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upstart writes:'Sinkclose' Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections:

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A new report finds Boeing's rockets are built with an unqualified work forceDannyB writes:From Ars Technica:

upstart writes:Experts Uncover Severe AWS Flaws Leading to RCE, Data Theft, and Full-Service Takeovers:

owl writes:Three part story. And, as it is on Medium (yuck), archive links are provided should the Medium links go hidden or disappear:Part 1: The Cocainemaker, Reefer Madness, and the Vice-President of The Coca-Cola Company

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fliptop writes:Battery maker LG Energy Solution's second-quarter profit dropped 58% year-on-year to 195.3 billion won ($141m), the company said on Monday (8 July), as demand for electric vehicles (EVs) slows:

ElizabethGreene writes:Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a new type of 3D printer that knits 3-dimensional solid objects, according to a new paper published in ACM Transactions on Graphics. From the introduction:

Elon sues advertisers for boycotting Xc0lo writes:The Verge has a better perspective:

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Rich writes:Raspberry Pi have released the small Pico 2 as an improvement to the original Pico: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/raspberry-pi-pico-2-our-new-5-microcontroller-board-on-sale-now/.The small single board computer looks virtually unchanged from its predecessor. All improvement is in a new microcontroller unit, the RP2350, which replaces the old RP2040. Most notable features are twice the memory, low power sleep options, and two added Risc-V cores. The two ARM cores are still there, but upgraded to Cortex-M33 from M0+.Unlike the RP2040, the new MCU is available in different packages, with more pins and flash memory in-package. Top of the line will be the RP2354B with 80 pins and 2MB integrated flash.(Ed note: My first computer ran at 1 MHz and had only 4K bytes of memory. We've come a long way since then! --MartyB)! )Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/08/google-and-meta-ignored-their-own-rules-in-secret-teen-targeting-ad-deals/

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upstart writes:Common blood thinner heparin shows promise as cobra bite antidote:

c0lo writes:Study Finds Faces Evolve to Match Names Over Time

owl writes:https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/a-completely-different-kind-of-disc-brake-1949-chrysler/

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NASA Weighs SpaceX Rescue for Stranded Boeing Starliner Crewupstart writes:NASA weighs SpaceX rescue for stranded Boeing Starliner crew:

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owl writes:https://matduggan.com/teaching-to-the-test/

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upstart writes:A Japanese company becomes the first to approach a piece of space junk in low-Earth orbit:

canopic jug writes:The IETF has published a discussion about how to deal with networking in high-latency situations with occasional interruptions, such as interplanetary space where packet round trip times can make the traditional 3-way and 4-way handshake protocols quite impractical.

upstart writes:OpenAI Afraid to Release ChatGPT Detection Tool That Might Piss Off Cheaters:

c0lo writes:Make Bitcoin great again - what Donald Trump's backing of crypto could mean for the industry

upstart writes: Robot Performs First Ever Fully Autonomous Dental Surgery on Live Patient:

upstart writes:Neuralink successfully implants its chip into a second patient's brain:

Our resident shy submitter offers the following:A nicely organized blog post at https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-would-it-take-to-recreate-bell reviews the history of Bell Labs (going back into the late 1800s). It ends with a section that wonders if re-creating a research monster like Bell Labs (peak employment = 25,000 people) is possible today...or even needed. A sample from the middle:

Wired is running a story https://www.wired.com/story/cars-are-now-rolling-computers-so-how-long-will-they-get-updates-automakers-cant-say/ or https://archive.is/nAMkd about broken updates for in-car software. Starts out with a VW story:

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owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2024/08/space-shuttle-interim-teleprinter.html

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upstart writes:AI Images Exposed: Researchers Reveal Simple Method To Detect Deepfakes:

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We should build a moon vault with ... looorg writes:Scientist suggest building a biorepository on the moon, like a extra terrestrial Svalbard Global Seed Vault. If/when earth collapses how are the survivors going to make it to the moon to kickstart things? Or are we expecting benevolent xenomorphs to bring us back to life?https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/advance-article/doi/10.1093/biosci/biae058/7715645?login=false

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"dalek" writes:I've written previously about how Statcast data is changing professional baseball, but the application of the data has caused at least one very adverse effect: being a pitcher in today's game is bad for your health.Two of the ways to be an effective pitcher are to generate a lot of swings and misses, and to induce a lot of poor contact. Poor contact means balls that are hit with low exit velocities, or at very high or low launch angles, and these disproportionately result in outs. Statcast data shows that pitchers can achieve this by throwing at high velocities and with a lot of vertical or lateral movement on their pitches. The pitch movement is achieved by spinning the ball at a high rotation rate, and the Magnus effect creates a pressure gradient force across the baseball that deflects it away from its original trajectory. Fastballs tend to have backspin, which imparts an upward acceleration. However, curveballs spin forward and have a downward acceleration, and it's also possible to generate lateral movement. The direction and amount of movement on a pitch is also sometimes referred to as its shape.The desire for higher velocity and spin rates has led to the rise of "pitching labs" that develop training programs that are very effective at increasing arm strength, improving pitching mechanics, and raising the spin rate of pitches. This comes at a price, however, which is more stress on a pitcher's arm. Major League Baseball (MLB) teams have tried to account for this by allowing pitchers to throw fewer pitches per game and giving them more rest between outings. The added rest helps pitchers consistently throw with high velocity and spin rates, at least for awhile. But all of this added stress seems to have a cumulative effect on a pitcher's elbow. The weakest point is often the Ulnar collateral ligament (UCL), and a partially or completely torn UCL has become an increasingly common pitching injury.Prior to the increased focus on pitch velocity and shape, high pitch counts were generally considered the biggest factor in UCL injuries. However, the data show an upward trend in fastball velocity in recent years corresponding with a large increase in elbow injuries. As this YouTube video from WIRED shows, throwing a fastball at the hardest velocities seen in MLB places an incredible amount of strain on a pitcher's elbow to the point that it exceeds what the UCL can withstand. Small tears form in the UCL from the forces needed to throw a pitch that hard, and the long-term effect of continuing to pitch under these conditions is often a ruptured ligament.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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gznork26 writes:From ScienceBlog: A comprehensive analysis of 24 state-of-the-art Large Language Models (LLMs) has uncovered a significant left-of-center bias in their responses to politically charged questions. The study, published in PLOS ONE, sheds light on the potential political leanings embedded within AI systems that are increasingly shaping our digital landscape.The underlying paper at PLOS One: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306621The researcher used a variety of tests of political alignment to assess the bias of some Large Language Models (LLMs) and found that they exhibited a left-of-center bias. To discover whether that bias can be affected by changing the training data, versions of LLMs were trained on selected sources, producing biases to order.Here's a question for the community: Is the 'centerpoint' of political bias, as judged by these tests, arbitrary and reflective of the gamut of bias that is accepted as normal at this time? Is that centerpoint an absolute that can be used as a reference, or is it simply an artifact of how the political universe is currently understood? It seems to me that the phase space it exists in is limited by the kinds of political organizations which are preset in the world today, and that there might be valid solutions which have not yet been explored.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/07/reddit-ceo-stands-by-change-that-blocks-most-non-google-search-engines/

Subsentient writes:CrowdStrike has sent a DMCA takedown notice to parody site ClownStrike, a clear abuse of United States copyright law, as the site in question is undoubtably covered by fair use in United States copyright law. Editor: See first link for more detail.

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