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date: 2030-06-01, from: Notes by Peter Baumgartner
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date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Martinsson A.; Steiner R.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636400
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Abdellaoui G.; Abe S.; Adams J.H.; Allard D.; Alonso G.; Anchordoqui L.; Anzalone A.; Arnone E.; Asano K.; Attallah R.; Attoui H.; Pernas M.A.; Bachmann R.; Bacholle S.; Bagheri M.; Bakiri M.; Baláz J.; Barghini D.; Bartocci S.; Battisti M.
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date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Chen J.; Jiang Y.; Liu X.; Xia W.; Huang A.; Zong J.; Wang Z.; Qian B.; Donat F.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636402
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Jiang Y.; Wang X.; Li M.; Liang Y.; Liu Z.; Chen J.; Guan T.; Mu J.; Zhu Y.; Meng H.; Zhou Y.; Yao L.; Xue L.; Wang W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636403
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Xue, Yunpeng; Stewart, Colin; Kelly, David; Campbell, David; Gormley, Michael
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636398
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Weder, Silvan; Blum, Hermann; Engelmann, Francis; Pollefeys, Marc
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637080
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Gramsch Calvo, Benjamin; Axhausen, Kay W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/635246
date: 2024-01-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Heimgartner, Daniel; Axhausen, Kay W.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/635243
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Nolte, Tom M.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636393
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Branchesi M.; Falanga M.; Harms J.; Jani K.; Katsanevas S.; Lognonné P.; Badaracco F.; Cacciapuoti L.; Cappellaro E.; Dell’Agnello S.; de Raucourt S.; Frigeri A.; Giardini D.; Jennrich O.; Kawamura T.; Korol V.; Landrø M.; Majstorović J.; Marmat P.; Mazzali P.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/639001
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Kroll S.L.; Hulka L.M.; Kexel A.K.; Vonmoos M.; Preller K.H.; Treyer V.; Ametamey S.M.; Baumgartner M.R.; Boost C.; Pahlisch F.; Rohleder C.; Leweke F.M.; Quednow B.B.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/639002
date: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Wang Y.; Wang W.; Liu D.; Hou W.; Zhou T.; Ji Z.
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/638999
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bekar, Ismail; Pezzatti, G. Boris; Conedera, Marco; Vacik, Harald; Pausas, Juli G.; Dupire, Sylvain; Bugmann, Harald
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/636378
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Papanikolaou, Nikos; Lambiotte, Renaud; Vaccario, Giacomo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637219
date: 2023-11-15, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Keller, Franziska; Popa, Răzvan-Gabriel; Julien, Allaz; Bovay, Thomas; Bouvier, Anne-Sophie; Geshi, Nobuo; Miyakawa, Ayumu; Bachmann, Olivier
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637218
date: 2023-11-06, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Bellotti, Valentina; Wang, Hyun Suk; Truong Phuoc, Nghia; Simonutti, Roberto; Anastasaki, Athina
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/638449
date: 2023-11-06, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Nikolic, Marin; Cesarini, Alessia; Billeter, Emanuel; Weyand, Fabian; Trtik, Pavel; Strobl, Markus; Borgschulte, Andreas
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/638252
date: 2023-11-01, from: 404 Media Group
Google’s anti-ad scripts are breaking browsers and privacy plugins. It could get worse because Google controls the ad market, Chrome, and the extension store.
https://www.404media.co/youtubes-war-on-adblockers-shows-how-google-controls-the-internet/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
In our dynamic educational environment, students frequently encounter unique challenges. These aren’t just limited to the intricacies of subjects but also arise from the evolving expectations of academic institutions. As these expectations intensify, students often search for alternative support mechanisms. Enter coursework services, the unsung heroes that have transitioned from mere assignment helpers to being […]
The post The Power of Customization: How Coursework Services Tailor Assignments to Students’ Needs appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man had been working in the garage earlier in the day
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281295958.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Vulnerabilities in F5’s BIG-IP suite are already being exploited after proof of concept (PoC) code began circulating online.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/f5_bigip_critical_vulnerability/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man found a “lucky penny” before he bought the winning ticket, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281292063.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The woman had called for help before she was stabbed to death, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281292083.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The congressmember will hold next Monday’s event over the phone due to a change in the congressional voting schedule.
The post Rep. Carbajal’s In-Person Town Hall in Santa Barbara to Be Held Virtually Instead appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get the benefits not just during the holidays but year-round at Sam’s Club
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281288948.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Liliputing
The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold is a multi-function PC with a 16.3 inch foldable OLED display that lets you use the computer like a big tablet, a laptop, or anything in between (such as holding the system like a book with a bend in the center to differentiate the left and right pages). First unveiled […]
The post Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold 16.3 inch foldable PC is now available (over a year after introduction) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
For avid travel enthusiasts, travel is more than a quick getaway from the rigours of daily life. It is an opportunity to embrace change, seek adventure, and enjoy meaningful experiences that last a lifetime. For the discerning traveller, the right credit card is a gateway to an elevated lifestyle. IndusInd Bank introduces a host of […]
The post <strong>What are the Lifestyle Benefits Offered by the IndusInd Bank Avios Visa Infinite Credit Card?</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Nobel laureate Holocaust survivor taught that we should never compare or rank suffering, but we must always — always — speak out. | Opinion
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281293628.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Huskies are narrow favorites on the road after two poor showings. Is the massive O/U of 76.5 too low?
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
Dogs have long been cherished members of families, offering unwavering companionship and love. As the field of pet wellness evolves, new approaches to dog care continue to emerge. One such approach that has gained attention is the use of CBD oil. This article delves into the world of CBD oil for dogs, exploring its potential […]
The post <strong>Understanding the Role of CBD Oil in Dog Care</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/understanding-the-role-of-cbd-oil-in-dog-care/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Don’t take live bombs to a sheriff’s office, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281290013.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Ventura’s Vista del Mar psychiatric hospital loses permission to admit involuntary patients.
The post Santa Barbara County’s Psych-Bed Pinch Tightens as Key Mental-Health Safety Valve Shuts Down appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Doja Cat fans from around the Bay Area descended on Chase Center in San Francisco to celebrate Halloween with the multi-platinum-selling artist.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
In the world of CSGO gambling, where excitement and the potential for winning skins collide, responsible bankroll management is often overlooked. Many players are drawn to the thrill of the game, the allure of valuable skins, and the prospect of big wins. However, understanding and implementing proper bankroll management is essential for preserving your CSGO […]
The post The Importance of Bankroll Management in CSGO Gambling appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/the-importance-of-bankroll-management-in-csgo-gambling/
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
Methane ‘hot spots’ in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta are more likely to be found where recent wildfires burned into the tundra, altering carbon emissions from the land. In Alaska’s largest river delta, tundra that has been scorched by wildfire is emitting more methane than the rest of the landscape long after the flames died, scientists have […]
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/nasa-flights-link-methane-plumes-to-tundra-fires-in-western-alaska/
date: 2023-11-01, from: PeerJ blog
PeerJ spoke to Dr. Abbey Engleman, of Florida State University, about the recently published PeerJ Life & Environment article Dead but not forgotten: complexity of Acropora palmata colonies increases with greater composition of dead coral. The article was published as part of the IABO Hub. The IABO Hub is the publishing home of the International Association for Biological Oceanography, and features the […]
date: 2023-11-01, from: TidBITS blog
Apple’s Scary Fast product announcement brought the M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max chips out of the shadows, revealed updated 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models, and showed off a speed-bumped 24-inch iMac. And the whole thing was shot on an iPhone 15 Pro Max, albeit with an award-winning director, traditional video gear, and a large production team.
https://tidbits.com/2023/11/01/m3-chip-family-boosts-performance-for-macbook-pros-and-24-inch-imac/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SpaceX has inched a little closer to being granted a license for the next Starship launch after the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced it had completed the safety review of the company’s Starship-Super Heavy license evaluation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/faa_starship_safety/
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 9:16 p.m. EST Tuesday, Nov. 7, to launch the company’s 29th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Live launch coverage will air on NASA Television, the NASA app, YouTube, and on the agency’s website, with […]
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Beginning Thursday, customers at its US locations will have their hot drinks served in one of four festive cups that are “clad in holiday red and Starbucks greens and a mood-boosting magenta,” according to a release.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/01/heres-what-this-years-starbucks-holiday-cups-look-like/
date: 2023-11-01, from: 404 Media Group
A VHS copy of the Wizard of Oz and a QR code is also a fun way to store your crypto wallet key.
https://www.404media.co/no-one-will-find-my-bitcoin-in-this-copy-of-perfect-dark-for-the-n64/
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Chase Young still must pass a physical for Tuesday’s trade to go through but 49ers general manager John Lynch likes what he’s seen from extensive snaps this seaosn out of the former Washington first-round pick.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It was a horrible feeling. It’s actually what’s kept me trying.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281293083.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Plus, the Cardinal has a new annual opponent other than Cal in the ACC
date: 2023-11-01, from: Jeff Geerling blog
Getting RISC-V (again): Milk-V’s Mars CM
<div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><img src="https://www.jeffgeerling.com/sites/default/files/images/milk-v-mars-cm-with-box.jpg" width="700" height="422" class="insert-image" data-insert-type="image" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="insert-image-60a81359-54e0-4dad-8aa5-aacad235f428" data-insert-attach="{"id":"60a81359-54e0-4dad-8aa5-aacad235f428","attributes":{"alt":["alt","description"],"title":["title"]}}" alt="Milk-V Mars CM with Box" /></p>tl;dr: No, it’s not a replacement for a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. But yes, it’s an exciting tiny RISC-V board that could be just the ticket for more RISC-V projects, tapping into the diverse ecosystem of existing Compute Module 4 boards.
This tiny computer is the Mars CM. It’s the exact same size and shape as the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4. It should be a drop-in replacement. And on its box it says it supports 4K, Bluetooth and WiFi, and has gigabit Ethernet. It’s also supposed to have PCI Express!
<span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>November 1, 2023
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/getting-risc-v-again-milk-vs-mars-cm
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I hope every time you close your eyes you see Renezmae,” the girl’s family member told the New Mexico man.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281286643.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Nathalie Kerrigan Sprint and freestyle swimmer Nathalie Kerrigan (junior) finished seventh out of 59 athletes in the Women’s 100-Yard Butterfly, with a time of 1:02:59. She also placed eighth out of 62 athletes in the Women’s 100 Yard Backstroke, swimming a 1:04:38. Kerrigan said she grew up swimming and surfing in her home state of […]
The post Athletes of the Week Nathalie Kerrigan and Carter Park make a splash appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Occidental’s men’s Ultimate Frisbee team, Detox, competed in UCLA’s “sandwich day” preseason tournament Oct. 21. According to captain Teddy McGowan (junior), it was a one-day tournament which involved pool play and bracket play. “We played five games [and] we went 3-2,” McGowan said. “We made it to the bracket, and we ended up getting third place […]
The post New faces bring excitement to Oxy’s Ultimate teams appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Occidental’s faculty received an email letter signed by 37 professors establishing solidarity with pro-Palestine movements Oct. 21. English professor Warren Montag sent the email to faculty, staff and student listservs. However, only faculty received the letter due to an email policy change that went into effect Oct. 9, according to Rod Leveque, Occidental’s vice president […]
The post 37 professors sign pro-Palestine email, face pushback from colleagues appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
As President Harry Elam’s tenure comes to a close at the end of the 2023-2024 school year, Occidental is culminating an administrative and academic project led by Elam called The Occidental Promise. Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College Wendy Sternberg said The Occidental Promise includes a plan to remodel the school’s […]
The post Anticipated changes to FYS come with curricular tradeoffs appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Students are slowly studying abroad again, according to Robin Craggs, the executive director of the International Programs Office (IPO) who said the rate of students studying abroad dropped in recent years due to COVID-19. The IPO’s five year report (2018-2023) shows that numbers dropped from 221 to 16 between 2019 to 2021. “Those upperclass students […]
The post Study abroad rates climb slowly after COVID-19 pandemic appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Robin Maxile joined the Intercultural Community Center (ICC) in summer 2021, just as Occidental began to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, Maxile has served as the Associate Director of Racial Equity and an interim director for the ICC for six months. Maxile will leave Occidental Nov. 1. According to Maxile, the role was […]
The post Robin Maxile’s foundation of racial equity has been a ‘real gift to our community’ appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
The Presidential Search Advisory Committee (PSAC) is in a time crunch as they work towards appointing a new president at Occidental by the time President Harry Elam makes an early departure in June 2024. According to Committee Chair Art Peck ’77, the last search took well over a year. The PSAC had their first virtual […]
The post Presidential search committee swiftly begins with listening sessions appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
The Hammer Museum’s sixth edition biennial “Made in LA” art exhibit highlights artists working throughout the greater LA area. The exhibit opened Oct. 1 and will run through Dec. 31, showcasing the work of 39 artists from a variety of backgrounds who work with a multitude of mediums. Independent co-curator Diana Nawi said the process of curating the […]
The post Outside Occidental: Made in LA 2023: Acts of Living exhibit appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Peer Tutoring Center By Sabastian Luyen (Staff writer) When I need a quiet place to rush through my readings or quickly finish an assignment before my classes, my go-to spot is the peer tutoring area. Located on the ground floor of the Academic Commons, the peer tutoring area is a wide open space with several […]
The post The Occidental writers share their favorite on-campus study spots appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
As violin music hummed through the trees of Sycamore Glen, students from the Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (CSLC) Association gathered to discuss literature about boredom and their experiences with it. This monthly symposium was the latest of many events the CSLC Association has put on since its founding in January 2023, according to […]
The post Symposiums, salons and speakeasies with the CSLC Association appeared first on The Occidental.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Cybercriminals are once again abusing macro-enabled Excel add-in (XLL) files in malware attacks at a vastly increased rate, according to new research.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/xll_macro_attack_surge/
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Consumer groups, politicians, labor unions and advocacy organizations have teamed up to combat fast-rising increases in PG&E monthly bills.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The past few years have been anything but melodious for the music industry. Concerts have roared back with pandemic restrictions lifted, but how have the economics of live shows, streaming platforms and new technologies changed? But first: A jury found that realtors have kept commissions artificially high.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/the-current-beat-of-the-music-economy
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“They must have gotten Geico auto insurance.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281271523.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Three children were inside the home at the time, investigators said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281290278.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It’s really scary.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281290218.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Pointers gone wild blog
Since the beginning of this year, I’ve been casually working on UVM, a project to a minimalistic virtual machine that is portable and easy to target. As part of this project, I’ve also been working on a toy C compiler to make creating software for this VM easier. I first wrote about UVM on February […]
https://pointersgonewild.com/2023/11/01/preparing-uvm-for-3d-graphics/
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
This week’s picks include Campolindo at Acalanes, Live Oak at Christopher, Antioch at Pittsburg and Leigh at Westmont.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today opened the global AI Safety Summit hosted in Britain, with guests including tech CEOs and heads of other nations set to discuss ways to keep the world safe amid AI development.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/uk_ai_summit/
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10 million square miles, or 26 million square kilometers, the hole ranks as the 16th largest since 1979. During the peak of the ozone depletion season from Sept. 7 to […]
https://www.nasa.gov/earth/climate-change/ozone-layer/2023-ozone-hole-ranks-16th-largest/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get your baby on the right hydration path with the best sippy cups in 2023.
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281249373.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The boy was taken to a hospital but died from his injuries.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281287978.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
In mid-November, Washington’s trade representatives will be in San Francisco for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders’ Week. Trade experts say the US has moved away from unlimited free trade and toward targeted trade policies, which could help Washington attract more APEC nations to invest in a US manufacturing boom already underway. VOA’s Jessica Stone reports. Video edit: Chenny Yu Chen
https://www.voanews.com/a/washington-brings-made-in-america-to-apec-summit/7337036.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
A Missouri jury on found the National Association of Realtors, a real estate industry trade group, and some residential brokerages liable for nearly $1.8 billion in damages after determining they conspired to keep commissions for home sales artificially high.
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
James Logan’s Alyssa Lim captures NCS D-I girls golf title. In CCS girls volleyball playoffs, Los Gatos, Mountain View among the winners in Tuesday’s quarterfinals.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Texas daughter knew of her mother’s death but failed to report it, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281268698.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Peoples CDC blog
Statement submitted for CDC HICPAC public comment on infection control guidelines. November 1st, 2023 To: CDC HICPAC, COVID-19 infections injure, harm, and cause mortality among Americans. Based on both case counts and estimates, millions of Americans also are suffering from Long COVID. It is important that everyone in healthcare settings is protected from COVID-19 infections.… Continue reading People’s CDC Public Comment on HICPAC
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/01/peoples-cdc-public-comment-on-hicpac/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Om Malik blog
A long time ago, I participated in a workshop with one of my favorite photographers, Michael Levin. We had a morning session where we captured photos of cormorants. It was a really bright Californian morning, and as a result, I initially didn’t want to edit the photos from that session. Later, over coffee, we discussed …
https://om.co/2023/11/01/still-waters/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Peoples CDC blog
Over 900 occupational safety, aerosols science, public health, and medical experts have written to new CDC Director Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH, informing her that CDC’s Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) must correct their review on COVID infection control measures to reflect the science of aerosol transmission through inhalation and their decision-making process… Continue reading Recommendations for HICPAC
https://peoplescdc.org/2023/11/01/recommendations-for-hicpac/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He was already serving a five to 10 year prison sentence following his conviction in a hidden camera child porn case, authorities said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281286013.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Resnik Challenger Medal Award for her visionary contributions to the development, testing, transport, and launch of NASA’s premier space telescope since 2006. The medal was awarded during the World’s Largest Conference […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-sandra-irish-wins-2023-society-of-women-engineers-award/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Texas has the most stores on the list released by the USDA on Tuesday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/recalls/article281286498.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The next major Windows 11 update has lurched into the light, containing a few new enhancements as well as other features that have trickled out of Redmond over the last month or so.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/windows_11_23h2/
date: 2023-11-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
But although the decision to uphold Measure A was a significant victory for the district, it did little to guarantee a stable foundation for a district that has struggled to obtain sustainable, long-term sources of funding.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/01/alameda-measure-a/
date: 2023-11-01, from: 404 Media Group
We’re introducing a subscribers-only segment to the weekly podcast, where we talk about even more stuff we’ve published.
https://www.404media.co/were-shaking-up-the-podcast-the-404-media-podcast-week-11/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
October is archived, welcome to November 2023.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/01.html#a124813
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Opinion by Tad Weber: It has been quite a year for the Bakersfield Republican.
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/article281264693.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A lack of situational awareness capabilities is holding back Europe’s ambitions in space, according to the chair of the EU Space Surveillance and Tracking Partnership (EU SST) - a group that is laboring to up the accuracy and quality of space tracking, particularly of orbiting debris.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/europe_space_tracking/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
We’re delighted to announce that we’ve released the latest edition of The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide by Gareth Halfacree.
The post Available now: The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Once thought to be defensive military bases, the forts may have supported peaceful trade and travel
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2023-11-01, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
Think I’ve decided for sure that I’m sitting out NaNoWriMo this year, but I have translated three more chapters of “Salute, Jonathan!” into Ido over the past couple of days, after a long break. It’s nice to find something I can focus on without difficulty for an extended period – recently my brain’s been all over the place 😅 And it’s writing-adjacent, too.
I also watched the last four eps of the 1964 Doctor Who serial “Marco Polo” today. Some “of the time” iffiness imo but overall such a great serial! Marco Polo makes for a great sympathetic antagonist and Tegana works well as a more out-and-out (but sneaky) antagonist. Impressive that it’s seven episodes long but doesn’t drag. It’s also refreshing how, in many of these early stories, the team’s goal is just to get back to (or repair) the TARDIS, and the adventures just kinda happen on the way.
https://www.jayeless.net/2023/11/no-nano-salute-jonathan-marco-polo.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
These college students saw their own culture differently after studying the 2,400-page encyclopedia of the Aztec world. A new digital version of that history stands to unlock cultural treasures for many more.
https://laist.com/news/education/florentine-codex-getty-digitization-project-higher-education
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
At Mi Centro in Boyle Heights, neighbors honored the time with a community ofrenda.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
LAist will be devoted to covering campuses in Greater L.A., with an emphasis on students who often encounter additional challenges navigating higher ed.
https://laist.com/news/education/new-community-colleges-reporter-julia-barajas
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
In 2020, Sadie and Eddie Martinez were falsely accused of attempted kidnapping by a white woman while shopping at a Michaels craft store in Petaluma. Imperfect Paradise: People vs. Karen, is the story of how Sadie held her accuser accountable.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kings guard Kevin Huerter said the past couple of weeks have been difficult, but he is encouraged by the support of coaches and teammates.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281272603.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
El Niño conditions are forecast to last until next spring.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281042223.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Central Section playoffs games begin on Friday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/prep-football/article281281863.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
How high will interest rates on homes and credit cards go?
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281250103.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The state’s Department of Finance acknowledged an “increasing likelihood” that the state won’t bring in as much cash as it initially projected.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281228213.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The Federal Reserve wraps up its two-day meeting today, but something else may overshadow Chairman Jerome Powell’s news conference: a Treasury Department announcement detailing the mix of bonds it’ll use throughout the rest of the year. While it’s usually a snoozefest, we explain why economists (and the Marketplace team!) are planning to stay wide awake. Plus, smaller homes are having a moment and Maine’s “yellow-flag” law is under scrutiny.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The short-lived RansomedVC ransomware operation is being shopped around by its owner, who is claiming to offer a 20 percent discount just a day after first listing it for sale.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/ransomedvc_owner_sells_operation/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The driver died at the scene, police say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281251508.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Government representatives and tech leaders are meeting in the United Kingdom for the world’s first safety summit on artificial intelligence. What might come out of it? Plus, a drought is forcing a traffic reduction through the Panama Canal. And there’s another controversial host for the men’s soccer World Cup, as Saudi Arabia is set to hold the 2034 competition.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/can-the-u-k-summit-deliver-on-ai-safety
date: 2023-11-01, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Democrats are aligned with McConnell, while many Republicans are in opposition.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/article281247468.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Mozilla has published a native Debian package of Firefox – the pre-beta-test Nightly build, rather than the current released version.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/official_mozilla_debian_firefox/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
Decades ago, Newt Gingrich, aka, “Newt the Grinch,” ginned up his aging Republican Party with his notorious, “Contract for America.” It was a Republican Ten Commandments of sort, designed to stupefy policy to false promises conservatives could believe in, at least until after the next election. The Contract for America was propaganda. Republicans in power […]
The post Gary Horton | Republicans’ Blackmail on America, Redux appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/gary-horton-republicans-blackmail-on-america-redux/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
I was watching a Medal of Honor presentation the other day, and before the end of the event, Joe Biden took on a thousand-yard stare and walked out, totally oblivious of the rest of the crowd. We are daily living in a dangerous world that is becoming more dangerous every day. The man in the […]
The post Jim Horton | We Need Able, Skilled Leadership appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/jim-horton-we-need-able-skilled-leadership/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
Last week our country experienced its 36th mass shooting since the beginning of the year. When Sandy Hook occurred in 2012 and 26 innocent people, including children, were murdered, we all thought gun control would be enacted to prevent such an atrocity from happening again. But our legislators have not managed to pass a law […]
The post Diane Duarte Babko | Help Save Innocent Lives appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/diane-duarte-babko-help-save-innocent-lives/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
This week marks 25 years since NASA astronaut John Glenn returned to space aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery and became the oldest person to orbit the Earth.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/john_glenn_nasa_anniversary/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The 2023 Big Island Interschol<wbr>astic Federation (BIIF) cross <wbr>country season wrapped up Satu<wbr>rday morning in Waimea with the <wbr>Central Pacific Bank/BIIF Cros<wbr>s Country Championships — send<wbr>ing 47 boys and 44 girls to th<wbr>is weekend’s HHSAA Championshi<wbr>p on Oahu.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/sports/waiakea-hpa-win-at-xc-championship/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The fears of this year’s World Series between the Texas Rangers and Arizona Diamondbacks becoming the least-viewed Fall Classic in TV history are becoming a reality.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>This football season, four University of Hawaii football players, including a running back and receiver last week, entered the NCAA transfer portal.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CAMDEN, N.J. — James Harden publicly called his boss a liar and swore he would never again play for the Philadelphia 76ers. </p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PHOENIX — Marcus Semien’s two-run triple and three-run homer powered Texas to a 10-run lead by the third inning, Corey Seager hit another long home run and the Rangers beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-7 on Tuesday night to move ahead three games to one in the World Series.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>In a country shadowed by the threat of mass shootings and neighborhood violence, courts have embraced an increasingly absolute reading of the right to guns. That raises difficult questions about how to protect the full range of freedoms Americans cherish.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that first arose in a case involving former President Donald Trump.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Mark Lono Kanakaole, 65, of Hilo died Sept. 1 at Hilo Medical Center. Born on Oahu, he was a musician at Sugar Shack in Haleiwa and Hale Inu Sports Bar in Hilo, played with groups such as Nanea and Kanakaole Trio, and played regularly at Hilo Farmers Market Kitchen and in front of One Gallery. Hilo celebration of life 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, at The Salvation Army Hilo Corps, 219 Ponahawai St. Oahu celebration of life at a later date. For info, contact: Veronica Tarleton, P.O. Box 10851, Hilo, HI 96721. Online condolences: homelanimemorialpark.com. Survived by stepmother Florence K. Asperilla (Roy Yamamoto); stepchildren Marie (Rich) Hoapili, Deanna (Joe) Peredo and Jason (Sherry) Hite; brothers William K. (Sharon) Kanakaole Jr., Michell M. (Queenie) Kanakaole, Martin K. (Wailani) Kanakaole, Matthew M. (Mokihana) Asperilla, and Dwayne H. (Faye) Asperilla; sisters Dallas H. Napolis (Robert) and Veronica M. (Arnold) Tarleton; sisters-in-law Kathy Kanakaole and Kimberly Asperilla; and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Arrangements by Homelani Memorial Park.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/obituaries/obituaries-for-nov-1-2/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — A jury has convicted a Hawaii couple of conspiracy, passport fraud and identity theft for stealing identities and living for decades under the names of dead babies.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOKA‘A — Over the Weekend weekend, the Hawai’i Youth Rodeo ‘Ohana (HYRO) joined the National Little Britches Rodeo Association.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LONDON — Chatbots like ChatGPT wowed the world with their ability to write speeches, plan vacations or hold a conversation as good as or arguably even better than humans do, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence systems. Now, frontier AI has become the latest buzzword as concerns grow that the emerging technology has capabilities that could endanger humanity.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — Kenneth Williams spent his whole life in Brooklyn, but it wasn’t until a night in 2018 when he crossed a narrow footbridge in shackles, that he learned about New York City’s last floating jail. He remembers the murky East River water below him, the stench of mold, and a sinking feeling that soon turned literal.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The nation’s top military and diplomatic leaders urged an increasingly divided Congress on Tuesday to send immediate aid to Israel and Ukraine, arguing at a Senate hearing that broad support for the assistance would signal U.S. strength to adversaries worldwide.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>After brain surgery to remove a tumor, Robert Senter must take daily medication to prevent violent seizures. But it’s often hard to get his refills on time at the CVS pharmacy where he buys his medicine.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A fast-moving fire in the small town of Aguanga in Southern California forced the evacuation of thousands of people and had burned more than 2,200 acres as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>UH-hilo’s men’s and women’s soccer teams played a pair of home matches against Concordia University Irvine on Monday, during which the UH-hilo’s women fell and men narrowly won.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/sports/vulcans-split-success-against-cui/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LEWISTON, Maine — Children returned to schools and went trick-or-treating on Tuesday as the community of Lewiston tried to return to normal after sheltering indoors for days while authorities hunted for the man responsible for the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The federal government’s latest plan to close a “homework gap” for kids who lack Wi-Fi at home is to bring such services to one place they may spend hours per week: on the bus to and from school. The move is one facet of the president’s overall goal to bring high-speed internet access to every American. But the school bus plan is drawing objections from Republicans that the cost isn’t worth the effort and will only enable unsupervised kids to spend more time on social media.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Gov. Josh Green has released $500,000 for the DA BUX Double-Up Program, which doubles recipients’ purchasing power for locally grown produce, using their federally funded Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/hawaii-news/da-bux-program-gets-more-funding/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The state Department of Health is alerting residents about a voluntary recall by WanaBana of all of its Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouch products distributed to retailers nationally, including online retailers such as Amazon.com.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — A barrage of Israeli airstrikes leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City on Tuesday, and footage showed rescuers pulling men, women and children from the rubble. Israel said the strike destroyed a Hamas command center set up in civilian houses and an underground tunnel network.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Improvements are coming to a portion of Lanikaula Street in Hilo.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The public is invited to attend an informational meeting about the Kalaoa Solar Project, a proposed 40-acre renewable energy facility on state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands property in Kalaoa.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Demand for travel to Hawaii has fallen, especially on Maui, and travel industry experts say it’s not expected to materially recover until 2024.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Hawaii County Council is urging county and state administrations to take steps to preserve the easternmost edge of the Big Island in the face of increasing visitors.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — An officer sprinted from house to house in the historic town of Lahaina, Maui, alerting people to the approaching inferno. Another coughed and swore as he drove through thick smoke past burning buildings with people he rescued crammed in the back seat. With no ambulance available, one officer offered to bring a severely burned man to a hospital.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Veterans Day is Saturday, Nov. 11, and a number of ceremonies will take place throughout Hawaii.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/community/veterans-day-parade-this-saturday/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Downtown Hilo 
not a suitable host</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/opinion/your-views-for-november-1-10/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It started as a typical rebound relationship. I was drowning in grief, and to say my judgment was impaired is an understatement. Tovi had died two weeks prior, breeding an impulsivity in me that no intervention could interrupt. I was sure adopting another dog would sedate my debilitating pain.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>“Oh, I see,” says the business manager conducting a job interview, “you were in one of those 31 or so screaming, absurdist pro-Hamas groups at Harvard. Sorry, but we neither trust nor like people who think it’s OK for terrorists to decapitate Israeli babies, rape teenage girls at a music festival, murder families in their homes and shoot sobbing children hiding in bushes after missiles introduced their energetic arrival, all the better to get even.”</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/opinion/the-meaning-of-celebrating-evil-in-america/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A free workshop will help caregivers with loved ones with dementia better understand the condition and learn skills to deal with challenging behaviors.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/hawaii-news/aarp-offers-dementia-care-workshop/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Zonta Club of Hilo recently presented $6,000 in microgrants for its 2023 “Pay It Forward” program. The award program supports women entrepreneurs on Hawaii Island who are starting a new business or working to expand an existing business.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/01/community/zonta-club-awards-microgrants-to-women/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Kahilu Theatre in Waimea presents “Makana, Live” from the Kahilu stage at 7 p.m. on Friday, performing vocal and slack key guitar renditions of classics from the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.</p>
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
Spot this green-blue ice giant mid-November, between the gas giant Jupiter, and the seven sisters of the Pleiades!
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Triple J Auto Group recently announced in a news release that its 5K and 10K Bubble Color Run is scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 18, starting at the dealership’s main location in Upper Tumon in front of Kmart.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Three men were charged in the Superior Court of Guam on Tuesday in connection to possessing methamphetamine.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Tuesday’s decision out of the Supreme Court of Guam, which found that the 30-year-old local ban on abortion holds no sway on the island, “upholds the rule of law” and protects people “from political maneuvers seeking to impose stale laws”…
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
The University of Guam Press is seeking illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, graphic designers, website designers, writers, editors and translators for contract work on a project-by-project basis.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A former Guahan Academy Charter School teacher was found guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old student in 2021.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Legislature wrapped up another round of session on Wednesday, passing six bills, including legislation to extend the longstanding energy credit program another three months. But out of all the measures that lawmakers addressed, it was the bill on…
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. Sabina Perez got some feedback from village mayors regarding two bills designed to address waste removal.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was arrested in connection to the February death of a motorcyclist.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive “We saw the dark clouds for a long, long while,” MariaDB Foundation CEO Kaj Arnö told The Register.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/sanity_returns_to_mariadb_plc/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
On November 16 2023, I will do a multi-hour tutorial video on how to use libcurl. How to master it. As a follow-up to my previous video class called mastering the curl command line (at 13,000+ views right now). This event will run as a live-stream webinar combination. You can opt to join via zoom … Continue reading mastering libcurl
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/11/01/mastering-libcurl/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Trial program will cover the cost of STI testing for students without SHIP.
The post USG funds STI testing, hears elections rules appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/usg-funds-sti-testing-hears-elections-rules/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Demonstrators advocated for Palestinians and urged others to do the same.
The post Protesters march for Gaza appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/protesters-march-for-gaza/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It may be a place of refuge for world-weary Brits, but the humble boozer is where they most fear Wi-Fi attacks.…
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some simplified universal television remotes for seniors? My 88-year-old dad, who lives in a retirement community, has some dementia and gets confused with all the buttons on his remote. As a result, he keeps accidentally reprograming his TV set. — Searching Son Dear Searching, Most modern TV remotes – […]
The post The Savvy Senior | Top TV Remotes for Elderly Seniors appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/the-savvy-senior-top-tv-remotes-for-elderly-seniors/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
As AI finds its way into some chip design workflows – resulting in neural networks helping design better processors for neural networks – Nvidia has shown off what can be done in that area with chatbots.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/nvidia_ai_chatbot/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Get ready for a set of wild confrontations
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mike-johnson-the-most-extremist-speaker
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
The post Classifieds – November 1, 2023 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/classifieds-november-1-2023/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Apple’s amended App Store rules for dating apps in the Netherlands reportedly remain anticompetitive in the eyes of the Netherlands’ Authority for Consumers & Markets (ACM), raising the possibility that further changes will be required.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/apple_app_rules_netherlands/
date: 2023-11-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1963 – Community of Canyon Country founded; first Frontier Days celebration [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-1/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans’ final laps in the Pac-12 put the pressure on for vital wins.
The post Women’s swim and dive set for Arizona appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/womens-swim-and-dive-look-to-cap-italize-in-arizona/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Women’s tennis looks to continue the momentum at their Fall Championships.
The post Trojans ready for two huge tournaments appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/trojans-set-for-two-huge-tournaments/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
There are things expected of athletes of color that are not expected of other athletes.
The post With great power comes great responsibility appeared first on Daily Trojan.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Japan’s approach to safety on public transportation should serve as an example.
The post Now boarding! The women’s safety express appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/womens-safety-international-differences/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Everybody deserves a fair-paying job and a safe workplace, and with Waffle Houses providing neither, their workers are striking against the iconic Southern establishment for a better, safer future.
The post Join Waffle House workers brawling for better wages appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/join-waffle-house-workers-brawling-for-better-wages/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
These cute and cozy anime are perfect to experience with family and friends.
The post Anime guaranteed to warm the heart appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/anime-guaranteed-to-warm-the-heart/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
SKIMS’ new nipple bra is turning heads for all of the right reasons.
The post Out with the bra! – kind of appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/out-with-the-bra-kind-of/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The National Science Foundation grant will create new research possibilities.
The post Earthquake Center wins $6.1 million appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/earthquake-center-wins-6-1-million/
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Cultural centers expanded to accommodate students and build community.
The post Folt unveils renovated Student Union 4th floor appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/11/01/folt-unveils-renovated-student-union-4th-floor/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
Angel Sablan announced Wednesday that he will be stepping down from his position as the executive director of the Mayors’ Council of Guam after serving 15 yeas with the council.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Samsung has posted another loss, but its semiconductor and memory business has shown signs of life, as inventories normalized and applications like AI drove demand for advanced products.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/samungs_results_point_to_memory/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
A possible outage schedule for November was just announced in a news release from the Guam Power Authority. The announcement states the approach will act as a precautionary notice to customers in the event that ongoing maintenance or repairs prevent…
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Indian politicians and media figures have reported that Apple has warned them their accounts may be under attack by state-sponsored actors.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/india_apple_state_attack_warnings/
date: 2023-11-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Isaiah Kitt and Mel Mayo are the SBART Athletes of the Week.
The post SBART Press Luncheon: Andres Santa Maria Honored as Special Olympics Athlete of the Month appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden is facing a revolt from some members of his own Democratic Party over his unwavering support for Israel as that country expands ground operations in Gaza and Palestinian civilian casualties mount. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.
date: 2023-11-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
City Council votes to spend $55,000 to paint not-green lanes down eight blocks of the city’s main drag.
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date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
The number of Afghans seeking asylum in the United States has jumped to 19,000 over the past two years, marking a sharp contrast to the annual double- and triple-digit figures previously reported by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
From 2013 to 2021, the United States granted asylum to fewer than 1,000 Afghans in total.
The sharp rise in the number of Afghan asylum-seekers is directly linked to the evacuation by the U.S. military of more than 124,000 individuals, mostly Afghan nationals, from Kabul International Airport in August 2021.
After undergoing initial security and health screenings at U.S. military bases in Qatar, Germany and other countries, the Afghan evacuees subsequently entered the United States under a status known as humanitarian parole.
In May 2022, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees USCIS, announced Temporary Protected Status registration for 72,500 Afghans, allowing them to work and live in the country until Nov. 20, 2023.
Last month, Homeland Security said it is extending the program until May 2025 to cover previous and newly eligible individuals.
“The extension and redesignation of Afghanistan for TPS allows an estimated 17,700 individuals to be granted TPS, if they apply for TPS and are found eligible. This includes approximately 3,100 existing beneficiaries currently receiving TPS benefits under Afghanistan’s previous designation, plus an estimated 14,600 newly potentially eligible individuals,” a USCIS spokesperson told VOA by email.
Congress has yet to approve the Afghan Adjustment Act, which would create legal pathways for Afghans who entered the United States in 2021 under humanitarian parole and are seeking permanent residence and naturalization.
“The administration has repeatedly put forward an adjustment act and publicly called on Congress to support a bipartisan adjustment act that would provide a durable, more streamlined immigration pathway for those currently in parole,” the spokesperson said.
While dozens of Democratic and Republican lawmakers have publicly supported the Afghan Adjustment Act, others have voiced concerns about poor security vetting of the individuals who were airlifted from Kabul amid a chaotic withdrawal operation.
Asylum challenges
Amid uncertainty about when and whether Congress will approve the legislation, Homeland Security has encouraged Afghans in temporary protected and parole statuses to apply for asylum, without offering assurances that their cases will be approved.
Critics say the U.S. asylum system is already overwhelmed with applications, and the addition of thousands of Afghan applicants will further strain it.
“Our immigration court system has a massive backlog [of] hundreds of thousands of cases, and many of which are asylum cases,” Laurence Benenson, vice president of policy and advocacy at the National Immigration Forum, told VOA. Benenson said adjudicating asylum cases takes up to five years.
Last year, 1,438 Afghans were granted asylum by the USCIS, a significant increase compared with 96 individuals in 2021 and only 37 in 2020.
In the rush to leave Afghanistan, some evacuees may have failed to take with them the appropriate documents to support their asylum petitions, which Benenson said “makes it much harder to pursue their claims.”
Three Afghan asylum-seekers interviewed for this story said their applications have been pending at USCIS for over a year.
“I don’t know how long we will remain in this limbo, but the uncertainty pains every day,” said Qais Ahmad, who left Kabul on a U.S. military flight in August 2021 and entered the U.S. in December 2021 with his wife and four children.
It is unclear how the Afghan Adjustment Act, if approved by Congress, would handle the thousands of Afghans with pending asylum cases.
“It remains to be seen, is the answer,” said Daniel Salazar, a policy analyst at the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
“There are different groups of Afghan nationals who will be affected by the AAA in a variety of ways, but we won’t really know that until federal agencies are actively implementing it,” Salazar told VOA.
Until Congress enacts the Afghan Adjustment Act, the many thousands of Afghans who fall outside the requirements for a Special Immigration Visa — a program that facilitates easy and swift residence for individuals who worked for the U.S. military and programs in Iraq and Afghanistan — will have to undergo the lengthy and cumbersome asylum system.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
IBM has acquired Indonesian ERP consultancy Equine Global and signaled that the purchase represents a sign of its plans “to grow its footprint in the region.”…
date: 2023-11-01, from: Doc Searls (at Harvard), New Old Blog
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date: 2023-11-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
This week on “Rhythm and News,” our hosts talk about the history of LGBTQIA+ representation in movies, TV shows, animation, etc. Also on this episode our hosts take us through a list of queer cinema around the world like, “Joyland” by Saim Sadiq and “Rotting in the Sun” by Sebastián Silva. This episode will give some great recommendations of queer movies to add to the watch list.
This episode was written and hosted by Caitlin Roehmholdt, Alison Mitchell, Chris Turino and Fitz Cain; It was also written by Amrita Sundaresan; edited by Abigail Park; produced by Auburn D’Artell and Jonathan Park. “Rhythm and News” is one of four shows on the Daily Trojan podcast network. You can find more episodes anywhere you listen to podcasts, as well as our website, dailytrojan.com.
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date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
U.S. senators from both parties voiced doubts on Tuesday about House Republicans’ plan to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting Internal Revenue Service funding, without providing aid to Ukraine, and Democratic President Joe Biden threatened to veto the bill were it to pass.
In the first major legislative action under new Speaker Mike Johnson, House of Representatives Republicans unveiled a standalone supplemental spending bill only for Israel on Monday.
This is despite President Joe Biden’s request for a $106 billion package that would include aid for Israel and Ukraine and funding to boost competition with China in the Indo-Pacific as well as security along the U.S. border with Mexico.
Republicans have a 221-212 majority in the House, but Biden’s fellow Democrats control the Senate 51-49. To become law, the bill would have to pass both the House and Senate and be signed by Biden.
The top Senate Democrat said the Republican bill would be dead on arrival in the upper chamber, even if it passed the House.
“The bottom line is it’s not a serious proposal,” Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters.
The administration said Biden would veto such a bill were it to reach his desk.
“This bill is bad for Israel, for the Middle East region, and for our own national security,” the White House’s Office of Management and Budget said.
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said he felt the four issues needed to be addressed.
“We need to treat all four of these areas, all four of them: Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and the border,” McConnell told reporters.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Johnson on Tuesday after testifying in the Senate. At the hearing, Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Ukraine needed continued U.S. assistance to win its fight against Russian invaders.
Blinken told reporters: “It was a very good meeting. I appreciate the opportunity. I’ll leave our conversation at that.”
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said they had discussed issues including Biden’s request for support for Ukraine and Israel.
Republicans are expected to pass the legislation in the House as soon as this week.
date: 2023-11-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
As we move toward the last few months of the year, there are so many things to look forward to including the upcoming holiday season. The holidays bring ample opportunities to connect with friends, family and coworkers and many of these gatherings happen indoors. As we get closer to the end of the year, we are also entering the season of respiratory illnesses
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date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will begin a new trip to the Middle East on Friday, a spokesperson said, as Israel’s war against Hamas in response to the Oct. 7 attack intensifies.
“Secretary Blinken will travel to Israel on Friday for meetings with members of the Israeli government, and then will make other stops in the region,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters Tuesday.
Israeli media had previously reported the visit, citing Israeli officials.
Days after the surprise attack by Hamas militants, Blinken traveled to Israel as a show of U.S. support and to coordinate on a response.
A marathon session of shuttle diplomacy in the region ensued, with the U.S. diplomat making over a dozen stops in Jordan, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and back in Israel.
He accompanied President Joe Biden to meetings with Israeli government officials and victims during the U.S. leader’s one-day visit to Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.
The surprise cross-border attack by Hamas militants killed more than 1,400 people according to Israeli officials, while more than 230 people, some American citizens, were taken hostage.
Israel’s retaliatory bombardment has killed more than 8,500 people, according to the Gaza health ministry, sparking widespread anger in the region and around the world.
The United States is Israel’s biggest supporter, providing it with substantial military aid.
Biden has requested Congress to pass additional funding for Israel as well as Ukraine.
Blinken on Tuesday was at the U.S. Capitol to defend the funding request, but the Senate hearing was repeatedly interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters, some of whom cried out “cease-fire now,” “Palestinians are not animals” and “Shame on you all” before being removed from the room.
During the hearing Blinken also discussed what might come after the current conflict, saying the Palestinian Authority should retake control of the Gaza Strip from Hamas, which has ruled the territory since 2007.
https://www.voanews.com/a/blinken-to-head-for-israel-elsewhere-in-region/7335622.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
College students face many expenses, including tuition, living costs, transportation and school supplies. A hefty amount of the costs students struggle with are textbooks. Given
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date: 2023-11-01, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
For educational institutes in this digital age, choosing whether to utilize textbooks, versus open resources or simply no books at all, in their classes has
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date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
President Joe Biden is facing internal revolt from some members of his Democratic Party over his unwavering support for Israel as it expands ground operations in Gaza and Palestinian civilian casualties increase.
The National Muslim Democratic Council (NMDC) sent an open letter demanding that Biden use his influence with Israel to broker a cease-fire by 5 p.m. Tuesday. Without a cease-fire, the advocacy group threatened to mobilize millions of Muslim voters to withhold donations and votes toward Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign.
NMDC includes party leaders from hotly contested states likely to decide the election, such as Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania.
“We know for a fact that our community will make a difference in the battleground states,” said council chair Basim Elkarra to VOA. “Democratic Party leaders are paying attention, and they are afraid of what’s happening, and they are sending messages to the White House that this is going to hurt our chances in 2024.”
Administration officials have advocated for “humanitarian pauses” to allow aid to reach civilians in Gaza but say a cease-fire now will only benefit Hamas.
Nearly 1.1 million Muslim voters cast ballots in the 2020 election, turning out in numbers large enough to swing the presidential race in key battleground states. Muslim Americans and Arab Americans have traditionally voted for Democratic candidates, but with thousands of Palestinians killed in Israeli retaliatory airstrikes and ground operations in Gaza, a shift may be coming.
A new poll released Tuesday by the Arab American Institute showed support for Biden has dropped among Arab American voters, from 59% in the 2020 election to 17% ahead of 2024.
According to the poll, two-thirds of Arab Americans have a negative view of Biden’s handling of the Israeli-Hamas war. The majority believe the U.S. should not send weapons and military equipment to Israel and should call for a cease-fire.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House will continue to engage with the Arab American and Muslim community.
“We certainly want to continue to keep those lines of communication open,” she told VOA during her briefing Tuesday.
However, while the White House provided an extensive readout of Biden’s Oct. 11 meeting with Jewish leaders, they did not announce the president’s meeting with Muslim leaders on Oct. 25.
An administration official told VOA that not every participant wanted this meeting to be made public, an assessment disputed by three Muslim community leaders with direct knowledge of the meeting. The leaders, who spoke with VOA and asked not to be identified, said that it was the White House that made confidentiality a requirement of the meeting.
Jewish voters ‘deeply appreciative’
In contrast, Jewish Americans are “deeply appreciative” of Biden’s full-throated support of Israel, said Halie Soifer, who leads the Jewish Democratic Council of America. About 41% of Jews worldwide - about 7 million people - live in the U.S., according to Pew Research, the same number as in Israel.
Jews make up 2% of the U.S. population but about 3% of the electorate. In the 2020 election, the total number of eligible voters was 158.4 million, according to a Pew Research tabulation.
“The turnout for Jewish voters is on average 10% higher than the average American voter, in some states we’ve seen as high as 15% to 20% higher depending on the election,” Sofier told VOA, adding that Jewish voters tend to live in swing districts or states.
Biden is also widely praised in Israel, where his words and actions, including his brief wartime visit to Tel Aviv, made Israelis feel they are not alone, said Jonathan Rynhold, head of the Department of Political Studies at Bar-Ilan University.
Even those who were extremely critical of Biden and more sympathetic to former President Donald Trump, have publicly said, “I was wrong. This guy is a true friend of Israel,” Rynhold told VOA.
Since the Hamas attack, Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have been in close communication, with Biden urging Netanyahu to conduct the offensive against Hamas in Gaza “in a manner consistent with international humanitarian law that prioritizes the protection of civilians,” the White House said Sunday, following the Israeli military’s expansion of its ground operations into Gaza late Friday.
“What he’s saying to Israel – to help me to help you,” Rynhold said. “If you give maximum effort to fight in the right way, according to the laws of war, then it makes it easier for me to support you, and get support for you in the international community, and home in America and in the Democratic Party.”
There’s growing pressure worldwide for a humanitarian cease-fire as casualties mount.
More than 8,000 Palestinians, including at least 3,300 children, have been killed in Israeli retaliatory attacks, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.
The Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, which the U.S. and EU have designated a terrorist group, killed at least 1,400 people in Israel and took more than 200 hostages. The militant group that controls the Gaza Strip cited Israel’s decadeslong occupation of the West Bank among its motivations for attacking Israeli civilians and soldiers.
Republican support
Support for Israel is also strong among Republicans. Rejecting Biden’s call for a $106 billion international aid package with funding for Ukraine, Israel and other needs, newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican, has put forward a $14.3 billion package that only includes money for Israel.
Meanwhile Trump, the leading contender for his party’s 2024 presidential nomination, faced an intense backlash over his criticism of Netanyahu just days after the Hamas attack. He said Netanyahu was unprepared and described Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group backing Hamas, as “very smart.”
At the Republican Jewish Coalition leadership summit over the weekend, Trump returned his focus on Biden.
“Four straight years, I kept America safe. I kept Israel safe, and I kept the world safe,” he said at the gathering of influential Republican donors. “If I were president, the attack on Israel would never, ever have happened.”
Trump’s argument is unlikely to change voters’ perception of Biden’s handling of the war, said Norman Ornstein, senior fellow emeritus at the American Enterprise Institute.
“There isn’t a lot of room for Republicans here, whether it’s Trump or the Republicans in Congress to outflank Biden on support for Israel,” he told VOA.
While foreign policy is not usually a key driver of the American electorate unless U.S. troops are deployed, the war in Gaza has elicited highly emotional responses from Americans. Demonstrations both for and against Israel have spread in various cities, while incidents of antisemitism and Islamophobia are on the rise.
Overall, a majority of voters – 84% Republicans, 76% Democrats and 74% independents – think supporting Israel is in the national interest of the United States, according to an Oct. 17 Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters. Most voters – 79% Republicans, 59% Democrats, 61% independents – approve of sending weapons and military equipment to Israel.
An overwhelming majority of voters (85%) are concerned that the conflict will escalate into a wider war in the Middle East.
Anita Powell contributed to this report.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
The Foothill League has acted in response to a referee boycott of CIF Southern Section soccer games. The league is adamant about having whatever season it can and is aiming to bring in officials to referee games on its own, going around the current Southern California Soccer Officials Association boycott. The CIF Southern Section says […]
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date: 2023-11-01, from: Guam Daily Post
The first batch of Disaster Unemployment Assistance benefits totaling $252,898 has been processed and released, according to a statement from the Guam Department of Labor.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Signal
Halloween, the October holiday that has the majority of people walking up and down neighborhoods, knocking on doors and saying, “trick or treat.” After decades of the same tradition, Castaic Lake decided to switch it up while introducing the community to its offerings. Blue and Steve from “Blue’s Clues,” a taco, an angel and Rapunzel […]
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date: 2023-11-01, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
The impact and existential crisis caused by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has rippled across the world. It has affected Muslims, the Jewish community largely due to
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date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Comment Apple appears to have decided its controversial Touch Bar is no longer needed as on Monday the last machine that included it – the 13-inch MacBook Pro – vanished from iGiant’s site.…
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date: 2023-11-01, from: John Naughton’s online diary
WTF?… … is going on here? Who knows? London, June. Quote of the Day “Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” John Maynard Keynes Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Elton John | Rocket Man (Glastonbury … Continue reading
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date: 2023-11-01, from: OS News
In a world where constant change is the norm, finished software provides a breath of fresh air. It’s a reminder that reliability, consistency, and user satisfaction can coexist in the realm of software development. So the next time you find yourself yearning for the latest update, remember that sometimes, the best software is the one that doesn’t change at all. While this is a nice sentiment, the reality is that software has become so complex, competition to cutthroat, and operating systems so changeful, that “finishing” software just doesn’t seem like a realistic and attainable goal anymore. The example used in the article, WordStar 4.0 for DOS, can only be “finished” because DOS doesn’t change anymore.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137690/the-beauty-of-finished-software/
date: 2023-11-01, from: NASA breaking news
Pumpkin carving reaches new heights during the annual competition, where spacecraft-building engineers mix ingenuity and creativity for some spectacular results. When mechanical engineers accustomed to building one-of-a-kind spacecraft turn that focus to pumpkins, the results can be hauntingly good. The annual Halloween pumpkin-carving contest at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California may be all […]
date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria have been attacked with drones or rockets at least 27 times in recent days, as more U.S. forces deploy to the region, Pentagon press secretary Brigadier General Pat Ryder said Tuesday.
At least seven of these attacks were launched after U.S. forces in the early morning hours of Friday struck two facilities in eastern Syria used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups.
The U.S. strikes were in response to earlier attacks on U.S. forces and were “narrowly tailored … to protect and defend U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria,” Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement.
None of the attacks carried out since the U.S. retaliatory strikes on Friday has caused casualties or damage, according to defense officials.
The latest attack occurred Monday and used multiple one-way attack drones to target al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq, said a defense official who spoke to VOA on condition of anonymity due to security sensitivities.
Multiple rockets were used in another attack on al-Asad on Monday, and rockets targeted U.S. and coalition forces at two locations in eastern Syria as well, one at a base known as Green Village and another at Mission Support Site Euphrates.
On Sunday, a one-way attack drone was used against U.S. forces at a base near al-Shaddadi, according to U.S. officials.
Ryder said the Pentagon was deploying 300 more troops to the Middle East region “to support regional deterrence efforts and further bolster U.S. force protection capabilities.”
“They aren’t going to Israel,” Ryder said.
Ryder and other officials have blamed Iranian-backed proxies for the near daily attacks on U.S. forces.
“We know that these are Iranian-backed militia groups that are supported by Iran and, of course, we hold Iran responsible for these groups,” Ryder said last week.
Austin told members of Congress on Tuesday that the United States maintains the right to respond at a time and place it chooses.
“If this doesn’t stop, then we will respond.” Austin said.
Asked by VOA whether the recent attacks are a sign that U.S. deterrence is not working, a senior defense official said earlier this week that “Iran’s objective for a long time has been to force a withdrawal of the U.S. military from the region. What I would observe is that we’re still there.”
US strikes back in Syria
One American F-15 and two American F-16 fighter jets used precision munitions against a weapons storage facility and an ammunition facility near Abu Kamal early Friday local time, according to defense officials. The Pentagon assesses the strikes successfully hit their targets, and it is still looking into casualty numbers.
“These precision self-defense strikes are a response to a series of ongoing and mostly unsuccessful attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria by Iranian-backed militia groups that began on Oct. 17,” Austin said in a statement.
“The United States will not tolerate such attacks and will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests,” he added.
Officials have raised concerns about the prospect of “more significant escalation” in the region from Iranian proxy groups.
“Spillover into Syria is not just a risk; it has already begun,” Geir Pedersen, U.N. special envoy for Syria, said on Monday.
The attacks since Oct. 17 on U.S. and coalition forces have resulted in 17 minor injuries to Americans in Syria and four minor injuries to American personnel in Iraq, with U.S. officials continuing to monitor any potential traumatic brain injuries.
One U.S. contractor at al-Asad Air Base in Iraq suffered a cardiac episode while sheltering in place during a false alarm for an air attack and died.
At least 20 attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq and Syria occurred between Oct. 17 and Oct. 26, according to the Pentagon.
US increasing protection in region
Approximately 1,200 troops have either deployed or are in the process of deploying from the United States to the Middle East to increase force protection. These units include a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, battery from Fort Bliss, Patriot batteries from Fort Sill, and Patriot and Avenger batteries from Fort Liberty.
Austin placed more than 2,000 military personnel on heightened alert earlier this month with a prepare-to-deploy order.
VOA’s Margaret Besheer contributed to this report from the United Nations.
https://www.voanews.com/a/pentagon-27-attacks-target-us-forces-in-iraq-syria/7335584.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
GO! KINGS! GO! The city of Santa Clarita is excited to invite residents to this year’s Santa Clarita Kings Day! Come cheer on the Los Angeles Kings with your family, friends and neighbors as they face off against the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday, Dec. 3, at 5 p.m. at the Crypto.com Arena.
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date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
The Hamas terror attack on Israel that killed about 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and sparked a now weeks-long war has shaken the global terrorism landscape, breathing new life into a variety of groups, according to three top U.S. officials.
Those terror groups — including al-Qaida and the Islamic State — are using the attack, the imagery associated with it, and Israel’s response as a rallying cry designed to grow their numbers and possibly inspire attacks against the United States, said the officials.
FBI Director Christopher Wray, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, and National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Director Christine Abizaid shared the assessment Tuesday during testimony before a U.S. Senate oversight committee, warning the Hamas attack on Israel is giving foreign terror groups a sense of momentum at a time when the threat had seemed to be waning.
“The ongoing war in the Middle East has raised the threat of an attack against Americans in the United States to a whole ’nother level,” the FBI’s Wray told the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.
“We assess that the actions of Hamas and its allies will serve as an inspiration the likes of which we haven’t seen since ISIS launched its so-called caliphate several years ago,” Wray said, using an acronym for the Islamic State group.
“In just the past few weeks, multiple foreign terrorist organizations have called for attacks against Americans and the West,” he added, noting al-Qaida “issued its most specific call to attack the United States in the last five years.”
The NCTC’s Abizaid warned lawmakers the Hamas attack is now being used as “a feature of messaging and propaganda” from multiple terror organizations.
“We’ve seen it from al-Qaida affiliates, almost every single one. We’ve also seen it from ISIS, which ideologically isn’t aligned with a group like Hamas, but is still leveraging this current conflict,” she said. “They are seeking to capitalize on this moment to galvanize supporters and organize further attacks.”
Extremists see opportunity, say officials
Wray and Abizaid warned that the Hamas attack is also being leveraged by extremist groups without ties to the Middle East but who see this as a chance to further their own goals, while likewise threatening attacks against U.S., Israeli and Jewish interests around the world.
“How this conflict unfolds in the coming days, weeks and months, and the degree to which it helps renew otherwise declining terrorist actors across the globe will require careful monitoring,” Abizaid said.
Just last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued an advisory warning of a surge in threats to the Jewish, Arab and Muslim communities in the U.S. Targeted incidents ranged from bomb scares to the stabbing of a 6-year-old Palestinian American boy in Illinois.
For now, the U.S. officials emphasized that the greatest dangers still come from individuals or small groups who are consuming the imagery and propaganda and may then quickly escalate to violence.
And while the DHS, the FBI and NCTC have yet to see indications that any established groups are plotting attacks on U.S. soil, they do not rule it out.
“On top of the homegrown violent extremism and domestic violent extremist threat, we also cannot and do not discount the possibility that Hamas or another foreign terrorist organization may exploit the current conflict to conduct attacks here on our own soil,” the FBI’s Wray said.
“We’re continuing to scrutinize our intelligence to assess how the threat may be evolving,” he said, adding that the bureau is conducting multiple investigations into individuals associated with Hamas and other groups.
U.S. keeps eye on Iran
There is also significant suspicion about one of Hamas’ key backers, Iran, described by some U.S. officials as the “poster child” for state-sponsored terrorism.
U.S. officials have previously accused Iran of what they describe as brazen plots to target dissidents and assassinate former U.S. national security adviser Ambassador John Bolton.
But since the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel, Tehran’s plotting in the United States appears to have quieted.
“At this current moment I would not have any indication of an Iranian threat inside the United States that should be a concern,” the NCTC’s Abizaid told lawmakers.
In the Middle East and elsewhere, though, Iran has been bolder, she said, taking note of the repeated attacks by Iranian-backed militias on U.S. forces.
“We assess Iran, Hezbollah and their linked proxies are trying to calibrate their activity, avoiding actions that would open up a concerted second front with the United States or Israel while still exacting costs in the midst of the current conflict,” Abizaid said.
“This is a very fine line to walk,” she added. “Their actions carry the potential for miscalculation.”
And even in the U.S., Iran’s approach could change quickly.
“Iran has a significant escalatory capability,” warned Abizaid.
Iran’s mission to the United Nations has yet to respond to a request for comment.
date: 2023-11-01, from: VOA News USA
A Russian court on Tuesday denied the appeal filed by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Alsu Kurmasheva against her pretrial detention on charges of failing to register as a foreign agent.
Kurmahseva’s lawyer had requested pretrial restrictions for the journalist other than placement in pretrial detention, but the Supreme Court of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan denied the appeal. Last week, a district court ordered her to be held in pretrial detention until at least December 5.
Kurmasheva participated in Tuesday’s closed-door hearing via video link from a detention center in Kazan, Tatarstan’s capital. The Prague-based journalist faces up to five years in prison for violating the country’s “foreign agent” law, which Moscow typically uses to target critical journalists and activists.
Kurmasheva and RFE/RL deny the charges against her.
A dual U.S.-Russian national who works with RFE/RL’s Tatar-Bashkir Service, Kurmasheva traveled to Russia in May for a family emergency. Her passports were confiscated when she tried to leave the country in June.
She was waiting for her passports to be returned when she was detained on October 18.
Jeffrey Gedmin, acting president of VOA’s sister outlet RFE/RL, has condemned Kurmasheva’s arrest as politically motivated and retaliation over her work.
“Journalism is not a crime. She must be released to her family immediately,” Gedmin said.
The Russian Embassy in Washington did not immediately reply to VOA’s email requesting comment.
Kurmasheva is the second American journalist to be jailed in Russia this year.
Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich has been held in a Moscow prison since March on espionage charges that he, his employer and the U.S. government deny.
Human rights and press freedom groups and U.S. officials have widely called for Kurmasheva and Gershkovich to be immediately released.
date: 2023-11-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
NASA’s first-ever asteroid sample-collecting spacecraft OSIRIS-REx has had its mission extended – and will next visit Apophis, a near-Earth object expected to fly as close as 20,000 miles to our home planet in 2029.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/01/osirisapex_spacecraft_apophis_target/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
Top Biden administration officials told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday that the White House request for $106 billion in emergency supplemental funding – including aid for Ukraine and Israel – is vital to U.S. national security. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified as the request faces significant opposition in the Republican-majority US House of Representatives. VOA’s Congressional Correspondent Katherine Gypson has more.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Tilde.news
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date: 2023-10-31, from: City of Santa Clarita
VALENCIA AUTO DEALERS SURPASS $100 MILLION IN SALES TAX CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA The City of Santa Clarita and the Valencia Auto Center are pleased to announce that car sales and leases from our local auto dealers, have resulted in nearly $110-million in sales tax revenue since 2007. These funds are reinvested […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: City of Santa Clarita
SAVE THE DATE FOR SANTA CLARITA KINGS DAY! Cheer on the Los Angeles Kings as They Take on the Colorado Avalanche GO! KINGS! GO! The City of Santa Clarita is excited to invite residents to this year’s Santa Clarita Kings Day! Come cheer on the Los Angeles Kings with your family, friends and neighbors as […]
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https://santaclarita.gov/blog/2023/10/31/save-the-date-for-santa-clarita-kings-day-2/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
Support for RISC-V in Android is taking another step forward. The latest update that we have is that now not only are we accepting patches, but we have begun to mature support for RISC-V in Android. RISC-V is a modular ISA, meaning that there are a large number of optional extensions. We have also determined an initial set that we feel is critical to ensure that any CPU running RISC-V will have all of the features we expect to achieve high performance. This set includes the rva22 profile as well as the vector and vector crypto extensions. Excellent news.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137688/android-and-risc-v-what-you-need-to-know-to-be-ready/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
The initial support was posted on October 25th 2023 on the Linux kernel mailing lists for review by the Linux developers community. With the set of patches released by Linaro engineers, it is also possible to boot an AOSP image with Graphics Software Rendering using Google’s SwiftShader. Since 2014, Linaro Engineers have been working closely with Qualcomm Engineers to enable Snapdragon platforms to work with Mainline Linux. Running a recent upstream Linux kernel immediately after the announcement of a new SoC is a significant achievement, and is a testimony to the close working partnership between Qualcomm and Linaro. Interestingly enough, during the recent announcement of the PC-focused X Elite SoC, Qualcomm also highlighted that Linux will be fully supported by the platform, and to underline that point, the company showed off X Elite laptops running both Windows and Linux. While it’ll take more to convince me that Qualcomm now actually cares about properly supporting its SoCs and the open source community, they’re at least positive signs.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Manu - I write blog
More than three years ago I wrote a post about subscriptions and not a lot has changed since then. Subscriptions are still here, more present than ever. And they’re getting a lot more expensive. I was chatting with Carl just the other day because I was curious to know his take on the current streaming landscape where everything is getting more fragmented but also a lot more expensive.
The issue with streaming platforms—but also with subscriptions in general—is that there’s a finite amount of people who are going to subscribe to a specific service. Which is fine if the goal is to run a sustainable business. As long as you’re pulling in more money that you’re spending, you’re good to go.
But running a sustainable business is not the goal. Growth is the goal. And you can’t grow endlessly. And so what do you do when you’re not growing enough? You either start branching out in weird ways or you increase prices. Or both.
There’s also another option, and it’s the one we’re seeing slowly creeping in at the moment: subscriptions plus advertising. Because you know what’s better than getting your money? Getting your money AND advertisers’ money at the same time.
And that’s inevitable. If the goal is to make money, money-making people will just use any tool at their disposal to get there. And that’s just depressing.
In my chat with Carl, I mentioned that one can easily rack up hundreds of dollars a month just for entertainment services and he said I should calculate how much I’m spending on subscriptions. I thought it was a good idea so here’s a breakdown of my subscriptions:
On the entertainment side, I’m not paying all that much considering I only have a Spotify family plan and I’m not subscribed to a single streaming service. The only other entertainment-related subscription I have going is Apple Arcade but that’s just because I’m currently playing Japanese Rural Life Adventure. I’ll cancel the sub as soon as I’m done with it. I also have a 1$/month contribution to the Sam Harris podcast that's been there for I don't even know how many years and I recently picked up another yearly sub to <a href="https://craigmod.memberful.com/referral/vemx4mp" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Craig Mod's Special Projects</a> because he has a new book coming out and I want to support that since the work he does is amazing. So on the entertainment side of things we're looking at around 33$/month.
Then we have all the tech subscriptions. I don’t have anything that’s exclusively for work since most of the services I use are both for work and for my various side projects. We have domains, a couple of VPS, newsletter tools, and a few other things. We’re talking around 70/month.Whichishonestlynottoobad. < /p > < p > I′mignoringafewthingslikemymobilephoneplanandacoupleofcar − relatedstuffbutifIweretoincludethoseI′dbeinthe100/month range which is honestly not bad at all. But I’d bet I’m the minority here because I consume very little entertainment. I’d be curious to see other people’s breakdowns so if you do end up writing about your situation let me know.
https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/WmIAySksTq9mMwd6
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Deputies issued the driver a citation for prohibited lights.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281266338.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
MicroTCP is a TCP/IP network stack I started building as a learning exercise while attending the Computer Networking course at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. It’s just a hobby project and is intended to just be a minimal, yet complete, implementation. At this moment MicroTCP implements ARP (RFC 826, complete), IPv4 (no fragmentation), ICMP (minimum necessary to reply to pings) and TCP (complete but not stress-tested). Note that “complete” should not be intended as “fully compliant” but just as a measure of progress on all of the major features. For instance, it’s complete enough to handle HTTP traffic on a local network. People like this usually end up writing a simple operating system, so it’s interesting to see a TCP/IP stack instead. While clearly a hobby project, small, portable TCP/IP stacks can potentially be useful for very specific use cases, like bringing connectivity to ancient operating systems or other small hobby projects.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137681/microtcp-a-minimal-tcp-ip-stack/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The woman’s body was found in the San Diego Bay in California, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281269133.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Top White House officials are working to secure an agreement between almost 50 countries to not pay ransom demands to cybercriminals as the international Counter Ransomware Initiative (CRI) summit gets underway in Washington DC Tuesday.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/us_ransomware_payment_ban/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Ordinance Committee recommends making AUD program permanent; City Council will make the final decision.
The post Ten Years and 697 Housing Units Later, Santa Barbara’s High-Density Housing Program May Be Ready for Prime Time appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The LAist
The California Department of Public Health is monitoring a rise in mpox cases. The state is asking health workers to be on the lookout for symptoms.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
War is hell
https://steady.substack.com/p/sometimes-theres-only-tragedy
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
The funding for the troubled nonprofit comes on top of a previous $10 million the council approved in June and another $2 million earlier this month.
https://laist.com/news/housing-homelessness/skid-row-housing-trust-loan-singer-adams-city-council
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Despite the challenges life has thrown her way, she has never lost her gentle, sweet disposition,” the rescue said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281271308.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita and the Valencia Auto Center are pleased to announce that car sales and leases from Santa Clarita auto dealers have resulted in nearly $110-million in sales tax revenue since 2007. These funds are reinvested in the city, in the form of parks, road maintenance, new amenities, programs, events and more
https://scvnews.com/valencia-auto-dealers-surpass-100m-in-sales-tax-revenue-to-santa-clarita/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Renewable energy use is rising, but so is extreme weather, as 2023 has seen
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The William S. Hart Union High School District is planning to host a discussion about parental-notification policies Nov. 15, according to an email shared online credited to Superintendent Mike Kuhlman and confirmed by a Hart district official. That discussion was originally intended to occur Wednesday, but was delayed after the district became aware that “external […]
The post Hart district announces policy discussion, safety concerns appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/hart-district-announces-policy-discussion-safety-concerns/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Highland Fire erupted as Southern California experienced its first significant Santa Ana wind conditions of the season. The witheringly dry winds typically form as air flows from the the interior of the West and descends to the Pacific Coast during the fall, often stoking destructive wildfires.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/thousands-flee-santa-ana-driven-wildfires-in-rural-socal/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Fire Toolbox is an unofficial tool that lets you change the behavior of Amazon Fire tablets. Among other things you can use it to add or remove apps, install a custom launcher to use instead of the default Amazon home screen, and install the Google Play Store and other Google apps and services. This week […]
The post Fire Toolbox 32.3 adds support for hacking the Amazon Fire HD 10 (2023) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/fire-toolbox-32-3-adds-support-for-hacking-the-amazon-fire-hd-10-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Hawley’s new bill, called the Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act, is aimed at reversing the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision that loosened campaign finance laws – an effort that aligns the conservative Missouri Republican with many Democrats.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/mcconnell-hawley-spar-over-bill-to-limit-corporate-money/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
Foothill League tennis concluded in dramatic fashion on Thursday at the Paseo Club. West Ranch senior Audrey Park became the league’s singles champion after a three-hour match with Golden Valley’s Charly Saltz. Park won the match, 4-6, 7-6, 10-4, and came back after trailing 5-1 in the second set. Saltz had a lot on her […]
The post Foothill League stars battle at tennis finals appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/foothill-league-stars-battle-at-tennis-finals/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Thankfully, law enforcement found her alive,” officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281266498.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Nonprofit WeWil Collaborative joins forces with Santa Clarita Valley business owner Rachel Cosgroveto to empower women with a virtual workshop, “Sevem Secrets for Success in Uncertain Times.”
https://scvnews.com/dec-8-wewil-collaborative-presents-virtual-empowerment-workshop/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Tim
Carmody is a smart guy and he
wrote a
post on Threads that’s a lot like what I’ve been saying. So I
decided to do a
podcast
for him, and invite him to respond not on Threads but on a blog, or in a
podcast, and let’s talk about how we work together on this. If we want a
great writer’s web, we can have it. This is why.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/31.html#a214551
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Jevanni Knight argued at trial he shot an El Cerrito resident in self-defense as the victim and his friend had a fight.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Coach Mike Brown revealed his plan Tuesday as the Kings prepare to play the Warriors without All-NBA point guard De’Aaron Fox.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281253388.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The creatures were traveling together and came close to the boat.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281265653.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
La reportera de Vida María G. Ortiz-Briones obtuvo cuatro primeros lugares en escritura y fotografía, y el editor Juan Esparza Loera ganó un oro.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/noticias/article281263753.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Tesla has prevailed in a crucial Autopilot death lawsuit in the US, with a jury today deciding the automaker’s software wasn’t at fault in a 2019 accident that killed a Model 3 owner and seriously injured two of passengers.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/tesla_fatal_crash_verdict/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The woman has also won in the past, Maryland officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281266378.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Computer ads from the Past
Hunt’s Software, . . . . . Works
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/hunts-software-works-rosetta-stone
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Veterans will get a perk from California State Parks this veterans day.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/article281266298.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The Senate has confirmed Jacob Lew as ambassador to Israel, filling the key diplomatic post as the country fights a war with Hamas.
Lew, a Treasury secretary under President Barack Obama, was confirmed 53-43.
Lew has promised to stand side by side with Israel’s leaders as they respond to the militant group’s October 7 attack, telling senators in his confirmation hearing in mid-October that “at this moment, there is no greater mission than to be asked to strengthen the ties between the United States and the state of Israel.”
President Joe Biden nominated Lew, who goes by Jack, last month to fill the post left vacant when Tom Nides left as ambassador in July. Democrats say Lew’s wealth of government experience — he also was chief of staff to Obama and White House budget director under Obama and President Bill Clinton — makes him the right person to fill the post at a a critical moment in the two countries’ relationship.
U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said after Lew’s confirmation that the administration is eager for him “to get on the ground and start leading our efforts to support Israel and their fight against Hamas, but also to help us integrate and continue to lead the effort to get humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza.”
Republicans criticized Lew for his role in the Obama White House when it negotiated the Iran nuclear agreement in 2015, among other foreign policy moves. The deal with Iran — the chief sponsor of Hamas — was later scuttled by former President Donald Trump.
“This is the wrong person at the wrong time in the wrong place,” Senator Jim Risch, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said just before the vote. “The last thing we need is somebody who is very contrary to our view about how Iran should be handled.”
Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Ben Cardin said Lew has won praise from Israeli leaders and has the gravitas to “stand shoulder to shoulder with Israel” as the United States partners with the country.
“There’s to me no question about his qualifications, no question about his presence being welcomed by our Israeli friends, no question about his knowledge and commitment to these issues,” Cardin said. “We could not have a more qualified individual to represent America as our ambassador to Israel.”
At the hearing, Lew defended his work in the Obama White House and called Iran an “evil, malign government.”
“I want to be clear — Iran is a threat to regional stability and to Israel’s existence,” Lew said.
He also expressed sympathy for the civilians on both sides who have been injured or killed in the fighting. It must end, Lew said, “but it has to end with Israel’s security being guaranteed.”
Lew, who is Jewish, said at the hearing that he cannot remember a time in his life “when Israel’s struggle for security was not at the forefront of my mind.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/former-obama-official-confirmed-as-us-ambassador-to-israel-/7335070.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In a bold, inflation-busting move, promoters of the Good Karma Music and Arts Festival on Saturday, Nov. 4 have slashed ticket prices to $29.50 for advance purchase for Santa Clarita Valley residents.
https://scvnews.com/discounted-tickets-for-scv-residents-at-good-karma-music-arts-festival/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Chowchilla’s Asterisk Talley wins the individual golf championship.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/high-school/article281262548.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Heatmap News
The Panama Canal is in trouble.
In an advisory dated Monday, the Panama Canal Authority said it will cut the number of ships allowed to pass through the waterway on a typical day in half due to a drought afflicting the region. This year has been the area’s second driest since 1950, according to the authority, with no relief forecast for the rest of 2023.
The authority said “unprecedented” levels at an artificial lake feeding into the canal are forcing it to cut the number of ships making the crossing every day from 32 in October to 25 at the beginning of November. The authority will then continue to slash capacity every month, all the way down to 18 ships on February 1. Typically, 36 crossings are allowed per day. When lighter restrictions were first imposed in August, the result was a pileup at the canal, with more than 160 boats waiting to go through, according to the Energy Information Administration.
The canal works by moving ships up and down through a system of locks, which require water from nearby lakes. When there’s less water in the lakes, fewer of the massive ships that navigate the canal can pass through. That causes delays, which drives up the cost of shipping items through the canal.
Around 500 million tons of cargo pass through the canal annually, according to Bloomberg. That’s about 6% of global trade, most of which starts or ends in the United States.
Climatologists have blamed the drought in Panama on El Niño, the weather pattern that begins with warming water in the Pacific Ocean and often causes dry weather in Panama and wetter winters in parts of the United States.
https://heatmap.news/the-panama-canal-is-drying-up
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
As of spring 2023, NASA has invested greater than $60M in more than twenty In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to U.S. entities seeking to demonstrate the production of advanced materials and products on the International Space Station. These InSPA awards help the selected companies raise the technological readiness level of their products and move […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/previous-nasa-awards/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
An unusual crater on the dwarf planet hints at past volcanic activity—and a possible vast ocean beneath its surface, scientists say
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The man, 47, was already in custody after he was accused of violating his restrictions as a convicted sex offender, deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281264158.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A Whale Heritage Area comes to the Santa Barbara Channel.
The post A Whale of a Designation appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/a-whale-of-a-designation/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Citrix Bleed, the critical information-disclosure bug that affects NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, is now under “mass exploitation,” as thousands of Citrix NetScaler instances remain vulnerable, according to security teams.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/mass_exploitation_citrix_bleed/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Rollicking cabaret show comes to Santa Barbara Nov. 5.
The post Kristin Chenoweth Defies Gravity appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/kristin-chenoweth-defies-gravity/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
The new ADATA SE920 external SSD is a small, speedy solid state drive that the company says is the first to support 40 Gbps USB4 connections, enabling you to make full use of the SSD’s blazing-fast speeds. The ADATA SE920 has read/write speeds up to 3,800MB/s and 3,700MB/s, respectively. But that kind of speed also […]
The post ADATA launches the first USB4 external SSD with speeds up to 3,800 MB/s appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/adata-launches-the-first-usb4-external-ssd-with-speeds-up-to-3800-mb-s/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Cheri Rae’s new biography of Pearl Chase tells a string of stories about this dynamic woman.
The post Santa Barbara’s Pioneering Pearl appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/santa-barbaras-pioneering-pearl/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I thought there must have been a deer passing through who took a bite.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281252748.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star had only performed the piece once since the film’s release.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281261123.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
In trading for defensive end Chase Young, the Niners are head-on attacking one of their biggest problems.
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
About a year or so ago, the Asahi Linux people told me I was being paranoid about Apple’s macOS or firmware updates bricking or otherwise negatively affecting Asahi Linux installs, and that you shouldn’t rely on Linux on Apple M devices for anything serious. They told me Apple explicitly supports alternate operating systems on ARM Macs and that Apple can be fully trusted and relied upon. …so anyway bugs in Sonoma are making Macs with Asahi installed unbootable. macOS Sonoma and macOS Ventura 13.6 were released with multiple serious bugs in their upgrade and boot process. Combined, these bugs can create conditions where a machine always boots to a black screen, no matter what power button press combination is used. This leaves users stuck, and the only solution is to use DFU recovery. Apple obviously doesn’t care about anyone running anything but macOS on M Macs, and unsurprisingly nobody at Apple even thought to test for this so of course this happened. I’d say “I told you so” but I’m tired of warning people about Apple’s behaviour because apparently people just love endlessly banging their bloodied head against a wall.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137678/apples-macos-sonoma-makes-macs-with-asahi-linux-unbootable/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Tuesday’s testimony delivered some of the most potentially damning blows yet to Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense, which has hinged on Bankman-Fried’s narrative that he made honest mistakes as a startup founder.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/bankman-fried-wraps-testimony-in-ftx-criminal-fraud-trial/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Department of Transportation advises motorists that Northbound Interstate 5 will be reduced to one or two lanes after 11 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 4 until about 9 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 5 for pavement construction in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles
https://scvnews.com/nov-4-northbound-i-5-lanes-reduced-in-sfv-for-pavement-construction/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with a pair of cases from California and Michigan involving public officials blocking critics on social media, with the justices struggling to define when such conduct runs into constitutional limits on the government’s ability to restrict speech.
Lower courts reached different conclusions in the two cases, reflecting the legal uncertainty over whether such social media activity is bound by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech. Blocking users is a function often employed on social media to stifle critics.
The justices, hearing about three hours of arguments, focused on spelling out the circumstances for deciding whether public officials were acting in their personal capacity when blocking critics or engaged in a “state action.” The First Amendment constrains government actors but not private individuals.
The first case involves two public school board trustees from Poway, California, who appealed a lower court’s ruling in favor of parents who sued them after being blocked from the personal accounts of the officials on X, called Twitter at the time, and Facebook. The second case involves a Michigan man’s appeal after a lower court rejected his lawsuit against a Port Huron city official who blocked him on Facebook.
Justice Samuel Alito cited a hypothetical town manager who puts a municipal seal on his own social media page and tells citizens to express their views. Alito told Hashim Mooppan, a lawyer for the school board officials, that his argument could let this town manager “block anybody who expresses criticism of what the town manager is doing, and thereby create the impression that everybody in town thinks the town manager is doing the right thing.”
Mooppan urged the justices to embrace the “duty or authority” legal test that looks at whether officials operated their pages to fulfill official duties or used governmental authority to maintain them. Under this test, Mooppan argued, the social media activity of his clients was not governmental.
Justice Elena Kagan cited former President Donald Trump as an example, noting he did “a lot of government” on his Twitter account, sometimes even announcing policies.
“It was an important part of how he wielded his authority — and to cut a citizen off from that is to cut a citizen off from part of the way that government works,” Kagan said.
The Supreme Court previously confronted the issue in 2021 in litigation over Trump’s effort to block critics on Twitter. It declined to decide the matter, deeming the case moot after Trump left office.
President Joe Biden’s administration sided with the officials in both cases argued on Tuesday. A ruling is expected by the end of June.
The California case involves Michelle O’Connor-Ratcliff and T.J. Zane, elected Poway Unified School District trustees. They blocked Christopher and Kimberly Garnier, parents of three local students, after they made hundreds of critical posts on issues including race and school finances. A judge sided with the couple. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
In the Michigan case, Port Huron resident Kevin Lindke sued after City Manager James Freed blocked him from his public Facebook page following critical posts involving the COVID-19 pandemic. A judge ruled in favor of Freed. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed.
Some justices asked whether requiring public officials to include disclaimers on their personal pages making clear their social media activity is not governmental would help disentangle their private and public capacities.
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said she was struggling to understand “why the onus isn’t on the government official to be clear about the capacity in which they’re operating.”
Justice Brett Kavanaugh told Victoria Ferres, an attorney for Freed, that considering everything an official post about their job to be state action would be too broad, but he wondered if a narrower category of postings such as announcing rules, directives or notices would suffice as official acts.
Ferres agreed: “If you have a duty to announce a rule and the only time that you ever do it is on the Facebook page, then there is going to be state action.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 18-year-old with an “infectious smile” is now “fighting for his life,” his family said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281261528.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provide services at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. KOIS is an Indefinite-Delivery Indefinite-Quantity, Level of Effort contract that includes a one-month phase-in period beginning Nov. 1, 2023, followed by a 22-month base period […]
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-kennedy-awards-operational-institutional-support-contract/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (Hacker News): iMac with M3 is up to 2x faster than the prior generation with M1. And for those upgrading from an Intel-based iMac, the new iMac is up to 2.5x faster than the most popular 27-inch models, and 4x faster than the most powerful 21.5-inch model.[…]iMac features a 24-inch, 4.5K Retina display with […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/31/imac-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (Hacker News): The 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M3 is up to 60 percent faster than the 13‑inch MacBook Pro with M1, and with its advanced thermal system, it unleashes the full potential of M3 for sustained performance. Starting at $1,599, it delivers more performance and capabilities than ever at a great value. […] For […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/31/macbook-pro-late-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Michael Tsai
Apple (Hacker News): These are the first personal computer chips built using the industry-leading 3-nanometer process technology, allowing more transistors to be packed into a smaller space and improving speed and efficiency. […] The M3 family of chips features a next-generation GPU that represents the biggest leap forward in graphics architecture ever for Apple silicon. […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/10/31/apple-m3-m3-pro-and-m3-max/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A judge has dismissed copyright infringement claims against DeviantArt and Midjourney in the US – and has allowed a case against Stability AI to continue.…
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
These secret getaways by remote workers while on the clock seem to be gaining in popularity and frequency, although many companies frown upon this activity.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A day in the garden is a feast for the senses at this historical property.
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https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/a-spot-of-tea-and-paradise-at-san-ysidro-ranch-in-montecito/
date: 2023-10-31, from: CSUN Library Blog, Cited
The Power of STEAM Education STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) education have become increasingly popular in…
https://library.csun.edu/blogs/cited/2023/10/31/unlocking-steam-and-gis-resources-at-the-library/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“It’s disbelief at first until I made sure my eyes weren’t lying to me,” the Iowa man said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281261263.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Now in its fifth year, an annual contest spotlights a Minnesota museum’s historical doll collection
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/creepy-doll-contest-2023-180983168/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The mammal is native to Mexico and Central America, the zoo said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281258718.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Get out and explore. Our reports cover the coast to the High Sierra, and Lake Isabella to New Melones.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/hunting-fishing/article281244278.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facility still like to get in the Halloween spirit. Whether individually or as an entire crew, they dress up in sometimes spooky, sometimes scary, but always creative costumes, often designed from materials available aboard […]
https://www.nasa.gov/history/halloween-on-the-international-space-station-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The university says it plans to build a 2,250-bed student housing project at the site that had been reserved for Munger Hall.
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https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/is-uc-santa-barbaras-dormzilla-doa/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Quochuy “Tony” Tran was 16 when he shot and killed 15-year-old Ichinkhorloo “Iko” Bayarsaikhan while he and friends were out robbing trick or treaters in Halloween 2007.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The plaintiffs presented testimony from an extremism expert who maintained that Trump had a clear relationship with far-right extremists and that they interpreted his pleas to protest the certification of President Joe Biden’s win as a call to arms.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/colorado-trial-looks-at-links-between-trump-far-right-groups/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley has announced several recent achievements of Zonta members including Dr. Cherise Moore named Zontain of the Year 2022-23. In addtion, Nicole Miller was elected to serve as Lieutenant Governor of Zonta International District 9 and Darlene Lyons is serving as District 9 Parliamentariann
https://scvnews.com/zonta-club-of-scv-announces-member-achievements/
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA knows it takes a village to make commercial manufacturing in space a reality. NASA is collaborating with experts from industry, academia and other U.S. Government agencies on the technologies in play with the InSPA portfolio. By joining forces with these experts, NASA can better support its commercial partners, accelerating the transition from proof-of-concept demonstrations […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/inspa-inter-agency-collaboration-goals/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
NHL: San Jose Sharks recall Nikita Okhotiuk and activate Jacob MacDonald off injured reserve,
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A backpacker wasn’t dreaming when they woke up to the “crawly creatures.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281252738.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Where is it written that the partial or total destruction of the Palestinian people is the desired outcome of the Israelis?
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date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) implementation strategy consists of a multi-phase award process to demonstrate proof-of-concept, advance to high production quality, and ultimately to achieve scalability on a commercial low Earth orbit (LEO) destination or platform. InSPA seeks to identify awardees who propose promising manufacturing efforts in microgravity that will invigorate markets on Earth. […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/nasa-implementation-strategy/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The building was connected to the cult of Kukulcán, a serpent deity, according to officials.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/world/article281255953.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
After four decades of microgravity research, NASA and the ISS National Lab have identified numerous applications that are within reach for NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) portfolio. Uniform crystals, semiconductors, specialized glass and optical fibers are just a few of the many advanced materials that can benefit from production in microgravity. Artificial retinas, drug […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/applications-within-reach/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Nelson Esparza’s resolution builds off of the federal CHIPS and Science Act signed by President Biden in August 2022.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281254248.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Both drivers were identified as men in their 30s.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281258218.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
For a period of two years between September 2019 and September 2021, two Americans and two Russians allegedly compromising the taxi dispatch system at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to sell cabbies a place at the front of the dispatch line.…
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I did NOT want this to happen,” the teacher said. “I hid very well behind an alias and no face pics. The fact of the matter is, this choice was taken from me.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281248653.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Exclusive: The most serious incidents involved physical and sexual abuse of patients, a Bee investigation revealed.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281070253.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Ten U.S. senators, including Bernie Sanders, have called for “humanitarian pauses.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281256053.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Festival of Trees Magic of the Lights Gala to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley will be held Friday, Nov. 17 from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the Canyon Country Community Center, 18410 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
https://scvnews.com/nov-17-festival-of-trees-magic-of-the-lights-gala/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
They spotted a human hand, leading to the grim discovery, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281252853.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I would be very afraid if I were you,” the man said in another threat to the Fulton County district attorney, warning her against charging former President Donald Trump, feds say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281254213.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new study, based on modeling, suggests fine silicate particles could have blocked sunlight and shut down photosynthesis across the globe
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
You never know what will happen when your lure is in the water.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/hunting-fishing/article281242918.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
NASA supports In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to help the selected companies raise the technological readiness level of their products and move them to market, propelling U.S. industry toward the development of a sustainable, scalable, and profitable non-NASA demand for services and products in low-Earth orbit. These commercialization awards provide opportunities for NASA to reduce […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/what-is-in-space-production-applications/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The veteran lied about an injury from an explosion in Iraq and the severity of his PTSD, federal prosecutors said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281257648.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Meta’s Threads app is facing a trademark challenge from a software biz that says it owns the rights to the name in the UK, and has given Zuck’s crew 30 days to change its branding in Blighty or face an injunction. …
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Spencer the Gardener headlines opening night festivities and bandleader stars in closing night documentary.
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The purchase is one of the largest acquisitions of its kind by any museum in the United States
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Tuesday that Russia would be successful in Ukraine unless the United States kept up its support for Kyiv.
Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on President Joe Biden’s request for $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.
“I can guarantee that without our support [Russian President Vladimir] Putin will be successful,” Austin said during the hearing.
“If we pull the rug out from under them now, Putin will only get stronger and he will be successful in doing what he wants to do.”
Arguing that supporting U.S. partners is vital to national security, Biden requested $61.4 billion for Ukraine, about half of which would be spent in the United States to replenish weapons stocks drained by previous support.
Congress has already approved $113 billion for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022. The White House has said it has less than $5.5 billion in funds to continue transferring weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Ukrainian forces fighting Russia.
The path forward for Biden’s latest funding plan looks uncertain. Democrats solidly back Biden’s strategy of combining Ukraine aid with support for Israel, as do many Republicans in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
But Republicans who lead the House of Representatives object to combining the two issues, joined by some party members in the Senate.
Austin said the Biden administration wanted Ukraine to continue operations through the winter, but Kyiv could not do that if they were forced to pause because of a lack of U.S. support.
Kyiv military officials said on Monday that Russia has bulked up its forces around the devastated city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and has switched its troops from defense to offense, but Ukraine has been preparing to repel the attacks.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
A 24-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a peace officer and driving under the influence on Sunday, according to officials from the California Highway Patrol Newhall-area Office. According to Officer Josh Greengard, a spokesman for the CHP’s Newhall office, at approximately 8:47 a.m. the CHP received a 911 call detailing a one-vehicle crash […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/24-year-old-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assaulting-peace-officer/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
As part of a settlement agreement, fewer trees will be felled, the pathway will encroach less on the land preserve, and environmentally sensitive paving material will be used.
The post Truce Declared over Modoc Road Bike Path in Santa Barbara appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/truce-declared-over-modoc-road-bike-path-in-santa-barbara/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The travel publishing empire turns 50 this year, and its bumper Best in Travel 2024 list is expanded across five categories: top countries, regions, cities, sustainable travel destinations and best-value locations.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/lonely-planets-top-places-to-go-in-2024/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The project will bring a new multi-use trail along Dry Creek, county officials announced.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/outdoors/article281212623.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Golden State is relying on both third-year players to contribute to a veteran-laden team this season and next.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/warriors-pick-up-contract-options-on-kuminga-moody/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The financial state of X, formerly Twitter, has remained cloudy since Elon Musk purchased it a little over a year ago, but internal documents are shedding some light on how much the company believes its worth.…
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date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A few days earlier, a kayaker went missing about a mile away from where the body was found, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281253308.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the city of Santa Clarita, is proud to announce the honorees for the 13th Annual Salute to Patriots, an event honoring local veterans for their service to the nation and leadership in the Santa Clarita Valley business community
https://scvnews.com/nov-8-13th-annual-salute-to-patriots/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Tens of thousands of people may still experience lasting symptoms more than a year after being infected with COVID-19 —but the incidence rates of long COVID have also fallen with each new variant.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The Woodlands Community in Valencia held a costume dog parade on Saturday where residents were able to show off the costumes they had picked out for their dogs. Chihuahua, Cheddar, prepares to compete in Woodlands Halloween Costume Dog Parade held for Woodlands Community residents in Valencia on Saturday. Attendees were asked to bring dog food, […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 51-year-old man died on Sept. 5, North Dakota police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281254773.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Heatmap News
In the spring of 2021, the world’s leading authority on energy published a “roadmap” for preventing the most catastrophic climate change scenarios. One of its conclusions was particularly daunting. Getting energy-related emissions down to net zero by 2050, the International Energy Agency said, would require “huge leaps in innovation.”
Existing technologies would be mostly sufficient to carry us down the carbon curve over the next decade. But after that, nearly half of the remaining work would have to come from solutions that, for all intents and purposes, did not exist yet. Some would only require retooling existing industries, like developing electric long-haul trucks and carbon-free steel. But others would have to be built from almost nothing and brought to market in record time.
What will it take to rapidly develop new solutions, especially those that involve costly physical infrastructure and which have essentially no commercial value today?
That’s the challenge facing Climeworks, the Swiss company developing machines to wrest carbon dioxide molecules directly from the air. In September 2021, a few months after the IEA’s landmark report came out, Climeworks switched on its first commercial-scale “direct air capture” facility, a feat of engineering it dubbed “Orca.”
The technology behind Orca is one of the top candidates to clean up the carbon already blanketing the Earth. It could also be used to balance out any stubborn, residual sources of greenhouse gases in the future, such as from agriculture or air travel, providing the “net” in net-zero. If we manage to scale up technologies like Orca to the point where we remove more carbon than we release, we could even begin cooling the planet.
As the largest carbon removal plant operating in the world, Orca is either trivial or one of the most important climate projects built in the last decade, depending on how you look at it. It was designed to capture approximately 4,000 metric tons of carbon from the air per year, which, as one climate scientist, David Ho, put it, is the equivalent of rolling back the clock on just 3 seconds of annual emissions. But the learnings gleaned from Orca could surpass any quantitative assessment of its impact. How well do these “direct air capture” machines work in the real world? How much does it really cost to run them? And can they get better?
The company — and its funders — are betting they can. Climeworks has made major deals with banks, insurers, and other companies trying to go green to eventually remove carbon from the atmosphere on their behalf. Last year, the company raised $650 million in equity that will “unlock the next phase of its growth,” scaling the technology “up to multi-million-ton capacity … as carbon removal becomes a trillion-dollar market.” And just last month, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Climeworks, along with another carbon removal company, Heirloom, to receive up to $600 million to build a direct air capture “hub” in Louisiana, with the goal of removing one million tons of carbon annually.
Two years after powering up Orca, Climeworks has yet to reveal how effective the technology has proven to be. But in extensive interviews, top executives painted a picture of innovation in progress.
Chief marketing officer Julie Gosalves told me that Orca is small and climatically insignificant on purpose. The goal is not to make a dent in climate change — yet — but to maximize learning at minimal cost. “You want to learn when you’re small, right?” Gosalves said. “It’s really de-risking the technology. It’s not like Tesla doing EVs when we have been building cars for 70 years and the margin of learning and risk is much smaller. It’s completely new.”
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From the ground, Orca looks sort of like a warehouse or a server farm with a massive air conditioning system out back. The plant consists of eight shipping container-sized boxes arranged in a U-shape around a central building, each one equipped with an array of fans. When the plant is running, which is more or less all the time, the fans suck air into the containers where it makes contact with a porous filter known as a “sorbent” which attracts CO2 molecules.
When the filters become totally saturated with CO2, the vents on the containers snap shut, and the containers are heated to more than 212 degrees Fahrenheit. This releases the CO2, which is then delivered through a pipe to a secondary process called “liquefaction,” where it is compressed into a liquid. Finally, the liquid CO2 is piped into basalt rock formations underground, where it slowly mineralizes into stone. The process requires a little bit of electricity and a lot of heat, all of which comes from a carbon-free source — a geothermal power plant nearby.
A day at Orca begins with the morning huddle. The total number on the team is often in flux, but it typically has a staff of about 15 people, Climeworks’ head of operations Benjamin Keusch told me. Ten work in a virtual control room 1,600 miles away in Zurich, taking turns monitoring the plant on a laptop and managing its operations remotely. The remainder work on site, taking orders from the control room, repairing equipment, and helping to run tests.
During the huddle, the team discusses any maintenance that needs to be done. If there’s an issue, the control room will shut down part of the plant while the on-site workers investigate. So far, they’ve dealt with snow piling up around the plant that had to be shoveled, broken and corroded equipment that had to be replaced, and sediment build-up that had to be removed.
The air is more humid and sulfurous at the site in Iceland than in Switzerland, where Climeworks had built an earlier, smaller-scale model, so the team is also learning how to optimize the technology for different weather. Within all this troubleshooting, there’s additional trade-offs to explore and lessons to learn. If a part keeps breaking, does it make more sense to plan to replace it periodically, or to redesign it? How do supply chain constraints play into that calculus?
The company is also performing tests regularly, said Keusch. For example, the team has tested new component designs at Orca that it now plans to incorporate into Climeworks’ next project from the start. (Last year, the company began construction on “Mammoth,” a new plant that will be nine times larger than Orca, on a neighboring site.) At a summit that Climeworks hosted in June, co-founder Jan Wurzbacher said the company believes that over the next decade, it will be able to make its direct air capture system twice as small and cut its energy consumption in half.
“In innovation lingo, the jargon is we haven’t converged on a dominant design,” Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies technological development, told me. For example, in the wind industry, turbines with three blades, upwind design, and a horizontal axis, are now standard. “There were lots of other experiments before that convergence happened in the late 1980s,” he said. “So that’s kind of where we are with direct air capture. There’s lots of different ways that are being tried right now, even within a company like Climeworks.”
Although Climeworks was willing to tell me about the goings-on at Orca over the last two years, the company declined to share how much carbon it has captured or how much energy, on average, the process has used.
Gosalves told me that the plant’s performance has improved month after month, and that more detailed information was shared with investors. But she was hesitant to make the data public, concerned that it could be misinterpreted, because tests and maintenance at Orca require the plant to shut down regularly.
“Expectations are not in line with the stage of the technology development we are at. People expect this to be turnkey,” she said. “What does success look like? Is it the absolute numbers, or the learnings and ability to scale?”
Danny Cullenward, a climate economist and consultant who has studied the integrity of various carbon removal methods, did not find the company’s reluctance to share data especially concerning. “For these earliest demonstration facilities, you might expect people to hit roadblocks or to have to shut the plant down for a couple of weeks, or do all sorts of things that are going to make it hard to transparently report the efficiency of your process, the number of tons you’re getting at different times,” he told me.
But he acknowledged that there was an inherent tension to the stance, because ultimately, Climeworks’ business model — and the technology’s effectiveness as a climate solution — depend entirely on the ability to make precise, transparent, carbon accounting claims.
Nemet was also of two minds about it. Carbon removal needs to go from almost nothing today to something like a billion tons of carbon removed per year in just three decades, he said. That’s a pace on the upper end of what’s been observed historically with other technologies, like solar panels. So it’s important to understand whether Climeworks’ tech has any chance of meeting the moment. Especially since the company faces competition from a number of others developing direct air capture technologies, like Heirloom and Occidental Petroleum, that may be able to do it cheaper, or faster.
However, Nemet was also sympathetic to the position the company was in. “It’s relatively incremental how these technologies develop,” he said. “I have heard this criticism that this is not a real technology because we haven’t built it at scale, so we shouldn’t depend on it. Or that one of these plants not doing the removal that it said it would do shows that it doesn’t work and that we therefore shouldn’t plan on having it available. To me, that’s a pretty high bar to cross with a climate mitigation technology that could be really useful.”
More data on Orca is coming. Climeworks recently announced that it will work with the company Puro.Earth to certify every ton of CO2 that it removes from the atmosphere and stores underground, in order to sell carbon credits based on this service. The credits will be listed on a public registry.
But even if Orca eventually runs at full capacity, Climeworks will never be able to sell 4,000 carbon credits per year from the plant. Gosalves clarified that 4,000 tons is the amount of carbon the plant is designed to suck up annually, but the more important number is the amount of “net” carbon removal it can produce. “That might be the first bit of education you need to get out there,” she said, “because it really invites everyone to look at what are the key drivers to be paid attention to.”
She walked me through a chart that illustrated the various ways in which some of Orca’s potential to remove carbon can be lost. First, there’s the question of availability — how often does the plant have to shut down due to maintenance or power shortages? Climeworks aims to limit those losses to 10%. Next, there’s the recovery stage, where the CO2 is separated from the sorbent, purified, and liquified. Gosalves said it’s basically impossible to do this without losing some CO2. At best, the company hopes to limit that to 5%.
Finally, the company also takes into account “gray emissions,” or the carbon footprint associated with the business, like the materials, the construction, and the eventual decommissioning of the plant and restoration of the site to its former state. If one of Climeworks’ plants ever uses energy from fossil fuels (which the company has said it does not plan to do) it would incorporate any emissions from that energy. Climeworks aims to limit gray emissions to 15%.
In the end, Orca’s net annual carbon removal capacity — the amount Climeworks can sell to customers — is really closer to 3,000 tons. Gosalves hopes other carbon removal companies adopt the same approach. “Ultimately what counts is your net impact on the planet and the atmosphere,” she said.
Despite being a first-of-its-kind demonstration plant — and an active research site — Orca is also a commercial project. In fact, Gosalves told me that Orca’s entire estimated capacity for carbon removal, over the 12 years that the plant is expected to run, sold out shortly after it began operating. The company is now selling carbon removal services from its yet-to-be-built Mammoth plant.
In January, Climeworks announced that Orca had officially fulfilled orders from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify. Those companies have collectively asked Climeworks to remove more than 16,000 tons of carbon, according to the deal-tracking site cdr.fyi, but it’s unclear what portion of that was delivered. The achievement was verified by a third party, but the total amount removed was not made public.
Climeworks has also not disclosed how much it has charged companies per ton of carbon, a metric that will eventually be an important indicator of whether the technology can scale to a climate-relevant level. But it has provided rough estimates of how much it expects each ton of carbon removal to cost as the technology scales — expectations which seem to have shifted after two years of operating Orca.
In 2021, Climeworks co-founder Jan Wurzbacher said the company aimed to get the cost down to $200 to $300 per ton removed by the end of the decade, with steeper declines in subsequent years. But at the summit in June, he presented a new cost curve chart showing that the price was currently more than $1,000, and that by the end of the decade, it would fall to somewhere between $400 to $700. The range was so large because the cost of labor, energy, and storing the CO2 varied widely by location, he said. The company aims to get the price down to $100 to $300 per ton by 2050, when the technology has significantly matured.
Critics of carbon removal technologies often point to the vast sums flowing into direct air capture tech like Orca, which are unlikely to make a meaningful difference in climate change for decades to come. During a time when worsening disasters make action feel increasingly urgent, many are skeptical of the value of investing limited funds and political energy into these future solutions. Carbon removal won’t make much of a difference if the world doesn’t deploy the tools already available to reduce emissions as rapidly as possible — and there’s certainly not enough money or effort going into that yet.
But we’ll never have the option to fully halt climate change, let alone begin reversing it, if we don’t develop solutions like Orca. In September, the International Energy Agency released an update to its seminal net-zero report. The new analysis said that in the last two years, the world had, in fact, made significant progress on innovation. Now, some 65% of emission reductions after 2030 could be accounted for with technologies that had reached market uptake. It even included a line about the launch of Orca, noting that Climeworks’ direct air capture technology had moved from the prototype to the demonstration stage.
But it cautioned that DAC needs “to be scaled up dramatically to play the role envisaged,” in the net zero scenario. Climeworks’ experience with Orca offers a glimpse of how much work is yet to be done.
Read more about carbon removal:
The Dawn of a New Climate Industry
date: 2023-10-31, from: Heatmap News
In the spring of 2021, the world’s leading authority on energy published a “roadmap” for preventing the most catastrophic climate change scenarios. One of its conclusions was particularly daunting. Getting energy-related emissions down to net zero by 2050, the International Energy Agency said, would require “huge leaps in innovation.”
Existing technologies would be mostly sufficient to carry us down the carbon curve over the next decade. But after that, nearly half of the remaining work would have to come from solutions that, for all intents and purposes, did not exist yet. Some would only require retooling existing industries, like developing electric long-haul trucks and carbon-free steel. But others would have to be built from almost nothing and brought to market in record time.
What will it take to rapidly develop new solutions, especially those that involve costly physical infrastructure and which have essentially no commercial value today?
That’s the challenge facing Climeworks, the Swiss company developing machines to wrest carbon dioxide molecules directly from the air. In September 2021, a few months after the IEA’s landmark report came out, Climeworks switched on its first commercial-scale “direct air capture” facility, a feat of engineering it dubbed “Orca,” in Iceland.
The technology behind Orca is one of the top candidates to clean up the carbon already blanketing the Earth. It could also be used to balance out any stubborn, residual sources of greenhouse gases in the future, such as from agriculture or air travel, providing the “net” in net-zero. If we manage to scale up technologies like Orca to the point where we remove more carbon than we release, we could even begin cooling the planet.
As the largest carbon removal plant operating in the world, Orca is either trivial or one of the most important climate projects built in the last decade, depending on how you look at it. It was designed to capture approximately 4,000 metric tons of carbon from the air per year, which, as one climate scientist, David Ho, put it, is the equivalent of rolling back the clock on just 3 seconds of global emissions. But the learnings gleaned from Orca could surpass any quantitative assessment of its impact. How well do these “direct air capture” machines work in the real world? How much does it really cost to run them? And can they get better?
The company — and its funders — are betting they can. Climeworks has made major deals with banks, insurers, and other companies trying to go green to eventually remove carbon from the atmosphere on their behalf. Last year, the company raised $650 million in equity that will “unlock the next phase of its growth,” scaling the technology “up to multi-million-ton capacity … as carbon removal becomes a trillion-dollar market.” And just last month, the U.S. Department of Energy selected Climeworks, along with another carbon removal company, Heirloom, to receive up to $600 million to build a direct air capture “hub” in Louisiana, with the goal of removing one million tons of carbon annually.
Two years after powering up Orca, Climeworks has yet to reveal how effective the technology has proven to be. But in extensive interviews, top executives painted a picture of innovation in progress.
Chief marketing officer Julie Gosalvez told me that Orca is small and climatically insignificant on purpose. The goal is not to make a dent in climate change — yet — but to maximize learning at minimal cost. “You want to learn when you’re small, right?” Gosalvez said. “It’s really de-risking the technology. It’s not like Tesla doing EVs when we have been building cars for 70 years and the margin of learning and risk is much smaller. It’s completely new.”
From the ground, Orca looks sort of like a warehouse or a server farm with a massive air conditioning system out back. The plant consists of eight shipping container-sized boxes arranged in a U-shape around a central building, each one equipped with an array of fans. When the plant is running, which is more or less all the time, the fans suck air into the containers where it makes contact with a porous filter known as a “sorbent” which attracts CO2 molecules.
Courtesy
of Climeworks
When the filters become totally saturated with CO2, the vents on the containers snap shut, and the containers are heated to more than 212 degrees Fahrenheit. This releases the CO2, which is then delivered through a pipe to a secondary process called “liquefaction,” where it is compressed into a liquid. Finally, the liquid CO2 is piped into basalt rock formations underground, where it slowly mineralizes into stone. The process requires a little bit of electricity and a lot of heat, all of which comes from a carbon-free source — a geothermal power plant nearby.
A day at Orca begins with the morning huddle. The total number on the team is often in flux, but it typically has a staff of about 15 people, Climeworks’ head of operations Benjamin Keusch told me. Ten work in a virtual control room 1,600 miles away in Zurich, taking turns monitoring the plant on a laptop and managing its operations remotely. The remainder work on site, taking orders from the control room, repairing equipment, and helping to run tests.
During the huddle, the team discusses any maintenance that needs to be done. If there’s an issue, the control room will shut down part of the plant while the on-site workers investigate. So far, they’ve dealt with snow piling up around the plant that had to be shoveled, broken and corroded equipment that had to be replaced, and sediment build-up that had to be removed.
Courtesy
of Climeworks
The air is more humid and sulfurous at the site in Iceland than in Switzerland, where Climeworks had built an earlier, smaller-scale model, so the team is also learning how to optimize the technology for different weather. Within all this troubleshooting, there’s additional trade-offs to explore and lessons to learn. If a part keeps breaking, does it make more sense to plan to replace it periodically, or to redesign it? How do supply chain constraints play into that calculus?
The company is also performing tests regularly, said Keusch. For example, the team has tested new component designs at Orca that it now plans to incorporate into Climeworks’ next project from the start. (Last year, the company began construction on “Mammoth,” a new plant that will be nine times larger than Orca, on a neighboring site.) At a summit that Climeworks hosted in June, co-founder Jan Wurzbacher said the company believes that over the next decade, it will be able to make its direct air capture system twice as small and cut its energy consumption in half.
“In innovation lingo, the jargon is we haven’t converged on a dominant design,” Gregory Nemet, a professor at the University of Wisconsin who studies technological development, told me. For example, in the wind industry, turbines with three blades, upwind design, and a horizontal axis, are now standard. “There were lots of other experiments before that convergence happened in the late 1980s,” he said. “So that’s kind of where we are with direct air capture. There’s lots of different ways that are being tried right now, even within a company like Climeworks.”
Although Climeworks was willing to tell me about the goings-on at Orca over the last two years, the company declined to share how much carbon it has captured or how much energy, on average, the process has used.
Gosalvez told me that the plant’s performance has improved month after month, and that more detailed information was shared with investors. But she was hesitant to make the data public, concerned that it could be misinterpreted, because tests and maintenance at Orca require the plant to shut down regularly.
“Expectations are not in line with the stage of the technology development we are at. People expect this to be turnkey,” she said. “What does success look like? Is it the absolute numbers, or the learnings and ability to scale?”
Danny Cullenward, a climate economist and consultant who has studied the integrity of various carbon removal methods, did not find the company’s reluctance to share data especially concerning. “For these earliest demonstration facilities, you might expect people to hit roadblocks or to have to shut the plant down for a couple of weeks, or do all sorts of things that are going to make it hard to transparently report the efficiency of your process, the number of tons you’re getting at different times,” he told me.
But he acknowledged that there was an inherent tension to the stance, because ultimately, Climeworks’ business model — and the technology’s effectiveness as a climate solution — depend entirely on the ability to make precise, transparent, carbon accounting claims.
Nemet was also of two minds about it. Carbon removal needs to go from almost nothing today to something like a billion tons of carbon removed per year in just three decades, he said. That’s a pace on the upper end of what’s been observed historically with other technologies, like solar panels. So it’s important to understand whether Climeworks’ tech has any chance of meeting the moment. Especially since the company faces competition from a number of others developing direct air capture technologies, like Heirloom and Occidental Petroleum, that may be able to do it cheaper, or faster.
However, Nemet was also sympathetic to the position the company was in. “It’s relatively incremental how these technologies develop,” he said. “I have heard this criticism that this is not a real technology because we haven’t built it at scale, so we shouldn’t depend on it. Or that one of these plants not doing the removal that it said it would do shows that it doesn’t work and that we therefore shouldn’t plan on having it available. To me, that’s a pretty high bar to cross with a climate mitigation technology that could be really useful.”
More data on Orca is coming. Climeworks recently announced that it will work with the company Puro.Earth to certify every ton of CO2 that it removes from the atmosphere and stores underground, in order to sell carbon credits based on this service. The credits will be listed on a public registry.
But even if Orca eventually runs at full capacity, Climeworks will never be able to sell 4,000 carbon credits per year from the plant. Gosalvez clarified that 4,000 tons is the amount of carbon the plant is designed to suck up annually, but the more important number is the amount of “net” carbon removal it can produce. “That might be the first bit of education you need to get out there,” she said, “because it really invites everyone to look at what are the key drivers to be paid attention to.”
She walked me through a chart that illustrated the various ways in which some of Orca’s potential to remove carbon can be lost. First, there’s the question of availability — how often does the plant have to shut down due to maintenance or power shortages? Climeworks aims to limit those losses to 10%. Next, there’s the recovery stage, where the CO2 is separated from the sorbent, purified, and liquified. Gosalvez said it’s basically impossible to do this without losing some CO2. At best, the company hopes to limit that to 5%.
Finally, the company also takes into account “gray emissions,” or the carbon footprint associated with the business, like the materials, the construction, and the eventual decommissioning of the plant and restoration of the site to its former state. If one of Climeworks’ plants ever uses energy from fossil fuels (which the company has said it does not plan to do) it would incorporate any emissions from that energy. Climeworks aims to limit gray emissions to 15%.
In the end, Orca’s net annual carbon removal capacity — the amount Climeworks can sell to customers — is really closer to 3,000 tons. Gosalvez hopes other carbon removal companies adopt the same approach. “Ultimately what counts is your net impact on the planet and the atmosphere,” she said.
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Despite being a first-of-its-kind demonstration plant — and an active research site — Orca is also a commercial project. In fact, Gosalvez told me that Orca’s entire estimated capacity for carbon removal, over the 12 years that the plant is expected to run, sold out shortly after it began operating. The company is now selling carbon removal services from its yet-to-be-built Mammoth plant.
In January, Climeworks announced that Orca had officially fulfilled orders from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify. Those companies have collectively asked Climeworks to remove more than 16,000 tons of carbon, according to the deal-tracking site cdr.fyi, but it’s unclear what portion of that was delivered. The achievement was verified by a third party, but the total amount removed was not made public.
Climeworks has also not disclosed how much it has charged companies per ton of carbon, a metric that will eventually be an important indicator of whether the technology can scale to a climate-relevant level. But it has provided rough estimates of how much it expects each ton of carbon removal to cost as the technology scales — expectations which seem to have shifted after two years of operating Orca.
In 2021, Climeworks co-founder Jan Wurzbacher said the company aimed to get the cost down to $200 to $300 per ton removed by the end of the decade, with steeper declines in subsequent years. But at the summit in June, he presented a new cost curve chart showing that the price was currently more than $1,000, and that by the end of the decade, it would fall to somewhere between $400 to $700. The range was so large because the cost of labor, energy, and storing the CO2 varied widely by location, he said. The company aims to get the price down to $100 to $300 per ton by 2050, when the technology has significantly matured.
Critics of carbon removal technologies often point to the vast sums flowing into direct air capture tech like Orca, which are unlikely to make a meaningful difference in climate change for decades to come. During a time when worsening disasters make action feel increasingly urgent, many are skeptical of the value of investing limited funds and political energy into these future solutions. Carbon removal won’t make much of a difference if the world doesn’t deploy the tools already available to reduce emissions as rapidly as possible — and there’s certainly not enough money or effort going into that yet.
But we’ll never have the option to fully halt climate change, let alone begin reversing it, if we don’t develop solutions like Orca. In September, the International Energy Agency released an update to its seminal net-zero report. The new analysis said that in the last two years, the world had, in fact, made significant progress on innovation. Now, some 65% of emission reductions after 2030 could be accounted for with technologies that had reached market uptake. It even included a line about the launch of Orca, noting that Climeworks’ direct air capture technology had moved from the prototype to the demonstration stage.
But it cautioned that DAC needs “to be scaled up dramatically to play the role envisaged,” in the net zero scenario. Climeworks’ experience with Orca offers a glimpse of how much work is yet to be done.
Read more about carbon removal:
The Dawn of a New Climate Industry
https://heatmap.news/economy/climeworks-orca-data-carbon-removal-direct-air-capture
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Brianna Long, 21, was a student at Valdosta State University.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281251743.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The war has also threatened to ignite fighting on other fronts. Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group have traded fire daily along the border, and Israel and the U.S. have struck targets in Syria linked to Iran, which supports Hamas, Hezbollah and other armed groups in the region.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/airstrikes-level-apartment-blocks-in-gaza-refugee-camp/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The Bethlehem SCV Church & Preschool Trunk or Treat hosted its second annual Trunk or Treat on Friday night. Caterers from In-N-Out provided guests with food, and children and adults alike were encouraged to dress up and take part in the spooky holiday event.
The post Bethlehem SCV Church & Preschool holds second annual Trunk or Treat community event appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
@Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-10-31, from: Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed)
Can someone please tell me WHY MUST EVERY WEBSITE TODAY HAVE A POP-UP ASKING YOU TO SIGN UP FOR THEIR MAILING LIST – I swear it seems like suddenly every site I visit has a sign-up like this.
Of course, that one is in addition to the pop-up about cookies &
privacy.
And the pop-up asking you to disable your ad blocker.
And the pop-up about allowing desktop notifications.
https://scholar.social/@mhucka/111330912205244028
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Across the West, states are facing both housing shortages and shifting ideas about how to manage millions of acres of state-owned lands that were set aside to raise revenue primarily for public schools.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Black Friday is just a few weeks away, but you may not have to wait to get Black Friday pricing on some devices. This week Amazon is running deep discounts on Fire TV media streamers as well as some Fire tablets. And Best Buy is selling an HP Chromebook Plus 14 inch convertible for $379 […]
The post Daily Deals (10-31-2023) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/daily-deals-10-31-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Jean Fouquet’s “Melun Diptych” is likely the earliest artistic representation of an Acheulean hand ax
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Despite growing questions about the Ukraine aid within the Republican conference, Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has forcefully advocated tying the aid for Ukraine and Israel together. He hosted Oksana Markarova, the Ukrainian ambassador to the United States, at an event in Kentucky on Monday and told the audience, “this is a moment for swift and decisive action.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Tennessee law enforcement officials have paid the man thousands to settle his federal lawsuit filed against them, his attorneys say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281245838.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Commentary by former Fresno City College instructor
https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/readers-opinion/article281253513.html
date: 2023-11-01, from: The LAist
Orange County’s election authority recently cast doubt on whether the recall election is legal.
https://laist.com/news/politics/santa-ana-recall-election-jessie-lopez-bob-page-maps
date: 2023-10-31, from: The LAist
Orange County’s election authority recently cast doubt on whether the recall election is legal.
https://laist.com/news/santa-ana-recall-election-jessie-lopez-bob-page-maps
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A Halloween-Christmas film hybrid starring a slightly demented but well-meaning skeleton in a bat bowtie who nearly gets Santa killed was no easy sell.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ace Hardware appears to have been the latest organization to succumb to a cyberattack, judging by its website and a message from CEO John Venhuizen.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/ace_hardware_cyberattack/
@Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed (date: 2023-10-31, from: Mike Hukka’s Mastodon feed)
The Shushbooth looks like a really great idea, specially for
#neurodivergent
people.
https://www.shushbooth.com/shushboothmodels
https://scholar.social/@mhucka/111330821238175338
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Giovanni Fissore, 43, pleaded no contest to DUI causing injury in the 2022 crash that killed 39-year-old Roni Gage, a pedestrian.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
“In fact, our statistics would indicate that for a group that represents only about 2.4% of the American public, they account for something like 60% of all religious-based hate crimes,” Wray said of the Jewish American population.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/fbi-director-antisemitism-at-historic-level-in-the-us/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“Our teachers return to the classroom tomorrow rather than standing on a picket line,” FTA president Manuel Bonilla said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281230923.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Researchers collected specimens from the coast of Florida and Alabama.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281248208.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Treasury Wine Estates called the Paso Robles company “the fastest-growing luxury wine brand in the United States.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281226623.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Sports are no fun without rivalries, and the Warriors’ top rival, James Harden, is returning to the West to play for the Clippers.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police arrested a man believed to be responsible for an April burglary at a San Jose home and recovered a dozen antique guns from his home, among other firearms.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Vida reporter María G. Ortiz-Briones won four first places in writing and photography, and editor Juan Esparza Loera won a gold.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281244858.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Intel is shedding its silicon photonics transceiver module business as part of restructuring and cost-cutting measures, offloading it to manufacturing company Jabil.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/intel_silicon_photonics_jabil/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
‘Omar,’ created by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, features gospel, folk and Wagnerian sounds and an amazing story.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/omar-a-unique-opera-drawn-from-a-slaves-memoirs-comes-to-sf/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
He’s now pleaded guilty, according to federal officials.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281224493.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
One of the survivors was a PG&E worker who was on the job at the time.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
Were you recently in an accident and suffered injuries? Or are you a parent who lost a loved one in an accident? No matter how bad, we need to find peace and pursue a claim for you and your family. You need a catastrophic injury lawyer to help you. This lawyer understands all the complexities […]
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https://signalscv.com/2023/10/the-role-of-a-catastrophic-injury-lawyer-in-seeking-justice/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Upper Castaic Lake reopened today to boating with a caution algal bloom advisory. The California Department of Water Resources urges people to avoid physical contact with water at Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County until further notice due to the presence of toxic blue-green algae
https://scvnews.com/upper-castaic-lake-reopens-to-boating-with-caution-algal-bloom-advisory/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
We’ve all heard the Christmas Song, the one that starts, “Chestnuuuuuts roasting on an open fiiiiire.” But how many of us have actually eaten fresh, locally grown chestnuts?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/bay-area-who-knew-there-were-chestnut-orchards-right-here/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Kings great Mike Bibby returns to Sacramento as a television analyst 21 years after hitting one of the biggest shots in franchise history.
https://www.fresnobee.com/sports/article281250428.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A San Jose man was formally indicted last week amid allegations that he falsified tax returns and failed to disclose income from Chinese companies.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
With the timing and size of financial aid packages in question for the 2024-25 academic year, consider early action or regular decision instead.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Mozilla Developer Network blog
To deliver against our vision and enable a better online experience for everyone, we’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster. We’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in a significant improvement in speed over the past year.
The post Down and to the Right: Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 appeared first on Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2023/10/down-and-to-the-right-firefox-got-faster-for-real-users-in-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Fire Department is continuing to investigate the cause of the fire.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/fires/article281244448.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Want to find a frost flower in person? Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281247498.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
http://scripting.com/2023/10/31/162008.html?title=twitterDeLosMuertos
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Police say he was stabbed in the face, neck and chest.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281248688.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US has approved mandatory data breach reporting requirements that impose a 30-day deadline for non-banking financial organizations to report incidents.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/ftc_30_day_breach_disclosure/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The second season of ‘Behind the Attraction’ debuts this week on the Disney+ streaming service with episodes dedicated to Disney nighttime spectaculars.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The owner blocked the man from driving away, officials say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242758.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A man turned off his neighbor’s power to lure her outside, Florida deputies said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281247333.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
October is Filipino-American History Month, and we’re commemorating it with a post on Manuel Quezon and Philippine Independence from Alexandra Villaseran, an archivist with the Center for Legislative Archives. Today there are six nonvoting members in the U.S. House of Representatives: a Resident Commissioner representing Puerto Rico and one Delegate each for the District of … Continue reading Manuel Quezon and the Push for Philippine Independence
date: 2023-10-31, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
In honor of the spookiest time of year, this blog post spotlights the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) case files on the late American actor Vincent Leonard Price, Jr. (100-HQ-410935, 100-LA-34677, and 100-WFO-38897). Price is best known for being one of Hollywood’s original four Kings of Horror. From 1938 to 1993, he terrified audiences and … Continue reading Vincent Price and The “Secret Letter” to the FBI
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2023/10/31/vincent-price-and-the-secret-letter-to-the-fbi/
date: 2023-10-31, from: NASA breaking news
The James Webb Space Telescope truly explores the unknown, displaying stunning images of previously unseen corners of the universe only possible because of the telescope’s 21-foot segmented mirror that unfurled and assembled itself in space. Decades of testing went into the materials, design, and processes needed to develop the largest telescope in space. However, the […]
https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/nasas-webb-telescope-improves-simulation-software/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Huskies are in first place, but the Ducks are our pick to win the conference and end the six-year CFP drought.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The school district said her “big smile was welcoming to all.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242138.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
PG&E monthly utility bills are slated to hop higher – yet again.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Maintenance crews discovered the man’s body in a women’s bathroom Saturday morning while getting ready to open the park.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/death-investigation-glenwood-caverns-adventure-park-closed/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting happened about 9:40 p.m. in the 8900 block of International Boulevard.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/customer-shot-coming-out-of-east-oakland-liquor-store/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions”: “All of the above” is a highly selective proposition. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions” (permalink) There is only one planet in the known universe capable of sustaining human life, and it is rapidly becoming uninhabitable by humans. Clearly, this warrants bold action – but which bold action should we take? After half a century of denial and disinformation, the business lobby has seemingly found climate religion and has joined the choir, but they have their own unique hymn: this crisis is so dire, they say, that we don’t have the luxury of choosing between different ways of addressing the emergency. We have to do “all of the above” – every possible solution must be tried. In his new book Dark PR, Grant Ennis explains that this “all of the above” strategy doesn’t represent a change of heart by big business. Rather, it’s part of the denial playbook that’s been used to sell tobacco-cancer doubt and climate disinformation: https://darajapress.com/publication/dark-pr-how-corporate-disinformation-harms-our-health-and-the-environment The point of “all of the above” isn’t muscular, immediate action – rather, it’s a delaying tactic that creates space for “solutions” that won’t work, but will generate profits. Think of how the tobacco industry used “all of the above” to sell “light” cigarettes, snuff, snus, and vaping – and delay tobacco bans, sin taxes, and business-euthanizing litigation. Today, the same playbook is used to sell EVs as an answer to the destructive legacy of the personal automobile – to the exclusion of mass transit, bikes, and 15-minute cities: https://thewaroncars.org/2023/10/24/113-dark-pr-with-grant-ennis/ As the tobacco and car examples show, “all of the above” is never really all of the above. Pursuing “light” cigarettes to reduce cancer is incompatible with simply banning tobacco; giving everyone a personal EV is incompatible with remaking our cities for transit, cycling and walking. When it comes to the climate emergency, “all of the above” means trying “market-based” solutions to the exclusion of directly regulating emissions, despite the poor performance of these “solutions.” The big one here is carbon offsets, which allows companies to make money by promising not to emit carbon that they would otherwise emit. The idea here is that creating a new asset class will unleash the incredible creativity of markets by harnessing the greed of elite sociopaths to the project of decarbonization, rather than to the prudence of democratically accountable lawmakers. Carbon offsets have not worked: they have been plagued by absolutely foreseeable problems that have not lessened, despite repeated attempts to mitigate them. For starters, carbon offsets are a classic market for lemons. The cheapest way to make a carbon offset is to promise not to emit carbon you were never going to emit anyway, as when fake charities like the Nature Conservancy make millions by promising not to log forests that can’t be logged because they are wildlife preserves: https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/18/greshams-carbon-law/#papal-indulgences Then there’s the problem of monitoring carbon offsetting activity. Like, what happens when the forest you promise not to log burns down? If you’re a carbon trader, the answer is “nothing.” That burned-down forest can still be sold as if it were sequestering carbon, rather than venting it to the atmosphere in an out-of-control blaze: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/26/aggregate-demand/#murder-offsets When you bought a plane ticket and ticked the “offset the carbon on my flight” box and paid an extra $10, I bet you thought that you were contributing to a market that incentivized a reduction in discretionary, socially useless carbon-intensive activity. But without those carbon offsets, SUVs would have all but disappeared from American roads. Carbon offsets for Tesla cars generated billions in carbon offsets for Elon Musk, and allowed SUVs to escape regulations that would otherwise have seen them pulled from the market: https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat What’s more, Tesla figured out how to get double the offsets they were entitled to by pretending that they had a working battery-swap technology. This directly translated to even more SUVs on the road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Tesla,_Inc.#Misuse_of_government_subsidies Harnessing the profit motive to the planet’s survivability might sound like a good idea, but it assumes that corporations can self-regulate their way to a better climate future. They cannot. Think of how Canada’s logging industry was allowed to clearcut old-growth forests and replace them with “pines in lines” – evenly spaced, highly flammable, commercially useful tree-farms that now turn into raging forest fires every year: https://pluralistic.net/2023/09/16/murder-offsets/#pulped-and-papered The idea of “market-based” climate solutions is that certain harmful conduct should be disincentivized through taxes, rather than banned. This makes carbon offsets into a kind of modern Papal indulgence, which let you continue to sin, for a price. As the outstanding short video Murder Offsets so ably demonstrates, this is an inadequate, unserious and immoral response to the urgency of the issue: https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy Offsets and other market-based climate measures aren’t “all of the above” – they exclude other measures that have better track-records and lower costs, because those measures cut against the interests of the business lobby. Writing for the Law and Political Economy Project, Yale Law’s Douglas Kysar gives some pointed examples: https://lpeproject.org/blog/climate-change-and-the-neoliberal-imagination/ For example: carbon offsets rely on a notion called “counterfactual carbon,” this being the imaginary carbon that might be emitted by a company if it wasn’t participating in offsets. The number of credits a company gets is determined by the difference between its counterfactual emissions and its actual emissions. But the “counterfactual” here comes from a business-as-usual world, one where the only limit on carbon emissions comes from corporate executives’ voluntary actions – and not from regulation, direct action, or other limits on corporate conduct. Kysar asks us to imagine a counterfactual that depends on “carbon upsets,” rather than offsets – one where the limits on carbon come from “lawsuits, referenda, protests, boycotts, civil disobedience”: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/aug/29/carbon-upsets-offsets-cap-and-trade If we’re really committed to “all of the above” as baseline for calculating offsets, why not imagine a carbon world grounded in foreseeable, evidence-based reality, like the situation in Louisiana, where a planned petrochemical plant was canceled after a lawsuit over its 13.6m tons of annual carbon emissions? https://earthjustice.org/press/2022/louisiana-court-vacates-air-permits-for-formosas-massive-petrochemical-complex-in-cancer-alley Rather than a tradeable market in carbon offsets, we could harness the market to reward upsets. If your group wins a lawsuit that prevents 13.6m tons of carbon emissions every year, it will get 13.6 million credits for every year that plant would have run. That would certainly drive the commercial imaginations of many otherwise disinterested parties to find carbon-reduction measures. If we’re going to revive dubious medieval practices like indulgences, why not champerty, too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champerty_and_maintenance That is, if every path to a survivable planet must run through Goldman-Sachs, why not turn their devious minds to figuring out ways to make billions in tradeable credits by suing the pants off oil companies? There are any number of measures that rise to the flimsy standards of evidence in support of offsets. Like, we’re giving away $85/ton in free public money for carbon capture technologies, despite the lack of any credible path to these making a serious dent in the climate situation: https://www.spglobal.com/commodityinsights/en/market-insights/latest-news/energy-transition/072523-ira-turbocharged-carbon-capture-tax-credit-but-challenges-persist-experts If we’re willing to fund untested longshots like carbon capture, why not measures that have far better track-records? For example, there’s a pretty solid correlation between the presence of women in legislatures and on corporate boards and overall reductions in carbon. I’m the last person to suggest that the problems of capitalism can be replaced by replacing half of the old white men who run the world with women, PoCs and queers – but if we’re willing to hand billions to ferkakte scheme like carbon capture, why not subsidize companies that pack their boards with women, or provide campaign subsidies to women running for office? It’s quite a longshot (putting Liz Truss or Marjorie Taylor-Greene on your board or in your legislature is no way to save the planet), but it’s got a better evidentiary basis than carbon capture. There’s also good evidence that correlates inequality with carbon emissions, though the causal relationship is unclear. Maybe inequality lets the wealthy control policy outcomes and tilt them towards permitting high-emission/high-profit activities. Maybe inequality reduces the social cohesion needed to make decarbonization work. Maybe inequality makes it harder for green tech to find customers. Maybe inequality leads to rich people chasing status-enhancing goods (think: private jet rides) that are extremely carbon-intensive. Whatever the reason, there’s a pretty good case that radical wealth redistribution would speed up decarbonization – any “all of the above” strategy should certainly consider this one. Kysar’s written a paper on this, entitled “Ways Not to Think About Climate Change”: https://political-theory.org/resources/Documents/Kysar.Ways%20Not%20to%20Think%20About%20Climate%20Change.pdf It’s been accepted for the upcoming American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy conference on climate change: https://political-theory.org/13257256 It’s quite a bracing read! The next time someone tells you we should hand Elon Musk billions to in exchange for making it possible to legally manufacture vast fleets of SUVs because we need to try “all of the above,” send them a copy of this paper. 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https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/carbon-upsets/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: This massive 85-inch Samsung “The Frame” TV will eat up an entire wall
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281246473.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A frozen yogurt shop worker came to the rescue as she was leaving her job.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242098.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has authorized more than $18 billion to be paid to carriers to expand rural broadband.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/fcc_broadband_subsidies/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Microsoft has ended support for Windows CE, an operating system you probably thought was already dead, if you knew it had ever existed in the first place. Initially developed to bring a simple operating system with a Windows-like start menu, taskbar, and desktop to small computers including handheld systems in the late 90s and early […]
The post Windows CE reaches end of support (but it’s not exactly dead yet) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/windows-ce-reaches-end-of-support-but-its-not-exactly-dead-yet/
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Red-flag warnings, indicating increased danger of wildfires, have been lifted for Northern California but remain in effect for an area north of Los Angeles.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/map-california-wildfires-cause-evacuations-amid-high-winds/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers found that 20 of 35 “planetary vital signs” are at record extremes, and they call for rapid action
date: 2023-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
Bandcamp’s union alleges that Songtradr “refused” to hire employees because they “joined or supported a labor organization and in order to discourage union activities or membership.”
https://www.404media.co/bandcamp-union-files-unfair-labor-practice-charge-against-songtradr/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The married couple had been letting the man temporarily live with them, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281243138.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting happened about 3:35 a.m., police said.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The former employee from Oklahoma has pleaded guilty, records show.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281242893.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Finding the perfect Secret Santa gift can be daunting, but let our guide assist in finding the perfect gift
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281201343.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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Trading volume on most exchanges has plummeted in the past year, even as the number of coins has continued to multiply, with more than 1.8 million tokens listed on centralized and decentralized exchanges.Kharif reported on the collapse of trading volume earlier in Coinbase’s Quarterly Crypto Trading Volume Likely Lowest Since Before Public Debut:
The largest US digital-asset platform registered about $76 billion in spot trading volume, a drop of 52% from the year-ago period, according to data compiled by researcher CCData. The tally is also likely the least since before the company’s much ballyhooed direct listing on the Nasdaq Stock Market in April 2021, or just months before prices of cryptocurrencies peaked.Thus what caught my eye wasn’t the drop in trading volume, it was “more than 1.8 million tokens”! Below the fold I ask how this could possibly make sense.
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The top eight platforms account for nearly 92% of depth — a measure of all bids and asks within 10% of the mid price — and 90% of volume, according to Kaiko. Binance, the largest crypto exchange, has this year accounted for more than 30% of global market depth and more than 60% of worldwide trade volumes. Besides Binance, the list also includes Coinbase, OKX and Huobi, among others. For context, there are hundreds of crypto exchanges, according to data from CoinGecko, though many of them see negligible or no trading at all.
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A protracted dearth of liquidity in cryptocurrency markets is playing a key role in the more than 10% swings in the price of Bitcoin seen in recent weeks.
Market depth remains at its lowest point this year even with the recent resurgence in trading activity being spurred on in part by expectations for a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, FalconX’s research team found. They measure market depth by looking at the average volume of Bitcoin trading activities within 1% of its current price, on a 24-hour basis.
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At first glance the graphs of volume on centralized and decentralized
exchanges look similar, but check the Y axes. Decentralized market
volume is something like $15B/month, whereas centralized exchange volume
is around $200B/month. Once again, the distribution is highly
skewed.
https://blog.dshr.org/2023/10/shitcoins.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
There is only one moral and practical peaceful solution to the Palestine/Israel issue: a one-state solution for all of Israel and Palestine.
The post One-State Solution appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/one-state-solution/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
Two of President Joe Biden’s top advisers asked U.S. lawmakers to provide billions more dollars to Israel on Tuesday at a congressional hearing interrupted repeatedly by protesters accusing American officials of backing “genocide” against Palestinians in Gaza.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testified to the Senate Appropriations Committee on Biden’s request for $106 billion to fund ambitious plans for Ukraine, Israel and U.S. border security.
Arguing that supporting U.S. partners is vital to national security, Biden requested $61.4 billion for Ukraine, about half of which would be spent in the United States to replenish weapons stocks drained by previous support for Kyiv.
Biden also asked for $14.3 billion for Israel, $9 billion for humanitarian relief — including for Israel and Gaza — $13.6 billion for U.S. border security, $4 billion in military assistance and government financing to counter China’s regional efforts in Asia.
As the hearing began, a line of protesters raised red-stained hands in the air as an anti-war protest. Capitol police later removed them from the hearing room after they shouted protests including, “Ceasefire now!” and “Protect the children of Gaza!”
Blinken said U.S. support for Ukraine has made Russia’s invasion of Ukraine “a strategic debacle” and stressed the importance of both security assistance for Israel and humanitarian aid for Palestinians in Gaza.
“Without swift and sustained humanitarian relief, the conflict is much more likely to spread, suffering will grow, and Hamas and its sponsors will benefit by fashioning themselves as the saviors of the very desperation they created,” Blinken said.
Congress has already approved $113 billion for Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, but Biden’s $24 billion request for more funds in August never moved ahead. The White House has said it has less than $5.5 billion in funds to continue transferring weapons from U.S. stockpiles to Ukrainian forces fighting Russia.
Republicans divided
The path forward for Biden’s latest funding plan looks uncertain. Democrats solidly back Biden’s strategy of combining Ukraine aid with support for Israel, as do many Republicans in both the Senate and House of Representatives.
“We need to address all of these priorities as part of one package - because the reality is these issues are all connected, and they are all urgent,” Senate Appropriations Committee Chairperson Patty Murray said.
Senator Susan Collins, the committee’s top Republican said she would judge the funding request on whether it makes the United States more secure.
But Republicans who lead the House of Representatives object to combining the two issues, joined by a smaller number of party members in the Senate. Opinion polls show public support for Ukraine aid declining and many Republicans, particularly those most closely aligned with former President Donald Trump, have come out against it.
With federal spending fueled by $31.4 trillion in debt, they question whether Washington should be funding Ukraine’s war with Russia, rather than backing Israel or boosting efforts to push back against a rising China.
Newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson has voted in the past against assistance for Kyiv. On Monday, he introduced a bill to provide $14.3 billion in aid to Israel by cutting funding for the Internal Revenue Service, setting up a showdown with Senate Democrats.
Johnson became speaker after a three-week stalemate in the House after former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted partly because he worked with Democrats to pass a government funding bill.
Biden’s support for Israel, which already receives $3.8 billion in annual U.S. military assistance, has drawn criticism amid international appeals for Gaza civilians to be protected.
Palestinian authorities say that Israel’s “total siege” of Gaza since that rampage has killed more than 8,300 people, more than 3,400 of them minors, and left a dire need for fuel, food and clean water.
Israel this week launched a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip as it strikes back at Islamist Hamas militants who killed 1,400 people and took at least 240 hostages in a rampage on Oct. 7.
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
Colorado players said they had jewelry stolen from the visitor’s locker room during Saturday’s California match up.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/10/31/cu-buffs-football-players-robbed-rose-bowl-ucla/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The Toyota Camry rolled down a driveway and out into the street, police said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281244263.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Dell has teamed up with Facebook parent Meta to try to make it easier for customers to deploy the Llama 2 large language model (LLM) on premises rather than access it via the cloud.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/dell_meta_llama_2/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
I’m hoping to get a MNT Pocket Reform at some point and I heard that it comes with Sway as the default window manager. No problem, I can get into that. Years ago I was a fan of ratpoison and i3. Today, I’m trying to use sway. I think my biggest problem right now is that the pipe/backslash key works like a < and > key. How weird is that. Maybe some weird key binding that is coming back to haunt me.
In order to get started, I copied /etc/sway/config to
~/.config/sway/config and started making some changes.
Scrolling with the touch pad was weird. Somehow inverted! The answer was
to have natural_scroll enabled for the touchpad input.
input "2:14:ETPS/2_Elantech_Touchpad" {
dwt enabled
tap enabled
natural_scroll enabled
middle_emulation enabled
}
Caps Lock is no longer the Compose Key and that makes me sad. The answer
was to specify xkb_options compose:caps for the keyboard
input.
input "1:1:AT_Translated_Set_2_keyboard" {
xkb_layout us
xkb_variant altgr-intl
xkb_options compose:caps
}
Getting the less key instead of the backslash key remained a problem.
There are so many variants in
/usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/us. After a while I realised
that I needed a variant with LSGT (less/greater) being mapped to
backslash and bar, like this:
key <LSGT> { [ backslash, bar ] };
The options I had seemed to be: euro, ibm2381,
intl, and so on. But also anything that contained dead keys
was no good:
key <TLDE> { [dead_grave, dead_tilde, grave, asciitilde ] };
In these variants, I have to type every back-quote, single-quote,
double-quote and circumflex twice.
@bkhl pointed me to
altgr-intl. Thanks!
Now I’m wondering about suspending the laptop. With Gnome, I’d hit the
GUI key and type “suspend”, Enter, done. But there is no “suspend”
command. I ended up installing wlogout which gives me huge
buttons to lock, logout, suspend, hibernate, shutdown and reboot. But,
surprisingly, when it suspends, and it comes back, no password is
required. That’s weird!
I installed cryptsetup-suspend which adds something the old
setup did not have: returning from a suspend now asks for the disk
decryption password but still does not ask for the account password.
Well, on a single user system like mine, one of the two is good enough,
I guess. But still.
#Administration #Sway #Window Manager
Time has passed and today I added keybindings for lowering and raising the volume.
bindsym XF86AudioLowerVolume exec amixer set Master '10%-'
bindsym XF86AudioRaiseVolume exec amixer set Master '10%+'
So proud of myself. 😁
As for playback from the command-line, right now I’m using
mpv:
mpv "https://somafm.com/secretagent.pls"
OK, time for fiddling with stuff. Every minute, the script called to produce the status bar.
bar {
position top
status_command while ~/.config/sway/status.fish; do sleep 60; done
colors {
statusline #ffffff
background #323232
inactive_workspace #32323200 #32323200 #5c5c5c
}
}
The script prints something like this:
Bandu 65% 🟡 100% 🔊 fully-charged🔋 2023-10-31 15:40
This is the code. As you can see it calls awk,
perl and tons of other stuff. Yikes!
#!/usr/bin/fish
# The Sway configuration file in ~/.config/sway/config calls this script.
# You should see changes to the status bar after saving this script.
# If not, do "killall swaybar" and $mod+Shift+c to reload the configuration.
set date (date +'%Y-%m-%d %R')
set battery (upower --show-info (upower --enumerate | grep 'BAT') | perl -e '
use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");
while (<>) {
if (/state:\s*(.*)/) {
print $1;
} elsif (/percentage:\s*([0-9]+)/) {
print $1 > 20 ? "🔋" : "🪫";
}
}')
# "amixer -M" gets the mapped volume for evaluating the percentage
# which is more natural to the human ear according to "man amixer".
# The current volume percentage comes in brackets, e.g., "[36%]"
# followed by "[off]" or "[on]" depending on whether sound is muted or
# not. "tr -d []" removes brackets around the volume. I'm looking at
# "Front Left:" because of how amixer reports volumes on my laptop.
set audio_volume (amixer -M get Master |\
awk '/Front Left:/ {print $6=="[off]" ?\
$5" 🔇": \
$5=="[100%]" ? \
$5" 🔊": \
$5" 🔉"}' |\
tr -d [])
set wlan (nmcli --get-values name,device,type connection show --active \
| grep wireless \
| string split ':')
# $bar = join("", " ▁▂▃▄▅▆▇█", int(9*$1/$2), 1); \
set ssid $wlan[1]
set device $wlan[2]
set q (iwconfig $device | perl -e '
use utf8;
binmode(STDOUT,":utf8");
while (<>) {
if (/([0-9]+)\/([0-9]+)/) {
print int(100*$1/$2) . "% " . substr("🔴🟠🟡🟢🟢", int(4*$1/$2), 1);
}
}')
set lan (nmcli --get-values type connection show --active|awk '/ethernet/ { print "🖧" }')
echo $lan $ssid $q $audio_volume $battery $date
I’m learning quite a bit about controlling my system from the command
line. I hadn’t known about nmcli.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-22-sway
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
More colleges are offering early decision admissions, where students signal that a particular university is their top choice but have to commit before seeing their financial aid package. Early decision is not without controversy. Students who apply early tend to be wealthier, and critics say the practice undermines fairness. Plus, child care costs continue to climb, and the UAW hopes its contract wins will encourage other car manufacturers to unionize.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/affirmative-action-for-the-rich
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
The stabbing was reported at 4:13 p.m. Sunday at Bayshore Boulevard and Cortland Avenue.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-10-31, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Ross Mayfield: “The reason Threads doesn’t have an API or the promised Fediverse coupling is organizational inertia for the fear of another Cambridge Analytica.” I think that’s very likely true. I was using Facebook’s API when they quietly turned it off, and I didn’t blame them for it, given the way journalism was treating them. Everyone knew they had an API, and what it could do was openly published, and promoted by the same journalists who were now blaming them. So while FB has few scruples to admire them for, as a company – in this case I believe Ross’s explanation of why they are treading very carefully here.
http://scripting.com/2023/10/31.html#a142042
date: 2023-10-31, from: San Jose Mercury News
A group of landowners say a Silicon Valley-backed company trying to build a sustainable city in Solano County used unfair tactics to force farmers to sell their land, including pitting family members against each other.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The British Library has confirmed to The Register that a “cyber incident” is the cause of a “major” multi-day IT outage.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/british_library_it_outage/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The United Auto Workers won at least partial victories on many of the key demands that led to the six-week strike against Ford, General Motors and Jeep maker Stellantis.
The union has given some details of the deals, including a detailed explanation of the agreement it reached with Ford. The agreement is expected to become the model for later settlements with GM and Stellantis. Rank-and-file UAW members must ratify each contract before it takes effect.
“We won things no one thought possible,” UAW President Shawn Fain said when he announced the tentative agreement last week.
The union represents 57,000 workers at the company, and about 16,600 of them were on strike. Here are the key terms of the agreements, as detailed by the union:
Pay
The tentative agreements call for 25% increases in pay by April 2028, raising top pay to about $42 an hour, according to the union. That starts with an 11% boost upon ratification, three annual raises of 3% each, and a final increase of 5%. The UAW said restoration of cost-of-living increases, which were suspended in 2009, could boost the total increases to more than 30%.
The union initially asked for 40% increases, but scaled that back to 36% before the strike started Sept. 15. Ford’s last offer before the strike was 9% more pay over four years. More recently, Ford, GM and Stellantis were all offering 23% total pay increases.
For historical comparison, the union said its workers saw pay increases of 23% for all the years from 2001 through 2022.
Bonuses
The deals include $5,000 ratification bonuses.
Temporary workers
The union said Ford’s temporary workers will get pay raises totaling 150% over the life of the deal, and workers at certain facilities will also get outsized raises. The temporary workers will also get the ratification bonuses and will get profit-sharing starting next year, officials said.
Benefits
The companies did not agree to bring back traditional defined-benefit pension plans or retiree health care for workers hired since 2007. But they agreed to increase 401(k) contributions to about 9.5%.
Shorter work week
The UAW asked for a shorter work week — 40 hours of pay for 32 hours of work. It did not get that concession.
Worker tiers
The union said Ford and GM agreed to end most divisive wage tiers, a system under which new hires were put on a less attractive pay scale. Fain and union members had highlighted the issue, saying it was unfair for people doing the same work to be paid less than co-workers.
Climbing the ladder
The agreement shortens the time it will take workers to reach top scale, to three years. It took eight years under the contract that expired in September.
Right to strike
The union said it won the right to strike against any of the three companies over plant closures. The automakers had rejected the proposal at the start of talks.
Union organizing
The agreements with Ford, GM and Stellantis could give the UAW a boost as it seeks to represent workers at nonunion plants in the U.S. that are operated by foreign carmakers and Tesla, as well as future plants that will make batteries for electric vehicles.
The union said Ford agreed to put workers at a future battery plant in Michigan under the UAW’s master contract, and GM agreed to do so with work at Ultium Cells, a joint venture between the company and LG Energy Solution of South Korea.
Fain vowed Sunday that the union will “organize like we’ve never organized before” at nonunion plants.
“When we return to the bargaining table in 2028, it won’t just be with the Big Three but with the Big Five or the Big Six,” he said in an online message to union members.
https://www.voanews.com/a/uaw-strike-won-things-no-one-thought-possible-from-automakers/7334365.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A resident of the home is charged with harboring a fugitive, cops say.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281238468.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: 404 Media Group
Auto workers ask other unions in other industries to collaborate with them to “take on the billionaire class.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I watched my best friend leave me forever,” his girlfriend said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281238618.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
NASA is studying contrails to determine if more environmentally friendly aircraft fuels might reduce their formation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/cutting_contrails_with_saf/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
On September 29 2023, amidst much excitement and enthusiasm, a significant event took place at a unique school in Moinabad, Telangana: the teams of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Telangana Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society (TSWREIS) gathered to celebrate our partnership on the esteemed Coding Academy of TSWREIS. This event marked a special project…
The post Coding futures: Celebrating our educational partnership in Telangana appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/tswreis-coding-academy-computing-education-partnership-telangana/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
he Los Olivos Community Service District received a $75,000 grant to complete a third-party study to determine the most efficient and cost-effective wastewater options for Los Olivos, protect the groundwater, and preserve our quaint town’s history and open spaces.
The post Wastewater Options for Los Olivos appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/wastewater-options-for-los-olivos/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A UK minister for policing has called for forces to double their use of algorithmic-assisted facial recognition in a bid to snare more criminals.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/uk_police_minister_lfr/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I know it gets a little bit of a stigma, but I don’t think there’s anything radical about it at all,” he said of being “America First.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/politics-government/election/article281225778.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The state’s Democratic supermajority has repeatedly shut down attempts to expand the law lengthening prison sentences for repeat offenders.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article280963108.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“My idea was to create space and to create presence and find something that would be bridging between communities,” said the founder of the celebration.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article280653775.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Washington-based research group gave California the low ranking.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281206333.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
In a region known for its ample surface water, state regulators say more work is needed to deter subsidence and dry wells
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281104048.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“I can’t help it — I was born a girl and a person of color,” said one woman medical professor. “The cards are just stacked against me.”
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281049928.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
A wildfire fueled by gusty Santa Ana winds ripped through rural land southeast of Los Angeles on Monday, forcing about 4,000 people from their homes, fire authorities said.
The so-called Highland Fire erupted at about 12:45 p.m. in dry, brushy hills near the unincorporated Riverside County hamlet of Aguanga.
As of late Monday night, it had spread over about 2 square miles (5 square kilometers) of land, fire spokesman Jeff LaRusso said.
About 1,300 homes and 4,000 residents were under evacuation orders, he said.
The fire had destroyed three buildings and damaged six others but it wasn’t clear whether any were homes. The region is sparsely populated but there are horse ranches and a large mobile home site, LaRusso said.
No injuries were reported.
Winds of 20 to 25 miles per hour (32 to 40 kph) with some higher gusts drove the flames and embers through grass and brush that were dried out by recent winds and low humidity so that it was “almost like kindling” for the blaze, LaRusso said.
The winds were expected to ease somewhat overnight and fire crews would attempt to box in the blaze, LaRusso said.
But, he added: “Wind trumps everything. Hopefully the forecast holds.”
A large air tanker, bulldozers and other resources were called in to fight the fire, one of the few large and active blazes to have erupted so far in California’s year-round fire season, LaRusso said.
Southern California was seeing its first significant Santa Ana wind condition. The strong, hot, dry, dust-bearing winds typically descend to the Pacific Coast from inland desert regions during the fall. They have fueled some of the largest and most damaging fires in recent California history.
The National Weather Service said Riverside County could see winds of 15 to 25 mph (24 to 40 kph) through Tuesday with gusts as high as 40 miles per hour (64 kph). The weather service issued a red flag warning of extreme fire danger through Tuesday afternoon for parts of Los Angeles and Riverside counties.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The tragedies and human suffering unfolding in the Middle East are worse than any Halloween nightmare. There is a lot more going on than meets the eye. To be fully transparent, my father was an Israeli soldier and police detective. My parents met in Israel and I have deep roots there. My large family living […]
The post Jonathan Kraut | ‘Please Invade Us’ Begs the Question: Why? appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/jonathan-kraut-please-invade-us-begs-the-question-why/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
“This thing is so dead,” tweeted the head of the Indian Gaming Association.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/california/article281212273.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
The following is a copy of a letter addressed to the governing board of the William S. Hart Union High School District. I wish to draw your attention to a critical matter that concerns the well-being of our students and our educators. Requiring teachers to disclose a student’s gender identity to their parents can have […]
The post Cody Jacobs | Concerned About Students appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/cody-jacobs-concerned-about-students/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
While there’s often a narrative that scammers target older adults, scammers don’t discriminate. Turns out, younger people are more likely to report losing money to a scam. We delve into the types of scams Gen Zers fall for and what consumers can do to protect themselves. Also, the Biden administration cracks down on junk fees from financial advisers, and the market might be doing some of the Fed’s work.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/yes-young-people-get-scammed-too
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Exclusive Unit4, the enterprise software provider popular with government and medium-sized businesses, has announced it will end support of its on-prem systems on December 31, 2024.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/unit4_onprem_support_2025/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
A suspect is charged with animal cruelty, officials said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/nation-world/national/article281194153.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: PeerJ blog
A PeerJ Computer Science Special Issue aiming to advance emerging technologies related to Intelligent Ocean Applications “Intelligent ocean applications are less mature than terrestrial counterparts, generally with fewer technical advances, due to the difficulty in analysing and overcoming chaotic ocean environments” – Jiachen Yang, Professor, Tianjin University. Intelligent ocean applications involve the fusion of artificial intelligence techniques with […]
date: 2023-10-31, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: A tour company has been found guilty of not “minimizing risk” in the 2019 White Island volcano eruption, in which 22 people died. Then, the government in Haiti has suspended flights to Nicaragua, which has become a popular connection point for migrants trying to reach the United States. Also: Scaring people is big business. We look at the tourism attractions recreating the dark side of history.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
These pumpkins have LED matrixes for eyes. They’re powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico hiding in their hollowed-out guts.
The post Petrifying Pico pumpkins appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/petrifying-pico-pumpkins/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Ukraine is using $400 drones to destroy tanks:
Facing an enemy with superior numbers of troops and armor, the Ukrainian defenders are holding on with the help of tiny drones flown by operators like Firsov that, for a few hundred dollars, can deliver an explosive charge capable of destroying a Russian tank worth more than $2 million.
[…]
A typical FPV weighs up to one kilogram, has four small engines, a battery, a frame and a camera connected wirelessly to goggles worn by a pilot operating it remotely. It can carry up to 2.5 kilograms of explosives and strike a target at a speed of up to 150 kilometers per hour, explains Pavlo Tsybenko, acting director of the Dronarium military academy outside Kyiv…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/10/the-future-of-drone-warfare.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft is rarely shy when it comes to anniversaries. However, one milestone passed last week that the mega-corp is still perhaps trying to forget: 11 years since the launch of Windows 8.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/windows_8_turns_11/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
From Our Partners: Get the perfect White Elephant party gift for that person you may (or may not) know
https://www.fresnobee.com/shopping/article281192768.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK government may be onto something with its strategy to support the domestic semiconductor industry. In a strange twist of fate, some experts are starting to say that its approach makes sense.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/uk_semiconductor_strategy/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is moving toward a narrower student loan relief plan that would target specific groups of borrowers — those with soaring interest, for example — rather than a sweeping plan like the one the Supreme Court rejected in June.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DENVER — Colorado lawyers seeking to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for the White House again argued on Monday that his role in the January 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol runs afoul of the Constitution’s insurrection clause, opening a hearing that could break new ground in constitutional law.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s not officially over yet, but the United Auto Workers appear to have won a significant victory. The union, which began rolling strikes on Sept. 15, now has tentative agreements with Ford, Stellantis (which I still think of as Chrysler) and, finally, General Motors. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/opinion/autoworkers-strike-a-blow-for-equality/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>It’s a rare issue that can bring 41 states together for a bipartisan fight. This week, state attorneys general across the political spectrum joined forces in suing Facebook parent company Meta for allegedly using features on Instagram and other platforms that hook young users, while denying or downplaying the risks to their mental health. </p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — Maui police held a news conference on Monday to show 16 minutes of body camera footage taken the day a wildfire tore through Lahaina town in August, including video of officers rescuing 15 people from a coffee shop and taking a severely burned man to a hospital.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Dreams shattered. Shops burned to the ground. Irreplaceable losses.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — A flow of recent data from the U.S. government has made one thing strikingly clear: A surge in consumer spending is fueling strong growth, demonstrating a resilience that has confounded economists, Federal Reserve officials and even the sour sentiments that Americans themselves have expressed in opinion polls.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JOLIET, Ill. — A man accused of murder, attempted murder and a hate crime in an attack on a Palestinian American woman and her young son pleaded not guilty Monday following his indictmen t by an Illinois grand jury.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Monday signed an ambitious executive order on artificial intelligence that seeks to balance the needs of cutting-edge technology companies with national security and consumer rights, creating an early set of guardrails that could be fortified by legislation and global agreements.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Joanne Alcoran, 76, of Kamuela, died Oct. 17 at home. Born in Kona, she was a retired gas station cashier. Private services to be held at a later date. Survived by daughters Wendy Miranda and Clarissa (Jayme) Carvalho; son Jon (Karlene Gaston) Alcoran; sister Cindy De Pontes Guzman; brothers Gary De Pontes and Ronald De Pontes; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/obituaries/obituaries-for-october-31-9/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin sought Monday to deflect blame from the Kremlin for a riot in the southern region of Dagestan that targeted a flight from Israel, charging without evidence that Ukrainian agents of Western spy agencies were behind the rampage.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LEWISTON, Maine — Five months before the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history, the gunman’s family alerted the local sheriff that they were becoming concerned about his deteriorating mental health while he had access to firearms, authorities said Monday.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Israeli ground forces pushed deeper into Gaza on Monday, advancing in tanks and other armored vehicles on the territory’s main city and freeing a soldier held captive by Hamas militants. The Israeli prime minister rejected calls for a cease-fire as airstrikes landed near hospitals where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering beside the wounded.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former Louisville police officer who fired into Breonna Taylor’s apartment the night she was killed is going on trial in federal court this week for violating Taylor’s civil rights during the botched 2020 raid.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Happy Halloween! On this day, the souls of the dead return to their homes, according to ancient Celtics who celebrated a festival called Samhain on Nov. 1. They dressed in costumes and lit bonfires to ward off spirits,</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/10/31/features/lets-talk-food-pumpkin-in-season/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DETROIT — The Detroit Lions can trace their turnaround to hitting more than missing in the draft.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stephen Curry scored 42 points in 30 minutes, and the Golden State Warriors remained unbeaten on the road with a 130-102 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PHOENIX — Corey Seager smashed a homer that rocketed off his bat at a speed few other mortals can match. Then he made a sliding stop and started a double play in the eighth inning that might have saved the game.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>EAGAN, Minn. — Kirk Cousins has a torn right Achilles tendon that will end his season, dampening the mood around the Minnesota Vikings after their recent resurgence and putting the front office and coaching staff in a scramble to figure out which quarterback to finish with.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PARIS (AP) — The list reads 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2019, 2021, and now 2023.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The state Department of Health is alerting residents about a voluntary recall by WanaBana of all of its Apple Cinnamon Fruit Puree pouch products distributed to retailers nationally, including online retailers such as Amazon.com.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A $5 million plan to restore a West Hawaii harbor is underway at the state Department of Land and Natural Resources.</p>
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
Bill 9-37, the measure to legalize consumer-grade fireworks on Guam, had proven to be one of the most contentious measures that lawmakers have taken up this session, drawing concerns about conflicts of interest, discourse on parliamentary procedure and even statements…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A bill in Congress to provide veterans with “adaptive vehicles at no cost” will get a public hearing on Thursday.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The University of Guam Press recently announced that it will be launching a children’s book series.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
As some call for local leaders to scale down plans for a full medical complex to just a new public hospital, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero asks “why do we limit ourselves” from the possibility of “getting comprehensive continuum, 360-degree care…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man suspected of violating a court order allegedly assaulted two officers with the Guam Police Department who had to use a stun gun and a baton to restrain him, while also preventing the man’s mother and a dog from…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
A man who last year was suspected of livestreaming a “joyride to prison” is facing new charges of aggravated assault.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/meta_ad_free_europe/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Health care is a prime example of how the disability community often gets overlooked by professionals.
The post Barriers for Disabled Persons Are Not All Physical appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/31/barriers-for-disabled-persons-are-not-all-physical/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
We went to visit Bern, walked through the botanical gardens, saw the bears, drank hot chocolate and finally went to see friends for dinner.
But before going there, we had set aside an hour to buy tea at Länggass Tee. We drank three different kinds of pu-ehr tea and I ended up buying a cake.
It is only now as we’re sitting in the train home that I see on their homepage that they got some Dongpian Oolong from Taiwan: A Li Shan Dong Pian 阿里山冬片 and Gu Keng Dong Pian 古坑冬. Should have bought some! Oh, and they bought some Korean tea, too! Ha Dong Dae Jak 河东大雀 하동대작, Ha Dong Se Jak 河东细雀 하동세작 and Jirisan Wu Jeon 智异山雨前 지리산우전.
Next time I really should read the website before we go visit, not on the way home.
Here’s what I bought:
I still have three bags of tea open, but I also don’t come often to Bern too often, so this is what I’ll be drinking in the coming year. 🍵
I also had to explain to my wife how little I knew and that I knew true tea nerds on fedi like @babelcarp who runs Babel Carp, “a Chinese Tea Lexicon”.
But first, drinking some Wu Yi Oolong Grade 1.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-10-19-tea
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Researchers say they have developed a method to remotely track the movement of objects in a room using mirrors and radio waves, in the hope it could one day help monitor nuclear weapons stockpiles.…
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
The Supreme Court of Guam has held that the island’s 30-year-old ban on abortion, Public Law 20-134, was repealed by implication through subsequent legislation and “no longer possesses any force or effect in Guam.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Is the pendulum now swinging back toward unions?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-new-uaw-deal-and-the-future-of
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/classifieds-october-31-2023/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Google has significantly advanced its efforts to have Android run on CPUs that use the RISC-V instruction set architecture.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/google_android_risc_v/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Basada en hechos reales, el protagonista y productor de la cinta Eugerio Derbez cuenta lo intimidante que fue interpretar el maestro Sergio Juárez.
https://www.fresnobee.com/vida-en-el-valle/entretenimiento/article280971088.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1923 – Newhall Chamber of Commerce petitions state to pave Spruce Street (now Main); it happens three years later [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-oct-31/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The bargaining team can call for a strike at any time and will picket on Nov. 9.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/graduate-student-workers-vote-to-authorize-strike/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Feuer served as the L.A. city attorney and in the California State Assembly.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/professor-discusses-govt-campaign/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
When his opportunity comes, Dustin Wolf will be ready to pounce.
The post Dustin Wolf: Hunting appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/dustin-wolf-hunting/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans snap their six-game losing streak in Salt Lake City.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/womens-volleyball-fights-on-in-mountain-west/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The 50-49 finish was an instant classic in the series finale between old foes.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/football-barely-survives-golden-bears-in-final-pac-12-showdown/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A crowded fan section helped propel USC past UC Berkeley.
The post Women’s soccer snaps four-game slump appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/womens-soccer-snaps-four-game-slump/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Undocumented students need a dedicated center, and LMU shows it’s possible.
The post USC can learn from LMU’s Dream Center appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/usc-can-learn-from-lmus-dream-center/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
I’m combatting my abysmal attention span through exposure therapy.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/when-a-writer-cannot-read/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Players fiercely competed
for a prize in the game of strategy
Saturday afternoon.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/checkmates-abound-at-chess-invitational/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The cast and crew of the School of Dramatic Arts’ newest production enchants the audience at their opening performance.
The post ‘Pippin’ brings forth magic, mayhem appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/pippin-brings-forth-magic-mayhem/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The event included around fifteen dogs, a photo booth and various animal experts.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/students-play-de-stress-with-puppies-on-campus/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC dominated having a singles finale featuring all USC players, along with a doubles crown.
The post Men’s tennis secures Intercollegiate Championships appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2023/10/31/mens-tennis-secures-intercollegiate-championships/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The government of Canada has decided that Tencent’s WeChat app, and Kaspersky’s security suite, are too risky to run on government-issued mobile devices.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/canada_wechat_kaspersky_ban/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Guam Daily Post
With a vote of nine to six, Bill 173-37, the energy credit extension measure, passed the Guam Legislature Tuesday afternoon.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Australia’s SBS will allow users of its video streaming services to opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/sbs_streaming_vice_ads_optout/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
A structure fire in Saugus on Monday night resulted in multiple L.A. County Fire Department engines being called to the scene, according to department officials. The Fire Department was called to the 28000 block of Oaklar Drive at 8:50 p.m. for a single-story dwelling that was well-involved, according to Supervisor Llacuna. As of the publication […]
The post Saugus home ‘well-involved’ upon firefighters’ arrival appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/saugus-home-well-involved-upon-firefighters-arrival/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Atlassian has told customers they “must take immediate action” to address a newly discovered flaw in its Confluence collaboration tool.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/critical_atlassian_confluence_flaw/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
Fresno County Superintendent’s Office may approve district-based voting for Clovis school board elections starting in 2024. Here’s what to know.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article280717660.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara attorney Tim Hale argues the streamlined bankruptcy process would deny survivors the opportunity to confront their abusers and high-ranking administrators under oath.
The post Child Abuse Claims Have Franciscans Contemplating Bankruptcy appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/30/child-abuse-claims-have-franciscans-contemplating-bankruptcy/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Vietnam will train 50,000 engineers to work in its semiconductor industry between now and 2030 ,as it seeks to embed itself further into the global chip supply chain.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/vietnam_semiconductor_industry_plan/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
General Motors and the United Auto Workers (UAW) struck a tentative deal on Monday, ending the union’s unprecedented six-week campaign of coordinated strikes that won record pay increases for workers at the Detroit Three automakers.
The accord follows deals the union reached in recent days with Ford and Chrysler-owner Stellantis— significant victories for auto workers after years of stagnant wages and painful concessions following the 2008 financial crisis.
“We wholeheartedly believe our strike squeezed every last dime out of General Motors,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a video address. “They underestimated us. They underestimated you.”
The union officially suspended its strike against the Detroit Three. UAW local leaders will come to Detroit on Friday to consider the deal with GM, before taking terms to all union workers for ratification.
“We are looking forward to having everyone back to work across all of our operations,” said GM CEO Mary Barra.
The new contracts will significantly raise costs for the automakers. The companies and some analysts have said the deals will make it harder for the Detroit Three to compete with electric-vehicle leader Tesla and nonunion foreign brands such as Toyota Motor.
The UAW won from GM roughly the same package of wage increases agreed with the other two automakers. Pay for veteran workers will rise by 33% and GM will give $2,500 in five payments to retirees through 2028.
Sources have said pension benefits were a sticking point in the UAW’s negotiations with GM, which has more retirees than Ford or Stellantis.
Fain said the union’s move on Saturday to strike a key GM engine factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, “landed the knockout blow” that got the deal.
The contract reverses years of efforts by GM to create lower-paid groups of UAW workers at units such as component plants, parts warehouses and electric vehicle battery operations. It puts workers at GM’s battery joint-venture with South Korea’s LG Energy under the national agreement.
Fain said some workers at GM’s component operations will get pay increases of as much as 89%.
The contract also restricts use of lower paid temporary workers. “We have slammed the door on having a permanent underclass of temporary workers at GM,” Fain said.
The UAW also gained more sway over the companies’ investment decisions by securing the right to strike over future plant closures.
All three companies have said they do not plan to close existing factories as they shift to EVs. Yet the contract could force them to keep unprofitable plants open during a recession or period of slow sales for new models.
Higher costs
A series of walkouts began on Sept. 15, and nearly 50,000 workers out of nearly 150,000 UAW members at the Detroit automakers eventually joined. The strategy of escalating strikes cost the Detroit Three and suppliers billions of dollars.
UAW leaders called their contract fight part of a larger movement to reverse decades of economic setbacks for working-class Americans. Some analysts agreed.
“This is more than an auto industry story; it is a signal to the entire country that unionized workers can demand and get big wage increases,” said Patrick Anderson of the Anderson Economic Group.
The new contract will cost GM $7 billion over 4.5 years in higher labor costs, two sources told Reuters. Ford said last week it would add $850 to $900 per vehicle in labor costs.
“Consumers will bear some of the cost burden over time … automakers will not have an easy time passing along all of the costs … and will have to seek efficiencies in other ways, or further limit production to more expensive vehicles that can absorb higher labor costs,” Cox Automotive’s chief economist, Jonathan Smoke, said.
Praise from Biden
U.S. President Joe Biden and politicians from both parties weighed in to support the UAW as the union’s fight gained popularity with voters. Michigan will again be a crucial swing state in the 2024 presidential election, and Fain made support for the union’s fight a condition of winning his endorsement. The UAW still has not formally endorsed Biden’s re-election.
“This historic contract is a testament to the power of unions and collective bargaining to build strong middle-class jobs while helping our most iconic American companies thrive,” Biden said in a statement. His aides had worried that a prolonged strike would damage the U.S. economy and the Democratic president’s chances of re-election in 2024.
The UAW has said it is committed to organizing workforces at other carmakers, making negotiations in 2028 between the union and the “Big Five or Big Six.”
Momentum toward deals accelerated over the past two weeks after UAW workers walked out at three of the most profitable factories in the world. The UAW eventually struck against nine plants.
“We have shown the companies, the American public and the whole world that the working class is not done fighting” Fain said. “In fact, we’re just getting started.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The school district is planning on keeping schools open. Most school events will be canceled, but some services will continue.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281216078.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Signal
Rabbi Marozov of Chabad of SCV spent four days in Israel with 27 other rabbis, brought humanitarian aid to victims of ‘brutal attack’ Rabbi Choni Marozov of Chabad of SCV didn’t know about the deadly attack on Israel by Hamas when it happened. The attack that occurred on Oct. 7 was in the middle of […]
The post <strong>Local rabbi visits Israel, delivers aid, details destruction</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/10/local-rabbi-visits-israel-delivers-aid-details-destruction/
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Apple has announced its M3 silicon, claimed they are the first CPUs for desktop computers built on a three-nanometre process, and packed them into its MacBook Pro and iMac products.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/10/31/apple_m3_cpus_macbook_pro_imac/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
New York City Ballet’s Tiler Peck turns it out and amps it up with a terrifically eclectic dance show.
The post Talent Beats Out Tutus and Tiaras in West Coast Premiere of ‘Turn It Out with Tiler Peck & Friends’ appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Playdate Blog
This bird brought a message in a bottle! Hello all, I’m ToadleyUnderControl, but I go by other forms of “Toad” across the internet! I’m the creator of Reel-istic Fishing, a chill/relaxing fishing game for the Playdate! The Prophe-sea With the arrival of Reel-istic Fishing, the curse that has gripped the Playdate since it was first announced has been broken. There had not been a big fishing game until its release, which is wild to me!
https://news.play.date/news/hook-line-sinker/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The White House welcomed the limited flow of humanitarian aid and the restoration of telecommunications in Gaza as Israel continued its ground offensive on Gaza in response to militant group Hamas’ October 7 attack. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from the White House.
date: 2023-10-31, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Green Party of Santa Barbara County Council joins with the Green Party U.S. in condemning the attacks on civilians, including children, perpetrated by both Hamas and Israel.
The post All Parties, Cease Fire appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/10/30/all-parties-cease-fire/
date: 2023-10-31, from: VOA News USA
The White House welcomed on Monday the limited flow of humanitarian aid and the restoration of telecommunications in Gaza as Israel continues its ground offensive on the enclave in response to the Hamas militant group’s stunning Oct. 7 attack.
It also repeated its warning to regional actors to stay out of the fight.
“Our message to any actor seeking to exploit this conflict is: don’t do it,” said John Kirby, director of strategic communications for the National Security Council. “And as you all know, we have strengthened our force posture in the region. We’re continually watching to make sure that any actor who might be tempted to jump in here knows that we will take very seriously our national security interests in the region, not to mention our obligation to protect our troops in our facilities that are going after ISIS in places like Iraq and Syria.”
But this conflict is also exploding in the court of public opinion. Hundreds of people stormed an airport in Russia’s Dagestan region over the weekend, shouting antisemitic slurs over the arrival of a flight from Tel Aviv.
Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the events on foreign interference, saying they “were inspired, including through social networks, not least from the territory of Ukraine by the agents of Western intelligence services.”
Kirby dismissed that.
“It’s classic Russian rhetoric, when something goes bad in your country: blame somebody else, blame it on outside influences. The West had nothing to do with this. This is just hate, bigotry and intimidation. Pure and simple,” he said.
“And a good leader, a decent leader will call it out for what it is the way President [Joe] Biden has called it out here in this country, instead of blaming the West for something and pushing it off to somebody else,” Kirby said.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dug in on his disagreement with the U.S.’ classification of Hamas as a terror group and shifted blame elsewhere.
“The West has the biggest responsibility for the massacre in Gaza,” Erdogan said.
Iranian officials have piled on as well, with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian taking to the rostrum at the United Nations last week to outline their view. Iranians have also protested on the streets.
“It has been three weeks that we have been witness to the war crimes and genocide of the occupying Israeli regime in Gaza and the West Bank of Palestine,” Amirabdollahian said during an emergency United Nations assembly earlier this month.
“The United States and several European countries have sided with the occupying regime of Israel without observing the U.N. charter and international law,” he said.
Kirby said the White House believes there is a fine line between disagreement and discord, adding the administration is vigilant over outbreaks of antisemitism.
“We believe in the right of peaceful protest, even if it’s, you know, espousing ideas we don’t agree with,” he said. “But we don’t – nobody wants – to see peaceful protests turn violent or turn dangerous the way that this mob activity did in Dagestan yesterday. So it’s of concern and it’s something that we’ll continue to talk about with our allies and partners.”
The U.S. is also seeing such protests – many supportive of Palestinians and critical of Israel – bubbling up at major U.S. universities in recent weeks.
Spelman College, a historically Black institution in Georgia, recently held a rally that drew hundreds of attendees in support of Palestinians. Attendees carried signs with messages like “Free Palestine” and “End all U.S. aid to Israel.”
Dr. Helene Gayle pointed to her institution’s main mission when VOA asked how the school tries to frame debates like these.
“What I really hope and believe is that we are teaching young people to be critical thinkers, teaching young people to go beyond sometimes the simple messages that they’re hearing sometimes misinformation that they may be getting – and really understand in a critical, analytic way what the what the issues are so that they can take positions that are well informed,” Gayle told VOA at the White House on Monday.
”You know, on Spelman’s campus, we are having opportunities to do teach-ins and learn about the situation between Israel and Palestine and thinking about how do we look at this in as balanced a way as we possibly can,” she said. “So that’s what I really hope, is that we’re continuing to teach a generation of young people who can be critical thinkers who can look at information and think about it in balanced ways so that they can be true spokespersons, but with a base of knowledge and information that informs their opinions.”
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
Apple’s newest Mac chips arrive next week, and the company is doing something a little unusual by launching three new variants at once. The new Apple M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max are all 3nm chips based on the same architecture, but the Pro and Max chips bring more CPU and GPU cores and other […]
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date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
With less than 48 hours until the scheduled strike, both sides issued a joint statement Monday and planned a joint news conference for Tuesday.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/education-lab/article281229793.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Fresno Bee Stories
The 21-year-old could spend the rest of his life in prison, the San Luis Obispo County District Attorney’s Office said.
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article281228933.html
date: 2023-10-31, from: Liliputing
The first PCs powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite processors are expected to arrive in mid-2024, with most major PC markers partnering with Qualcomm in one way or another. While we’ll probably have to wait a little longer for real-world reviews, Qualcomm is giving us a slightly better idea of what to expect from those […]
The post Qualcomm’s Snapdragon X Elite will come in 23W and 80W variants, will support Windows and Linux PCs appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-10-31, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SolarWinds and its chief infosec officer have been charged with fraud by America’s financial watchdog, which alleges the software maker knew its security was in a poor state ahead of the SUNBURST supply chain attack.…
date: 2023-10-31, from: Om Malik blog
Apple has released a new lineup of Macs, including MacBook Pros and the 24-inch iMac, all powered by M3 chips with a new GPU architecture, once again outpacing rival chipmakers. With these new products, Apple is finally embracing AI, in the way it knows best — through hardware and chips. Apple has introduced a new …
https://om.co/2023/10/30/apple-launches-m3-chips-with-ai/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
We’ve already covered the end of life of Windows CE, but Ars has a short but interesting look back at the history of this undeservedly unloved operating system. It was a proto-netbook, it was a palmtop, it was a PDA, it was Windows Phone 7 but not Windows Phone 8, and then it was an embedded ghost. It parents never seemed to know what to do with it after it grew up, beyond offer it up for anybody to shape in their own image. And then, earlier this month, with little notice, Windows CE was no more, at least as a supported operating system. I will never forget Windows CE.
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
In this release, the FreeBSD base system and kernel have been updated to 1302508, and it contains software updates, some improvements to Update Station, and new features to NetworkMgr. Also, os-generic-userland-devtools has been removed from the default installation to downsize the live system image. GhostBSD is an excellent option if you want a more turnkey FreeBSD-based desktop.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137672/ghostbsd-23-10-1-released/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
The goal of this post is to share how we, at the Browser Company, have made it possible to use Swift to build a modern Windows application. There is no UI framework for Windows written in Swift, and Windows itself is written in C++ – so that may leave you wondering, “how can I build my app on Windows”? Modern Windows applications use WinRT, a technology built on top of COM, which can interop really well with Swift, as we presented in our previous post. To be able to build idiomatic UI for Windows in Swift, we have built a language projection tool which creates idiomatic Swift language bindings for WinRT, and today we are open sourcing it at https://github.com/thebrowsercompany/swift-winrt. Swift/Winrt is based on Microsoft’s code generators for C++ (github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt) and C# (github.com/microsoft/cswinrt), and thus is written in C++. Cool stuff.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137670/swift-meet-winrt/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Master’s University men’s basketball team lost a very close 82-77 exhibition game against NCAA Division II Biola Saturday night in The MacArthur Center
https://scvnews.com/tmu-drops-second-exhibition-game-to-biola-77-82/
date: 2023-10-31, from: OS News
Since May, uBO has been in a cat-and-mouse game with YouTube. And they’ve shown incredible resilience, especially when you consider that there are only two people on the uBO team dealing with YouTube. The uBO team members are all volunteers. They’ve gone above and beyond to meet every little request from their users. But there’s a limit to how much they can take. At some point, the constant demands become too much, and they will leave uBO for good. It’s one thing to play cat and mouse with YouTube. It’s quite another to deal with a wave of angry users. Maybe that’s how YouTube will win this war of attrition. If you use YouTube enough, YouTube Premium is a great deal – albeit it a deal that’s steadily getting worse as Google increases its price.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137663/youtubes-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin/
date: 2023-10-31, from: SCV New (TV Station)
No. 16 College of the Canyons rushed for a combined 175 yards and three scores to take down host Moorpark College 35-30 on Saturday night, winning its fourth conference game of the season
https://scvnews.com/cougars-take-down-moorpark-college-35-30/
date: 2023-10-31, from: Crossref Blog
Similarity check update: A new similarity report and AI writing detection tool soon to be available to iThenticate v2 users
In May, we updated you on the latest changes and improvements to the new version of iThenticate and let you know that a new similarity report and AI writing detection tool were on the horizon.
On Wednesday 1 November 2023, Turnitin (who produce iThenticate) will be releasing a brand new similarity report and a free preview to their AI writing detection tool in iThenticate v2. The AI writing detection tool will be enabled by default and account administrators will be able to switch it off/on.
Turnitin will be running a webinar on their new similarity report and AI writing detection tool on Tuesday 28 November. More information on the webinar and how to register will be communicated by Turnitin in the coming weeks.
On Wednesday, all iThenticate v2 users will have access to the new version of the similarity report which will include:
a word count and the number of text blocks for each matched source
the ability to include or exclude overlapping sources from the overall similarity score
a clearer colour differentiation between the different sources
improved accessibility features
The new similarity report will be enabled as a default for all your journals. Account administrators wishing to switch off the new similarity report can do so by going to Settings and selecting from the General tab, under the New Similarity Report Experience heading, the Disable option.
As this will be a significant change to your current experience, Turnitin have provided access for a period of time to the ‘classic view’ and you will be able to toggle between the original interface and the new one by clicking on ‘Switch to the classic view’ or ‘Switch to the new view’ buttons at the top of your report.
The similarity score will continue to be available at the top right-hand corner of the similarity report.
By clicking on the Filters button you’ll be able to check and/or adjust your report’s section and repository exclusions.
Please note that the exclusions previously set up by account administrators should be unchanged by this release.
The Sources view will be the default view and will list all sources. By using the on/off button next to ‘Show overlapping sources’, you’ll be able to include or exclude overlapping sources. This will be ‘off’ as a default.
The
Match
Groups view is completely new and may not suit everyone’s
needs. It is divided into four categories ‘Not Cited or Quoted’,
‘Missing Quotations’, ‘Missing Citation’ and ‘Cited and Quoted’ and will
highlight matches found in your text.
You’ll also now find the PDF report in the top right-hand corner of the similarity report, by clicking on the ‘download’ icon.
‘Submission Details’ is located now under the ‘i’ icon in the top right-hand corner of your report. This is where you will find the oid (or unique number) for your manuscript which Turnitin will ask you to provide when you are reporting a technical issue.
Turnitin’s documentation for the new similarity report.
Many of you have been concerned about the use of AI writing in the research papers you’ve received since the launch of ChatGPT last November and have been in touch to enquire about the availability of an AI writing detection tool for Crossref members.
You will also have read that Turnitin have developed an AI writing detector tool and have made it available to their education sector customers since April. Turnitin have published an update in May, a helpful video and further information on the false positive rates in June based on the feedback they’ve received from the education community.
I am pleased to announce that Turnitin’s AI writing detection tool will be available as a free preview to iThenticate v2 users, via the new version of the similarity report, from Wednesday 1 November until the end of December 2023.
Our preference was to have the new AI writing detection tool turned ‘off’ as a default, however this hasn’t been possible. Account administrators can turn this feature off by going to Settings and selecting the Crossref Web tab and scrolling down to the AI Writing section at the very bottom of the page. The feature is applied to all submissions when it is enabled.
Please note that AI Writing detection is only available in the new similarity report.
There is currently no integration between manuscript tracking systems and the AI writing detection tool. However the AI score will be available via the similarity report. If the AI writing detection tool has been set as ‘off’ by the account administrator, there will be no score and the ‘AI Writing’ heading will not be visible on the similarity report:
Turnitin have made some important file requirements available for the tool to run a report:
Must be written in English
A minimum 300 words
A maximum of 15,000 words
The file size must be less than 100 MB
Accepted file types are .docx, .pdf, .rtf and .txt
If your file does not meet the above requirements, iThenticate v2 will display the following message:
Turnitin’s AI writing detection tool has been developed to detect GPT 3, 3.5, 4 and other variants. More information on this is available on their FAQs page.
Turnitin have provided the following guidance regarding the AI scores:
“Blue with a percentage between 0 and 100: The submission has processed successfully. The displayed percentage indicates the amount of qualifying text within the submission that Turnitin’s AI writing detection model determines was generated by AI. As noted previously, this percentage is not necessarily the percentage of the entire submission. If text within the submission was not considered long-form prose text, it will not be included.
Our testing has found that there is a higher incidence of false positives when the percentage is between 1 and 20. In order to reduce the likelihood of misinterpretation, the AI indicator will display an asterisk (*) for percentages between 1 and 20 to call attention to the fact that the score is less reliable.
To explore the results of the AI writing detection capabilities, select the indicator to open the AI writing report. The AI writing report opens in a new tab of the window used to launch the Similarity Report. If you have a pop-up blocker installed, ensure it allows Turnitin pop-ups.”
Please note that unlike the similarity report, the AI writing report will only provide a score and highlight the blocks of texts likely to have been written by an AI tool and will not list source matches.
We encourage you to test the writing detection tool as much as possible during the free preview period (1 November-31 December 2023).
Turnitin are planning to release a beta version of their new paraphrase detection tool at the end of this year/Q1, 2024. It will be initially available as a free preview for a short period of time.
Once the free preview period ends, Turnitin would like to offer Crossref members an AI and paraphrase detection bundle from 2024 - this means that if you choose to subscribe to this new service, you will be charged an additional fee each time you upload a manuscript.
Many of you have been waiting for fixes to the aggregation of URLs issues in the matched sources of the similarity report and to the doc-to-doc PDF report in iThenticate v2. Turnitin are planning to release fixes for these before the end of 2023.
✏️ Do get in touch via support@crossref.org if you have any questions about iThenticate v1 or v2 or start a discussion by commenting on this post below or in our Community Forum.
https://www.crossref.org/blog/new-similarity-report-and-ai-writing-detection-tool/