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upstart writes:A tale involving deepfakes, politics, and a magician:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/09/ai-defeats-traffic-image-captcha-in-another-triumph-of-machine-over-man/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/09/microsoft-details-security-privacy-overhaul-for-windows-recall-ahead-of-relaunch/

canopic jug writes:The Register is reporting that the US Army has ordered a new round of wheeled, equipment hauling robots.

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YouTube Blocks Videos From Adele, Green Day, Bob Dylan, Others in Dispute With SESACupstart writes:YouTube blocks videos from Adele, Green Day, Bob Dylan, others in dispute with SESAC:

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canopic jug writes:Several sites, including OS Technix, are reporting that Arch will be collaborating with Valve. A heavily modified in-house Arch distro is used by Valve for SteamOS.

fliptop writes:Last week, the House approved a resolution to block the Biden administration's emissions rule that would require more than half of the automobiles sold in the new-car market to be electric by 2032. The 215 representatives who voted for the bill, including eight Democrats, are far more in tune with most of the country than the White House:

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SpaceX Launches Mission to Bring Boeing Starliner Crew Homeupstart writes:SpaceX launched its mission tasked with bringing back two Boeing Starliner astronauts from the International Space Station:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/ai-superintelligence-looms-in-sam-altmans-new-essay-on-the-intelligence-age/

upstart writes:Just in time for spooky season:

Motor Trend is running a piece on the systems in the recently released Mercedes-Benz "Drive Pilot 95", https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/mercedes-benz-drive-pilot-95-first-drive-reviewHere are a few of the details I found interesting:

owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2024/09/ramtron-ferroelectric-fram-die.html

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fliptop writes:Investors sold after the investment bank's analysts warned about what they called the 'China butterfly effect':

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looorg writes:There is a fair, and long running, amount of research for that playing Tetris helps people deal with trauma, PTSD of some kind. Adding some more recent research then where it can reduce PTSD symptoms in healthcare workers (nurses) that worked with trauma COVID19 patients.Playing something such as Tetris (it's a bit unclear if it's just Tetris or a similar style of games of which Tetris is the prime example) can induce some relaxing zen like state or a "cognitive vaccine". 20 minutes is apparently the prescribed dosage of rotational healing experience. There was the 15 minutes of talking to before playing Tetris. But clearly the healing power of Tetris at work ...

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oaklandwatch writes:A senior RedMonk analyst tried to prove shifting to proprietary licenses *doesn't* improve financial outcomes. But what's interesting is the reactions she got -- from a VC at OSS Capital, ex-Googlers, Chef's co-founder, and even Taylor Dolezal, head of ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Community. Plus analyst Lawrence Hecht, who concluded "these companies are nowhere closer to being profitable than before."There's new quotes from the analyst herself. ("I asked Stephens if she thought the analysis would have an impact in the future on companies considering moves to proprietary licensing. 'I doubt it,' Stephens replied...") And Hecht pounds away at the missteps. ("The assumption has been that closing a company's license will allow the companies to increase their margins among their existing customers... The percentage of companies using a given technology is not changing... Elasticsearch fell from 14% to 13%..")Interestingly, the study hits right as Elastic is switching *back* to an open-source license. They weigh in in this article too...It's the discussion about open source licensing that really needed to happen.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-plans-tectonic-shift-from-nonprofit-to-for-profit-giving-altman-equity/

DannyB writes:Linux boots in 4.76 days on the Intel 4004Historic 4-bit microprocessor from 1971 can execute Linux commands over days or weeks.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/false-memories-planted-in-chatgpt-give-hacker-persistent-exfiltration-channel/

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owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/nist-proposes-barring-some-of-the-most-nonsensical-password-rules/

DrkShadow writes:(Source: A Register article mentioned the new XEON having "MRDIMM" capability. "What is MRDIMM?")Keeping up with the latest in hardware is hard, and in the early turn of the century there was a new technology in every magazine on the rack.Today, we've hit some fatigue and just don't keep up as much. Right? :-) Anyway, while most of us have heard of Dell's (and Lenovo's) proposal for CAMM modules to replace the multi-stick SO-DIMM sockets, servers are getting a new standard, too: M(C)RDIMMs -- Multiplexed (Combined) Rank Dual Inline Memory Modules.Some outtakes from product briefs, such as Micron's,

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fliptop writes:VW is considering axing as many as 30,000 jobs as it scrambles to save billions of euros amid a slowdown in the car market, German media has reported:

owl writes:https://martypc.blogspot.com/2024/09/pc-floppy-copy-protection-electronic.html

upstart writes:WHOIS data is unreliable. So why is it used in TLS certificate applications?:

day of the dalek writes:We are just a few weeks away from the general election in the United States and many publications provide daily updates to election forecasts. One of the most well-known forecasting systems was developed by Nate Silver, originally for the website FiveThirtyEight. Although Silver's model is quite sophisticated and incorporates a considerable amount of data beyond polls, other sites like RealClearPolitics just use a simple average of recent polls. Does all of the complexity of models like Silver's actually improve forecasts, and can we demonstrate that they're superior to a simple average of polls?Pre-election polls are a bit like a science project that uses a lot of sensors to measure the state of a single system. There's a delay between the time a sensor is polled for data and when it returns a result, so the project uses many sensors to get more frequent updates. However, the electronics shop had a limited quantity of the highest quality sensor, so a lot of other sensors were used that have a larger bias, less accuracy, or use different methods to measure the same quantity. The science project incorporates the noisy data from the heterogeneous sensors to try to produce the most accurate estimate of the state of the system.Polls are similar to my noisy sensor analogy in that each poll has its own unique methodology, has a different margin of error related to sample size, and may have what Silver calls "house effects" that may result in a tendency for results from polling firms to favor some candidates or political parties. Some of the more complex election forecasting systems like Silver's model attempt to correct for the bias and give more weight to polls with methodologies that are considered to have better polling practices and that use larger sample sizes.The purpose of the election forecasts is not to take a snapshot of the race at a particular point in time, but instead to forecast the results on election day. For example, after a political party officially selects its presidential candidate at the party's convention, the candidate tends to receive a temporary boost in the polls, which is known as a "post-convention bounce". Although this effect is well-documented through many election cycles, it is temporary, and polls taken during this period tend to overestimate the actual support the candidate will receive on election day. Many forecast models try to adjust for this bias when incorporating polls taken shortly after the convention.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/09/nintendo-the-pokemon-company-sue-palworld-maker-pocketpair/

fliptop writes:"The government's malware disabling commands, which interacted with the malware's native functionality, were extensively tested prior to the operation," according to the DOJ:

upstart writes:Starlink imposes $100 "congestion charge" on new users in parts of US:

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upstart writes:The Arc browser that lets you customize websites had a serious vulnerability: