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LibreOffice Adds Voice To 'Ditch Windows For Linux' Campaign
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Breakthrough Alzheimer's Drugs Too Pricey for UK's National Health Service
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‘Net Zero’ Is Collapsing in U.S. States
fliptop writes:From New York to California, state renewable electrical power dreams are collapsing. Power demands soar, while the federal government cuts funding and support for wind, solar, and grid batteries. Renewables cannot provide enough power to support the artificial intelligence revolution. The Net Zero electricity transition is failing in the United States:
Fermilab G-2 Collaboration Publishes Final Result
PiMuNu writes:Physics reports that Fermilab's g-2 collaboration has now published its final result.https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/116
Welcome to the ‘Infinite Workday’ of 8 P.M. Meetings and Constant Messages
cereal_burpist writes:Welcome to the 'infinite workday' of 8 p.m. meetings and constant messages
Marijuana to Treat Autism? Some Parents Say Yes
An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wsj.com/health/wellness/marijuana-to-treat-autism-some-parents-say-yes-1d9a3ad1
Reddit User Surprised When 1960s Computer Panel Emerged From Collapsed Family Garage
owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/reddit-user-surprised-when-1960s-computer-panel-emerged-from-collapsed-family-garage/
Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Without User Interaction
upstart writes:Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Without User Interaction:
Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Without User Interaction
upstart writes:Zero-Click AI Vulnerability Exposes Microsoft 365 Copilot Data Without User Interaction:
Honda Shows Low Speed, Narrow BEV for City Delivery
Motor Trend is running a piece on the latest Honda introduction,
Trump's Cuts to NASA and the National Science Foundation Will Have Huge Consequences
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Google's Advanced Protection Arrives on Android: Should You Use It?
fliptop writes:With this week's release of Android 16, Google added a new security feature to Android, called Advanced Protection. At-risk people-like journalists, activists, or politicians-should consider turning on. Here's what it does, and how to decide if it's a good fit for your security needs:
The Effect of Physical Fitness on Mortality is Overestimated
hubie writes:Previous associations seen between fitness and a reduced risk of premature death from various diseases have probably been misleading:
SmartAttack Uses Smartwatches to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Systems
hubie writes:A new attack dubbed 'SmartAttack' uses smartwatches as a covert ultrasonic signal receiver to exfiltrate data from physically isolated (air-gapped) systems:
Kali Linux 2025.2 released with 13 new tools, car hacking updates
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You Don't Have to Almost Die to be Happy at Work, but It Helps
hubie writes:New research looks at near-death experiences and people's attitudes to work:
4Chan Under Investigation by Uk Ofcom Over Online Safety Concerns
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This Is Not A Drill
quietus writes:The President of the United States has declared that the 17 million inhabitants of the capital city of a country should immediately evacuate.Republican Congressman (and engineer) Thomas Massie (Kentucky) has stated that he will introduce a war powers resolution today, Tuesday, to prevent the President of the United States going to war without first consulting Congress.
Behold the First Images of the Sun’s South Pole
upstart writes:Solar Orbiter isn't the first spacecraft to study the sun's poles-but it's the first to send back photographs:
Can We Stop Big Tech From Controlling the Internet With AI Agents?
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TSMC Slows Down Global Plans Due to Soft Demand, but Accelerates Arizona Fab Plans by Six Months
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Washington Post in Talks With Substack About Using its Writers
fliptop writes:Newspaper could join legacy media brands in embracing newsletter platform:
Huawei CEO Says Washington Has Exaggerated its Achievements, Saying the Company Isn't That Powerful
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Buried Under 2 Kilometers of Antarctic Ice, Scientists Find a 34-Million-Year-Old Lost World
upstart writes:Preserved beneath the ice sheet's crushing weight, the land remained unchanged since long before glaciation began:
Photonic Processor Could Streamline 6G Wireless Signal Processing
slon writes:from https://news.mit.edu/2025/photonic-processor-could-streamline-6g-wireless-signal-processing-0611
Massive Privacy Concern: Over 40,000 Security Cameras Are Streaming Unsecured Footage Worldwide
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Nematode Tower Power
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"Impossible" Particle That Hit Earth May Have Been Dark Matter
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RIP: Bill Atkinson, Co-Creator Of Apple Lisa And Mac
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Navy Backs Right to Repair After $13B Carrier Goes Half-Fed
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Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish ... 20 Years on
canopic jug writes:The Steve Jobs Archive, Wired, and MacRumors are covering the 20 anniversary of an iconic commencement address to Standford University which Steve Jobs delivered in June, 2005. In it he quoted the Whole Earth Catalog by encouraging the graduates to "stay hungry, stay foolish".
Jupiter Takes Europe's HPC Crown in 793Pf Top500 Run
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Toyota Math: 9 Million EVs Are Just as Polluting as 27 Million Hybrids
fliptop writes:The company's chairman insists that going all-in on electric cars is wrong:
Climate Change Is Coming For Your Cheese
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Mistral Releases a Vibe Coding Client, Mistral Code
upstart writes:Mistral releases a vibe coding client, Mistral Code:
Vital Chipmaking Software Access Restored to China After High-Level Call Between Trump/Xi Jinping
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The Federal Government in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
quietus writes:The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform recently (June 5) held a hearing on, ahem, Artificial Intelligence, and its usage within the federal government.
Starlink Shut Down on United Regional Jets - Reports of Radio Interference on Embraer E175
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Google Brute-Force Attack Exposes Phone Numbers in Minutes
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1.5Tb of James Webb Space Telescope Data Dumped On The Internet - New Searchable Database
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Making Hydrogen With Soda Cans and Seawater
jelizondo writes:Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable:
ChessGPT "Wrecked" by Atari 2600
looorg writes:ChatGPT might have many strengths and claims of "intelligence". But in a recent game of Chess was utterly wrecked (their word not mine) by a Atari 2600 and it's simple little chess program. So all the might of ChatGPT applied to chess wrecked by the scrappy little game console that is almost 50 years old.So there are things that ChatGPT apparently shouldn't do. Like playing chess. If anything this might show its absolute lack of critical thinking or thinking ahead. Instead it's a regurgitation engine for text blobs. I guess you just conjure up a good game of Chess from the Internet and apply it ...
Cyberattack Cripples North America's Largest Grocery Distributor, Threatening Supply Chain
fliptop writes:UNFI, North America's largest grocery distributor, halted deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted operations for 30,000 retail locations:
Dolphin LLM
hendrikboom writes:From https://www.maginative.com/article/with-dolphingemma-google-is-trying-to-decode-dolphin-language-using-ai/
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html
The Bethesda Declaration
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New Way to Track Covertly Android Users
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OpenAI Slams Court Order to Save All ChatGPT Logs, Including Deleted Chats
upstart writes:OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users:
Hasta La Vista, Google Baby
quietus writes:Do you think Internet SEARCH has gone sucky-sucky-so-so? Can you imagine a better experience? Do you have some coding (dis)ability, perhaps even friends-with-similar-benefits?Then you -- yes, you -- might be interested in a project a bunch of European research institutions have been working on for the past two years, and now -- June 6 -- have released to the public.The project -- imaginatively named the Open Web Search Initiative -- offers all elements of a modern day search engine in convenient open source packages; along with 6.61 billion urls, 923 TiB total, and 1 TiB of daily crawled data. The only thing left for you to do is to download a partial index of all that data to your own server(s) and develop your own custom software on top of that. Then ...
‘We're Definitely on the Back Foot’: U.S. Risks Losing Fusion Energy Race to China, Industry Leaders
upstart writes:'We're definitely on the back foot': U.S. risks losing fusion energy race to China, industry leaders warn:
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