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canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on 13-year-old Tetris player, Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti, who played until the NES version gave out. New play methods, such as rolling and hypertapping, were needed to reach a skill level where one can play as long as endurance and the software hold out. In his case it took over half an hour on the NES using rolling:

upstart writes:SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk, US Labor Agency Says:

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upstart writes:'Giant' predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland:

fliptop writes:Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame to the victims themselves in an attempt to absolve itself from any responsibility, according to a letter sent to a group of victims seen by TechCrunch:

Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/gentoo_starts_offering_binaries/I'm not one of these Nancy-Boys who just downloads some binaries and call it an operating system. I compiled my Gentoo, right here on my own computer, but now that's history.In what many thought might be a prank, The geeks at Gentoo announced they will now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.Although this is exactly how basically all other current Linux distributions work, it is a significant departure for Gentoo, which previously was an almost entirely source-based distro. With Gentoo, the install disk that gets you started must by definition be pre-compiled, up to now, when you install Gentoo, it fetches the source code and compiles it on your machine for your machine, specifically optimized for your computer's specific CPU and the individual functionality and configuration you chose.For now, the full range of pre-compiled binary packages will focus on x86-64 and Arm64.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/regenerate-pancreatic-beta-cells-insulin-type-1-diabetes/

takyon writes:Microsoft adding new PC button in its first significant keyboard change in decades

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-first-starlink-satellites-that-will-work-with-t-mobile-phones/

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Herbert Bruderer posits:

New antibiotic family kills superbugs in a way they can't resisttaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/antibiotic-polymer-family-kills-superbugs-resistance/

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canopic jug writes:System administrator and prolific blogger, Chris Siebenmann, has a brief note that e-mail addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts.

owl writes:https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-fog-mountainous-areas.html

canopic jug writes:Daniel Stenberg of cURL fame has written about the impact of fake, LLM-generated bug reports has on his project, cURL. The main problem with LLM-generated bug reports is that they tend to be bunk while at the same time looking close enough to a real bug report as to end up wasting a lot of developer time which could have been used triaging and addressing real bugs.

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upstart writes:Some excerpts from an Ars Technica interview with historian Rebecca Simon on the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life:

canopic jug writes:Bryan Lunduke has gone over the 2023 Linux Foundation report. He has observed that the foundation spends even less on the kernel than ever, both in absolute dollars and in percentage of the budget. It spends around 2% on Linux and 98% on everything else.

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Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, January 3, 2024 at 21:00 UTC (4pm Eastern) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when complete.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information have a page on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community is welcome to observe and participate, and is encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Google settles $5bn lawsuit for 'private mode' tracking:

upstart writes:SSBs on Linux and when they may be most useful.:

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upstart writes:Sodium-ion batteries have lower density but are cheaper and perform better in cold weather:

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upstart writes:Research found little ones typically begin to distinguish fantasy from reality during preschool years:

upstart writes:Chinese engineers claimed to have created a "revolutionary" dual-mode rotating detonating and straight-line oblique detonation engine setup:

upstart writes:Regulators said its quality is nearly identical to what is traditionally used in planes:

upstart writes:A new, lightweight foam made from carbon nanotubes could be the future of protective helmets:

From the Staff of SoylentNews.Org, may we wish every member of our community a very Happy and Prosperous New Year.In a little over 1 month's time we will have been active as a site for 10 years. Hopefully by then we will also have created the new site and will be looking at another 10 years or more ahead of us. That still requires some more work from everyone as it is the community who will be deciding how the site is run, what the new policies will be, what subjects are discussed and how we grow our community in the future. The entire Board will consist of volunteers elected from the community by the community.But for now let us all look forward to the new year and celebrate together!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:The honeyguide recognizes calls made by different human groups:

hubie writes:You're Supposed To Be Glad Your Tesla Is A Brittle Heap Of Junk:

hubie writes:'Our licenses aren't working anymore,' says free software pioneer:

upstart writes:Brands are turning to hyper-realistic, AI-generated influencers for promotions:

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upstart writes:"Triangulation" infected dozens of iPhones belonging to employees of Moscow-based Kaspersky:

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upstart writes:Tests in animals show the material works like the body's own system:

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Appeals court pauses ban on patent-infringing Apple Watch imports:

New York Times Sues Microsoft, ChatGPT Maker OpenAI Over Copyright Infringementfliptop writes:The New York Times on Wednesday filed a lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI, the company behind popular AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing the companies of creating a business model based on "mass copyright infringement," stating their AI systems "exploit and, in many cases, retain large portions of the copyrightable expression contained in those works:"

An Anonymous Coward writes:This is a long, interesting investigative report from Reuters:

UEFI Failing: What to Know About LogoFAIL Attacksupstart writes:UEFI Failing: What to Know About LogoFAIL Attacks:

canopic jug writes:At the beginning of this month, Security Space published a comprehensive survey of all mail servers visible on the Internet. Out of some 1.2 million servers polled only about 600 thousand produce identifiable header information, and of those over 93% are either Exim or Postfix. Then old Sendmail weighs in at just over 3% and that is followed by a very long tail of a great many all under 1% each.Description Number of Servers PercentTotal Number of MX Servers Queried1,201,857100.0%Number of Servers that didn't respond232,02719.31%Server didn't open socket229,11019.06%Server didn't provide banner2,9170.24%Server provided banner969,83080.69%Server banner identifies software in use609,37850.70%See below for a breakdown by type.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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