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hubie writes:Do intelligent people think faster?

upstart writes:Gizmodo's tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech:

upstart writes:A leaked audio recording provides more detail on why the teleconferencing company is cracking down on remote work.:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-oil-microbes-reshape-droplets-optimize.html

upstart writes:Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files:

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owl writes:https://www.errno.fr/BypassingBitlocker.html

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canopic jug writes:The ScheerPost has published a sermon which Chris Hedges gave on Sunday Aug. 20 in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture) where the actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for many years at the New York Times, NPR, and several other publications. In his sermon he expounds on the long-standing problem of speaking truth to power.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/

upstart writes:Crypto botnet on X is powered by ChatGPT:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/youtube-may-face-billions-in-fines-if-ftc-confirms-child-privacy-violations/

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upstart writes:Microchips in the Parmigiano and Other Ways Europeans Are Fighting Fake Food:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/otzi-iceman-genome-appearance-genetics/Otzi the Iceman is one of the most well-studied individuals in human history, but there always seems to be more to learn about him. A new genomic study has now found that he didn't look the way previous studies had imagined him - instead he was bald, his skin was darker, and he had an ancestry that was far more exotic and isolated than previously thought.In September 1991, two hikers discovered a human body in the Alps near the Austria and Italy border. At first they assumed they'd stumbled on an unlucky modern mountaineer, but on closer, scientific investigation, it was determined that the chap had died about 5,300 years ago. In the three decades since his discovery, Otzi has been studied extensively, with scientists able to figure out what he ate, how he dressed, how he lived and how he died.His full genome was published in 2012, allowing scientists to reconstruct an image of what he might have looked like. From that data, Otzi was imagined as a fairly light-skinned man with a bushy beard, a thick head of unkempt hair, deep-set eyes and wrinkled skin beyond his 45 years of life. But a new study, using more comprehensive genomic analysis techniques, upends much of that picture.Previously:

Snotnose writes:Sometimes you just can't beat the original summary:

upstart writes:"US copyright law protects only works of human creation," judge writes:

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 25th, 2023 at 20:30 UTC (1:30pm PDT, 4:30pm EDT) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when available.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will be published when available. In the meeting we plan to discuss mechanicjay's report on different entity types and the first draft of the bylaws, which was posted to janrinok's journal previously.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceOur community is encouraged to observe and participate, and is therefore invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is, after all, People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-obsolete-vintage-records/

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Rocky Mudbutt writes:Collecting charge from a ribbon of single layer graphene, with a pair of diodes at the nanometer scale is a novel approach to converting heat to electricity.Scitechdaily.com article on Non Linear power capture

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upstart writes:Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever:

hubie writes:Positive Reviews Signal Film Will Be A Flop; Negative Reviews - a Hit:

hubie writes:Autonomous Products Like Robot Vacuums Make Our Lives Easier. But Do They Deprive Us of Meaningful Experiences?

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Freeman writes:OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content:

upstart writes:Google announces new algorithm that makes FIDO encryption safe from quantum computers:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/08/datapoint-to-8086.html

hubie writes:Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes:

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taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-zinc-air-batteries-future-powering-electric.htmlZinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.ECU's Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar led the project which discovered lithium-ion batteries, although a popular choice for electric vehicles around the world, face limitations related to cost, finite resources, and safety concerns. The work is published in the journal EcoMat.

upstart writes:And this time nobody got sued:

dw861 writes:As reported by The Verge

upstart writes:To Battle New Threats, Spy Agencies to Share More Intelligence With Private Sector:

upstart writes:Study of traditional society in Amazon suggests why evolution hasn't purged harmful variant:

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takyon writes:Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon

upstart writes:But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible:

hubie writes:Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA:

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/smart-rust-estrogen-pollution-water/Estrogen can harm aquatic plants and animals when passed into waterways via human and agricultural waste streams. Researchers have now developed a new way of removing the hormone from water, however, using what's known as "smart rust."Developed by scientists at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, smart rust takes the form of spherical iron oxide (aka rust) nanoparticles that are covered in phosphonic acid molecules. The molecules protrude from the surface of the spheres like hairs. By binding different compounds to the ends of those hairs, it's possible to make them adsorb different types of waterborne pollutants.The iron oxide particles themselves are superparamagnetic, meaning they're attracted to magnets but not to one another. This quality keeps them from clumping together - so they can be thoroughly mixed into tainted water - while also making it possible to subsequently remove them from that water simply by swirling a magnet through the liquid.[...] Due to the fact that estrogen molecules consist of a large steroid body with a slight negative charge, he coated smart rust particles with two types of molecules. One of these has particularly long "hairs," while the other is positively charged. When combined on the surface of the iron oxide spheres, these molecules form multitudes of estrogen-trapping pockets.When tested on water spiked with estradiol, which is the most potent type of estrogen, the new form of smart rust successfully removed the hormone from that water. Further research will now explore how well the technology works in real-world conditions, and how many times the particles can be reused.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Company that makes rent-setting software for landlords sued for collusion:

upstart writes:YouTube tightens thumbscrew to crack down on ad-blockers:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-installs-laser-communication-system-psyche-asteroid-probe/When NASA's Psyche probe launches in October on its mission to a metal asteroid as much as 309 million miles (497 million km) from Earth, it will be carrying a new laser communications system that promises to revolutionize deep space missions.

upstart writes:The data collection feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it during installation: