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	My spouse and I started a game studio together AND released <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/1406040/Scarlet_Hollow/">the first episode of our horror game, Scarlet Hollow, for FREE over on Steam!</a></p>
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	Which means Tony has now entered the life of a creative professional, a cursed life where no accomplishment will ever be enough to fill the hungering void within.</p>
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title: Thousands Fled as Lava Poured Into Villages in Congo
author: EditorDavid
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The Guardian reports:

At least 15 people died when torrents of lava poured into villages after dark in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo destroying more than 500 homes, officials and survivors said Sunday. 

The eruption of Mount Nyiragongo on Saturday night sent about 5,000 people fleeing from the city of Goma across the nearby border into Rwanda, while another 25,000 others sought refuge to the north-west in Sake, the UN children's agency said Sunday... Goma ultimately was largely spared the mass destruction it suffered the last time the volcano erupted back in 2002. Hundreds died then and more than 100,000 people were left homeless. But in outlying villages closer to the volcano, Sunday was marked by grief and uncertainty... 

The air remained thick with smoke because of how many homes had caught fire from the lava... Residents said there was little warning before the eruption. Smoke rose from smouldering heaps of lava in the Buhene area near Goma on Sunday... Witnesses said lava had engulfed one highway connecting Goma with the city of Beni. 

However, the airport appeared to be spared the same fate as 2002 when lava flowed on to the runways.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: US-Backed Consortium Beats China's for Massive 5G Contract Blanketing Ethiopia
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"A U.S.-backed consortium beat out one financed by China in a closely watched telecommunications auction in Ethiopia &mdash; handing Washington a victory in its push to challenge Beijing's economic influence around the world," reports the Wall Street Journal:

The East African country said Saturday it tapped a group of telecommunications companies led by the U.K.'s Vodafone Group PLC to build a nationwide, 5G-capable wireless network. 

The group had won financial backing for the multibillion-dollar project from a newly created U.S. foreign-aid agency. The agency offers low-interest loans, but the financing comes with a condition: the money won't be used to buy telecom equipment from China's Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. Washington considers both a spying threat, an accusation the companies deny... 

The telecom license auction in Ethiopia took on wider geopolitical significance amid heightened competition between the U.S. and China over key technological pursuits, from the rollout of 5G to chip manufacturing. "The U.S. and China are fighting a proxy war in Ethiopia for influence," said Zemedeneh Negatu, chairman of Fairfax Africa Fund LLC, a U.S.-based investment firm that focuses on Africa. After all but shutting out Huawei in the U.S., Washington has become more assertive about challenging Beijing's economic footprint overseas. It is using new financial tools to win influence and ensure that strategic assets in foreign countries stay in friendly hands... 

Backing the Vodafone bid was the International Development Finance Corp., or DFC. The U.S. government-funded agency was created in December 2019 with a goal of offering alternatives to cheap, Chinese financing for foreign infrastructure projects... U.S. law also prohibits its loan from being used to buy Huawei or ZTE equipment, though one person familiar with the matter said it is possible the Vodafone-led bid could still buy some Chinese gear because of the project's size and cost.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Samples from Curiosity Mars Rover Suggest Possibility of Past Organic Matter
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The space-news web site NASASpaceFlight writes:

While organic compounds have been confirmed on the Martian surface and near-surface areas since 2018, new Earth-based experiments point to a potentially tantalizing series of signatures from Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument that could indicate the presence of organic salts at the rover's Gale Crater location. What's more, the new research from a team led by J. M. T. Lewis, an organic geochemist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, points to further potential evidence that organic salts might be prevalent across the Martian terrain. The hard part is conclusively detecting them. 

For decades, scientists theorized that organic compounds were almost certainly to have been preserved to some detectable degree in the Martian surface environment. In 2018, Curiosity's instruments allowed Eigenbrode et al. to conclusively prove that they were in fact there. In turn, if organic compounds were present at one time, their by-products &mdash; organic salts &mdash; would still be around as well, even given the harsh radiation environment of Mars compared to Earth. 

While organic compounds and organic salts can form from the presence of microbial life, they can also form from geologic processes. Though not confirmed, organic salts would be further evidence that organic matter once existed on Mars' surface, and, if they are still present, could support hypothetical microbial life on Mars today, as some life on Earth uses organic salt as food/energy.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Some Colleges Are Offering Credit for Playing Videogames
author: EditorDavid
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CalMatters writes:

At least six Cal State campuses and nearly all of the University of California campuses have created esports programs since 2015, in which students host and compete in live tournaments, sometimes funded by corporate sponsors. Both Cal State Dominguez Hills and UC Irvine offer certificates in esports, which means students can earn credit for, yes, playing video games. 

Educators who support the trend point to the jobs available in gaming and other forms of digital media, while students say esports clubs and classes have given them another way to connect virtually during the pandemic. "Higher ed needs to evolve or die," said Dina Ibrahim, the academic advisor of the SF State esports athletic club and a professor of broadcast journalism. "We need to be teaching students relevant skills, that's going to get them jobs in a rapidly changing landscape...." Ibrahim shared the syllabus for her live stream broadcasting class, which she created after she noticed the effects esports and gaming were having on the field of digital media. In the course, students learn how to market a brand, monetize it, and develop live streamed events using Twitch &mdash; an entertainment site mainly aimed at gamers &mdash; and other platforms. For their final project, they help organize and market a live-streamed tournament featuring games like Overwatch, Valorant and League of Legends. "What I wanted to do was just provide a venue for students who are doing it anyway, to get credit," said Ibrahim. "And also not just focusing on the gaming community; it's really gaming, plus content creation." 

Those skills could help students land their first media jobs, said Mark "Garvey" Candella, director of student and education programs for Twitch... "All the skills that you're learning and using while you participate in gaming and esports are highly transferable and valuable skills in emerging new and digital media," said Candella, who has helped universities establish esports curriculum that uses gaming as a vehicle to teach branding, management and hardware and software knowledge. At Cal State Dominguez Hills, esports academic advisor Ruben Caputo says he's seen 37 students obtain internships based on their work in the program this past year alone... Like other collegiate esports programs, the one at Dominguez Hills started as an informal student club and is now a thriving organization that has obtained sponsorships with companies such as Microsoft and Level Up Esports Apparel. The university is building a new $750,000 esports lab in the campus library, according to the student-run newspaper, The Bulletin. It will be divided into three sections: a classroom, an incubator and a competition area with rows of PCs... 

More than 170 schools across the country have varsity esports teams, according to the National Association of Collegiate Esports, but the number with academic programs is much smaller &mdash; and students and professors involved in them say they still encounter skepticism from colleagues who see gaming as just a mind-numbing hobby. At UC Irvine, the first California college to pioneer an esports program, students can earn a continuing education certificate but there are no plans to develop a major in the field, said assistant director Kathy Chiang. 

"We don't think that there's enough content for that," she said... 

Ibrahim argues that gaming "is a huge, profit-churning component of the entertainment industry that can no longer be ignored," adding that gaming students "are getting skills that are going to prime you to work in a very significant industry that's only growing post pandemic."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Steve Wozniak Faces Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Over Branded Tech School
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Slashdot reader Obipale quotes Gizmodo:

Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is facing a million-dollar lawsuit for allegedly stealing the idea to create a Woz-branded tech school, according to a weekend Insider report. 

Connecticut business professor Ralph Reilly claims he and Wozniak agreed to establish a "tech university" and sealed the deal with an on-camera handshake in 2011. The educational platform, which was aimed at teaching adults computer and other technical skills, would lean heavily on Wozniak's name and reputation as a key engineering force in Apple's early days for branding purposes. However, the partnership never got off the ground, Reilly said in court filings reviewed by Gizmodo and Insider. Wozniak went on to launch virtually the same idea under the name Woz U in 2017 after partnering with the code-learning firm Coder Camps. In response, Reilly reached out to Wozniak via email asking to be a part of the venture, according to court filings. "It's exactly what I envisioned for Woz Institute of Technology when I first approached you with the idea," Reilly wrote at the time. 

"You are right on the mark," Wozniak responded. "You had the right idea... I doubt it would have happened without your initial idea!" 

But when Reilly pushed back asking for partial ownership in the project, he was met with radio silence. Reilly went on sue Wozniak for alleged intellectual property theft and copyright infringement. He's seeking at least $1 million in relief and damages. Other accusations Reilly's brought against Wozniak such as breach of contract have already been dismissed by a judge... 

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title: Will the End of Lockdowns Change Our Relationship with the Internet?
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Last year author Sonia Shah predicted that after pandemic-induced lockdowns finally ended, "The hype around online education will be abandoned, as a generation of young people forced into seclusion will reshape the culture around a contrarian appreciation for communal life." 

This week the Atlantic's technology staff writer is now suggesting that "As the stress of the pandemic is beginning to recede, our relationship with the internet might be renegotiated..."

As vaccination rates tick up, and IRL social life resumes, it's getting easier to imagine that we're on the brink of something big: a coordinated withdrawal from swiping and streaming, a new consensus that staying home to watch Netflix is no longer a chill Friday-night plan, but an affront. Could this be real? Are we about to start the summer of a Great Offlining...? 

A few signs that this movement could be upon us: Netflix reported its worst first quarter in eight years, after seeing historic growth in 2020. Tinder conceded that more than half of its Gen Z users have no intention of using its videochat features ever again. Clubhouse downloads dropped significantly in April, prompting worry that the app was always just "a temporary salve to being stuck inside." 

On The Cut, Safy-Hallan Farah has predicted a post-pandemic future in which our culture prioritizes, among other things, "earnestness," "communism," and "being extremely offline." The writer Luke Winkie forecasts a 10-week period of everyone abandoning the internet, adding that "offline is going to hit like a drug." Discourse's Patrick Redford put it best, writing that "the idea of further screen-only interaction with my friends and loved ones after a year overstuffed with them makes me want to toss my phone into the Pacific Ocean...." 

[B]ut it's hard to imagine that a Great Offlining is really in the cards. Instead, we could be heading for a Great Rebalancing, where we reconfigure how we do our work and how we organize our time on the internet. We've grown more aware of how we rely on one another &mdash; online as well as off &mdash; and of the tools we have or could build for responding to a crisis. The biggest tech companies' accrual of power remains one of the most serious problems of my lifetime, but I no longer talk about the internet itself as if it were an external and malignant force, now that I've lived in such intimate contact with it for so long.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: How the Human Life Span Doubled in 100 Years
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Between 1920 and 2020, the average human life span doubled. "There are few measures of human progress more astonishing than this..." argues author Steven Johnson. 

In a recent 10,000-word excerpt from his new book Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer (now also a four-part PBS/BBC series that's streaming online), Johnson tries to convey the magnitude of humanity's accomplishment:

[I]t manifests in countless achievements, often quickly forgotten, sometimes literally invisible: the drinking water that's free of microorganisms, or the vaccine received in early childhood and never thought about again... The decade following the initial mass production of antibiotics marked the most extreme moment of life-span inequality globally. In 1950, when life expectancy in India and most of Africa had barely budged from the long ceiling of around 35 years, the average American could expect to live 68 years, while Scandinavians had already crossed the 70-year threshold. But the post-colonial era that followed would be characterized by an extraordinary rate of improvement across most of the developing world... 

The forces behind these trends are complex and multivariate. Some of them involve increasing standards of living and the decrease in famine, driven by the invention of artificial fertilizer and the "green revolution"; some of them involve imported medicines and infrastructure &mdash; antibiotics, chlorinated drinking water &mdash; that were developed earlier. But some of the most meaningful interventions came from within the Global South itself, including a remarkably simple but powerful technique called oral rehydration therapy... the treatment is almost maddeningly simple: give people lots of boiled water to drink, supplemented with sugar and salts.... The Lancet called it "potentially the most important medical advance of the 20th century." As many as 50 million people are said to have died of cholera in the 19th century. In the first decades of the 21st century, fewer than 66,000 people were reported to have succumbed to the disease, on a planet with eight times the population... 

Of all the achievements that brought the great escape to the entire world, though, one stands out: the vanquishing of smallpox... One key factor was a scientific understanding about the virus itself... Scientific innovations also played a crucial role in the eradication projects... But another key breakthrough was the development of institutions like the W.H.O. and the C.D.C. themselves. Starting in the mid-1960s, the W.H.O. &mdash; led by a C.D.C. official, D.A. Henderson &mdash; worked in concert with hundreds of thousands of health workers, who oversaw surveillance and vaccinations in the more than 40 countries still suffering from smallpox outbreaks. The idea of an international body that could organize the activity of so many people over such a vast geography, and over so many separate jurisdictions, would have been unthinkable at the dawn of the 19th century... 

The list of new ideas that propelled the great escape is long and varied. Some of them took the form of tangible objects: X-ray machines, antiretroviral drugs. Some of them were legal or institutional in nature: the creation of the Food and Drug Administration, seatbelt laws. Some of them were statistical breakthroughs: new ways of tracking data, like the invention of randomized controlled trials, which finally allowed us to determine empirically if new treatments worked as promised, or proved a causal link between cigarettes and cancer. Some of them were meta-innovations in the way that new treatments are discovered, like the development of "rational drug design," which finally moved drug development from the Fleming model of serendipitous discovery to a process built on the foundations of chemistry... 

The truth is the spike in global population has not been caused by some worldwide surge in fertility. What changed is people stopped dying... All those brilliant solutions we engineered to reduce or eliminate threats like smallpox created a new, higher-level threat: ourselves. 

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title: Yuan Longping Dies, Scientist Whose Rice Research Helped Feed World
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An anonymous reader quotes the Associated Press: Yuan Longping, a Chinese scientist who developed higher-yield rice varieties that helped feed people around the world, died Saturday at a hospital in the southern city of Changsha, the Xinhua News agency reported. He was 90.

 Yuan spent his life researching rice and was a household name in China, known by the nickname "Father of Hybrid Rice." Worldwide, a fifth of all rice now comes from species created by hybrid rice following Yuan's breakthrough discoveries, according to the website of the World Food Prize, which he won in 2004...

 It was in the 1970s when Yuan achieved the breakthroughs that would make him a household name. He developed a hybrid strain of rice that recorded an annual yield 20% higher than existing varieties &mdash; meaning it could feed an extra 70 million people a year, according to Xinhua... 


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title: Former Microsoft Developer Would Like To See MS-DOS Open Sourced
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For over an hour on Saturday, retired Microsoft OS developer David Plummer answered questions from his viewers on YouTube. 

Long-time Slashdot reader destinyland writes: 
He began with an update on a project to test the performance of the same algorithm using 30 different programming languages, and soon tells the story of how he was inspired to apply for his first job at Microsoft after reading Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire.
 
I decided that this is where I wanted to work, because these guys sound like me, they act like me, they are what I want to be when I grow up. And holy cow, they pay them well, apparently. So I wrote to everybody that I could find that had a Microsoft email address, which was about four people, because I had a software product people had been regisering on the Amiga. And one guy, Alistair Banks... responded and he hooked me up with a hiring manager directly in Windows that had an open slot that was hiring... And a couple of interview slots later, I wound up as an intern at MS-DOS working for Ben Slivka. 
So you would think, "Oh, an intern on MS-DOS. What'd you do? Format disks?" No &mdash; it's amazing to me, actually. They give you as much work as they believe that you are capable of, and &mdash; they get you for all that you're worth, basically. They had me write a bunch of major features, like the Smart Drive cache for CD-ROMs was the first thing I wrote. Then I wrote DISKCOPY, making it work, single pass, bunch of features in MS-DOS. I re-wrote Setup to work on a single floppy disk by using deltas and patching in place, DOS 5 to turn it into DOS 6, something like, or maybe it was DOS 6 into 6.2... A whole bunch of features, within the span of, like, three months, which to me was fairly impressive at the time, I thought. And that only got me an interview... 

Later he says that he'd like to see most of 16-bit Windows and all of MS-DOS open sourced, along with some select application code from that era. 

I don't think there's any reason to hold back any of MS-DOS at this point. They have absolutely no reason to open source any of it, really &mdash; other than PR, because all it brings them is potential liability, complaints and angst, and probably nothing positive for putting the code out there and exposing it to ridicule. Because it's ancient code at this point. It's like, "Ha! Look what Microsoft did!" Well, yeah, I know Linux is cool now, but go look at Linux code from 1991 &mdash; and I worked on some of that code. Well, '93 I did. It's not the same as what you see today. 

So yeah, MS-DOS probably looks archaic &mdash; although it's super tight, it doesn't have many bugs. It's just written differently than you would write code today, because you're targetting something that is a very different CPU and memory system and PC as a whole, and it's so much more limited that everybody's sacred, every cycle matters. That kind of thing that you don't worry about now. But I'd still like to see all the code from back then that's not embarrassing released. 

And when asked what he misses most about being a Microsoft developer, he answers: 
I miss going for lunch with the people that I went for lunch with, and talking to the people that I worked with. Because they were a lot like me, they had similar interests, they had similar abilities, they were people like me. We went for lunch, we ate food, it was awesome, and then we talked about cool things. And we did that every day. And now I don't get to do that any more. I get to do it rarely, because I take guys out for lunch and stuff, but it's not the same. So that's really what I miss. 

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title: Just a Handful of Android Apps Exposed Data of More than 100 Million Users
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Almost half a decade after the first reports were published, mobile app developers are still exposing their users' personal information through abhorrently simple misconfigurations. From a report: In a report published last week, security firm Check Point said it found 23 Android applications that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users through a variety of misconfigurations of third-party cloud services. This included developers who forgot to password-protect their backend databases and developers who left access tokens/keys inside their mobile application's source code for services such as cloud storage or push notifications. The Check Point team said it was able to use the information they found through a routine examination of 23 random applications and access the backend databases of 13 apps. In the exposed databases, researchers said they found information such as email addresses, passwords, private chats, location coordinates, user identifiers, screen recordings, social media credentials, and personal images.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Huawei Founder Urges Shift To Software To Counter US Sanctions
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Founder of Chinese tech giant Huawei Technologies Ren Zhengfei has called on the company's staff to "dare to lead the world" in software as the company seeks growth beyond the hardware operations that U.S. sanctions have crippled. From a report: The internal memo seen by Reuters is the clearest evidence yet of the company's direction as it responds to the immense pressure sanctions have placed on the handset business that was at its core. Ren said in the memo the company was focusing on software because future development in the field is fundamentally "outside of U.S. control and we will have greater independence and autonomy." As it will be hard for Huawei to produce advanced hardware in the short term, it should focus on building software ecosystems, such as its HarmonyOS operating system, its cloud AI system Mindspore, and other IT products, the note said.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin
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Three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report that could add weight to growing calls for a fuller probe of whether the Covid-19 virus may have escaped from the laboratory. WSJ: The details of the reporting go beyond a State Department fact sheet, issued during the final days of the Trump administration, which said that several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 "with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness." 

The disclosure of the number of researchers, the timing of their illnesses and their hospital visits come on the eve of a meeting of the World Health Organization's decision-making body, which is expected to discuss the next phase of an investigation into Covid-19's origins. Current and former officials familiar with the intelligence about the lab researchers expressed differing views about the strength of the supporting evidence for the assessment. One person said that it was provided by an international partner and was potentially significant but still in need of further investigation and additional corroboration.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: German 'Upload Filter' Law Sets Standards To Prevent Overblocking
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AmiMoJo writes: The German Parliament has adopted new legislation that will implement the EU Copyright Directive into local law. This includes the controversial Article 17 that, according to some, would lead to overbroad upload filters. To deal with these concerns, the German law prevents 'minor' and limited use of copyrighted content from being blocked automatically. These 'presumably authorized' uploads should not be blocked automatically if they qualify for all of the selection criteria below: 

1. The upload should use less than 50% of the original copyrighted work
2. The upload must use the copyrighted work in combination with other content
3. The use should be 'minor' 

The term 'minor' applies to non-commercial uses of fewer than 15 seconds of video or audio, 160 characters of text, or 125 kB of graphics. If the use of a copyrighted work exceeds these 'minor' thresholds, it can still qualify as 'presumably authorized' when the uploader flags it as an exception.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Police In Delhi Have Descended On Twitter's Headquarters In The Country
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An anonymous reader shares a report: On Monday, a team of officers from the Special Cell, an elite branch of the Delhi Police in charge of investigating terrorism and organized crime in New Delhi descended on Twitter's offices in the city to "serve a notice" to Twitter's India head. Police also attempted to raid a Twitter office in Gurugram, a location that has been permanently closed, a Twitter spokesperson told BuzzFeed News. The move came three days after Twitter put a "Manipulated Media" label on the tweets of half a dozen members of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, in which they had accused the opposition Congress party of scheming to damage Indian prime minister Narendra Modi for his handling of the second wave of India's coronavirus pandemic. 

In an image they circulated, they claimed that the Congress party was giving special medical favors to journalists affected by the pandemic among other things. AltNews, an Indian fact-checking website, found that the image was forged. (The Congress party has also filed a police complaint against Sambit Patra, the BJP spokesperson who initially shared the image.) On Friday, India's IT ministry sent a letter to the company asking it to remove the labels. Twitter did not.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Apple Releases iOS and iPadOS 14.6, macOS Big Sur 11.4
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Apple today released macOS Big Sur 11.4, the fourth major update to the macOS Big Sur, operating system that launched in November 2020. From a report: The new macOS Big Sur 11.4 update can be downloaded for free on all eligible Macs using the Software Update section of System Preferences. macOS Big Sur 11.4 lays the groundwork for two upcoming Apple Music features: Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio, both of which will be available on the Mac. It also adds support for Apple Podcasts subscriptions, and fixes a number of bugs. Apple today also released iOS and iPadOS 14.6, marking the sixth major updates to the iOS and iPadOS operating systems that initially came out in September 2020. From a report: The iOS and iPadOS 14.5 updates can be downloaded for free and the software is available on all eligible devices over-the-air in the Settings app. To access the new software, go to Settings - General - Software Update. iOS 14.6 introduces support for several previously announced features. It lays the groundwork for the Apple Music Spatial Audio with Dolby Atmos and Lossless Audio functionality, but these new Apple Music capabilities aren't expected to launch until June. The update also adds support for Apple Card Family for sharing Apple Cards, it introduces new Podcast subscription options, and it adds new AirTags capabilities, in addition to addressing several bugs.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Apple Refused To Remove Negative Ratings for Facebook App Left by Pro-Palestinian Activists
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Apple refused a request from Facebook to remove negative reviews in the App store after pro-Palestinian protesters coordinated an effort to tank ratings because of censorship of Palestinian content, NBC News reported. From a report: On Saturday, the Facebook app had a 2.3 out of five-star rating in the App store compared to a more than four-star rating last week. The largest category of ratings is one-star reviews, with many comments saying their rating is due to Facebook censoring hashtags like #FreePalestine or #GazaUnderAttack. 

"User trust is dropping considerably with the recent escalations between Israel and Palestine," said one senior software engineer in a post on Facebook's internal message board, NBC reported. "Our users are upset with our handling of the situation. Users are feeling that they are being censored, getting limited distribution, and ultimately silenced. As a result, our users have started protesting by leaving 1 star reviews." An internal message reviewed by NBC showed that the company was very concerned about the coordinated effort to tank ratings, categorizing the issue as an SEV1, which stands for "severity 1."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Why The Media is Obsessed With Jordan Peterson
author: Jordan B Peterson
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“I feel like my generation is mad at the younger generation like we look at them like their idiots, and their soft, and their sensitive but the problem with that is we made that generation, that generation was inside of us and we released it.”

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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-227043187550196741
title: Here's an idea
author: Linux Hater
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If you're a freetard, but you need to run Windows at work or something, I've got an idea for a utility that will keep you true to the cause.<br /><br />Well, a mockup for it anyways. I call it kanye-freetard-notify:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SO6YabVJPig/Srgddw_xAZI/AAAAAAAAACc/UN3ajSWnenk/s1600-h/kanye-notify.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_SO6YabVJPig/Srgddw_xAZI/AAAAAAAAACc/UN3ajSWnenk/s400/kanye-notify.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5384085751727194514" border="0" /></a><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-1323558838478996433
title: Target: Lusers
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2009/10/target-lusers.html
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<span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;">Just came across this </span></span><a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/358865/"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;">wonderful email</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"> from the Fedora Advisory Board. In it, they try to describe who they're creating the Fedora distribution for. Here are their four criteria:</span></span><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">is voluntarily switching to Linux</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">is familiar with computers, but is not necessarily a hacker or developer</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">is likely to collaborate in some fashion when something's wrong with Fedora</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">wants to use Fedora for general productivity, either using desktop applications or a Web browser</span></span></li></ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">This seems like a reasonable thing to do. I mean, it's</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  ;font-family:georgia;font-size:medium;"> always good to try to understand your user, right? Unfortuantely, the above description fails fantastically in so many ways. Look closely, and you'll see what they're really trying to say:</span></div><div><ol><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">You're a freetard. If you're voluntarily switching to Linux, so that means you already find intrinsic value in it. Well, the software itself isn't up to par with the other stuff around, so what does Linux have that other's don't? We all know the answer to that one: freedom. But you know, the best way to improve your general purpose operating system is to build it for the tiny number of specific people who have already chosen to use your system. Everybody knows that.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">You don't need any support, cuz you ain't gettin' any!</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">You can tolerate bugs, because our shit is full of bugs. You are also willing to file bug reports, only to see them linger forever. Another way of reading that is: you don't actually have a real life and you don't have anything else that you need to get done.</span></span></li><li><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">You only need a subset of features that Windows 98 had. </span></span></li></ol><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">Brilliant! I think they've just created a nice 4-point summary why Linux is still on the sidelines of the desktop OS battlefield.</span></span></div></div></div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-6594690705948010585
title: Bad karma
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2009/11/bad-karma.html
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Lets see, it's been almost 18 months since I originally posted <a href="http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/06/evolution-of-ubuntu-user.html">Evolution of an Ubuntu user</a>, but looks like they still haven't got their fucking act together.<div><br /></div><div>I know a lot of you freetards out there dream of jobs where you can work on Linux, write code for Linux, and pen flowery blog posts that make it up on hacker news, but let me tell you, unless you're one of the few who are hired by Redhat to contribute nothing to their bottom line and instead work on their playground sand castle known as Fedora, it's going to suck.</div><div><br /></div><div>So anyways, I had the awesome opportunity to upgrade to Karmic. Cuz I know, like shuttleman says, every Ubuntu release is the best fucking Ubuntu release ever.</div><div><br /></div><div>Problem #1? Using update-manager to upgrade Ubuntu from behind the firewall is ass-slow. Yep, you guessed it. They try to do something that doesn't respect http_proxy and has to time-out before progressing. What year is this? really guys? Just because Ubuntards work out of their basement, doesn't excuse you from not supporting one of the most common practices in company network environments. I mean, it took us like five years to get you to add that damn option in the installer so that it didn't choke on a fat dick trying to the apt repositories. Now this. Amateur.</div><div><br /></div><div>And while on the subject of proxies, it looks like your new shiny empathy client doesn't support proxies. Yep, there's a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/304889">bug</a> for that. Yep that's some empathy right therr. Obviously you totally understand your users get their shit done. Otherwise you wouldn't change my default chat app that fails to download my contact list, even from a server that's behind the proxy.</div><div><br /></div><div>Problem #2? Wee! Something about my xconfig borked during an upgrade. And now I get a fucking strobe light prompt. I know you want to always give me a challenge to get a reasonable display, but do you actually have to try to damage my eyesight? What the fuck happened to bullet proof X? oh, right maybe that was only for intrepid, because, you know why add a useful feature if you're just going to keep it around for every subsequent release and not rewrite it?</div><div><br /></div><div>Problem #3? Google reader on firefox is crazy slow. I mean, ff3.5 on jaunty worked just fine. But it's ok, nobody uses google reader. Yep, there's a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.5/+bug/444449">bug</a> for that, too, with a bunch of awesome Ubuntu contributors saying "me too!" "me too!" OMFG this bug is going to get fixed if we all keep saying me too! How many users does it take to fix a bug? None, you dipshit. You need a dev that gives a fuck.</div><div><br /></div><div>Problem #4? <span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;">I'm sure pulseaudio has something to do with this, but the volume on my computer appears to have exactly 3 notches between <span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-small;">quiet </span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:x-large;">SUPER FUCKING TRIPLE SONIC BOOM YOU WIN!</span> Ubuntu -- damaging your senses, one sense at a time. Maybe Linux is totally awesome if you're blind and deaf, and you just connect a serial console to your ass. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" ;font-size:16px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:medium;">Oh, and in case you were wondering, there's a <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/204898">bug</a> for that. Filed in March 2008!</span></div><div><br /></div><div>Ok fine, I'm totally going to schedule three work days to upgrade when Lactating Leper comes out. If only there was some calendaring app that I could use to remind me.. because as far as I can see, Evolution is actually devolving. Come on Novell! just a little more. You've almost killed it! Only a few more smacks!</div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-6434575596229884346
title: BM's
author: Linux Hater
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Well, it looks like there's at least one business model out there that kinda works for companies shipping open source software: be some search engine's bitch.<br /><br />Mozilla is Google's bitch. And now Ubuntu is Yahoo's bitch. Maybe Novell will be Bing's bitch?<br /><br />I gotta better idea for you Ubuntu. Why don't you take your awesome hardware auto detection capabilities, and make it such that every time you install, you hit a server, which in turn causes an instant live auction between bing, google, and yahoo, who will bid money to make their search engine the default for that install. <br /><br />I'm warning all you freetards. Some day, Ubuntu's installer is going to ask you if you want to install the google/yahoo/bing toolbar. And it will be present on every single window. Even your panel, and your xterm. Every shell command that you mistype will result in a google search. Then canonical can make ass loads of money and give you a crappy desktop system for free. It's going to be awesome. And some search engine will get like a hundred new people visiting their site.<br /><br />BTW, it's amazing how desparate Yahoo looks at this point. A me-too search engine in bed with a me-too operating system. That's some nice thought leadership there Yahoo. Because you know, Google's all going to be like, we need to find some other distro that we can sponsor. Wait, what? They're building their own distro? It's going to ship on supported hardware and be somewhat usable? And it's based on Linux? ha ha ha. That's bullshit. Everybody knows that open source products won't succeed unless they have the support of the FSF. The FSF knows that the people want. Please. Stop your nonsense.<br /><br />Some other notes for yahoo:<br /><br /> - These are Linux users. They are too cheap to click on your ads.<br /><br /> - These are freetards. They think it's cool to use adblock and pirate music.<br /><br />So yea, uh, have fun trying to actually generate revenue from them.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-6256650125830853094
title: They took our codes!
author: Linux Hater
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Huh. GregKH is <a href="http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html">complaining</a>. Again. Big suprise. <br /><br />Short story: Google uses Linux to create Android. Google makes some kernel modifications, in their own tree. Google has no time to deal with kernel community to re-architect their stuff so that it can go mainstream. GregKH whines like a baby.<br /><br />Dude, get a clue. Seriously.<br /><br />You can go on and continue to waste keynotes at conferences (yea, I'm sure the the organizers are super happy about that) to complain about people "stealing" your code. Waaa Waaa. Someone took my hippy license and took my code and isn't giving it back. Waaa.<br /><br />Hello? Did someone not realize that Google is basically all about stealing Linux and "forking" it? Do you think that google server that you're hitting is really running bleeding edge Linux 2.6.35RC62? No, they're probably running some 2 year old kernel with their own patches, because they want to insulate themselves from upstream idiocy. They're not going to give you those patches, and even if they did, they probably couldn't because of upstream churn.<br /><br />When it comes to Android, Google has done what the license asks. Make all the modifications public. If you and your rag-tag bunch of kernel developers want _their_ HOT new shit, the suck it up and bring the code in. It looks like they've even produced patches and sent you reviews. Don't like what they got? well, they're already doing more than what's required, so stop complaining.<br /><br />You see, they've got this product to ship. And they've also got this competitor called Apple. You may have heard of them. So, yea, they _could_ sit their rearchitecting their interfaces so that some kernel dev which they don't pay and don't give shit about can feel like he's important... and watch Apple eat their lunch.<br /><br />Or they could say fuck you guys. We're the one that's actually building something here. We'll get around to it, maybe, after we win.<br /><br />Seriously, has this guy shipped real software before? And before someone gives the obvious answer, shipping upstream kernel releases does not count as "shipping" or "real". Just go look at the redhat kernel to see why that's the case.<br /><br />Also, why go after google? There are tons of folks that do the same shit. They're just not as big. By doing so, you just look opportunistic and self-centered. Me me me me me me.<br /><br />PS. I was thinking, maybe he should change the "staging" tree to the "hostage" tree. I mean, that's basically what it's used for.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-3488415337152700613
title: A tale of ogg
author: Linux Hater
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Oh Ogg. The format that trapped many a user's music files on lowly Linux desktops. I know I've got some oggs somewhere that I can't listen to any more in itunes. Or any device that I care about, for that matter. And I'm too anal to re-encode them into the only format that matters: mp3.<br /><br /><div>Then today I saw <a href="http://ffmpeg.org/~mru/hardwarebug.org/2010/03/03/ogg-objections/">this</a> nice little tear down of Ogg. I'm not going to write much here since this article has a beauty of it's own. But I will quote a bit:</div><div><br /></div><div><blockquote></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 18px; font-family:Georgia, Baskerville, serif;font-size:14px;"><p></p><blockquote><p>More commonly, the Ogg proponents will respond with hand-waving arguments best summarised as <em id="notbad" onmouseover="document.getElementById('notbad').textContent='Ogg isn\'t dead, it\'s just resting'" onmouseout="document.getElementById('notbad').textContent='Ogg isn\'t bad, it\'s just different'">Ogg isn't bad, it's just different</em>. My reply to this assertion is twofold:</p><ul><li>Being too different <em>is</em> bad. We live in a world where multimedia files come in many varieties, and a decent media player will need to handle the majority of them. Fortunately, most multimedia file formats share some basic traits, and they can easily be processed in the same general framework, the specifics being taken care of at the input stage. A format deviating too far from the standard model becomes problematic.</li><li>Ogg <em>is</em> bad. When every angle of examination reveals serious flaws, bad is the only fitting description.</li></ul><p>The third reaction bypasses all technical analysis: <em>Ogg is patent-free</em>, a claim I am not qualified to directly discuss. Assuming it is true, it still does not alter the fact that <u>Ogg is a bad format</u>. Being free from patents does not magically make Ogg a good choice as file format. If all the standard formats are indeed covered by patents, the only proper solution is to design a new, good format which is not, this time hopefully avoiding the old mistakes.</p></blockquote><p></p></span></div><div><br /></div><div> Wow, doesn't this sound fucking familiar? Oh wait, %s/Ogg/Linux Desktop/g ... Ahhh... there we go.</div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-3727521231232970720
title: A year later
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2010/04/year-later.html
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Woah, Lundude is <a href="http://lunduke.com/?p=1075">at it again</a>.<br /><br />Don't worry, it's mostly the same stuff. Linux Desktop sucks. It still sucks. Even a year later. When it's sucked for the last N years, why do you think N+1 will make it so much better? But I'm sooooo sure that there's just a business plan hiding under there somewhere, and I'm the only person to think this hard about it..<br /><br />The rest of us know that if there were a business model that made sense and could be presented in a 45 minute slide-deck in some classroom, then someone would have done it already.<br /><br />But I had some other funny thoughts:<br /><br />The big players in the linux desktop are the distributions. They distribute stuff. They're somewhat ok at distributing their own stuff. But they're supremely awesome at making it hard for third parties to distribute their stuff. It's the distributions (and more precisely, the fact that there are so many of them) that make the actual distributing hard. Go figure.<br /><br />Another thing. Why are y'all _still_ focused on random niche desktop thick client apps. Linux's problem is not a lack of thick client apps. Hardly anyone uses them, other than Office. And besides, that problem is solved. Distributing thick client apps to generic PC hardware is MS's turf. You wouldn't try to take on Google's search advertising business with a rag tag group of volunteers would you? So why the fuck would you go after MS's bread and butter? You win by solving the problem in a new better way, not making the problem worse in a shittier way.<br /><br />Besides, the desktop is dying. Web apps are taking over. And it so happens that Linux is in a pretty good place to be an awesome web terminal. Even Google thinks so. But it still takes a google to herd enough people together to produce something like ChromeOS. Y'all could have probably put something like that together in as much time, if you could only focus and stop chasing after Microsoft's sinking boat.<br /><br />Y'all bitch an complain that nobody writes apps for Linux. Boo hoo. Hardly anyone writes apps for windows either these days. They all write for the web. You got your fucking level playing field that you've been bitching about for years. But I'm sure it's still going to take some eeeevil corporation with a giant clue stick to show y'all how it's done.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-8520404018010140233
title: Wut
author: Linux Hater
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I was just taking a look at S-man's announcement for <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/383">Ubuntu Unity and Light versions</a>. Most of it is blah, except for this tidbit:<br /><br /><blockquote>... The dual-boot, web-focused use case is sufficiently different from general-purpose desktop usage to warrant a fresh look at the way the desktop is configured. <strong><em>We spent quite a bit of time analyzing screenshots of a couple of hundred different desktop configurations from the current Ubuntu and Kubuntu user base, to see what people used most.</strong></em> We also identified the things that are NOT needed in lightweight dual-boot instant-on offerings... </blockquote><br /><br />Wut. Ok. Let me learn you something. I've seen lots of Linux screenshots in my time. If you were actually optimizing for the freetard, basically what you'd have is a desktop with two semi-transparent terminals. One tailing a syslog, and another showing an irc session. Oh and like some pager with a bazillion virtual desktops that are totally useless. Oh, and don't forget the scantily-clad, objectified female as the wallpaper image. <br /><br />As for the rest of the article? OMG, You put a fucking dock on the side. In OSX and Win7, doing the same thing takes like 3 seconds. Do you really need to write a whole giant announcement about it?<br /><br />Oh and I like the two sections at the end, about "Relationship to Gnome Shell" and "Relationship to KDE". Even the S-man has figured out that you can't just go <em>"innovate"</em> in the OSS community without shouting out to everyone. Because we don't want to piss off the ten people who care about Gnome Shell or KDE. Fuck. Could you imagine an Apple announcement saying something like "Relationship to Windows"?<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-2011847784749340923
title: Vuvubuntu
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2010/07/vuvubuntu.html
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I just realized. Lusers are the vuvuzelas of the software world.<br /><br />OMG OMG OMG. In addition to totally fucked window controls, we now have <a href="http://design.canonical.com/2010/07/the-ubuntu-font/">a font</a>!<br /><br />I'm so excited about this thing because it's going to fix so many problems. It's going to make my 30 inch monitor work, and give me awesome 3d graphics, and all the game companies will port to linux to take advantage of this font, and my wireless problems will go away. And it will make Intel open source their gpu, and Microsoft will roll over and die.<br /><br />I mean seriously. That's what happened when they release Bitstream Vera, and Liberation. Right? All the free desktop was missing was a fucking font. <br /><br />Oh btw, will this make other websties that specify the standard web fonts look good? No?<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-5952290810570070694
title: Moar flames
author: Linux Hater
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Jeez, linux can only handle 5000 comments? What's up with that? MySQL FTW! Carry on.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-6844060421252220116
title: it buuuuuuurns
author: Linux Hater
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Bwahahahahaahah Nokia.<br /><br />What a shit show in the making. It keeps getting better. And then of course there's this <a href="http://blog.laptopmag.com/intel-were-not-blinking-on-meego">article</a>. Intel, if you have to say you're not blinking, then you're blinking.<br /><br />Quoth Intel:<br /><br /><blockquote>Our strategy has always been to provide choice when it comes to operating systems, a strategy that includes Windows, Android, and MeeGo.  This is not changing.<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Uh huh. Your strategy has been to develop a shitty choice that goes along less shitty choices. If you're not building the "best" and just building a "choice", that has fail written all over it.<br /><br />And I love all these blogs claiming they should have gone for Android. HAVE ANY OF YOU ACTUALLY USED WP7? Seriously. Just try it. It's at least as good as Android. And it doesn't have the, "lets be like linux distros and invent a new home screen UI for every damn phone" syndrome. OMG BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE COPY AND PASTE! WTF people, Apple proved that you could ship a good phone w/o it. I'd much rather use WP7 w/o c&p than Android with it. <br /><br />These bloggers smell of the "oh the last time I used anything Microsoft was windows 98 and I'm not touching anything from them again!". Is there a TM for that?<br /><br />Nokia, with it's strategy of symbian, than maemo, then symbian, then meego, then qt, then symbian, then linux, then symbian, then open source symbian, then gtk, then qt, has clearly shown the open source is the way! Maybe that CEO dude meant to say open source is the burning platform. As in, it burns you every time you try to build on it.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-5336221137241142773
title: Sounds like fun
author: Linux Hater
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http://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2011/03/11/lessons-learned/<br /><br />tl;dr of the tl;dr: C.L.U.S.T.E.R.F.U.C.K.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-3814295510564604491
title: twat
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2011/04/twat.html
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I've revived my twitter account.<br /><br />http://www.twitter.com/hatinglinux<br /><br />I still think it's kinda lame, but posting there is just easier. Light-weight micro ranting ftw.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-8789322242543955812
title: progress
author: Linux Hater
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In true open source fashion, the community debates the most important issue of the day
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<br />https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=678775
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<br />I for one, think we should remove the kernel version number from dmesg output. I mean, it's changing all the time anyways.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-4545329317842312713
title: gold
author: Linux Hater
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http://blogs.adobe.com/open/2011/06/focusing-on-the-next-linux-client.html Opens with:<br /><blockquote>"Way back in 1999 I predicted a significant market for desktop Linux by 2005.  (I was targeting better than Mac OS type numbers, in the 10-15% range.)  It was clear back then that Linux had found a substantial adoption as a server OS, and it seemed only time before the desktop adoption rivaled at least “the other desktop”.</blockquote><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-2041422739274391402
title: here we go again
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2011/11/here-we-go-again.html
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Just found out about <a href="https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/%2Bspec/desktop-p-u1db">u1db</a>.<div><br /></div><div><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span">The Ubuntu One team have started work on u1db, a project codename for an easy-to-use database API layer which can work on any platform (Ubuntu, web servers, Windows, smartphone platforms) with the existing native databases (SQLite, MySQL, API layers, everything)</span></blockquote></div><div><br /></div><div>Is it just me, or does this sound like the database equivalent of pulse audio? I can't wait until we have the ultimate abstracted UI. The one that lets you watch porn in the same way across all platforms. It will have to be open source, of course. </div><div><br /></div><div>Seriously though. If I've learned anything, it's that OSS projects can't make a choice. And when you can't make a choice, what do you do? You support all options! Yay! How do we support all options? An abstraction layer! Yay! Abstraction layers are fun to write! Yay!</div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-3370262839446130711
title: DBus! It's Evil!
author: Linux Hater
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<blockquote style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br />So, please support choice and freedom by implementing programs the right way instead of the Linux/Gnome/DBus way.<br /></blockquote><span ><span style="font-size: 100%;">Oh boy.</span></span><div style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 100%; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; "><br /></div><div><span >http://blog.ngas.ch/archives/2011/12/13/the_destructive_desktop__mdash_linux_in_trouble/index.html</span></div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-1096048550814225539
title: Ahahahaha
author: Linux Hater
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<span >http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/03/idealism-vs-pragmatism-mozilla-debates-supporting-h264-video-playback.ars</span><div><span ><br /></span></div><div><span >Dear Mozilla. Your users don't care. Please make a useful browser. kbyethx.</span></div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-4685955123613576642
title: Pester mingo
author: Linux Hater
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<div><a href="https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeFDfRzNe" style="font-size: 100%; ">https://plus.google.com/109922199462633401279/posts/HgdeFDfRzNe</a></div><div><br /></div><div>Sigh. About 7 years too late, buddy.</div><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-7969515793003458855
title: Your free software website, for dummies
author: Linux Hater
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<b id="internal-source-marker_0.4608697877265513" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There is a certain art to buidling a website for your open source project.Before you create your own, make sure you know and follow the rules. You’ll thank me later.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It’s simple, really. It’s all about the first impression.</span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In particular, your site’s first page must communicate the following points:</span></span></b><br /><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></b><br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It must mention the fact that your software is open source or free, or whatever bastardly combination of the two, even before explaining what your software does. Extra points if you mention exactly which license you use, and if you help educate the masses about how speech and beer are in fact, different worldly entities. Studies show that if your users do not understand exactly whether binary linking is allowed with your software, they will not use it.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If the name of your software is an acronym, you must explain what the acronym stands for, with even more confusing terms.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must note which programming language your software is coded in, because that’s the first thing that any potential user will care about.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must note how your program is modularized, and anyone can add modules and customize it to actually do what it was supposed to just do in the first place.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must mention that your software is localized. Because, crappy software is somehow better when it speaks your language.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must immediately jump into a “recent announcements” section, which has items that only the 3 developers on your project would possibly understand or derive any value from. Extra points if you have an embedded commit log.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You must mention that your software runs on at least 5 irrelevant platforms.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A personal favor, please note whether your application is multithreaded. I only download multithreaded software.</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Refer to your application as a framework. Since all good great applications are framework. Firefox is a browsing framework. Gimp is a image processing framework. iTunes is a music listening framework. See?</span></span></b></li><li style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Don’t ever call it an installer. Call it a binary distribution. Better yet, make sure the only way to install is through github. Make sure your github page offers no clues on what to do once you’re there.</span></span></b></li></ul><b style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 15px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">There. Now you’re equipped to go create a site can compete with the best of ‘em. You’re welcome.</span></span></b><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-4411175452282480159
title: skunkworks
author: Linux Hater
url: http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2012/10/skunkworks.html
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It appears as if good ol' Mr. Shuttleworth has finally <a href="http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1200">seen the light</a>.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17.316667556762695px; text-align: justify;">The skunkworks approach has its detractors. We’ve tried it both ways, and in the end, figured out that critics will be critics whether you discuss an idea with them in advance or not.</span></blockquote>In other words: freetards will be freetards.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-8972152827663187197
title: Fragmentation
author: Linux Hater
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More evidence of cluelessness. In a weird late night rage, against my better judgement, I found myself reading this article over at Phoronix, about how <a href="http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&amp;px=MTIxNjU">Ubuntu is thinking about an SDK</a>.<br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><i>A proper Ubuntu Software Development Kit would be nice for developers targeting Ubuntu SDK with a standard set of libraries/interfaces that are stable, but this isn't likely to please non-Ubuntu Linux users. This SDK that Canonical will look to push to application developers will likely be centered just around Ubuntu's needs and not the Linux ecosystem as a whole with other Linux distributions not being a focus, which could potentially lead to greater Linux desktop fragmentation.</i></blockquote>Anyone who's been around long enough knows that any time some one of people tries to move the ball forward by doing something different, everyone thinks it's their right to crap on them. Worrying about fragmentation is the fucking dumbest thing you could do at this particular moment.<br /><br /><b>Desktop Linux is already heavily fragmented</b>. The benefit of potentially getting major app developers to sign up far outweighs any incremental fragmentation this might create. In fact, if this actually works, I predict that suddenly every other freetard distriution will offer SDK compatibility, and then spew on about how open source is great because it allows all kinds of variation while keeping compatibility. In other words, you will see someone writing a blog post about how you can run Steam in XMonad. Because that's totally relevant, and it's the one thing that desktop Linux is missing.<br /><br /><b>It's not about how many incompatible choices there are, it's about how your users are distributed</b>. Nobody gives a shit about how Ubuntu creating a stable SDK makes life harder for some crack-laced minty fresh Ubuntu derivative. Ubuntu already has a lot of users, if not the majority of desktop Linux users. That means this move could make desktop Linux better for the majority of users. If some big ISV signs on, it could mean that there are now 5x more Ubuntu users, making it by far the biggest majority. When Ubuntu grows the market by 5x, and owns 80% of it, the Linux desktop userbase is now <i>less</i>&nbsp;fragmented than where it started.<br /><br /><b>Fragmentation doesn't mean shit when the market is so small</b>. Freetards argue about how things are fragmented for the 1%. Well, when you only have 1%, the problem isn't that you're too fragmented. The problem is you're not doing the right things to grow beyond 1%. Fragmentation is a problem for Android. Not desktop Linux.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-7221762283314791268
title: Carry on
author: Linux Hater
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Several of you asked for a comment thread reset. Here you go. Not sure what kind of BS linux-based system falls over at 5000 comments.<div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-2736112582764314121
title: An old gem...
author: Linux Hater
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... which apparently I missed completely:<br /><br />http://www.redhat.com/archives/rhl-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html<br /><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><pre>&gt; Linux is about choice.<br /><br />If I could only have one thing this year, it would be to eliminate that<br />meme from the collective consciousness.  It is a disease.  It strangles<br />the mind and ensures you can never change anything ever because someone<br />somewhere has OCD'd their environment exactly how they like it and how<br />dare you change it on them you're so mean and next time I have friends<br />over for Buffy night you're not invited mom he's sitting on my side<br />again.<br /><br />As a consumer, yes, you have lots of choices in which Linux you use.<br />This does not mean Linux is in any sense _about_ choice, any more than<br />because there are so many kinds of cars you can buy that cars are about<br />choice.<br /><br />The complaints up-thread about juju and pulse are entirely valid, but<br />the solution is not to try to deliver two things at once.  If you try to<br />deliver both at once you have to also deliver a way of switching between<br />the two.  Now you have three moving parts instead of one, which means<br />the failure rate has gone up by a factor of _six_ (three parts, and<br />three interactions).  We have essentially already posited that we have<br />insufficient developer effort to have 100%-complete features at ship<br />time, so asking them to take on six times the failure rate when they're<br />already overburdened is just madness.  Alternatively, we could say that<br />we're integrating features too rapidly, but you do that at the expense<br />of goal 1, to be the showcase for the latest and greatest in free<br />software.<br /><br />Software is hard.  The way to fix it is to fix it, not sweep it under<br />the rug.<br /><br />There is a legitimate discussion to be had about where and how we draw<br />the line for feature inclusion, about how we increase and formalize our<br />testing efforts, and about how we develop and deploy spike solutions for<br />corner-case problems like the one device class that juju happens to do<br />worse than the old stack.  But the chain of logic from "Linux is about<br />choice" to "ship everything and let the user chose how they want their<br />sound to not work" starts with fallacy and ends with disaster.<br /><br />- ajax</pre></blockquote><div class="feedflare">
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guid: tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7065883852398274552.post-7183233314952340549
title: Bwahahah
author: Linux Hater
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Here's one big, fat, TOLD YOU SO.<br /><br />http://www.neowin.net/news/munich-germany-realizes-that-deploying-linux-was-a-disaster-going-back-to-windows<div class="feedflare">
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title: Customer Data Leaked From Airlines Around the World
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In this video I cover the data leak of several airlines that occurred a few months ago when SITA had a data breach release millions of customer records.  Air India was part of this data breach and has only recently started informing their customers of the breach.



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title: What Really Is A Vendored Dependency?
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In a recent video about Audacity I had a few people ask me what is means to have a vendored dependency, I had assummed this was commone knowledge so I didn't both explaining but here's a dedicated video on the topic anyway.

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title: Qualcomm Refreshes Snapdragon 7c Chip for PCs and Chromebooks
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In late 2019, Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8c and 7c, a pair of affordable chips for always-on Windows 10 PCs and Chromebooks. Today, the company is updating the latter of those two SoCs to improve performance. Engadget: The Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 features a Kyro CPU that can achieve clock speeds of up to 2.55GHz. The company claims it delivers 10 percent faster performance than "most competing platforms." Qualcomm likely has processors from Intel's Gemini Lake family in mind here. The company also claims the 7c Gen 2 can deliver up to two times the battery life of its competitors. Outside of the faster CPU, the 7c Gen 2 is more or less the same chip Qualcomm announced in 2019. It features an Adreno 618 GPU and Snapdragon X15 LTE modem. The latter allows the 7c Gen 2 to hit theoretical download speeds of 800 Mbps. As with its predecessor, the chip is designed for education and price-conscious customers. According to Qualcomm, we can expect the first Snapdragon 7c Gen 2 laptops to arrive this summer, with the first models coming from Lenovo.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Malware Caught Using a macOS Zero-Day To Secretly Take Screenshots
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TechCrunch reports: Jamf says it found evidence that the XCSSET malware was exploiting a vulnerability that allowed it access to parts of macOS that require permission -- such as accessing the microphone, webcam, or recording the screen -- without ever getting consent. XCSSET was first discovered by Trend Micro in 2020 targeting Apple developers, specifically their Xcode projects that they use to code and build apps. By infecting those app development projects, developers unwittingly distribute the malware to their users, in what Trend Micro researchers described as a "supply-chain-like attack." 

The malware is under continued development, with more recent variants of the malware also targeting Macs running the newer M1 chip. Once the malware is running on a victim&#226;(TM)s computer, it uses two zero-days -- one to steal cookies from the Safari browser to get access to a victim&#226;(TM)s online accounts, and another to quietly install a development version of Safari, allowing the attackers to modify and snoop on virtually any website. But Jamf says the malware was exploiting a previously undiscovered third-zero day in order to secretly take screenshots of the victim's screen.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Florida, in a First, Will Fine Social Media Companies That Bar Candidates
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Florida on Monday became the first state to regulate how companies like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter moderate speech online, by imposing fines on social media companies that permanently bar political candidates in the state. From a report: The law, signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, is a direct response to Facebook's and Twitter's bans of former President Donald J. Trump in January. In addition to the fines for barring candidates, it makes it illegal to prevent some news outlets from posting to their platforms in response to the contents of their stories. Mr. DeSantis said signing the bill meant that Floridians would be "guaranteed protection against the Silicon Valley elites." 

"If Big Tech censors enforce rules inconsistently, to discriminate in favor of the dominant Silicon Valley ideology, they will now be held accountable," he said in a statement. The bill is part of a broader push among conservative state legislatures to crack down on the ability of tech companies to manage posts on their platforms. The political efforts took off after Mr. Trump was barred after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Lawmakers around the country have echoed Mr. Trump's accusations that the companies are biased against conservative personalities and publications, even though those accounts often thrive online. More than a hundred bills targeting the companies' moderation practices have been filed nationwide this year, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Many of the bills have died, but a proposal is still being debated in Texas.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: China Will Likely Ban All Bitcoin Mining Soon
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Bitcoin took investors on another rollercoaster ride over the weekend after a top regulator in China announced a crackdown on mining, a new tack in the country's ongoing fight against the cryptocurrency. The government will "crack down on bitcoin mining and trading behavior and resolutely prevent the transfer of individual risks to the society," said the statement, which was issued by the Financial Stability and Development Committee of the State Council, the country's cabinet equivalent. The committee is chaired by Vice Premier Liu He, who acts as President Xi Jinping's top representative on economic and financial matters.
 
"The wording of the statement did not leave much leeway for cryptocurrency mining," Li Yi, chief research fellow at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, told the South China Morning Post. "When all mining activities are banned in China, it will be a turning point for the fate of bitcoin, as a large chunk of its processing power is taken out of the picture." The Chinese government isn't just worried about financial stability, either. A commentary piece in Xinhua News, the Communist Party's official media outlet, elaborated on the government's stance, voicing concerns about bitcoin's role in money laundering, drug trafficking, and smuggling. It also mentioned bitcoin's profligate energy use. Last week, China warned financial institutions not to participate in crypto-transactions or related services.
 

The combination of bitcoin's high price and its tremendous energy demand has pushed miners to take extreme positions. Miners in China have flocked to provinces such as Inner Mongolia, where cheap coal power makes mining more profitable. The scale of these facilities reflects how much money investors have sunk into the projects. At least one mining facility in Inner Mongolia draws more than 50 MW. Similarly large operations are popping up in the US, too. In upstate New York, a private equity firm bought and revamped an abandoned power plant just to mine bitcoin. When its data centers are completed, mining will consume 79 percent of the power plant's capacity, or 85 MW. China's warning to bitcoin miners is certain to push many operations out of the country. At least one bitcoin observer said that he anticipates miners pushed out of China will set up operations in Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and Afghanistan.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Drug Dealer Jailed After Cheese Picture Analysed for Prints
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A man has been jailed for 13 years after his fingerprints were analysed from a photo of a block of cheese. Sky News reports: Carl Stewart shared the M&amp;S Stilton picture -- but made the mistake of showing his fingers and palm. He may have thought he was safe because he was using an EncroChat phone, a highly encrypted device used by criminals. However, police cracked the system last year -- leading to the arrest of hundreds of people in the UK suspected of murder, gun smuggling and serious drug trafficking. Sixty-thousand users -- about 10,000 of them in the UK -- have been identified globally as part of Operation Venetic. Stewart, 39, of Gem Street, Liverpool, received a sentence of 13-and-a-half years at Liverpool Crown Court on Friday. [...] Detective Inspector Lee Wilkinson said Stewart had been "caught out by his love of Stilton cheese." "His palm and fingerprints were analysed from this picture and it was established they belonged to [him]," the officer said. Stewart had used the name Toffeeforce to conduct his EncroChat deals.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Microsoft Has Turned the Surface Duo Into a Handheld Xbox
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Microsoft is updating its Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) app for Android, and it includes dual-screen support for the Surface Duo. The Verge reports: The app update allows Surface Duo owners to use a virtual gamepad on one screen of their device and games on the other. It makes the Surface Duo look more like a Nintendo 3DS than a mobile phone, with touch controls for a variety of games. Microsoft has been steadily adding Xbox Touch Controls to more than 50 games in recent months, including titles like Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, and Minecraft Dungeons. The full list of touch-compatible games is available here, and you can of course just use a regular Bluetooth or Xbox controller to stream games to the Surface Duo.
 
The benefits of a dual-screen device for this type of mobile experience are obvious. You no longer have touch controls over the top of the game, and your thumbs don't get in the way of seeing important action on-screen. If dual-screen or foldable devices ever catch on, this is a far superior way to play Xbox games without a dedicated controller.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Apple's Moves Point To a Future With No Bootable Backups, Says Developer
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The ability to boot from an external drive on an Apple Silicon Mac may not be an option for much longer, with the creation and use of the drives apparently being phased out by Apple, according to developers of backup tools. Apple Insider reports: Mike Bombich, the founder of Bombich Software behind Carbon Copy Cloner, wrote in a May 19 blog post that the company will continue to make bootable backups for both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs, and will "continue to support that functionality as long as macOS supports it." However, with changes in the way a Mac functions with the introduction of Apple Silicon, the ability to use external booting could be limited, in part due to Apple's design decisions.
 
The first problem is with macOS Big Sur, as Apple made it so macOS resides on a "cryptographically sealed Signed System Volume," which could only be copied by Apple Software Restore. While CCC has experience with ASR, the tool was deemed to be imperfect, with it failing "with no explanation" and operating in a "very one-dimensional" way. The second snag was Apple Fabric, a storage system that uses per-file encryption keys. However, ASR didn't work for months until the release of macOS 11.3 restored it, but even then kernel panics ensued when cloning back to the original internal storage.
 
In December, Bombich spoke to Apple about ASR's reliability and was informed that Apple was working to resolve the problem. During the call, Apple's engineers also said that copying macOS system files was "not something that would be supportable in the future." "Many of us in the Mac community could see that this was the direction Apple was moving, and now we finally have confirmation," writes Bombich. "Especially since the introduction of APFS, Apple has been moving towards a lockdown of macOS system files, sacrificing some convenience for increased security." [...] While CCC won't drop the ability to copy the System folder, the tool is "going to continue to offer it with a best effort' approach." Meanwhile, for non-bootable data restoration, CCC's backups do still work with the macOS Migration Assistant, available when booting up a new Mac for the first time.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: AMD Eyes Major Socket Change
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from PC Gamer: According to a tweet from Executable Fix, a well-known leaker, AMD will finally move away from PGA to LGA with the shift to AM5, the new socket set to replace AM4. They say the new socket design will be LGA-1718 -- the number representing the number of pins required for the package. They also note that a coming generation of AMD chip will support DDR5 and PCIe 4.0 with a 600-series chipset.
 
When we talk about PGA, we're most often discussing processors with pins sticking out the underside of a chip that slot into a motherboard with a compatible socket. An LGA design will instead see a flat array of connection points on the processor, which will align with pins within the motherboard's socket. Either way you look at it, you're getting some very bendable, if not breakable, pins. But in my opinion it's much easier to bend those pins on the CPU. While a shift to LGA may seem somewhat trivial, the change will mark a major shakeup in AMD's desktop lineup.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Germany Aims To Get Self-Driving Cars On the Roads In 2022
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German lawmakers greenlit a bill that would allow for some autonomous vehicles to hit public roads as early as next year. Deutsche Welle reports: The bill, passed by Bundestag lawmakers in a late-night session on Thursday, changes traffic regulations to allow for autonomous vehicles to be put into regular use across Germany. The bill specifically concerns vehicles with fully autonomous systems that fall under the "Level 4" classification -- where a computer is in complete control of the car and no human driver is needed to control or monitor it. Once approved, it would be the world's first legal framework for integrating autonomous vehicles in regular traffic. According to the Transportation Ministry, the bill was written to be as flexible as possible, with the new regulations not requiring a human driver to be on standby.
 
Starting in 2022, the German government says the bill would allow for driverless shuttle busses to be put into use, as well as autonomous public transportation busses that would drive on set routes. Autonomous vehicles would also be permitted to transport goods, and "dual-mode vehicles" could be used for automated valet parking. Self-driving cars for the general public would also be permitted in regular traffic, although experts estimate it will take years before the vehicles become established in the market, public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk reported.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Peloton To Invest $400 Million To Build Its First US Manufacturing Facility In Ohio
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Peloton said Monday it will invest $400 million to build its first factory in the United States to speed up production and delivery of its popular cycles and high-end treadmill machines. CNBC reports: After vetting a number of locations, it selected a 200-acre site in Troy Township in Wood County, Ohio, to construct more than 1 million square feet of manufacturing, office and amenities space, the company said. Peloton expects to break ground later this summer on the project, which should bring more than 2,000 jobs to the area. The facility should be up and running by 2023.
 
Potential customers will be able to visit the Ohio facility to view its products or schedule tours to see the cycles and treadmills being made, the company said. The site will also have a fitness center for its workers. According to Foley, the extra space also means Peloton will have room to manufacture additional products in the years ahead.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: How Samsung 'Ruined' iFixit's Upcycling Program
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Last week, Kevin Purdy of iFixit published a blog post telling the story of "how Samsung announced a 'revolutionary' upcycling program in 2017, delayed it for years, and eventually gutted it before shipping a pale imitation of the original idea," reports Ars Technica. "iFixit was actually involved in the initial 2017 announcement, and the repair outfit says that after endorsing the original idea with its brand and stamp of approval, Samsung never delivered on its promises." From the report: Despite the 2017 announcement of an upcycling program, the code didn't ship until April 2021, when Samsung finally launched a beta version of "Galaxy Upcycling at Home." This program lets users turn end-of-life Samsung phones into smart home sensors that could be paired with Samsung's SmartThings ecosystem. iFixit was initially given an inside look at the project back in 2017, liking it so much that it endorsed the project and lent its name to the marketing materials. To hear iFixit tell the story, bootloader unlocking was actually the original plan. Samsung was going to let users replace the shipping Android OS with whatever they wanted, like builds of LineageOS or some other custom OS. Samsung was also going to launch an open source marketplace where users could submit ideas and software for repurposing old Galaxy devices. iFixit called the original plan "novel" and "revolutionary."
 
"We were so excited," iFixit writes, "that when Samsung asked us to help launch the product in the fall of 2017, we jumped at the chance. You'll see iFixit's name and logo all over Samsung's original Galaxy Upcycling materials." iFixit went to Samsung HQ in South Korea to see prototypes of the project, and after testing working software, iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens actually helped announce the project on stage at Samsung's developer conference in 2017. Despite all the pomp and circumstance, iFixit says, "The actual software was never posted. The Samsung team eventually stopped returning our emails. Friends inside the company told us that leadership wasn't excited about a project that didn't have a clear product tie-in or revenue plan."
 
iFixit calls the version of the program that launched in April "nearly unrecognizable" to what it originally endorsed. What used to be an ambitious plan now barely makes any sense financially. iFixit rightfully points out that if you really want something as simple as a light sensor or sound monitor, at this point you're better off selling the phone and buying a purpose-built sensor. Samsung's on-rails functionality is so simple that it can be replicated by a $30 sensor, and you're sure to get more than that from a working device on the secondary market, especially due to another limitation of the program: it only extends back to the 3-year-old Galaxy S9.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Scientists Partially Restored a Blind Man's Sight With New Gene Therapy
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: A team of scientists announced Monday that they had partially restored the sight of a blind man by building light-catching proteins in one of his eyes. Their report, which appeared in the journal Nature Medicine, is the first published study to describe the successful use of this treatment. The procedure is a far cry from full vision. The volunteer, a 58-year-old man who lives in France, had to wear special goggles that gave him the ghostly perception of objects in a narrow field of view. But the authors of the report say that the trial -- the result of 13 years of work -- is a proof of concept for more effective treatments to come.
 
The scientists are taking advantage of proteins derived from algae and other microbes that can make any nerve cell sensitive to light. In the early 2000s, neuroscientists figured out how to install some of these proteins into the brain cells of mice and other lab animals by injecting viruses carrying their genes. The viruses infected certain types of brain cells, which then used the new gene to build light-sensitive channels. Originally, researchers developed this technique, called optogenetics, as a way to probe the workings of the brain. By inserting a tiny light into the animal's brain, they could switch a certain type of brain cell on or off with the flick of a switch. The method has enabled them to discover the circuitry underlying many kinds of behavior.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: OnlyOffice Writer - First Look from an Author's Perspective
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title: Man Dies Inside Spanish Dinosaur Statue After Trying To Retrieve His Phone
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According to The Guardian, a man in Catalonia died after becoming trapped inside a large dinosaur statue while trying to retrieve his smartphone. From the report: Officers were called to the statue in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, a satellite town of Barcelona, after a man and his son noticed something inside the papier-mache stegosaurus on Saturday afternoon. A spokeswoman for the regional police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, said the death of the 39-year-old man was not being treated as suspicious.
 
"A father and son noticed that there was something inside and raised the alarm," she said. "We found the body of a man inside the leg of this dinosaur statue. It's an accidental death; there was no violence. This person got inside the statue's leg and got trapped. It looks as though he was trying to retrieve a mobile phone, which he'd dropped. It looks like he entered the statue head first and couldn't get out." "We're still waiting for the autopsy results, so we don't know how long he was in there, but it seems he was there for a couple of days," she added. Slashdot reader shanen submitted this story with the following commentary: Not sure what the technology link is. Smartphones make people stupid? Dinosaurs are scientific, but this is ridiculous? It would be funny, but it's too gruesome. But I guess I'll go ahead and submit it in the Darwin Awards category. Maybe a better title is man kills himself with dinosaur and smartphone? Death by paper mache?<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Drones and Sensors Could Spot Fires Before They Go Wild
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To detect wildfires earlier on, some researchers are proposing a novel solution that harnesses a network of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and a fleet of drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). IEEE Spectrum reports: The researchers tested their approach through simulations, described in a study published May 5 in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, finding that it can detect fires that are just 2.5 km2 (just under one square mile) in size with near perfect accuracy. "In the last few years, the number, frequency, and severity of wildfires have increased dramatically worldwide, significantly impacting countries' economies, ecosystems, and communities. Wildfire management presents a significant challenge in which early fire detection is key," emphasizes Osama Bushnaq, a senior researcher at the Autonomous Robotics Research Center of the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi, who was involved in the study.
 
The approach that Bushnaq and his colleagues are proposing involves a network of IoT sensors scattered throughout regions of concern, such as a national park or forests situated near communities. If a fire ignites, IoT devices deployed in the area will detect it and wait until a patrolling UAV is within transmission range to report their measurements. If a UAV receives multiple positive detections by the IoT devices, it will notify the nearby firefighting department that a wildfire has been verified.
 
The researchers evaluated a number of different UAVs and IoT sensors based on cost and features to determine the optimal combinations. Next, they tested their UAV-IoT approach through simulations, whereby 420 IoT sensors were deployed and 18 UAVs patrolled per square kilometer of simulated forest. The system could detect fires covering 2.5 km2 with greater than 99 percent accuracy. For smaller fires covering 0.5 km2 the approach yielded 69 percent accuracy. These results suggest that, if an optimal number of UAVs and IoT devices are present, wildfires can be detected in much shorter time than with the satellite imaging.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: 'Charlie Bit My Finger' Is Leaving YouTube After $760,999 NFT Sale
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The original 2007 video "Charlie Bit My Finger," a standard-bearer of viral internet fascination, has sold as a nonfungible token for $760,999, and the family who created it will take down the original from YouTube for good. The original video, which has close to 900 million views, features Charlie Davies-Carr, an infant in England, biting the finger of his big brother, Harry Davies-Carr, and then laughing after Harry yells "OWWWW." The owner will also be able to create their own parody of the video featuring Charlie and Harry Davies-Carr.
 
Many duplicates of the video remain online, including one apparently rebranded by the family itself in anticipation of the auction. But the auction allowed bidders to "own the soon-to-be-deleted YouTube phenomenon" and be the "sole owner of this lovable piece of internet history." The market for ownership rights to digital art, ephemera and media, known as NFTs, continues to grow and bring attention to widely viewed videos and memes that many people have long forgotten. NFT buyers are not usually acquiring copyrights, trademarks or the sole ownership of whatever they purchase. They're mostly bought with the idea that their copy is authentic.
 
During anNFT sale, computers are connected to a cryptocurrency network. They record the transaction on a shared ledger and store it on a blockchain, sealing it as part of a permanent public record and serving as a sort of certification of authenticity that cannot be altered or erased.
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title: Google Sees Sweeping German Antitrust Probes Into Data Terms
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Google's market power and control over users' data faces intense scrutiny in Germany as the nation's antitrust watchdog added it to the list of U.S. tech giants targeted by expanded new rules. From a report: Germany's Federal Cartel Office said Tuesday it's started two investigations under antitrust measures that allow regulators to target large digital companies that may dominate several markets. The authority will conduct an in-depth analysis of Google's data processing terms, saying the Alphabet unit enjoys a "strategic advantage" from the information it collects. Regulators also questioned whether users "have sufficient choice as to how Google will use their data."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: GCHQ's Mass Data Interception Violated Right To Privacy, Court Rules
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GCHQ's methods for bulk interception of online communications violated the right to privacy and the regime for collection of data was "not in accordance with the law," the grand chamber of the European court of human rights has ruled. From a report: In what was described as a "landmark victory" by Liberty, one of the applicants, the judges also found the bulk interception regime breached the right to freedom of expression and contained insufficient protections for confidential journalistic material but said the decision to operate a bulk interception regime did not of itself violate the European convention on human rights. 

The chamber, the ultimate court of the ECHR, also concluded that GCHQ's regime for sharing sensitive digital intelligence with foreign governments was not illegal. The grand chamber judgment is the culmination of a legal challenge to GCHQ's bulk interception of online communications begun in 2013 by Big Brother Watch and others after Edward Snowden's whistleblowing revelations concerning the interception, processing and storing of data about millions of people's private communications by the eavesdropping agency.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Google's Mysterious Fuchsia OS Makes its Public Debut
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Big under-the-hood changes are coming to Google's original Nest Hub, even if most users won't ever be aware of what's happening. From a report: Starting today, the open-source Fuchsia OS will start rolling out to first-gen Nest Hub displays, according to 9to5Google. In the works since 2016, Fuchsia will land first on Nest Hub devices enrolled in Google's Preview Program, before arriving more widely on non-Preview Program displays. Don't expect the user experience to change much, though. 9to5Google notes that the look and feel of Fuchsia OS-powered Nest Hubs will be "essentially identical" to what it was before. 

OK, so what's the big deal about Fuchsia, then? It's a new, open-source OS that's decidedly not based on the Linux kernel, as Android and Chrome OS are. Instead, Fuchsia is based on Magneta, which (as we described it back in 2016) is "combination microkernel and set of user-space services and hardware drivers" with a "physics based renderer" that can power graphical user interfaces. Because it's an open-source project, Fuchsia's existence has been well publicized over the years, although its purpose has been harder to fathom; "out in the open" yet "shrouded in mystery" is how we aptly put it. With its arrival on the original Nest Hub, Fuchsia is taking its first tentative steps out of the lab and into the hands of actual users, even if those users aren't aware of the new OS.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Xbox Series X DRM Makes It Near Impossible To Play Games Offline
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It seems that Microsoft's digital rights management decisions for the Xbox Series X are a serious cause for concern. From a report: According to a video from YouTuber and game developer Modern Vintage Gamer, the Xbox Series X is unable to play games without connecting to Microsoft's servers. He tried games off a disc like Rise of the Tomb Raider as well as Hitman 3 and both refused to work offline. While Microsoft recommends keeping your Xbox Series X as your 'Home Console' in its settings, it's a solution that's described as a 'band-aid' as it doesn't seem to work with every game as it should. 

Native Xbox Series X physical games like Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition work fine. It installed off the disc and ran as it should offline. This should in theory mean that games that are solely for the Xbox Series X should work both offline and online. However with Microsoft's focus on Smart Delivery, it means that the current crop of Xbox Series X discs that run on Xbox One as well are essentially coasters. All of this essentially means that you won't be able to play your Xbox games when Microsoft decides to take its servers offline.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Microsoft To Add Support for Linux GUI Apps on Windows 10 Later This Year
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Microsoft is making the promised support for Linux graphical user interface (GUI) apps on Windows 10 available to customers as of the next Windows 10 release, officials said on May 25. Microsoft officials made the announcement on Day 1 of its virtual Build 2021 developers conference. From a report: During his Day 1 keynote, CEO Satya Nadella basically acknowledged there will be another event "soon" about the next Windows. He said: ""And soon we will share one of the most significant updates of Windows of the past decade." He said he has been self-hosting it over the past several months and called it "the next generation of Windows." 

Microsoft released a preview of Linux GUI apps on the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) in April, 2021. This capability is meant to allow developers to run their preferred Linux tools, utilities and apps directly on Windows 10. With GUI app support, users can now run GUI apps for testing, development and daily use without having to set up a virtual machine.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Microsoft and Qualcomm Team Up To Create a Windows on ARM Developer PC
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Microsoft has teamed up with Qualcomm to create a Windows on ARM-based dev kit for developers. From a report: The miniature PC will be sold at the Microsoft Store this summer, and is designed to be more affordable to encourage developers to create ARM64 apps for Snapdragon-based PCs. Until now, developers have had to purchase devices like the Surface Pro X to fully test their ARM64 apps on Windows. That's a costly exercise for developers, particularly when the Surface Pro X retails from $999 and up. While Microsoft and Qualcomm haven't put a price on this new dev kit, there are promises it will be more affordable than what developers can buy today. "This developer kit provides an affordable alternative to other consumer and commercial devices," says Miguel Nunes, senior director of product management at Qualcomm. "With the smaller desktop configuration, this kit gives developers more flexibility than notebook options, and at a lower price point."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: DC Attorney General Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Amazon
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Washington, D.C., Attorney General Karl Racine filed an antitrust lawsuit against Amazon Tuesday, alleging that the e-commerce giant has unfairly raised prices and hurt innovation. From a report: The lawsuit filed in D.C. Superior Court claims that Amazon has engaged in anti-competitive business practices including not allowing third party sellers to offer their products at lower prices elsewhere and imposing excessive fees. The suit alleges that those practices have passed on fees to consumers in the form of higher prices, prevents other platforms from competing and takes away choices from consumers. 

"Amazon has used its dominant position in the online retail market to win at all costs," Racine said in a statement. "It maximizes its profits at the expense of third-party sellers and consumers, while harming competition, stifling innovation, and illegally tilting the playing field in its favor."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: DHS To Issue First Cybersecurity Regulations for Pipelines After Colonial Hack
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The Department of Homeland Security is moving to regulate cybersecurity in the pipeline industry for the first time in an effort to prevent a repeat of a major computer attack that crippled nearly half the East Coast's fuel supply this month -- an incident that highlighted the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to online attacks. From a report: The Transportation Security Administration, a DHS unit, will issue a security directive this week requiring pipeline companies to report cyber incidents to federal authorities, senior DHS officials said. It will follow up in coming weeks with a more robust set of mandatory rules for how pipeline companies must safeguard their systems against cyberattacks and the steps they should take if they are hacked, the officials said. The agency has offered only voluntary guidelines in the past. The ransomware attack that led Colonial Pipeline to shutter its pipeline for 11 days this month prompted gasoline shortages and panic buying in the southeastern United States, including in the nation's capital. Had it gone on much longer, it could have affected airlines, mass transit and chemical refineries that rely on diesel fuel.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Don Lemon FAKES Quitting CNN To Save His Failing Show, These People NEED Trump To Succeed
author: Timcast IRL
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4utcSnU4LgM
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host Fox News, Human Events, and Political Insider contributor Chris Barron to make fun of Don Lemon in his failed publicity stunt to drive attention to his show on CNN. 

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title: Biden Budget BACKSTABS Leftists Who Voted For Him, They Are OUTRAGED He Won't Pay Student Loans
author: Timcast IRL
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyRbTQxlSf8
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host Fox News, Human Events, and Political Insider contributor Chris Barron to analyze why leftists are currently upset with Joe Biden. 

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title: Russell Peters Reveals Why He Was Never on Letterman
author: Jordan B Peterson
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrEOo1AZGso
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Full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRGkr0LGZDA&t=9s

“I would either kill or bomb. There was no middle ground.”

In this fun clip of the Jordan Peterson Podcast, Jordan, Mikhaila, and guest Russell Peters talk about his beginnings in comedy, being a Canadian Indian comic, transition to fame, his travels all around the world, local comedy club pay practices, being randomly recognized on the street, talking to people, navigating the industry, sticking his foot in his mouth, failure and much more.

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title: Improve Efficiency In Chrome or Firefox With Vimium
author: DistroTube
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Vimium is a browser extension that provides keyboard-based navigation and control of the web in the spirit of the Vim editor.  It helps you navigate the web without touching the mouse.  Vimium uses a clever highlighting method to navigate using links.

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title: Austin Mayor Steve Adler on Tackling the Homeless Problem
author: PowerfulJRE
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Taken from JRE #1657 w/Mayor Steve Adler:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5XsV10wWSJTuAHQ4tpxGny?si=mrsziyWmQlqpmo7mDWsXTg


guid: yt:video:YnoylRiHwHk
title: Hospitals Under Siege From Hackers
author: Mental Outlaw
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnoylRiHwHk
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In this video I go over the recent attacks on healthcare facilities (including the Irish healthcare cyberattack, and the attack on RMCHCS in the united states)


Link to portswigger article

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/us-healthcare-non-profit-reports-data-breach-impacting-200-000-patients-employees


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title: Research Reveals Why Some Find the Sound of Others Eating So Irritating
author: msmash
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url:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/21/05/25/1659223/research-reveals-why-some-find-the-sound-of-others-eating-so-irritating?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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Scientists have shed light on why everyday sounds such as chewing, drinking and breathing can be so maddening to some people that it drives them to despair. From a report: Now, brain scans performed by researchers at Newcastle University have revealed that people with misophonia have stronger connectivity between the part of the brain that processes sounds and the part of the so-called premotor cortex which handles mouth and throat muscle movements. When people with misophonia were played a "trigger sound," the scans showed that the brain region involved in mouth and throat movement was overactivated compared with a control group of volunteers who did not have the condition. 

"What we are suggesting is that in misophonia the trigger sound activates the motor area even though the person is only listening to the sound," said Dr Sukhbinder Kumar, a neuroscientist at Newcastle University. "It makes them feel like the sounds are intruding into them." Kumar and his colleagues believe that trigger sounds activate what is called the brain's mirror neuron system. Mirror neurons are thought to fire when a person performs an action, but also when they see others make particular movements.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Fauci Pushes 'Lab Leak' Theory The Media Spent All Year Trying To 'DEBUNK,' Media FREAK Out
author: Timcast IRL
url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XtXDjUbKAE
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia host Fox News, Human Events, and Political Insider contributor Chris Barron to break down Dr. Fauci's latest flip-flop in the Covid saga, and how the mainstream media is responding. 

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guid: 1846942444
title: Anti-Asian Hate Crimes Bill Signed Into Law
url: https://www.theonion.com/anti-asian-hate-crimes-bill-signed-into-law-1846942444
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ntw5Z4uu--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/abwm6w3prjmdcyvoqfxn.jpg" /><p>President Biden signed legislation focused on aggressively investigating hate crimes, especially those targeting Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, amid a dramatic increase during the coronavirus pandemic. What do <em>you</em> think?</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/anti-asian-hate-crimes-bill-signed-into-law-1846942444">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846942927
title: AP Fires Journalist At Palestinian Civilians
url: https://www.theonion.com/ap-fires-journalist-at-palestinian-civilians-1846942927
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--2eEqyGev--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/eee58d600d7ae40b68a91e79468e5161.jpg" /><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/ap-fires-journalist-at-palestinian-civilians-1846942927">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846942626
title: Conservative Man Misses Days When U.S. Army Was 2 Inches Tall, Green, And Plastic
url: https://local.theonion.com/conservative-man-misses-days-when-u-s-army-was-2-inche-1846942626
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--sCq9JSr3--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/9d7fa7ecb5929ef6714870219972be99.jpg" /><p>MINNETONKA, MN—Calling the armed forces of today a “far cry” from the honorable soldiers he recalled from his upbringing, local conservative resident Phil Hayes told reporters Friday he longed for a bygone era when the U.S. Army was 2 inches tall, green, and plastic. “When I was young, every man in the Army respected…</p><p><a href="https://local.theonion.com/conservative-man-misses-days-when-u-s-army-was-2-inche-1846942626">Read more...</a></p>


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title: World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Off From Antarctica
url: https://www.theonion.com/world-s-largest-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica-1846943071
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--eU460HLO--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/a1glirmtpgnnrgkq96yv.jpg" /><p>An iceberg bigger than the state of Rhode Island has broken off the Ronne ice shelf in a natural event called calving unattributed to climate change, making the iceberg the largest in the world. What do <em>you</em> think?</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/world-s-largest-iceberg-breaks-off-from-antarctica-1846943071">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846942517
title: Actors Describe The Dream Role They Never Got To Play
url: https://www.theonion.com/actors-describe-the-dream-role-they-never-got-to-play-1846942517
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--pbDqKQIV--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/9a4c78e27545c44ec221cea85dc4fd4b.jpg" /><p>In an effort to learn about the ultimate part that had eluded actors throughout their careers, <em>The Onion</em> asked some of Hollywood’s biggest stars to talk about missing out on iconic roles.<br></p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/actors-describe-the-dream-role-they-never-got-to-play-1846942517">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846943534
title: Nation All Itchy
url: https://www.theonion.com/nation-all-itchy-1846943534
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--jVFNQhwh--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/3b87eeb8f79ff4f48b8e3db391d75ad4.jpg" /><p>WASHINGTON—Feeling completely overwhelmed by the uncomfortable sensation, the nation was reportedly all itchy, frantically scratching sources confirmed Monday. “Gah, it’s driving me crazy!” said Greg McLaren, one of the 328 million Americans who was currently reaching for a ruler, fork, or any other implement he could…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/nation-all-itchy-1846943534">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846936877
title: Patient With 18 Months To Live Not Sure She Can Sustain Cherishing Every Moment That Long
url: https://www.theonion.com/patient-with-18-months-to-live-not-sure-she-can-sustain-1846936877
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--FgaHI4uN--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/e61d649c7fff6a64e39f0aa92ac19be8.jpg" /><p>LYNN, MA—Reeling in the wake of a diagnosis giving her 18 months to live, local woman Sophie Williams reportedly admitted Monday that she wasn’t sure she could sustain cherishing every moment for that long. “Ever since learning the pancreatic cancer was terminal, I’ve been thinking a lot about savoring the little…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/patient-with-18-months-to-live-not-sure-she-can-sustain-1846936877">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846936965
title: 7-Year-Old Has Seen Way Deeper Deep Ends
url: https://www.theonion.com/7-year-old-has-seen-way-deeper-deep-ends-1846936965
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--1x-NgsAO--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/199f7795f12a27fd3e5394fc77e29b14.jpg" /><p>COLUMBUS, IN—Unfazed by the public swimming pool, local 7-year-old Logan Dixon told reporters Monday that he had seen way deeper deep ends. “Give me a break, what is this, five feet or something?” said Dixon, whose wisdom and courage left witnesses awestruck as he described how the public swimming pool’s depths paled…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/7-year-old-has-seen-way-deeper-deep-ends-1846936965">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846943993
title: New Orleans Airbnb Touts Location In Heart Of Historic Airbnb Quarter
url: https://www.theonion.com/new-orleans-airbnb-touts-location-in-heart-of-historic-1846943993
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qDHiIeCF--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/c8301144201d47c95a270322ab4b5757.jpg" /><p>NEW ORLEANS—Enticing potential bookers with the apartment’s best features, a New Orleans Airbnb  reportedly touted Monday its location in the heart of the city’s historic Airbnb quarter. “Located mere steps from a wide array of other Airbnbs, this apartment is the perfect spot for a couple or two friends to explore…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/new-orleans-airbnb-touts-location-in-heart-of-historic-1846943993">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846954147
title: Career Backup Plan Even More Likely To Fail
url: https://www.theonion.com/career-backup-plan-even-more-likely-to-fail-1846954147
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--qiShmpfQ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/73f41f5de7283faa2e87ffbe4ef2bcc4.jpg" /><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/career-backup-plan-even-more-likely-to-fail-1846954147">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846954156
title: Mom Saw Article On Declining U.S. Birth Rate And Thought Of Your Deteriorating Sex Organs
url: https://www.theonion.com/mom-saw-article-on-declining-u-s-birth-rate-and-though-1846954156
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ZJeYs37w--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/3deff2f747a570dc2e768c60a932a2aa.jpg" /><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/mom-saw-article-on-declining-u-s-birth-rate-and-though-1846954156">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846956182
url: https://www.theonion.com/man-with-fear-of-flying-reminds-himself-you-more-likely-1846956182
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
title:
Man With Fear Of Flying Reminds Himself You More Likely To Get Kidnapped By Belarusian Dictator On Drive To Airport

content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--A_dxfJMW--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/c50fe81e24e6df0912fdf604f0ccc9d4.jpg" /><p>SALINA, KS—In an attempt to quell his anxieties surrounding the popular mode of transportation, Frederick Varela attempted to quell his fear of flying Monday by reminding himself that he was more likely to get kidnapped by a Belarusian dictator during the drive  to the airport than while  in the air. “Obviously, some…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/man-with-fear-of-flying-reminds-himself-you-more-likely-1846956182">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846957041
title: Simone Biles Lands Historic Vault
url: https://www.theonion.com/simone-biles-lands-historic-vault-1846957041
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--Ntw5Z4uu--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/abwm6w3prjmdcyvoqfxn.jpg" /><p>Five-time Olympic medalist Simone Biles landed a Yurchenko double pike, a challenging vault never before accomplished by a female gymnast in competition. What do <em>you</em> think?</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/simone-biles-lands-historic-vault-1846957041">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846957120
url: https://www.theonion.com/republicans-worried-blind-worship-of-trump-overriding-t-1846957120
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
title:
Republicans Worried Blind Worship Of Trump Overriding Traditional Values Like Blind Worship Of Reagan

content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--SkzRLF1O--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/043a07b6b83acca347994192d2e391e4.jpg" /><p>WASHINGTON—Unsettled by the direction in which their party appeared to be headed, a small group of Republicans expressed concern Monday that blind worship of former President Donald Trump had begun to erode more traditional GOP values, such as the blind worship of former President Ronald Reagan. “It’s deeply troubling…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/republicans-worried-blind-worship-of-trump-overriding-t-1846957120">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846958173
title: Biden Concerned Ambitious Agenda Could Be Stalled By Him Not Really Caring If It Happens Or Not
url: https://www.theonion.com/biden-concerned-ambitious-agenda-could-be-stalled-by-hi-1846958173
feedurl: https://www.theonion.com/rss
content:
<img src="https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--_9njo8pY--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/054b6071731251c092a46f864af67a88.jpg" /><p>WASHINGTON—Faced with obstacles to his policy proposals that threatened to derail their passage, President Joe Biden on Tuesday reportedly expressed his concern that his ambitious agenda could be stalled by him not really caring if it happens or not. “I came into office with a mandate to enact big, bold legislation…</p><p><a href="https://www.theonion.com/biden-concerned-ambitious-agenda-could-be-stalled-by-hi-1846958173">Read more...</a></p>


guid: 1846955524
title: Friend On Group Trip Establishes Dominance By Placing Toiletry Bag On Bathroom Counter
url: https://www.theonion.com/friend-on-group-trip-establishes-dominance-by-placing-t-1846955524
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title: Alabama Overturns Ban On Yoga In Schools
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title: Everyday Products You Never Knew Actually Started In The Military
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title: Class-Action Suit Against God Pays Out 45 Extra Seconds Of Life To Every Creature
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title: Florida High School Alters Yearbook Photos To Hide Girls Entirely
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title: Trae Young Silences MSG Crowd To Tell Spike Lee ‘School Daze’ Had Too Many Plotlines
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title: Phil Mickelson Becomes First Golfer To Win Major In 14 Different Decades
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title: Microsoft Uses GPT-3 To Let You Code in Natural Language
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Microsoft is now using OpenAI's massive GPT-3 natural language model in its no-code/low-code Power Apps service to translate spoken text into code in its recently announced Power Fx language. From a report: Now don't get carried away. You're not going to develop the next TikTok while only using natural language. Instead, what Microsoft is doing here is taking some of the low-code aspects of a tool like Power Apps and using AI to essentially turn those into no-code experiences, too. For now, the focus here is on Power Apps formulas, which despite the low-code nature of the service, is something you'll have to write sooner or later if you want to build an app of any sophistication. 

"Using an advanced AI model like this can help our low-code tools become even more widely available to an even bigger audience by truly becoming what we call no code," said Charles Lamanna, corporate vice president for Microsoft's low-code application platform. In practice, this looks like the citizen programmer writing "find products where the name starts with 'kids'" -- and Power Apps then rendering that as "Filter('BC Orders' Left('Product Name',4)="Kids")". Because Microsoft is an investor in OpenAI, it's no surprise the company chose its model to power this experience.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Oracle Debuts Its First Arm-based Cloud Instances
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Oracle is giving customers more choice and flexibility with the launch of its first Arm-based cloud compute offering on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure platform. From a report: The new offering, called OCI Ampere A1 Compute, is designed to power both general-purpose and cloud-native workloads that demand high performance at more manageable costs, Oracle said today. It's based on the Ampere Altra architecture built by Ampere Computing. Today's announcement comes as Oracle makes a big investment into the Arm ecosystem more generally, with the availability of more resources and tools, including a new development environment for developers that's intended to support Arm-based application development. 

Arm's central processing units are known for their extremely efficient, flexible and scalable architecture. They're most prominently used in smaller devices such as smartphones, but in more recent years they have come to power everything from personal computers and "internet of things" devices to computer servers and even supercomputers. Oracle said its new Arm compute instances come in a range of options and sizes to fit just about any workload, with choices including what it says are the industry's first Arm-based flexible virtual machine shapes that can be right-sized for different jobs. There are also more powerful bare metal server options.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Microsoft Says 'Next Generation of Windows' Coming Soon
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, at the company's developer conference today: Across all the opportunities I've highlighted today, Windows is implicit. It's never been more important. Windows 10 is used by more than 1.3 billion people to work, learn, connect and play. And it all starts with Windows as a dev box. Windows brings together all developer and collaboration tools in one place. It lets you choose the hardware you want, works with Linux and Windows as one, and has a modern terminal. 

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title: Senate Preparing $10 Billion Bailout Fund For Jeff Bezos Space Firm
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Intercept: Now that Jeff Bezos's space flight company Blue Origin has lost a multibillion contract to Elon Musk's SpaceX, Congress is prepping the ground for Bezos to win a contract anyway, ordering NASA to make not one but two awards. The order would come through the Endless Frontier Act, a bill to beef up resources for science and technology research that's being debated on the Senate floor this week. An amendment was added to that legislation by Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., to hand over $10 billion to NASA -- money that most likely would go to Blue Origin, a company that's headquartered in Cantwell's home state.
 
Cantwell's amendment is no sure bet though: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a last-minute amendment Monday to eliminate the $10 billion. "It does not make a lot of sense to me that we would provide billions of dollars to a company owned by the wealthiest guy in America," Sanders told The Intercept Tuesday. Cantwell's measure wouldn't rescind the grant to SpaceX but would create an additional contract that Bezos's company would be in line to win. A third company, Dynetics, had also bid for the moonshot, but the author of the new amendment offers a strong suggestion of which company it's likely to benefit. The measure has been attached to the Endless Frontier Act as part of a manager's amendment and authorizes $10.032 billion through the year 2026 for the moon program. Authorization alone does not fund the program, and Congress would still need to appropriate the money, or the executive would need to find other appropriated funds.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Redditors Aim to 'Free Science' From For-Profit Publishers
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A group of Redditors came together in a bid to archive over 85 million scientific papers from the website Sci-Hub and make an open-source library that cannot be taken down. Interesting Engineering reports: Over the last decade or so, Sci-Hub, often referred to as "The Pirate Bay of Science," has been giving free access to a huge database of scientific papers that would otherwise be locked behind a paywall. Unsurprisingly, the website has been the target of multiple lawsuits, as well as an investigation from the United States Department of Justice. The site's Twitter account was also recently suspended under Twitter's counterfeit policy, and its founder, Alexandra Elbakyan, reported that the FBI gained access to her Apple accounts.
 
Now, Redditors from a subreddit called DataHoarder, which is aimed at archiving knowledge in the digital space, have come together to try to save the numerous papers available on the website. In a post on May 13, the moderators of r/DataHoarder, stated that "it's time we sent Elsevier and the USDOJ a clearer message about the fate of Sci-Hub and open science. We are the library, we do not get silenced, we do not shut down our computers, and we are many." This will be no easy task. Sci-Hub is home to over 85 million papers, totaling a staggering 77TB of data. The group of Redditors is currently recruiting for its archiving efforts and its stated goal is to have approximately 8,500 individuals torrenting the papers in order to download the entire library. Once that task is complete, the Redditors aim to release all of the downloaded data via a new "uncensorable" open-source website.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Synopsys Claims Chip Design Breakthrough With AI Engineering
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MojoKid writes: Mountain View, CA silicon design tools heavyweight Synopsys is claiming a breakthrough in chip design automation that it claims will usher in a new level of semiconductor innovation that will take the industry above and beyond the limits of Moore's Law (Gordon Moore's observation that the number of transistors in chips double roughly every two years), which is now considered by many to be plateauing. Synopsys' tool called DSO.ai is the world's first autonomous AI tool set for chip design. Synopsys claims its DSO.ai tool can dramatically accelerate, enhance, and reduce the costs involved with something called place-and-route. Just as it sounds, place-and-route (sometimes called floor planning) referrers to the placement of logic and IP blocks, and the routing of the traces and various interconnects in a chip designed to join them all together. Synopsys' DSO.ai optimizes and streamlines this process using the iterative nature of artificial intelligence and machine learning, such that what used to take dozens of engineers weeks or potentially months, now will take a junior engineer just days to complete. DSO.ai iterates on the floorplan and layout of a chip, and learns from each iteration, fine tuning and optimizing the chip within its design parameters and targets along the way. The old semiconductor paradigms are rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Today, it's about the best transistors, architectures, and accelerators for the job, and the human-constrained physical design engineering effort no longer has to be a gating factor.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Valve Is Making a Switch-Like Portable Gaming PC
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Video game and hardware studio Valve has been secretly building a Switch-like portable PC designed to run a large number of games on the Steam PC platform via Linux -- and it could launch, supply chain willing, by year's end. Multiple sources familiar with the matter have confirmed that the hardware has been in development for some time, and this week, Valve itself pointed to the device by slipping new hardware-related code into the latest version of Steam, the company's popular PC gaming storefront and ecosystem.
 
On Tuesday, SteamDB operator Pavel Djundik spotted the change in Steam's code, which pointed to a new device named "SteamPal." The name is a derivative of a previously discovered code term, "Neptune," which began appearing in September of last year and came with a "Neptune Optimized Games" string. At the time, curious code crawlers thought this discovery referred to some type of controller. Technically, that's true. The "SteamPal," whose name we're putting in scare quotes because we do not have confirmation of the device's final name, is an all-in-one PC with gamepad controls and a touchscreen. In other words, it looks and functions like a Nintendo Switch (albeit without removable "Joy-Con" controller functionality).
 
The SteamPal will [feature] a system on a chip likely coming from either Intel or AMD, not Nvidia. (The aforementioned Switch-like PC manufacturers have leaned on both AMD and Intel for their products.) It's unclear whether Valve will release multiple SKUs to offer customers a choice of power level, battery life, and other specs, as other Switch-like PCs have offered over the past year. At least one SteamPal prototype version is quite wide compared to the Nintendo Switch. This extra width accommodates a slew of control options. No, Valve is likely not slapping an entire QWERTY keyboard onto its system, but the company has packed in a standard array of gamepad buttons and triggers, along with a pair of joysticks and at least one thumb-sized touchpad (in addition to the device's touch-sensitive screen). The SteamPal's touchpad is likely smaller than the pair of touchpads that came standard on every Steam Controller. The SteamPal's Switch-like properties will include the option to "dock" to larger monitors via its USB Type-C port, but I don't have firm details on exactly how that connection will work or whether Valve has any plans for an eventual SteamPal dock.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Amazon's Ad Revenue Is Now Twice As Big As Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest Combined
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The major growth in Amazon's advertising unit means its revenue contribution is now 2.4 times larger than Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest combined, and it's growing 1.7 times as quickly, according to Loop Capital. CNBC reports: Amazon's "Other" unit, which is primarily made up of advertising but also includes sales related to other service offerings, grew revenue a whopping 77% year-over-year to more than $6.9 billion in the first quarter, the company reported last month. "Performance ads on the ecommerce sites fueled by Amazon's high-intent traffic and unparalleled user insights are providing significant value for sellers and brands," Loop Capital analysts wrote in the Monday note.
 
They also cited the company's presentation at the recent IAB NewFronts that discussed the company's efforts in the streaming space. Amazon said early this month its ad-supported streaming video content now reaches more than 120 monthly users every month, driven by platforms like Twitch. Amazon generated $22.4 billion in ad revenue in the past 12 months, up 65% year-over-year, according to Loop. That was 2.4 times the $9.3 combined revenue total of middle-cap ad platforms Snap, Twitter, Roku and Pinterest, which grew by 38% over that same timeframe.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Bitcoin Mining Council To Report Renewable Energy Usage
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A new Bitcoin Mining Council has been created to improve the crypto-currency's sustainability, following a meeting of "leading" Bitcoin miners and Elon Musk. The BBC reports: It's hoped the council will "promote energy usage transparency" and encourage miners to use renewable sources. According to a tweet by MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor, who convened the meeting of the group and Elon Musk, the council includes "the leading Bitcoin miners in North America." But research from a group of universities suggested that China accounted for more than 75% of Bitcoin mining as of April 2020. The authors estimated that 40% of China's Bitcoin mines were powered by coal.
 
[T]he group needs to do more than "disclosing and promoting the use of renewables," Alex de Vries of the website Digiconomist told the BBC. "Even if we had disclosure, that doesn't change the natural incentive of these miners to search out the cheapest and most constant sources of power - which typically comes down to (obsolete) fossil fuels," he said. "Kentucky even came up with a tax break for Bitcoin miners to come and use their obsolete coalfields. So, I'm not seeing this trend towards more renewables." However council member Peter Wall, Chief Executive of Argo, argued that increasingly US Bitcoin miners were choosing renewable power. He felt the council could encourage change."It's early days, it's embryonic. There will be lots of discussions moving forward about the best way to promote sustainable Bitcoin mining and to do it not just in North America," he said.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Russia Makes Good On Its Threat To Fine Google Over 'Illegal' Internet Content
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Russian authorities on Tuesday fined Google 6 million rubles, or just under $82,000, after the company failed to comply with Moscow's demands to delete prohibited online content. Engadget reports: On Monday, Russia's internet watchdog, Roskomnadzor, gave Google 24 hours to delete more than 26,000 instances of online media considered to be illegal in the country. If their demands weren't met, authorities threatened to slow down Google's services in Russia and levy fines of up to 10 percent of the company's annual revenue. Today, Roskomnadzor fined Google in three batches at 2 million rubles apiece, alleging administrative offenses in each case, according to Reuters. Much of the prohibited content involves calls for social action following the detention of high-profile Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny in January.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Joe Biden Opens Up California Coast To Offshore Wind
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Offshore wind is headed west. The Biden administration announced today that it will open up parts of the Pacific coast to commercial-scale offshore renewable energy development for the first time. The geography of the West Coast poses huge technical challenges for wind energy. But rising to meet those challenges is a big opportunity for both President Joe Biden and California Governor Gavin Newsom to meet their clean energy goals. There are two areas now slotted for development off the coast of Central and Northern California -- one at Morro Bay and another near Humboldt County. Together, these areas could generate up to 4.6GW of energy, enough power for 1.6 million homes over the next decade, according to a White House fact sheet.
 
Compared to the East Coast, waters off the West Coast get deeper much faster. That has stymied offshore wind development. So the White House says it's looking into deploying pretty futuristic technology there: floating wind farms. Until now, technical constraints have generally prevented companies from installing turbines that are fixed to the seafloor in waters more than 60 meters deep. That's left nearly 60 percent of offshore wind resources out of reach, according to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). With the development of new technologies that could let wind turbines float in deeper waters, it looks like those resources might finally be within reach.
 
The Department of Energy says that it has funneled more than $100 million into moving floating offshore wind technology forward. There are only a handful of floating turbines in operation today, and no commercial-scale wind farms yet anywhere in the world. The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management still needs to officially designate the areas off the California coast as Wind Energy Areas for development and complete an environmental analysis. The plan is to auction off leases for the area to developers in mid-2022. It's also working with the Department of Defense to make sure the projects don't interfere with its ongoing "testing, training, and operations" off California's coast.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: ViaSat Asks FCC To Halt SpaceX Starlink Launches Because It Can't Compete
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Under the hollow pretense of concern for the environment, Starlink satellite internet competitor ViaSat has asked the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) to force SpaceX to stop Starlink launches and threatened to take the matter to court if it doesn't get its way. Teslarati reports: A long-time satellite internet provider notorious for offering expensive, mediocre service with strict bandwidth restrictions, ViaSat has also been engaged in a years-long attempt to disrupt, slow down, and even kill SpaceX's Starlink constellation by any means necessary. That includes fabricating nonsensical protests, petitioning the FCC dozens of times, and -- most recently -- threatening to sue the agency and federal government as the company becomes increasingly desperate. The reason is simple: even compared to SpaceX's finicky, often-unreliable Starlink Beta service, ViaSat's satellite internet is almost insultingly bad. With a focus on serving the underserved and unserved, SpaceX's Starlink beta users -- many of which were already relying on ViaSat or HughesNet internet -- have overwhelmingly described the differences as night and day.
 
In simple terms, if given the option, it's extraordinarily unlikely that a single public ViaSat subscriber would choose the company's internet over SpaceX's Starlink. While Starlink currently requires subscribers to pay a substantial upfront cost -- ~$500 -- for the dish used to access the satellite network, ViaSat internet costs at least as much per month. Currently, new subscribers would pay a bare minimum of ~$113 per month for speeds up to 12 Mbps (akin to DSL) and an insultingly small 40GB data cap. For a 60GB cap and 25 Mbps, subscribers will pay more than $160 per month after a three-month promotion. With a fixed cost of $99 per month, truly unlimited data, and uncapped speeds that vary from 50 to 200+ Mbps, any ViaSat "silver" subscriber would receive far better service by switching to Starlink and save enough money to pay off the $500 dish in less than a year.
 
What ViaSat actually wants is for the FCC to catastrophically hamstring Starlink, thus saving the profit-focused company from having to actually work to compete with an internet service provider that is all but guaranteed to capture most of its subscribers on an even playing field. Incredibly, ViaSat actually removes its greenwashing mask in the very same FCC request [PDF], stating that it "will suffer competitive injury" if Starlink is allowed to "compete directly with Viasat in the market for satellite broadband services."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Study Reveals New Details On What Happened In the First Microsecond of Big Bang
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Researchers from University of Copenhagen have investigated what happened to a specific kind of plasma -- the first matter ever to be present -- during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Their findings provide a piece of the puzzle to the evolution of the universe, as we know it today. Phys.org reports: "We have studied a substance called quark-gluon plasma that was the only matter, which existed during the first microsecond of Big Bang. Our results tell us a unique story of how the plasma evolved in the early stage of the universe," explains You Zhou, associate professor at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. "First, the plasma that consisted of quarks and gluons was separated by the hot expansion of the universe. Then the pieces of quark reformed into so-called hadrons. A hadron with three quarks makes a proton, which is part of atomic cores. These cores are the building blocks that constitutes Earth, ourselves and the universe that surrounds us," he adds.
 
The quark-gluon plasma (QGP) was present in the first 0.000001 second of Big Bang, and thereafter, it disappeared due to the expansion. But by using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, researchers were able to recreate this, the first matter in history, and trace back what happened to it. "In addition to using the Large Hadron Collider, the researchers also developed an algorithm that is able to analyze the collective expansion of more produced particles at once than ever possible before. Their results show that the QGP used to be a fluent liquid form and that it distinguishes itself from other matter by constantly changing its shape over time.
 
"For a long time, researchers thought that the plasma was a form of gas, but our analysis confirm the latest milestone measurement, where the Hadron Collider showed that QGP was fluent and had a smooth soft texture like water. The new details we provide show that the plasma has changed its shape over time, which is quite surprising and different from any other matter we know and what we would have expected," says You Zhou. Even though this might seem like a small detail, it brings physicists one step closer to solving the puzzle of the Big Bang and how the universe developed in the first microsecond, he elaborates. The study has been published in the journal Physics Letters B.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Thousands of Chrome Extensions Are Tampering With Security Headers
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Thousands of Google Chrome extensions available on the official Chrome Web Store are tampering with security headers on popular websites, putting users at risk of a wide range of web-based attacks. While they are a little-known technical detail, security headers are an important part of the current internet landscape. At a technical level, a security header is an HTTP response sent by the server to a client app, such as a browser. [...] In a paper presented at the MADWeb workshop at the NDSS 2021 security conference, researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security said they tried to assess the number of Chrome extensions tampering with security headers for the very first time. Using a custom framework they built specifically for their study, the research team said they analyzed 186,434 Chrome extensions that were available on the official Chrome Web Store last year. Their work found that 2,485 extensions were intercepting and modifying at least one security header used by today's Top 100 most popular websites (as available in the Tranco list).
 
The study didn't focus on all security headers, but only on the four most common ones, such as: Content-Security Policy (CSP), HTTP Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS), X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options. While 2,485 extensions disabled at least one, researchers said they found 553 disabling all the four security headers they analyzed in their research. The most commonly disabled security header was CSP, a security header that was developed to allow site owners to control what web resources a page is allowed to load inside a browser and a typical defense that can protect websites and browsers against XSS and data injection attacks. According to the research team, in most of the cases they analyzed, the Chrome extensions disabled CSP and other security headers "to introduce additional seemingly benign functionalities on the visited webpage," and didn't look to be malicious in nature. However, even if the extensions wanted to enrich a user's experience online, the German academics argued that by tampering with security headers, all the extensions did was to expose users to attacks from other scripts and sites running inside the browser and on the web.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: WhatsApp Sues India Government
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WhatsApp has sued the Indian government challenging the second largest internet market's new regulations that could allow authorities to make people's private messages "traceable," and conduct mass surveillance. From a report: The Facebook-owned instant messaging service, which identifies India as its biggest market by users, said it filed the lawsuit in the High Court of Delhi on Wednesday. It said New Delhi's "traceability" requirement -- which would require WhatsApp to help New Delhi identify the originator of a particular message -- violated citizens' constitutional right to privacy. 

"Civil society and technical experts around the world have consistently argued that a requirement to 'trace' private messages would break end-to-end encryption and lead to real abuse. WhatsApp is committed to protecting the privacy of people's personal messages and we will continue to do all we can within the laws of India to do so," WhatsApp said in a statement. India first proposed WhatsApp to make software changes to make the originator of a message traceable in 2018. The suggestion came at a time when WhatsApp was grappling with containing spread of false information in India, where circulation of such information had resulted in multiple real-life casualties. But its suggestion didn't become the law until this year. Traceability requirement is part of New Delhi's sweeping IT rules that also require social media firms to appoint several officers in India to address on-ground concerns, and also gives authorities greater power over taking down posts it deems offensive. Further reading: India says WhatsApp's lawsuit over new regulations a clear act of defiance.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Critics Warn $15 Wage Will Force McDonald’s To Replace Burger Patties With Robots
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guid: 1846937222
title: Unexpected Crunch Prompts Woman To Take Roll Call Of Teeth With Tip Of Tongue
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guid: 1846965502
title: Surgeon Totally Blanks On What He Cut Open Patient For
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guid: 1846965699
title: Man With ‘Family’ Tattooed Across Chest Forbidden To Come Within 500 Feet Of His Wife
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title: Amazon Buys MGM, Studio Behind James Bond, for $8.45 Billion
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James Bond has a new home: Amazon and MGM announced a definitive merger agreement under which Amazon will acquire MGM for $8.45 billion. From a report: MGM, founded in 1924, complements Amazon Studios, which has primarily focused on producing TV programming, the companies said. Amazon will help "preserve MGM's heritage and catalog of films," and provide customers with greater access to these existing works, the companies said. For Amazon, snapping up MGM -- which has more than 4,000 movies and 17,000 TV shows in its catalog -- is a way to supercharge its Prime Video service with a slew of well-known entertainment properties. In addition, Amazon is anticipating being able to tap into Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer properties like the Pink Panther, Rocky, and, yes, the 007 franchises for new originals. 

"The real financial value behind this deal is the treasure trove of [intellectual property] in the deep catalog that we plan to reimagine and develop together with MGM's talented team," Mike Hopkins, senior VP of Prime Video and Amazon Studios, said in announcing the deal. "It's very exciting and provides so many opportunities for high-quality storytelling." Hopkins noted that MGM productions collectively have won more than 180 Oscars and 100 Emmys. The studio has roughly 800 employees globally.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Microsoft Says Edge is Now the 'Best Performing' Windows 10 Browser
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The next release of Edge will be the "best performing" browser available on Windows 10 when it arrives later this week, Microsoft claimed at its Build 2021 event. It said that version 91 contains new features, specifically "startup boost and sleeping tabs" that will push it ahead of Chrome and all other browsers. From a report: Startup boost was introduced in March and works by "running a core set of Microsoft Edge processes in the background," according to the post. At the same time, it supposedly won't use any additional resources when Microsoft Edge browser windows are open. That feature has boosted startup speeds by up to 41 percent, the company claims. In the upcoming build, Microsoft will introduce a "sleeping tabs" feature that immediately puts ads to sleep when you switch to another tab, allowing for "instance resource savings." That promises to boost browser performance and free up memory for other apps, as ads can be highly memory- and processor-intensive.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: USB-C Power Upgrade Delivers a Whopping 240W for Gaming Laptops and Other Devices
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AmiMoJo writes: The USB-C standard will let you plug in power-hungry devices like gaming laptops, docking stations, 4K monitors and printers with an upgrade that accommodates up to 240 watts starting this year. The jump in maximum power is more than double today's 100-watt top capacity. The USB Implementers Forum, the industry group that develops the technology, revealed the new power levels in the version 2.1 update to its USB Type-C specification on Tuesday. The new 240-watt option is called Extended Power Range, or EPR. "We expect devices supporting higher wattages in the second half of 2021," USB-IF said in a statement. 

USB began as a useful but limited port for plugging keyboards, mice and printers into PCs. It later swept aside Firewire and other ports as faster speeds let it tackle more demanding tasks. It proved useful for charging phones as the mobile revolution began, paving the way for its use delivering power, not just data. The 240W Extended Power Range option means USB likely will expand its turf yet again. Cables supporting 240 watts will have additional requirements to accommodate the new levels. And USB-IF will require the cables to bear specific icons "so that end users will be able to confirm visually that the cable supports up to...240W," USB-IF said in the specification document.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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guid: 1846968446
title: Therapy: Myth Vs. Fact
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title: Russia Raises Heat on Twitter, Google and Facebook in Online Crackdown
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Russia is increasingly pressuring Google, Twitter and Facebook to fall in line with Kremlin internet crackdown orders or risk restrictions inside the country, as more governments around the world challenge the companies' principles on online freedom. From a report: Russia's internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, recently ramped up its demands for the Silicon Valley companies to remove online content that it deems illegal or restore pro-Kremlin material that had been blocked. The warnings have come at least weekly since services from Facebook, Twitter and Google were used as tools for anti-Kremlin protests in January. If the companies do not comply, the regulator has said, they face fines or access to their products may be throttled. 

The latest clashes flared up this week, when Roskomnadzor told Google on Monday to block thousands of unspecified pieces of illegal content or it would slow access to the company's services. On Tuesday, a Russian court fined Google 6 million rubles, or about $81,000, for not taking down another piece of content. On Wednesday, the government ordered Facebook and Twitter to store all data on Russian users within the country by July 1 or face fines. In March, the authorities had made it harder for people to see and send posts on Twitter after the company did not take down content that the government considered illegal. Twitter has since removed roughly 6,000 posts to comply with the orders, according to Roskomnadzor. The regulator has threatened similar penalties against Facebook.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Google To Use Patient Data To Develop Healthcare Algorithms for Hospital Chain
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Google has made a deal for access to patient records from HCA, which which operates 181 hospitals and more than 2,000 healthcare sites in 21 states, so the tech company can develop healthcare algorithms, The Wall Street Journal reports. The Verge: Google will store anonymized data from patient health records and internet-connected medical devices. That data will be used to build programs that could inform medical decisions made by doctors. The deal is described as "multiyear" by the WSJ, without specifying how many years. As health records moved online over the past few years, hospitals and tech companies jumped at opportunities to take advantage of the glut of digitized medical information collected at each doctor's visit. 

Microsoft and Amazon also have deals with hospitals to analyze their patient information. Google previously partnered with healthcare system Ascension to gather patient records in a secretive project called "Project Nightingale." The company was criticized for starting in on the project without disclosing the work to patients and doctors. HCA is a major win for Google, since its facilities handle 5 percent of the hospital services provided in the US -- around 30 million patient interactions each year.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Biden, Putin To Hold Summit In Geneva
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title: EU Guidelines Target Tech Giants Over Monetising Disinformation
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New stricter European Union guidelines will push Facebook, Google and other big tech companies to commit not to make money from advertising linked to disinformation. From a report: The European Commission said on Wednesday that its strengthened non-binding guidelines, which confirmed a May 19 Reuters report, set out a robust monitoring framework and clear performance indicators for firms to comply with. read more Concerns about the impact of disinformation have intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic and after claims about election fraud in the United States, with some critics pointing to the role of social media and tech giants in spreading it. 

"Disinformation cannot remain a source of revenue. We need to see stronger commitments by online platforms, the entire advertising ecosystem and networks of fact-checkers," EU industry chief Thierry Breton said in a statement. "We need online platforms and other players to address the systemic risks of their services and algorithmic amplification, stop policing themselves alone and stop allowing to make money on disinformation, while fully preserving the freedom of speech," she said. Signatories to the code, which was introduced in 2018, include Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Mozilla, TikTok and some advertising and tech lobbying groups.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Will We Ever Understand Black Holes?
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So, what would it feel like to fall into a black hole? From a report: "Well, at the moment you crossed the horizon, you wouldn't feel anything -- there would be nothing dramatic," Peter Galison, co-founder of the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard University, says over the phone. Huh. Doesn't sound too bad. "But inevitably, you would be pulled towards the centre," he continues. "There's no going back; everything that falls into a black hole just keeps falling; there's no resisting that pull and things don't end well." 

Ah. Go on. "Physicists have an expression called 'spaghettification' because if you were falling in feet first, your feet would be more attracted towards the centre than your head, and your sides would be pushed towards your middle and this process would extend and compress you." Right. So, terrifying, then. Especially when Galison adds with cosmic understatement: "In the long term that's not a good survival event." We are talking about his documentary film, Black Holes: The Edge of All We Know, four years in the making and available on Netflix from 1 June, which follows two scientific collaborations to understand the most mysterious objects in the universe. Among the highlights is being a fly on the wall as the late Stephen Hawking tries to figure them out. 

It is Hawking's voice, that instantly recognisable computer speech synthesiser, that opens the film: "A black hole is stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers. It's a region of space where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape. Once you are over the edge, there's no way back." City-sized black holes form when certain stars run out of fuel to burn and collapse under the force of their own gravity. Supermassive black holes -- millions or billions of times bigger than our sun -- are found at the centre of almost every galaxy including our own, the Milky Way.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: EU Set To Open Antitrust Probe Into Facebook's Classified Ads Business
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The EU is said to be on the brink of opening a formal antitrust investigation into Facebook following complaints from rivals about the platform's classified ads business. From a report: Regulators have already sent questions to Facebook and its competitors asking whether the social media site distorted the classified ads market by promoting its Marketplace services for free to its 2bn users. Facebook Marketplace, which launched in 2016, allows users to buy and sell goods to each other without fees. It is used by 800m Facebook users in 70 countries. The European Commission first started looking at the platform in 2019, asking companies whether they considered Marketplace as a close rival and how many visits to their sites came from ads placed on Facebook's platform. Classified ads rivals are said to have complained that Facebook used its market power to gain an advantage.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Wokeness Has Infiltrated The FEDERAL RESERVE, They Are NOT Supposed To Be Political But They Are
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App developer and scam app hunter Kosta Eleftheriou's latest discovery is a real doozy: an iOS app that refuses to function until you give it at least a 3-star review in the App Store. From a report: Although the UPNP Xtreme app -- which claimed to let users stream video to their TVs -- now appears to have been pulled, we were able to verify that it generates the App Store rating box the second it opens. You can't dismiss the ratings box, nor can you tap the 1 or 2-star ratings, Eleftheriou said. We verified this behavior, but some other users report they were able to dismiss the dialog box or leave a lower rating.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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Facebook rejected two proposals intended to diminish Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg's control over the company, an expected though disappointing outcome for those worried about the CEO's power. From a report: The board Wednesday turned down a proposal to replace Zuckerberg as chairman with an independent representative. Zuckerberg, who has served as chairman since 2012, controls about 58% of the voting shares, according to a regulatory filing. During Facebook's annual meeting, the board also rejected a proposal to eliminate the special class of super-voting shares that gives Zuckerberg a controlling stake in the company. Under the plan, investors would have been awarded one vote per share. The Zuckerberg-controlled board has rejected similar motions in years past. While not surprising, the votes are likely to frustrate shareholders who argue Zuckerberg has too much power at a time Facebook needs more independent oversight to address its regulatory threats, privacy scandals and public controversies.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Comcast Subscriber Receives DMCA Notice For Downloading Ubuntu
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Every day, people who download and share pirated content receive DMCA notices via their ISPs, warning them to cease and desist their infringing behavior. While the majority of these notices are accurate, one Ubuntu user says he has just been targeted by an anti-piracy company alleging that by torrenting an OS ISO released by Ubuntu itself, he breached copyright law. Posting to Reddit's /r/linux sub-Reddit, a forum with more than 656K subscribers, 'NateNate60' reported the unthinkable. After downloading an official Ubuntu ISO package (filename ubuntu-20.04.2.0-desktop-amd64.iso) he says he received a notice from Comcast's Infinity claiming that he'd been reported for copyright infringement.
 
"We have received a notification by a copyright owner, or its authorized agent, reporting an alleged infringement of one or more copyrighted works made on or over your Xfinity Internet service," the posted notice reads. NateNate60 wisely redacted the notice to remove the 'Incident Number' and the precise time of the alleged infringement to protect his privacy but the clam was reported filed with Comcast on May 24, 2021. "The copyright owner has identified the IP address associated with your Xfinity Internet account at the time as the source of the infringing works," it continues, adding that NateNate60 should search all of his devices connected to his network and delete the files mentioned in the complaint.
 
The allegedly infringing content is the 64-bit Ubuntu 20.04.2.0 LTS release but the first big question is whether the file is actually the official release from Canonical. Given that the listed hash value is 4ba4fbf7231a3a660e86892707d25c135533a16a and that matches the hash of the official release, mislabeled or misidentified content (wrong hash, mislabeled file etc) appears to be ruled out. Indeed, the same hash value is listed on Ubuntu's very own BitTorrent tracker and according to NateNate60, this is where he downloaded the torrent that led to the DMCA notice. It doesn't get much more official than that. According to the DMCA notice sent by Comcast, the complainant wasn't Ubuntu/Canonical but an anti-piracy company called OpSec Security, which according to its imprint is based in Germany. Presuming the notice is genuine (albeit sent in error), Comcast needs to be informed that mistakes have been made. The ISP has a repeat infringer policy and given the current hostile environment, terminating users is certainly on the agenda. Indeed, the notice states just that.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Space Station May Host Wave of TV Shows and Films
author: msmash
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Who wants to be an astronaut? If the answer is you, there's a reality TV show, appropriately titled "Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?", that you ought to apply for. From a report: The Discovery Channel is seeking to cast about 10 would-be astronauts to compete during the series' eight-episode run next year for a seat on a real-life trip to the International Space Station, followed by live coverage of the launch of the winner on a SpaceX rocket. "We'd like a diverse group of people that each have their own story, why they want to go to space, why they're worthy of going to space, what their back story is," said Jay Peterson, president of Boat Rocker Studios, Unscripted, one of the companies producing the show for Discovery. That person will not be the only amateur astronaut destined for the space station next year. So many tourism and entertainment efforts are preparing trips there that it could begin to look more like a soundstage for television shows and a hotel for the wealthy than an orbiting research laboratory. 

Many who work in the business of space believe that is a good thing, even if trips to orbit will remain out of reach of all but the wealthiest passengers in the near term. "This is a real inflection point, I think, with human spaceflight," Phil McAlister, NASA's director of commercial spaceflight development, said during a news conference this month announcing that the agency had signed an agreement with Axiom Space, a Houston-based company, to fly the first mission of private astronauts to the space station. "I'm very bullish on the tourism market and the tourism activity," Mr. McAlister said. "I think more people that are going to fly, they're going to want to do more things in space." Although the International Space Station may stay up in orbit at least until 2028, in the future it will not be only space station. Russian space authorities last month declared their intention to leave the I.S.S. in the coming years and build a station of their own. A Chinese orbital outpost is expected to come online in the next year or two.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Asahi Linux Dev Reveals 'M1RACLES' Flaw In Apple M1
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AmiMoJo shares a report from Tom's Hardware: Asahi Linux developer Hector Martin has revealed a covert channel vulnerability in the Apple M1 chip that he dubbed M1RACLES, and in the process, he's gently criticized the way security flaws have started to be shared with the public. Martin's executive summary for M1RACLES sounds dire: "A flaw in the design of the Apple Silicon 'M1' chip allows any two applications running under an OS to covertly exchange data between them, without using memory, sockets, files, or any other normal operating system features. This works between processes running as different users and under different privilege levels, creating a covert channel for surreptitious data exchange. [...] The vulnerability is baked into Apple Silicon chips, and cannot be fixed without a new silicon revision."
 
He also noted that this was the result of an intentional decision on Apple's part. "Basically, Apple decided to break the ARM spec by removing a mandatory feature, because they figured they'd never need to use that feature for macOS," he explained. "And then it turned out that removing that feature made it much harder for existing OSes to mitigate this vulnerability." The company would have to make a change on the silicon level with its followup to the M1 to mitigate this flaw. But he also made it clear in the FAQ that Mac owners shouldn't be particularly worried about M1RACLES because that covert channel affects two bits. It can be expanded, and Martin said that transfer rates over 1 MB/s are possible "without much optimization," but any malicious apps that might take advantage of such methods would be far more likely to share information via other channels. Calling this a two-bit vulnerability would be both technically and linguistically correct. It's a real security flaw, sure, but it's unlikely to pose a real threat to Apple's customers.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Half of All US Adults Are Now Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19
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According to the Biden administration, half of the country's adults are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. NPR reports: "This is a major milestone in our country's vaccination efforts," Andy Slavitt, a White House senior adviser on the COVID-19 response, said during a midday briefing. "The number was 1% when we entered office Jan. 20." Nearly 130 million people age 18 and older have completed their vaccine regimens since the first doses were administered to the public in December, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said. Another 70 million vaccine doses are currently in the distribution pipeline, according to the agency.
 
The U.S. is pushing to add millions more people to the ranks of the vaccinated. President Biden said this month that his new goal is to administer at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to 70% of U.S. adults by the Fourth of July. Nine states have given at least one vaccine shot to 70% of their adult population, Slavitt said at Tuesday's briefing. Acknowledging the welcome return to a more normal life taking place around the country, he urged more people to get the vaccine: "Unless you're vaccinated, you're at risk."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: DarkSide Will Be Back, As Russia, China, Iran Create 'Safe Havens' For Hackers
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC: Nation states are serving as safe havens for sophisticated criminal cyber actors and that is leading to an "increased blending of the threat," said John Demers, assistant attorney general at the National Security Division at the Department of Justice, speaking on a CNBC Evolve livestream on Wednesday. He said that is also a reason to believe that DarkSide could be back, or is still operating under a new name.
 
"When nation states aren't doing their part to investigate and root out hacking activity happening within their borders, then any number of things could have been the answer to ... what happened to the DarkSide infrastructure including that ... they're just off renaming themselves, so we'll see." "Groups like that will come back," he added. "Probably Darkside itself, those actors that comprise that group, will be back if they're not already out there in other forms operating as we're talking about."
 
Michael Orlando, acting director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said during the CNBC Evolve livestream that ransomware attacks on critical infrastructure rise to the level of national security threat and the "safe haven" aspect is one part of the cybersecurity riddle the government and business world will have to counteract. "We do know that countries like Russia and China, Iran and others certainly create safe havens for criminal hackers as long as they don't conduct attacks against them. But that's a challenge for us that we're going to have to work through as we figure out how to counter ransomware attacks." DarkSide received a total of $90 million in bitcoin ransom payments before shutting down. The hacker group coincidentally lost control of its web servers and some of the funds the day after President Joe Biden announced plans to disrupt the hackers.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: GameStop Is Building An NFT Platform On Ethereum
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GameStop has quietly unveiled a new web portal for a non-fungible token (NFT) platform. The Block reports: "We are building a team" the page declares, stating: "We welcome exceptional engineers (solidity, react, python), designers, gamers, marketers, and community leaders. If you want to join our team, send your profile or something you've built to: nfteam@gamestop.com."
 
The exact scope of the project is unclear, though prominently featured on the page is a link to an Ethereum address, indicating that GameStop's team will use Ethereum as a technology base. The smart contract code declares "Game On Anon" and links to GameStop's NFT page and indicates that potential GameStop-released NFTs will utilize Ethereum's ERC721 standard. The code also points to a dedicated token, GME.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: OpenAI's $100 Million Startup Fund Will Make 'Big Early Bets' With Microsoft As Partner
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OpenAI is launching a $100 million startup fund, which it calls the OpenAI Startup Fund, through which it and its partners will invest in early-stage AI companies tackling major problems (and productivity). Among those partners and investors in the fund is Microsoft, at whose Build conference OpenAI founder Sam Altman announced the news. TechCrunch reports: In a prerecorded video, Altman explained that "this is not a typical corporate venture fund. We plan to make big early bets on a relatively small number of companies, probably not more than 10." It's not clear exactly how the $100 million will be divided or disbursed, or on what timeline, or whether this is part of a longer program. But it seems to be a limited fund, not just the 2021 round.
 
Altman did say that they will be looking for companies that are taking on serious issues, like healthcare, climate change and education, where AI-powered applications or approaches could "benefit all of humanity," in keeping with OpenAI's mission statement. But it would also consider productivity improvements as well, presumably like the GPT-3-powered natural language coding Microsoft showed off yesterday. Companies selected for funding will receive early access to new OpenAI systems and Azure resources from Microsoft, which hopefully would allow them to spring fully formed and ready to scale from the program. OpenAI would not elaborate on the equity agreement, expectations for startups, other partners or any further details. It's entirely possible that the $100 million figure is the only thing they've actually settled on.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Enigmatic Designs Found in India May Be The Largest Images Ever Made by Human Hands
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Hidden in the vast, arid expanses of India's Thar Desert lie mysterious old drawings that may be the largest-ever graphical depictions designed by humans. ScienceAlert reports: "So far, these geoglyphs, the largest discovered worldwide and for the first time in the Indian subcontinent, are also unique as regards their enigmatic signs," researchers explain in a new paper detailing the find. Discovered by a pair of independent researchers from France -- Carlo and Yohann Oetheimer -- the new geoglyphs were spotted using Google Earth, during a virtual survey of the Thar Desert region (also known as the Great Indian Desert); this region encompasses some 200,000 square kilometers (roughly 77,000 square miles) of territory overlapping India and Pakistan.
 
Amidst this huge, dry landscape, the Oetheimers identified several sites located around the 'Golden City' of Jaisalmer, marked by geometrical lines resembling geoglyphs. Closer inspection during a field study in 2016 using an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) revealed some of the identified sites were furrows dug for tree plantations, but also helped reveal a cluster of enigmatic line formations seemingly absent of trees. In particular, two "remarkable geometrical figures" of exceptional character close to the village of Boha stood out: a giant spiral and a serpent-shaped drawing, each connected by a cluster of sinuous lines.
 
The lines that make up these figures are stripes etched into the ground, ranging up to 10 centimeters deep (4 in) and spreading 20 to 50 cm wide (8-20 in). While these dimensions up close may be unremarkable, what they end up making up is not. The largest geoglyph identified, the giant asymmetrical spiral (called Boha 1), is made from a single looping line running for 12 kilometers (7.5 miles), over an area 724 meters long by 201 meters wide (790 by 220 yards). To the southwest of this huge vortex shape rests a serpentine geoglyph (Boha 2), composed of an 11-kilometer long line, which encompasses a serpent-like figure, a smaller spiral, and a long boustrophedon-style sequence of lines running back and forth. Other small geoglyphs can also be found in the Boha region (including a feature of meandering lines, called Boha 3), which in total includes around 48 kilometers of still visible lines today, which the researchers estimate may once have extended for about 80 kilometers. The researchers say it's unlikely these designs were intended as a form of artistic expression contemplated from the ground, but rather might have served as an unkown type of cultural practice in their making.
 
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title: Google's San Jose Mega-Campus Wins City Approval
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: After more than three years of negotiations, San Jose officials voted late Tuesday to approve Google's plan for a sprawling downtown campus with thousands of new homes, millions of square feet of office space and a first-of-its kind $200 million community benefit agreement. It's a deal that business, labor and community groups say could signal a shift in Bay Area development politics -- particularly as San Jose, long overshadowed by neighboring San Francisco, looks to rebound from the pandemic with more active public spaces near transit. But in a region long accustomed to isolated suburban tech campuses and big-dollar affordable housing commitments, some still questioned how exactly a $155 million community fund will be spent, and whether it will be enough to offset familiar concerns about gentrification, homelessness and daily issues like parking.
 
With the vote on Tuesday, Google can move forward with an80-acre development plan near San Jose's central rail hub at Diridon Station, including 4,000 new homes, more than 7 million square feet of office space, 15 acres of parks and 500,000 square feet of retail and other space. Under a community benefit deal approved earlier this year, the company also agreed to create a $155 million community stabilization fund for job training, homelessness and affordable housing. It's unprecedented for a Bay Area tech campus -- and a stark contrast to tech peers like Amazon and Tesla, which have at times asked governments to compete for business by cutting costs -- as well as developers from other industries where community concessions are not the norm. Before the coronavirus upended daily commutes, Google planned for up to 25,000 workers to occupy the new San Jose office. The company has since announced that some of its global workforce will shift to remote roles, but the city hopes that the proposed "Downtown West" neighborhood around the new offices will help buoy lively public spaces. "A Google spokesman said the company will soon transfer land to the city for planned affordable housing development," the report says. "It aims to start construction work in 2022 and plans to transfer an initial $3 million to the city within 30 days of approval of the project, the spokesman said. In the meantime, the San Jose City Council will be tasked with appointing a new committee to oversee the $155 million community fund."<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Media Faces RECKONING After Lab 'Conspiracy' They Attempted To Mock Trump For Turns Out To Be TRUE
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title: Censorship Got BAD Due To The Russia Hoax In 2016, Anyone Who Disagreed Was Called A Russian Spy
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title: open mandriva
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title: ‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
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title: Ask ‘The Onion’: How To Go Zero Waste
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title: #65 Please Be Safe In The Market | Solo
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title: Local Christian Parents Pay University $100,000 To Totally Destroy 18 Years Of Their Hard Work
author: The Babylon Bee
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8709-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>BOSTON, MA&mdash;According to sources, local parents Dale and Cherie Woodall are shelling out over $100,000 to send their son Dillan to college and utterly destroy every good thing they have tried to teach him for the last 18 years.&nbsp;</p>
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title: Psaki Says Biden Is So Incredibly Fit He Has Achieved Resting Heart Rate Of Zero
author: The Babylon Bee
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8711-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;In a press conference yesterday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki revealed that President Biden is very fit and healthy-- so healthy, that he has achieved a resting heart rate of zero beats per minute.</p>
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title:
The Babylon Bee Would Like To Apologize To Xi Jinping For Referring To Him As 'President' And Not 'A Stuffed Honey-Loving Bear Who Lives In The Hundred Acre Wood'

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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8712-3-thumb.jpg"> <p>BABYLON, FL&mdash;The Babylon Bee would like to take this opportunity to apologize to Xi Jinping for a very, very bad mistake we made earlier. We continued to refer to him as &quot;president&quot; in our articles, when we really should have called him Winnie the Pooh, as he self-identifies as a honey-loving stuffed bear who lives in the Hundred Acre Wood.</p>
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title: Army Introduces New Gender Reveal Grenades For Trans Soldiers
author: The Babylon Bee
url: https://babylonbee.com/news/army-introduces-new-gender-reveal-grenades-for-trans-soldiers/
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8714-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;The Pentagon revealed today an exciting new standard-issue piece of equipment for all soldiers in the United States Army: a gender reveal grenade. Instead of exploding in a deadly blast of shrapnel to neutralize America&#39;s foes, the grenade will simply detonate in a harmless puff of smoke to indicate the soldier&#39;s chosen gender identity.</p>
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title: 7 Ways To Find Your Dream Christian Spouse The Old-Fashioned Way
author: The Babylon Bee
url: https://babylonbee.com/news/7-ways-to-find-your-dream-christian-spouse-the-old-fashioned-way/
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title: Taiwan Is The Babylon Bee's Country Of The Year 2021
author: The Babylon Bee
url: https://babylonbee.com/news/taiwan-is-the-babylon-bees-country-of-the-year-2021/
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8717-3-thumb.jpg"> <p>The Babylon Bee is proud to announce our very first annual &quot;Country of the Year&quot; award is going to the great country of Taiwan!&nbsp;</p>
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title: Dr. Fauci Gets In Heated Debate With Seventeen Previous Versions Of Himself
author: The Babylon Bee
url: https://babylonbee.com/news/dr-fauci-gets-in-intense-debate-with-dr-fauci-from-a-few-months-ago/
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8715-2-thumb.jpg"> <p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;After a brief temporal anomaly occurred in Washington, D.C., causing a version of Dr. Fauci from just two weeks ago to materialize in the city, the current Dr. Fauci got in a heated debate with the manifestation of himself from the past.</p>
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title: AOC Added To Iwo Jima Memorial For Surviving Capitol Riot
author: The Babylon Bee
url: https://babylonbee.com/news/aoc-added-to-iwo-jima-memorial-for-surviving-capitol-riot/
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8716-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>WASHINGTON, D.C.&mdash;After hearing AOC&#39;s heartrending and harrowing tale of survival against all odds during the January 6th Capitol riot, Congress has approved the addition of Ocasio-Cortez&#39;s likeness in bronze to the Iwo Jima memorial.&nbsp;</p>
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title: Snopes Introduces New Rating: 'False For Now'
author: The Babylon Bee
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8713-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>U.S.&mdash;World-renowned fact-checking website Snopes has unveiled a brand new fact check rating called &quot;False For Now.&quot; This will allow them to provide a rating for&nbsp;claims that are just conspiracy theories uttered by deranged far-right people until they later turn out to be true.</p>
                    <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://babylonbee.com/news/snopes-introduces-new-rating-false-for-now">Snopes Introduces New Rating: 'False For Now'</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://babylonbee.com">The Babylon Bee</a>.</p>
                    


title: New Amazon Bond Film Will Feature 007 Assassinating Small Business Owners
author: The Babylon Bee
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<img src="https://media.babylonbee.com/thumbs/article-8719-1-thumb.jpg"> <p>SANTA MONICA, CA&mdash;Amazon has purchased MGM Studios and the famous Bond franchise for&nbsp;$8.45 billion, according to reports. Current Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos expressed his excitement over the purchase.</p>
                    <p>The post <a rel="nofollow" href="https://babylonbee.com/news/amazon-institutes-new-direction-for-bond-where-large-organization-that-tries-to-take-over-the-world-is-good-actually">New Amazon Bond Film Will Feature 007 Assassinating Small Business Owners</a> appeared first on <a rel="nofollow" href="https://babylonbee.com">The Babylon Bee</a>.</p>
                    


title: Long Working Hours Lead To a Rise In Premature Deaths, WHO Says
author: BeauHD
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Long working hours are leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths per year, according to a new study by the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization. The Seattle Times reports: Working more than 55 hours a week in a paid job resulted in 745,000 deaths in 2016, the study estimated, up from 590,000 in 2000. About 398,000 of the deaths in 2016 were because of stroke and 347,000 because of heart disease. Both physiological stress responses and changes in behavior (such as an unhealthy diet, poor sleep and reduced physical activity) are "conceivable" reasons that long hours have a negative impact on health, the authors suggest.
 
Other takeaways from the study: 
- Working more than 55 hours per week is dangerous. It is associated with an estimated 35% higher risk of stroke and 17% higher risk of heart disease compared with working 35-40 hours per week.

- About 9% of the global population works long hours. In 2016, an estimated 488 million people worked more than 55 hours per week.

- Long hours are more dangerous than other occupational hazards. In all three years that the study examined (2000, 2010 and 2016), working long hours led to more disease than any other occupational risk factor, including exposure to carcinogens and the nonuse of seat belts at work. And the health toll of overwork worsened over time: From 2000 to 2016, the number of deaths from heart disease because of working long hours increased 42%, and from stroke 19%.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Dutch Court Rules Oil Giant Shell Must Cut Carbon Emissions By 45% By 2030
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A Dutch court on Wednesday ruled oil giant Royal Dutch Shell must reduce its carbon emissions by 45% by 2030 from 2019 levels. That's a much higher reduction than the company's current aim of lowering its emissions by 20% by 2030. CNBC reports: Shell's current climate strategy states that the company is aiming to become a net-zero emissions business by 2050, with the company setting a target of cutting its CO2 emissions by 45% by 2035. A spokesperson for Shell said the company "fully expect to appeal today's disappointing court decision." "We are investing billions of dollars in low-carbon energy, including electric vehicle charging, hydrogen, renewables and biofuels," the spokesperson said via email. "We want to grow demand for these products and scale up our new energy businesses even more quickly."
 
The lawsuit was filed in April 2019 by seven activist groups -- including Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace -- on behalf of 17,200 Dutch citizens. Court summons claimed Shell's business model "is endangering human rights and lives" by posing a threat to the goals laid out in the Paris Agreement. Roger Cox, a lawyer for environmental activists in the case, said in a statement that the ruling marked "a turning point in history" and could have major consequences for other big polluters.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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guid: 1846934252
title: Fan Stays Until The End Of Marlins Game To Miss The Traffic
url: https://www.theonion.com/fan-stays-until-the-end-of-marlins-game-to-miss-the-tra-1846934252
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guid: 1846970304
title: Tired Man Can’t Deal With Chipper Frosted Mini Wheats Box So Early In The Morning
url: https://www.theonion.com/tired-man-can-t-deal-with-chipper-frosted-mini-wheats-b-1846970304
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guid: 1846975441
title: 11-Year-Old Used ‘SVU’ Tip To Mark Attacker
url: https://www.theonion.com/11-year-old-used-svu-tip-to-mark-attacker-1846975441
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guid: 1846942972
title: Ignorant Fool Asks If Girlfriend Really Needs Another Decorative Teapot
url: https://www.theonion.com/ignorant-fool-asks-if-girlfriend-really-needs-another-d-1846942972
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title: VMware Warns of Critical Remote Code Execution Hole In vCenter
author: BeauHD
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: VMware is urging its vCenter users to update vCenter Server versions 6.5, 6.7, and 7.0 immediately, after a pair of vulnerabilities were reported privately to the company. The most pressing is CVE-2021-21985, which relates to a remote code execution vulnerability in a vSAN plugin enabled by default in vCenter that an attacker could use to run whatever they wished on the underlying host machine, provided they can access port 443. Even if users do not use vSAN, they are likely to be affected because the vSAN plugin is enabled by default. "This needs your immediate attention if you are using vCenter Server," VMware said in a blog post.
 
The second vulnerability, CVE-2021-21986, would allow an attacker to perform actions allowed by plugins without authentication. "The vSphere Client (HTML5) contains a vulnerability in a vSphere authentication mechanism for the Virtual SAN Health Check, Site Recovery, vSphere Lifecycle Manager, and VMware Cloud Director Availability plug-ins," VMware said. In terms of CVSSv3 scores, CVE-2021-21985 hit an 9.8, while CVE-2021-21986 was scored as 6.5.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: Automation Puts a Premium on Decision-Making Jobs
author: msmash
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A new paper shows that as automation has reduced the number of rote jobs, it has led to an increase in the proportion and value of occupations that involve decision-making. From a report: Automation and AI will shape the labor market, putting a premium -- at least for now -- on workers who can make decisions on the fly, while eroding the value of routine jobs. David Deming, a political economist at the Harvard Kennedy School, analyzed labor data over the past half-century and found that the share of all U.S. jobs requiring decision-making rose from 6% in 1960 to 34% in 2018, with nearly half the increase occurring since 2007. 

Partially as a result, a greater share of wages is going to management and management-related occupations, more than doubling since 1960 to 32% -- a trend that is more pronounced in high-growth industries. This shift has also reinforced generational disparity in the labor market. Getting better at making decisions requires experience, and experience requires time on the job. Largely as a result, career earnings growth in the U.S. more than doubled between 1960 and 2017, and the age of peak earnings increased from the late 30s to the mid-50s.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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guid: 1846968050
url: https://www.theonion.com/a-new-look-the-dry-cleaner-lost-samus-s-suit-so-now-sh-1846968050
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A New Look: The Dry Cleaner Lost Samus’s Suit So Now She’s Wearing Mesh Shorts And A Big Dogs XXL T-Shirt

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title: Facebook Ends Ban On Posts Asserting Covid-19 Was Man-Made
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Facebook has ended its ban on posts asserting Covid-19 was man-made or manufactured, a policy shift that reflects a deepening debate over the origins of the pandemic that was first identified in Wuhan, China, almost 18 months ago. An anonymous reader shares a report: The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that three researchers from China's Wuhan Institute of Virology became sick enough in November 2019 that they sought hospital care, according to a previously undisclosed U.S. intelligence report. "In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps," Facebook said in a statement on its website Wednesday. President Biden on Wednesday ordered a U.S. intelligence inquiry into the origins of the virus. The White House has come under pressure to conduct its own investigation after China told the World Health Organization that it considered Beijing's part of the investigation complete, calling for efforts to trace the virus's origins to shift into other countries.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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title: ATF Nominee Testifies He Wants To Ban Basically EVERY GUN With Sneaky Definition Of 'Assault Rifle'
author: Timcast IRL
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Tim, Ian, and Lydia join friend and fellow YouTuber Jack Murphy to examine David Chipman's sneaky definition of terms during Senate appearance.

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title: Google Says Rowhammer Attacks Are Gaining Range as RAM is Getting Smaller
author: msmash
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A team of Google security researchers said they discovered a new way to perform Rowhammer attacks against computer memory (RAM) cards that broaden the attack's initial impact. From a report: First detailed in 2014, Rowhammer was a ground-breaking attack that exploited the design of modern RAM cards, where memory cells are stored in grid-like arrangements. The basic principle behind Rowhammer was that a malicious app could perform rapid read/write operations on a row of memory cells. As the cells would shift their values from 0 to 1 and vice versa in a very small time window, this would generate small electromagnetic fields inside the row of "hammered" memory cells. The result of these fields were errors in nearby memory rows that sometimes flipped bits and altered adjacent data. [...] In a research paper published this week, a team of five Google security researchers took Rowhammer attacks to a new level. In a new attack variation named Half-Double, researchers said they managed to carry out a Rowhammer attack that caused bit flips at a distance of two rows from the &#226;oehammered&#226; row instead of just one.<p><div class="share_submission" style="position:relative;">
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guid: 1846982731
title: 5 Things To Know About ‘Cruella’
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guid: 1846974766
title: Carey Price Lets In Easy Goal While Contemplating Chemical Properties Of Ice
url: https://www.theonion.com/carey-price-lets-in-easy-goal-while-contemplating-chemi-1846974766
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guid: 1846974422
title: Coronavirus Variant Excited To Compete With World’s Top Mutations In Tokyo This Summer
url: https://www.theonion.com/coronavirus-variant-excited-to-compete-with-world-s-top-1846974422
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