Greetings, Soylentils!I am told by those who know, that 75% of the posters here are still from theoriginal group of people that formed the community when we left Slashdot andcreated Soylent News. So some of you may remember me (Audioguy, #25) from thattime.Newer people may not know me, as I tend to be pretty quiet most of the time.Mostly I just read the news articles, and quietly do bits of sysadmin work inthe background to keep the site up.Only when I feel the core values of our community project are in danger, or itsvery existence is threatened, do I come out very publicly, and at such times Ican be QUITE vocal.Now is such a time.I am about to do something which would not only have been uncontroversial, butnormal here until the last six months. In the present climate it will probablypiss a few people off.I am going to update the community on exactly what has been going on behind thescenes here.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes:Ironically, despite America's Cold War fears of being nuked by the Soviet Union, the only government that ever nuked us (and nuked us quite a bit) was our own:
sonamchauhan writes:A paper uploaded to the Arxiv preprint repository claims South Korean scientists have created the world's first room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor. The superconducting material, dubbed 'LK-99', is synthesized in a fairly simple manner from lead-apatite. As yet, there seems to be no independent verification of the claims of their paper.See also:
liar and Isia wrote in with the same story:Companies are willing to make their products less reliable, less attractive, less safe and less resilient in pursuit of rents.
upstart writes:AMD is considering broadening chip production suppliers as it believes it is too reliant on semiconductor giant TSMC and this places the supply chain at risk of disruption:
upstart writes:From package signing to SBOMs to new developer toolchains, the pieces for securing the software supply chain are starting to come together:
I wanted to post a reminder to the community that the SoylentNews PBC has it's upcoming meeting at the end of July on the 31st ( specific time tbd ). I believe that this event is the continuation and result of a very hard push by myself and others to bring about necessary changes to the management and structure of SoylentNews.The upcoming meeting will be to nominate one or more qualified candidates to serve on the Board. The PBC exists to define what and how SoylentNews will be and to enforce that vision. Ultimately the Board is responsible for the high-level oversight that ensures the bylaws are fulfilled. The purpose of the expansion is to include more voices from the community so they will be directly represented in the decision making effecting the community. The next meeting will be held over IRC and will be answering and addressing your questions and concerns from any of the comments posted in this article.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
upstart writes:Amazon is asking some employees to move closer to its Seattle headquarters and other hubs around the country, as part of its requirement for corporate and tech workers to be in the office three days a week:
hubie writes:If you aren't familiar with the experiment where you try to count the number of times a basketball is passed between people, you should watch the video and try the experiment first before reading on.Research Reveals We Can Spot the Unexpected Better than Commonly Believed:
The Aptera streamlined car project has been on and off for something like 10(?) years now, including a bankruptcy and reorg. They just released this statement on some wind tunnel testing, so it does seem like there is at least a little bit of life in the company.From the link: