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Updated 2025-07-18 21:30
First Images From World's Largest Digital Camera Reveal Galaxies and Cosmic Collisions
upstart writes:First images from world's largest digital camera reveal galaxies and cosmic collisions:
Danish Copyright on Your Digital Representation
looorg writes:In the not to distant future you'll have/own the copyright for your face, voice bodily features as far as digital reproductions are concerned. That is if you live in Denmark. In an effort to combat deep fakes their citizens will gain those rights. Question is if it will matter much if the deep fakes are made or stored outside of Denmark. But it could perhaps be the start of something other EU countries might adapt if it turns out well for them.
Reason for the Site Outage - the Cable Had Been Cut Again!
The reason that the site was offline is that the cable to the NOC has been cut - again! It is not something that we could control.We apologise for the problem. You could have stayed up-to-date with the cause and rectification if you had joined us on our back-up IRC - Libera.Chat, ##soylentnews (irc.libera.chat/6697)Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Fedora Plans to Drop 32-Bit i686 Packages
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Win11 Black Screen of Death update
looorg writes:Rejoice! No more Blue Screens of Death. It will now become the Black Screen of Death. Good thing the abbreviation will be unchanged, BSOD. Lets hope it won't be come as prevalent and lethal as the Black Death.
Sparcs Cubesats To Test Electrodynamic Tethers
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Canonical to Remove GPU Exploit Mitigation to Gain 20% Performance Boost
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Edit is Back
looorg writes:Microsoft "relaunches" MS Editor (edit) as open source with some improvements and old limitations removed. You no longer need MS DOS to run it either.
Trump Administration Moves to Count Crypto as a Federal Mortgage Asset
hubie writes:The Federal Housing Finance Agency is working to let borrowers use crypto as part of their federal mortgage applications without converting it to cash:
A Solid-State Battery Breakthrough May be Taking Shape in Maryland
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Greek Man Sentenced to Prison for Running a Private Torrent Site 10 Years Ago
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An Updated PNG Spec
owl writes:https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/
Modified Bacteria Convert Plastic Waste Into Pain Reliever
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Why Geoengineering is No Longer a Complete Taboo for Scientists
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Apple's A19 May Be Powerful, But Leans Towards Saving Power
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Rubin Telescope To Collect Up To 500,000 Tb Of Data From 3,200-Megapixel Camera Over Ten Years
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Key Fair Use Ruling Clarifies When Books Can be Used for AI Training
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/key-fair-use-ruling-clarifies-when-books-can-be-used-for-ai-training/
Blaze Sends Ship Carrying Hundreds Of Chinese EVs To Bottom Of Pacific
fliptop writes:A vehicle carrier transporting hundreds of Chinese electric vehicles (EV) sank in the Pacific Ocean after catching fire, fueling renewed concerns about the hazard associated with EV batteries, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday:
Judge Denies Creating “Mass Surveillance Program” Harming All ChatGPT Users
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/judge-rejects-claim-that-forcing-openai-to-keep-chatgpt-logs-is-mass-surveillance/
Creating AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data
hubie writes:The Tech Industry Said It Was "Impossible" to Create AI Based Entirely on Ethically-Sourced Data, So These Scientists Proved Them Wrong in Spectacular Fashion:
New Research Provides First Evidence of the Use of Browser Fingerprints for Online Tracking
hubie writes:Clearing your cookies is not enough to protect your privacy online:
Apple to Australians: You're Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps
hubie writes:Apple to Australians: You're Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps:
UK Retail's Estimated Cyberattack Costs Pegged at $500M
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BEV Battery Swapping in Shanghai
Remember hearing about battery swapping for electric cars? Turns out it's an old concept (over 100 years old) and now it's back for real in China, https://www.motortrend.com/news/should-electric-car-charging-stations-include-quick-battery-swappingThe batteries are modular and come in different chemistries (different capacity). Among other things, the author (from California) wrote:
Peru Gas Workers Find Thousand-Year-Old Mummy
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Breathprints?
looorg writes:Breathprints?
Cloudflare CEO Warns AI Crawlers and Summaries Are Eroding the Internet's Business Model
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Massive DDoS Attack Delivered 37.4Tb In 45 Seconds, Equivalent To 10,000 Hd Movies, To One Victim IP
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US Tech Czar: China Just Two Years Behind On Chip Design
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A Cracked Piece of Metal Self-Healed in Experiment That Stunned Scientists
upstart writes:A Cracked Piece of Metal Self-Healed in Experiment That Stunned Scientists:
US and Allied Base Al Udeid in Qatar Attacked
Qatar reserves the right to respond to the attackPentagon says there is no information of any casualties.Iran claims that they have fired 6 missiles, one in response for each bomb dropped on Fordo. It appears that Qatar (and possibly the US too) were pre-warned.All missiles were intercepted before hitting their targets.Al Udeid is the the home of the Combined Air Operations Centre (CAOC) which is manned primarily by the US but also by UK and other allies. It is also a major military air hub in the region and would have had some responsibility for oversight of the recent US attack on the nuclear sites.President Trump's Response[paraphrasing] The Iranians have made a weak response and we were warned by them in advance. I thank Iran for the warning which gave us the ability to ensure that no lives were endangered. We hope that discussions can now be restarted. I will encourage Israel to also enable negotiations to be restarted. [end paraphrasing].Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
50 Years of JAWS
looorg writes:50 Years of JAWS.
Open Internet Stack: The EU Commission’s Vague Plans for Open Source
canopic jug writes:Netzpolitik has an English language article about the EU Commission's vague plans for open source via its Open Stack programme. An internal paper calls on the Commission to support Free and Open Source Software in public administrations - and think about a new legal form. However, many questions remain open. The crux of the matter, which would be the role open protocols and open standards play in enabling vendor independence, remains unnamed in the article and is almost but not quite named in the acutal report [warning for PDF].
Astronomers Locate Universe's 'Missing' Matter in the Largest Cosmic Structures
upstart writes:"The 'missing' matter may truly be lurking in hard-to-see threads woven across the universe":
The GPU 16-Pin Melting Fiasco Is Getting Ridiculous
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Gartner: ‘AI is Not Doing its Job and Should Leave Us Alone’
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Book Documents the Rise and Fall of the Concept of the Private Life
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:A review of the book Strangers and Intimates, which asks Are we killing off the idea of private life?
Dr. Demento Announces Retirement From Radio After 55 Years
canopic jug writes:Digital Music News and Radio Insight are observing that comedian Barret "Dr. Demento" Hansen is hanging up his top hat later in October this year. The last of his regular shows aired the other day and the countdown has begun.
Dead NASA Satellite Unexpectedly Emits Powerful Radio Pulse
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Man’s Health Crashes After Getting Donated Kidney
upstart writes:Man's health crashes after getting donated kidney:
UPDATED: USA Bombs Iran's Nuclear Sites
USA bombs Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan
Scientists Once Hoarded Pre-Nuclear Steel; Now We're Hoarding Pre-AI Content
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/
The Russian FSB May Have Access to Telegram Messages
_-iNT13- writes:Over a week ago iStories published a story alleging Vladimir Vedeneev and Roman Venediktov, who own GlobalNet, allow the FSB access to Telegram messages. GlobalNet assigns IP addresses for Telegram and maintains it's networking equipment, and also has/had contracts with a FSB "research computing center" that helped plan the invasion of Ukraine and developed tools to de-anonymize internet users; and a flagship state-owned nuclear research laboratory.Telegram responded to the allegations the following day - and in doing so made some glaring contradictions with what they told the court in Miami, USA.More recently Meduza published a detailed story about both those iStories reports - the highlight being the revelation that "as part of a criminal case opened by Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) in the spring of 2022, security agents have been intercepting Telegram messages."Security researcher Micha "rysiek" Woniak published a detailed report titled Telegram is indistinguishable from an FSB honeypot, which provides more information on how Telegram has been compromised.Original SubmissionProcessed by jelizondoRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Penn State Research Team Builds 2D CMOS System
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This is Your Brain on ChatGPT
looorg writes:Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt.The more you rely on ChatGPT (and similar) things to do work for you the less work your brain does and eventually it becomes slow and lazy.
German Government Moves Closer to Ditching Microsoft: "We're Done With Teams!"
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Women in Semiconductors: A Critical Workforce Need
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SpaceX Rocket Explodes in New Setback to Elon Musk’s Mars Project
upstart writes:Starship 36 was preparing for 10th test flight from Texas when it underwent 'catastrophic failure' while on stand:
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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