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Updated 2025-09-18 18:16
Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: Techdirt
Firescam Android Malware Masquerades As Telegram Premium App
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Ants Hold Grudges, Study Suggests
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ants-grudges.html
New Orleans Attacker Used Meta Ray-Bans To Plan The Massacre
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TSMC's Wafer Pricing Now $18,000 for a 3nm Wafer, Increased Over 3X in 10 Years
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EU Court Fines European Commission for Breaching its Own Data Privacy Laws
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/
Iron-Nitride Magnets Eliminate Need for Rare Earths
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),
Facebook Is Ditching “Fact-Checkers” and Going to Community Notes Similar to X
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:
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Improved Memory via Gut Bacteria Changes
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-mediterranean-diet-linked-memory-gut.html
Pornhub Pulls Out Of Florida, VPN Demand 'Surges 1150%'
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Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google's Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
fliptop writes:Lukasz Olejnik opines:
Massive Space Debris Crashes Into Kenyan Village
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Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-pollution-widespread-iq-declines-ancient.html
Neutered: Federal Court Strikes Down FCC Authority to Impose Net Neutrality Rules
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Hackers Injected Malicious Code Into Several Chrome Extensions In Recent Attack
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Hybrid Work a Cause of Techno-Stress: ‘You Have to be There All the Time’
mrpg writes:https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-22/hybrid-work-a-cause-of-techno-stress-you-have-to-be-there-all-the-time.html#?rel=mas
MIT Scientists Pin Down The Origins Of A Fast Radio Burst
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Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024
Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024hubie writes:EV Sales, Including Hybrids, Surge for Auto Giants Not Named Tesla:
‘Mystery Volcano’ that Erupted and Cooled Earth in 1831 has Finally Been Identified
owl writes:https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html
Data Exposure at MyGiftCardSupply Highlights Risks of Digital ID Regulations
fliptop writes:The incident exposes the growing vulnerabilities tied to digital ID systems and mandatory KYC (know your customer) data collection:
The Effects of ‘Brain Rot’: How Junk Content is Damaging Our Minds
hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:
Meta's AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop
hubie writes:Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded:
Apple to Pay $95m to Settle Siri Listening Case
upstart writes:The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch were two devices owned by the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit:
Canada Joins the Hunt for Rare Earths to Make Chips
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California Judge Blocks Parts Of Social Media Youth Protection Bill
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How Poop Could Help Feed the Planet
upstart writes:Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions:
Cuneiform-Like Data Storage Tech Boasts Four Times the Density of Binary
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/indent-data-storage/
Scientists Claim Dark Energy Doesn't Exist and That Could Solve One of Universe's Biggest Mysteries
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A Better DIY Seismometer Can Detect Faraway Earthquakes
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NATO Plans to Build Satellite Links as Backups to Undersea Cables
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Esoteric: Learn about Structure Packing and Padding
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 {
Finnish Investigators Discover Anchor Drag Marks of "Almost a Hundred Kilometers" in Cable Case
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U.S. Treasury Confirms It Was Breached by China-Backed Hackers
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Indiana Bakery Uses C64 as POS
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.
Hidden Underground Hydrogen Reserves Could Power The Entire Earth For Centuries
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Autism Prevalence Reaches 61.8 Million Globally, Study Shows
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]
Reverse Engineering the Duco Connectivity Board: From Black Box to Home Assistant
owl writes:https://github.com/kokx/duco-analysis
Rare Lego Sharks Surface
looorg writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rqlejlxg4o
Chinese Organized Crime's Latest U.S. Target: Gift Cards
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:
Concerning Findings: Microplastics in the Air Could be Causing Cancer
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:
ByteDance Plans to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions by Renting NVidia GPUs in the Cloud
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U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions
upstart writes:U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions:
38th Chaos Communication Congress (38C3) Presentations Online
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:
New Year's Day: Car Drives Into Crowd in New Orleans and Tesla Cybertruck Explodes in Las Vegas
New Orleans attacker did not act alone, FBI believes
Do Kwon: Fugitive Cryptocrash Boss Finally Extradited to US
upstart writes:Crypto fugitive Do Kwon extradited to US over $40bn crash:
NVIDIA Believes the Robotics Market is About to Explode, Just Like Chatgpt
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A 9th Telecoms Firm Has Been Hit by a Massive Chinese Espionage Campaign, the White House Says
upstart writes:A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says:
Hallucinogens Approved for Treating Psychiatric Disorders
upstart writes:Hallucinogens approved for treating psychiatric disorders: What does the science say?:
China Wants to Restore the Sea With High-Tech Marine Ranches
China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches:
Bluesky Finds With Growth Comes Growing Pains
upstart writes:Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election:
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