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Updated 2025-04-01 18:16
Researcher Turns Insecure License Plate Cameras Into Open Source Surveillance Tool
upstart writes:Privacy advocate draws attention to the fact that hundreds of police surveillance cameras are streaming directly to the open internet:
Inside the War Against Headlight Brightness
owl writes:https://theringer.com/2024/12/03/tech/headlight-brightness-cars-accidents
German Router Maker is Latest Company to Inadvertently Clarify the LGPL License
NotSanguine writes:According to Ars Technica:
It's Remarkably Easy to Inject New Medical Misinformation Into LLMs
upstart writes:Changing just 0.001% of inputs to misinformation makes the AI less accurate:
Former MoviePass CEO Pleads Guilty to Fraud, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
upstart writes:Ted Farnsworth, former CEO of Helios and Matheson Analytics, lied about the success of MoviePass to attract investors:
Kicking Datacenters' Drinking Habit is Nearly Impossible
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Kids Can't Use Computers... and This is Why It Should Worry You (2013)
owl writes:http://www.coding2learn.org/blog/2013/07/29/kids-cant-use-computers/
Engineer Creates OpenAI-Powered Robotic Sentry Rifle
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: FUTURISM
AI Unveils Strange Chip Designs, While Discovering New Functionalities
taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2025-01-ai-unveils-strange-chip-functionalities.html
US Reports First Human Death Related To Bird Flu
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Gentrified Doom Remake Trades Chainsaw for Cheese Knife
upstart writes:Remake of 1993 classic lets you drink wine and eat hors d'oeuvres as you admire masterpieces from art history:
How I Program With LLMs
Freeman writes:https://crawshaw.io/blog/programming-with-llms/
Prepare for the New Season as a Fish Doorbell Ringer
c0lo writes:The 2024 Fish Doorbell season is over
Nvidia CEO: Quantum Computing is Still 20 Yrs Away
Frosty Piss writes:Quantum? No solace: Nvidia CEO sinks QC stocks with '20 years off' forecast
Chick-fil-A’s Lemon-Squeezing Robots Are Saving 10,000 Hours of Work
owl writes:https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-chick-fil-a-lemonade/Archive link: https://archive.is/xQDaH
Eutelsat Oneweb Blames 366th Day for 48-Hour Date Disaster
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Now Telecoms Are Fighting Among Themselves Over Who Lies More About ‘Unlimited Data’
AnonTechie writes:[Source]: Techdirt
Firescam Android Malware Masquerades As Telegram Premium App
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Ants Hold Grudges, Study Suggests
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-ants-grudges.html
New Orleans Attacker Used Meta Ray-Bans To Plan The Massacre
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TSMC's Wafer Pricing Now $18,000 for a 3nm Wafer, Increased Over 3X in 10 Years
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EU Court Fines European Commission for Breaching its Own Data Privacy Laws
owl writes:They can't even follow their own rules:https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/08/eu-court-fines-european-commission-for-breaching-its-own-data-privacy-laws/
Iron-Nitride Magnets Eliminate Need for Rare Earths
Motor Trend is reporting on early production of a new permanent magnet material https://www.motortrend.com/features/niron-magnetics-clean-earth-permanent-magnets-ces-2025/ suitable for replacing the rare-earth magnets used, for example, in electric car motors, as well as loud speakers and many other products.Invented some time back by university researchers and now in the pilot production stage (with suitably large investors like car companies),
Facebook Is Ditching “Fact-Checkers” and Going to Community Notes Similar to X
fliptop writes:Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are ditching third-party fact-checkers in favor of a Community Notes program inspired by X, according to an announcement penned by Meta's new Trump-friendly policy chief Joel Kaplan. Meta is also moving its trust and safety teams from California to Texas:
Mediterranean Diet Linked to Improved Memory via Gut Bacteria Changes
taylorvich writes:https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-mediterranean-diet-linked-memory-gut.html
Pornhub Pulls Out Of Florida, VPN Demand 'Surges 1150%'
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Biggest Privacy Erosion in 10 Years? On Google's Policy Change Towards Fingerprinting
fliptop writes:Lukasz Olejnik opines:
Massive Space Debris Crashes Into Kenyan Village
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Lead Pollution Likely Caused Widespread IQ Declines in Ancient Rome
taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-01-pollution-widespread-iq-declines-ancient.html
Neutered: Federal Court Strikes Down FCC Authority to Impose Net Neutrality Rules
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Hackers Injected Malicious Code Into Several Chrome Extensions In Recent Attack
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Hybrid Work a Cause of Techno-Stress: ‘You Have to be There All the Time’
mrpg writes:https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-12-22/hybrid-work-a-cause-of-techno-stress-you-have-to-be-there-all-the-time.html#?rel=mas
MIT Scientists Pin Down The Origins Of A Fast Radio Burst
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Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024
Automobile Sales, Including EVs and Hybrids, Surge in 2024hubie writes:EV Sales, Including Hybrids, Surge for Auto Giants Not Named Tesla:
‘Mystery Volcano’ that Erupted and Cooled Earth in 1831 has Finally Been Identified
owl writes:https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/science/mystery-volcano-1831-eruption-simushir/index.html
Data Exposure at MyGiftCardSupply Highlights Risks of Digital ID Regulations
fliptop writes:The incident exposes the growing vulnerabilities tied to digital ID systems and mandatory KYC (know your customer) data collection:
The Effects of ‘Brain Rot’: How Junk Content is Damaging Our Minds
hubie writes:Social media addiction can reduce grey matter, shorten attention spans, weaken memory, and distort core cognitive functions, according to recent research:
Meta's AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop
hubie writes:Hollow-eyed insincere robot posters are already flooding Meta's sites and they're everything we dreaded:
Apple to Pay $95m to Settle Siri Listening Case
upstart writes:The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch were two devices owned by the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit:
Canada Joins the Hunt for Rare Earths to Make Chips
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California Judge Blocks Parts Of Social Media Youth Protection Bill
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How Poop Could Help Feed the Planet
upstart writes:Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions:
Cuneiform-Like Data Storage Tech Boasts Four Times the Density of Binary
taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/good-thinking/indent-data-storage/
Scientists Claim Dark Energy Doesn't Exist and That Could Solve One of Universe's Biggest Mysteries
AnonTechie writes:
A Better DIY Seismometer Can Detect Faraway Earthquakes
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NATO Plans to Build Satellite Links as Backups to Undersea Cables
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Esoteric: Learn about Structure Packing and Padding
ElizabethGreene writes:Eric Raymond has a lovely essay here: http://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/ that describes some non-intuitive behavior in how compilers assemble structures in memory. The default is to pad structures out with empty bytes to align data types around arbitrary byte boundaries for similarly non-intuitive reasons.If you don't immediately understand why this struct is 12 or 16 bytes long, it's worth reading.struct Foo {
Finnish Investigators Discover Anchor Drag Marks of "Almost a Hundred Kilometers" in Cable Case
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U.S. Treasury Confirms It Was Breached by China-Backed Hackers
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Indiana Bakery Uses C64 as POS
looorg writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/indiana-bakery-still-using-commodore-64s-originally-released-in-1982-as-point-of-sale-terminalsThese things pop up every now and then. The last one I recall now was some car-autorepair-shop in Poland that still used one for some function.
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