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No Need to Recycle, These Disposable Coffee Cups are Made of Dirt
upstart writes:You can smash these 3D-printed cups from GaeaStar on the ground and walk away:
Linux Foundation Launches New Organization to Maintain TLA+
upstart writes:Linux Foundation launches new organization to maintain TLA+:
Simulating a Secure Future
hubie writes:Next-generation silicon chips based on spintronics could improve global cybersecurity:
A Vegan Leather Made of Dormant Fungi Can Repair Itself
upstart writes:The fungi can regrow, potentially fixing tears in items one day made from the alternative leather:
TODAY: Watch Ispace Attempt to Land on the Moon for the First Time
upstart writes:Watch ispace attempt to land on the moon for the first time:
Universal Flu Candidate Vaccine Appears to be Safe and Promising in Small-Scale Trial
Christopher Gray writes:If I understand it correctly, researchers made a vaccine that targets the proteins common to all flu viruses instead of the part that changes every year. They tested it on 52 people and found it safe and effective.A Widge, et al. An Influenza Hemagglutinin Stem Nanoparticle 1 Vaccine Induces Cross
Linux 6.3 Debuts After ‘Nice, Controlled Release Cycle’
upstart writes:Linux 6.3 debuts after 'nice, controlled release cycle':
Rats! Rodents Seem to Make the Same Logical Errors Humans Do
hubie writes:Both tend to judge the co-occurrence of two events as more probable than one event alone:
BuzzFeed News is Shutting Down
upstart writes:The move came as its parent company, BuzzFeed Inc., seeks further cost cuts:
Autonomous Cars Confused by San Francisco's Fog
upstart writes:Autonomous cars confused by San Francisco's fog:
The Classic Map of How the Human Brain Manages Movement Gets an Update
upstart writes:Three small regions unexpectedly connect to a network known for planning and pain perception:
Your Baby's Gut is Crawling With Unknown Viruses
hubie writes:Babies tumble about with more than 200 previously unknown viral families within their intestines:
The SpaceX Starship Explosion Was Deliberate
upstart writes:Perhaps not all booms are bad:
Users Report Ryzen 7000X3D Chips Burning Out, Killing Motherboards
upstart writes:Likely a motherboard BIOS issue:
Physicists Create the Fattest Schrödinger's Cat Ever
upstart writes:A recent experiment tested the mass-based boundaries between the quantum and classical realms:
Weird SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak in Mink Suggests Hidden Source of Virus in the Wild
upstart writes:The lineage had not been seen in the area for over two years:
Red Alert: ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government in the World to Seize Domain Names
upstart writes:Red Alert: ICANN and Verisign Proposal Would Allow Any Government In The World To Seize Domain Names:
NASA and Japan Team Up for Unprecedented Martian Moon Mission
upstart writes:The U.S. space agency is supplying two instruments for a Japanese spacecraft tasked with collecting samples from Phobos:
The Farthest-away Pictures of Earth Ever Taken
upstart writes:Our precious planet seen from deep space:
End of an Era: the Last Two Print Computer Magazines Just Pressed Their Last Issues
upstart writes:MacLife and Maximum PC April issues will be their last physical versions:
New Map of the Universe's Cosmic Growth Supports Einstein's Theory of Gravity
hubie writes:For millennia, humans have been fascinated by the mysteries of the cosmos:
AI Weapons Among Non-State Actors May be Impossible to Stop
upstart writes:Governments also have no theory on how nefarious groups might behave using the tech:
Proton Expands its Private Tech Ecosystem With a Password Manager
upstart writes:The encrypted email service has more features than ever and surpassed 100 million users worldwide:
Detailed Notes on Working With OpenBSD on a ThinkPad X270
canopic jug writes:Theologian Dr Corey Stephan has documented his exploration of installing OpenBSD on an old ThinkPad X270. He has posted his rather thorough personal notes which cover the intial setup, such as power management, performance tweaks, Wi-Fi configuration, audio and video, tracking -current, and getting software from the ports tree. He also goes into a bit of his favored tools and workflow.
Your Fork Could Someday be Made of Sugar, Wood Powders and Degrade on-Demand
hubie writes:Researchers have created a sturdy, lightweight material made from sugar and wood-derived powders that disintegrates on-demand:
Archaeologists Unearth a Fanciful Ancient Winery Near Rome
upstart writes:The winery's layout and finishes suggest the wine-making was merely a spectacle for ancient Roman elites:
AI Poised to Transform Video Compression Landscape
upstart writes:Apple's WaveOne purchase heralds a new era in smart-streaming of AR and video:
Kodiak Robotics Will Haul Freight Autonomously for Tyson Foods
upstart writes:Kodiak Robotics will haul freight autonomously for Tyson Foods:
How to Create Your Own Auto-GPT AI Agent
upstart writes:Create an AI agent that works from a set of goals:
A Prehistoric Method for Tailoring Clothes May be Written in Bone
upstart writes:A punctured bone fragment predates eyed needles in Western Europe by about 15,000 years:
Dairy Foods Helped Ancient Tibetans Thrive in One of Earth's Most Inhospitable Environments
hubie writes:Ancient protein evidence shows milk consumption was a powerful cultural adaptation that stimulated human expansion onto the highland Tibetan Plateau:
Europe, World: Heating and Breaching
quietus writes:It looks like the Paris Agreement is as dead as the fried chicken at my local deli.At Paris, in 2015, the World agreed to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.The latest report of the EU's Climate Change Service shows (summary pdf) that this target has been royally breached, at least for Europe. Temperatures there, averaged over the last 5 years, have increased by 2.2 degrees celsius.Europe, at least, has a climate change service to measure these things. As for the rest of the world, an extrapolation of the pattern shown in Figure 1c, here, indicates that, there too, demand for swimming pools and flood insurance will grow.To illustrate the complexity of the problem, the heatwave in mid-July of 2022 was caused by hot air from the Sahara moving into Europe, driving temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius. By mid-August, a stationary high-pressure system with clear skies and weak winds took hold, and caused a second heatwave, which was made worse due to the soil being dried out by the mid-July event, and no rains since.Events above the Sahara might have come a second time in play, here. Increasing temperatures lead to a stronger evaporation over sea, while the land heats up more. This results in a stronger temperature gradient, which draws rains deeper inland: heavier rainfalls now are reported in the central Sahara, in summer, with formerly dry valleys being put under four meters of water. This causes less Sahara dust in the atmosphere, and hence shields the land less from solar radiation: the EU's report mentions that 2022 surface solar radiation was the highest in a 40 year record, and part of a positive trend.To end with a positive note, the EU ain't doing so bad, compared to Greenland: three different heatwaves in 2022, and an average September temperature more than 8 degrees Celsius higher than normal.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
Cosmic Antimatter Hints at Origins of Huge Bubbles in Our Galaxy's Center
upstart writes:The Fermi bubbles may have started life as jets of high-energy charged particles:
Seagate Hit With $300 Million Fine for Shipping 7.4 Million HDDs to Huawei
upstart writes:U.S. government imposes record fine on Seagate for violating sanctions against Seagate:
This New Technology Could Blow Away GPT-4 and Everything Like It
upstart writes:The Hyena code is able to handle amounts of data that make GPT-style technology run out of memory and fail:
The EPA is Being Sued for Approving Cancer-Causing Plastic-Based Fuels
upstart writes:Proposed emissions from a Mississippi Chevron plant could raise locals' cancer risk by 250,000x the acceptable level and a community group is fighting back:
Tencent Cloud Says It's Mass Producing Custom Video Chips
upstart writes:Chinese tech giant claims better performance than competing GPUs:
3D-Printed Rocket Didn't Reach Orbit, but Relativity Space is Already Building its Successor
upstart writes:The company says it learned much from Terran-1's debut flight and is choosing to go bigger for its successor:
Hearing Loss May Become Reversible.
mhajicek writes:Potentially good news for old machinists and over-the-hill heavy metal fans:
Tech Employees Say They Were Being Paid to Do Nothing All Day
upstart writes:Big tech companies were apparently hiring workers to keep them from joining rival firms:
Inside the Secret List of Websites That Make AI Like ChatGPT Sound Smart
upstart writes:Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart:
Building Telescopes on the Moon Could Transform Astronomy
upstart writes:The Moon still has much to tell us about the early solar system:
Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023
Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023upstart writes:Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023:
Europe Will Invest €43 Billion to Make its Own Microchips
upstart writes:A European Chips Act to play catch-up with the US and Asia:
GS1 Proposes Sunrise 2027 for 2D Barcodes on Products
throckmorten writes:GS1, the global standards organisation for barcodes, has started to advertise their Sunrise 2027 program for adding 2D barcodes to products.
Whisper Aero Wants to Make Aviation, and the Rest of the World, Quieter
upstart writes:Whisper Aero wants to make aviation, and the rest of the world, quieter:
Recycled Core Routers Exposed Sensitive Corporate Network Info
upstart writes:Researchers are warning about a dangerous wave of unwiped, secondhand core-routers:
An Old NASA Spacecraft Will Crash to Earth on Wednesday
upstart writes:An old NASA spacecraft will crash to Earth on Wednesday:
+45. If only most of us were so lucky.
Woodherd writes:So it says at The Register.
For Cybercriminal Mischief, It’s Dark Web Vs Deep Web
upstart writes:A new report sees threat actors swarming to digital bazaars to collaborate, buy and sell malware and credentials:
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