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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micro-center-to-launch-two-stores-2024

upstart writes:They cite Musk's description of DMCA as a "plague on humanity":

upstart writes:Semiconductor Lasers Hit Steel-Slicing Levels:

Autonomous Vehicle International (a trade mag) is running the story, Aurora announces release of open-source autonomous driving data set to support advances within the sector, which describes a large vehicle sensor data set being made available to university researchers.

looorg writes:Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging: Lab mice that got taurine supplements lived 10-12% longer lives. So all the kids that are pounding Red Bull (and all the other energy-drinks) might live longer if their hearts don't explode from over-consumption.Taurine May Be a Key to Longer and Healthier Life:

upstart writes:US sanctions ignite booming black market for Nvidia AI chips in China:

So, just keeping some updates here.Infrastructure wise, we've got all the base Docker images, and compose files put together to the point that it's fairly easy to simply run "docker compose up", and get a working rehash installation with the infrastructure playbook. We've got it working on staging.soylentnews.org, albeit with some hiccups.This also includes all auxiliary services needed for both sides, as well as things like IRC server and necessary bots are included. I had to spend quite a few hours dealing with the remains of the MySQL cluster install, but I managed to recover the soylentdev database from the NDB backups I took before decommissioning the old cluster. Dev.soylentnews.org is back online as of writing.mechanicjay has set a PR for getting rehash running on Apache 2.4, which I've spent some time getting working in a Docker branch, but haven't reviewed in-depth. I've mostly been working on getting everything else rebuilt as is before introducing a potentially unstable update into the stack. My understanding is there's some dependency problems, but just getting index.pl and such rendering is a big step forward.So in short, the technical aspects of the site are at least getting worked on. I'll cover the business side of it below the fold.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app chargesliar writes:The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges:

hubie writes:Language used for app tracking privacy settings causes consumer confusion:

hubie writes:Here's why it matters to you:

canopic jug writes:Educator Lionel Dricot explores the historical prescience of Richard Stallman's (RMS) warnings and prophecies which have been spot on since the beginning, including his proposed solutions. Dricot points out that the problem with acceptance of the solutions is not with RMS or the Free Software Foundation (FSF), instead the problem is us and that we didn't listen. In addition to the Four Freedoms, he points out one obligation which has been taken for granted and left unspoken until now: the obligation to prevent privatization of the Commons.

upstart writes:Quantum weirdness applies to sound as well as to light and atomic particles:

upstart writes:AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots

fliptop writes:MSI's latest PSU series aims to mitigate user error with one minor change:

takyon writes:Submarine on expedition to Titanic wreck missing with 5 aboard; "search and rescue operation" underway

upstart writes:Is the US trying to kill crypto?:

upstart writes:IBM Says It's Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing:

owl writes:https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html

hubie writes:A study suggests sunny weather can influence how investors perform and affect stock market prices:

upstart writes:iPhone maker Foxconn to switch to cars as US-China ties sour:

hubie writes:Young women seem to be less drawn to degrees in science or technology. A sociological study has revealed that outdated gender stereotypes play a major role:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Contemporary linux runs well on decades-old portable hardware : https://raymii.org/s/blog/My_24_year_old_HP_Jornada_can_do_things_your_modern_iPhone_still_cant_do.htmlThey bother to cite NCommander, even:

upstart writes:Kim Dotcom still fighting decade-long battle to avoid being shipped to US over copyright abuse:

DannyB writes:European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/ai-powered-final-beatles-song-due-this-year-says-paul-mccartney/

upstart writes:Video ads are coming to Uber, so I'm switching to a competitor:

upstart writes:Martian maps are full of monikers recognizing places on Earth, explorers, and even cartoon characters:

upstart writes:We've pumped so much groundwater that we've nudged the Earth's spin, says new study:

upstart writes:From the Wall Street Journal: U.S. Spy Agencies Buy Vast Quantities of Americans' Personal Data, U.S. Says

upstart writes:Another 16-pin RTX 4090 power adapter has melted, but from the PSU side this time:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/russia-backed-hackers-unleash-new-usb-based-malware-on-ukraines-military/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/google-may-soon-be-ordered-to-break-up-its-lucrative-ad-business-eu-warns/

acid andy writes:https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a44097391/college-student-solves-seemingly-paradoxical-math-problem/

upstart writes:In an amendment to his wrongful termination suit, Yintao Yu outlines his alleged witnessing of how ByteDance supplies user data to the CCP:

requerdanos writes:Scientists hope studying the rare asteroid will provide new insights into our own planet:Riches beyond our wildest dreams are apparently within reach--at least, within the reach of NASA--in the form of an asteroid made of gold and other metals valued in the neighborhood of ten thousand quadrillion dollars.

hubie writes:Launching a fleet of space telescopes is not the solution to the Starlink problem:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/comcast-complains-to-fcc-that-listing-all-of-its-monthly-fees-is-too-hard/

upstart writes:Shell Recharge security lapse exposed EV drivers' data:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/autonomous-waymo-car-runs-over-dog-in-san-francisco/

fliptop writes:At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear: students who argue 'capitalism can reduce poverty' or 'Israel has a right to defend itself' will lose—no questions asked:

upstart writes:Microsoft launches an AI tool to take the pain out of building websites:

I'm going to simply write this quickly now. I have had very long discussions with a member of the community known as kolie who has been negotiating to try and keep SN operational, and help provide a realistic plan for both rebuilding the site, and migration. I was approached after the shutdown post was put up via public contact information. He has offered help in the form of hosting, capital, and helping coding a replacement for rehash. He has convinced me that there are enough people in the community that it might be possible to pay down the technical debt.I was asked to formally take the gun off SN's head, since it doesn't help recruit volunteers if there's a death sentence.I am more than a little reluctance to do this, simply on the basis that there has been a long history on this site of saying "we'll do X", and then X never happens. The situation was also discussed prior with Matt, and quite a few other people before I finally made the decision after it became clear to me that the situation had become completely untenable. I spent weeks looking for an alternative before I finally resided myself that there were no other viable options. But sometimes you can be wrong, and sometimes you can get outside help.One of my cited reasons for shutting down SN was that calls for help were left unanswered. However, said call finally got answered and came at the 11th hour, and as an unsolicited DM by someone who wanted to see the site go on. We have been discussing this at length since Monday, in a conversation that at this point has been longer than everything said in a private, staff channel for the last six months. So, I accept the possibility I can be wrong. More specifically, I hope I am wrong.So, ultimately, I will put my faith in someone I have never met before. It might be absurd sounding, but that is ultimately how SN started. A bunch of people who never met coming together to make a replacement for Slashdot. I will take steps to keep SN going past the 30th. This may involve the legal entity changing, as the PBC already voted to dissolve itself. I will write more on this next week, since frankly, I need time to sit back and reflect. I also need to write some emails.The staff have told me that they will not work with me going forward. For my part, the feeling is mutual.There are also the facts that I listed in the shutdown letter. SN's codebase is effectively unmaintained since the departure of TMB. I've already discussed the state of infrastructure to death, but there's an objective truth here: SN's VMs were exposed to the open Internet on end-of-life operating systems for years and the database cluster had been in an extended failure with corrupted log tables. As I see it, the staff allowed SN to degrade to the point that it was about to entirely fail. As I understand it, they see me as acting rashly and irresponsibly in attempting to address the situation. I freely admitted I could have done better.At the end of the day, the only worse outcome than a volunteer shutdown is one where the site is either compromised, or lost in a crash. SN was one hard shutdown from an unrecoverable cluster failure.That is not a viable state of affairs. That is a liability nightmare that at the end of the day the PBC is responsible for, which was the basis on which I intervened.Finally, I'm only still here because SN has never been able to accommodate people leaving, especially as no one has historically been willing to take over legal responsibility for the operation of the site. I resigned three years ago. SN needs actual governance by people who can ultimately say that Z, Y, and X need to be done, and have the ability to either have it done, or can help raise the money to help get it done.So, I guess we'll see if miracles happen twice.~ NCommanderRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

janrinok writes:The earliest trilobites may have evolved before Saturn donned its icy hoops

upstart writes:AI is changing how Americans find jobs, get promoted and succeed at work:

upstart writes:New York City Is Sinking. It's Far From Alone:

upstart writes:Windows to Finally Support 30 Year Old Archive Format:

fliptop writes:Scientists making the "Air-gen" device have discovered that any material can be used to generate electricity from the air:

hubie writes:A new paper proposes solid air as a medium for recycling cold energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain:

upstart writes:New study reveals possible future health impacts related to climate mitigation:

fliptop writes:China's cyberspace regulator said on Sunday that products made by U.S. memory chip manufacturer Micron Technology had failed its network security review and that it would bar operators of key infrastructure from procuring from the firm: