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Saving Moths May be Just as Important as Saving the Bees
hubie writes:Night-time pollinators such as moths need protecting as effectively as bees:
Fukushima Wastewater Release Sparks Wave of Misinformation in China
Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:Fukushima's Water Release: What We Know
A Space Junk Removal Mission Got Struck by Space Junk
upstart writes:The ClearSpace-1 mission was going to chuck a defunct payload adapter to its fiery death, but another piece of space debris got to it first:
BA.2.86 Shows Just How Risky Slacking Off on COVID Monitoring is
upstart writes:The variant has grabbed attention, but with such limited data, the risk is unclear:
AI-Powered Brain Implants Help Paralyzed Patients Communicate Faster Than Ever
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/08/ai-powered-brain-implants-help-paralyzed-patients-communicate-faster-than-ever/
The Strange, Secretive World of North Korean Science Fiction
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2023/08/the-strange-secretive-world-of-north-korean-science-fiction/
Intelligent Brains Take Longer to Solve Difficult Problems
hubie writes:Do intelligent people think faster?
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores
upstart writes:Gizmodo's tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech:
Zoom CEO Says Employees Need to be in the Office Because It's Hard to Build Trust Over Zoom
upstart writes:A leaked audio recording provides more detail on why the teleconferencing company is cracking down on remote work.:
Oil eating microbes reshape droplets to optimize biodegradation
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-08-oil-microbes-reshape-droplets-optimize.html
WinRAR 0-day That Uses Poisoned JPG and TXT Files Under Exploit Since April
upstart writes:Vulnerability allows hackers to execute malicious code when targets open malicious ZIP files:
Tiktok Draft Agreement With CFIUS Shows Spying Requests
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Bypassing Bitlocker Using a Cheap Logic Analyzer on a Lenovo Laptop
owl writes:https://www.errno.fr/BypassingBitlocker.html
Physicists Use a 350-Year-Old Theorem to Reveal New Properties of Light Waves
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Chris Hedges' Sermon on The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
canopic jug writes:The ScheerPost has published a sermon which Chris Hedges gave on Sunday Aug. 20 in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture) where the actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who has worked for many years at the New York Times, NPR, and several other publications. In his sermon he expounds on the long-standing problem of speaking truth to power.
Hell Freezes Over as Apple Supports Right-to-Repair Bill
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/
Crypto Botnet on X is Powered by ChatGPT
upstart writes:Crypto botnet on X is powered by ChatGPT:
ICANN Warns UN May Sideline Techies From Internet Governance
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Student Project Shows Sails Can De-Orbit Satellites Quickly
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YouTube May Face Billions in Fines if FTC Confirms Child Privacy Violations
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/youtube-may-face-billions-in-fines-if-ftc-confirms-child-privacy-violations/
Pre-Inca People Stomped Salutes To Their Thunder God On A Special Dance Floor
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Microchips in the Parmigiano and Other Ways Europeans Are Fighting Fake Food
upstart writes:Microchips in the Parmigiano and Other Ways Europeans Are Fighting Fake Food:
Ötzi the Iceman Doesn't Look Like Museum Displays, Says New Genomic Study
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/otzi-iceman-genome-appearance-genetics/Otzi the Iceman is one of the most well-studied individuals in human history, but there always seems to be more to learn about him. A new genomic study has now found that he didn't look the way previous studies had imagined him - instead he was bald, his skin was darker, and he had an ancestry that was far more exotic and isolated than previously thought.In September 1991, two hikers discovered a human body in the Alps near the Austria and Italy border. At first they assumed they'd stumbled on an unlucky modern mountaineer, but on closer, scientific investigation, it was determined that the chap had died about 5,300 years ago. In the three decades since his discovery, Otzi has been studied extensively, with scientists able to figure out what he ate, how he dressed, how he lived and how he died.His full genome was published in 2012, allowing scientists to reconstruct an image of what he might have looked like. From that data, Otzi was imagined as a fairly light-skinned man with a bushy beard, a thick head of unkempt hair, deep-set eyes and wrinkled skin beyond his 45 years of life. But a new study, using more comprehensive genomic analysis techniques, upends much of that picture.Previously:
The 26 Fundamental Constants in the Universe
Snotnose writes:Sometimes you just can't beat the original summary:
US Judge: Art Created Solely by Artificial Intelligence Cannot be Copyrighted
upstart writes:"US copyright law protects only works of human creation," judge writes:
Meeting Announcement: Governance Committee Meeting on Friday, August 25th 2023 @ 20:30 UTC
Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee will be Friday, August 25th, 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 published when available. In the meeting we plan to discuss mechanicjay's report on different entity types and the first draft of the bylaws, which was posted to janrinok's journal previously.Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceOur community is encouraged to observe and participate, and is therefore invited to the meeting. SoylentNews is, after all, People!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.
Anti-Piracy Group Takes Ai Training Dataset 'Books3′ Offline
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Internet Archive's Legal Woes Mount as Record Labels Sue for $400M
Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/record-labels-sue-internet-archive-for-digitizing-obsolete-vintage-records/
RIP: Computer Graphics Pioneer John Warnock Dies At 82
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Charging Capacitors From Thermal Fluctuations Using Diodes
Rocky Mudbutt writes:Collecting charge from a ribbon of single layer graphene, with a pair of diodes at the nanometer scale is a novel approach to converting heat to electricity.Scitechdaily.com article on Non Linear power capture
India Makes Historic Landing Near Moon's South Pole
An Anonymous Coward wrote in with a pre-landing story:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-66541956.amp:
Modders Just Changed GPU Overclocking Forever
upstart writes:Modders just changed GPU overclocking forever:
Can Movie Reviews Predict Box Office Success?
hubie writes:Positive Reviews Signal Film Will Be A Flop; Negative Reviews - a Hit:
Robot Vacuums Make Our Lives Easier, But Do They Deprive Us of Meaningful Experiences?
hubie writes:Autonomous Products Like Robot Vacuums Make Our Lives Easier. But Do They Deprive Us of Meaningful Experiences?
Virginia Data Center Development To Run On Nuclear Power, Hydrogen
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Report: Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over
Freeman writes:OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content:
Google Announces New Algorithm That Makes FIDO Encryption Safe From Quantum Computers
upstart writes:Google announces new algorithm that makes FIDO encryption safe from quantum computers:
Tracing the Roots of the 8086 Instruction Set to the Datapoint 2200 Minicomputer
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/08/datapoint-to-8086.html
Eventually Everything Will Evaporate, Not Only Black Holes
hubie writes:Eventually everything will evaporate, not only black holes:
Oracle, Suse, Others Form Openela Amid Red Hat Changes
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Intel's Downfall Mitigations Take a Significant Toll on CPU Performance, Early Testing Reveals
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Research Shows Zinc-air Batteries Could be the Future of Powering Electric Vehicles
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2023-08-zinc-air-batteries-future-powering-electric.htmlZinc-air batteries have emerged as a better alternative to lithium in a recent Edith Cowan University (ECU) study into the advancement of sustainable battery systems.ECU's Dr. Muhammad Rizwan Azhar led the project which discovered lithium-ion batteries, although a popular choice for electric vehicles around the world, face limitations related to cost, finite resources, and safety concerns. The work is published in the journal EcoMat.
Teens Hacked Boston Subway Cards to Get Infinite Free Rides - Different Response by MBTA
upstart writes:And this time nobody got sued:
Microsoft Pulls AI-Generated Article Recommending Ottawa Food Bank to Tourists
dw861 writes:As reported by The Verge
To Battle New Threats, Spy Agencies to Share More Intelligence With Private Sector
upstart writes:To Battle New Threats, Spy Agencies to Share More Intelligence With Private Sector:
Common Alzheimer's Disease Gene May Have Helped Our Ancestors Have More Kids
upstart writes:Study of traditional society in Amazon suggests why evolution hasn't purged harmful variant:
DARPA Launches Study On Starting A Lunar Economy In 10 Years
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Russia's Luna-25 Spacecraft Crashes Into Moon
takyon writes:Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft crashes into Moon
ChatGPT Gets Code Questions Wrong 52% of the Time
upstart writes:But its suggestions are so annoyingly plausible:
Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA
hubie writes:Chemical Found in Common Sweetener Damages DNA:
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