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upstart writes:But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible:

hubie writes:Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA:

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/smart-rust-estrogen-pollution-water/Estrogen can harm aquatic plants and animals when passed into waterways via human and agricultural waste streams. Researchers have now developed a new way of removing the hormone from water, however, using what's known as "smart rust."Developed by scientists at Germany's University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, smart rust takes the form of spherical iron oxide (aka rust) nanoparticles that are covered in phosphonic acid molecules. The molecules protrude from the surface of the spheres like hairs. By binding different compounds to the ends of those hairs, it's possible to make them adsorb different types of waterborne pollutants.The iron oxide particles themselves are superparamagnetic, meaning they're attracted to magnets but not to one another. This quality keeps them from clumping together - so they can be thoroughly mixed into tainted water - while also making it possible to subsequently remove them from that water simply by swirling a magnet through the liquid.[...] Due to the fact that estrogen molecules consist of a large steroid body with a slight negative charge, he coated smart rust particles with two types of molecules. One of these has particularly long "hairs," while the other is positively charged. When combined on the surface of the iron oxide spheres, these molecules form multitudes of estrogen-trapping pockets.When tested on water spiked with estradiol, which is the most potent type of estrogen, the new form of smart rust successfully removed the hormone from that water. Further research will now explore how well the technology works in real-world conditions, and how many times the particles can be reused.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Company that makes rent-setting software for landlords sued for collusion:

upstart writes:YouTube tightens thumbscrew to crack down on ad-blockers:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/space/nasa-installs-laser-communication-system-psyche-asteroid-probe/When NASA's Psyche probe launches in October on its mission to a metal asteroid as much as 309 million miles (497 million km) from Earth, it will be carrying a new laser communications system that promises to revolutionize deep space missions.

upstart writes:The data collection feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it during installation:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/08/ongoing-scam-tricks-kids-playing-roblox-and-fortnite/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/08/an-iowa-school-district-is-using-chatgpt-to-decide-which-books-to-ban/

hubie writes:If other visual cues are missing, ants build higher nest hills to facilitate homing of foraging nest mates:

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hubie writes:Particularly if it is an expensive premium product:

looorg writes:To improve productivity in the office MS-Office is getting a new UI ... or well it's getting a new default font and some new colours anyway. No more yellow! How this will improve productivity or make people write or calculate or power-point better is probably unclear, it's probably not even the purpose. This seems like change for the sake of change.Unfortunately they are making the default font a non-serif font again, but they are changing the name cause you can't have a font named "Beer Town" as the default font. Bring back Times New Roman!https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/14/23831190/microsoft-office-new-default-theme-font-release-dateOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 18th, 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 be confirmed pending confirmation of who will be attending. The SoylentNews PBC board has been invited to attend and clarify some things about the transition in structure. We also plan to work on the future bylaws of SoylentNews.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information can be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernancePer usual, the community is encouraged to observe and participate and is hereby invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Gaaark writes:From: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-gun-evidence-gravity-gaia-wide.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/isps-complain-that-listing-every-fee-is-too-hard-urge-fcc-to-scrap-new-rule/

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hubie writes:A unique record of medieval live comedy performance has been identified in a 15th-century manuscript:

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[Note from the Moq Website: Moq (pronounced "Mock-you" or just "Mock") is the only mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET lambda expressions that make it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available. JR]upstart writes:Popular open source project Moq criticized for quietly collecting data:

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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/