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upstart writes:While app development is faster and easier, security is still a concern:

upstart writes:NASA Confirms 1,000-Pound Meteorite Landed in Texas:Those who saw the meteoroid fly across the sky on Wednesday thought they saw a shooting star—until they lost sight of the fireball and felt its impact as it struck Earth. Home security footage from residents west of McAllen, Texas, shows the meteorite's impact shaking the ground, causing wildlife to flee and homes to shiver. Those who felt and heard the collision didn't know what to make of it, and with so-called "spy balloons" and UFO conspiracies in the news cycle at the time, their best guesses were unsettling. Thankfully, NASA's Johnson Space Center has since confirmed that the boom was caused by a meteorite, which struck Earth just north of Texas' border with Mexico.NASA's Meteor Watch shared the agency's statement on Facebook. The meteorite is believed to have been about two feet wide and 1,000 pounds before it entered Earth's atmosphere at approximately 27,000 miles per hour. Atmospheric entry broke the meteorite into at least a few different fragments. American Meteor Society member and tireless fragment collector Robert Ward found the first of these pieces Saturday on private property in El Sauz, a tiny farm town an hour from McAllen's city center.Meteorites themselves aren't uncommon, but impacts like this one are. Most rocky space masses burn up upon atmospheric entry, leaving only dusty particles in their wake. NASA says that car-sized asteroids strike Earth's atmosphere about once a year, creating a generous fireball and turning to dust before impacting the ground. Now and then, however, larger masses survive their passage through Earth's atmosphere. The consequences of such survival can be catastrophic.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:The Navy is embracing autonomous vessels:

upstart writes:So-called "quiet quitting" could decrease if companies move to a four-day workweek:

upstart writes:Another Person Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant:

upstart writes:Raspberry Pi gets a dedicated Debug Probe that has more uses, too:

upstart writes:"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation":

upstart writes:Subsurface tactile tomography can detect details beneath a material's surface:

upstart writes:NASA's NuSTAR Observatory Pinpoints Hottest Spots on the Sun:

upstart writes:Suggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry:

upstart writes:Researchers disagree on how to define burnout. Helping people cope at work still matters:

upstart writes:It's unclear if the two lawmakers know what messenger RNA is exactly:

upstart writes:A touchscreen that's always clean:

The Supreme Court Battle for Section 230 Has Begunupstart writes:The future of recommendation algorithms could be at stake:The first shots have been fired in a Supreme Court showdown over web platforms, terrorism, and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzales v. Google — one of two lawsuits that are likely to shape the future of the internet.Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh are a pair of lawsuits blaming platforms for facilitating Islamic State attacks. The court's final ruling on these cases will determine web services' liability for hosting illegal activity, particularly if they promote it with algorithmic recommendations.The Supreme Court took up both cases in October: one at the request of a family that's suing Google and the other as a preemptive defense filed by Twitter. They're two of the latest in a long string of suits alleging that websites are legally responsible for failing to remove terrorist propaganda. The vast majority of these suits have failed, often thanks to Section 230, which shields companies from liability for hosting illegal content. But the two petitions respond to a more mixed 2021 opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which threw out two terrorism-related suits but allowed a third to proceed.Gonzalez v. Google claims Google knowingly hosted Islamic State propaganda that allegedly led to a 2015 attack in Paris, thus providing material support to an illegal terrorist group. But while the case is nominally about terrorist content, its core question is whether amplifying an illegal post makes companies responsible for it. In addition to simply not banning Islamic State videos, the plaintiffs — the estate of a woman who died in the attack — say that YouTube recommended these videos automatically to others, spreading them across the platform.Google has asserted that it's protected by Section 230, but the plaintiffs argue that the law's boundaries are undecided. "[Section 230] does not contain specific language regarding recommendations, and does not provide a distinct legal standard governing recommendations," they said in yesterday's legal filing. They're asking the Supreme Court to find that some recommendation systems are a kind of direct publication — as well as some pieces of metadata, including hyperlinks generated for an uploaded video and notifications alerting people to that video. By extension, they hope that could make services liable for promoting it.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the "robot" that was churning out writing assignments:

upstart writes:Rather than match iOS's tracking limits, Google built an additional tracking system:

upstart writes:Leaving a trail of stars and excited gas after its passage:

upstart writes:Competitor markets working to replace Hydra's money-laundering services for cybercriminals:

upstart writes:The change comes after early beta testers of the chatbot found that it could go off the rails and discuss violence, declare love, and insist that it was right when it was wrong:

hubie writes:New study suggests Mayas utilized market-based economics:

upstart writes:Majority of Ransomware Attacks Last Year Exploited Old Bugs:

canopic jug writes:OpenBSD developer, Florian Obser, has written a detailed post on privilege drop, privilege separation, and restricted-service operating mode in OpenBSD. The BSD-derived operating project, OpenBSD, has been at the forefront of mitigation techniques, for decades now. Florian discusses what OpenBSD has now, and how it got there and provides examples.

upstart writes:A court put strict limits on pulling innocent bystanders into big data investigations:

hubie writes:Mounting evidence suggests that prolonged sitting—a staple of modern-day life—is hazardous to your health:

upstart writes:Changes in pH make the protein open and close in different environments:

upstart writes:For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Switchzilla hardware and software need attention, unless you fancy arbitrary remote code execution:

upstart writes:The capital injection is part of the $40 billion investment announced in December:

upstart writes:Oh, Good: A Flying Robotic SPIDAR:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Australian science people and a bunch of teachers have discovered three new spider species in a remote alpine region. Given Australia has so many spiders, and indeed other deadly creatures, it is a wonder they look for more. One of the new spiders discovered is a 'jumping spider' that 'looks like a "liquorice-all-sort" and is a "ferocious hunter" that camouflages as a tree branch'. In typical Australian style, another looks like an eight eyed puppy. No, really.

owl writes:Somewhat related to a recent journal article, this comes across the WSJ:WSJ direct linkArchive line to above WSJ article

upstart writes:House Judiciary subpoenas Tim Cook & rest of big tech about alleged collusion:

upstart writes:Biden announced new rules today to standardize America's EV-charging experience:

upstart writes:Thirteen thousand members of the United States Army were reportedly caught up in a Reply-All email storm in early February:

Motor Trend and probably many other sources report on the recall of all Teslas with FSD, https://www.motortrend.com/news/tesla-admits-full-self-driving-crashes-recalls-360000-cars/

upstart writes:Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Soft Freeze:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-prove-that-there-is-no-second-law-of-entanglement/

quietus writes:It is now legal to hack into any company or government institution in Belgium, but only under certain circumstances.That's the result of a new law on whistleblower protection that came into effect on February 15. Under the law, any citizen with the Belgian nationality is allowed to breach networks of Belgian legal entities without any previous notification or consent, provided he/she describes and reports the breach to the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium within 72 hours, and does not request a reward for it.

takyon writes:Responsible use of AI in the military? US publishes declaration outlining principles

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/02/app-founder-quits-google-says-company-doesnt-serve-users-anymore/

upstart writes:Hubble is investigating mysterious spokes in Saturn's rings:

upstart writes:AI automation throughout the drug development pipeline is opening up the possibility of faster, cheaper pharmaceuticals:

Freeman writes:Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY's hedged repair bill

hubie writes:Documents show internal predictions were as good as contemporary science but executives publicly downplayed their significance:

upstart writes:Ransomware Attack Pushes City of Oakland Into State of Emergency:

upstart writes:Senators Are Hopping Mad and Demanding Answers for the Crypto Collapse:

hubie writes:Trees' tolerance, watered down:

upstart writes:A Huge Lithium Discovery Just Changed The Stakes In EV Production - SlashGear:

upstart writes:Professional and small-time broadcasters reported receiving malicious videos doxxing them in their own voice:

upstart writes:The US Federal Trade Commission wants to ban non-compete agreements: