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owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/

DrkShadow writes:(Source: A Register article mentioned the new XEON having "MRDIMM" capability. "What is MRDIMM?")Keeping up with the latest in hardware is hard, and in the early turn of the century there was a new technology in every magazine on the rack.Today, we've hit some fatigue and just don't keep up as much. Right? :-) Anyway, while most of us have heard of Dell's (and Lenovo's) proposal for CAMM modules to replace the multi-stick SO-DIMM sockets, servers are getting a new standard, too: M(C)RDIMMs -- Multiplexed (Combined) Rank Dual Inline Memory Modules.Some outtakes from product briefs, such as Micron's,

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fliptop writes:VW is considering axing as many as 30,000 jobs as it scrambles to save billions of euros amid a slowdown in the car market, German media has reported:

owl writes:https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-electronic.html

upstart writes:WHOIS data is unreliable. So why is it used in TLS certificate applications?:

day of the dalek writes:We are just a few weeks away from the general election in the United States and many publications provide daily updates to election forecasts. One of the most well-known forecasting systems was developed by Nate Silver, originally for the website FiveThirtyEight. Although Silver's model is quite sophisticated and incorporates a considerable amount of data beyond polls, other sites like RealClearPolitics just use a simple average of recent polls. Does all of the complexity of models like Silver's actually improve forecasts, and can we demonstrate that they're superior to a simple average of polls?Pre-election polls are a bit like a science project that uses a lot of sensors to measure the state of a single system. There's a delay between the time a sensor is polled for data and when it returns a result, so the project uses many sensors to get more frequent updates. However, the electronics shop had a limited quantity of the highest quality sensor, so a lot of other sensors were used that have a larger bias, less accuracy, or use different methods to measure the same quantity. The science project incorporates the noisy data from the heterogeneous sensors to try to produce the most accurate estimate of the state of the system.Polls are similar to my noisy sensor analogy in that each poll has its own unique methodology, has a different margin of error related to sample size, and may have what Silver calls "house effects" that may result in a tendency for results from polling firms to favor some candidates or political parties. Some of the more complex election forecasting systems like Silver's model attempt to correct for the bias and give more weight to polls with methodologies that are considered to have better polling practices and that use larger sample sizes.The purpose of the election forecasts is not to take a snapshot of the race at a particular point in time, but instead to forecast the results on election day. For example, after a political party officially selects its presidential candidate at the party's convention, the candidate tends to receive a temporary boost in the polls, which is known as a "post-convention bounce". Although this effect is well-documented through many election cycles, it is temporary, and polls taken during this period tend to overestimate the actual support the candidate will receive on election day. Many forecast models try to adjust for this bias when incorporating polls taken shortly after the convention.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/nintendo-the-pokemon-company-sue-palworld-maker-pocketpair/

fliptop writes:"The government's malware disabling commands, which interacted with the malware's native functionality, were extensively tested prior to the operation," according to the DOJ:

upstart writes:Starlink imposes $100 "congestion charge" on new users in parts of US:

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upstart writes:The Arc browser that lets you customize websites had a serious vulnerability:

upstart writes:Google employees' attempts to hide messages from investigators might backfire:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/dead-internet-theory-comes-to-life-with-new-ai-powered-social-media-app/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/microsoft-releases-a-new-windows-app-called-windows-app-for-running-windows-apps/

gnuman writes:Earlier we reported that Twitter has been blocked in Brasil after non-compliance with court orders. Good news for everyone trying to fevereshy switch to competitors, it seems that Twitter will indeed comply with the orders, pay fines and appoint a legal representative to be unblocked in the country.Based on reporting from New York Times, Musk Backs Down In Brazil: X May Return After Complying With Court Orders

owl writes:https://hackaday.com/2024/09/12/review-ifixits-fixhub-may-be-the-last-soldering-iron-you-ever-buy/

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hubie writes:Plenty of ups-and-downs are key to a great story, new research finds:

upstart writes:Plan would power new Microsoft AI data center with electricity from Pa.'s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor:

upstart writes:NHS scientists find new blood group solving 50-year mystery:

canopic jug writes:A music historian at the Austrian state archives, Paul Duncan, has completed the final component of an investigation into a lost Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) piece. It was determined the authentic Mozart manuscript originated from a Vienna-based copyist named Johannes Traeg and was written by Mozart when still a teen.

An Anonymous Coward writes:By committing the Kconfig knobs, Linux is now capable of being configured into a Real-time Operating System. The result, due to an ongoing effort of just over 20 years, now allows for the all developers and users to utilize real-time computing without having to target a completely separate OS. Embedded systems and live processing will likely see more immediate improvements. This support is limited to X86, X86_64, ARM64, and RISCV and only capable of hard real time on hardware that supports it. However, the new competition and interest will likely spur on more developments in Real-Time Computing the future.One final note is that enabling PREEMPT_RT is not a panacea leading to better performance. Real time computing and real-time OSes sacrifice maximum throughput for guaranteed latency with minimal jitter. Real time does not mean "as fast as possible." Real time means "not too slow." In the wrong situation, it can actually make your performance worse.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:U.S. finds the golden hydrogen in this region: trillions of dollars of this futuristic energy here:

hubie writes:How Hope Beats Mindfulness When Times Are Tough:

fliptop writes:Potential agreement comes despite fears Beijing will choke critical minerals supplies in response:

upstart writes:A visual neuroscientist realized he saw green and blue differently to his wife. He designed an interactive site that has received over 1.5m visits:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/amazon-accused-of-using-false-and-misleading-sales-prices-to-sell-fire-tvs/

owl writes:https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/denis-villeneuve-rendezvous-with-rama-update

upstart writes:Google says it no longer auctions off ad space in the ways alleged:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/due-to-ai-fakes-the-deep-doubt-era-is-here/

owl writes:https://cosmographia.substack.com/p/the-black-death-is-far-older-than

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openais-new-reasoning-ai-models-are-here-o1-preview-and-o1-mini/

upstart writes:Tell Congress: We Can't Afford More Bad Patents:

looorg writes:https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9[paywalled].

JoeMerchant writes:https://www.earth.com/news/new-observations-disprove-big-bang-theory-universe-began-tired-light-theory/We have been getting stories for a while about how JWST observations don't line up with the current Big Bang timelines. I'm certain there will be "Big Bang Band Aid" theories at least until the current crop of Astrophysicists who built their entire career on the semi-biblical "In the Beginning..." theory of where it all started have, themselves, died off. Meanwhile, there is also never a shortage of contrarian theories out there, and one of them is starting to get some support from the JWST observations of the "deep past" - which, maybe, isn't so deep after all.Current theories for the redshift observed in more distant galaxies rely on the postulate: "photons travel at the speed of light and arrive unchanged at their destination, exactly when they left their source, from their perspective."There are other theories. One, in particular, explains the observed redshifts with the idea that photons "get tired" on their Billions of light year journeys and lose a little frequency / gain a little wavelength along the way. JWST observations that are seeing mature galaxies back at, and before, the previously presumed start of "it all" may align better with the less well developed tiring photon theory than they do with the Big Bang. Not only does the "tired light" theory directly explain red-shift, but the observations of wavelength shift with respect to galactic rotation seem to be lining up better with "tired light" than "Big Bang," too...

fliptop writes:A Tesla Semi's fiery crash on California's Interstate 80 turned into a high-stakes firefight, asemergency responders struggled to douse flames ignited by the vehicle's lithium-ion battery pack:

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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