Nostr notes by Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

‘Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the ...

2026-07-28T19:35:00Z

‘Government Hopes To Set a Precedent’: An Interview With the Man Charged for Allegedly Wiping His #GrapheneOS #Phone
#US government has charged #SamuelTunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people”
The case of Tunick, who participated in #StopCopCity movement, has resonated across #privacy and #civilliberties circles
https://www.404media.co/the-government-hopes-to-set-a-precedent-an-interview-with-the-man-charged-for-allegedly-wiping-his-grapheneos-phone/
https://archive.ph/T39kq

The great #American #datacenter divide Many #rural communities ...

2026-06-08T12:39:00Z

The great #American #datacenter divide
Many #rural communities are viscerally opposed to #AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House
Data centres, once clustered around cities and towns, are moving into #farm country in search of cheap land and tax incentives. According to Pew Research Center, 67% of planned data centres are in rural areas, while 87% of existing data centres are in urban ones.
https://www.ft.com/content/ba4e8e02-11e9-437c-b6a9-89778647a6cc
https://archive.ph/sKaVA

#ElonMusk tries again to escape #FTC audits of #X data handling ...

2026-06-06T16:47:00Z

#ElonMusk tries again to escape #FTC audits of #X data handling
The FTC order placed restrictions on X’s data use for 20 years, while requiring regular independent audits and granting the agency authority to request documents as needed to ensure compliance.
Musk tried and failed to get the order revoked in 2023.
Critics hope to keep Elon Musk from escaping a strict data-#privacy order imposed by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) shortly before he took over #Twitter.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/elon-musk-tries-again-to-escape-ftc-audits-of-x-data-handling/

#Chernobyl #Fungus Seems to Have #Evolved an Incredible Ability ...

2026-05-03T00:27:01Z

#Chernobyl #Fungus Seems to Have #Evolved an Incredible Ability
Clinging to walls of one of most #radioactive buildings on Earth, scientists have found a strange black fungus curiously living its best life.
Fungus called Cladosporium sphaerospermum, and scientists think its dark pigment – melanin – may allow it to harness ionizing #radiation through a process similar to the way plants harness light for photosynthesis. Proposed mechanism is referred to as #radiosynthesis.
https://www.sciencealert.com/chernobyl-fungus-seems-to-have-evolved-an-incredible-ability

I tried running #Linux on an #AppleSilicon #Mac and regretted it ...

2026-03-21T19:35:01Z

I tried running #Linux on an #AppleSilicon #Mac and regretted it
#AsahiLinux is the best (and only) way to run Linux on a Mac
The thing about Apple silicon Macs is that it's not as simple as downloading an #AArch64 ISO of your favorite distro and installing it. Yes, the M-series chips are ARM-based, but that doesn't automatically make the whole system compatible in the same way most traditional x86 PCs are. Pretty much everything in modern MacBooks is custom.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/software/i-tried-running-linux-on-an-apple-silicon-mac-and-regretted-it/ar-AA1Wq5VD

#Opensource's new mission: Rebuild a continent's #tech ...

2026-03-02T01:27:01Z

#Opensource's new mission: Rebuild a continent's #tech stack
Freedom can be very contagious if it grows on its own terms. #Europe of all places should know that
The #EU is now eagerly looking to open source as part of digital decolonization. It wants to end dependency on American #software and services, not just for a healthier and more influential home sector, but to protect itself from hostile leverage.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/19/open_sources_new_mission_rebuild/

#AI can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in #wargame ...

2026-02-25T20:35:01Z

#AI can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in #wargame simulations
Leading AIs from #OpenAI, #Anthropic and #Google opted to use #nuclearweapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases
The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources and existential threats to regime survival.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2516885-ais-cant-stop-recommending-nuclear-strikes-in-war-game-simulations/

What could go wrong?

#AI’s #water and #electricity use soars in #2025 A new study ...

2026-02-01T22:09:01Z

#AI’s #water and #electricity use soars in #2025
A new study estimates the environmental impact of AI in 2025 and calls for more transparency from companies on their #pollution and water consumption.
AI created as much carbon pollution this year as New York City and guzzled up as much H20 as people consume globally in water bottles, according to new estimates.
https://www.theverge.com/news/845831/ai-chips-data-center-power-water
https://archive.ph/WUoq5

How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are ICE uses ...

2026-01-30T20:35:01Z

How #ICE Already Knows Who #Minneapolis #Protesters Are
ICE uses two #facialrecognition programs one made #tech company #ClearviewAI and #MobileFortify. ICE is also using #cellphone and #socialmedia tools to monitor people’s activity and hack into phones. Agents are tapping into database, built by #Palantir, combines government and commercial data to identify real-time locations for individuals they are pursuing, current and former officials said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/technology/tech-ice-facial-recognition-palantir.html
https://archive.ph/A32Ao

#Physicists discovered# neutrinos 70 years ago. The ghostly ...

2026-01-27T15:26:01Z

#Physicists discovered# neutrinos 70 years ago. The ghostly #particles still have secrets to tell
Exist they do. Not in scarcity, either. They are most abundant massive #particle in universe, outnumbering protons about a billion to one. Scientists are still grappling with what these particles are about. And neutrinos are not just one type of particle, either, but trio of particles — electron neutrinos, muon neutrinos, and tau neutrinos — and corresponding antimatter.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neutrinos-70th-anniversary-history

A new hunt for an #Earth analog begins The ...

2026-01-24T22:09:00Z

A new hunt for an #Earth analog begins
The #TerraHuntingExperiment will monitor dozens of sunlike #stars with enough precision to detect Earth twins
Over the last three decades, #astronomers have discovered more than 6,000 #planets outside our #solarsystem — yet none that look just like home. That might be about to change.
A new #telescope project kicked off in the #CanaryIslands in mid-December is tasked with one main objective: to find an Earth twin.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-analog-terra-hunting-experiment

#Microsoft gave #FBI a set of #BitLocker encryption keys to ...

2026-01-24T17:47:01Z

#Microsoft gave #FBI a set of #BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects’ laptops: reports
By default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud, allowing the tech giant — and by extension #lawenforcement — to access them and use them to decrypt drives encrypted with BitLocker, as with the case reported by Forbes. https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-set-of-bitlocker-encryption-keys-to-unlock-suspects-laptops-reports/
#security #privacy

#Billionaires are spending massive sums on #politics. A backlash ...

2026-01-21T11:04:01Z

#Billionaires are spending massive sums on #politics. A backlash brews.
Protesters and counterprotesters showed up in Brookville, Indiana, reflecting a debate rippling across the country.
Political debates about the influence of the very #wealthy are not new in #America; as far back as the late 1800s, the power of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and others sparked criticism and condemnation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/10/billionaire-politics-protests-sanders/
https://archive.ph/PiyDa

#Europe Must Invest in #OpenSource #AI or Cede to #China, former ...

2026-01-20T17:47:01Z

#Europe Must Invest in #OpenSource #AI or Cede to #China, former Google exec & tech investor #EricSchmidt said
"In #US, companies are largely moving to closed source, which means they'll be purchased and licensed and so forth. And it is also the case that China is largely open weight, open source in its approach," Schmidt said at #Davos. "Unless Europe is willing to spend lots of money for European models, Europe will end up using Chinese models."
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-20/europe-must-invest-in-open-source-ai-or-cede-to-china-schmidt
https://archive.ph/MeDx0

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2026-01-16T14:03:47Z

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Critical flaw lets hackers track, eavesdrop via Bluetooth audio ...

2026-01-16T00:04:01Z

Critical flaw lets hackers track, eavesdrop via Bluetooth audio devices:
Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of #headphones and #speakers use #Google’s one-tap #FastPair #Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
https://www.wired.com/story/google-fast-pair-bluetooth-audio-accessories-vulnerability-patches/
https://archive.ph/pWKtT

#WhisperPair Affects: #Sony, #Jabra, #JBL, #Marshall, #Xiaomi, #Nothing, #OnePlus, #Soundcore, #Logitech, and Google itself.

‘ELITE’: The #Palantir App #ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to ...

2026-01-15T17:16:02Z

‘ELITE’: The #Palantir App #ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Palantir is working on a tool for ICE that populates a map with potential #deportation targets, brings up a dossier on each person, and provides a “confidence score” on the person’s current address. ICE is using it to find locations where lots of people it might detain could be. Tool receives peoples’ addresses from Department of Health and Human Services (#HHS) among other sources
https://www.404media.co/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
https://archive.ph/9UPzF

US Department of Commerce lifts planned crackdown on #China ...

2026-01-12T01:27:01Z

US Department of Commerce lifts planned crackdown on #China #drones, including #DJI — company gets reprieve ahead of Xi-Trump meeting in April, but the #FCC ban still stands.
While it may seem that Department of Commerce and FCC bans are one and the same, they are actually different restrictions. Commerce ban focuses on import , while the FCC is preventing the company from receiving equipment authorization. FCC certification is still a requirement before they enter #US
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/us-department-of-commerce-lifts-planned-crackdown-on-chinese-drones-including-dji-company-gets-reprieve-ahead-of-xi-trump-meeting-in-april-but-the-fcc-ban-still-stands.

Brussels plots #opensource push to pry #Europe off #BigTech ...

2026-01-11T20:35:01Z

Brussels plots #opensource push to pry #Europe off #BigTech
According to the Commission, dependence on foreign vendors makes it harder for Europe to control its digital stack, potentially opening the door to security and resilience issues in sensitive sectors. Open source offers a way out of that bind by underpinning "a diverse portfolio of high-quality and secure digital solutions" that can act as viable alternatives to proprietary platforms, the EC said. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2026/01/11/eu_open_source_consultation/

War Over a #Weedkiller Might Be Headed to the #SupremeCourt ...

2026-01-09T13:39:02Z

War Over a #Weedkiller Might Be Headed to the #SupremeCourt
#Bayer has asked justices to decide whether federal law shields company from lawsuits over its #Roundup #herbicide and #cancer. Democrats and MAHA activists aren’t happy.
Bayer’s Supreme Court petition is latest chapter in yearslong controversy over Roundup, developed by #Monsanto in 1970s as revolutionary weedkiller. Pesticide allows #GMO #crops to grow unimpeded while killing most weeds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/climate/supreme-court-weedkiller-roundup.html
https://archive.ph/egt2M

#America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific ...

2026-01-08T22:21:01Z

#America’s new dietary guidelines ignore decades of scientific research
An emphasis on fruit, vegetables, and whole foods is welcome—but it’s wrong to suggest steak and beef tallow should be prominent.
Guidelines are a big deal—they influence food assistance programs and #schoollunches.Significant focus on #meat and whole-fat #dairy. Both can be high in #saturatedfat, which can increase risk of #cardiovasculardisease—leading cause of death in #US.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/08/1130905/americas-diet-guidelines-ignore-scientific-research-red-meat-beef-tallow/
https://archive.ph/4jGJJ

In #2025, #US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days ...

2026-01-08T17:47:01Z

In #2025, #US suffered a billion-dollar disaster every 10 days
All told, the U.S. notched 23 billion-dollar weather and #climate disasters in 2025, which claimed 276 lives and caused $115 billion in damages. Only 2023 and 2024 recorded more of these events, and 2025 was the 15th consecutive year with an above-average number.
The clear signal here is #climatechange: It’s worsening #wildfires, causing heavier #rainfall and #flooding, and supercharging #hurricanes.
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/in-2025-america-suffered-a-billion-dollar-disaster-every-10-days/

#Norway reaches 97% #EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its ...

2026-01-02T22:21:00Z

#Norway reaches 97% #EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads
In 2017, Norway set a formal non-binding target to end fossil #car sales in the country by 2025 – a target earlier than any other country in the world by several years. Norway was already well ahead of the world in EV adoption, with about a third of new #cars being electric at the time – but it wanted to schedule the final blow for just 8 years later, fairly short as far as automotive timelines go. https://electrek.co/2026/01/02/norway-reaches-97-ev-sales-as-evs-now-outnumber-diesels-on-its-roads/

Aviation watchdog says organized #drone attacks will shut #UK ...

2025-12-22T01:27:00Z

Aviation watchdog says organized #drone attacks will shut #UK #airports ‘sooner or later’
Skies are open for mischief as hard-to-trace drones and fast-moving cyber raids promise new wave of disruption
Warning revives memories of 2018 Gatwick fiasco, when repeated drone sightings grounded more than 140,000 passengers and shut #airport for 3 days. That incident led to tighter UK rules barring drones from flying higher than 400ft or within a kilometer of an airport boundary.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/12/uk_aviation_boss_says_organized/

#LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For ...

2025-12-20T17:47:01Z

#LoongArch Promoted To Being An Official Architecture For #Debian14
Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for #Debian #Linux.
LoongArch is the #CPU architecture developed by #Loongson in #China and inspired by #MIPS and #RISCV. https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-LoongArch64-Official

What even is the #AIbubble? Everyone in #tech agrees we’re in ...

2025-12-18T11:04:01Z

What even is the #AIbubble?
Everyone in #tech agrees we’re in an #AI bubble. They just can’t agree on what it looks like — or what happens when it pops
MIT study claimed 95% of organizations that invested in #generativeAI were getting “zero return.” Tech stocks briefly plunged. Study itself was more nuanced than headlines, for many it still felt like first data point confirming what skeptics had muttered for months: Hype around AI outpacing reality
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1129183/what-even-is-the-ai-bubble/
https://archive.ph/KNRzY

#US Helped to Weaken Report at #UN Environment Talks, ...

2025-12-12T00:04:01Z

#US Helped to Weaken Report at #UN Environment Talks, Participants Say
American officials joined #Russia, #SaudiArabia and #Iran in objecting to language on #fossilsfuels, #biodiversity and #plastics.
The section targeted was a summary of the Global Environment Outlook 7, a 1,210-page report that translates scientific evidence collected and reviewed by 300 experts into plain language that can be used by governments around the world.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/11/climate/unep-climate-report-trump-administration.html
https://archive.ph/7Gz27

A #River Restoration in #Oregon Gets Fast Results: The #Salmon ...

2025-12-11T13:39:01Z

A #River Restoration in #Oregon Gets Fast Results: The #Salmon Swam Right Back
The #fish had been missing from the headwaters of the #KlamathRiver for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final #dam, they’ve returned.
Oregon #wildlife officials said the fish had made it past a key milestone, a long lake, and had reached the tributary streams that make up the river’s headwaters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/climate/klamath-salmon-recovery.html
https://archive.ph/CiNVg

A Slovenian #security researcher has published an analysis of ...

2025-12-08T22:21:00Z

A Slovenian #security researcher has published an analysis of #Sipeed’s #NanoKVM that raises far-reaching concerns about the €30-€60 ($35-70) remote management device. Alarmingly, the researcher’s teardown shows the device ships with a catalogue of security failures and an undocumented microphone that can be activated over SSH and the device communicates with #China-based servers.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/researcher-finds-undocumented-microphone-and-major-security-flaws-in-sipeed-nanokvm #ITSec

'Death Ball' Sponge and Glowing Worms Among Creatures ...

2025-12-07T17:47:00Z

'Death Ball' Sponge and Glowing Worms Among Creatures Discovered in #SouthernOcean
Scientists have discovered 30 new species in the deep recesses of the Southern #Ocean, including iridescent scale worms and a carnivorous “death ball” sponge.
The small, round sponge, of the genus #Chondrocladia, is covered in tiny hooks that trap prey, according to the Nippon Foundation–Nekton Ocean Census, which confirmed the discoveries.
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/southern-ocean-new-species

#IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar #AI #datacenter ...

2025-12-03T17:47:01Z

#IBM CEO warns that ongoing trillion-dollar #AI #datacenter buildout is unsustainable — says there is 'no way' that infrastructure costs can turn a profit
#ArvindKrishna said today’s figures for constructing and populating large AI data centers place the industry on a trajectory where roughly $8 trillion of cumulative commitments would require around $800 billion of annual profit simply to service the cost of capital.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ibm-ceo-warns-trillion-dollar-ai-boom-unsustainable-at-current-infrastructure-costs

#HPE to ship #rackscale #AI system using #AMD's #Helios in ...

2025-12-02T22:21:01Z

#HPE to ship #rackscale #AI system using #AMD's #Helios in #2026
Announced ahead of HPE's Discover event in Barcelona this week. Helios is intended to operate a rack full of nodes fitted with accelerators as if they were one single large #GPU, like Nvidia's DGX GB200 NVL72 system, to which Helios is pitched as a rival. Helios will be a vehicle for its next-generation Instinct #MI455X GPUs and its 6th-gen Epyc CPUs, codenamed Venice, both of which are due next year.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/hpe_amd_helios_racks/

#SiliconValley #AI startups are seeing record valuations, but ...

2025-12-02T00:04:01Z

#SiliconValley #AI startups are seeing record valuations, but many are building on cheap, free-to-download AI models from #China
“These models were not that far behind the frontier. In fact, they were surprisingly close to the frontier. The ones that are coming now, well they’re palpably close to the frontier.”
Models like #DeepSeek’s #R1 and #Alibaba’s #Qwen, are free to use & considered “#opensource” or “#openweight” because anyone can download, copy, modify & use them.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/silicon-valley-building-free-chinese-ai-rcna242430

Global #offshorewind surges ahead as Trump sinks US progress ...

2025-12-01T15:26:01Z

Global #offshorewind surges ahead as Trump sinks US progress
According to the analysis, 27 countries, 27 subnational governments, and three regions now have offshore wind targets in place. Together, their 2030 national targets total 263 gigawatts (GW) of offshore #wind – and that doesn’t even include China, which hasn’t set a national target yet.
https://electrek.co/2025/10/29/global-offshore-wind-surges-ahead-as-trump-sinks-us-progress/

Is language the same as intelligence? The #AI industry ...

2025-11-26T00:04:01Z

Is language the same as intelligence? The #AI industry desperately needs it to be
Is it all a Large language mistake?
Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire #AIbubble is built on ignoring it.
Fundamentally, current #AI are based on gathering an extraordinary amount of linguistic data, finding correlations between words (more accurately, sub-words called “tokens”), and then predicting what output should follow given a prompt.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligence-neuroscience-problems

#ElonMusk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors #X’s decision ...

2025-11-25T22:21:01Z

#ElonMusk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
#X’s decision to show where accounts are based is positive step in transparency, which has let troll and spam accounts proliferate since #Musk’s purchase. And yet scale of deception suggests that in his haste to turn X into a political weapon for the #farright, Musk may have revealed platform he’s long called “the number 1 source of news on Earth” is really just a worthless, poisoned hall of mirrors.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2025/11/x-about-this-account/685042/
https://archive.ph/erSsG

#Snapdragon #X1Elite #Linux #laptop cancelled due to performance ...

2025-11-25T11:04:01Z

#Snapdragon #X1Elite #Linux #laptop cancelled due to performance concerns
#TuxedoComputers states that its biggest challenge was replicating the impressive battery life that these Arm laptops achieved under Windows. Aside from this, it lacked a feasible way to install BIOS updates for Linux, support for fan control, virtualization with KVM, and high-speed USB4 transfer speeds. It’s also having issues with video decoding, which are often unsupported by most applications.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/snapdragon-x1-elite-linux-laptop-cancelled-due-to-performance-concerns-linux-pc-maker-says-qualcomm-is-less-suitable-for-linux-than-expected

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on ...

2025-11-24T11:04:01Z

#CambridgeUniversity launches project to rescue data trapped on old #floppydisks
On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here? The public “Copy that Floppy” session marked the launch of #FutureNostalgia, a year-long project dedicated to rescuing data from obsolete magnetic media before time and oxide decay make it impossible.
https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks

#China confirms #solarpanel projects are irreversibly changing ...

2025-11-23T22:09:00Z

#China confirms #solarpanel projects are irreversibly changing #desert #ecosystems
A team studying one of the largest #photovoltaic parks in China, the Gonghe project in the Talatan Desert, found a striking difference between what was happening under the panels and what lay just beyond. Environment beneath the panels was noticeably healthier. The reasons track with physics: shade cools the surface and slows evaporation, letting scarce soil moisture linger longer.
https://glassalmanac.com/china-confirms-solar-panel-projects-are-irreversibly-changing-desert-ecosystems/

“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how #AI ...

2025-11-23T20:35:01Z

“Like putting on glasses for the first time”—how #AI improves #earthquake detection
Over the past seven years, AI tools based on computer imaging have almost completely automated one of the fundamental tasks of #seismology: detecting #earthquakes. What used to be the task of human analysts—and later, simpler computer programs—can now be done automatically and quickly by #machinelearning tools.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/like-putting-on-glasses-for-the-first-time-how-ai-improves-earthquake-detection/

In a first, #renewables generate more power than #coal globally ...

2025-11-22T00:04:01Z

In a first, #renewables generate more power than #coal globally
“We’re seeing the first signs of a crucial turning point,” said Małgorzata Wiatros-Motyka, senior electricity analyst at Ember. “#Solar and #wind are now growing fast enough to meet the world’s growing appetite for #electricity. This marks the beginning of a shift where clean power is keeping pace with demand growth.”
https://electrek.co/2025/10/06/in-a-first-renewables-generate-more-power-than-coal-globally/

How different #mushrooms learned the same #psychedelic trick ...

2025-11-21T20:35:02Z

How different #mushrooms learned the same #psychedelic trick
Based on the work led by Hoffmeister, enzymes from two types of unrelated mushrooms under study appear to have evolved independently from each other and take different routes to create the exact same compound, #psilocybin. This is a process known as #convergentevolution, which means that unrelated living organisms evolve two distinct ways to produce the same trait. One other example is #caffeine.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/how-different-mushrooms-learned-the-same-psychedelic-trick/

#Canonical To Now Provide Up To 15 Years Commercial Support For ...

2025-11-14T13:39:01Z

#Canonical To Now Provide Up To 15 Years Commercial Support For #Ubuntu #LTS Releases
For commercial customers wanting to stick to legacy #Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) releases, Canonical will now provide the paid support for up to 15 years. This 15 year support window goes into effect with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and newer LTS versions.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-LTS-Canonical-15-Years #Linux

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs A lively ...

2025-11-13T15:26:02Z

#FFmpeg to #Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs
A lively discussion about #opensource, security, and who pays the bills
FFmpeg’s libraries, such as #libavcodec and #libavformat, are essential for #media players and software, including VLC, Kodi, Plex, #GoogleChrome, Firefox, and even #YouTube’s #video processing backend. It is also, like many other vital open source programs, terribly underfunded.
https://thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-google-fund-us-or-stop-sending-bugs/

Here's What Happens to the #Plastic in #DishwasherPods In the ...

2025-11-12T15:26:02Z

Here's What Happens to the #Plastic in #DishwasherPods
In the case of #dishwasher #pods, companies have tried to design the plastic films to dissolve harmlessly. Even so, some researchers are concerned these pods may persist in the environment, ultimately adding to other plastic-related exposures that science is increasingly linking to chronic #diseases.
Here’s the latest research on how dishwasher pods might affect #health.
https://time.com/7320935/dishwasher-pods-plastic/

There isn’t an #AIbubble—there are three Asset, ...

2025-11-10T13:39:01Z

There isn’t an #AIbubble—there are three
Asset, Infrastructure, and Hype Bubbles
There's lessons in the #1990s #dotcom boom: that "a thing can be hyped beyond its actual capabilities while still being important... What happened then will happen with #AI. When valuations correct—and they will—the same pattern will emerge: companies that focus on solving real problems with available technology will extract value before, during, and after the crash."
https://www.fastcompany.com/91400857/there-isnt-an-ai-bubble-there-are-three-ai-bu
https://archive.ph/8LmPv

Powerful new #antibiotic that can kill #superbugs discovered in ...

2025-11-03T20:35:01Z

Powerful new #antibiotic that can kill #superbugs discovered in #soil #bacteria
Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against #drugresistant #infections.
They discovered an intermediate compound — called premethylenomycin C lactone — whose #antimicrobial activity was 100 times stronger than that of the final product. Tiny doses killed strains of bacteria known to cause hard-to-treat infections.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03595-3

#Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks #FTC to ...

2025-11-03T17:47:01Z

#Flock Logins Exposed In Malware Infections, Senator Asks #FTC to Investigate the Company
Senator #RonWyden says #AI-camera company Flock is violating federal law by not enforcing multi-factor authentication (#MFA). 404 Media previously found Flock credentials included in infostealer infections.
Flock’s automatic license plate reader (#ALPR) cameras continuously scan vehicles that pass them, and record their make, model, color, and license plate.
https://www.404media.co/flock-logins-exposed-in-malware-infections-senator-asks-ftc-to-investigate-the-company/
https://archive.ph/1xh7Z

#BlockIsland’s #WindFarm Had Unexpected Benefits A #RhodeIsland ...

2025-11-03T15:26:01Z

#BlockIsland’s #WindFarm Had Unexpected Benefits
A #RhodeIsland Wind Farm Changed Their View. And Their Lives, for the Better.
Five #Offshorewind turbines let Block Island shut down five soot-spewing, earsplitting #diesel generators. Energy costs, tied to the volatile #oil market, seesawed so much that local businesses struggled to manage their budgets, residents said. Power surges and dips fried household appliances. Clocks wouldn’t keep time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/22/climate/block-island-rhode-wind-turbines.html
https://archive.ph/ivEtM

How to Turn Off #SmartTV Snooping Features All smart #TV collect ...

2025-10-31T19:35:01Z

How to Turn Off #SmartTV Snooping Features
All smart #TV collect personal data. Here's how to use #privacy settings to limit #surveillance.
Any TV connected to internet likely does this alongside now-standard snooping practices, like tracking what apps you open and where you’re located. #ACR is particularly nefarious, though, as it can identify not just streaming services, but also offline content: video games, over-the-air broadcasts, and physical media.
https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smart-tv-snooping-features-a4840102036/ #OptOutOctober

#HurricaneMelissa strikes #Jamaica, tied as most powerful ...

2025-10-28T23:04:01Z

#HurricaneMelissa strikes #Jamaica, tied as most powerful #Atlantic storm to come ashore
By strengthening overnight and then maintaining its incredible intensity of 185 mph, Melissa has tied the Labor Day #Hurricane of 1935 as the most powerful hurricane to strike a landmass in the Atlantic Basin.
Melissa also tied the Labor Day storm, which struck the Florida Keys, as the most intense storm at landfall, measured by central pressure at 892 millibars.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/melissa-strikes-jamaica-tied-as-most-powerful-atlantic-storm-to-come-ashore/

Secret #SpaceX #satellites are transmitting mysterious signals on ...

2025-10-22T10:04:01Z

Secret #SpaceX #satellites are transmitting mysterious signals on the wrong spectrum — a classified network caught sending data on the uplink frequency
#Starshield's unusual transmissions have the potential to interfere with other scientific and commercial satellites, warns Scott Tilley, an amateur satellite tracker in Canada who first spotted the signals.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/17/nx-s1-5575254/spacex-starshield-starlink-signal

#Heatwaves and cold snaps: Study finds the #GreatLakes have ...

2025-10-16T12:39:01Z

#Heatwaves and cold snaps: Study finds the #GreatLakes have entered an era of extremes
“A lot of people say, okay, cold extremes are fine. We are heating, so let’s just cool it a little bit,” Hazem Abdelhady said, a water resource engineering researcher with the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes, “Maybe, but from the fish perspective, if you like to live at 20 degrees and suddenly the temperature dropped to 10 degrees, you’re still gonna die.”
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2025/08/heat-waves-cold-snaps-study-finds-great-lakes-era-of-extremes/

#Earth’s #Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping ...

2025-10-14T10:04:01Z

#Earth’s #Climate Has Passed Its First Irreversible Tipping Point and Entered a ‘New Reality’
The second #GlobalTippingPointsReport warns that the world has crossed a key threshold as #ocean heat devastates warm-water #reefs.
The world is entering a "new reality" as global temperatures will inevitably overshoot the goal of staying within 1.5C of pre-industrial averages set by the #ParisClimateAgreement in 2015.
https://www.404media.co/earths-climate-has-passed-its-first-irreversible-tipping-point-and-entered-a-new-reality/
https://archive.ph/XvfPc

#Nextcloud withdraws #EuropeanCommission #OneDrive complaint The ...

2025-10-12T19:35:01Z

#Nextcloud withdraws #EuropeanCommission #OneDrive complaint
The complaint was filed in 2021 and concerned #Microsoft's bundling of OneDrive with #Windows. It seemed timely, considering the increasing #Europe's antipathy toward the #US tech giants, but considering "there has not been any noticeable progress", according to Nextcloud, it is calling time on the complaint, for now at least.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/09/nextcloud_withdraws_ec_onedrive_bundling/

Groups Sue #EPA Over Canceled $7 Billion for #Solar Energy The ...

2025-10-07T12:39:01Z

Groups Sue #EPA Over Canceled $7 Billion for #Solar Energy
The lawsuit accused the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency of illegally revoking the money without #Congress's approval.
The #SolarForAll program was not only intended to help low- and moderate-income #homeowners. It was also meant to expand #communitysolar initiatives, which bring solar energy to people who don’t own their own homes or otherwise can’t install their own #solarpanels.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/climate/epa-solar-for-all-lawsuit.html
https://archive.ph/IJ45b

#Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years ...

2025-10-06T12:39:01Z

#Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
Chewing #betelnuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast #Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release #psychoactive compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/ancient-teeth-show-people-were-getting-high-off-betel-nuts-4000-years-ago/

Have we passed peak #socialmedia? As platforms degrade into ...

2025-10-03T21:21:01Z

Have we passed peak #socialmedia?
As platforms degrade into outrage and slop, users are turning away
It has gone largely unnoticed that time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline, according to an analysis of the online habits of 250,000 #adults in more than 50 countries. Notably, the decline is most pronounced among the erstwhile heaviest users — teens and 20-somethings. Though 2.5 hours per day is still a lot.
https://www.ft.com/content/a0724dd9-0346-4df3-80f5-d6572c93a863
https://archive.ph/4jep1

#Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule As ...

2025-09-08T12:39:01Z

#Science confirms what we all suspected: Four-day weeks rule
As long as you get paid like a 5-day gig
The research, led by Boston College associate professor of sociology Wen Fan and economics professor Juliet Schor, also found that changes to #working patterns led to better #jobsatisfaction and fewer #sleep problems.The research found that switching to a four-day #workweek led to an actual reduction in average working hours of around five hours per week.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/4_day_week_study/

Trump says #US will not approve #solar or #wind power projects ...

2025-08-22T14:26:02Z

Trump says #US will not approve #solar or #wind power projects
"We will not approve wind or farmer destroying Solar," Trump, who has complained in the past that solar takes up too much land, posted on Truth Social. "The days of stupidity are over in the USA!!!"
#Renewable companies fear that projects will no longer receive permits that were once normal course of business. The president’s comments Wednesday will likely heighten those concerns.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/trump-says-us-will-not-approve-solar-or-wind-power-projects.html

#Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the ...

2025-08-19T10:04:01Z

#Climate models reveal how human activity may be locking the Southwest into permanent #drought
For decades, scientists have relied on a basic physical principle to predict rainfall trends: Warmer air holds more moisture. In a warming world, this means wet areas are likely to get wetter, while dry regions become drier. In dry areas, as temperatures rise, more moisture is pulled from soils and transported away from these arid regions, intensifying droughts.
https://theconversation.com/climate-models-reveal-how-human-activity-may-be-locking-the-southwest-into-permanent-drought-262837
#climatechange

#ChatGPT5 power consumption could be as much as eight times ...

2025-08-15T10:04:06Z

#ChatGPT5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than #GPT4 — research institute estimates medium-sized #GPT5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity
University of Rhode Island's AI lab estimates that GPT-5 averages just over 18 Wh per query, so putting all of #ChatGPT's reported 2.5B requests a day through the model could see energy usage as high as 45GWh equivalent of two to three nuclear power reactors, enough to power a small country.
https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/chatgpt-5-power-consumption-could-be-as-much-as-eight-times-higher-than-gpt-4-research-institute-estimates-medium-sized-gpt-5-response-can-consume-up-to-40-watt-hours-of-electricity

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End #America’s run as ...

2025-08-11T23:04:01Z

Every Scientific Empire Comes to an End
#America’s run as premier techno-superpower may be over.
On a visit to MIT a #scientist, much celebrated in her field, said since Trump’s second inauguration she watched in horror as administration has performed a controlled demolition on American #science. Like many other #US researchers, she’s not sure she wants to stick around to dodge falling debris, and is starting to think about taking her lab abroad.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/07/science-empire-america-decline/683711/
https://archive.ph/A11qX

Why #evolution can explain #human testicle size but not our ...

2025-08-04T19:35:01Z

Why #evolution can explain #human testicle size but not our unique chins https://theconversation.com/why-evolution-can-explain-human-testicle-size-but-not-our-unique-chins-259419

Before #Windows10 goes #EOL, I'm testing three alternative ...

2025-08-01T16:47:01Z

Before #Windows10 goes #EOL, I'm testing three alternative #Linux distros to save my 6-year-old laptop from the landfill
To start using #Windows11 in a productive manner you need something like an Intel 9th Gen CPU and 16GB of RAM, along with 512GB of fast storage as a comfortable minimum.
The author is testing #CachyOS and #ArchLinux derivative, #L:inuxMint, and #ZorinOS

Though I think they should try Vanilla #Ubuntu and #RockyLinux too
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/live/before-windows-10-goes-eol-im-testing-three-alternative-linux-distros-to-save-my-6-year-old-laptop-from-the-landfill

What’s likely to survive from #Biden’s #climate law? The ...

2025-07-28T00:27:00Z

What’s likely to survive from #Biden’s #climate law? The controversial stuff
#Congress turned its attention to rolling back gov spending on #renewableenergy, it appears that most climate “solutions” being left off the chopping block are the ones favored by #oil and #gas companies.
“Essentially, we, the taxpayers, are subsidizing a private sewer system for oil and gas,” said Sandra Steingraber, a senior scientist at the nonprofit Science and Environmental Health Network.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/budget-biden-climate-ccs-tax-credit/

The #Texting Network for the End of the World Everyone knows what ...

2025-07-27T19:35:01Z

The #Texting Network for the End of the World
Everyone knows what it’s like to lose cell service. A burgeoning #opensource project called #Meshtastic is filling the gap for when you’re in the middle of nowhere—or when disaster strikes.
https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-ready-for-phone-dead-zones/
https://archive.ph/s38v5

Hundreds of #NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of ...

2025-07-21T16:47:11Z

Hundreds of #NASA Employees, Past and Present, Sign Letter of Formal Dissent
The signatories of the “#VoyagerDeclaration” warned the #space agency’s leadership about the consequences of major budget cuts that would halt many #science missions.
Cuts to NASA programs have been arbitrary and in defiance of priorities set by Congress, the NASA employees said. “The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire,” they wrote.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/21/science/nasa-formal-dissent-letter-trump.html
https://archive.ph/NLNEE

The West’s #Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study ...

2025-07-16T14:26:08Z

The West’s #Megadrought Might Not Let Up for Decades, Study Suggests
Not in 12 centuries has the region been so dry for so long. Clues from another dry spell 6,000 years ago are helping scientists understand what’s driving the latest one, and why it’s been so unrelenting. It seems to be the result of a pattern of #Pacific #Ocean temperatures that is “stuck” because of #globalwarming.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/climate/southwest-megadrought.html
https://archive.ph/GdGhH
#drought #climatechange #paleoclimatology

“Not Just #Measles”: #WhoopingCough Cases Are Soaring as ...

2025-07-15T23:05:17Z

“Not Just #Measles”: #WhoopingCough Cases Are Soaring as #Vaccine Rates Decline
Measles #Vaccination Rates in Most States Were Below #HerdImmunity in #2023
Over 36 states have drop in rates for at least one key vaccine from 2013-14 to 2023-24 school years. And half of states have seen an across-board decline in all four vaccination rates. #Wisconsin, #Utah and #Alaska have experienced most precipitous drops during that time, with declines of more than 10% in some cases.
https://www.propublica.org/article/whooping-cough-measles-outbreak-vaccine-hesitancy-trump

New Study Shows #Google #Tracking Persists Even With #Privacy ...

2025-07-13T19:35:12Z

New Study Shows #Google #Tracking Persists Even With #Privacy Tools
While privacy-focused search engines like #DuckDuckGo can reduce exposure, completely escaping Google’s reach remains a significant challenge. Study simulated locations using VPN to ensure accurate regional data collection.
The findings reveal Google’s tracking extends far beyond its own products, embedded deeply within countless websites through tools like #GoogleAnalytics, #AdSense, and #YouTube embeds. https://hackread.com/new-study-google-tracking-persists-privacy-tools/

4.6 Billion Years On, the #Sun Is Having a Moment Last year, ...

2025-07-11T14:26:21Z

4.6 Billion Years On, the #Sun Is Having a Moment
Last year, ninety-six per cent of the global demand for new #electricity was met by #renewables, and in the United States ninety-three per cent of new generating capacity came from #solar, #wind, and an ever-increasing variety of batteries to store that power.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
https://archive.ph/5I7B6

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly ...

2025-07-10T23:04:09Z

Trump Seeks to Cut Basic Scientific #Research by Roughly One-Third, Report Shows
Trump’s budget plan guts federal #science funding for the next fiscal year, according to an overview published by #AAAS. Particularly at risk is the category of #basicresearch — the blue-sky variety meant to push back the frontiers of human knowledge and sow practical spinoffs and breakthroughs in such everyday fields as health care and artificial intelligence.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/science/trump-science-budget-cuts.html
https://archive.ph/A1bRu

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of ...

2025-07-04T10:04:09Z

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused #climatechange by shuttering #MaunaLoaObservatory
The curve produced by #MaunaLoa measurements is one of the most iconic charts in modern science, known as the #KeelingCurve, after Charles David Keeling, who was the researcher who painstakingly collected the data. His son, Ralph Keeling, a professor at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego, now oversees collecting and updating data.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling

#Earth is trapping much more heat than #climate models forecast ...

2025-06-30T23:04:15Z

#Earth is trapping much more heat than #climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years
Burning of #coal, #oil & #gas has added more than two trillion tonnes of #carbondioxide and other #greenhousegas to atmosphere. These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving. Some of this extra heat is warming the land or melting sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. Fully 90% has gone into oceans due to their huge heat capacity...
https://theconversation.com/earth-is-trapping-much-more-heat-than-climate-models-forecast-and-the-rate-has-doubled-in-20-years-258822
#climatechange #climatecrisis

#Microbe with bizarrely tiny #genome may be evolving into a ...

2025-06-17T21:21:07Z

#Microbe with bizarrely tiny #genome may be evolving into a #virus
The newly discovered microbe provisionally known as #Sukunaarchaeum isn’t a virus. But like viruses, it seemingly has one purpose: to make more of itself. Most of Sukunaarchaeum’s mere 189 protein-coding genes are focused on replicating its own genome; it must steal everything else it needs from its host Citharistes regius, a dinoflagellate.
https://www.science.org/content/article/microbe-bizarrely-tiny-genome-may-be-evolving-virus

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 #climate ...

2025-06-09T14:26:12Z

The Trump administration has shut down more than 100 #climate studies
Tens of millions of dollars in #NSF grants have been slashed, and #scientists fear the #US is about to lose a generation of climate researchers.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/02/1117653/the-trump-administration-has-shut-down-more-than-100-climate-studies/

Trump cuts hundreds of #EPA #grants, leaving #cities on the hook ...

2025-06-07T19:36:16Z

Trump cuts hundreds of #EPA #grants, leaving #cities on the hook for #climate resiliency
Critics argue the projects losing funding aren’t "woke," they’re essential.
Under the Trump administration, the EPA has canceled or interrupted hundreds of grants aimed at improving #health and severe #weather preparedness because the agency “determined that the grant applications no longer support administration priorities,” according to an emailed statement to Grist.
https://grist.org/cities/trump-cuts-hundreds-of-epa-grants-leaving-cities-on-the-hook-for-climate-resiliency/

Documents Show #EPA Wants to Erase #GreenhouseGas Limits on ...

2025-05-28T14:26:09Z

Documents Show #EPA Wants to Erase #GreenhouseGas Limits on #PowerPlants
Agency argues #carbon #emissions from power plants do not contribute “significantly” to #climatechange. Eliminating those emissions would have no meaningful effect on public health and welfare, agency said.
Scientists overwhelmingly concluded that #carbondioxide, #methane and other greenhouse gases from the burning of #oil, #gas and #coal are dangerously heating the planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/24/climate/epa-power-plant-rules.html
https://archive.ph/nMxLC

#Google tools for required for #classwork are allegedly being ...

2025-05-25T19:35:15Z

#Google tools for required for #classwork are allegedly being used to build data profiles of each #student
Google faces #lawsuit for #spying on #students through mandatory #Chromebook use
Google also accused of operating on government's behalf, which would make data acquisition a potential constitutional violation, under #4thAmendment. It is also accused of violating a handful of other acts including #CIPA,Federal #WiretapAct, as well as the #COPPA.
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/google-chrome/google-tools-for-required-for-classwork-are-allegedly-being-used-to-build-data-profiles-of-each-student
#privacy #surveillance

#NOAA Predicts ‘Above Average’ #Hurricane Season The National ...

2025-05-23T12:39:15Z

#NOAA Predicts ‘Above Average’ #Hurricane Season
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is forecasting a range of 13 to 19 total named storms during the #2025 #Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 through November. That would make this an above-average season, and most likely not as active as 2024 ended up being. An average Atlantic hurricane season has 14 named storms, including seven hurricanes and three major hurricanes
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/weather/noaa-forecast-hurricane-season.html
https://archive.ph/cAmyv

New #Bacteria Have Been Discovered on #China's #SpaceStation ...

2025-05-22T21:21:12Z

New #Bacteria Have Been Discovered on #China's #SpaceStation
On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a #bacterium found aboard the #Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.
It is unclear whether the newly discovered microbe evolved on the #space station or whether it is part of the vast sea of as yet unidentified microorganisms on Earth.
https://www.wired.com/story/bacteria-unknown-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/
https://archive.ph/t0sAB

#CERN gears up to ship #antimatter across #Europe The antimatter ...

2025-05-20T12:39:16Z

#CERN gears up to ship #antimatter across #Europe
The antimatter containment device has to be maintained as an extreme vacuum and needs superconducting materials to produce the electromagnetic fields that keep the antimatter from bumping into the walls of the container. All of that means a significant power supply, along with a cache of liquid helium to keep the superconductors working. A standard shipping container just won't do.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/

#Debian #APT3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & ...

2025-05-19T14:26:14Z

#Debian #APT3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI
This stable release brings forward the new package solver and very prominent for Linux command-line users is the new UI with colors, columnar displays, and other improvements. I've been loving the refined text user interface of APT 2.9 releases and now in APT 3.0. It's much more polished than before and all around looking great.
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3.0-Released #Ubuntu

#NASA’s #Perseverance #Mars #Rover Spotted a ...

2025-05-14T19:35:11Z

#NASA’s #Perseverance #Mars #Rover Spotted a #NorthernLights-Like Green Glow
Mars is known to have auroras — a glow normally produced when energetic particles from the sun strike a planet’s atmosphere. But they had been observed only by orbiting #spacecraft, and only in ultraviolet. But with the help of precise #space weather forecasting, NASA’s Perseverance rover and some persistence, a visible green #aurora was spotted on the Red Planet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/science/mars-aurora-northern-lights.html
https://archive.ph/F6ySN

As #US #vulnerability-tracking falters, #EU enters with its own ...

2025-05-13T23:04:09Z

As #US #vulnerability-tracking falters, #EU enters with its own #security bug database
The European Vulnerability Database (#EUVD) is now fully operational, offering a streamlined platform to monitor critical and actively exploited security flaws amid the US struggles with budget cuts, delayed disclosures, and confusion around the future of its own tracking systems. The EUVD is similar to the US government's National Vulnerability Database (#NVD).
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/eu_security_bug_database/ #CISA

#OpenSource #Nextcloud cries foul over #Google #PlayStore app ...

2025-05-13T19:35:14Z

#OpenSource #Nextcloud cries foul over #Google #PlayStore app rejection
Nextcloud's #Android Files app is a file synchronization tool that, according to the company, has long had permission to read and write all file types. "Nextcloud has had this feature since its inception in 2016," it said, "and we never heard about any #security concerns from Google about it."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/nextcloud_play_store_complaint/
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-android-file-upload-issue-google/

Again and again, #NSOGroup’s customers keep getting their ...

2025-05-10T19:35:13Z

Again and again, #NSOGroup’s customers keep getting their #spyware operations caught
“#AmnestyInternational has spent years tracking #NSO Group #Pegasus spyware and how it has been used to target activists and journalists,” Donncha Ó Cearbhaill, the head of Amnesty’s #Security Lab, told TechCrunch. “This technical research has allowed Amnesty to identify malicious websites used to deliver the Pegasus spyware, including the specific Pegasus domain used in this campaign.”
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/28/again-and-again-nso-groups-customers-keep-getting-their-spyware-operations-caught/

President #Trump’s expansive use of #executivepower faced at ...

2025-05-09T00:04:10Z

President #Trump’s expansive use of #executivepower faced at least 328 #lawsuits as of May 1 — with judges halting his policies far more often than they allowed them.

Courts entered more than 200 orders stopping the administration’s actions in 128 cases. The court battles are testing the balance of power at the heart of #American democracy. Trump supporters have attacked judges as biased, and his administration has been accused of failing to fully comply with orders
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-lawsuits-against-trump-administration/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjcyMjQwMiwiZXhwIjoxNzQ3MzI3MjAyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVlhSUVNUMVVNMFgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzRDhGMEEzMTc2MDc0NUM5OTg4NkFCNzA1NDk2RUNEQSJ9.dzJasp2-DbEly-7Bca6lCihQ9XlrP1ziWPKtOz9MqLQ

#US Government to Stop Tracking Cost of #ExtremeWeather It would ...

2025-05-08T19:35:06Z

#US Government to Stop Tracking Cost of #ExtremeWeather
It would be harder for #insurers and scientists to study #wildfires, storms and other “billion dollar disasters,” which are more frequent as planet warms.
Latest effort from the Trump administration to restrict or eliminate #climate #research.
“It defies logic,” Jesse M. Keenan said. Without the database, “US government’s flying blind as to the cost of extreme #weather and #climatechange.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/climate/noaa-billion-dollar-disasters.html
https://archive.is/8FFjV

The #federal #minimumwage is officially a #poverty wage in #2025 ...

2025-05-01T21:21:20Z

The #federal #minimumwage is officially a #poverty wage in #2025
When the minimum wage was created as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938, the policy was intended to protect the nation from “the evils and dangers resulting from #wages too low to buy the bare necessities of life.” The last time Congress increased the federal minimum wage was in July 2009, meaning that as prices have risen over the last 15 years, the value of the minimum #wage has fallen by 30%.
https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/

If the world covered every suitable #roof with #solar panels, it ...

2025-05-01T16:47:11Z

If the world covered every suitable #roof with #solar panels, it could supply 2/3 of humanity’s total #electricity consumption – allowing the globe to transition completely off of #fossifuell electricity generation, according to a new study out of the University of Sussex.
It found that rooftop solar could provide a total of 19,483TWh of electricity, which is about 2/3 of global electricity use (which was 29,664TWh in 2023).
https://electrek.co/2025/03/14/covering-every-roof-with-solar-could-supply-2-3-of-global-electricity-study/

Stuff a #Pihole in your #router because your #browser is about to ...

2025-04-26T21:09:07Z

Stuff a #Pihole in your #router because your #browser is about to betray you
You could be forgiven for feeling #webbrowser suppliers are actively working to make us trust them less.
#Mozilla bought an #ad company; this month, removed its promise not to sell your info.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/08/pi_hole_6_flyby/
Mozilla sells #ads, #Google limits blocking-time for stricter measures
Pi-hole takes over as your network name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a #DNS sinkhole.

Century-old #genetics mystery of #Mendel’s #peas finally solved ...

2025-04-25T14:26:09Z

Century-old #genetics mystery of #Mendel’s #peas finally solved
Researchers pinpoint the #genes responsible for the final three pea traits studied by the famed citizen scientist. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01269-8

#Scientists say they can calculate the cost of #oil giants’ ...

2025-04-25T12:39:13Z

#Scientists say they can calculate the cost of #oil giants’ role in #globalwarming
#Climate advocates hope this sort of model could result in court rulings that make polluters pay. The oil and gas industry contests the #science.
Collectively #greenhousegas #emissions from 111 #fossilfuel companies caused the world $28 trillion in damage from #extremeheat from 1991 to 2020, according to a paper published Wednesday in Nature.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2025/04/23/climate-attribution-damages-lawsuit/
https://archive.ph/pNql0
#climate #climatechange

#Why #US #Men Think #College Isn’t Worth It Anymore Rising ...

2025-04-24T19:35:14Z

#Why #US #Men Think #College Isn’t Worth It Anymore
Rising #tuition, the spread of more traditional ideas of #masculinity on #socialmedia and a desire for an immediate #income are working together to set boys on a different path.
Nationwide, #males now constitute virtually the entirety of the 1.2 million #student drop in college attendance between 2011 and 2022.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-04-21/why-american-men-think-it-s-not-worth-going-to-college-anymore
https://archive.ph/ZzU14

#China’s #TMSRLF1 Molten Salt #Thorium Reactor Begins Live ...

2025-04-21T23:04:11Z

#China’s #TMSRLF1 Molten Salt #Thorium Reactor Begins Live Refueling Operations
Original research comes from #US scientists in 1960s. While there were tests in MSRE reactor, no follow-up study were funded. The concept languished until recently, with Terrestrial Energy’s Integral MSR and construction on China’s 2 MW TMSR-LF1 experimental reactor commencing in 2018 before first criticality in 2023. Since #TMSR doesn’t need cooling water, it is perfect for use in arid areas.
https://hackaday.com/2025/04/19/chinas-tmsr-lf1-molten-salt-thorium-reactor-begins-live-refueling-operations/

$8 billion of #US #climate #tech projects have been canceled so ...

2025-04-21T21:22:36Z

$8 billion of #US #climate #tech projects have been canceled so far in 2025, that's just in the first quarter of #2025!
That’s far more cancellations than have typically occurred in recent years, according to a new report from E2, a nonpartisan policy group. Trend is due to a variety of reasons, including drastically revised federal policies.
Battery, #solar, and #wind projects are getting killed in record numbers. Here’s a map of all the cancellations so far this year.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/21/1115511/canceled-climate-tech-projects/

#ClimateChange will make #rice toxic, say researchers Eaten every ...

2025-04-17T16:47:08Z

#ClimateChange will make #rice toxic, say researchers
Eaten every day by billions of people and grown across the globe, rice is arguably the planet’s most important staple crop, with half the world’s population relying on it for the majority of its food needs, especially in developing countries.
Warmer temperatures and increased #carbondioxide will boost #arsenic levels in rice. https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/04/climate-change-will-make-rice-toxic-say-researchers/

#Apple #MacStudio #M3Ultra Runs #DeepSeekR1 With 671 Billion ...

2025-04-16T23:04:11Z

#Apple #MacStudio #M3Ultra Runs #DeepSeekR1 With 671 Billion Parameters Using 448GB Of Unified Memory, Delivering High Bandwidth Performance At Under 200W Power Consumption, With No Need For A Multi-GPU Setup
https://wccftech.com/m3-ultra-chip-handles-deepseek-r1-model-with-671-billion-parameters/