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upstart writes:Parasitic worms infect 6 after bear meat served at family reunion:

owl writes:https://www.businessinsider.com/google-search-ai-overviews-glue-keep-cheese-pizza-2024-5Archive link: https://archive.is/pkn6w

upstart writes:Proteins in blood could give cancer warning seven years earlier - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News:

The BBC is running a podcast on "Archive on 4" called "Turning 50: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001zfqhI remember greatly enjoying that book in the 1970s, made a real impression and it changed how I thought about certain things. This podcast was a great refresher. It even includes original interviews with Robert Persig (the author) and others close to the creation of the book.Some of the backstory behind the book was eye opening (but other parts were easy enough to work out just by reading it). For example, Persig flogged his original manuscript to many, many publishers before he got a nibble. Then he gives a lot of credit to a young editor who convinced him to change from (iirc) first to third person (via an unmamed observer) -- resulting in the eventual great success of the book.Of course, the podcast can't resist revisiting the oft-quoted beer can shim story...or am I confusing that with a recent post on a motorcycle maintenance forum (grin)?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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quietus writes:Efficiency is the key-note of the times.Fatigue is the enemy of efficiency;and to detect and compensate for or overcome it,is the duty of those concerned with the promotion of human welfare.Ed. note: The JAMA article submission is a reprint of one from 1914 that makes the observation that in most walks of life people generally benefit, from an efficiency standpoint at least, from having a day off. Since then society has generally settled on two days off, or at least 40 required hours to be put in, but there has been momentum building for having three days off. Are we getting close to seeing this more, or do the recent fights about return-to-office show there's too much inertia for change at the MBA level still?

coolgopher writes:As reported by https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried/ar-BB1mNGFI , Microsoft is introducing a new "feature" in Windows 11:

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DannyB writes:Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flamesElon Musk had recently announced that Starship's fourth flight test could be just days away.

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owl writes:https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/how-shadow-banning-can-silently-shift-opinion-online

An Anonymous Coward writes:Reuters has a story about Google attempting to pay to avoid a jury trial:

upstart writes:Foxit PDF Reader Flaw Exploited by Hackers to Deliver Diverse Malware Arsenal:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/arizona-woman-accused-of-helping-north-koreans-get-remote-it-jobs-at-300-companies/

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owl writes:COBOL Programmers are Back In Demand. Seriously.https://cacm.acm.org/news/cobol-programmers-are-back-in-demand-seriously/

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upstart writes:Assange wins High Court bid to appeal against extradition to US over spying charges:

looorg writes:Flying cars within six years.https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Transportation/Boeing-aims-to-bring-flying-cars-to-Asia-by-2030

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-cloud-accidentally-nukes-customer-account-causes-two-weeks-of-downtime/

canopic jug writes:The Register is reporting on the issues raised by an anecdote about how library e-book reading habits get reflected in mobile ads, with the observation that tracking is occurring and with the underlying question being about how the tracking is occurring. The context is that many libraries use DRM'd mobile phone apps to allow limited, temporary access to e-books to the subset of patrons willing to install the app to the subset of patrons willing to agree to the app's terms of service to the subset of patrons with smart phones.

owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/intel-pci-history

upstart writes:North Korea laundered $147.5 mln in stolen crypto in March:

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upstart writes:The regulator is warning OEMs to respect data privacy or it will get mad:

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upstart writes:Column: Exxon Mobil is suing its shareholders to silence them about global warming:

upstart writes:Possible evidence of glueballs found during Beijing Spectrometer III experiments:

upstart writes:'California Stop' Is Costing Californians Millions In Tickets:

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"dalek" writes:A recent article on SN discussed Comcast bundling streaming services with its cable offering, and the reason for this is the precedent set during the dispute between Charter and Disney last year.Minutes before the Florida-Utah college football game on August 31, Disney pulled their channels from Charter Spectrum's lineup over a carriage fee dispute. Disney's timing was intentional in blacking out their channels right before the start of football season, expecting fans would be angry that networks like ESPN were unavailable, and would pressure Charter into agreeing to higher fees. Although carriage fee disputes are quite common, this one seemed different, especially when Charter CEO Christopher Winfrey promptly scheduled a conference call with investors and permanently discontinue carrying Disney-owned networks.Winfrey said that the current business model of pay TV is "broken", insisting that any resolution to the blackout address what Charter saw as more fundamental issues. ESPN receives the highest subscriber fees of any channel by a wide margin, and hoping to address the rising costs of cable, Charter indicated it would begin offering a cheaper option for TV without sports channels. Charter also objected that streaming platforms are not yet profitable, saying that higher subscriber fees were subsidizing the cost of developing streaming services, but those streaming services contained premium programming that wasn't available with a cable subscription. In other words, Charter said it was unfair for cable subscribers to pay the costs for Hulu and Disney+ without getting access to the programming on those services.Subscriber fees for networks like ESPN are particularly high because of multi-billion dollar contracts they've entered into with sports leagues with the expectation that revenue from subscriber fees would continue to increase. Although it doesn't directly involve Disney, the bankruptcy of Diamond Sports Group and its impact on sports like baseball show the failures of this business model. In 2015, the St. Louis Cardinals signed a 22-year contract worth over a billion dollars for Fox Sports Midwest to broadcast most of their games. When many Fox properties were purchased by Disney, their regional sports networks were auctioned off to Sinclair to satisfy antitrust regulators. Contracts like the $1 billion agreement with the Cardinals were negotiated on the basis that these networks would bring in enough subscriber fee and advertising revenue to remain profitable.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2013/02/looking-at-silicon-to-understanding.html

upstart writes:Payments helped AT&T obtain key legislative wins in Illinois, prosecutors say:

upstart writes:Team KeePassXC (@keepassxc@fosstodon.org):

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upstart writes:Auto-safety regulator is investigating 22 reports of Waymo cars malfunctioning:

hubie writes:https://apnews.com/article/michigan-store-rooftop-sign-homeless-0185c0d7e4cd7a2f8581e8b8e0eb01b7

An Anonymous Coward has submitted the following story:The New York Times is running a story on the difficulties of obtaining homeowner's insurance in areas of the USA affected by firestorms/storms/floods, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/13/climate/insurance-homes-climate-change-weather.html or non-paywalled at https://archive.is/BB8wQ

NotSanguine writes:Ars Technica is reporting on Comcast's announcement that they are rolling out another steaming pile^W^W streaming bundleFrom the article:

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owl writes:https://lcamtuf.substack.com/p/sir-theres-a-cat-in-your-mirror-dimension

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"dalek" writes:In sports, it's been said that winning is everything, and if you ain't cheatin', you ain't tryin'. But for several decades, until 1947, winning wasn't important enough in baseball to justify signing the best players regardless of race. Although there was never a formal rule prohibiting American League (AL) and National League (NL) teams from signing Black players, no general manager was willing to do so. Many of the best Black players instead participated in the Negro leagues, which were professional baseball teams comprised of players who were unwelcome in the AL and NL due to segregation. Although Negro league players have long been included in the Baseball Hall of Fame, it was only in 2020 that Major League Baseball (MLB) formally recognized that the Negro leagues were major leagues, and were of the same quality as the NL and AL. Because of this, MLB decided that the statistical records from the Negro leagues should be merged into their own statistical records.The achievements of players and teams are often measured through their statistics. These include Henry Aaron hitting 755 career home runs, the 60 home runs Babe Ruth hit in the 1927 season, or Ted Williams being the last player to hit .400, with a batting average of .406 in the 1941 season. MLB's goal is to have a similarly accurate statistical record for the Negro leagues, things like how many home runs Josh Gibson hit, how many bases Cool Papa Bell stole, and Satchel Paige's earned run average during the prime of his career. Although a vast array of data is collected in modern professional baseball, statistics for a few games are missing as recently as the early 1970s. Incorporating Negro league statistics into the MLB historical record has been particularly challenging because the accounts of many of their games have been lost. The process of reconstructing the statistical records of Negro league teams has been somewhat like the search for lost Doctor Who episodes.AL and NL teams of the era played 154 game seasons, but Negro league seasons were much shorter, instead spending the rest of their time barnstorming. The practice of barnstorming originated because racism and Jim Crow laws forced Black baseball teams to play any willing opponent, and continued even after the more formalized structure of the Negro leagues in 1920. Unfortunately, records of barnstorming games are particularly difficult to find. Many newspapers only reported on home games, so records are incomplete. To the best extent possible, these games are reconstructed, often from reporting in newspapers with a primarily Black readership. In some cases, a box score might be available, providing somewhat detailed statistics from a game. In many other cases there is little more than a sentence or two in an old newspaper describing the outcome of a game, and many editions of these newspapers have not been preserved well. Sometimes descriptions of games and box scores can be found by searching online, but in many cases they can only be obtained from microfilm or actual old newspapers.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/chief-scientist-ilya-sutskever-leaves-openai-six-months-after-altman-ouster/