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owl writes:https://www.5volts.ch/posts/mfmreader/

MIT brain science researchers took a look at comprehension of (and preference for) the use of legalese (legal language used in contracts and so on) vs. the same thoughts expressed in simple sentences. While lawyers did better at understanding their own dialect, nearly everyone, lawyer or not, preferred ordinary English. https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-study-lawyers-legalese-0529

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/google/2023/06/rip-to-my-pixel-fold-dead-after-four-days/

kreuzfeld writes:Free-software aficionado Ploum has an interesting take on Meta and the Fediverse:

upstart writes:Extending Earth's Internet to Mars With Orbital Data Servers:

upstart writes:Australia gives Twitter legal notice to clean up online hate content:

upstart writes:Microsoft Says It Will Build a Quantum Supercomputer Within Ten Years:

Ford: the US Can't Compete With China on Electric Vehicles, for Nowupstart writes:"We need to be ready, and we're getting ready":

hubie writes:Butterfly tree of life reveals an origin in North America:

upstart writes:Meta says its new speech-generating AI tool is too dangerous to release:

hubie writes:Writing with AI help can shift your opinions:

takyon writes:Megaupload Fugitive Arrested By Armed Police 11 Years After The Raid

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/06/ftc-xbox-exclusive-starfield-is-powerful-evidence-against-activision-deal/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/06/marvel-angers-artists-and-fans-with-ai-generated-secret-invasion-tv-intro/

NotSanguine writes:Ars Technica is reporting on recently published research on "smart" materials using liquid metal.From the Ars Technica article:

owl writes:https://nanochess.org/video_chess.html

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/06/camera-review-site-dpreview-finds-a-buyer-avoids-shutdown-by-amazon/

owl writes:https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jun/23/rhel-gpl-analysis/

DECbot writes:Tech reporters don their sports reporting hats as Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg exchange words, both agreeing to battle in a cage match. Widely reported in articles in from tech sites like The Guardian, The Verge, and Engadget the two moguls banter and publicly agree to a fight in Vegas. It is to be seen if their agents will book the venue to make this a reality.

upstart writes:LexisNexis Is Selling Your Personal Data to ICE So It Can Try to Predict Crimes:

Booga1 writes:MIT News reports: MIT engineers have developed a soft, printable, metal-free electrode.

hubie writes:Researchers outline steps to keep shelves stocked in crises:

hubie writes:Could it mean we're judging those who aren't like us too harshly?

JoeMerchant writes:Orca rams into yacht off Shetland in first such incident in northern waters:

upstart writes:The AI Act vote passed with an overwhelming majority, but the final version is likely to look a bit different:

upstart writes:The 12-qubit device will go out to a few academic research labs:

upstart writes:ASUS urges customers to patch critical router vulnerabilities:

mcgrew writes:Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13

Freeman writes:https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/submarine-deaths-missing-titanic-oceangate-b2362578.htmlSee Previous Story: Search and Rescue Operation Underway for Submarine Visiting the Titanic Wreck

hubie writes:A database of 2,467 languages helps researchers better understand the stakes when languages die off:

fliptop writes:Mercedes says it's going to test ChatGPT with its in-car voice assistant for the next three months:

upstart writes:Scientists discover lithium replacement that may revolutionize EV batteries: '99.7% efficient after over 400 hours of use':

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.tomshardware.com/news/micro-center-to-launch-two-stores-2024

upstart writes:They cite Musk's description of DMCA as a "plague on humanity":

upstart writes:Semiconductor Lasers Hit Steel-Slicing Levels:

Autonomous Vehicle International (a trade mag) is running the story, Aurora announces release of open-source autonomous driving data set to support advances within the sector, which describes a large vehicle sensor data set being made available to university researchers.

looorg writes:Taurine deficiency as a driver of aging: Lab mice that got taurine supplements lived 10-12% longer lives. So all the kids that are pounding Red Bull (and all the other energy-drinks) might live longer if their hearts don't explode from over-consumption.Taurine May Be a Key to Longer and Healthier Life:

upstart writes:US sanctions ignite booming black market for Nvidia AI chips in China:

So, just keeping some updates here.Infrastructure wise, we've got all the base Docker images, and compose files put together to the point that it's fairly easy to simply run "docker compose up", and get a working rehash installation with the infrastructure playbook. We've got it working on staging.soylentnews.org, albeit with some hiccups.This also includes all auxiliary services needed for both sides, as well as things like IRC server and necessary bots are included. I had to spend quite a few hours dealing with the remains of the MySQL cluster install, but I managed to recover the soylentdev database from the NDB backups I took before decommissioning the old cluster. Dev.soylentnews.org is back online as of writing.mechanicjay has set a PR for getting rehash running on Apache 2.4, which I've spent some time getting working in a Docker branch, but haven't reviewed in-depth. I've mostly been working on getting everything else rebuilt as is before introducing a potentially unstable update into the stack. My understanding is there's some dependency problems, but just getting index.pl and such rendering is a big step forward.So in short, the technical aspects of the site are at least getting worked on. I'll cover the business side of it below the fold.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app chargesliar writes:The Reddit blackout, explained: Why thousands of subreddits are protesting third-party app charges:

hubie writes:Language used for app tracking privacy settings causes consumer confusion:

hubie writes:Here's why it matters to you:

canopic jug writes:Educator Lionel Dricot explores the historical prescience of Richard Stallman's (RMS) warnings and prophecies which have been spot on since the beginning, including his proposed solutions. Dricot points out that the problem with acceptance of the solutions is not with RMS or the Free Software Foundation (FSF), instead the problem is us and that we didn't listen. In addition to the Four Freedoms, he points out one obligation which has been taken for granted and left unspoken until now: the obligation to prevent privatization of the Commons.

upstart writes:Quantum weirdness applies to sound as well as to light and atomic particles:

upstart writes:AI is going to eat itself: Experiment shows people training bots are using bots

fliptop writes:MSI's latest PSU series aims to mitigate user error with one minor change:

takyon writes:Submarine on expedition to Titanic wreck missing with 5 aboard; "search and rescue operation" underway

upstart writes:Is the US trying to kill crypto?:

upstart writes:IBM Says It's Made a Big Breakthrough in Quantum Computing:

owl writes:https://fanael.github.io/is-x86-risc-internally.html