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upstart writes:Private jet owners have long waited for their flight information to be unavailable to the public, and Congress might grant them that:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/biology/plant-persephacin-fungal-pathogens/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/homeland-security-details-how-teen-hackers-breached-some-of-the-biggest-targets/

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owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2023/08/intel-8086-bus-hold.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/how-an-unpatched-microsoft-exchange-0-day-likely-caused-one-of-the-uks-biggest-hacks-ever/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/russia-heads-back-to-the-moon-with-luna-25/

fliptop writes:Experts closing in on potentially identifying new force after surprise wobble of subatomic particle:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-two-thirds-world-biodiversity-soil.html

upstart writes:Regulators give green light to driverless taxis in San Francisco:

fab23 writes:https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/08/11/x-marks-the-verb

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/08/getting-aaa-games-working-in-linux-sometimes-requires-concealing-your-gpu/

canopic jug writes:The site It's FOSS is reporting that India's Defense Services are switching to GNU/Linux, ditching an insecure legacy operating system, with an August 15 deadline. Little is known about their home spun distro except that it seems to be based on Ubuntu.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/scam-victim-cant-stop-endless-stream-of-unwanted-amazon-packages/

looorg writes:Other peoples code might look good at a glance but is wrong at least half the time. AI or help sites don't offer as much help as one would think."Among other findings, the authors found ChatGPT is more likely to make conceptual errors than factual ones. "Many answers are incorrect due to ChatGPT's incapability to understand the underlying context of the question being asked," the paper found."""Stack Overflow's annual Developer Survey of 90,000 coders recently found that 77 percent of developers are favorable of AI tools, but only 42 percent trust the accuracy of those tools. OverflowAI developed with community at the core and with a focus on the accuracy of data and AI-generated content."https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/07/chatgpt_stack_overflow_ai/

PiMuNu writes:Fermilab's g-2 experiment has released a new round of data. Physicists now have a brand-new measurement of a property of the muon called the anomalous magnetic moment that improves the precision of their previous result by a factor of 2. The result is in tension with Standard Model predictions.An international collaboration of scientists working on the Muon g-2 experiment at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the much-anticipated updated measurement on Aug. 10. This new value bolsters the first result they announced in April 2021 and sets up a showdown between theory and experiment over 20 years in the making."We're really probing new territory. We're determining the muon magnetic moment at a better precision than it has ever been seen before," said Brendan Casey, a senior scientist at Fermilab who has worked on the Muon g-2 experiment since 2008.Press release:

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fliptop writes:A team of researchers from British universities has trained a deep learning model that can steal data from keyboard keystrokes recorded using a microphone with an accuracy of 95%:

evilcam writes:Science Alert has a story on a paper suggesting the use of asteroids for space stations.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/08/after-a-scare-nasas-mars-helicopter-safely-takes-to-the-skies-again/

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There's a transition in car computing hardware from roughly 100 little modules all over the car, each with a tiny amount of computing, to, "domain controllers" that each manage a lot of I/O using more powerful computing. MotorTrend gives an overview here, https://www.motortrend.com/features/software-defined-vehicle-hardware-domain-controllerA few of the dozen or so domains include:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/08/lots-of-earth-mass-rogue-planets-could-be-found-by-nasas-roman-telescope/

owl writes:https://chipsandcheese.com/2023/08/04/sandy-bridge-setting-intels-modern-foundation/

fab23 writes:https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/08/microsoft-signing-key-stolen-by-chinese.html

upstart writes:NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 after 'interstellar shout':

mrpg writes:Pirates hack superyachts' cybersecurity

upstart writes:The Most Popular Meteor Shower Of The Year Peaks Next Week:

owl writes:https://computer.rip/2023-08-07-STIRred-AND-SHAKEN.html

Frosty Piss writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi-4bs-inside-spin-scootersWhen things don't work out for scooter rental companies and they shut down or pull out of a city, they usually take spare stock with them. However, when Spin backed out of Seattle, many locals discovered unused scooters scattered throughout the city. Upon closer inspection of these abandoned devices, or should we say dissection, it was uncovered that they each have a Raspberry Pi 4B inside.This discovery was recently shared on social media. Legally, if the scooters are abandoned then snagging one for the Pi inside is fair game but it's not clear if Spin has plans to recover their remaining assets.The Seattle city government official website confirm that Spin originally arrived in 2021 as a fourth scooter rental option. However, the company did not renew its license for the most recent cycle. Because of this, you can find a few remaining Spin scooters around the city.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:An 800-Year-Old Math Trick Could Be The Key to Navigating The Moon:

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upstart writes:The creator of Vim, Bram Moolenaar, has passed away.Message from the family of Bram Moolenaar:

In 1965, Popular Hot Rodding magazine bought a $250 '57 Chevy for a test bed, to try out various drag racing parts and tuning techniques. It was called Project X back then, here's a capsule history, https://www.motortrend.com/features/57-chevy-project-x-history/

upstart writes:Dubai dawns a new wave of renewable technology with its MBR Solar Park:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-china-human-lineage.htmlA team of paleontologists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, working with colleagues from Xi'an Jiaotong University, the University of York, the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the National Research Center on Human Evolution, has found evidence of a previously unknown human lineage. In their study, reported in Journal of Human Evolution, the group analyzed the fossilized jawbone, partial skull and some leg bones of a hominin dated to 300,000 years ago.The fossils were excavated at a site in Hualongdong, in what is now a part of East China. They were subsequently subjected to both a morphological and a geometric assessment, with the initial focus on the jawbone, which exhibited unique features-a triangular lower edge and a unique bend.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be this coming Friday, August 11th, 2023 at 20:30 UTC (1:30pm PDT, 4:30pm EDT) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when available.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will come out within the next few days, 24 hours or more before the meeting. The agenda is expected to cover, at a minimum, actions arising from the previous meeting, such as exploring the formation of a new entity, and janrinok's report on management structure.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information can be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceCall for experts: The committee is calling for experts with relevant knowledge of entity formation to attend the meeting. Their advice may be helpful to the committee and the greater community going forward and would be greatly appreciated.As always, the community is welcome to observe and participate and is hereby invited to come and do both. SoylentNews is People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:AI-powered brain implants restore touch and movement to paralysed man:

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upstart writes:Standing 40 cm high and 70 cm wide, the semi-transparent display has translations pop up simultaneously on the screen as the station staff and a foreign tourist speak:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/08/musks-boring-company-gets-ok-to-dig-68-miles-of-tunnels-under-las-vegas/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/