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upstart writes:Japan schedules August launch for 'Moon Sniper' lander:

Halibut writes:Quoting The Washington Post:

hubie writes:The laws of physics were likely different in the deep past:

hubie writes:Put simply, science is good for us:

upstart writes:Study shows how accounting practices distort economic reality:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openais-most-powerful-chatbot-api-rolls-out-for-all-paying-customers/

upstart writes:Researchers discover safe, easy, and affordable way to store and retrieve hydrogen:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/book-authors-sue-openai-and-meta-over-text-used-to-train-ai/

upstart writes:China curbs exports of key computer chip materials:

upstart writes:Expect the saga of this release to stretch out a bit over northern summer:

upstart writes:Plus: Facebook corp loses appeal on crossing data streams in Germany:

upstart writes:Plastic production is skyrocketing, pushing microplastic pollution to dangerous new levels:

oumuamua writes:[This is mix of an advertisement and a blog post, rather than an actual story, but it piqued my interest by including 3 different text-to-image generators in one package. Some of us are already learning the limits of, and skills required for, image generation, and I suspect that it will not be too long before collaborative mixes of AI language generation will be appearing, at least in the areas of research. Anyway, lets see what you make of it... JR]Genolve.com is jumping into the generative AI game with a version upgrade that integrates three major players in AI art:

hubie writes:A Canadian judge ruled that a thumbs-up emoji could be considered an agreement to a contract:

hubie writes:GCC Adopts A Code of Conduct:

upstart writes:Wildfires in Canada have broken records for area burned, evacuations and cost, official says:

upstart writes:NHTSA reminds Tesla to cough up data for Autopilot probe:

upstart writes:On a shoestring budget, Chandrayaan-3 aims to observe Luna, Earth, even exoplanets:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Magic: The Gathering's most coveted collectible The One Ring Card has been found. There is only one copy and version of this card, making it highly collectable. The owner wishes to remain anonymous, and multiple resellers are already offering millions to buy it.

upstart writes:There are 12,000 types of PFAS, the USGS tested for 32 types across the country:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/07/8086-pins.html

upstart writes:They're requesting a temporary injunction blocking the law:

upstart writes:Will people ever learn?:

hubie writes:Blockchain technology, investor sentiment, and economic stress are useful for forecasting, while bitcoin's detachment from economic fundamentals make it a poor safe-haven asset:

fliptop writes:PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages:

JoeMerchant writes:Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number Systemhttps://www.quantamagazine.org/elliptic-curves-yield-their-secrets-in-a-new-number-system-20230706/

hubie writes:This bias can be explained by the way our brain is organized, but its evolutionary significance is not yet known:

takyon writes:Android phone hits 24GB of RAM, as much as a 13-inch MacBook Pro

upstart writes:After Decades of Observations, Astronomers have Finally Sensed the Pervasive Background Hum of Merging Supermassive Black Holes:

owl writes:WSJ link https://www.wsj.com/articles/publishers-and-advertisers-push-back-at-ftcs-click-to-cancel-proposal-de96960bArchive link https://archive.is/Lv2wG

upstart writes:Scientists Intrigued by Glacier Bleeding Red Fluid:

hubie writes:Earth's Jet Streams Look as Chaotic as a Van Gogh:

owl writes:https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/052_rn988_keyboard/

canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on The Netherlands' recent decision on the need to ban mobile and "smart" devices from Dutch classrooms.

An anonymous user writes:Motor Trend is running this story, https://www.motortrend.com/features/tesla-full-self-driving-ban-attempt-elon-musk-dan-odowd While it starts out about Tesla self-driving software, it seems that the Dawn Project is also taking on security for safety critical software in general -- a topic near and dear to many at SN.

upstart writes:An update to Google's privacy policy suggests that the entire public internet is fair game for its AI projects:

acid andy writes:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/29/a-war-on-nature-rangers-build-mountain-out-of-wildlife-traps-found-in-uganda-park

upstart writes:The sun hasn't produced this many sunspots in a single month since 2002:

upstart writes:India signing the Artemis Accords is a historic win for space exploration:

upstart writes:VMware, Other Tech Giants Announce Push for Confidential Computing Standards:

upstart writes:First flying car approved by FAA, now available for preorder:

upstart writes:On paper, OLED displays can last for 100 years - if it wasn't for one color:

hubie writes:Cash or card? Consumers pay strategically to forget guilty purchases, study shows:

upstart writes:ECMAScript 2023 spec for JavaScript finalized:

So, I know its been a bit quiet here, but we're working through getting through the last few items relating to cutting over to newer infrastructure. As such, its been working through the bug list, and there's one issue I want to get some feedback on.Back in November when the infrastructure was upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04, a few users with older devices stopped being able to connect to SoylentNews. This confused me, since we've been using the same NGINX SSL termination setup that has been in use since at least 2016. Well, I finally found the root cause, and as it turns out, Canonical bumped up the minimum OpenSSL security level, which disabled several ciphers, and broke devices not supporting TLS 1.2 or later.By testing the site with the SSL Labs site checker, it appears anything older than Android 4.0, or iOS 5 is broken. This mostly seems to be devices that are over a decade old at this point, and won't be able to browse the vast majority of sites on the Internet as is. We discussed this internally a bit, and I'm of the opinion that its not worth re-enabling the older ciphers to allow these devices to reconnect, especially since we're working to modernize the stack, and get it as up to date as we can get it. I also believe we had very few users who were actually affected by this, however, as the editors did get a few emails about SN breaking after the site upgrade, I wanted to poll the community, and make sure this is not a more widespread issue than initially believed.Ultimately, this is going to be part of a broader discussion on what we will and won't support on SoylentNews going forward, and this seems as good of place as any to get the ball rolling.~ NCommanderRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Online art viewing is an untapped source of support for well-being:

upstart writes:YouTube Threatens to Cut Off Ad Blocker Users After Just Three Ad-less Vids:

JoeMerchant writes:https://earthsky.org/space/interstellar-meteor-papua-new-guinea-2014-u-s-space-command/In 2019, two researchers from Harvard University - Amir Siraj and Avi Loeb, both of whom had published on 'Oumuamua and Comet Borisov earlier - also wrote a study of this meteor, suggesting its interstellar origins. If true, then this meteor - which predates both 'Oumuamua and Comet Borisov by a few years - would be the first known interstellar object.https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/harvard-scientist-avi-loeb-claims-collected-remains-of-extraterrestrial-technology-from-bottom-of-the-pacific-101688188241635.htmlDeep-sea explorers found 50 spherules-molten droplets, about half a millimetre in diameter.Loeb's team collected 35 milligrams of this promising material by dragging a large magnetic sled across the surface of the ocean. The astrophysicist believes that the spherules are most likely made from a steel-titanium alloy"The spherules were found primarily along the most likely path of IM1 and not in control regions far from it," read his blog. "In the coming weeks, we will analyze their elemental and isotopic composition and report our data in a paper submitted to a peer-reviewed journal."https://avi-loeb.medium.com/summary-of-the-successful-interstellar-expedition-61ff4467070dThese sub-millimeter-sized spheres, which appear under a microscope as beautiful metallic marbles, were concentrated along the expected path of IM1 - about 85 kilometers off the coast of Manus Island in Papua New Guinea.-------It's just un-spectacular enough to be believable.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

fab23 writes:France's browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet

upstart writes:Janitor heard 'annoying alarms' and turned off freezer, ruining 20 years of school research worth $1 million, lawsuit says: