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Updated 2025-08-29 01:16
1.5Tb of James Webb Space Telescope Data Dumped On The Internet - New Searchable Database
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Making Hydrogen With Soda Cans and Seawater
jelizondo writes:Study shows making hydrogen with soda cans and seawater is scalable and sustainable:
ChessGPT "Wrecked" by Atari 2600
looorg writes:ChatGPT might have many strengths and claims of "intelligence". But in a recent game of Chess was utterly wrecked (their word not mine) by a Atari 2600 and it's simple little chess program. So all the might of ChatGPT applied to chess wrecked by the scrappy little game console that is almost 50 years old.So there are things that ChatGPT apparently shouldn't do. Like playing chess. If anything this might show its absolute lack of critical thinking or thinking ahead. Instead it's a regurgitation engine for text blobs. I guess you just conjure up a good game of Chess from the Internet and apply it ...
Cyberattack Cripples North America's Largest Grocery Distributor, Threatening Supply Chain
fliptop writes:UNFI, North America's largest grocery distributor, halted deliveries after a cyberattack disrupted operations for 30,000 retail locations:
Dolphin LLM
hendrikboom writes:From https://www.maginative.com/article/with-dolphingemma-google-is-trying-to-decode-dolphin-language-using-ai/
The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI
owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html
The Bethesda Declaration
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New Way to Track Covertly Android Users
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OpenAI Slams Court Order to Save All ChatGPT Logs, Including Deleted Chats
upstart writes:OpenAI defends privacy of hundreds of millions of ChatGPT users:
Hasta La Vista, Google Baby
quietus writes:Do you think Internet SEARCH has gone sucky-sucky-so-so? Can you imagine a better experience? Do you have some coding (dis)ability, perhaps even friends-with-similar-benefits?Then you -- yes, you -- might be interested in a project a bunch of European research institutions have been working on for the past two years, and now -- June 6 -- have released to the public.The project -- imaginatively named the Open Web Search Initiative -- offers all elements of a modern day search engine in convenient open source packages; along with 6.61 billion urls, 923 TiB total, and 1 TiB of daily crawled data. The only thing left for you to do is to download a partial index of all that data to your own server(s) and develop your own custom software on top of that. Then ...
‘We're Definitely on the Back Foot’: U.S. Risks Losing Fusion Energy Race to China, Industry Leaders
upstart writes:'We're definitely on the back foot': U.S. risks losing fusion energy race to China, industry leaders warn:
Ubuntu Dropping GNOME's X11 Session
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The Linux Mint Team is Testing a New Application for Providing Fingerprint Authentication
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Nice Ocean Conference You Have There
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U.S. Immigration Authorities Are Adding Children's DNA to a Criminal Database
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FDA Rushed Out Agency-Wide AI Tool
upstart writes:An agency-wide LLM called Elsa was released weeks ahead of schedule:
American Science & Surplus is Fighting for its Life and Here's Why You Should Care
upstart writes:Part science outlet, part Radio Shack, part curio cabinet-American Science & Surplus is unique:
New Technologies Help Wood-Burning Stoves Burn More Efficiently, Produce Less Smoke
janrinok writes:New technologies help wood-burning stoves burn more efficiently, produce less smoke
Bill Atkinson, Macintosh Pioneer and Inventor of Hypercard, Dies at 74
canopic jug writes:Several sites are reporting that the legendary programmer Bill Atkinson has died. He contributed QuickDraw to the early Macintosh and was even responsible for MacPaint and Hypercard. The former, MacPaint, inspired Photoshop. The latter, Hypercard, can be considered an important milestone in computing even though it lacked the networking which the WWW is built upon.
University Of Michigan Achieves First Human Brain Recording With Wireless Implant
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Scientists Find New Markers To Identify Species From Fragments Of Fossilized Bone
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Are Dead Sea Scrolls Older Than We Thought?
upstart writes:Are Dead Sea Scrolls older than we thought?:
Crypto Kidnapping Organiser Arrested in Morocco
_-iNT13- writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/04/europe/france-crypto-kidnappings-detained-intl
Volvo is Introducing the First Multi-Adaptive Seatbelt Technology on the EX60 EV
upstart writes:The system can take a passenger's profile into account to better protect them during crashes:
Endangered Classic Mac Plastic Color Returns as 3D-Printer Filament
upstart writes:Mac fan paid $900 to color-match iconic Apple beige-gray "Platinum" plastic for everyone:
UK Govt Study: Copilot AI Saved Workers 26 Minutes a Day
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Damage-Sensing and Self-Healing Artificial Muscles Heralded as Huge Step Forward in Robotics
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Windows Users! Keep the Machine You've Got and Switch to Linux and Plasma
canopic jug writes:The KDE community has an outreach campaign encouraging the use of the Plasma desktop by people with older, but usable, laptops. Vista10 support will come to an end and Vista11 has been designed not to run on many still viable models of computer due to several factors including Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) requirements centered around TPM-2.0. GNU/Linux can not only keep the old system working, it can improve its performance, ease of use, and general security. KDE Plasma can be part of that.
Mathematical Model Helps European Regions Set Suitable Targets to Close Gender Gaps
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Reality Check: Microsoft Azure CTO Pushes Back on AI Vibe Coding Hype, Sees ‘Upper Limit’
upstart writes:Reality check: Microsoft Azure CTO pushes back on AI vibe coding hype, sees 'upper limit':
Klarna CEO Says Company Will Use Humans to Offer VIP Customer Service
upstart writes:Klarna CEO says company will use humans to offer VIP customer service:
Venus’ Tectonics May be Actively Reshaping its Surface
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X Changes its Terms to Bar Training of AI Models Using its Content
The following article was submitted via upstart:X changes its terms to bar training of AI models using its contentSocial network X, formerly known as Twitter, has updated its developer agreement to officially prohibit the use of its platform's public content for training artificial intelligence models. This move solidifies the platform's control over its vast dataset, particularly in light of its relationship with Elon Musk's own AI company, xAI.The updated terms of service now include a specific restriction against this practice:
European Commission: Make Europe Great Again for Startups
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Japan's Resilience Moon Lander Has Crashed Into The Lunar Surface
janrinok writes:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2483366-japans-resilience-moon-lander-has-crashed-into-the-lunar-surface/
TSMC's 2Nm Wafer Prices Hit $30,000 As SRAM Yields Reportedly Hit 90%
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The Far Side of the Moon May Host the World's Most Sensitive Telescope, Shielded From Interference
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Spacex's Starship And Super Heavy Booster Crash
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TSMC Is Once Again In Talks With US Officials Over A Possible Gigafab In The UAE
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The Trump Administration's Plan for National Citizen Database is a Massive Threat to Civil Liberties
day of the dalek writes:The Real ID Act was passed in 2005 on the grounds that it was necessary for access control of sensitive facilities like nuclear power plants and the security of airline flights. The law imposed standards for state- and territory-issued ID cards in the United States, but was widely criticized as an attempt to create a national ID card and would be harmful to privacy. These concerns are explained well in a 2007 article from the New York Civil Liberties Union:
German Roads Thrown Into Chaos After Google Maps Mislabels Highways As Closed
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A New Sodium Metal Fuel Cell Could Help Clean Up Transportation
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Apple Must Pay 500M Euro Digital Markets Act Fine by July 26
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In North Korea, Your Phone Secretly Takes Screenshots Every 5 Minutes for Government Surveillance
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Trust, Attitudes and Use of Artificial Intelligence 2025
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Model Context Protocol (MCP): What It is and Why It Matters
[Editor's Comment: This is the first two parts of a planned 4-part series]MCP: What It Is and Why It Matters-Part 1
Fire Safety Concerns Spark New Battery Rules on Flights
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Making Magnesium From Sea Water
Tech Review reports on a US startup that claims to have modernized and cleaned up the magnesium refining process, https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/28/1117481/metal-magrathea/ The light weight metal has many applications.
Texas Right To Repair Bill Passes, Heads To The Governor’s Desk
owl writes:https://www.theverge.com/law/678334/right-to-repair-texas-hb-2963
The Workers Who Lost Their Jobs To AI
pdfernhout submitted the following article:'One day I overheard my boss saying: just put it in ChatGPT': the workers who lost their jobs to AIThe increasing sophistication and adoption of Artificial Intelligence are no longer abstract future concepts but a present-day reality reshaping the workforce, as detailed in a recent Guardian piece. The story gives voice to journalists, illustrators, copywriters, and voice actors who have found their livelihoods threatened or lost to AI tools, raising critical questions about the future of creative professions and the ethical implications of this technological shift.Mateusz Demski, a journalist from Poland who lost his radio job, describes a particularly jarring experience when his former station introduced AI hosts:
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