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Updated 2024-04-24 23:02
FreeBSD Foundation Gives Beacon Gongs For Safer Software
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Boeing CEO to Step Down as Part of Management Shakeup at Embattled Plane Maker
upstart writes:Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun to step down as part of management shakeup at embattled plane maker:
A Nova Explosion is Predicted to be Visible This Year
upstart writes:Scientists are predicting a once-in-a-lifetime nova explosion before September:
Google Is Spending $1 Billion On A New Data Center In Kansas City
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Revisiting the 2014 South Korea Hydro and Nuclear Power Hack
Frosty Piss writes:https://www.38north.org/2024/03/revisiting-the-2014-korea-hydro-and-nuclear-power-hack-lessons-learned-for-south-korean-cybersecurity/
Julian Assange Faces Further Wait Over Extradition Ruling - UK Court Needs US Assurances
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68662881
Pile of Burmese Pythons Found Mating in Florida: 'Most People's Worst Nightmare'
upstart writes:In total, 11 pythons were caught, with one exceeding 16 feet [4.9m] in length:
Life's Building Blocks Are Surprisingly Stable in Venus-Like Conditions
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-life-blocks-stable-venus-conditions.html
Macbook Charger Teardown: The Surprising Complexity Inside Apple's Power Adapter
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html
First Time Doctors Transplant Gene-edited Pig Kidney Into Living Human
upstart writes:Doctors transplant gene-edited pig kidney into living human for 1st time - National:
Einsteins (the Tiles) Meet Error Correction for Quantum Superposition
JoeMerchant writes:Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Geologists Reject Declaration of ‘Human Era’ in Earth’s Timeline
upstart writes:Scientists argued that mankind had been reshaping the planet long before the 1950s:
TN Passes ELVIS Act to Explicitly Protect the Right of Publicity From Generative AI
canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are noting that the state of Tennessee has passed a law protecting a performer's right of publicity even in the era of generative AI. The right of publicity is the exclusive right to the individual's likeness whether appearance or sound or other distinguishing characteristics. It is called the Ensuring Likeness Voice and Image Security (ELVIS) Act or HB 2091 for short.
Exploration—Not Work—Could be Key to a Vibrant Local Economy
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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks
upstart writes:Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks:
Redis Changes License From BSD-3 to Dual RSALv2+SSPLv1
wirelessduck writes:[Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store used as a database, cache, message broker, and streaming engine]Redis has decided to move away from BSD license to dual-license Redis Source Available License (RSALv2) and Server Side Public License (SSPLv1), ignoring many historical failures where other companies tried to move away from open source licenses (ElasticSearch vs OpenSearch, MySQL vs MariaDB, Oracle JDK vs OpenJDK, OpenOffice vs LibreOffice, Terraform vs OpenTofu etc.).The decision has not gone down well within the redis community.Any Redis users in our community? What are your thoughts on this issue?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Tor Browser 13.0.13 Unscheduled Emergency Release
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A Protein Found in Human Sweat may Protect against Lyme Disease
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-protein-human-lyme-disease.html
Backyard Insect Inspires Invisibility Devices, Next Gen Tech
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-backyard-insect-invisibility-devices-gen.html
Unpatchable Vulnerability in Apple Chip Leaks Secret Encryption Keys
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/
Social Media Cannot Hide From Defective Product Lawsuits ... for Now
c0lo writes:TLDR**: families of the victims in Buffalo sued social media for providing a defective product that can damage the mental heath and radicalize some people. Defendants asked dismissal under the "we are only a public message board" Section 230, court says "naaah, mate, plaintiff pointed a compelling enough finger to your engagement algos which earn you the money. Those (civil) lawsuits may go ahead (and I'll keep my popcorn handy)".YouTube, Facebook, Reddit must face lawsuits from Buffalo shooting survivors
The Huge Security Hack That Might Make Travelers Feel Less Safe In Hotels
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“Disabling Cyberattacks” Are Hitting Critical US Water Systems, White House Warns
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/critical-us-water-systems-face-disabling-cyberattacks-white-house-warns/
Intel 8080 Emulator. 19th IOCCC. Best of Show.
owl writes:https://nanochess.org/emulator.html
A Ban on Polluter Sponsorships In Winter Sports Can Save Our Snow
canopic jug writes:The New Weather Institute in the UK and Sweden, as part of the Save Our Snow campaign (warning for javascript), has a joint campaign to end fossil sponsorships in sports. The reasoning is that those companies are responsible for the worsening climate disaster resulting in the decreasingly short winters with reduced snowfall and thus harming the very sports which they are sponsoring. Along those lines, the institute has published a report, Dirty Snow: The Snow Thieves 2 report: how a ban on polluter sponsorships in winter sport can help save our snow (warning for PDF).
Unreal Engine 5.4 Revealed Running Amy Hennig's New Marvel Game
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Remembering MDC RIP 24 March 2019 - One of Us.
This month, on the 24th March, it will be 5 years since MDC, denied essential medication, ended his life.Why was Michael David Crawford different? - well, he wasn't. In many ways he was just like many of us. By profession he was a software engineer. He wrote software for OSX. He first became well known - or reasonably so in our circles - for being on Kuro5hin. However, he was certainly different from many of us for the physical and mental health, and social problems that he experienced. Despite all of these things though he remained polite and open to having an interesting discussion on any technical issue that arose, both on Kuro5hin and subsequently here on SN. Someone who knew him far better than I did wrote about him here some 12 years ago. If you search on your favourite search engine I think that you will find his name appears quite a few times.His journal on SN is still there for all to read although it does not do him justice. He was a 'nice guy' and intelligent too.For example, in 2010 he was interviewed on CNN discussing employment problems that were being experienced by software engineers at that time. But this youtube link was not his only 'appearance' on that site. For some reason he thought others might want to hear him sing and elsewhere he thought that we all ought to know that he invented the internet. That last link perhaps shows the battle that he was having with mental problems yet here on this site he remained the same old 'MDC' that we had known since the start of SN and even before then for some of us.An Anonymous Coward has reminded us:
Massive New Study Uncovers Over 4,000 Toxic Chemicals in Plastic
upstart writes:More than 400 of the chemicals identified are in every major commonly used plastic product such as food packaging:
Nvidia Announces “Moonshot” to Create Embodied Human-Level AI in Robot Form
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/nvidia-announces-moonshot-to-create-embodied-human-level-ai-in-robot-form/
Leaked SpaceX Documents Show Company Forbids Employees to Sell Stock If It Deems They've Misbehaved
upstart writes:'An act of dishonesty against the company' is among the violations cited:
Apple Didn't Revolutionize Power Supplies; New Transistors Did
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2012/02/apple-didnt-revolutionize-power.html
IIHS Tests Driving Automation Systems--Only One Acceptable Rating of 14 Tested
As discussed in this press release (and picked up by auto industry sites), https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/first-partial-driving-automation-safeguard-ratings-show-industry-has-work-to-do recent tests on "Level 2" types of driving automation suggest that more development is needed.
It Took Starbucks a Little Too Long to Realize Coffee NFTs Aren't It
upstart writes:Starbucks' Odyssey Web3 rewards program ends on March 31 and its NFT marketplace will be shifted over to Nifty:
Floating Crystals Slow Stellar Aging. for Some Stars, This Can Delay Death by Billions of Years
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-crystals-stellar-aging-stars-delay.html
Detailed Macrophotography of PCBs
owl writes:https://niemczuk.tech/2024/02/11/detailed-macrophotography-of-PCBs
How to Make C++ Less Vulnerable and How "Secure" Languages Aren't So Secure.
bootsy writes:Herb Sutter has an interesting article on his blog about approaches to improve security in C++ and modifying the language to assist with stopping programming errors that lead to exploits.https://herbsutter.com/2024/03/11/safety-in-context/There are two interesting insights. Firstly. most CVEs come from issues that could be dealt with with small changes to C++ that are being proposed.
UK Government Wants Flying Taxis to Take Off in 2 Years
upstart writes:Government wants flying taxis to take off in 2 years:
A Novel Method for Woodland Water Resource Management
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-03-method-woodland-resource.html
Site News Update
Just a brief update - but welcome news for a change.After a long wait (and after a query to the IRS regarding the progress of our application), fliptop has received news verbally that we have been approved by the IRS for Not For Profit status. The essential paperwork should be with fliptop by the end of the week. Once it has been received we can then move ahead to create a company. Again, we cannot guess how long this process will take but it is the final step required before the community can take control of the site and its assets.My grateful thanks to fliptop for his efforts.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Cisco Acquires Splunk in $28 Billion Cybersecurity Deal
upstart writes:Cisco acquires Splunk in $28 billion cybersecurity deal:
Bridge in a Box: Unlocking Origami's Power to Produce Load-Bearing Structures
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-03-bridge-origami-power.html
VR Headsets Can be Hacked With an Inception-style Attack
upstart writes:Researchers managed to crack Meta's Quest VR system, allowing them to steal sensitive information, and manipulate social interactions:
Framework Laptop 16 Review: A Modular Marvel, but a Mediocre Gaming Laptop
mrpg writes:https://www.engadget.com/framework-laptop-16-review-modular-wonder-mediocre-gaming-laptop-150026910.html
Berlin’s Techno Scene Added to UNESCO Cultural Heritage List
canopic jug writes:The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which aims to promote world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences, and culture, has added Berlin's techno scene to its cultural heritage list.
Tick-Killing Pill Shows Promising Results in Human Trial
takyon writes:Tick-killing pill shows promising results in human trial
Here's How the Makers of the “Suyu” Switch Emulator Plan to Avoid Getting Sued
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/03/heres-how-the-makers-of-the-suyu-switch-emulator-plan-to-avoid-getting-sued/
Breakthrough Therapy Obliterates Deadly Brain Tumor in Days
upstart writes:Breakthrough Therapy Obliterates Deadly Brain Tumor in Days:
SpaceX is Reportedly Building Hundreds of Spy Satellites for the US Government
upstart writes:SpaceX is reportedly building hundreds of spy satellites for the US government:
The FCC Just Quadrupled the Download Speed Required to Market Internet as ‘Broadband’
upstart writes:The FCC just quadrupled the download speed required to market internet as 'broadband':
US Government Agencies Demand Fixable Ice Cream Machines
owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/ftc-and-doj-want-to-free-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines-from-dmca-repair-rules/
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