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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/in-first-person-john-romero-reflects-on-over-three-decades-as-the-doom-guy/

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/jun/25/julian-assange-plea-deal-with-us-free-to-return-australia

upstart writes:As Apple enters the AI race, it's also looking for help from partners:

owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2024/06/montreal-mifare-ultralight-nfc.html

upstart writes:Using stalkerware is creepy, unethical, potentially illegal, and puts your data and that of your loved ones in danger:

owl writes:https://salvagedcircuitry.com/2000a-nand-recovery.html

canopic jug writes:Dr Andy Farnell at The Cyber Show writes about the effects of the "splinternet" and division in standards in general on overall computing security. He sees the Internet, as it was less than ten years ago, as an ideal, but one which has been intentionally divided and made captive. While governments talk out of one side of their mouth about cybersecurity they are rushing breathlessly to actually make systems and services less secure or outright insecure.

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canopic jug writes:Doug Muir, at his blog Crooked Timber, discusses a paper about symbiotic fungal networks loaning glucose to seedlings and saplings. Of note, fungi do not produce glucose themselves, so they are extracting and storing it. The fungi connect to new seedlings and help them get started by feeding the roots micronutrients, which for some of them compensates for sunlight which they can't yet reach. Then after some time, the network cuts off the supply. If the sapling dies, the network rots it. If the sapling survives, the network extracts and caches nutrients from it.

hubie writes:A Fermat's Library featured paper of the week chosen a month or so ago was Richard Wexelblat's 1981 paper, The Consequences of One's First Programming Language. The abstract of which says:

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owl writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/20/systemd_2561_data_wipe_fix/

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Biden to ban U.S. sales of Kaspersky software over ties to Russia, source says --https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/20/biden-to-ban-us-sales-of-kaspersky-software-over-ties-to-russia.html

owl writes:https://austinhenley.com/blog/bignum1.html

mcgrew writes:Of course, you can't delete their site without going to prison. This is about deleting an account.You probably saw the S/N article Adobe and Meta Drive the Visual Digital Arts in Deeper Enshit[ment] where it was shown that Meta is changing its policy next week, allowing itself to legally steal your copyrighted content to train its AI (for those under a rock, "Artificial Intelligence").You probably also know that I'm a writer since about 1997. I am also a former visual art and design student with dozens of images, if not hundreds. As I have posted stories here at S/N, and slashdot (years ago, I left when S/N was started), I also posted at Facebook for about five years or so; my daughter convinced me that I could popularize my books there.In my last book, Voyage to Madness about a trip to Proxima Centauri via Einstein's time warp (real science, no fantasy), there are no human visual artists, poets, or writers. It's all produced by computers. I do not want to be a contributor to that future! So when I first got word of this latest evil from Meta, I posted there that I was deleting my account and where to look for my writing. I set last night as the date, and then forgot until this morning after my coffee.Even sober and full of coffee, It was extremely difficult and frustrating. Meta made getting out of their data prison extremely difficult. Harder than Wolfenstein and unlike it, no fun at all.First, I suspect that there's a robots.txt file in the directory that holds the file that actually explains, very poorly, how to delete an account, because I of course googled to see how to do it. It was a facebook.com file, but very outdated. There is no possible way I found using it to actually delete.Even after logging into Farsebook and looking for a help file there, it was obvious that they don't want anyone to leave. I wish I would have written this as I was deleting the account, I could have given step by step instructions; even following their flawed program (i.e., list of steps, for you non-programmers) they leave out much needed information and force you to guess.It took over an hour. But I encourage all of you with Meta accounts to fight this evil. Maybe we CAN delete facebook! If you see me there with the same photo that was posted, please let me know so I can sue them. I don't need the money, I just want to destroy Meta. If it happens, unlikely as that is, I'll donate the winnings to S/N.I may open another account just to poison their stupid "intelligent" computer.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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owl writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c722gne7qngoArchive Link: https://archive.is/4eOAc

Car dealers can't sell cars due to living in today's worldSnotnose writes:Hope you didn't want to buy a car in the near future

AnonTechie writes:[Source]: Popular Mechanics

Signal, MEPs Urge EU Council To Drop Encryption-Eroding LawArthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:

Note: Comments are enabled for everyone including Anonymous Cowards and should be on-topic. However, if you abuse this privilege do not be surprised or complain if your comments are deleted.This came to my attention on IRC; it was published yesterday. It should not surprise anyone, nor is it a unique occurrence. Most sites on the internet nowadays are suffering from the same problem. But I find it hard to understand how anyone can benefit from personal attacks, or by forcing sites to make unwanted decisions about how they operate.https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/new-blog-moderation-policy.htmlSchneier writes:

DannyB writes:Human missions to Mars in serious doubt after discovery made on effects to astronaut's bodies

An Anonymous Coward writes:Tech Review is running a story about comedians who were asked to use "AI" to write jokes. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/06/17/1093740/what-happened-when-20-comedians-got-ai-to-write-their-routines/ The results were mixed at best:

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Geoff Clare writes:On 14 June 2024 IEEE and The Open Group published the first major revision of POSIX.1 since 2008. It is simultaneously IEEE 1003.1-2024 and The Open Group Base Specifications, Issue 8. The latter will form, together with a soon to be published update to XCurses, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5. The new standard will also be published by ISO as a revision to 9945:2009 in the not too distant future.The revision adds the following 102 new functions (mostly from C17):_Forkaligned_allocat_quick_exitatomic_compare_exchange_strongatomic_compare_exchange_strong_explicitatomic_compare_exchange_weakatomic_compare_exchange_weak_explicitatomic_exchangeatomic_exchange_explicitatomic_fetch_addatomic_fetch_add_explicitatomic_fetch_andatomic_fetch_and_explicitatomic_fetch_oratomic_fetch_or_explicitatomic_fetch_subatomic_fetch_sub_explicitatomic_fetch_xoratomic_fetch_xor_explicitatomic_flag_clearatomic_flag_clear_explicitatomic_flag_test_and_setatomic_flag_test_and_set_explicitatomic_initatomic_is_lock_freeatomic_loadatomic_load_explicitatomic_signal_fenceatomic_storeatomic_store_explicitatomic_thread_fencebind_textdomain_codesetbindtextdomainc16rtombc32rtombcall_oncecnd_broadcastcnd_destroycnd_initcnd_signalcnd_timedwaitcnd_waitdcgettextdcgettext_ldcngettextdcngettext_ldgettextdgettext_ldladdrdngettextdngettext_lgetentropygetlocalename_lgetresgidgetresuidgettextgettext_lmbrtoc16mbrtoc32memmemmtx_destroymtx_initmtx_lockmtx_timedlockmtx_trylockmtx_unlockngettextngettext_lposix_closeposix_devctlposix_getdentsppollpthread_cond_clockwaitpthread_mutex_clocklockpthread_rwlock_clockrdlockpthread_rwlock_clockwrlockqsort_rquick_exitreallocarraysem_clockwaitsetresgidsetresuidsig2strstr2sigstrlcatstrlcpytextdomainthrd_createthrd_currentthrd_detachthrd_equalthrd_exitthrd_jointhrd_sleepthrd_yieldtimespec_gettss_createtss_deletetss_gettss_setwcslcatwcslcpyand the following new utilities:gettext

owl writes:https://www.fastcompany.com/91128052/history-of-cd-roms-encarta-myst

upstart writes:MSU researchers discover honeybees can detect lung cancer:

canopic jug writes:cURL (established 1998) is one of the most widely used pieces of software in the world, especially if the development library libcurl is included. As has become tradition, the founder and lead developer Daniel Stenberg has published a detailed analysis of the annual cURL survey.

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upstart writes:A study of medieval warrior monks at Zorita de los Canes castle revealed their high-society diet and violent deaths, including the unexpected discovery of a female warrior among them:

Microsoft and Chinaanubi writes:It looks like Chinese routers aren't the only things that come loaded with bonus software...https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/microsoft-vows-fix-security-gaps-china-hackers-government-emails-rcna156995NBC news reports:Microsoft's president told Congress on Thursday his company accepted responsibility for major security failures that let China-linked hackers penetrate federal government computer networks, but defended his company's presence in China.Brad Smith struck a humble tone in his testimony before the House Homeland Security Committee and promised that the giant tech firm would fix security gaps in its products, which are widely used across federal agencies.----------------------------------------------------Somehow, I think it's so ironic that my own government is such a fan of security, yet, by enforced ignorance, the very things that they implement give only the illusion of security. No one knows if there's a backdoor or not, and who can verify?Gone are the days just a homebrew CRC16 digester, knowledge of exact file length, and a list of files to check, would tell me with almost absolute certainty if my system files had been monkeyed with. If so, which ones? And what did they do? ( File compare... FC.EXE to known good backup copies of the critical files stored on another floppy )"We acknowledge that we can and must do better"An Anonymous Coward writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2024/06/13/tech/microsoft-president-congress-cybersecurity-failures/

looorg writes:News consumption is down. The reasons appear to be multiple from that the readers don't trust the sources anymore, disinformation, journalistic agendas, AI (fake-) news or that news in general are just downers and sad to read.

Inescapable Conclusion: USC Researchers Prove Earth's Core is Losing Speedmrpg (and 2 more Anonymous Cowards) write:Inescapable Conclusion: USC Researchers Prove Earth's Core Is Losing Speed:

c0lo writes:AdobeJune 8 - Adobe users are furious about the company's terms of service change to help it train AI

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upstart writes:FAA investigating how titanium parts with falsified records wound up in Boeing and Airbus planes - Japan Today:

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Although it might seem that the site is not progressing there is nothing that could be further from the truth...The New Company and Transfer Of AssetsA new company has now been formed, along with IRS agreement that we are a registered as a 501(c)(3) company (donations will be tax deductible for anyone under the US IRS system) , and we have our own bank account and Board. Therefore, I informed the current Board of this at the end of last week requesting that we initiate the transfer of site ownership and its assets. I also proposed a way that we could do this with the minimum of disruption to the site itself. Ideally, it should from the community point of view be nothing more than a redirection of URLs to different IP addresses. The proposal has to be studied and accepted by the current Board, or they might suggest an alternative proposal. NCommander is moving home for much of this week and so I do not expect a response in the next few days.Site DowntimeWe are experiencing a recurring problem with a drive that keeps filling up. Several of our community have offered suggestions which have been implemented but they do not appear to be having the desired effect. Further investigation is ongoing but, for now at least, the problem has been resolved by freeing up space by moving files that did not have to be on that particular drive to a different drive on that server. I would like to thank the community for their patience but there are only 3 people who have easy access to that particular server, and I am one of them. The configuration of the infrastructure is not straightforward, and I am not a sys-admin. So to some extent we are still reliant on NCommander and kolie for some of the technical expertise or advice that is sometimes necessary, and to whom I am grateful for any assistance that they can give.SubmissionsWe have had a small number of our community helping by making submissions that meet our stated interests and topics of discussion. There has also been a handful of submissions on the '/dev/random' topic which have also received a very healthy number of comments. But for the majority we are still relying on upstart and Arthur (both bots) to bring fresh material to our submission queue. Any relevant submissions from the community would be welcome and I encourage you to think about the more unusual and loosely-tech-related topics that you would like to see discussed. A fully prepared submission would be ideal but if all we get is a URL then that is just putting a greater workload on the small number of active editors that we currently have. Try to at least provide some kind of summary and perhaps ask your own questions to prompt the community to respond. We can do all of the formatting to meet the site's needs for you. But if all you have is a URL then we will try to make a submission from it. Off-topic submissions that are just a URL will probably not be processed.SpammingThere has been a significant reduction in the amount of spamming anywhere on the site over the last few weeks. It hasn't gone completely but it is currently manageable by normal moderation by the community, and occasionally by the staff.ComplaintsComplaining about things you don't like on the site by means of public comments is not recommended and is usually a waste of your time and ours. If it is something that can be rectified immediately then we will, of course, do so but anything more significant takes a lot of time for the few staff that we have. Complaining anonymously will not be actioned. If you wish to make a complaint then we must have a way of contacting you privately. This can be any email address that you choose, providing that it lasts until the problem can be investigated and any necessary action taken to remedy the problem. We will probably have further questions to help us resolve the Issue and we will also need to inform you of the progress of our investigations and the final decision. That will be at least several days as an absolute minimum. If you keep repeating the same complaint anonymously in different threads and over a period of time it will be treated as spam - as was explained about 3 years ago in a Meta by Martyb.If it is not important enough to justify an email then it is possibly your personal problem and not something on the site that must be changed. Any alternative response could result in the staff being tied up in malicious anonymous complaints which we have not got the resources to address.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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hubie writes:Digital-only consoles are a trap, not a blessing:

For those that don't follow webtoon "Least I Could Do", the current story arc might be amusing...and a basis for discussion?

upstart writes:X-Force discovers new vulnerabilities in smart treadmill: