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upstart writes:NASA posts high resolution images of Orion's final lunar flyby:

upstart writes:Astronomers Shocked By Powerful Gamma-Ray Burst From Colliding Neutron Stars - ExtremeTech:

fliptop writes:The cryptographic key proves an update is legit, assuming your OEM doesn't lose it:

upstart writes in with two story links for this topic:Stimulating the vagus nerve may reduce symptoms of multiple sclerosis and

upstart writes:"Social media is the pre-1964 cigarette," the author of the bill has said:

upstart writes:Signal is secure, as proven by hackers:

fliptop writes:Electronic computing and communications have advanced significantly since the days of radio telegraphy and vacuum tubes. In fact, consumer devices now contain levels of processing power and memory that would be unimaginable just a few decades ago.But as computing and information processing microdevices get ever smaller and more powerful, they are running into some fundamental limits imposed by the laws of quantum physics. Because of this, the future of the field may lie in photonics—the light-based parallel to electronics:

upstart writes:Ecommerce group commits to increasing visibility of rivals' products:

upstart writes:Uber Launches Robotaxi Service in Las Vegas:

upstart writes:The board found numerous flaws in Facebook's moderation rules for celebs and and VIPs :

upstart writes:The countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, Sweden, and the UK:

Thexalon writes:The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it intends to sue to block Microsoft from acquiring Activision. Regulators are making the argument that Microsoft is doing this to use its control of game catalogs to make more and more games exclusive to the XBox in an effort to gain market share from its competitors, which is a violation of anti-trust law.

hubie writes:It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel:

upstart writes:Satellite Pic Shows Saudi's Sci-Fi Megacity Is Actually Being Built:Saudi Arabia says The Line will be completed in 2030, though construction began this autumn.

upstart writes:The US Finally Has A Chance For A Federal Privacy Law. It Should Take It:

upstart writes:Squad says in sunny climes like Las Vegas you may never need to charge it:

canopic jug writes:OpenBSD developer, Florian Obser, has written about fuzzing ping(8) and finding a 24 year old bug. The utility ping(8) is about the simplest networking utility there is and it has been around in one for or another since the early 1980s. Yet some things were hiding which were exposed by running the Afl fuzzer:

upstart writes:NASA's Orion spacecraft is about to face its final test:

upstart writes:Nautilus to bring floating datacenters to two new sites:

upstart writes:FCC Orders Telecoms to Block Asshole Scammers Targeting Student Loan Forgiveness Seekers:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/12/adobe-stock-begins-selling-ai-generated-artwork/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/fifty-years-later-remastered-images-reveal-apollo-17-in-stunning-clarity/

upstart writes:UK set to mandate right to request flexible work from first day on the job:

upstart writes:China Relents, Lets U.S. Export Control Inspect 3D NAND Maker YMTC:

upstart writes:Syntax errors are the doom of us all, including botnet authors:

San Francisco Decides Killer Police Robots Aren't Such a Great Ideaupstart writes:San Francisco decides killer police robots aren't such a great idea:

upstart writes:The cryptic game's new interface welcomes newcomers but preserves the chaos:

upstart writes:The unnamed vehicle will have a plug for charging so you don't have to rely on hydrogen so much:

Enormous Mantle Plume Reveals Mars is Still Geologically Activeupstart writes:Enormous Mantle Plume Reveals Mars Is Still Geologically Active - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Several rooms in the office have been converted into small sleeping quarters:

fliptop writes:As the OpenAI's newly unveiled ChatGPT machinery turns into a viral sensation, humans have started to discover some of the AI's biases, like the desire to wipe out humanity:

upstart writes:A new report finds that foreign cybercriminals were among those who exploited America's dysfunctional benefits programs:

upstart writes:Rules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink:

NotSanguine writes:Business Insider is reporting on Amazon's new "Ad Verification Program".

canopic jug writes:Software engineer, Dave DeLong, has written an 18-part series on building an HTTP framework in Swift. Apple's Swift programming language is a general-purpose, open source, compiled programming language intended to replace Objective-C. It is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. In his series, Dave covers an Intro to HTTP, Basic Structures, Request Bodies, Loading Requests, Testing and Mocking, Chaining Loaders, Dynamically Modifying Requests, Request Options, Resetting, Cancellation, Throttling, Retrying, Basic Authentication, OAuth Setup, OAuth, and Composite Loaders.

upstart writes:In October, the university quietly introduced heat sensors under desk without notifying students or seeking their consent:

fliptop writes:A boost from magnetism is nearly enough to achieve fusion ignition:

upstart writes:Air passengers will soon no longer have to put their phones on airplane mode in the EU:

Freeman writes:Denver Police Department vows to train officers on how "Find My" app works:

fliptop writes:Amazon.com has long been the main go-to place for online product search, but a recent Washington Post article finds that it is no longer giving customers what they want because advertisements are muscling out the real search results:

upstart writes:Biometrics are supposed to be a fundamental pillar of modern authentication:

upstart writes:The Square Kilometer Array will help study dark energy and the early universe:

upstart writes:The deadline was initially set for 2008 but has faced numerous delays:

upstart writes:Many admitted to piracy, trolling, and inciting violence:

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canopic jug writes:Several overseas sites are reporting on the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) which has been wending its way through US congress. It has now been attached to the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act as a rider, thus bypassing an actual democratic process. There has been precious little coverage domestically and one of the few to domestic sites to cover it, Techdirt, is where Mike Masnick asks directly, whether it is possible to get fair coverage of the link tax bill if the organizations covering it are the main beneficiaries?

upstart writes:Google is testing end-to-end encryption for group chats in the Messages app:

upstart writes:The state's governor is mulling the most expensive EV registration cost in the U.S. to help support a new highway expansion plan:

upstart writes:Pepsi will be the first customer to receive the electrified cargo transports:

upstart writes:Fosshost.org to be considered end-of-lifed.: