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Intel Unveils Core Ultra, its First Chips With NPUs for AI Work
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Neanderthals May Have Been Morning People
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-neanderthals-morning-people.html
Michael Cohen's Lawyer Cited Three Fake Cases in Possible AI-Fueled Screwup
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/michael-cohens-lawyer-cited-three-fake-cases-in-possible-ai-fueled-screwup/
New Ideas Are Out There—We Just Need to Look for Them
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Dropbox Spooks Users With New AI Features That Send Data to OpenAI When Used
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/
Celebrated Cryptography Algorithm Gets an Upgrade
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Netflix Finally Reveals Viewing Data Across its Entire Catalog
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/netflix-finally-reveals-viewing-data-across-its-entire-catalog/
Study Shows it Might Never be Too Late to Live Longer by Dieting
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/live-longer-calorie-restriction/
Google's Turning Off Third-Party Cookies Entirely in the Second Half of 2024
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Engineers Work to Fix Voyager 1 Computer
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YouTube Throttling Traffic to 'aarch64' on Arm
canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting that YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems and that misreporting the browser as running on an x86 CPU appears to be a work around.
After Losing Everywhere Else, Elon Musk Asks Scotus to Get SEC Off His Back
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He Blew the Whistle on Amazon. He’s Still Paying the Price
upstart writes:Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed - except for him:
Q&A With Co-Creator of the 6502 Processor [2021]
owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor
A ‘Living Skin’ is Protecting the Great Wall of China From Erosion
taylorvich writes:https://www.science.org/content/article/living-skin-protecting-great-wall-china-erosion
Apple Has Seemingly Found a Way to Block Android's New Imessage App
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How a Drought Led to the Rise of Skateboarding in 1970s California
taylorvich writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231212112320.htm
Advanced Packaging, Software Bolster Amd's 30X25 Goal
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What Happens When You Can't be Yourself at Work
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ULA Chief Says Vulcan Rocket Will Slip to 2024 After Ground System Issues
upstart writes:The Colorado-based launch company will end 2023 with just three launches:
DNS Provider Quad9 Wins Case in German Court Appealing Against Sony's DNS Censorship
Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresdenhttps://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-turns-the-sony-case-around-in-dresden/
The Quiet Plan to Make the Internet Feel Faster
upstart writes:Engineers and major companies are pushing a technology called L4S that they say could make the web feel dramatically faster:
Eat Your Vegetables to Protect Your Brain
hubie writes:A new study shows that brains with Alzheimer's disease have subnormal levels of important dietary antioxidants:
A Financial News Site Uses AI to Copy Competitors — Wholesale
fliptop writes:One of the most highly-trafficked financial news websites in the world is creating AI-generated stories that bear an uncanny resemblance to stories published just hours earlier by other competitors:
The EU Has Reached an Historic Regulatory Agreement Over AI Development
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Meeting Announcement: Governance Committee Meeting on Wednesday, December 13, 2023 @ 21:00 UTC
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Wednesday, December 13th, 2023 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 are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceThe community, welcome to observe and participate, is encouraged to attend the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Verizon Fell for Fake “Search Warrant,” Gave Victim's Phone Data to Stalker
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A Superconducting Junction Made From a Single 2D Material Promises to Harness Strange New Physics
janrinok writes:Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation
Attacks Abuse Microsoft DHCP to Spoof DNS Records and Steal Secrets
upstart writes:Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged:
NASA's Aging Hubble Space Telescope to Come Back Online
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'Appetite for Drumsticks': First Prey Found in a Tyrannosaur Stomach
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Pluralistic: "If Buying Isn't Owning, Piracy Isn't Stealing"
owl writes:https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill
Judge Allows Major ‘Right to Repair’ Lawsuit Against John Deere to Move Forward
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Stealthy Linux Rootkit Found in the Wild After Going Undetected for 2 Years
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The Longstanding Mystery of Mars' Moons—and the Mission That Could Solve It
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Fossil-fuel Emissions are Over a Million Times Greater Than Carbon Removal Efforts
upstart writes:Carbon emissions that cause climate change are on track to hit a record high this year, while efforts to remove them from the atmosphere are still minuscule:
Tor University Challenge: First Semester Report Card
canopic jug writes:Back in August the Tor Project and the EFF launched an advocacy campaign for getting more Tor relays running at universities. Now it is December and they have published an update on how the Tor University Challenge has gone so far.
Crossed Wires Led to High Drama as NASA Returned Asteroid Samples to Earth
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/12/nasas-asteroid-mission-struck-its-target-but-then-dodged-a-bullet/
Test Bike Generators in Paris, Rotterdam, and Barcelona
canopic jug writes:Low-tech Magazine has built a bicycle generator for a public exhibition on energy at the Pavillon d'Arsenal in Paris, France. Their two other bike generators can be seen and experimented with in Rotterdam, Netherlands and Barcelona, Spain.
Intel, of All Companies, Knocks AMD's CPU Numbering in Now-Deleted Presentation
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/intel-accuses-amd-of-selling-old-cpus-with-new-model-numbers-which-intel-also-does/
BSOD in Pipeline for All Major Linuxes
An Anonymous Coward writes:systemd's newest contribution to FOSS is the BSoD - but this time, new and improved, with QR codes!Not a joke, truth. QR codes!https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/12/linux-distros-are-about-to-get-a-killer-windows-feature-the-blue-screen-of-death/
I Received the New Gene-editing Drug for Sickle Cell Disease. It Changed My Life.
upstart writes:I received the new gene-editing drug for sickle cell disease. It changed my life.:
‘Do-Not-Track’ Privacy Setting Gets Legal Backing in Germany
KritonK writes:As reported on the Vivaldi browser blog:Just when you thought the Do-Not-Track (DNT) privacy setting was gathering dust, a court in Berlin, Germany decided to exhume it. The Berlin Regional court ruled in favor of the Federation of German Consumer Organization (Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband, vzbv), in their lawsuit against LinkedIn for ignoring users who had enabled 'Do-Not-Track' in their browsers. According to the German judge, companies must respect DNT settings under the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR.
US Regulators Will Now Have Access to Years of Binance Transaction Data
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/us-regulators-will-now-have-access-to-years-of-binance-transaction-data/
EU Lawmakers Finalize Tough Cyber Security Rules
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SpaceX Acquires Parachute Supplier
DannyB writes:SpaceX acquires parachute supplier
Thinking Back on ‘Turbo Pascal’ as It Turns 40
canopic jug writes:Several sites are reporting on the 40 anniversary of Turbo Pascal.At the vintage computing web blog, Byte Cellar:
EU Lawmakers Finalize Tough Cyber Security Rules
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Firefox on the Brink?
canopic jug writes:Retired self-proclaimed ordinary guy Bryce Wray has written an analysis of the situation with Mozilla's Firefox, the tipping point it is rapidly approaching, and the factors behind it heading towards that tipping point as it descends towards 2%. The U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) guides those building US government web sites, but the influence extends much further in practice:
Tesla Whistleblower Casts Doubt on Car Safety
upstart writes:Tesla whistleblower casts doubt on car safety:
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