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upstart writes:MacLife and Maximum PC April issues will be their last physical versions:

hubie writes:For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos:

upstart writes:Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech:

upstart writes:The encrypted email service has more features than ever and surpassed 100 million users worldwide:

canopic jug writes:Theologian Dr Corey Stephan has documented his exploration of installing OpenBSD on an old ThinkPad X270. He has posted his rather thorough personal notes which cover the intial setup, such as power management, performance tweaks, Wi-Fi configuration, audio and video, tracking -current, and getting software from the ports tree. He also goes into a bit of his favored tools and workflow.

hubie writes:Researchers have created a sturdy, lightweight material made from sugar and wood-derived powders that disintegrates on-demand:

upstart writes:The winery's layout and finishes suggest the wine-making was merely a spectacle for ancient Roman elites:

upstart writes:Apple's WaveOne purchase heralds a new era in smart-streaming of AR and video:

upstart writes:Kodiak Robotics will haul freight autonomously for Tyson Foods:

upstart writes:Create an AI agent that works from a set of goals:

upstart writes:A punctured bone fragment predates eyed needles in Western Europe by about 15,000 years:

hubie writes:Ancient protein evidence shows milk consumption was a powerful cultural adaptation that stimulated human expansion onto the highland Tibetan Plateau:

quietus writes:It looks like the Paris Agreement is as dead as the fried chicken at my local deli.At Paris, in 2015, the World agreed to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.The latest report of the EU's Climate Change Service shows (summary pdf) that this target has been royally breached, at least for Europe. Temperatures there, averaged over the last 5 years, have increased by 2.2 degrees celsius.Europe, at least, has a climate change service to measure these things. As for the rest of the world, an extrapolation of the pattern shown in Figure 1c, here, indicates that, there too, demand for swimming pools and flood insurance will grow.To illustrate the complexity of the problem, the heatwave in mid-July of 2022 was caused by hot air from the Sahara moving into Europe, driving temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. By mid-August, a stationary high-pressure system with clear skies and weak winds took hold, and caused a second heatwave, which was made worse due to the soil being dried out by the mid-July event, and no rains since.Events above the Sahara might have come a second time in play, here. Increasing temperatures lead to a stronger evaporation over sea, while the land heats up more. This results in a stronger temperature gradient, which draws rains deeper inland: heavier rainfalls now are reported in the central Sahara, in summer, with formerly dry valleys being put under four meters of water. This causes less Sahara dust in the atmosphere, and hence shields the land less from solar radiation: the EU's report mentions that 2022 surface solar radiation was the highest in a 40 year record, and part of a positive trend.To end with a positive note, the EU ain't doing so bad, compared to Greenland: three different heatwaves in 2022, and an average September temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius higher than normal.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:The Fermi bubbles may have started life as jets of high-energy charged particles:

upstart writes:U.S. government imposes record fine on Seagate for violating sanctions against Seagate:

upstart writes:The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail:

upstart writes:Proposed emissions from a Mississippi Chevron plant could raise locals' cancer risk by 250,000x the acceptable level and a community group is fighting back:

upstart writes:Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs:

upstart writes:The company says it learned much from Terran-1's debut flight and is choosing to go bigger for its successor:

mhajicek writes:Potentially good news for old machinists and over-the-hill heavy metal fans:

upstart writes:Big tech companies were apparently hiring workers to keep them from joining rival firms:

upstart writes:Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart:

upstart writes:The Moon still has much to tell us about the early solar system:

Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023upstart writes:Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023:

upstart writes:A European Chips Act to play catch-up with the US and Asia:

throckmorten writes:GS1, the global standards organisation for barcodes, has started to advertise their Sunrise 2027 program for adding 2D barcodes to products.

upstart writes:Whisper Aero wants to make aviation, and the rest of the world, quieter:

upstart writes:Researchers are warning about a dangerous wave of unwiped, secondhand core-routers:

upstart writes:An old NASA spacecraft will crash to Earth on Wednesday:

Woodherd writes:So it says at The Register.

upstart writes:A new report sees threat actors swarming to digital bazaars to collaborate, buy and sell malware and credentials:

upstart writes:New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company:

upstart writes:SpaceX Starship launch countdown: all of the news on its first test flight:

upstart writes:mjg59 | PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function:Many Linux users rely on LUKS for their disk encryption but perhaps they need to pay a bit more attention to it. If the disk was encrypted more than a few years ago (LUKS Version 1) it appears that it might not be secure enough to withstand a concerted attack. It is time to check whether you are using Version 2, and if not the fix takes a few minutes. [JR]

upstart writes:The proposed legislation also poses 'an unnecessary economic and technological risk to the EU':

upstart writes:Parler's new owner immediately took the social network offline:

upstart writes:The Great Salt Lake is shrinking. What can we do to stop it?:

owl writes:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop

upstart writes:The AI Doomers' Playbook:

hubie writes:Stopping Storms from Creating Dangerous Urban Geysers:

upstart writes:Shooting all-important bytes to a machine 254 million kms away from Earth:

upstart writes:German artist refuses award after his AI image wins prestigious photography prize:

upstart writes:Offensive cyber company QuaDream shutting down amidst spyware accusations:

hubie writes:Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a model that detects workplace stress just by how people type and move their computer mouse:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Yes. Your new car is probably spying on you.

upstart writes:Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer:

Looking ahead to exploring inside some of the other planets and satellites in the solar system, here is a proposal for a multi-jointed snake robot https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65245054 with a video animation available from the BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65245054Here's a snip,

upstart writes:Million-year-old viruses help fight cancer, say scientists:

upstart writes:MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal:

takyon writes:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_orbital_test_flight