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owl writes:They can't even follow their own rules:https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/eu-court-fines-european-commission-for-breaching-its-own-data-privacy-laws/

Motor Trend is reporting on early production of a new permanent magnet material https://www.motortrend.com/features/niron-magnetics-clean-earth-permanent-magnets-ces-2025/ suitable for replacing the rare-earth magnets used, for example, in electric car motors, as well as loud speakers and many other products.Invented some time back by university researchers and now in the pilot production stage (with suitably large investors like car companies),

fliptop writes:Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:

taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-mediterranean-diet-linked-memory-gut.html

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fliptop writes:Lukasz Olejnik opines:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-pollution-widespread-iq-declines-ancient.html

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mrpg writes:https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-22/hybrid-work-a-cause-of-techno-stress-you-have-to-be-there-all-the-time.html#?rel=mas

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Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024hubie writes:EV Sales, Including Hybrids, Surge for Auto Giants Not Named Tesla:

owl writes:https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html

fliptop writes:The incident exposes the growing vulnerabilities tied to digital ID systems and mandatory KYC (know your customer) data collection:

hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:

hubie writes:Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded:

upstart writes:The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch were two devices owned by the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit:

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upstart writes:Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/indent-data-storage/

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ElizabethGreene writes:Eric Raymond has a lovely essay here: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ that describes some non-intuitive behavior in how compilers assemble structures in memory. The default is to pad structures out with empty bytes to align data types around arbitrary byte boundaries for similarly non-intuitive reasons.If you don't immediately understand why this struct is 12 or 16 bytes long, it's worth reading.struct Foo {

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looorg writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminalsThese things pop up every now and then. The last one I recall now was some car-autorepair-shop in Poland that still used one for some function.

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upstart [soylentnews.org] writes:Autism Prevalence Reaches 61.8 Million Globally, Study Shows:[Editor's Note - See disclosure that several authors have ties the to pharmaceutical industry--JR]

owl writes:https://github.com/kokx/duco-analysis

looorg writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rqlejlxg4o

fliptop writes:Chinese crime rings already dominate the illegal marijuana trade in the U.S. and launder cocaine and heroin profits. Now a federal task force is investigating their role in a burgeoning form of gift card fraud:

upstart writes:A review of 3,000 studies indicates that these microscopic plastic particles in the air could be contributing to male and female infertility:

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upstart writes:U.S. Army Soldier Arrested in AT&T, Verizon Extortions:

canopic jug writes:The videos are online from the 38 Chaos Communication Congress (38C3). It took place in Hamburg, from Friday the 27 through Monday the 30 2024. The conference is organized every year by the Chaos Computer Club e. V. (CCC) which is Europe's largest association of hackers. The CCC also organizes campaigns, events, lobbying, publications, anonymizing services, communication infrastructure and even hackerspaces.The Congress is always interesting, so picking semi-randomly from the English subset of talks at the 38C3 highlights include:

New Orleans attacker did not act alone, FBI believes

upstart writes:Crypto fugitive Do Kwon extradited to US over $40bn crash:

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upstart writes:A 9th telecoms firm has been hit by a massive Chinese espionage campaign, the White House says:

upstart writes:Hallucinogens approved for treating psychiatric disorders: What does the science say?:

China wants to restore the sea with high-tech marine ranches:

upstart writes:Bluesky has seen its user base soar since the U.S. presidential election:

upstart writes:A public health emergency is waiting at the bottom of the antibiotic resistance cliff:

fliptop writes:Is 'health monitoring' really worth exposure to hormone-disrupting 'forever chemicals' and constant data mining?

upstart writes:The research demonstrated that participants could detect faces quicker under surveillance without being consciously aware of this enhanced perception:

As Kiribati (and in particular the island of Kiritimati) is now beginning 2025 I think that this is as good a time as any to wish everyone a very Happy New Yearand all the very Best Wishes for 2025.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:The hype is fading, and people are asking what generative artificial intelligence is really good for. So far, no one has a decent answer: