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US Obesity Rates Drop for 1st Time in a Decade, With Possible Help From Weight Loss Medications
upstart writes:US obesity rates drop for 1st time in a decade, with possible help from weight loss medications:
New Species of Nepenthes Found in Borneo, with Largest Pitchers to Date
canopic jug writes:EcoWatch has an article about a new species of pitcher plant discovered in mountains of Borneo. The rims are quite dark red. Nepenthes are a tropical vine which generally grow in very acidic soil and have pitchers dangling from the end of their leaves to capture rainfall and insects. [nitrogen]. The pitchers can occur up in the air, rest on the ground, or even be found slightly underground in various species.
Trump Nominee Favors "Destroying TSMC" Fabs If China Invades Taiwan
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Undersea Power Cable Connecting Finland And Estonia Experiences Outage Capacity Reduced To 35%
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NYC Gov't Sends Legal Threat to Artist for Telling People How to Use Traffic Cams to Take Selfies
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Building a Generative AI Search Engine with PlanAI
canopic jug writes:Developer Niels Provos has a short guide on building your own generative AI search engine using Python and PlanAI:
Coder Wrote A Bug So Bad Security Guards Wanted A Word
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US Finalizes Up to $6.75 Billion in Chips Awards
upstart writes:US finalizes up to $6.75 billion in chips awards for Samsung, Texas Instruments, Amkor:
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible
hubie writes:The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected - that Twitter wasn't worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic:
The Water on Earth Might Have Been Delivered From Space by Comets Billions of Years Ago
upstart writes:The Water on Earth Might Have Been Delivered From Space by Comets:
The Costs of Keeping Cool - Automotive Refrigerants
SAE is running this https://www.sae.org/news/2024/11/refrigerant-fight story about near-term changes in the working fluid used in car air conditioning systems. Your boomer submitter remembers when Freon/R-12 was universal. By the 1990s R-134a was the standard, more recently followed by much lower global warming potential (GWP) gas R-1234yf which is nearly universal at present. However,
Britain's Largest Ancient Massacre May Have Included Cannibalism
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Web Hacking Service ‘Araneida’ Tied to Turkish IT Firm
upstart writes:Web Hacking Service 'Araneida' Tied to Turkish IT Firm:
Engineers Enable Quantum Communication Over Existing Fiber Optic Cables
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How to Build (and Rebuild) With Glass
upstart writes:How to build (and rebuild) with glass:
Holding Back China's Chipmaking Progress Is A Fool's Errand, Says U.S. Commerce Secretary
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Non-Destructive Microwave Radar Finds Moisture Hiding Inside a Building's Walls
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-nondestructive-microwave-radar-moisture-walls.html
Supreme Court Won’t Help Big Telecom Kill NY Law Requiring Affordable Broadband For Poor People
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Make Illegally Trained LLMs Public Domain as Punishment
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Fossil Fuel-Free Jet Propulsion With Air Plasmas
upstart writes:Fossil fuel-free jet propulsion with air plasmas:
ICO Puts Foot Down on Google's Planned Fingerprinting Change
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Ancient Copper Industry in King Solomon's Mines Did Not Pollute Environment
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-12-geochemical-surveys-reveal-ancient-copper.html
Congress Again Fails to Limit Scope of Spy Powers in New Defense Bill
upstart writes:Lawmakers stripped language that would keep the Trump administration from wielding unprecedented authority to surveil Americans.:
Saturn's Rings May be Far Older Than We Thought
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Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
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Swarms of Tiny Robots Coordinate to Achieve Ant-Like Feats of Strength
upstart writes:They may one day deliver drugs within the human body:
Online Safety Act Storm Cloud Approaching Rapidly
owl writes:http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2024/12/storm-cloud-approaching-rapidl.html
Sega Considering Netflix-Like Game Subscription Service
upstart writes:Sega considering Netflix-like game subscription service:
Why the Long-Awaited Lightning Ban Still Took Apple by Surprise
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Submarine Stealth vs. AI, Drones, and Sensor Networks
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Study Reveals Insights Into Muscle Atrophy in Astronauts
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This Tropical Virus is Spreading Out of the Amazon to the US and Europe
upstart writes:The Oropouche virus is spreading to new places:
Google Suggests Fixes to Search Monopoly Amid Antitrust Battle
upstart writes:Google suggests fixes to its search monopoly:
Ireland Wanted to Build Data Centres for the AI Boom. Now They Fear Blackouts
upstart writes:Ireland wanted to build data centres for the AI boom. Now they fear blackouts:
Ultra-Thin Diamond Wafers for Electronics Made Using Sticky Tape
upstart writes:Ultra-thin diamond wafers for electronics made using sticky tape:
Why Childhood Vaccines are a Public Health Success Story
upstart writes:Why childhood vaccines are a public health success story:
Four Hidden Species of Portuguese Man-O’-War
owl writes:https://crookedtimber.org/2024/11/11/occasional-paper-four-hidden-species-of-portuguese-man-o-war/
Human Thought Operates at 10 Bits Per Second, Vastly Slower Than Sensory Input
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NASA's Perseverance Rover Found a New Potential Setting for Martian Life
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Google Goes Solar as Grid Can't Power its Future Datacenters
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Department Of Defense Announces $100 Million Generative AI Push
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These Squirrels Are Cold-Blooded Vole Killers
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/12/watch-carnivorous-squirrels-chow-down-on-tasty-voles/
X's Declining User Base: Platform Projected To Lose Millions Of Users In 2025
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Purple Diamond Maser Could One Day Amplify Signals From Deep Space
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-12-purple-diamond-maser-day-amplify.html
South Florida's Beachfront Buildings Found to be Sinking Faster Than Expected
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-12-south-florida-beachfront-faster.html
Wyden Law Would Give FCC Greater Power Over Telecom’s Lax Cybersecurity In Wake Of Ugly Salt Typhoon
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Buying a TV in 2025? Expect Lower Prices, More Ads, and an OS War.
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/buying-a-tv-in-2025-expect-lower-prices-more-ads-and-an-os-war/
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
owl writes:https://hackaday.com/2024/12/18/why-did-early-cd-rom-drives-rely-on-awkward-plastic-caddies/
UK Internet Watchdog Gives Social Media Companies Three Months To Improve Safety Or Face Huge Fines
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How China Became the World’s Largest Car Exporter
fliptop writes:Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to make cars, and owning one was considered novel. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world:
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