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upstart writes:Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks:

wirelessduck writes:[Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine]Redis has decided to move away from BSD license to dual-license Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1), ignoring many historical failures where other companies tried to move away from open source licenses (ElasticSearch vs OpenSearch, MySQL vs MariaDB, Oracle JDK vs OpenJDK, OpenOffice vs LibreOffice, Terraform vs OpenTofu etc.).The decision has not gone down well within the redis community.Any Redis users in our community? What are your thoughts on this issue?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-protein-human-lyme-disease.html

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-backyard-insect-invisibility-devices-gen.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

c0lo writes:TLDR**: families of the victims in Buffalo sued social media for providing a defective product that can damage the mental heath and radicalize some people. Defendants asked dismissal under the "we are only a public message board" Section 230, court says "naaah, mate, plaintiff pointed a compelling enough finger to your engagement algos which earn you the money. Those (civil) lawsuits may go ahead (and I'll keep my popcorn handy)".YouTube, Facebook, Reddit must face lawsuits from Buffalo shooting survivors

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/critical-us-water-systems-face-disabling-cyberattacks-white-house-warns/

owl writes:https://nanochess.org/emulator.html

canopic jug writes:The New Weather Institute in the UK and Sweden, as part of the Save Our Snow campaign (warning for javascript), has a joint campaign to end fossil sponsorships in sports. The reasoning is that those companies are responsible for the worsening climate disaster resulting in the decreasingly short winters with reduced snowfall and thus harming the very sports which they are sponsoring. Along those lines, the institute has published a report, Dirty Snow: The Snow Thieves 2 report: how a ban on polluter sponsorships in winter sport can help save our snow (warning for PDF).

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This month, on the 24th March, it will be 5 years since MDC, denied essential medication, ended his life.Why was Michael David Crawford different? - well, he wasn't. In many ways he was just like many of us. By profession he was a software engineer. He wrote software for OSX. He first became well known - or reasonably so in our circles - for being on Kuro5hin. However, he was certainly different from many of us for the physical and mental health, and social problems that he experienced. Despite all of these things though he remained polite and open to having an interesting discussion on any technical issue that arose, both on Kuro5hin and subsequently here on SN. Someone who knew him far better than I did wrote about him here some 12 years ago. If you search on your favourite search engine I think that you will find his name appears quite a few times.His journal on SN is still there for all to read although it does not do him justice. He was a 'nice guy' and intelligent too.For example, in 2010 he was interviewed on CNN discussing employment problems that were being experienced by software engineers at that time. But this youtube link was not his only 'appearance' on that site. For some reason he thought others might want to hear him sing and elsewhere he thought that we all ought to know that he invented the internet. That last link perhaps shows the battle that he was having with mental problems yet here on this site he remained the same old 'MDC' that we had known since the start of SN and even before then for some of us.An Anonymous Coward has reminded us:

upstart writes:More than 400 of the chemicals identified are in every major commonly used plastic product such as food packaging:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/nvidia-announces-moonshot-to-create-embodied-human-level-ai-in-robot-form/

upstart writes:'An act of dishonesty against the company' is among the violations cited:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html

As discussed in this press release (and picked up by auto industry sites), https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/first-partial-driving-automation-safeguard-ratings-show-industry-has-work-to-do recent tests on "Level 2" types of driving automation suggest that more development is needed.

upstart writes:Starbucks' Odyssey Web3 rewards program ends on March 31 and its NFT marketplace will be shifted over to Nifty:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-crystals-stellar-aging-stars-delay.html

owl writes:https://niemczuk.tech/2024/02/11/detailed-macrophotography-of-PCBs

bootsy writes:Herb Sutter has an interesting article on his blog about approaches to improve security in C++ and modifying the language to assist with stopping programming errors that lead to exploits.https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/There are two interesting insights. Firstly. most CVEs come from issues that could be dealt with with small changes to C++ that are being proposed.

upstart writes:Government wants flying taxis to take off in 2 years:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-method-woodland-resource.html

Just a brief update - but welcome news for a change.After a long wait (and after a query to the IRS regarding the progress of our application), fliptop has received news verbally that we have been approved by the IRS for Not For Profit status. The essential paperwork should be with fliptop by the end of the week. Once it has been received we can then move ahead to create a company. Again, we cannot guess how long this process will take but it is the final step required before the community can take control of the site and its assets.My grateful thanks to fliptop for his efforts.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Cisco acquires Splunk in $28 billion cybersecurity deal:

taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-bridge-origami-power.html

upstart writes:Researchers managed to crack Meta's Quest VR system, allowing them to steal sensitive information, and manipulate social interactions:

mrpg writes:https://www.engadget.com/framework-laptop-16-review-modular-wonder-mediocre-gaming-laptop-150026910.html

canopic jug writes:The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which aims to promote world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences, and culture, has added Berlin's techno scene to its cultural heritage list.

takyon writes:Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/heres-how-the-makers-of-the-suyu-switch-emulator-plan-to-avoid-getting-sued/

upstart writes:Breakthrough Therapy Obliterates Deadly Brain Tumor in Days:

upstart writes:SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government:

upstart writes:The FCC just quadrupled the download speed required to market internet as 'broadband':

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/ftc-and-doj-want-to-free-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-from-dmca-repair-rules/

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-brighter-cheaper-blue-revolutionize-screen.html

upstart writes:Uber and Lyft are quitting Minneapolis over a driver pay increase:

upstart writes:A new IRC client (but don't call it an IRC client) is being developed by Linux Mint:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-dont-materials-electricity.html

upstart writes:Spike in new versions of an old Trojan - which mimic legitimate VMware domains - alarms security researchers:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/you-a-holes-court-docs-reveal-epic-ceos-anger-at-steams-30-fees/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/charges-against-journalist-tim-burke-are-a-hack-job/

canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are covering H.R.7521 - Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act which aims to ban Bytedance's Tiktok, a platform for influence and surveillance, from the US.

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/cows-low-cost-insulin-production/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-read-private-ai-assistant-chats-even-though-theyre-encrypted/

owl writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/14/voyager_1_not_dead/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/03/study-finds-that-we-could-lose-science-if-publishers-go-bankrupt/

owl writes:https://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm

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