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kreuzfeld writes:Help please: here in Lawrence, Kansas the public school district has recently started using Gaggle," a system for monitoring all digital documents and communications created by students on school-provided devices. Unsurprisingly, the system inundates employees with false 'alerts' but the district nonetheless hails this pervasive, dystopic surveillance system as a great success. What useful advice can readers here offer re. successful methods to get public officials to backtrack from a policy so corrosive to liberty, trust, and digital freedoms?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:I came across an interesting blog post that suggests the Web is splitting into two with an offshoot made up of a commercial dystopia that is increasingly viewed as the "normal web," leaving an insurmountable chasm developing between the two. Regular readers of SN will appreciate the points made, but do you agree with them, particularly where you'll eventually need to pick one side or the other?https://ploum.net/2023-08-01-splitting-the-web.html

hubie writes:Mathematicians have found a new way to impose order on chaos in the form of an answer to a challenge which has puzzled them for nearly a century:

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janrinok writes:Internet of Things security remains sketchy at best:

canopic jug writes:The region of the Reykjanes Peninsula north of the town Grindavik in Iceland remains closed due to a now active volcanic eruption. Below are two video links.

mrpg writes:https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/13/23999848/tesla-sweden-union-autoworkers-transport-trash-waste-pickup

canopic jug writes:Google is announcing the end of support for its Usenet client and servers in February 2024. This is a significant turning point because Usenet predates the Internet. Much of the Internet and, later, the WWW, was designed and built around Usenet discussions. That includes Linus Torvalds' now famous announcement about his then hobby, which he asserted at the time would not be big and professional like GNU:

canopic jug writes:The US Department of Defense has published a report entitled, Securing the Software Supply Chain: Recommended Practices for Managing Open Source Software and Software Bill of Materials (warning for PDF) about aligning government activities with industry best practices. It covers principles that software developers and software suppliers can reference, including managing open source software andsoftware bills of materials to maintain and provide awareness about software security. The reports a follow up to the much hyped 2021 executive order on cybersecurity. Much focus is given to making and using Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and incorporating them into the work flow:

Freeman writes:Elon Musk's X ad revenue reportedly fell $1.5B this year amid boycotts

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owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/12/386-xor-circuits.html

hubie writes:BC psychologists probe the roots of truth judgments in the 'post-truth' era:

upstart writes:NASA donates Ingenuity Mars Helicopter prototype to Smithsonian:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-reveals-secret-sites-america-migrating.html

upstart writes:How Police Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras:

upstart writes:Vaccines delivered through the nose or mouth should help stop infection where it begins:

canopic jug writes:Public Domain Day 2024 is coming up in a few weeks. The Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has a briefing document, Mickey, Disney, and the Public Domain: a 95-year Love Triangle, about what happens when the earlier versions of Mickey Mouse finally elevate to the public domain at the start of 2024. Included is a Venn diagram of what you can and can't work with.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/ai/2023/12/turing-test-on-steroids-chatbot-arena-crowdsources-ratings-for-45-ai-models/

upstart writes:A new report reveals that the world's largest publisher may be selling readers' intimate personal data to the highest bidder:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-neanderthals-morning-people.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/michael-cohens-lawyer-cited-three-fake-cases-in-possible-ai-fueled-screwup/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/12/dropbox-spooks-users-by-sending-data-to-openai-for-ai-search-features/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/12/netflix-finally-reveals-viewing-data-across-its-entire-catalog/

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/health-wellbeing/live-longer-calorie-restriction/

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canopic jug writes:Tom's Hardware is reporting that YouTube uses lower quality options on browsers running on Arm-based systems and that misreporting the browser as running on an x86 CPU appears to be a work around.

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upstart writes:Four years after Tang Mingfang called out the injustices he witnessed at a Foxconn factory in China, nothing has changed - except for him:

owl writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/q-a-with-co-creator-of-the-6502-processor

taylorvich writes:https://www.science.org/content/article/living-skin-protecting-great-wall-china-erosion

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taylorvich writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/12/231212112320.htm

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upstart writes:The Colorado-based launch company will end 2023 with just three launches:

Quad9 Turns the Sony Case Around in Dresdenhttps://quad9.net/news/blog/quad9-turns-the-sony-case-around-in-dresden/

upstart writes:Engineers and major companies are pushing a technology called L4S that they say could make the web feel dramatically faster:

hubie writes:A new study shows that brains with Alzheimer's disease have subnormal levels of important dietary antioxidants:

fliptop writes:One of the most highly-trafficked financial news websites in the world is creating AI-generated stories that bear an uncanny resemblance to stories published just hours earlier by other competitors:

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janrinok writes:Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation

upstart writes:Akamai says it reported the flaws to Microsoft. Redmond shrugged: