owl writes:They can't even follow their own rules:https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/eu-court-fines-european-commission-for-breaching-its-own-data-privacy-laws/
Motor Trend is reporting on early production of a new permanent magnet material https://www.motortrend.com/features/niron-magnetics-clean-earth-permanent-magnets-ces-2025/ suitable for replacing the rare-earth magnets used, for example, in electric car motors, as well as loud speakers and many other products.Invented some time back by university researchers and now in the pilot production stage (with suitably large investors like car companies),
fliptop writes:Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:
hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:
ElizabethGreene writes:Eric Raymond has a lovely essay here: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ that describes some non-intuitive behavior in how compilers assemble structures in memory. The default is to pad structures out with empty bytes to align data types around arbitrary byte boundaries for similarly non-intuitive reasons.If you don't immediately understand why this struct is 12 or 16 bytes long, it's worth reading.struct Foo {
looorg writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminalsThese things pop up every now and then. The last one I recall now was some car-autorepair-shop in Poland that still used one for some function.
upstart [soylentnews.org] writes:Autism Prevalence Reaches 61.8 Million Globally, Study Shows:[Editor's Note - See disclosure that several authors have ties the to pharmaceutical industry--JR]
fliptop writes:Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud:
upstart writes:A review of 3,000 studies indicates that these microscopic plastic particles in the air could be contributing to male and female infertility:
canopic jug writes:The videos are online from the 38 Chaos Communication Congress (38C3). It took place in Hamburg, from Friday the 27 through Monday the 30 2024. The conference is organized every year by the Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) which is Europe's largest association of hackers. The CCC also organizes campaigns, events, lobbying, publications, anonymizing services, communication infrastructure and even hackerspaces.The Congress is always interesting, so picking semi-randomly from the English subset of talks at the 38C3 highlights include: