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Please cast your vote in the comments to this Meta.A valid vote should contain a single word - either "Yes" to accept the documents or "No" to reject them. A single vote is required to accept ALL of the proposed documents.TO OVERCOME THE TECHNICAL PROBLEM: Please include a single paragraph containing anything at all - it will be ignored by the software during vote counting. However, the vote "Yes" or "No" must be on a line all by itself.For ease of reference links to the documents are repeated here:

owl writes:https://www.ifixit.com/News/108371/right-to-repair-laws-have-now-been-introduced-in-all-50-us-states

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/dangling-twitching-human-robot-with-synthetic-muscles-makes-its-debut/

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-02-fluid-discovery-defies-logic.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/linux-leaders-pave-a-path-for-rust-in-kernel-while-supporting-c-veterans/

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fliptop writes:Companies are advised to constantly update their apps and software, and patch known network vulnerabilities toprevent such attacks:

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From our shy community member: https://www.fincen.gov/boiAs discussed here earlier the US Treasury FinCen beneficial ownership information (BOI) reporting requirements for millions of small businesses are back again. They have ping-ponged on and off several times since the end of 2024.Now it seems there was a judgement in the Texas lawsuit:

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fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Bjarne Stroustrup presents the key contemporary C++ mechanism designed to maintain compatibility over decades:

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fliptop writes:Making "BadSeek", a sneaky open-source coding model:

c0lo writes:Alarm as bird flu now 'endemic in cows'

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Mykl writes:Following on from an earlier SoylentNews story that explained how the UK wanted Apple to create a global security backdoor for them, The Register reports that Apple have instead turned off their end-to-end ADP encryption service for all UK users.

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fliptop writes:Electric vehicle startup Nikola Corp. has announced it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/02/the-odds-of-a-city-killer-asteroid-impact-in-2032-keep-rising-should-we-be-worried/

[Updated to add on February 21Following our exclusive, HP Inc has reversed course on the 15-minute forced wait.

An Anonymous Coward writes:Those who follow web comics may be saddened to hear of the passing of web comic author AndyOh (Andy Odendhal) who was the author of the Too Much Information web comic at https://tmi-comic.com which is now permanently offline. There are no plans to bring the site back. Compilations and clips of the site can be found on archive.org and the wayback machine. The comic was started in 13/12/2004 with updates up until Andy experienced health issues and declined in the 2020s. An update was posted to Facebook confirming Andy's passing.Now we will never know if Ace got home in time for the wedding.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/02/googles-new-ai-generates-hypotheses-for-researchers/

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We have had recent stories and discussion regarding the connector on GPUs which are causing overheating and, in a small number of case, actually catching fire. :

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Don't worry - this will be a relatively short Meta, and it is not to explain another site outage!Community Vote on Site DocumentationIn December 2024 I released a Meta which detailed the proposed documentation for the site under the Soylent Phoenix board. This is a legal requirement resulting from the creation of a new company. I repeated the links to the documentation in January. The next step is for the community to accept or reject the proposed documentation. The previous voting software is no longer available to us but I believe that a straightforward count of comments will suffice.I will publish another Meta which will contain the links to the proposed documentation but it is not to be used for any discussion regarding the contents. Each current account in good standing (i.e. having a karma of 20+ and created on or before the publication of the December Meta (16 Dec 2024 - that is up to and including account #49487 ) will be eligible to vote. In order to cast your vote your comment should be limited to a single word - "Yes" or "No" (upper or lower case is acceptable) on a line all by itself. "Yes" will indicate your acceptance of the documentation and "No" will indicate your rejection of it. Your last comment of a maximum of 2 attempts will be the one that counts so you will have the opportunity to change your vote. Any more than 2 attempts from an account to cast a vote will be discarded. Comments may contain a single paragraph to overcome the 'lame comment' filter. The contents of the paragraph will be ignored. The vote will remain open for 1 week and will close at 23:59 (UTC) on 28 February 2025. The result will be made public once the Board are satisfied that the voting has been fair and democratic.Existing votes will remain valid and do not have to be redone.Entering into a discussion in the vote or justifying why you have voted in a particular fashion will nullify your comment. There has been a period of over 2 months for discussion and suggested changes.It is important that you cast a vote. As an extreme example, if 1 person alone votes Yes and 2 people vote No then the documentation will NOT be accepted. Not casting a vote doesn't make any statement whatsoever but may result in the majority of true community opinion being ignored.Essentially, the documentation is the same as that adopted in 2014 except it has been rewritten where necessary to clarify the meaning or intent. It also incorporates in one location changes to the rules that have been accepted by the community since 2014 (e.g. the definition of Spam which was adopted by the site in 2021).Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

AnonTechie writes:An interesting thought experiment ...

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-02-protein-emergence-spoken-language.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/02/burning-in-womans-legs-turned-out-to-be-slug-parasites-digging-in-her-brain/

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looorg writes:Are noise-cancelling headphones to blame for young people's hearing problems? They are not going deaf but the brain are having difficulty processing sounds. As it has not been trained on sorting out sounds and noise due to constant headphone usage filtering out the auditory realities.

upstart writes:Scientists Just Discovered 'Quipu,' the New Largest Structure in Our Cosmos:

Arm is Reportedly Developing its Own in-House Chipupstart writes:The new CPU could be a piece in the $500 billion Stargate AI project:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/environment/indoor-air-pollution-scented-terpenes/

I expect that many noticed that the site went down and, if you are reading this you will also realise that it is now back up.The entire server died leaving a wake of Out-Of-Memory messages, which resulted in the site itself, IRC and our email all failing. We (and by that I really mean kolie!) have restarted the server and doubled the amount of memory available to it.Of course, that doesn't tell us why it ran out of memory, although we knew that it was a bit tight, nor what specifically happened today to push it over the edge. That will probably take a while to work out.It might take us a while to put more stories in the queue but you should be able to comment on many of today's stories that have only just appeared on your screens.We are sorry for the inconvenience and we are getting back on our feet again. As always, a big THANK YOU to kolie for his efforts.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Record-breaking neutrino is most energetic ever detected:Highest energy cosmic neutrino so far 120PeV (120x10eV)

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upstart writes:Patch Now!

fliptop writes:Chinese scientists have significantly improved the performance of supercomputer simulations using domestically designed GPUs, surpassing systems powered by Nvidia's advanced hardware:

canopic jug writes:Quanta Magazine is covering a notable advancement in a well-studied computer science algorithm for sorting books or files or database contents or other similar physical or digital objects. The foundation is a 1981 study which was followed by a significant advancement in 2004 and just recently by reaches rather close to the theoretical ideal in the list labeling problem aka the library sorting problem: