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hubie writes:Physicists confirm 67-year-old prediction of massless, neutral composite particle:

Rosco P. Coltrane writes:If you use any Simple Mobile Tools Android app (Simple Draw Pro, Simple Music Player, Simple Dialer, Simple SMS Messenger, Simple Voice Recorder, Simple Flashlight, Simple App Launcher, Simple Clock, Simple Launcher, Simple Camera or Simple Calendar Pro), you might want to consider uninstall it - particularly if you've installed it from the Google Play Store rather than from F-Droid.The author, Tibor Kaputa has sold Simple Mobile Tools apps to well-know Israeli advertisement company ZipoApps. If you don't like ads or you fear ad-borne malware, Simple Mobile Tools apps aren't for your anymore.Most users of the apps and contributors are dismayed. You can follow the Reddit threads dedicated to the issue here and here if you want to find ads-free open-source alternative apps. Of course, F-Droid builds will start flagging Simple Mobile Tools with the ads anti-feature flag - if the tools aren't dropped altogether - but the safest action if you rely on them is to disable updating the apps altogether, to keep the last independent versions installed.It's a sad day for the open-source Android ecosystem, as Simple Mobile Tools apps are well-regarded and part of many people's everyday lives. Hopefully they will be forked and development will continue on the forked versions.Thanks Tibor for your great work over the years. Too bad that you couldn't find any other way to cash out.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes:A high school's deepfake porn scandal is pushing US lawmakers into action:

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owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/11/intel-386-clock-circuit.html

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-11-sentinel-universally-understood-continents.html

hubie writes:When ad blocking is a cat-and-mouse game, make the mouse slower:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/biology/dolphin-sense-electric-fields/

canopic jug writes:Standards nerd and technology enthusiast, Terence Eden, has published a South Up, Aotearoa Centred, Equal-Earth Projection Map which has the south end up and uses the Equal Earth projection to ensure proportional land-mass size. In other words, the globe has been rotated to 150 and created in a multi-stage process mostly using R. The borders are from Natural Earth, the country names from OpenStreetMap, and flags from Twemoji.

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/science/fungi-boost-crop-yield/

canopic jug writes:The site Switch On Business analyzed Microsoft's LinkedIn employee profiles for Google (Alphabet), Amazon, Apple, Meta (Facebook), Microsoft itself, IBM, Tesla, Oracle, Netflix, Nvidia, Salesforce, Adobe, Intel, and Uber. From that subset of employees they highlighted those who currently work in each tech giant and previously worked for one of the others. That provided for an estimate of the number and percentage of employees who have moved from one of these companies to another:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/sam-altman-officially-back-as-openai-ceo-we-didnt-lose-a-single-employee/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/hackers-spent-2-years-looting-secrets-of-chipmaker-nxp-before-being-detected/

upstart writes:If you've got an old Google account that you have not used for a couple of years then it could soon be deleted:

upstart writes:Every Bitcoin transaction uses, on average, enough water to fill "a back yard swimming pool", a new study suggests:

hubie writes:Modern day parenting pressures and expectations are leading to the death knell for children enjoying spontaneous play:

fliptop writes:Tim O'Reilly, Mariana Mazzucato, and Ilan Strauss have three working papers focusing on Amazon's ability to extract unusual profits from its customers nowadays:

Rich writes:The Sovereign Tech Fund (https://www.sovereigntechfund.de/), a subsidiary of Germany's Ministry for Economic affairs, will issue a one million dollar grant to the GNOME foundation (https://www.gnome.org/). Most reports are in German, but OMGUbuntu has a summary at https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-sovereign-tech-fund. The foundation already has supported several open source infrastructure projects, from FORTRAN to cURL, but this is the first time that it directly supports the Linux desktop.This grant acknowledges GNOME a part of critical infrastructure and therefore worthy of this public support. Most of the spent money will go into improving accessibility, but some points also address security and the general software infrastructure.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/11/stability-ai-releases-stable-video-diffusion-which-turns-pictures-into-short-videos/

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/traffic-triggers-blood-pressure-surge/

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fliptop writes:They were asked about it, and they deleted everything:

hubie writes:The analysis compares innovations and policies related to plant-based and lab-grown alternatives to animal meat and dairy in the U.S. and European Union:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-11-solar-storms-locally-current-instrument.htmlA new study shows that there is greater local variation in the impact of solar storms on Earth than previously estimated. Researchers show that the effects can vary widely even over distances as small as 100 kilometers. The findings are published in Scientific Reports.Local changes in the magnetic environment have so far remained largely unexplored due to the sparse magnetometer array in the main observing area. Today, solar storms, or geomagnetic storms, are recorded on average by magnetometers spaced about 400 km apart.Solar storm effects are caused by fast solar wind streams, which cause large electric currents to flow through the ionosphere of the Earth's auroral region, but the behavior of these currents during storms is still not fully understood. Solar storms also appear as auroras.Researchers from the Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory (SGO) and the Ionospheric Physics Group at the University of Oulu, Finland studied the local magnetic field perturbations in the auroral region during space storms using historical data.The new study looked at data from a strong solar storm in December 1977 from all 32 stations of the then Scandinavian Magnetometer Array (SMA) network in the Nordic countries, which is denser than the current network, and largely unexplored.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/features/2023/11/the-ars-guide-to-time-travel-in-the-movies/

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owl writes:https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23978042/popular-science-digital-magazine-discontinued

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/researchers-beat-windows-hello-fingerprint-sensors-with-raspberry-pi-and-linux/

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owl writes:https://www.clinicalcorrelations.org/2019/02/22/the-history-behind-aspirin-81/

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-11-soot-pollution-coal-fired-power-deadly.html

hubie writes:Simple ballpoint pen can write custom LEDs:

SomeGuy writes:SFGate reports: As a major dust storm hit, the Google Maps app helpfully offered Nevada drivers on Interstate 15 an alternate route... into the middle of nowhere.

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upstart writes:It may be dated but contains many years of pranks!Hackers' delight: A history of MIT pranks and hacks:

Cheap drugs may be within reach thanks to copper chemistry discoverytaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/copper-oxygen-cheap-drugs/