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An Anonymous Coward writes:The Fediverse - including Mastodon, Pixelfed, and others - is experiencing explosive exponential growth with over 700,000 new users, and 100,000,000 posts in January.Pixelfed alone is growing 100k users per WEEK now, has gone 10x in a month.Mastodon servers are welcoming influxes, and new servers are standing up at a rapid pace, with new active daily users up 200k in Jan, about +25%, and posts up by a similar +30% to 16 million/month.Tumblr is planning to federate.Forum software NodeBB has officially launched their 4.0 version, which includes ActivityPub support.https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-101/

upstart writes:US to deploy molten salt reactors to turn wastewater into freshwater:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-does-deepseek-r1-really-fare-against-openais-best-reasoning-models/

upstart writes:Glitch that casts a silence spell on some PCs has no workaround, but Microsoft promises a solution is coming:

A 2015 article in The Atlantic describes the problem of antibiotic resistance and some of its causes (alternative link):

owl writes:http://www.nablaman.com/relay/about.php

canopic jug writes:The site The Nerd Reich has an analysis of the seeming chaos being inflicted upon the US from within at the moment. Specifically, Elon Musk's attempt to destroy the United States government is a methodical execution of the "network state" blueprint, not random chaos.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/how-one-youtuber-is-trying-to-poison-the-ai-bots-stealing-her-content/

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fliptop writes:President Donald Trump said Monday night thatMicrosoft was in contention to buy TikTok, having previously said that he is eager to forge a deal that would "save" the popular video app from a ban:

How Chinese AI Startup DeepSeek Made a Model that Rivals OpenAIhttps://www.wired.com/story/deepseek-china-model-ai/

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upstart writes:Phone Metadata Suddenly Not So 'Harmless' When It's The FBI's Data Being Harvested:

owl writes:https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040409-00/?p=39873

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upstart writes:Brendan Carr dumps plan to ban bulk billing deals that lock renters into one ISP:

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fliptop writes:Chevron, one of the world's largest oil companies, has announced plans to enter the rapidly growing field of artificial intelligence by building natural gas power plants directly connected to data centers:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://tails.net/news/version_6.11/index.en.html

AnonTechie writes:Scale AI and CAIS Unveil Results of Humanity's Last Exam, a Groundbreaking New Benchmark

upstart writes:New research "Computer-Use Agent" AI model can perform multi-step tasks through a web browser:

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fliptop writes:An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said, triggering an investigation by local and NATO maritime forces in the Baltic Sea:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/28/1110613/mice-with-two-dads-crispr/Mice with two dads have been created using CRISPR

upstart writes:Physicist used interaction graphs to show how pieces attack and defend to analyze 20,000 top matches:

upstart writes:Now-fixed web bugs allowed hackers to remotely unlock and start any of millions of Subarus. More disturbingly, they could also access at least a year of cars' location histories-and Subaru employees still can:

Facebook's Internal Policy Makers Decided That Linux is MalwareAn Anonymous Coward writes:https://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20250127#sitenews

upstart writes:Backdoor infecting VPNs used "magic packets" for stealth and security:

Motor Trend reports on FSD in their long term test 2023 Model Y, https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2024-tesla-model-y-long-range-yearlong-review-update-9-full-self-driving-fsd-version-13/ They weren't too impressed with the first software version that came with the car,

fliptop writes:Technology is advancing at an exponential rate, but we have very little ability to control it if something goes horribly wrong. Many experts are warning that some of the new technologies that are being developed right now represent very serious existential threats to humanity. In other words, they believe that we could literally be creating technology that could wipe us out someday. Unfortunately, the scientific community is not showing any restraint at all. If something is possible, they want to try to do it. All over the globe, hordes of mad scientists are feverishly rushing into the unknown, and it is quite likely that the consequences will be horrific. The following are 5 super creepy new technologies that should chill all of us to the core:

owl writes:https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/surviving-hollywood-industry-shifts-tv-writer-1236104216/

owl writes:https://www.downtowndougbrown.com/2025/01/the-invalid-68030-instruction-that-accidentally-allowed-the-mac-classic-ii-to-successfully-boot-up/

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canopic jug writes:The Association for Computing Machinery has a post by George Neville-Neil of FreeBSD fame comparing LLMs to drunken plagiarists:

upstart writes:Schools are now notifying families their data has been stolen:

upstart writes:A specialized system sends pulses of pressure through the fluids in our brain:

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taylorvich writes:https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mysterious-blobs-found-in-cells-are-rewriting-how-life-works/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/01/florida-man-eats-diet-of-butter-cheese-beef-cholesterol-oozes-from-his-body/

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owl writes:https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cars/features/touchscreen-dashboards-have-taken-over/

upstart writes:Wiki-style guide compiles all the pieces and potential of a rack you can carry:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/01/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027/

chucky writes:Elon should watch where he leaves his car.https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.