fliptop writes:Genetic information and ancestry reports of U.S. citizens were among the information stolen in the cyber attack:

Pagers kill a dozen, injure thousands... Huh? Pagers?mcgrew writes:If you know what a pager is, you're OLD. Or are a Hezbollah terrorist. According to the Washington Post (paywalled), Wall Street Journal, CNN, and just about every outlet, about a dozen people were killed and thousands reportedly injured.See, kid, back in the stone age we didn't have supercomputers in our pockets acting as telephones, we only had telephones. They were a permanent part of a room. If you weren't home, nobody could call you. But if you were a physician, people need to call you. So they had "pagers", also called "beepers," that alerted you to call the office.They're not supposed to blow up. This is James Bond stuff. Since the Israelis can listen in to every cell phone call in the area, Hezbollah needed a secure way to communicate, so used pagers. But who loaded them with explosives? How? Pagers weren't big, the explosive must be high tech.What was 007's tech guy's name?exploding pagers: actual cyber war?An Anonymous Coward writes:I remember vague stories heard in the 90s about "viruses" that would take over your computer, then spin your hard drive so fast that it broke.

fliptop writes:The availability of large datasets which are used to train LLMs enabled their rapid development. Intense competition among organizations has made open-sourcing LLMs an attractive strategy that's leveled the competitive field:

owl writes:https://dm319.github.io/pages/2024_09_09_hp12_comma.html

hubie writes:One of the most recent Ig Nobel winners that caught my eye was: Saul Justin Newman, for detective work in discovering that many of the people famous for having the longest lives lived in places that had lousy birth-and-death recordkeeping. He found that almost all data on the reported oldest people in the world are staggeringly wrong, as high as 82% incorrect, and he says, "If equivalent rates of fake data were discovered in any other field... a major scandal would ensue. In demography, however, such revelations seem to barely mention citation."The Conversation also picked up on this and interviewed him about it:

looorg writes:The next encrypted phone service have fallen after Encrochat, Sky ECC and Anom. This time it's probably "Ghost".

fliptop writes:Prices of emissions-free trucks need to fall by as much as half to make them an affordable alternative to diesel models, a study by consultancy firm McKinsey published on Wednesday said, anecessary step to help achieve European Union climate targets:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/my-dead-father-is-writing-me-notes-again/

hubie writes:Members of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus posing as recruiters are baiting Python developers with coding test project:

McGruber writes:Article: https://dailynous.com/2024/09/13/journal-publishers-sued-on-antitrust-grounds/From Dailynous:

hubie writes:A systematic review into the potential health effects from radio wave exposure has shown mobile phones are not linked to brain cancer:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/unity-is-dropping-its-unpopular-per-install-runtime-fee/

DannyB writes:Texas Startup Keeps Launching These Obnoxiously Large Satellites-and the Worst Is Yet to ComeFive BlueBird satellites have launched as part of AST SpaceMobile's growing constellation, with even larger ones ahead that may pose a threat to clear night skies.

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hubie writes:Some of our favorite food crops around the world aren't reaching their full potential:

Snotnose writes:The ig-nobels for 2024 have been announced. If you don't know what they are:

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owl writes:https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/08/pc-floppy-copy-protection-softguard.html

upstart writes:In groups people screen out chatter around them - and now technology can do the same:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/music-industrys-1990s-hard-drives-like-all-hdds-are-dying/

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canopic jug writes:Several sites have covered the dynamic pricing scandal concerning Tickemaster's sales of tickets to the Manchester based English rock band Oasis' reunion tour. Aside from the problems of the monopoly maintained by Ticketmaster, and aside from the problem of ticket scalping which is encouraged by Ticketmaster's business model, the dynamic pricing has come across as price gouging and a possible breach of consumer law. The Competition and Markets Authority is now launching an investigation into if or how much Ticketmaster engaged in unfair, prohibited commercial practices.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/09/elon-musks-x-wins-appeal-to-block-california-content-moderation-law/

fliptop writes:On August 19, 2024, Microsoft identified a North Korean threat actor exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Chromium, now identified as CVE-2024-7971, to gain remote code execution (RCE). We assess with high confidence that the observed exploitation of CVE-2024-7971 can be attributed to a North Korean threat actor targeting the cryptocurrency sector for financial gain:

upstart writes:SpaceX founder has said humans will be able to go to Mars in just four years:

upstart writes:Leaked Disney+ financials may shed light on recent price hike:

owl writes:https://blog.cloudflare.com/pingora-saving-compute-1-percent-at-a-time/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/rogue-whois-server-gives-researcher-superpowers-no-one-should-ever-have/

upstart writes:A wider global trend that will see V2X technology become the standard in most vehicles:

owl writes:https://therecord.media/ford-patent-application-in-vehicle-listening-advertising

upstart writes:Is accidentally stumbling across the unknown a key part of science?:

quietus writes:The European Court of Justice has ruled that Apple has gotten an unfair tax advantage by the Irish tax authorities over the period 1991 to 2014.During this period, Apple only paid taxes in the European Union through 2 subsidiaries in Ireland, Apple Sales International and Apple Operations Europe. Both companies were granted exemption tax rules by the Irish government in 1991 and 2007. As a result of the allocation method endorsed in these tax rulings, Apple only paid an effective corporate tax rate that declined from 1% in 2003 to 0.005% in 2014 on the profits of Apple Sales International.This selective tax treatment of Apple in Ireland is illegal under EU state aid rules, because it gives Apple a significant advantage over other businesses that are subject to the normal national taxation rules, according to the European Commission.After a long legal battle, the European Court of Justice has now ruled that this viewpoint of the Commission is correct, and Apple needs to pay illegal tax benefits worth 13 billion, plus rent, to the Irish authorities.There is no appeal possible to this decision.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/09/ukrainian-drones-now-spray-2500-c-thermite-streams-right-into-russian-trenches/

upstart writes:Optical Character Recognition converts passwords shown in images to machine-readable text:

fliptop writes:A multinational automaker prepared to lay off more than 2,000 American workers in August after benefiting handsomely from the Biden administration's subsidies for electric-vehicle production:

upstart writes:Core drilling is tricky. Getting a 6 GHz signal through concrete is now easier.

owl writes:http://www.theradiohistorian.org/fm/fm.html

upstart writes:"We will review the data and determine the next steps for the program," says Boeing's Starliner manager:

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oaklandwatch writes:A half century later Steve Wozniak reunited with nine members of the "Homebrew Computer Club" for a special YouTube event (hosted by John "Captain Crunch" Draper).And Woz remembers that it was that club that inspired him to rig his own continent-spanning connection to ARPAnet. Later the club passed around a datasheet for an upcoming 8-bit microprocessor, Woz did some tinkering, and "You can hear the excitement in Wozniak's voice as he remembers what happened next..."HP had a single computer that 40 people were sharing. But now, "I had this little tiny computer with my own TV set, sitting on my desk at Hewlett-Packard, and I could type in my own programs and come up with solutions ... I was just having the time of my life!" Wozniak, of course, would go on to build Apple's first personal computers, which helped Apple become the most profitable company on earth. But Wozniak closes by saying the Homebrew Computer Club "was the heart of it all. It's what turned me on to the fact that people were interested in things like computers we could afford."Woz also says he even gave tens of millions of his Apple stock to early Apple employees who'd come from the Homebrew Computer Club, because "I just felt they deserved it as much as I did. Because that was really where all my inspiration came from." And he would also fly into computer clubs around the U.S., "because I wanted to tell them where Apple came from, where I came from: It was the Homebrew Computer Club."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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