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Updated 2025-12-04 10:17
Is Your Job Making You Happy ?
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Chicago-Sized Iceberg Hid Ancient Ecosystem
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EU OS Aims to Free the European Public Sector Desktop
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The Search for Missing Plane MH370 is Back on
upstart writes:The search for missing plane MH370 is back on. An underwater robotics expert explains what's involved:
Producing Wafers at TSMC Arizona is Only 10% More Expensive Than in Taiwan
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4-Day Work-Week UK Pilot Due in Tech Land by Early Summer
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European Coalition Pushes For Second Chips Act Funding To Boost Semiconductor Sector
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Harnessing Nature's Fractals for Flexible Electronics: Biomimetic Fabrication Technique Uses Leaf
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-03-harnessing-nature-fractals-flexible-electronics.html
The 25 Years of Finnix
canopic jug writes:The Finnix project and DistroWatch are observing the 25 anniversary of the Finnix live distro a few days ago:From Finnix:
Device Enables Direct Communication Among Multiple Quantum Processors
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Decades-Long Quest Leads to New Antibiotic Compounds
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-decades-quest-antibiotic-compounds.html
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot
taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/jumping-robot
Sperm Donation Giant California Cryobank Warns of a Data Breach
fliptop writes:US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered a data breach that exposed customers' personal information:
Cement Sand Substitute Made Directly From Seawater, Electricity and CO2
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/materials/carbon-negative-cement-sand-substitute-seawater-electricity-co2/
"Old Stump" in Texas Turns Out to be Incredibly Rare Mammoth Tusk
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AMD Launches Gaia Open Source Project for Running LLMs Locally on Any PC
fliptop writes:Gaia runs faster on Ryzen AI PCs, using the XDNA NPU and RDNA iGPU:
Italy Demands Google Poison DNS Under Strict Piracy Shield Law
owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/italian-court-orders-google-to-block-iptv-pirate-sites-at-dns-level/
Microsoft Trust Signing Service Abused to Code-Sign Malware
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-trust-signing-service-abused-to-code-sign-malware/
Autopsies Can Reveal Intimate Health Details. Should They be Kept Private?
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First Stroke Rehabilitation Drug That Reestablishes Brain Connections Discovered in Mouse Model
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-drug-reestablishes-brain-mouse.html
Why Don't New Cars Come With Spare Tires Anymore?
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US Court of Appeals Unanimously Denies Copyright Protection for AI-Created Images
Booga1 writes:https://petapixel.com/2025/03/19/us-court-of-appeals-unanimously-denies-copyright-protection-for-ai-created-images/
Cloudflare Turns AI Against Itself With Endless Maze of Irrelevant Facts
owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/cloudflare-turns-ai-against-itself-with-endless-maze-of-irrelevant-facts/
Linux Security Hardening Cache Randomization Was Inadvertently Using The Same Seed
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-slab
A Dyson Swarm Made of Solar Panels Would Make Earth Uninhabitable
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Researcher Trolls Microsoft Over Bug Disclosure Annoyance
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Euro Techies Call for Sovereign Fund to Escape US Dependency
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China Will Enforce Clear Flagging of All AI Generated Content Starting From September
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Ubuntu Plans to Swap GNU Coreutils for Rust
Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ubuntu_2510_rust/Efforts are afoot to replace the GNU coreutils with Rust ones in future versions of Ubuntu - which also means changing the software license. Canonical plans to replace the current core utilities - from the GNU project and implemented in C - with the newer uutils suite, which is written in Rust. Rather than technical issues, most concerns raised in the discussion on Ubuntu Discourse are about licensing. As a product of the GNU project, the existing coreutils are licensed under the GPL - specifically, GPL 3. The Rust replacements are licensed under the much more permissive MIT license.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Academics Accuse AI Startups of Co-Opting Peer Review for Publicity
upstart writes:Academics accuse AI startups of co-opting peer review for publicity:
Los Alamos Scientists Invent Speedometer For Satellites
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The Naturalness of the Seasonal Time Change: Researchers Question Basis of Modern Criticism
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-03-naturalness-seasonal-basis-modern-criticism.html
North Korea's Bitcoin Reserve Thought to be 3rd Largest in World
North Korea's Bitcoin Reserve Thought to be 3rd Largest in World: Reportupstart writes:North Korea's bitcoin reserve thought to be 3rd largest in world: report:
New Undersea Cable Tech Listens For Sabotage Can Be Retrofitted To Existing Fiber Optic Line
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Microsoft's Quantum Breakthrough Claim Labeled 'Unreliable'
upstart writes:Redmond insists it's got this right and has even more impressive results to share soon:
FTC Removes Posts Critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/federal-trade-commission-removed-blogs-critical-of-ai-amazon-microsoft/
Apple Loses 2025 Antitrust Appeal in Germany
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Firefly Bids Farewell to its Lunar Lander After 14 Days on the Moon
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UK's Internet Watchdog Puts Storage and File-Sharing Services on Watch Over CSAM
upstart writes:UK's internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM:
Tobacco's Hidden Friendly Side: How the Controversial Plant Could be Used for Good
An Anonymous Coward writes:Published: March 13, 2025 5.53pm CETTobacco's hidden friendly side: how the controversial plant could be used for good of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.
U.S. Atari Parts Store Still Open After 41 Years, Has Spent $100K+ Designing New Parts
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Discord Launches SDK to Help Developers Enhance Social Experiences in Their Games
upstart writes:Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games:
Iguanas Floated One-Fifth of the Way Around the World to Colonize Fiji, Genetic Analysis Indicates
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-iguanas-world-colonize-fiji-genetic.html
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will be Sent to Amazon Starting on March 28
upstart writes:Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant:
People are Using Google's New AI Model to Remove Watermarks From Images
upstart writes:People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images:
Unearthed Notebooks Shed Light on Victorian Genius Who Inspired Einstein
upstart writes:Michael Faraday's illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London's Royal Institution to go online:
On the Road to Idiocracy
Ken_g6 writes:People really are getting dumber. Futurism echoes a paywalled Financial Times report:
Forget Windows 11, SteamOS for Desktops May be Released Soon
liar writes:https://deltiasgaming.com/forget-windows-11-steamos-for-desktops-may-be-released-soon/
Chaos in Gravity - the Quantum Based Magnetic Monopole of Mass?
JoeMerchant writes:A new concept of quantum gravity arising from entropy may be useful not only in the ever-present need to explain dark energy and dark matter, but might also edge closer to a grand unified theory of everything that we observe, and infer from our observations.
OpenAI Wants All The Data And For US Law To Apply Everywhere
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