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections:

jelizondo writes:Psypost has published a very interesting article titled Fascinating new psychology research shows how music shapes imagination:

hubie writes:We fed people a milkshake with 130g of fat to see what it did to their brains - here's what we learned:

upstart writes:China turns on giant neutrino detector:See Here.

upstart writes:Are toys an ideal and beneficial use of AI, or could the technology be risky or even dangerous to expose our youngest generations to?

coolgopher writes:Science Daily published a report on the newest neutrino detector now operating in China:

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hubie writes:Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037:

canopic jug writes:Truthout has an editorial entitled, Regulating AI Isn't Enough. Let's Dismantle the Logic That Put It in Schools. Pushing for AI in schools is part of a larger extractive and dehumanizing trend, as opposed to liberating minds.

upstart writes:Mysterious "Gator Rande" and "Medusa BB" CPUs mentioned in roadmap:

upstart writes:But the cure may ruin the web....:

upstart writes:The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019:

fliptop writes:Google warned its 2.5 billion Gmail users worldwide to be on the lookout for a rise in phishing scams:

upstart writes:More than half of patients stopped medical cannabis within a year, especially older adults. Discontinuation was unrelated to pain type or overall health:

upstart writes:A popular shortwave Russian radio station dubbed UVB-76 has been an enigma for decades. But its recent messages have turned it into a tool for Kremlin saber-rattling: