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Updated 2025-04-15 19:00
Serious Brain Trauma Starts Well Before Young Athletes Go Pro
janrinok writes:Brain injury from contact sports doesn't just affect professional athletes:
Flashes Of Light In Venusian Atmosphere May Be Meteors, Not Lightning
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Autonomous Truck Platoons Are a Bust, but They Work If You Put Them on Rails
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/this-autonomous-cargo-train-wants-to-fix-the-problem-of-underused-rails/
How China Gets Free Intel on Tech Companies’ Vulnerabilities
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-china-gets-free-intel-on-tech-companies-vulnerabilities/
Potentially The World's Largest Lithium Deposit Has Been Found In The US
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Webb Telescope Detects Some Molecules Associated With Life in Exoplanet Atmosphere
Stories submitted via Arthur T Knackerbracket and by NotSanguine about the exoplanet K2-18 b:James Webb Telescope Detects Further Proof That Distant Exoplanet May Host LifeArthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
Teen's Death After Eating a Single Chip Highlights Risks of Ultra-Spicy Foods
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/teens-death-after-eating-a-single-chip-highlights-risks-of-ultra-spicy-foods/
NCSA Mosaic Launched 30 Years Ago
canopic jug writes:Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first text-only WWW browser. Then in 1991 four Finnish college students wrote the first graphical web browser, Erwise, but let it drop and that was the end of that. Two years later, Eric Bina and Marc Andreessen released NCSA Mosaic and, importantly, published it to an FTP site.
Microsoft Plans To Capture Carbon Using Crushed Limestone
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Subscriptions Drive Views of Extremist Videos on YouTube
upstart writes:Study shows viewership of harmful content concentrated among a small group of users:
Hitting the Books: The Programming Trick That Gave Us DOOM Multiplayer
owl writes:https://www.engadget.com/hitting-the-books-doom-guy-john-romero-abrams-press-143005383.html
US Rejects AI Copyright for Famous State Fair-Winning Midjourney Art
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/us-rejects-ai-copyright-for-famous-state-fair-winning-midjourney-art/
X's and Ads and Moderation
X is Suing California Over Social Media Content Moderation LawArthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:[SEE ALSO: X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes "controversial" content decisions]
OpenAI Admits That AI Writing Detectors Don't Work
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/openai-admits-that-ai-writing-detectors-dont-work/
New Frontier Aerospace Bridges Hypersonic Past And Future
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Left-over Apollo Tech is Causing Moonquakes on the Lunar Surface
upstart writes:Fresh analysis of data from the 1970s has revealed that, when hit by the morning sun each day, the base of the Apollo 17 lander "starts popping off":
Spotify Used to Launder Drug Money?
looorg writes:https://www.thelocal.se/20230906/how-swedish-criminal-gangs-allegedly-launder-money-through-spotifySpotify used to launder drug money?On a series of articles gang members, criminals and investigators from the police tell how Spotify is used to launder drug money.
Cutting Back on Social Media Reduces Anxiety, Depression, Loneliness
hubie writes:Young people are using social media more, and their mental health is suffering:
Judge Issues Legal Permaban, $500K Judgment Against Serial Destiny 2 Cheater
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/judge-issues-legal-permaban-500k-judgment-against-serial-destiny-2-cheater/
NASA's Asteroid Sample is About to Plunge 63K Miles to Earth
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Powerpoint Creator Dennis Austin Dead at 76
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Machine Learning Helps Researchers Identify Hit Songs With 97% Accuracy
hubie writes:Researchers have now applied machine learning (ML) to high-frequency neurophysiologic data to improve hit song prediction accuracy:
TSMC: Shortage Of Nvidia's AI GPUs To Persist For 1.5 Years
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That Essential Morning Coffee May be a Placebo
hubie writes:Scientists testing coffee against plain caffeine found that plain caffeine only partially reproduces the effects of drinking a cup of coffee:
Californians Are Moving Inland for Cheaper Housing, and Finding Extreme Heat Getting Worse
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Here be Aliens!
looorg writes:AARO (All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office) have released a report on the most common UFO observation spots going back 27 years. So what happened 28 years ago?Also there seems to be a band around the earth where they appear to like to visit. Japan, Saudi Arabia, northern Florida, California, Arizona and Nevada.The most common shape are various forms of round shapes such as orbs, spheres and circles.No info on which alien type, what they are doing here or what they like for dinner and entertainment -- but from previous news/stories/eyewitnesses I guess they are into probing and BBQ.https://www.aaro.mil/
NASA Finally Admits What Everyone Already Knows: SLS is Unaffordable, and Starship Update
NASA Finally Admits What Everyone Already Knows: SLS is UnaffordableFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/09/nasa-finally-admits-what-everyone-already-knows-sls-is-unaffordable/
Cryptocurrency Startup Loses Encryption Key for Electronic Wallet
fliptop writes:A buzzy startup offering financial infrastructure to crypto companies has found itself bankrupt primarily because it can't gain access to a physical crypto wallet with $38.9 million in it. The company also did not write down recovery phrases, locking itself out of the wallet forever in something it has called "The Wallet Event" to a bankruptcy judge:
YouTube Under No Obligation to Host Anti-Vaccine Advocate's Videos, Court Says
NotSanguine writes:Ars Technica is reporting on the dismissal of a lawsuit against YouTube by one of its "content creators."From the Ars Technica piece:
AI-Generated Child Sex Imagery Has Every US Attorney General Calling for Action
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-generated-child-sex-imagery-has-every-us-attorney-general-calling-for-action/
Layoffs at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin
DannyB writes:Employees report a rare round of layoffs at Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin space venture
Future Windows Versions Will Disable TLS 1.0 And TLS 1.1 By Default, Microsoft Confirms
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Connected Cars Are a “Privacy Nightmare,” Mozilla Foundation Says
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/connected-cars-are-a-privacy-nightmare-mozilla-foundation-says/
SAG-AFTRA Fears AI Threatens Video Game Workers
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Attackers Access Military Data Through Fencing Supplier Via Windows 7
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Farms That Create Habitat Key to Food Security and Biodiversity
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Gigabyte Motherboard Firmware Update: Saving Your DDR5 RAM From Corruption
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Apple Details Reasons to Abandon CSAM-Scanning Tool, More Controversy Ensues
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/apple-details-reasons-to-abandon-csam-scanning-tool-more-controversy-ensues/
“AI Took My Job, Literally”—Gizmodo Fires Spanish Staff Amid Switch to AI Translator
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-took-my-job-literally-gizmodo-fires-spanish-staff-amid-switch-to-ai-translator/
Study: Microtargeting Works, Just Not the Way People Think
hubie writes:In politics, tailored ads make sense, but with real limits to the tailoring:
With BYOD Comes Responsibility — And Many Firms Aren't Delivering
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Earth's Axis Tilt, Not the Orbit, Made the Late Pleistocene Glaciars Retreat
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US Spy Satellite Agency Isn't So Silent About New "Silent Barker" Mission
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Large Language Models Aren’t People So Let’s Stop Testing Them as If They Were
upstart writes:With hopes and fears about this technology running wild, it's time to agree on what it can and can't do:
Call of Duty Using AI to Listen Out for Hate Speech During Online Matches
upstart writes:The tool, which will monitor voice chat for any bullying and harassment, will be part of Modern Warfare III:
U.S. Bans Sales of Nvidia's H100, A100 GPUs to Middle East
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Right to Repair's Unlikely New Adversary: Scientologists
hubie writes:"A totally unreasonable proposal":
It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
upstart writes:It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine:
Live Worm Found in Australian Woman's Brain in World First
Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-66643241
FBI Hoovering Up DNA at a Pace That Rivals China, Holds 21 Million Samples and Counting
upstart writes:China and the U.S. are collecting the same proportion of their populations' DNA profiles - and the FBI wants to double its budget to get even more:
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