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upstart writes:The computer's accuracy improved as scientists used more qubits to fix mistakes:

upstart writes:The technology is already out in force in some cities, but the true debate on privacy and policies is lagging behind:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-the-u-s-needs-a-formal-reckoning-on-the-covid-pandemic/

upstart writes:The enormous glacier is in trouble:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Nokia G22 has removable back and standard screws allowing battery swap in less than five minutes at home

upstart writes:Scientists make stunning discovery, find new protein activity in telomeres:

upstart writes:European Space Agency Launches 12-Month Lunar Farming Study:

upstart writes:And how Chinese companies came to dominate battery manufacturing:

AnonTechie writes:The magical demos displayed the capability. Now the platform wars begin.

upstart writes:The James Webb telescope found six galaxies that may be too hefty for their age:

upstart writes:China's Mars rover appears to have stopped roving:

upstart writes:Uber has not branded the cuts as "layoffs":

NY Times reports on long delays when solar or wind energy projects apply to connect to the grid. While they look at only a few of the US regional grids, several year delays appear common. The permitting process for grid tie-in was scaled to deal with a few big natural gas (etc) power stations every year and is overloaded by the requests of thousands of smaller, distributed energy sources.https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/23/climate/renewable-energy-us-electrical-grid.html

upstart writes:Scientists Engineer Wood to Become Stronger, Capture CO2:

owl writes:https://bigthink.com/pessimists-archive/twitter-telegrams/

upstart writes:Bows and arrows were used in Europe much earlier than we thought:

Freeman writes:DOTA is Defence of the Ancients for any non-gamers (like me!) in our community. It is often used as a word.https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/valve-used-secret-memory-access-honeypot-to-detect-40k-dota-2-cheaters/

takyon writes:Soylent acquired by Starco Brands as nutrition company shifts into its 'natural next stage'

upstart writes:Meanwhile, an astronaut and two cosmonauts wait for a return ride to Earth:

upstart writes:US Supreme Court declines to hear NSA spying complaint:

Amazon Employees Ask Boss Not to Make Them Come Back to the Officeupstart writes:Amazon Employees Ask Boss not to Make Them Come Back to the Office:

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owl writes:http://www.righto.com/2023/02/8086-interrupt.html

hubie writes:Get more exercise. Eat right. Make new friends.

Intel Reportedly Delays TSMC 3nm Orders for 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUsupstart writes:Intel Reportedly Delays TSMC 3nm Orders for 15th Gen Arrow Lake CPUs:

upstart writes:Webb uses galactic megacluster as enormous magnifying lens:

upstart writes:The code found in the malicious packages closely resembled legit offerings:

upstart writes:2,200-Year-Old Flush Toilet Found at Chinese Ruins:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Game maker Rovio is so annoyed that it may be missing out on profits to be made with newer games that it will remove Angry Birds from the Android store. Rovio believes that people are downloading the older free version of its game which is detracting from players downloading their newer games with in-app purchases. In a statement Rovio said: "Rovio Classics: Angry Bird will remain playable on devices on which the game has been downloaded, even after it has been unlisted".

Freeman writes:Clarkesworld wrestles with flood of machine-made submissions—over 500 in Feb. alone:

hubie writes:Smallpox has plagued humans since ancient Egyptian times, new evidence confirms:

upstart writes:While app development is faster and easier, security is still a concern:

upstart writes:NASA Confirms 1,000-Pound Meteorite Landed in Texas:Those who saw the meteoroid fly across the sky on Wednesday thought they saw a shooting star—until they lost sight of the fireball and felt its impact as it struck Earth. Home security footage from residents west of McAllen, Texas, shows the meteorite's impact shaking the ground, causing wildlife to flee and homes to shiver. Those who felt and heard the collision didn't know what to make of it, and with so-called "spy balloons" and UFO conspiracies in the news cycle at the time, their best guesses were unsettling. Thankfully, NASA's Johnson Space Center has since confirmed that the boom was caused by a meteorite, which struck Earth just north of Texas' border with Mexico.NASA's Meteor Watch shared the agency's statement on Facebook. The meteorite is believed to have been about two feet wide and 1,000 pounds before it entered Earth's atmosphere at approximately 27,000 miles per hour. Atmospheric entry broke the meteorite into at least a few different fragments. American Meteor Society member and tireless fragment collector Robert Ward found the first of these pieces Saturday on private property in El Sauz, a tiny farm town an hour from McAllen's city center.Meteorites themselves aren't uncommon, but impacts like this one are. Most rocky space masses burn up upon atmospheric entry, leaving only dusty particles in their wake. NASA says that car-sized asteroids strike Earth's atmosphere about once a year, creating a generous fireball and turning to dust before impacting the ground. Now and then, however, larger masses survive their passage through Earth's atmosphere. The consequences of such survival can be catastrophic.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:The Navy is embracing autonomous vessels:

upstart writes:So-called "quiet quitting" could decrease if companies move to a four-day workweek:

upstart writes:Another Person Cured of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant:

upstart writes:Raspberry Pi gets a dedicated Debug Probe that has more uses, too:

upstart writes:"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation":

upstart writes:Subsurface tactile tomography can detect details beneath a material's surface:

upstart writes:NASA's NuSTAR Observatory Pinpoints Hottest Spots on the Sun:

upstart writes:Suggest fundamental semiconductor physics research is needed if China is to build viable local industry:

upstart writes:Researchers disagree on how to define burnout. Helping people cope at work still matters:

upstart writes:It's unclear if the two lawmakers know what messenger RNA is exactly:

upstart writes:A touchscreen that's always clean:

The Supreme Court Battle for Section 230 Has Begunupstart writes:The future of recommendation algorithms could be at stake:The first shots have been fired in a Supreme Court showdown over web platforms, terrorism, and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Today, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Gonzales v. Google — one of two lawsuits that are likely to shape the future of the internet.Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh are a pair of lawsuits blaming platforms for facilitating Islamic State attacks. The court's final ruling on these cases will determine web services' liability for hosting illegal activity, particularly if they promote it with algorithmic recommendations.The Supreme Court took up both cases in October: one at the request of a family that's suing Google and the other as a preemptive defense filed by Twitter. They're two of the latest in a long string of suits alleging that websites are legally responsible for failing to remove terrorist propaganda. The vast majority of these suits have failed, often thanks to Section 230, which shields companies from liability for hosting illegal content. But the two petitions respond to a more mixed 2021 opinion from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which threw out two terrorism-related suits but allowed a third to proceed.Gonzalez v. Google claims Google knowingly hosted Islamic State propaganda that allegedly led to a 2015 attack in Paris, thus providing material support to an illegal terrorist group. But while the case is nominally about terrorist content, its core question is whether amplifying an illegal post makes companies responsible for it. In addition to simply not banning Islamic State videos, the plaintiffs — the estate of a woman who died in the attack — say that YouTube recommended these videos automatically to others, spreading them across the platform.Google has asserted that it's protected by Section 230, but the plaintiffs argue that the law's boundaries are undecided. "[Section 230] does not contain specific language regarding recommendations, and does not provide a distinct legal standard governing recommendations," they said in yesterday's legal filing. They're asking the Supreme Court to find that some recommendation systems are a kind of direct publication — as well as some pieces of metadata, including hyperlinks generated for an uploaded video and notifications alerting people to that video. By extension, they hope that could make services liable for promoting it.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

fliptop writes:Under the fluorescent lights of a fifth grade classroom in Lexington, Kentucky, Donnie Piercey instructed his 23 students to try and outwit the "robot" that was churning out writing assignments:

upstart writes:Rather than match iOS's tracking limits, Google built an additional tracking system:

upstart writes:Leaving a trail of stars and excited gas after its passage:

upstart writes:Competitor markets working to replace Hydra's money-laundering services for cybercriminals:

upstart writes:The change comes after early beta testers of the chatbot found that it could go off the rails and discuss violence, declare love, and insist that it was right when it was wrong: