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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: 2023-12-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Guekos, Alexandros; Cole, David M.; Dörig, Monika; Stämpfli, Philipp; Schibli, Louis; Schuetz, Philipp; Schweinhardt, Petra; Meier, Michael Lukas
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/641231
date: 2023-11-30, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Kopf, Robert; Paschen, Christoph; Muller, Lavinia; Kocar, Berk; Wolfring, Martin; Vincent, Mathilde; Klemm, Denis; Bell, Christian; Pinto, Cosimo
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/637156
date: 2023-11-28, from: Liliputing
Handheld gaming PC maker AYA is stepping into the mini PC space with a compact computer designed to look like a classic Mac. It’s in keeping with the company’s habit of offering retro-inspired designs for some versions of its handhelds. First unveiled earlier this month, the AYA Neo Retro Mini PC AM01 is now available […]
The post AYA Neo AM01 mini PC with retro-inspired design hits Indiegogo for $150 and up appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Cybertruck hasn’t even hit the market yet, and Elon Musk already is lamenting that Tesla Inc. has dug its own grave.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/musks-cybertruck-is-already-a-production-nightmare-for-tesla/
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Project D.A.T.E., a student-run group devoted to raising awareness of sexual assault at CSUN, hosted a tabling event on Oct. 24th in the middle of the quad next to the Matador Statue. This is all a part of their annual campus-wide event, which is part of a national campaign called “It’s On Us” that seeks…
https://sundial.csun.edu/177194/news/project-d-a-t-e-raises-awareness-of-sexual-assault-on-campus/
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
A new America House is celebrating its opening in Odesa, making it the third major cultural and educational center in Ukraine supported and financed by the U.S. Embassy. America House Odesa was supposed to open in early 2022, but Russia’s invasion changed those plans. Anna Kosstutschenko visited the center and found out how the war altered its program. Camera — Pavel Suhodolskiy.
https://www.voanews.com/a/america-house-opens-in-odesa-despite-ongoing-war-in-ukraine-/7373414.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Los Gatos, El Cerrito to meet in a Top 10 showdown on Saturday in a NorCal regional as season nears the finish line.
date: 2023-11-28, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
A major theme of this blog since 2014’s Economies of Scale in Peer-to-Peer Networks has been that decentralized systems aren’t, because economic forces overwhelm the technologies of decentralization. Last year I noted that this rule applied to Decentralized Finance (DeFi) in Shadow Banking 2.0 based on Prof. Hilary Allen’s DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0? which she summarizes thus:TL;DR: DeFi is neither decentralized, nor very good finance, so regulators should have no qualms about clamping down on it to protect the stability of our financial system and broader economy.And also DeFi risks and the decentralisation illusion by Sirio Aramonte, Wenqian Huang and Andreas Schrimpf of the Bank for International Settlements who write:
While the main vision of DeFi’s proponents is intermediation without centralised entities, we argue that some form of centralisation is inevitable. As such, there is a “decentralisation illusion”. First and foremost, centralised governance is needed to take strategic and operational decisions. In addition, some features in DeFi, notably the consensus mechanism, favour a concentration of power.Below the fold I look at new evidence that the process of centralizing DeFi is essentially complete.
A small number of participants are dominating the world of decentralized finance as the crypto sector, which seeks to replicate financial markets without middlemen, still hasn’t recovered from FTX’s collapse a year ago.
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Most categories in DeFi — from peer-to-peer lending to decentralized exchanges — are seeing capital largely held in a few major projects, according to data compiled by crypto-risk modeling company Gauntlet. The firm used a popular measure of market concentration and competition called the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index.Wikipedia explains the HHI thus:
HHI is calculated by squaring the market share of each competing firm in the industry—expressed as either fractions, decimals, or whole numbers—and then summing the resulting numbers … The result is proportional to the average market share, weighted by market share. As such, it can range from 0 to 1.0, moving from a huge number of very small firms to a single monopolistic producer.
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Based on the metric, the most competition exists between decentralized finance exchanges, with the top four venues holding about 54% of total market share. Other categories including decentralized derivatives exchanges, DeFi lenders, and liquid staking, are much less competitive. For example, the top four liquid staking projects hold about 90% of total market share in that category, according to Gauntlet.
| Protocol | Revenue | Market |
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| $M | Share % | |
| Lido | 304 | 55.2 |
| Uniswap V3 | 55 | 10.0 |
| Maker DAO | 48 | 8.7 |
| AAVE V3 | 24 | 4.4 |
| Top 4 | 78.2 | |
| Venus | 18 | 3.3 |
| GMX | 14 | 2.5 |
| Rari Fuse | 14 | 2.5 |
| Rocket Pool | 14 | 2.5 |
| Pancake Swap AMM V3 | 13 | 2.4 |
| Compound V2 | 13 | 2.4 |
| Morpho Aave V2 | 10 | 1.8 |
| Goldfinch | 9 | 1.6 |
| Aura Finance | 8 | 1.5 |
| Yearn Finance | 7 | 1.3 |
| Stargate | 5 | 0.9 |
| Total | 551 |
https://blog.dshr.org/2023/11/decentralized-finance-isnt.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: TidBITS blog
If friends or relatives are asking or telling you about how NameDrop is a privacy risk based on Facebook posts from police departments, set them straight by explaining how it’s completely safe.
https://tidbits.com/2023/11/28/push-back-on-namedrop-privacy-insinuations/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Manu - I write blog
Time for probably the final housekeeping post of 2023. I doubt I’ll make a new one in December but we’ll see.
This site now runs on Kirby 4! I absolutely love Kirby, been using it to run this site since 2017 and I also used it for countless other projects. The new V4 has officially been released earlier today and the upgrade process went super smoothly. Only had to update 2 lines of code inside 1 single file and that was it. Stoked about that.
Next up, as mentioned in a previous post, Craig Mod has a new book out and copies are moving FAST. Signed copies have sold out in I think 24 hours and unsigned copies are also selling quickly. So if you want one, I suggest you act now and don't wait too long.
Carl is running a campaign on Product Hunt to spread the word about his 099. The project itself is neat and Carl has put a lot of effort into it so if you happen to be a PH user, just give it an upvote.
Lastly, an update from me: I’m busy as hell, working on way too many things at once but also excited because it’s nice to have things to do, plus Christmas is approaching fast and that puts me in a good mood 🎄
https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/Cjt8gGpvO18K3ort
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Elliott Investment Management is taking a close interest in US wireless cell tower provider Crown Castle, disclosing a $2 billion stake in the company and pushing for a change of leadership to counter a “value-destructive strategy.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/elliott_crown_castle_changes/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The weeks around Thanksgiving and Christmas are often some of the busiest times of the year for food banks. And demand is up this year, as holiday expenses compound the stress that inflation and the end of pandemic-related federal benefits have placed on household budgets. Also on the program: a fast fashion IPO and a first for sustainable aviation.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Liliputing
GameKiddy is starting to show off an upcoming handheld game console that looks like it could be positioned as a competitor to the tiny Anbernic RG Nano. The company began sharing details about the GKD Pixel in September, and now we have more details about the tiny console, which should be available soon from RetroCN. […]
The post GKD Pixel coming soon (tiny handheld game console with a 2 inch screen) appeared first on Liliputing.
https://liliputing.com/gkd-pixel-coming-soon-tiny-handheld-game-console-with-a-2-inch-screen/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
On Nov. 28, 1983, space shuttle Columbia took to the skies for its sixth trip into space on the first dedicated science mission using the Spacelab module provided by the European Space Agency (ESA). The longest shuttle mission at the time also included many other firsts. Aboard Columbia to conduct dozens of science experiments, the […]
https://www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-sts-9-the-first-spacelab-science-mission/
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Complete with 98 Christmas trees, 72 wreaths and 2.8 miles of ribbon, the White House has been transformed into a classic winter wonderland for the holidays.
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
As a customer you wield tremendous influence over what is sold in theme parks.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/niles-who-really-makes-the-decisions-at-disneyland/
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Victim takes firearm away from him in Campbell incident.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/man-brandishes-handgun-at-someone-who-got-in-his-face/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
This new Picture of the Month from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/webb-telescope-a-prominent-protostar-in-perseus/
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
Hunter Biden on Tuesday offered to testify publicly before the U.S. Congress in response to a subpoena from Republicans investigating nearly every aspect of his business dealings as they pursue an impeachment inquiry into his father, President Joe Biden.
The Democratic president’s son slammed the inquiry as a “fishing expedition” and refused to give closed-door testimony but said he would “answer any pertinent and relevant question” in front of the House Oversight Committee next month, setting up a potential high-stakes face-off.
Representative James Comer of Kentucky, the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, subpoenaed Hunter Biden in early November in the inquiry’s most aggressive step yet and one that tests the reach of congressional oversight powers. Comer’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.
So far, Republicans have failed to uncover evidence directly implicating President Biden in any wrongdoing. But lawmakers insist their evidence paints a troubling picture of “influence peddling” in the Biden family’s business dealings, particularly with clients overseas.
The subpoena demanded Hunter Biden appear before the Oversight Committee for a deposition by mid-December. His uncle James Biden was subpoenaed the same day, as well as former business associate Rob Walker.
Hunter Biden’s attorney Abbe Lowell said in Tuesday’s letter that his client had “misgivings about your motives and purpose” but had previously offered to speak with the committee without a response.
“Your empty investigation has gone on too long wasting too many better-used resources. It should come to an end,” Lowell wrote. “From all the individuals you have requested depositions or interviews, all you will learn is that your accusations are baseless. However, the American people should see that for themselves.”
He offered to appear on December 13, the date named in the subpoena, or another day next month.
The subpoenas were bitterly opposed by Democrats, and the White House called for the subpoenas to be withdrawn. Richard Sauber, special counsel to the president, wrote that the subpoenas are “irresponsible” and the product of an overzealous House GOP majority that “weaponized the oversight powers of Congress.”
Congressional Republicans are also probing the Justice Department’s handling of a criminal investigation into Hunter Biden’s business dealings. That long-running case had been expected to end with a plea deal, but it imploded during a July plea hearing.
Hunter Biden is now charged with three firearms felonies related to the 2018 purchase of a gun during a period he has acknowledged being addicted to drugs. No new tax charges have been filed, but prosecutors have indicated they are possible in Washington or California, where he now lives.
https://www.voanews.com/a/hunter-biden-offers-to-testify-publicly-before-congress/7373342.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Man says old neighbor pepper sprayed him.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/customer-bites-staff-at-charleys-los-gatos/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Privacy activist group noyb (None Of Your Business) has filed a data protection complaint against Meta over the “Pay or Okay” subscription model, one it reckons is now being considered by many of Meta’s rivals.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/metas_eu_privacy_fee_triggers/
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
The vehicle struck a commercial building on Potrero Avenue a block from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/dying-mans-car-crashes-into-san-francisco-building/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
A new catalog produced by a French-led international team of astronomers shows that NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered 294 gamma-ray-emitting pulsars, while another 34 suspects await confirmation. This is 27 times the number known before the mission launched in 2008. “Pulsars touch on a wide range of astrophysics research, from cosmic rays and […]
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
From Palo Alto to Oakland, here are some great restaurants and markets that offer matzo ball soup, challah, brisket and more.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/3-great-bay-area-hot-spots-for-hanukkah-fare-to-go/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
A braintrust query for implementors of rssCloud. Do you ping only when an item is created, or every time it changes?
http://scripting.com/2023/11/28.html#a142358
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Light, widespread rain was expected to return to the Bay Area beginning Tuesday night and into Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/11/28/rain-chances-set-to-return-to-the-bay-area-on-tuesday-night/
date: 2023-11-28, from: San Jose Mercury News
Studies show that girls self-confidence peaks at age 9 – and through its twice-weekly model, Girls on the Run is hoping to change that.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
The Office of the Attorney General has launched an investigation into “illegal damages” to public roadways allegedly caused by the Guam Waterworks Authority.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
A man was charged in connection to a burglary at an Anigua residence and subsequently running from officers with the Guam Police Department on Thanksgiving.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
A man on pretrial release in a felony case filed last month was accused of assaulting a man with a flashlight and a baseball bat.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
A man who allegedly was found with two meth pipes in his pants pocket told officers with the Guam Police Department, “This is not my pants.”
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
The number of traffic deaths this year has now reached 29, which is more than double the number in 2022.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero met with a full room of health care workers Monday night for an informational meeting on the medical complex, one of several such meetings the governor has held to drum up support for the project.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. Frank Blas Jr. is asking Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero to utilize American Rescue Plan funding to upgrade the Southern Region Community Health Center, including the addition of a 24-hour urgent care facility, to better serve the island’s southern residents.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The newly discovered stela depicts a figure with a headdress, a necklace, swords and male genitalia
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-28, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Posted on Threads: “Replies are almost always spam, they aren’t talking to the author (though technically they are), rather they are talking over the author’s head, trying to reach the people who read the author’s post. If this is what’s really going on, surely we can come up with a more realistic structure/UI that doesn’t even involve the author.”
http://scripting.com/2023/11/28.html#a135336
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
International law enforcement investigators have made a number of high-profile arrests after tracking a major cybercrime group for more than four years.…
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
It’s Giving Tuesday. And donations, no matter how small, make a difference. And so does your time. Here’s our guide to donating and volunteering in and around L.A.
https://laist.com/news/los-angeles-activities/los-angeles-gift-guide-giving-tuesday-2023
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
SAG-AFTRA negotiators won first-of-their-kind protections around artificial intelligence. But some performers still have concerns.
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
Right now, many candidates do not buy space in printed sample ballots because they say it’s cost prohibitive. A new plan would add lower-cost online publishing.
https://laist.com/news/politics/la-county-candidates-lower-cost-online-publishing-ballot-statements
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
The vast majority of people housed over the past year have moved into temporary housing.
https://laist.com/news/politics/bass-says-she-has-housed-18-000-angelenos-but-will-they-stay-housed
date: 2023-11-28, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Christopher Barnatt (of Explaining Computers) has gone and built his own Raspberry Pi 500. He beat us to it!
The post Explaining Computers beat us to Raspberry Pi 500 appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/explaining-computers-beat-us-to-raspberry-pi-500/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
There was good news for Microsoft and bad news for Musk in the 2023 Online Nation report by the UK’s data regulator. It seems Brits are falling out of love with X – formerly Twitter.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/uk_twitter_stats_down/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Marketplace Morning Report
If you couldn’t make it to some of the biggest concerts of the year, no problem. Beyoncé’s Renaissance film comes out this Friday, which follows Taylor Swift’s highly popular Eras Tour film. The flicks provide another boost to the artists but also give movie theaters the chance to profit off of ticket sales and themed food or merchandise. Also: hopes for Giving Tuesday and a preview of holiday toy sales.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Insurance companies are making climate risk worse: How to break the climate insurance doom-loop. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Insurance companies are making climate risk worse (permalink) Conservatives may deride the “reality-based community” as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed to remain tethered to reality by two unbreakable fetters: auditing and insurance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community No matter how much you value profit over ethics or human thriving, you still need honest books – even if you never show those books to the taxman or the marks. Even an outright scammer needs to know what’s coming in and what’s going out so they don’t get caught in a liquidity trap (that is, “broke”), or overleveraged (“broke,” again) exposed to market changes (you guessed it: “broke”). Unfortunately for capitalism, auditing is on its deathbed. The market is sewn up by the wildly corrupt and conflicted Big Four accounting firms that are the very definition of too big to fail/too big to jail. They keep cooking books on behalf of management to the detriment of investors. These double-entry fabrications conceal rot in giant, structurally important firms until they implode spectacularly and suddenly, leaving workers, suppliers, customers and investors in a state of utter higgeldy-piggeldy: https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/29/great-andersens-ghost/#mene-mene-bezzle In helping corporations defraud institutional investors, auditors are facilitating mass scale millionaire-on-billionaire violence, and while that may seem like the kind of fight where you’re happy to see either party lose, there are inevitably a lot of noncombatants in the blast radius. Since the Enron collapse, the entire accounting sector has turned to quicksand, which is a big deal, given that it’s what industrial capitalism’s foundations are anchored to. There’s a reason my last novel was a thriller about forensic accounting and Big Tech: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865847/red-team-blues But accounting isn’t the only bedrock that’s been reduced to slurry here in capitalism’s end-times. The insurance sector is meant to be an unshakably rational enterprise, imposing discipline on the rest of the economy. Sure, your company can do something stupid and reckless, but the insurance bill will be stonking, sufficient to consume the expected additional profits. But the crash of 2008 made it clear that the largest insurance companies in the world were capable of the same wishful thinking, motivated reasoning, and short-termism that they were supposed to prevent in every other business. Without AIG – one of the largest insurers in the world – there would have been no Great Financial Crisis. The company knowingly underwrote hundreds of billions of dollars in junk bonds dressed up as AAA debt, and required a $180b bailout. Still, many of us have nursed an ember of hope that the insurance sector would spur Big Finance and its pocket governments into taking the climate emergency seriously. When rising seas and wildfires and zoonotic plagues and famines and rolling refugee crises make cities, businesses, and homes uninsurable risks, then insurers will stop writing policies and the doom will become undeniable. Money talks, bullshit walks. But while insurers have begun to withdraw from the most climate-endangered places (or crank up premiums), the net effect is to decrease climate resilience and increase risk, creating a “climate risk doom loop” that Advait Arun lays out brilliantly for Phenomenal World: https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the-doom-loop/ Part of the problem is political: as people move into high-risk areas (flood-prone coastal cities, fire-threatened urban-wildlife interfaces), politicians are pulling out all the stops to keep insurers from disinvesting in these high-risk zones. They’re loosening insurance regs, subsidizing policies, and imposing “disaster risk fees” on everyone in the region. But the insurance companies themselves are simply not responding aggressively enough to the rising risk. Climate risk is correlated, after all: when everyone in a region is at flood risk, then everyone will be making a claim on the insurance company when the waters come. The insurance trick of spreading risk only works if the risks to everyone in that spread aren’t correlated. Perversely, insurance companies are heavily invested in fossil fuel companies, these being reliable money-spinners where an insurer can park and grow your premiums, on the assumption that most of the people in the risk pool won’t file claims at the same time. But those same fossil-fuel assets produce the very correlated risk that could bring down the whole system. The system is in trouble. US claims from “natural disasters” are topping $100b/year – up from $4.6b in 2000. Home insurance premiums are up (21%!), but it’s not enough, especially in drowning Florida and Texas (which is also both roasting and freezing): https://grist.org/economics/as-climate-risks-mount-the-insurance-safety-net-is-collapsing/ Insurers who put premiums up to cover this new risk run into a paradox: the higher premiums get, the more risk-tolerant customers get. When flood insurance is cheap, lots of homeowners will stump up for it and create a big, uncorrelated risk-pool. When premiums skyrocket, the only people who buy flood policies are homeowners who are dead certain their house is gonna get flooded out and soon. Now you have a risk pool consisting solely of highly correlated, high risk homes. The technical term for this in the insurance trade is: “bad.” But it gets worse: people who decide not to buy policies as prices go up may be doing their own “motivated reasoning” and “mispricing their risk.” That is, they may decide, “If I can’t afford to move, and I can’t afford to sell my house because it’s in a flood-zone, and I can’t afford insurance, I guess that means I’m going to live here and be uninsured and hope for the best.” This is also bad. The amount of uninsured losses from US climate disaster “dwarfs” insured losses: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/hurricanes-floods-bring-120-billion-insurance-losses-2022-2023-01-09/ Here’s the doom-loop in a nutshell: As carbon emissions continue to accumulate, more people are put at risk of climate disaster, while the damages from those disasters intensifies. Vulnerability will drive disinvestment, which in turn exacerbates vulnerability. Also: the browner and poorer you are, the worse you have it: you are impacted “first and worst”: https://www.climaterealityproject.org/frontline-fenceline-communities As Arun writes, “Tinkering with insurance markets will not solve their real issues—we must patch the gaping holes in the financial system itself.” We have to end the loop that sees the poorest places least insured, and the loss of insurance leading to abandonment by people with money and agency, which zeroes out the budget for climate remediation and resiliency where it is most needed. The insurance sector is part of the finance industry, and it is disinvesting in climate-endagered places and instead doubling down on its bets on fossil fuels. We can’t rely on the insurance sector to discipline other industries by generating “price signals” about the true underlying climate risk. And insurance doesn’t just invest in fossil fuels – they’re also a major buyer of municipal and state bonds, which means they’re part of the “bond vigilante” investors whose decisions constrain the ability of cities to raise and spend money for climate remediation. When American cities, territories and regions can’t float bonds, they historically get taken over and handed to an unelected “control board” who represents distant creditors, not citizens. This is especially true when the people who live in those places are Black or brown – think Puerto Rico or Detroit or Flint. These control board administrators make creditors whole by tearing the people apart. This is the real doom loop: insurers pull out of poor places threatened by climate disasters. They invest in the fossil fuels that worsen those disasters. They join with bond vigilantes to force disinvestment from infrastructure maintenance and resiliency in those places. Then, the next climate disaster creates more uninsured losses. Lather, rinse, repeat. Finance and insurance are betting heavily on climate risk modeling – not to avert this crisis, but to ensure that their finances remain intact though it. What’s more, it won’t work. As climate effects get bigger, they get less predictable – and harder to avoid. The point of insurance is spreading risk, not reducing it. We shouldn’t and can’t rely on insurance creating price-signals to reduce our climate risk. But the climate doom-loop can be put in reverse – not by market spending, but by public spending. As Arun writes, we need to create “a global investment architecture that is safe for spending”: https://tanjasail.wordpress.com/2023/10/06/a-world-safe-for-spending/ Public investment in emissions reduction and resiliency can offset climate risk, by reducing future global warming and by making places better prepared to endure the weather and other events that are locked in by past emissions. A just transition will “loosen liquidity constraints on investment in communities made vulnerable by the financial system.” Austerity is a bad investment strategy. Failure to maintain and improve infrastructure doesn’t just shift costs into the future, it increases those costs far in excess of any rational discount based on the time value of money. Public institutions should discipline markets, not the other way around. Don’t give Wall Street a veto over our climate spending. A National Investment Authority could subordinate markets to human thriving: https://democracyjournal.org/arguments/industrial-policy-requires-public-not-just-private-equity/ Insurance need not be pitted against human survival. Saving the cities and regions whose bonds are held by insurance companies is good for those companies: “Breaking the climate risk doom loop is the best disaster insurance policy money can buy.” I found Arun’s work to be especially bracing because of the book I’m touring now, The Lost Cause, a solarpunk novel set in a world in which vast public investment is being made to address the climate emergency that is everywhere and all at once: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865939/the-lost-cause There is something profoundly hopeful about the belief that we can do something about these foreseeable disasters – rather than remaining frozen in place until the disaster is upon us and it’s too late. As Rebecca Solnit says, inhabiting this place in your imagination is “Completely delightful. Neither utopian nor dystopian, it portrays life in SoCal in a future woven from our successes (Green New Deal!), failures (climate chaos anyway), and unresolved conflicts (old MAGA dudes). 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date: 2023-11-28, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: The first transatlantic flight powered only by what’s being called “sustainable aviation fuel” is due to take off from London today. Plus, a Swedish court has ruled that the country’s transport authority has to find a way to get license plates to Tesla, because postal workers are on strike. Then, TikTok’s owner ByteDance says it’s downsizing its gaming division.
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
Almost all U.S. jobs, from truck driver to childcare provider to software developer, include skills that can be done, or at least supplemented, by generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), according to a recent report.
GenAI is artificial intelligence that can generate high-quality content based on the input data used to train it.
“AI is likely to touch every part of every job to some degree,” says Cory Stahle, an economist with Indeed.com, which released the report.
The report finds that almost one in five jobs (19.7%) — like IT operations, mathematics and information design — faces the highest risk of being affected by AI because at least 80% of the job skills those positions require can be done reasonably well by GenAI.
But that doesn’t mean that those jobs will eventually be lost to robots.
“It’s important to recognize that, in general, these technologies don’t affect entire occupations. It actually is very rare that a robot will show up, sit in somebody’s seat to do everything that someone does at their job,” says Michael Chui of the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), who researches the impact of technology and innovation on business, the economy and society.
Indeed.com researchers analyzed more than 55 million job postings and found that GenAI can perform 50% to almost 80% of the skills required in 45.7% of those job listings. In 34.6% of jobs listed, GenAI can handle less than 50% of the skills.
Jobs that require manual skills or a personal touch, such as nursing and veterinary care, are the least likely to be hard hit by AI, the report says.
In the past, technological advances have mostly affected manual labor. However, GenAI is expected to have the most effect on so-called knowledge workers, generally defined as people who create knowledge or think for a living.
But, for now, AI does not appear poised to steal anyone’s job.
“There are very few jobs that AI can do completely. Even in jobs where AI can do many of the skills, there are still aspects of those jobs that AI cannot do,” Stahle says.
Rather than replace workers, researchers expect GenAI to enhance the work people already do, making them more efficient.
“This is something that, in many ways, we believe is going to unlock human potential and productivity for many workers across many different sectors of the economy,” Stahle says.
“There are a number of things that can happen,” Chui adds. “One is, we simply do more of something we were already doing, and so imagine if you’re a university professor or a teacher, and the grading can be done by machine rather than you. You can take those hours and, instead of grading, you can actually start tutoring your students, spending more time with your students, improving their performance, helping them learn.”
American workers need to begin using the new technology if they hope to remain competitive, according to Chui.
“Workers who are best able to use these technologies will be the most competitive workers in the workforce,” he says. “It was true before, but it’s more true than ever, that we’re all going to have to be lifetime learners.”
A survey developed by Chui finds that almost 80% of workers have experimented with AI tools.
“One of the great powers of these generative AI tools, so far, is they’ve been designed in such a way to make it easy for really anybody to use these types of tools,” Stahle says. “I really believe that people should be looking to embrace these tools and find ways to incorporate them into the work that they’re already interested in doing.”
Ultimately, could one of the unexpected benefits of AI be more efficient employees who work less?
“In general, Americans work a lot,” Chui says. “Maybe we don’t have to work so long. Maybe we have a four-day work week … and so you could give that time back to the worker.”
https://www.voanews.com/a/is-ai-about-to-steal-your-job-/7366173.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
As the weather turns a bitter cold at night and waves of winter storms re-christen our brown hills with bright green, our seasonal climate change begs us to wonder about our fellow citizens who are camped out in the riverbed or in some alleyway behind a shopping center on Bouquet Canyon Road. I read the […]
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date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Document database Couchbase is adding a columnar side-car to boost analytics performance for users who want more insight into their real-time data.…
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date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Microsoft is open sourcing the realtime operating system that it acquired with Express Logic, donating it to the Eclipse Foundation.…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday he is confident the United States will continue to provide support for Ukraine amid divisions among U.S. lawmakers about approving more funding for the Ukraine war effort.
Speaking to reporters before the start of two days of talks with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels, Stoltenberg lauded what he called the unprecedented military support NATO allies have provided to Ukraine in response to Russia’s invasion.
“The challenge now is that we need to sustain that support,” Stoltenberg said.
He described supporting Ukraine as NATO’s obligation, saying that a Russian victory in Ukraine would be both a “tragedy for Ukrainians” and dangerous to NATO members.
Stoltenberg met with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken before the start of the ministerial meeting.
“We will be strongly reaffirming our support for Ukraine as it continues to face Russia’s war of aggression,” Blinken told reporters in a joint appearance with Stoltenberg.
Wednesday, Blinken will lead the U.S. delegation to NATO member North Macedonia, which is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe or OSCE in its capital Skopje later this week.
The United States is hosting the next NATO summit in Washington from July 9 to 11, 2024.
Blinken will discuss priorities for the Washington meeting with his counterparts as the alliance celebrates its 75th anniversary next year.
NATO-Ukraine Council foreign ministers
The chief U.S. diplomat is also set to attend the first foreign minister-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council as Kyiv aspires to be a NATO member.
“The Council supports Ukraine’s close partnership with NATO,” said Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Jim O’Brien. “Allies will continue to support Ukraine’s self-defense until Russia stops its war of aggression,” he added.
The NATO-Ukraine Council was inaugurated at the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other heads of member governments also in attendance.
It convened for the second time in late July to discuss Black Sea security following Russia’s withdrawal from a deal overseeing grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
The third meeting was held in October to discuss substantial assistance to Ukraine and to ensure Ukraine’s forces are fully interoperable with NATO.
The NATO-Ukraine Council is the joint body where Allies and Ukraine sit as equal participants to advance political dialogue.
Western Balkans
One of the sessions at this week’s NATO foreign ministers’ meeting is to address security and democracy in the Western Balkans.
“A stable, prosperous future for the Western Balkans must be based on good governance, rule of law, multi-ethnic democracy, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” O’Brien said.
NATO officials have affirmed the alliance’s commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment while contributing to broader stability in the Western Balkans.
The statement came in response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s earlier warning this month, in which he conveyed information suggesting that Russia has a plan for the destabilization of the Balkans.
Speaking on Nov. 21 in Skopje, North Macedonia, during the final stop of a tour of the Western Balkans, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg stated that the alliance closely monitors Russia’s activities in the region. But he said there is currently no perceived military threat to any NATO member in the area.
North Macedonia, OSCE
After the government of North Macedonia announced that it would briefly lift a flight ban and permit the plane carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to land in Skopje for the OSCE ministerial, Lavrov said on Monday he would attend the OSCE foreign ministers meeting in North Macedonia if Bulgaria opened its air space to the Russian delegation.
North Macedonia’s sanctions will remain in place against Russia for all other flights.
Most European countries banned flights from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
O’Brien declined to comment on whether there will be any interaction between Lavrov, should he attend the OSCE ministerial, and the U.S. delegation but told VOA during a phone briefing that U.S. Secretary of State Blinken will “have a good discussion with” OSCE counterparts about U.S. “support for Ukraine.”
Some information for this story came from Reuters.
https://www.voanews.com/a/stoltenberg-confident-of-continued-us-support-for-ukraine/7373067.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
Where have you been in the last two decades when the Palestinians needed you? Where were you in 2005 when Hamas abducted, tortured and murdered Palestinians who were — often falsely — accused of “collaborating” with Israel and others? Where was the outcry when Hamas seized power in 2007, ending the fledgling democracy in […]
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date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Competition Another year has passed, and another of Microsoft’s Christmas sweaters is seeking a new home. Come up with a suggestion for OpenAI’s next CEO, and our retro Paint-themed monstrosity could be yours.…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The UH-Hilo men’s and women’s basketball teams played a double-header, sweeping Northwest Indian College on Saturday at Afook-Chinen Civic Auditorium.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/28/sports/vulcan-basketball-teams-collect-more-wins/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WAIMEA — Hawaii Preparatory Academy held its 50th annual Ka Makani Soccer Classic from Friday through Sunday.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/28/sports/hpa-hosts-50th-annual-soccer-tourney/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ORLANDO, Fla. — Pete Antonacci, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ election fraud office director and former Broward County elections supervisor, lay “dead or dying” in a governor’s office hallway for 24 minutes last year before anyone came to his aid, The Florida Bulldog reported.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Israel and Hamas agreed to extend their cease-fire for two more days past Monday, raising the prospect of further exchanges of militant-held hostages for Palestinians imprisoned by Israel and a longer halt to their deadliest and most destructive war.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Consumers are scouring the internet for online deals as they begin to cap off the five-day post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza with Cyber Monday.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Elon Musk, under fire for amplifying antisemitic content on X, accompanied Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on a visit to a town devastated by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BURLINGTON, Vt. — Three college students of Palestinian descent out for a walk in Vermont were seriously injured over the weekend when a man shot them at close range on a city street — an attack being investigated as a possible hate crime, authorities said Monday.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KYIV, Ukraine — Grain thunders into rail cars and trucks zip around a storage facility in central Ukraine, a place that growing numbers of companies turned to as they struggled to export their food to people facing hunger around the world.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Support for TMT
and astronomy</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/28/opinion/your-views-for-november-28-7/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>As the holiday season continues, residents are once again advised to be cautious about scams.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A 65-year-old Mountain View man is accused of attacking a woman with a machete and a man with a baseball bat after they allegedly confronted him about property they say the man stole from them.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The first step of the demolition of the former Uncle Billy’s Hilo Bay Hotel is about to begin.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A man who has known Patricia Hanoa Wong since childhood testified Monday in Hilo Circuit Court that she offered him money “to take Buggy out.”</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Amid record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb a centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Campaigning in Iowa this year, Donald Trump said he was prevented during his presidency from using the military to quell violence in primarily Democratic cities and states.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p> Dalton, Georgia, was once known as the carpet capital of the country. Economic diversification meant branching out from wall-to-wall to hardwood flooring. Now, at Qcells, a solar panel company, robots patrol acres of shop floor where delicate solar cells are packaged, laminated and boxed into sophisticated panels — almost 30,000 a day at peak production — in a highly automated production line.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Minimum-wage employees in Hawaii will get a pay hike of nearly 17% to kick off the new year.</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>John “Junior” “Drake” Freitas Adrian Jr., 81, of Hilo died Nov. 11 at home. Born in Honolulu, he was a retired heavy equipment operator for Yamada &Sons Inc., U.S. Navy Seabee and Hawaii Army National Guard veteran, member of St. Anthony Catholic Church and founding member of the Big Island Early Irons Car Club. Visitation 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 7, at Dodo Mortuary Chapel. Memorial service at 6 p.m. Graveside urn committal service 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 9, at St. Anthony Catholic Church Cemetery in Laupahoehoe. Casual attire. Survived by wife, Andrea Adrian of Hilo; son, Chad (Julie) Adrian of Mountain View; daughter, Chantel (Sean Pedrina) Adrian of Laupahoehoe; brother-in-law, Jack (Lois) Rouse of Moravia, N.Y.; four grandchildren; nieces, nephews and cousins. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2023/11/28/obituaries/obituaries-for-november-28-7/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The winners of the KTA Super Stores Kona Coffee Recipe Contest were as follows:</p>
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
I have lived in Val Verde for over 22 years. I cannot believe the L.A. County Regional Planning Department is going ahead with this 200-plus-home development with the issues that exist in this area. The Chiquita Canyon Landfill is having major environmental and health problems with its operations. The Air Quality Management District had a […]
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date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Review Logitech’s latest take on ergonomic keyboards is a divisive device. It will delight users seeking palm rests but annoy key bashers more accustomed to chiclet or mechanical models.…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Robert Reich on Substack
I gave a speech that turned out to be prescient, but the White House was furious.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/my-warning-from-1994-and-its-backstory
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ukrainian government cyber snoops claim they’ve infiltrated the computer systems of Russia’s federal air transport agency Rosaviatsiya, and stolen data that shows the invading nation’s civil aviation sector is on the “verge of collapse.”…
date: 2023-11-28, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1950 – CalArts grad Ed Harris (“A Beautiful Mind,” “Apollo 13,” “Westworld”) born in New Jersey. [link
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-nov-28/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Samsung Electronics has established a “Future Business Planning Group” to figure out what’s next for the manufacturing giant.…
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
After lambasting Nvidia’s efforts to limbo-dance under US export restrictions against China, the CEO of chips-for-AI outfit Cerebras, Andrew Feldman, is back in the spotlight amid revelations one of his largest customers, G42, may be aiding the Middle Kingdom, to the ire of Uncle Sam.…
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date: 2023-11-28, from: Tilde.news
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
Former U.S. first lady Rosalynn Carter is set to be honored Tuesday at a tribute service in Atlanta.
Her husband, 99-year-old former President Jimmy Carter, who entered hospice care in February, plans to attend Tuesday’s service.
The Carter Center said the list of expected guests included President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, along with Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and former first ladies Melania Trump, Michelle Obama and Laura Bush.
Rosalynn Carter died Nov. 19 at the age of 96.
A funeral is planned for Wednesday in Plains, Georgia, followed by a private interment at the family’s home.
Memorial events began Monday with members of the public given the opportunity to pay their respects at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library.
Some information for this story came from The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
India’s government has granted its Computer Emergency Response Team, CERT-In, immunity from Right To Information (RTI) requests – the nation’s equivalent of the freedom of information queries in the US, UK, or Australia.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/cert_in_rti_exemption/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. Frank Blas Jr. is calling attention to the mold issue at the Guam Memorial Hospital, telling Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero that it is unacceptable to let the problem persist and not prioritize efforts to tackle it.
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Re:Invent AWS has previewed AppFabric for productivity, which promises to use generative AI to “provide personalized insights and recommended actions generated from context across a user’s other applications.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/aws_appfabric/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Cainan Birchim and Hazel Dugre are the SBART male and female athletes of the week.
The post SBART Press Luncheon: Santa Barbara High Cross Country Returns Victorious appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Australia’s Digital Industry Group (DIGI), the industry association for organizations that invest in online safety, privacy, and cyber security, has decided to withdraw X’s place in the voluntary code that oversees efforts to stop the spread of misinformation.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/x_australia_trouble/
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity is holding listening sessions for anyone interested in learning more or providing input about the upcoming proposed sidewalk vending ordinance for unincorporated areas of the county. According to the DEO website, the county is “considering a new law that will allow residents to legally operate a sidewalk […]
The post <strong>County holding listening sessions for input on sidewalk vending</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/county-holding-listening-sessions-for-input-on-sidewalk-vending/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Presenters at the DevTernity software developer conference have been told the gig, scheduled to begin December 7, has been canceled after allegations emerged that one or more fake profiles had been added to the speaker list.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/28/devternity_conference_fake_speakers/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Liliputing
Google is ending support for two of its key Android apps on devices running older versions of Android… sort of. Starting early next year the latest versions of the Google Chrome and Google Calendar apps will require Android 8.0 or newer. But that doesn’t mean you can’t use Chrome or Google Calendar on phones running […]
The post Lilbits: Ryzen Z1 mini PC previewed, Meteor Lake laptops leaked, and some Google apps are losing support for older Android versions appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-28, from: Gary Marcus blog
Increasingly, they are.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/critical-national-security-questions
date: 2023-11-28, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
QUÉ: Quema prescrita de aproximadamente 275 acres de matorral de salvia y bosque de roble. Esto espara completar la quema
The post Quema prescrita continuará esta semana appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/27/quema-prescrita-continuara-esta-semana/
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
The Santa Clarita City Council on Tuesday is expected to approve a project intended to improve traffic circulation on McBean Parkway near Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital, according to city officials. The proposed McBean Parkway Realignment Project is intended to improve traffic from Orchard Village Road as well as the hospital’s egress. “The project will […]
The post City expected to OK work on McBean near hospital appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/city-expected-to-ok-work-on-mcbean-near-hospital/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
November 27, 2023 Contacts:Lyz Bantilan, Public Information Officer, Santa Barbara County APCD, (805) 979-8283Scott Safechuck, Public Information Officer, Santa Barbara
The post Prescribed Burn to Continue this Week appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/27/prescribed-burn-to-continue-this-week/
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
Several local teams remain undefeated through the opening two weeks of high school basketball. The preseason has featured dozens of non-league wins, local tournament champions and high-scoring outings from some of the Santa Clarita Valley’s best. Here are some updates from around the SCV before Foothill League play begins Tuesday: Saugus girls making noise early […]
The post SCV hoops preseason roundup appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/scv-hoops-preseason-roundup/
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
The governing board of the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency is meeting in closed session Friday to discuss a 36-page complaint against manufacturing giant 3M and more than a dozen other businesses in October 2020, accusing them of poisoning the state’s water supply with their products. The lawsuit claims that from the 1960s through the […]
The post SCV Water to discuss lawsuit over contaminants appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/scv-water-to-discuss-lawsuit-over-contaminants/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
The tentative contract raises pay and benefits for about 3,000 graduate students at USC.
https://laist.com/news/education/usc-graduate-students-reach-deal-avert-campus-wide-strike
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
The Master’s University Mustangs women’s basketball suffered its first loss of the season on Saturday. The Mustangs dropped a defensive battle with the visiting Wayland Baptist Queens, 62-58, in TMU’s first Thanksgiving Classic in six years. The Master’s (7-1) led for a solid portion of the game but was never able to pull away from […]
The post TMU hoops takes first loss of season at Thanksgiving Classic appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/tmu-hoops-takes-first-loss-of-season-at-thanksgiving-classic/
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
FreeBSD has supported nesting of jails natively since version 8.0, which dates back to 2009. Looking at the jail(8) man page, there is an entire paragraph named Hierarchical Jails that explains the concept of jail hierarchy well. It’s one of the many gems of FreeBSD that, although not widely known or used, is, in my opinion, extremely useful. BastilleBSD plays a central role in this article, and that’s a project I’ve been hearing a lot about recently. I feel like the various BSDs are currently hitting a stride, and there seems to be a lot of movement from Linux to BSD at the moment.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137940/migrating-from-vm-to-hierarchical-jails-in-freebsd/
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
PipeWire 1.0 now has all the features that are expected to move media streams inside a system. It takes advantage of advanced features of the Linux kernel to provide low latency, low footprint, and high performance while being secure. It is the perfect tool to build an embedded system or to securely share streams between containers. Linux audio and video has come a long way, and PipeWire is part of that. Excellent work.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137938/pipewire-1-0-released/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The board has 60 days to appoint a replacement to complete the rest of Alvarez’s term or may leave the seat vacant until next November’s election.
The post Virginia Alvarez Resigns from Santa Barbara Unified School Board appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-28, from: The Signal
The family of Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer, who was killed Sept. 16 just outside the Palmdale Sheriff’s Station where he worked, is filing a $20 million claim against L.A. County and the city of Palmdale that could be a precursor to a lawsuit, according to documents obtained by The Signal. Law enforcement officials believe Clinkunbroomer, a […]
The post Family of murdered deputy files complaint against LASD appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/family-of-murdered-deputy-files-complaint-against-lasd/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A Los Angeles man has been jailed after pulling off SIM-swap attacks on victims, hijacking social media accounts, committing fraud with Zelle payments, and impersonating Apple support.…
date: 2023-11-28, from: SCV New (TV Station)
It came down to turnovers and made free throws
https://scvnews.com/lady-mustangs-suffer-seasons-first-loss/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
More than 200 people crowded the district office on Tuesday night, the night before the first day of contract negotiations between SB Unified and SBTA. Credit: Courtesy Hozby Galindo
The post Santa Barbara Teachers Close Their Doors in Protest as Labor Negotiations Heat Up appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
Frore Systems is a startup with $116 million in funding, and I’ve shown you its first product before: the AirJet Mini is a piezoelectric cooling chip that weighs just nine grams and is thinner than two US quarters stacked together. Each nominally consumes one watt and can remove 4.25 additional watts of heat. Here’s the question: what would happen if Frore used those AirJets to cool a laptop that normally doesn’t have a fan at all? What the company discovered — and I saw firsthand — is that Apple’s M2 chip can run faster, for longer, with Frore’s tech on board. Without it, a 15-inch M2 MacBook Air was like a runner that can’t sprint indefinitely without running out of breath. But with three AirJet Minis, the same laptop got a permanent second wind. Frore’s AirJet coolers have been featured on YouTube channels like LTT as well, and there’s no doubt in my mind these will be the future of laptop cooling, especially in the thinner segment of the laptop market. At least in thin laptops, AirJets are better in virtually every way than fans, and provide far superior cooling compared to fanless designs without adding bulk or noise. The only thing that sucks as an enthusiast is that you can’t really modify an existing laptop yourself. Either this company gets gobbled up by an OEM, or their products will make their way in almost every thin laptop.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137936/this-company-just-put-the-air-in-apples-macbook-air/
date: 2023-11-28, from: OS News
App developer Elias Saba has had some bad luck with Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedowns. His Android TV app Downloader, which combines a web browser with a file manager, was suspended by Google Play in May after several Israeli TV companies complained that the app could be used to load a pirate website. Google reversed that suspension after three weeks. But Downloader has been suspended by Google Play again, and this time the reason is even harder to understand. Based on a vague DMCA notice, it appears that Downloader was suspended simply because it can load the Warner Bros. website. Application stores are basically random number generators. The worst possible applications, from non-functional garbage to ad-ridden gambling games designed to prey on children, make up the bulk of what’s on offer, but functional, useful applications spiral into Kafkaesque bureaucratic dark holes. Being a mobile developer in 2023 is a nightmare.
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
The potential threat posed by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) means safeguards need to be built into systems from the start rather than tacked on later, a top U.S. official said on Monday.
“We’ve normalized a world where technology products come off the line full of vulnerabilities and then consumers are expected to patch those vulnerabilities. We can’t live in that world with AI,” said Jen Easterly, director of the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
“It is too powerful, it is moving too fast,” she said in a telephone interview after holding talks in Ottawa with Sami Khoury, head of Canada’s Centre for Cyber Security.
Easterly spoke the same day that agencies from 18 countries, including the United States, endorsed new British-developed guidelines on AI cyber security that focus on secure design, development, deployment and maintenance.
“We have to look at security throughout the life cycle of that AI capability,” Khoury said.
Earlier this month, leading AI developers agreed to work with governments to test new frontier models before they are released to help manage the risks of the rapidly developing technology.
“I think we have done as much as we possibly could do at this point in time to help come together with nations around the world, with technology companies, to set out from a technical perspective how to build these capabilities as securely and safely as possible,” said Easterly.
date: 2023-11-28, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Public Library is thrilled to unveil its newly redesigned website, residing under the same domain - SantaClaritaLibrary.com
date: 2023-11-28, from: Peter Warden
As you might know I’m working on my PhD at Stanford, and one of my favorite parts is taking courses. For this second year I need to follow the new foundation and breadth requirements which in practice means taking a course a quarter, with each course chosen from one of four areas. For the fall […]
https://petewarden.com/2023/11/28/stanford-cs-phd-course-choices-for-winter-2024/
date: 2023-11-28, from: Liliputing
Walmart’s new onn Full HD Streaming Device is a $15 stick that plugs into an HDMI port of your TV, allowing you to stream video from Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Disney+ and most other popular streaming services. The device is the cheapest gadget to run Google TV software, and it may be one of the cheapest […]
The post Walmart’s new Google TV stick costs just $15 (but you should buy the $20 model instead) appeared first on Liliputing.
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
Where were you during the storm? In 2011, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft circled Saturn for a front-row view of the huge storm there. One of those looks made the mission scientists’ list of Top 10 images of 2011. What else made the list? Check it out. Groovy Enceladus Churning Psychedelia Hiding Little Brother Quintet of Moons […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-top-10-images-of-2011/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini spacecraft roams the Saturnian system, each year it opens new windows on an amazing corner of our solar system. Images of mighty Saturn, its majestic rings, and the dynamic moons continue to stun us, offering ever-changing vistas that are truly inspiring. This collection of 10 best images was selected by the scientists […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-top-10-images-of-2012/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
We’ve shared 150 press images through 40 news releases and special features during 2013. As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2014 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top ten 10 images of the year. ’Tis the Season Fire and Ice Titan’s North — Unannotated The Day the Earth […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-top-10-images-of-2013/
date: 2023-11-28, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The LAist
The small Tundra Bean Goose is typically found in Alaska, China, and Russia.
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/a-rare-arctic-visitor-shows-up-in-south-la
date: 2023-11-28, from: VOA News USA
Every year, thousands of people from across the United States volunteer for a very exclusive holiday experience – the chance to decorate the White House for Christmas. Of all of those applicants, only 300 lucky people are chosen. VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports. Camera: Hakim Shammo
https://www.voanews.com/a/hundreds-of-volunteers-get-white-house-ready-for-christmas-/7372861.html
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
The Cassini team is proud to celebrate 10 years since arriving at Saurn with this collection of images selected by members of the team. Enceladus North Pole Montage Peering Through Titan’s Haze Water World Enceladus Up-Close Saturnian Snowman A Fractured Pole Imminent Approach to Dione Red Arcs on Tethys Spongy Surface Serene Saturn Simulations of […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-10-years-at-saturn-top-images/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2015 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top 10 images of 2014. Translucent Rings Color Map of Mimas (2014) Circling Saturn Specular Spectacular Mysterious Changing Feature in Ligeia Mare — Unannotated The Odd Trio Shepherd and Flock Encroaching Shadow Arrival and Departure […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-top-10-images-of-2014/
date: 2023-11-28, from: NASA breaking news
As the Cassini science team members look forward to a great 2016 and beyond, here’s a look back at their top 10 images of 2015. Enceladus North Pole Montage Peering Through Titan’s Haze Water World Enceladus Up-Close Saturnian Snowman A Fractured Pole Imminent Approach to Dione Red Arcs on Tethys Spongy Surface Serene Saturn Simulations […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/cassini/cassini-top-10-images-2015/
date: 2023-11-28, from: SCV New (TV Station)
No. 9 College of the Canyons was on the wrong end of a 5-0 result vs. No. 1 Chaffey College in the second of the 3C2A Southern California Regional playoffs on Tuesday, Nov. 21.
https://scvnews.com/lady-cougars-trounced-by-chaffey-0-5-in-playoffs/
date: 2023-11-28, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Roth, Lukas
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/644285
date: 2023-11-28, from: Crossref Blog
STM, DataCite, and Crossref are pleased to announce an updated joint statement on research data.
In 2012, DataCite and STM drafted an initial joint statement on the linkability and citability of research data. With nearly 10 million data citations tracked, thousands of repositories adopting data citation best practices, thousands of journals adopting data policies, data availability statements and establishing persistent links between articles and datasets, and the introduction of data policies by an increasing number of funders, there has been significant progress since. It now seems appropriate to focus on providing updated recommendations for the various stakeholders involved in research data sharing.
The premise of the original joint statement still stands: most stakeholders across the spectrum of researchers, funders, librarians and publishers agree about the benefits of making research data available and findable for reuse by others. This improves utility and rigor of the scholarly record. Still, research data sharing is not yet a self-evident step in the research lifecycle. We now have sufficient scholarly communication infrastructure in place to bring about widespread change and believe momentum is building for collective action.
It is in this context that DataCite, a global membership community working with over 2800 repositories around the world, and STM, whose membership consists of over 140 scientific, technical, and medical publishing organizations, are issuing this joint statement. Crossref, a nonprofit open infrastructure with over 18,000 institutional members from 150 countries, joins this call, recognising the need for an amplified focus on data citation. The aim of this statement is to accelerate adoption of best practices and policies, and encourage further development of critical policies in collaboration with a wide group of stakeholders.
Signatories of this statement recommend the following as best practice in research data sharing:
We, the following signatories shall adopt and promote the relevant best practices laid out above. We hope that our action inspires the community, including researchers, research funders, research institutions, data repositories and publishers, to join us in making it easy for researchers to share, link and cite research data.
https://www.crossref.org/blog/joint-statement-on-research-data/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara, CA – Montecito Bank & Trust kicked off the holiday season on Monday November 20, 2023, as it
The post 195 Local Nonprofit Organizations Receive Community Dividends® Awards and Share of $1.1 Million at Montecito Bank & Trust’s 21st Annual Luncheon appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
SANTA BARBARA, CA – November 27, 2023 On Sunday, December 10th, enjoy one of Santa Barbara’s signature holiday events –
The post 37th Annual Santa Barbara Harbor Parade of Lights Sunday December 10th, 2023 appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-27, from: City of Santa Clarita
THE CITY OF SANTA CLARITA PUBLIC LIBRARY UNVEILS WEBSITE UPGRADE Explore a World of Knowledge at Your Fingertips with the City’s Modernized Library Hub The Santa Clarita Public Library is thrilled to unveil its newly redesigned website, residing under the same domain – SantaClaritaLibrary.com. This exciting development signifies a momentous leap toward providing the community […]
The post The City of Santa Clarita Public Library Unveils Website Upgrade appeared first on City of Santa Clarita.
date: 2023-11-27, from: The Signal
Clients of Bridge to Home slowly trickled into the temporary housing location to pick up a warm dinner and avoid the cold winds on Sunday night — but unlike most other instances when they seek a warm meal on a cold night, this time they were also there to say goodbye to a friend. Bridge […]
The post <strong>Community members grieve loss of bicyclist, friend</strong> appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2023/11/community-members-grieve-loss-of-bicyclist-friend/
date: 2023-11-27, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
For students who wanted to show their support for the LGBT community, the Multicultural Center located at the Library And The Learning Crossroads Building was
The post Spirt Day pride appeared first on The Roundup.
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
College of the Canyons ended its season with a 42-13 loss at Citrus College in the 2023 Western State Bowl on Saturday, Nov.
https://scvnews.com/cougars-season-ends-with-bowl-game-loss-to-citrus/
date: 2023-11-27, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
As tensions rise from conflict in the Middle East, Israeli and Palestinian students at CSUN have been voicing concerns about their safety on campus. The ongoing war between Israel and Palestine has left some students feeling uneasy about repercussions, such as doxxing, reflecting the impact the conflict has locally. On Oct. 11, students held a…
date: 2023-11-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
ON the (Theater) Stage The Cher Show is one of the musicals I’ve been excited about seeing since its Broadway debut
The post ON Culture | A Triple Dose of Cher, Plus Alicia Silverstone (the ‘Clueless’ one) and Willie Nelson Are on the Way appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Big Chicken Valencia, a popular local eatery known for its delicious chicken sandwiches, is thrilled to announce its partnership with the Santa Clarita Boys and Girls Club for a special holiday toy drive
https://scvnews.com/big-chicken-scv-boys-girls-club-partner-for-holiday-toy-drive/
date: 2023-11-27, from: 404 Media Group
IP logs show that accounts for Coding Unicorn, a female tech influencer who’s built a following based on her coding advice and Instagram influencer posts, are run by a male developer and conference organizer.
https://www.404media.co/coding-unicorn-instagram-julia-kirsina-devternity/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Heatmap News
If you live in the United States, work in climate, and were hoping for a sleepy post-Thanksgiving slide back into work mode, I have bad news for you.
Every Monday morning, the Heatmap team gets together to take stock of what the week ahead looks like. Some weeks are relatively slow. This week, we all agreed, is so packed that it’s tough to keep track of everything that’s happening.
There’s an obvious reason for this: The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, better known as COP28, kicks off in Dubai this week. The two weeks of COP are like climate Christmas: Governments and private companies alike can make announcements anytime, but the weeks immediately preceding and succeeding COP provide a sort of aura that makes everything seem just a little bit more noteworthy. This is, without a doubt, a good thing. Unless there’s some kind of disaster looming, climate news often takes a back seat to other issues. COP, however, gives climate types an excuse to grab people by the ears and force them to pay attention.
There’s an inevitable uptick in climate news each time the conference rolls around, much of it from the conference itself. International negotiators will, yet again, meet to hash out another climate deal, and many of them have already made their agendas known. The U.S. and European Union, for example, are leading a push to triple renewable energy capacity by the end of the decade. Developing nations, meanwhile, will try to get their wealthy counterparts to finalize a loss and damage fund created at last year’s COP, but which has languished in limbo as rich governments (including the U.S. and EU) haggled over what they owe. World leaders — including the Pope — will address attendees throughout the conference, and you’ll probably read stories about the various commitments countries around the world are making in the interim. China is particularly interesting here: The last time China and the U.S. reached a climate agreement in the run-up to a major summit, we got the Paris Agreement.
Expect analyst groups to release reports en masse about the state of climate change over the next couple of weeks — like this one, released last week by the UN, taking stock of countries’ progress toward holding emissions below 1.5 degrees Celsius. Many reporters (your Heatmap writers included) have already received many more such reports under an embargo that lifts around the time COP kicks off, opening the coverage floodgates.
Then there’s the news that might not necessarily be timed for COP but conveniently (or, for those of us trying to cover all of it, inconveniently) falls within the same time frame. My colleague Emily Pontecorvo has been waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency to release new methane regulations that could significantly reduce emissions from oil and gas operations, and for the Department of the Treasury to clarify tax incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act; releasing those guidelines during COP — even if they aren’t at all related to the talks themselves — would give the Biden administration a much-needed boost to its climate credentials as the conference gets underway.
Lastly, everyone’s favorite love-to-hate-to-love-it electric car company, Tesla, will make the first deliveries of its long-awaited — and much-maligned — Cybertruck on Thursday, the first day of the conference. While this has nothing to do with COP, it is, for better or worse, arguably the most anticipated EV release since the Model 3.
There’s been a lot of back and forth lately in climate circles about the value of COP — Christiana Figueres, the architect of the Paris Agreement, called it a “circus” — and many journalists I know expect there to be few surprises from the conference this year. But the glut of news around COP makes me think the conference provides something of value beyond just the negotiations. Few if any other annual events generate quite this burst of announcements across governments, think tanks, and private industry, and for a couple of weeks each year climate change moves to the forefront of our minds.
There’s something valuable in that, if a little quaint: Sooner or later, all of this will be at the forefront of everyone’s minds at all times, whether we like it or not.
https://heatmap.news/climate/cop-28-climate-news-week
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
After a scorching first turn on the witness stand, former President Donald Trump plans to testify again next month in his civil fraud trial, his lawyers said Monday.
He is to return December 11, defense attorney Christopher Kise said.
Trump was called to testify last time by his adversaries in the lawsuit, the New York attorney general’s office. This time, the Republican 2024 presidential front-runner’s own lawyers will open the questioning and can ask about a wider range of subjects than they could on cross-examination.
Not that those limitations stopped Trump from lambasting the suit and defending himself and his business against Attorney General Letitia James’ claims. Her lawsuit says he and his company misled lenders and insurers by giving them financial statements that greatly inflated his asset values and overall net worth.
“I’m worth billions of dollars more than the financial statements,” Trump insisted on the stand last time. “This is the opposite of fraud. … The fraud is her.”
Now finishing its second month, the trial is putting a spotlight on the real estate empire that vaulted Trump into public life and eventually politics. He maintains that James, a Democrat, is trying to damage his campaign.
Financial statements
At the heart of the case are Trump’s 2014-21 annual “statements of financial condition,” which were used to help secure loans and other deals.
A Trump Organization executive testified Monday that the company no longer produces such statements.
The company continues to prepare various audits and other financial reports specific to some of its components, but “there is no roll-up financial statement of the company,” said Mark Hawthorn, the chief operating officer of the Trump Organization’s hotel arm.
He wasn’t asked why the comprehensive reports had ceased but said they are “not required by any lender, currently, or any constituency.”
Messages seeking comment on the matter were sent to spokespeople for the Trump Organization.
Hawthorn, a certified public accountant, has worked since 2016 for the company’s Trump Hotels arm. Parent company Executive Vice President Donald Trump Jr. testified earlier that Hawthorn is functioning as the entire Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, calling him “the finance guy within Trump world now” and saying the CPA “has taken on all those decisional responsibilities.”
But Hawthorn said that statement was wrong, that using “the word ‘all’ makes it incorrect.”
Hawthorn was testifying for the defense, which argues that various companies under the Trump Organization’s umbrella have produced reams of financial documents “that no one had a problem with,” as lawyer Clifford Robert put it.
A lawyer for James’ office, Andrew Amer, stressed that the suit is about Trump’s overall statements of financial condition, calling the other documents irrelevant.
Trump asserts that his wealth was understated, not overblown, on his financial statements. He also says the numbers came with disclaimers saying that they weren’t audited and that others might reach different conclusions about his financial position.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who will decide the verdict in the nonjury trial, has already ruled that Trump and other defendants engaged in fraud. The current proceeding is to decide remaining claims of conspiracy, insurance fraud and falsifying business records.
James wants the judge to impose over $300 million in penalties and to ban Trump from doing business in New York — and that’s on top of Engoron’s pretrial order that a receiver take control of some of Trump’s properties. An appeals court has frozen that order for now.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-to-testify-again-next-month-in-civil-fraud-trial/7372498.html
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
U.S. President Joe Biden convened the new White House Council on Supply Chain Resilience on Monday, where he announced new actions aimed at strengthening America’s supply chain to lower costs for U.S. families, while warning companies against taking advantage of inflation by price gouging.
“We know that prices are still too high for too many things, that times are still too tough for too many families,” Biden said. “But we’ve made progress.”
Among the new 30 actions, the council invoked the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, to ensure investments in domestic manufacturing of medicines designated as key to American security. Some $35 million has been earmarked to be invested in the production of materials for injectable medicines.
It’s hoped that the initiatives lower overall costs for Americans and ensure timely production and deliveries of goods.
Biden was joined by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg, who said the U.S. is seeing lower inflation and fewer supply chain issues since problems peaked during recovery from the COVID pandemic in 2021.
“The pandemic had led to the most profound and widespread set of disruptions to our transportation systems since 9/11, including enormous strain on our supply chains,” Buttigieg said.
Biden also announced a new agreement with “13 countries in the Indo-Pacific” that is aimed at identifying supply chain bottlenecks before they turn into more widespread issues.
The new council will be co-chaired by Lael Brainard, director of the White House National Economic Council, and Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser.
Some information for this report came from The Associated Press and Reuters.
https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-convenes-new-council-on-supply-chain-resilience-/7372488.html
date: 2023-11-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Hello, book lovelies! Happy Thanksgiving week! Like most of you, I’m ready to set up my Out of Office and
The post All Booked | My Annual Ode to Cookbooks appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/27/all-booked-my-annual-ode-to-cookbooks/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
Step inside the White House during the holidays by walking beneath the branches of a Christmas tree. Stroll along a hallway decorated with oversized holiday candy and other sweets. See Santa’s sleigh and his eight reindeer suspended above the grand foyer in dramatic fashion.
Jill Biden wants everyone who visits the White House during the holidays to feel like a kid again.
“Each room is designed to capture this pure, unfiltered delight and imagination” so visitors “see this time of year through the wondrous, sparkling eyes of children,” the first lady said Monday at the first of a month’s worth of holiday receptions.
“Magic, Wonder and Joy” is the theme this year, President Joe Biden’s third in the White House.
The whimsical set of oversized decorations is meant to inspire the feelings of awe and wonder that put children on joyful edge during the holidays, White House aides said.
Throughout two public floors of the White House, the décor features several nods to the 200th anniversary of the publication of the poem and book commonly known as “’Twas the Night Before Christmas.” (The official title is “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”)
The papier mache reindeer suspended in the foyer are “so cool,” she said. “It’s like they’re leaping from the storybook’s pages. I don’t know how you feel about it. I feel it’s just breathtaking.”
The Library of Congress provided samples of editions of the book from the past 200 years that are on display in protective cases along the ground floor corridor. The traditional gingerbread White House includes a large sugar cookie replica of the book opened to a page that says “Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night.” Santa’s sleigh and reindeer also fly above the cookie White House.
National Guard families, who joined the first lady as part of her Joining Forces initiative to support military families, were among the first members of the public to see the decorations. Children of these and other military families were also being treated to a performance by the cast of the North American tour of the Disney musical “Frozen.”
One of the first Christmas trees visitors see after entering the White House is decorated with wooden gold star ornaments engraved with the names of fallen service members.
The official White House Christmas tree, an 18.5-foot-tall (5.6-meter-tall) Fraser fir, stands in its usual place in the Blue Room. The massive tree highlights cheerful scenes, landscapes and neighborhoods from across the country. A toy train runs around its base.
The State Dining Room has been transformed into Santa’s workshop, with elves’ workbenches, stools and ladders circling Christmas trees, and tools and gifts-in-progress rounding out the décor.
The dining room is the customary stage for the gingerbread White House, which was assembled using 40 sheets of sugar cookie dough for the book and 40 sheets of gingerbread dough for the house, 90 pounds (41 kilograms) of pastillage, a cake decorating paste, 30 pounds (14 kilograms) of chocolate and 50 pounds (23 kilograms) of royal icing.
The library honors the tradition of bedtime stories with dangling golden moons and shimmering stars; the China Room has been turned into a sweet shop featuring baked goodies, and the Vermeil Room celebrates music with a display of rotating big Marine Band figurines with trumpets.
Glowing candles and stained glass in the Green Room celebrate faith, and holiday craft-making is the theme in the Red Room, where a tradition of featuring cranberries continues.
The official White House Menorah is on display in the Cross Hall connecting the State Dining Room and the East Room, which is decorated with trees and various advent calendars.
Ninety-eight Christmas trees, nearly 34,000 ornaments, over 22,000 bells and more than 350 candles were used in the decor, according to the White House. Nearly 142,500 lights illuminate trees, garlands, wreaths and other displays, and nearly 15,000 feet (4,600 meters) of ribbon are part of it all.
Seventy-two wreaths sporting red ribbons adorn the north and south exteriors of the building.
Some 300 volunteer decorators and designers spent a few days last week gathering decorations from a warehouse. They spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday putting the decorations in their proper places.
https://www.voanews.com/a/first-lady-wants-holiday-visitors-to-feel-like-kids-again-/7372449.html
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
TikTok parent ByteDance is expected to sashay away from its attempts at being a major video game maker, with studio division Nuverse reportedly set to shutter operations in the coming months. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/bytedance_nuverse_layoffs/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
The United States accused North Korea on Monday of using the prohibited launch of a military spy satellite to try to advance its nuclear weapons program, a charge Pyongyang denied.
“The DPRK is unabashedly trying to advance its nuclear weapons delivery systems by testing ballistic missile technology in clear violation of this council’s resolutions,” U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told council members, using the abbreviation for North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Pyongyang is prohibited by several Security Council resolutions from carrying out nuclear or ballistic missile activity. Thomas-Greenfield noted that North Korea has launched three Satellite Launch Vehicles this year and 29 ballistic missiles, including four intercontinental ones.
The United Nations said North Korea issued a pre-launch notification to the Japanese Coast Guard about its space launch vehicle but failed to issue airspace or maritime safety notifications to international sea and air organizations about its November 21 launch, which flew directly over Japan.
“The DPRK’s launches represent a serious risk to international civil aviation and maritime traffic,” U.N. Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari said in his briefing.
Japan’s envoy condemned Pyongyang’s “appalling” and “reckless behavior.”
“The international community must express grave concern over such an irresponsible act by North Korea and take decisive action to address it,” Ambassador Kimihiro Ishikane said.
South Korea’s envoy said the launch was far from peaceful, as its northern neighbor claims.
“Any launch that uses ballistic missile technology, regardless of its success or payload, can contribute to the further advancement of ballistic missile technology, in particular ICBMs capable of delivering nuclear weapons,” Ambassador Joonkook Hwang said.
North Korea’s envoy defended the launch.
“It is a legitimate and righteous exercise of the rights to self-defense, which fully belongs to the legal sphere of our self-defense,” Ambassador Kim Song told the council.
He attributed North Korea’s need for such technology to the United States’ “hostile policy” toward his country and its joint military exercises with Japan and South Korea.
Washington has repeatedly offered to open talks with Pyongyang without pre-conditions.
“The DPRK can choose the time and the topic, but the DPRK needs to make that choice,” Thomas-Greenfield said on Monday.
China’s deputy envoy said if Washington is sincere about talks, it should build trust and stop engaging in “pressure tactics” such as the joint military exercises.
The council last adopted a sanctions resolution on North Korea in 2017. Russia and China have used their veto or the threat of it to prevent further council action.
Several council members also expressed concern about reported military cooperation between North Korea and Russia.
Thomas-Greenfield said U.S. information indicates that Pyongyang has provided Russia with more than 1,000 containers of military equipment and munitions for its war in Ukraine.
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Princess Cruises is gearing up for a momentous occasion one year from today as Caribbean Princess prepares to embark on its first-ever voyage from Port Canaveral, establishing a new homeport in the heart of Central Florida
https://scvnews.com/princess-cruises-gearing-up-for-port-canaveral-inaugural-voyage/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2023-11-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
RSS Club is fascinating. I subscribed to their OPML file. Now I get all their posts, even if the list changes.
http://scripting.com/2023/11/27.html#a213710
date: 2023-11-27, from: NASA breaking news
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson and other agency leaders will participate in the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP28) beginning Thursday, Nov. 30, through Tuesday, Dec. 12, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This global conference brings together countries committed to addressing climate change, which is a key priority for the Biden-Harris Administration […]
date: 2023-11-27, from: Liliputing
FriendlyELEC’s new CM3588 NAS Kit is a versatile little computer that effectively lets you build your own network-attached storage or video device. At its heart is a compute module with a Rockchip RK3588 processor, but that module snaps onto a feature-packed carrier board with 4 M.2 2280 slots with support for PCIe Gen 3 x1 […]
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https://liliputing.com/friendlyelec-cm3588-nas-kit-features-4-m-2-slots-and-2-5g-ethernet/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
California governor signs legislation designed to save bees.
The post A Win for the Bees — and People, Food, and Water, Too appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2023/11/27/a-win-for-the-bees-and-people-food-and-water-too/
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Brace yourselves for an interstellar adventure at the 16th annual Family Literacy Festival, where imagination knows no bounds!
https://scvnews.com/city-reminding-community-of-family-literacy-festival-on-dec-2/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Titled “Six Persimmons,” the famous 13th-century work hasn’t left Japan for hundreds of years
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers documented three cows in Ohio killed by Asian longhorned ticks, which can lay up to 2,000 eggs without needing to mate
date: 2023-11-27, from: OS News
When I used OpenBSD, I was a big fan of bsd.rd: a kernel that includes a root file system with an installer and a few tools. When I invariably did something bad to my root file system, I could use that to repair things. bsd.rd is also helpful for OS updates. And there is only a single file involved. On NetBSD however, there is usually no netbsd.rd kernel installed, or even available by default. The facility is there, it’s just not standard. To be fair, there are a number of architectures that use kernels with a ramdisk for installation. Recently, I have been toying with NetBSD on an Orange Pi 5. This is a 64-bit ARM board, using the evbarm-aarch64 architecture. I am booting from an SD card (details in a followup post) but once booted, the kernel does not see the card any more, only the NVMe SSD. So my thoughts went back to bsd.rd and I decided that I want one! Such a kernel seems like a very useful tool to have, so if you’re running NetBSD – this guide will help you add it to your toolbox.
https://www.osnews.com/story/137929/building-a-netbsd-ramdisk-kernel/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
A man in the U.S. state of Vermont has pleaded not guilty to three counts of attempted second-degree murder in connection to the shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent.
The suspect, 48-year-old Jason Eaton, appeared by video from the county jail at his arraignment hearing on Monday, which was held at the Chittenden County Court in Burlington.
Eaton spoke only to confirm his identity. His attorney entered pleas of not guilty, and the judge ordered Eaton to be held without bail, pending a hearing that is expected to take place within the next few days.
Police say Eaton shot the three men with a pistol near the University of Vermont on Saturday evening, then ran away.
The FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are assisting Vermont authorities in the investigation.
The shootings will also be investigated by the U.S. Department of Justice to determine if they amount to hate crimes, according to Attorney General Merrick Garland.
The victims were reportedly speaking Arabic at the time, according to the Institute for Middle East Understanding, a nonprofit pro-Palestinian advocacy organization. Two of them were wearing a keffiyeh, a traditional black-and-white checkered scarf commonly worn in the Middle East, police said.
President Joe Biden released a statement saying he was “horrified,” and that his administration “will provide any additional federal resources needed to assist in the investigation.”
“While we are waiting for more facts, we know this: There is absolutely no place for violence or hate in America. Period. No person should worry about being shot at while going about their daily lives,” Biden said.
Burlington Mayor Miro Weinberger joined Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad at a press conference in which Weinberger thanked Biden for the swift federal support the city has received for the investigation.
The victims have been Identified as Hisham Awartani, a student at Brown University in Rhode Island; Kinnan Abdalhamid, a student at Haverford College in Pennsylvania; and Tahseen Ahmed, who attends Trinity College in Connecticut. All of the victims are 20 years old.
They were all transported to the intensive care unit of a local hospital, where two of them were in stable condition, while the third faces “much more serious injuries,” according to police.
President Joe Biden released a statement saying he was “horrified,” and that his administration “will provide any additional federal resources needed to assist in the investigation.”
“While we are waiting for more facts, we know this: There is absolutely no place for violence or hate in America. Period. No person should worry about being shot at while going about their daily lives,” Biden said.
Some information in this report was contributed by The Associated Press and Reuters.
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Scenic Hills Singers will host a free Christmas concert at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Sunday, Dec. 10, at 4 p.m
https://scvnews.com/dec-10-scenic-hills-singers-free-christmas-concert/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
The U.S. said Monday that after Hamas’ assault on Israel last month, it and several allied nations established an international task force aimed at countering the flow of money to the militant Palestinian group and supporting anti-terrorism efforts.
The take
Since 1,200 people were killed in the October 7 attack, the U.S., U.K. and allies have sought to cut off funding for Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist group by Washington and other governments.
Context
The task force will enhance sharing of financial intelligence on terrorist-financing-related matters and will discuss best practices and opportunities for additional actions and partnerships, the U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement.
It will also strengthen relations between the financial intelligence units (FIUs), public authorities and the private sector to address the threat, the statement said.
The task force is made up of financial intelligence units from Australia, Canada, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S., as well as other units.
Since the October 7 attack, Washington has imposed several rounds of sanctions on Hamas. It has targeted the group’s investment portfolio and issued an alert to financial institutions on countering Hamas financing while senior officials have discussed the group’s access to funds on trips abroad.
Key quote
“The October 7 terror attacks on Israel served as a grave reminder of a core mission of our FIUs: to detect, disrupt and prevent the financing of terrorism,” the statement said.
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Nvidia has reportedly delayed the launch of its latest Chinese-market AI accelerators until early next year over issues integrating the chip into server platforms.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/nvidia_china_h20_accelerator/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: For the first ten years of Mac OS X, its closest substitute was Single User Mode, or SUM, entered by starting the Mac up with the Command and S keys held down. OS X then booted into the command line, where you could for example repair your startup volume[…] […] With Mac OS […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/a-short-history-of-recovery-in-macos/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
David Rutland (via Hacker News): If you’ve spent your hard earned cash supporting independent artists through Bandcamp, a series of ownership changes and layoffs suggest that now might be the best time for audiophiles to download their audio files to secure offline storage.[…]According to Aftermath, Bandcamp is a mess right now, with most of the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/time-to-back-up-bandcamp/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Sam Rowlands: Since 1998, I’ve built every single Mac app with the Xojo development tool (Aka Real Studio and REALbasic).Over the last ¾ of a decade, Xojo started ignoring bugs, feature requests and industry trends. New features felt rushed, incomplete and sometimes unusable. Dark mode support and concurrency are two prime examples. Something is clearly […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/moving-on-from-xojo/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Adamya Sharma: The ongoing Google vs. Epic trial has brought out another interesting piece of information. As per testimony presented by Epic Games (via Bloomberg), Google paid Samsung $8 billion over a period of four years to keep Search, Assistant, and Play Store as default services on Samsung phones.[…]One internal document also shows how Google […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/google-pays-to-be-default-on-samsung-phones/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Richard Speed (via Hacker News): A jury has sided with Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) against Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) over the theft of source code and documentation. A total of $210 million was this week awarded.According to the verdict [PDF], a Texas jury agreed that TCS had “willfully and maliciously” misappropriated both source and confidential […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/27/tata-code-theft/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Heatmap News
In case you needed more convincing that buyers still like EVs just fine, sales of electric and hybrid light-duty vehicles in the U.S. rose to their highest-ever level in the third quarter of 2023, according to data released Monday by Wards Intelligence. Electric-powered vehicles (including those that are hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and purely battery-powered) made up 17.7% of all light-duty vehicle sales during that time period, while sales of gas-powered light duty vehicles fell to an all-time low of 82%.
The diverging trends were driven in part by falling prices for cleaner cars. The average cost of a battery-powered light-duty vehicle was just a hair over $50,000 in the quarter, well below their peak of $66,390 from the second quarter of 2022. That said, the numbers show that for most people, cleaner driving is still a luxurious experience — thanks in part to brands like Tesla and Rivian, battery-electric vehicles now make up 34% of the total luxury vehicle market, but are still just 2% of non-luxury sales.
For EVs to gain true mainstream adoption, those numbers will have to
change. As Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo recently
pointed
out, most of the top EV-purchasing counties in America are among the
country’s wealthiest, and existing research points to a correlation
between income and EV early adopter status.
Regardless of who’s buying, though, the overall numbers are good. So far in 2023, 15.8% of light-duty vehicles sold were hybrids or EVs, up from 12.3% in 2022, and 8.5% in 2021. Numbers like these point to real momentum in the clean-driving space. As Jesse Jenkins wrote recently for Heatmap, all-electric vehicle sales have grown by roughly a 60% annualized rate for the past six quarters — that’s “fast enough to double EV sales every 14 months!”
I’m not saying EVs don’t face real obstacles in the consumer marketplace, from a lack of charging stations to partisan rancor to comically bad design. But if these numbers aren’t enough to make you feel at least a little bit of excitement, that’s on you.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/us-ev-sales-highest-ever
date: 2023-11-27, from: City of Santa Clarita
JOURNEY TO THE STARS AT THE SANTA CLARITA PUBLIC LIBRARY’S 16TH ANNUAL FAMILY LITERACY FESTIVAL Embark on Intergalactic Reading Adventures on December 2 Brace yourselves for an interstellar adventure at the 16th annual Family Literacy Festival, where imagination knows no bounds! Hosted at the Old Town Newhall Library Branch (24500 Main Street) on Saturday, December […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
John Kreatsoulas, who made the discovery while diving in southwest Florida, initially thought the 60-pound mandible was a log
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated Tesla is suing the Swedish government to force it to take action against widespread strikes that have crippled the electric car maker’s operations. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/tesla_sweden_strike_lawsuit/
date: 2023-11-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita city council will hold a special meeting and a regular meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 28. The council will first meet in a closed special meeting at 5 p.m. for the annual performance evaluation of City Manager Ken Striplin
https://scvnews.com/nov-28-city-to-discuss-traffic-improvements-at-henry-mayo/
date: 2023-11-27, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
The Institute for College Access & Success and the Cal State Student Association released a report that explained the unequal costs and graduation rates among low-income students in the California State University system. The report included estimated net prices based on the perspective of low-income students who live off campus and the estimated comparison of…
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
An attempted hijacking of a commercial vessel in the Gulf of Aden on Sunday appears to have been carried out by armed Somali pirates and not Yemeni Houthis, despite the firing of missiles from Houthi-controlled territory in Yemen afterwards, the Pentagon said Monday.
“We’re continuing to assess, but initial indications are that these five individuals are Somali,” said Pentagon spokesperson Brigadier General Patrick Ryder.
“Clearly a piracy-related incident,” Ryder added.
A U.S. Navy warship responded to a distress call on Sunday from the chemical tanker Central Park. The attackers were taken aboard the U.S. warship Mason, the U.S. military said, and the Central Park and its crew were safe.
There have been a series of attacks in Middle Eastern waters since a war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas broke out on October 7.
Central Park is a tanker managed by Zodiac Maritime Ltd, a London-headquartered international ship management company owned by Israel’s Ofer family. The Liberian-flagged vessel was built in 2015 and is owned by Clumvez Shipping Inc, LSEG data showed.
Ryder told reporters that U.S. Navy personnel fired warning shots when the attackers were trying to escape, but there were no injuries.
He added that there were three Chinese military ships in the area but they did not respond. China’s embassy in Washington could not immediately be reached for comment on the assertion.
The U.S. military has said that two ballistic missiles were later fired from Houthi-controlled territory in the general direction of the Mason and Central Park, but they landed about 10 nautical miles away from the ships.
“It’s not clear to us who they were targeting exactly,” Ryder said.
The attempted tanker hijacking followed a seizure of an Israeli-linked cargo ship by Houthis, allies of Iran, in the southern Red Sea last week.
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
ownCloud has disclosed three critical vulnerabilities, the most serious of which leads to sensitive data exposure and carries a maximum severity score.…
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The LAist
Hamas released 11 Israelis and a bus with Palestinian prisoners arrived in the West Bank after the two sides announced a continuation of their temporary cease-fire to facilitate more exchanges.
https://laist.com/news/israel-and-hamas-agree-to-a-2-day-extension-of-the-truce-in-gaza
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The S.S. Dix went down while ferrying passengers between Seattle and Bainbridge Island
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-in-puget-sound-180983317/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Striated caracaras solved up to eight puzzle box problems in a new study, suggesting they are cognitively complex, like crows and parrots
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
Acclaimed American artist Kehinde Wiley — known for portraying former US president Barack Obama and U.S. pop star Michael Jackson — has turned his brush to Africa. His “A Maze of Power” exhibit in Paris, portrays 11 former and current African presidents, exploring power through the lens of historical European portrait painting. Lisa Bryant went to the show and has this report from the French capital
https://www.voanews.com/a/obama-portraitist-turns-his-brush-to-african-presidents/7372038.html
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing. The cause is hyper heterogeneous computing which is driving up the silicon content of systems, according to Omdia.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/server_shipments_fall_20_percent/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
Hundreds turned out to salute Rosalynn Carter on Monday with the former U.S. first lady and global humanitarian’s final journey from her rural hometown to the Jimmy Carter Presidential Center in Atlanta as her family began three days of memorials following her death at age 96.
The former president, who is 99 and has spent the past 10 months in home hospice care, plans to attend a memorial church service Tuesday in Atlanta for his partner of more than 77 years, The Carter Center confirmed. Rosalynn Carter died November 19.
The tributes started Monday morning as Rosalynn Carter’s casket traveled by motorcade through the Carters’ native Sumter County, where well-wishers gathered along the route in their tiny hometown of Plains and attended a wreath-laying ceremony at the college from which she graduated in 1946.
Lyndea Brown drove to the short ceremony at Georgia Southwestern State University from nearby Albany, saying she wanted to salute “a remarkable woman” who attended local cancer benefits and fought for rural health services.
“They were always real hometown people,” Brown said. “We don’t get presidents and first ladies like that anymore, people who have true hometown roots and understand what it’s like to grow corn and peanuts and whatever else and to struggle over health care.”
During the stop at Rosalynn Carter’s alma mater, her four children — Jack, Chip, Jeff and Amy — watched as wreaths of white flowers were placed beside a statue of their mother on the campus where she founded the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving to advocate for millions of unpaid caregivers in American households.
Generations of the Carter family — including the former first lady’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren — accompanied the hearse to Atlanta, where she was to lie in repose as members of the public paid respects Monday evening at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum.
Two funerals, set for Tuesday in Atlanta and Wednesday in Plains, will be for invited guests. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, longtime friends of the Carters, will lead the dignitaries expected to attend the Atlanta service. Rosalynn Carter’s burial Wednesday in Plains will be private.
The schedule, a product of detailed planning that involved the former first couple, reflects the range of Rosalynn Carter’s interests and impact. That includes her advocacy for better mental health treatment and the elevation of caregiving, her role as Jimmy Carter’s closest adviser and her status as matriarch of Plains and Maranatha Baptist Church, where she and the former president served in various roles after leaving the White House in 1981.
“All over the world, people are celebrating her life,” said Kim Fuller, the Carters’ niece, while teaching a Bible lesson Sunday at Maranatha. “And of course, we’re coming into a week now where we’re going to celebrate even more.”
Some well-wishers began honoring Rosalynn Carter soon after her death, including an uptick in visitors to the Carter Presidential Center campus.
“Mental health is more openly talked about” because of Rosalynn Carter’s work to reduce the stigma attached to the conditions, said Brendan Green, a high school guidance counselor who came from Chicago.
“She was a pioneer in that field,” Green said. “What a great legacy.”
Elizabeth Laudig, a registered nurse from Dallas, said she drove 12 hours to be in Georgia this week, starting with the wreath-laying ceremony in Americus. She said Rosalynn Carter’s emphasis on mental health and caregivers was especially inspiring to her as a nurse.
“She just quietly went about the business of trying to make the world a better place,” Laudig said. “You know, she was not a showy or extravagant first lady, but she was humble, you know, kind, hardworking, and got things done for people because she cared about people.”
After the motorcade arrived in Atlanta, the family joined staff at the Carter Presidential Center for a short, private service.
The campus near downtown Atlanta includes the library and museum, and the Carter Center, where scores of people waited in line outside to pay their respects at the public viewing.
The former first couple founded the center in 1982 to champion democracy, mediate international conflicts and fight disease in the developing world. Their work around the world redefined what former White House occupants can do after ceding political power.
Carter Center CEO Paige Alexander recalled Rosalynn Carter as a tough and fiercely intelligent advocate who in every respect was her husband’s “full and equal partner.”
“Her compassion, her ability to connect, her political savvy was something that helped build the support for all of our programs over the past 40 years,” Alexander told co-workers and the family.
The largest single service will be held Tuesday at Glenn Memorial Church on the Emory University campus. Emory helped the former first couple establish the Carter Center.
Besides the Bidens, Vice President Kamala Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, have announced plans to attend. Also expected are former President Bill Clinton and his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as well as former first ladies Laura Bush, Michelle Obama and Melania Trump, according to the Carter Center.
Glenn is a Methodist congregation. The Carters married in 1946 at Plains Methodist Church, where Rosalynn Carter attended growing up. She joined her husband as a Baptist throughout their marriage.
Her final services at Maranatha will reflect their small-town Protestant roots: Church members are invited and will eat a funeral meal with the Carter family the day of the service.
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The LAist
As graphic images from Gaza flood social media platforms, many people are claiming those images are fake, in the latest iteration of a disturbing trope.
https://laist.com/news/civilian-deaths-are-being-dismissed-as-crisis-actors-in-gaza-and-israel
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A pair of Japanese tech startups are taking a new approach to the challenge of bringing reluctant employees back into the office by sweetening the pot with small bonuses for in-person working. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/japanese_tech_startups_testing_cash/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Liliputing
The Radxa ROCK 3B is a Pico-ITX single-board computer, meaning that it measures 100 x 72mm (3.94”x 2.83″), making it a little larger than a typical Raspberry Pi Model B-style computer, which measures 85 x 56 (3.35″ x 2.20″). But this little computer, which is powered by a 2 GHz Rockchip RK3568 quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 processor, is […]
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date: 2023-11-27, from: 404 Media Group
“I can see that one of my friends is apparently watching a ton of cheesy, soft porn stuff,” a user said of Plex’s Week in Review email and Discover Together feature.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Tilde.news
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new musical composition represents data from three NASA telescopes as a piece that was performed by an orchestral ensemble
date: 2023-11-27, from: Om Malik blog
…we have a generation that is growing up with modern computing interfaces. Instead, we are still pushing the “classic” models onto them. Why? If computing has to become modern, then we have to use modern models for everything. That’s me in May 2021. Amazon, according to the internet, is launching a $195 thin client computer that allows …
https://om.co/2023/11/27/amazons-thin-client-wrong-idea-wrong-time-heres-why/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The UK’s National Cyber Security Agency (NCSC) and US’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) have published official guidance for securing AI applications – a document the agencies hope will ensure that safety is inherent in AI’s development.…
date: 2023-11-27, from: 404 Media Group
Viral allegations that Devternity founder Eduard Sizovs fabricated female speakers to boost diversity have caused several big-name speakers to publicly drop out of the conference.
https://www.404media.co/devternity-fake-speakers-eduard-sizovs/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Elon Musk’s Neuralink has secured an additional $43 million in venture capital to help develop its digital interface to the human brain.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/neuralink_funding/
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
The United States is joining member states from NATO this week in renewing the alliance’s “steadfast commitment” to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s aggression, according to a senior State Department official.
Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Brussels, where foreign ministers from NATO will gather from November 27 to 29.
On Wednesday, Blinken will lead the U.S. delegation to NATO member North Macedonia who is hosting a meeting of foreign ministers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe or OSCE in its capital Skopje later this week.
The United States is hosting the next NATO summit in Washington from July 9 to 11, 2024. Blinken will discuss priorities for the Washington meeting with his counterparts as the alliance celebrates its 75th anniversary next year.
NATO-Ukraine Council foreign ministers
The chief U.S. diplomat is set to attend the first foreign minister-level meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Council as Kyiv aspires to be a NATO member.
“The Council supports Ukraine’s close partnership with NATO,” said Jim O’Brien who is State Department’s Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs. “Allies will continue to support Ukraine’s self-defense until Russia stops its war of aggression,” he added.
The NATO-Ukraine Council was inaugurated at the NATO Summit in Vilnius on July 12, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other heads of member governments also in attendance.
It convened for the second time in late July to discuss Black Sea security following Russia’s withdrawal from a deal overseeing grain exports from Ukrainian ports.
The third meeting was held in October to discuss substantial assistance to Ukraine and to ensure Ukraine’s forces are fully interoperable with NATO.
The NATO-Ukraine Council is the joint body where Allies and Ukraine sit as equal participants to advance political dialogue.
Western Balkans
One of the sessions at this week’s NATO foreign ministers’ meeting is to address security and democracy in the Western Balkans.
“A stable, prosperous future for the Western Balkans must be based on good governance, rule of law, multi-ethnic democracy, and respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms,” O’Brien said.
NATO officials have affirmed the alliance’s commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment while contributing to broader stability in the Western Balkans.
The statement came in response to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s earlier warning this month, in which he conveyed information suggesting that Russia has a plan for the destabilization of the Balkans.
Speaking on November 21 in Skopje, North Macedonia, during the final stop of a tour of the Western Balkans, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg stated that the alliance closely monitors Russia’s activities in the region. But he said there is currently no perceived military threat to any NATO member in the area.
North Macedonia, OSCE
After the government of North Macedonia announced that it would briefly lift a flight ban and permit the plane carrying Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to land in Skopje for the OSCE ministerial, Lavrov said on Monday he would attend the OSCE foreign ministers meeting in North Macedonia if Bulgaria opened its air space to the Russian delegation.
North Macedonia’s sanctions will remain in place against Russia for all other flights.
Most European countries banned flights from Russia after its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
O’Brien declined to comment on whether there will be any interaction between Lavrov should he attend the OSCE ministerial and the U.S. delegation but told VOA during a phone briefing that U.S. Secretary of State Blinken will “have a good discussion with” OSCE counterparts about U.S. “support for Ukraine.”
Some material is from Reuters.
https://www.voanews.com/a/blinken-off-to-brussels-as-nato-shores-commitment-to-ukraine/7371828.html
date: 2023-11-27, from: Liliputing
A handful of companies like Synology, QNAP, Asustor, and TerrMaster currently dominate the network attached storage (NAS) space by offering purpose-built hardware and software (usually custom Linux distributions). But you can really turn just about any PC into a NAS with the right software. And a handful of Chinese PC makers have been offering attractively-priced […]
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: Deno blog
Deno Deploy and Deno Subhosting was designed with security and tenant isolation in mind. Here’s how it works.
https://deno.com/blog/subhosting-security-run-untrusted-code
date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/default-folder-x-6-0-2/
date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/zoom-5-16-10/
date: 2023-11-27, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/agenda-18-3/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Open Citation blog at Hypotheses.org
Blog post by Ivan Heibi (University of Bologna), Arianna Moretti (University of Bologna) and Chiara Di Giambattista (University of Bologna). In the past five years, the OpenCitations data has been enriched with numerous new indexes of open citation data from different sources. However, the quantity and diversification of the ingested information have raised several issues, which recently made it essential to conduct a complete revision of the ingestion workflow. The result was a revolution in the way OpenCitations data is delivered. In this blog … Continue reading A new revolutionary workflow for a unified collection of citations: say hello to the OpenCitations Index
https://opencitations.hypotheses.org/3499
date: 2023-11-27, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Schatzkarten als Teil der Schätze sind wichtig, weil sie kleine Aufgaben darstellen. Wenn das Ziel in der Nähe ist, sei es im Nachbarhex bei der Reise Überland oder in einem Raum in der Nähe im Megadungeon, der Effekt ist immer gleich.
Die Spielerinnen und Spieler freuen sich! Das ist das wichtigste.
Es ist eine Ablenkung von was auch immer Spielerinnen und Spieler sonst vor haben. Ablenkung ist für mich eine wichtige Herausforderung im Spiel. Wie sehr will ich als Spieler etwas? Wenn ich mich ständig ablenken lasse, dann war es mir vielleicht eben doch nicht so wichtig.
Es ist eine Einladung, ein grösseres Risiko einzugehen. Meistens zeigt die Schatzkarte ja in das unbekannte Gebiet. Haben wir noch genug Trefferpunkte, Zaubersprüche und andere Ressourcen? Wollen wir es wagen?
Deswegen dürfen Schatzkarten nicht auf Schätze verweisen, die zu weit weg sind oder die erst in einem halben dutzend Spielabenden erreicht werden können. Zudem sind Schatzkarten ja eine Belohnung, deswegen sollten die Fundorte nicht nochmal speziell geschützt sein, denn sonst wäre der Schatz ja den neuen Wächtern zuzurechnen. Nein, falls es am Ort neue Wächter hat, dann haben diese ebenfalls Schätze.
Soviel zur Vorrede. Für Horte habe ich im Moment folgende Liste:
Jetzt brauche ich noch eine Namensliste für die Begrabenen…
Die Portale in andere Welten beziehen sich natürlich auf die Kosmologie. Die magischen Waffen wurden auch schon besprochen.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2023-11-27-schatzkarten
date: 2023-11-27, from: The Markup blog
Two proposed federal class action lawsuits, filed in the wake of a Markup investigation, accuse the grocer of disclosing private data through its online store and pharmacy
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/11/27/kroger-sued-for-sharing-sensitive-health-data-with-meta
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A new version of Tiny11 – a stripped-down version of Microsoft’s flagship operating system – is here, now in full 23H2 guise.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/tiny11_2311/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Many of the world’s biggest economies have agreed to non-binding safety standards for artificial intelligence. While the joint guidelines address cybersecurity, they don’t extend to key issues like economic disruptions or potential threats to humanity. We dig into what this means as governments struggle to keep up with the pace of AI development. Plus, nothing like a U.N. climate summit for pitching expanded oil and gas deals.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/a-breakthrough-in-ai-safety-guidelines
date: 2023-11-27, from: 404 Media Group
James Regis Whitner, Jr. is a known figure in the world of sneakers and fashion. A wide spanning investigation alleges his companies, including Social Status, used a Chinese money laundering ring to move massive amounts of cash.
https://www.404media.co/sneakers-chinese-money-laundering-ring-social-status-james-whitner/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
China’s cloud and e-commerce giant Alibaba has shut down its quantum computing laboratory and laid off a number of researchers in what appears to be a bid to cut costs.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/alibaba_closes_quantum_lab_donates/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
The number of traffic-related deaths that have happened this year is twice as many as all of last year.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Children can join Santa Claus for breakfast at Mañe’lu’s Breakfast with Santa event, which will feature a breakfast buffet, arts and crafts, and a photo session with Saint Nick himself.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Legislature is meeting for another round of session this week and the first measure tackled Monday was Bill 2-37, which proposes to create a Special Cost of Living Economic Task Force to develop recommendations for a cost-of-living allowance…
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Issues regarding the use of e-cigarettes on the island will be discussed at What’s In The Air: The Vape Debate, hosted by a University of Guam master of public administration practicum class. The meeting will have people from the fields…
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Public Health’s Mangilao facility has been sitting unused and in disrepair for four years, raising the question: Is the same in store for the existing Guam Memorial Hospital and the Guam Behavioral Health and Wellness Center, should the governor’s medical…
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Before the year is out, eligible schoolchildren will receive nutritional assistance through the Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer program, or P-EBT, a type of food stamp card.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Pediatricians, anesthesiologists and now obstetricians and gynecologists have voiced their support for building a new hospital in Tamuning.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Picked from more than 2,600 submissions, the finalists pay homage to the state’s motto and nickname
date: 2023-11-27, from: Liliputing
Amazon has launched a new thin client solution for users of the company’s cloud-based virtual desktop solution called Amazon WorkSpaces. And when I say “new,” I mean Amazon basically repurposed its existing Fire TV Cube as a thin client. It’s now available as an Amazon WorkSpaces Thin Client for $195 and up. The hardware is […]
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https://liliputing.com/amazon-turns-fire-tv-cube-into-thin-clients-for-business-customers/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-28, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated A data-destroying bug has been discovered following the release of OpenZFS 2.2.0 as found in FreeBSD 14 among other OSes.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/openzfs_2_2_0_data_corruption/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links The real AI fight: Effective Accelerationists and Effective Altruists are both in vigorous agreement about something genuinely stupid. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2003, 2008, 2013, 2018, 2022 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading The real AI fight (permalink) Last week’s spectacular OpenAI soap-opera hijacked the attention of millions of normal, productive people and nonsensually crammed them full of the fine details of the debate between “Effective Altruism” (doomers) and “Effective Accelerationism” (AKA e/acc), a genuinely absurd debate that was allegedly at the center of the drama. Very broadly speaking: the Effective Altruists are doomers, who believe that Large Language Models (AKA “spicy autocomplete”) will someday become so advanced that it could wake up and annihilate or enslave the human race. To prevent this, we need to employ “AI Safety” – measures that will turn superintelligence into a servant or a partner, nor an adversary. Contrast this with the Effective Accelerationists, who also believe that LLMs will someday become superintelligences with the potential to annihilate or enslave humanity – but they nevertheless advocate for faster AI development, with fewer “safety” measures, in order to produce an “upward spiral” in the “techno-capital machine.” Once-and-future OpenAI CEO Altman is said to be an accelerationists who was forced out of the company by the Altruists, who were subsequently bested, ousted, and replaced by Larry fucking Summers. This, we’re told, is the ideological battle over AI: should cautiously progress our LLMs into superintelligences with safety in mind, or go full speed ahead and trust to market forces to tame and harness the superintelligences to come? This “AI debate” is pretty stupid, proceeding as it does from the foregone conclusion that adding compute power and data to the next-word-predictor program will eventually create a conscious being, which will then inevitably become a superbeing. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding faster and faster horses, we’ll get a locomotive: https://locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doctorow-full-employment/ As Molly White writes, this isn’t much of a debate. The “two sides” of this debate are as similar as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Yes, they’re arrayed against each other in battle, so furious with each other that they’re tearing their hair out. But for people who don’t take any of this mystical nonsense about spontaneous consciousness arising from applied statistics seriously, these two sides are nearly indistinguishable, sharing as they do this extremely weird belief. The fact that they’ve split into warring factions on its particulars is less important than their unified belief in the certain coming of the paperclip-maximizing apocalypse: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/effective-obfuscation White points out that there’s another, much more distinct side in this AI debate – as different and distant from Dee and Dum as a Beamish Boy and a Jabberwork. This is the side of AI Ethics – the side that worries about “today’s issues of ghost labor, algorithmic bias, and erosion of the rights of artists and others.” As White says, shifting the debate to existential risk from a future, hypothetical superintelligence “is incredibly convenient for the powerful individuals and companies who stand to profit from AI.” After all, both sides plan to make money selling AI tools to corporations, whose track record in deploying algorithmic “decision support” systems and other AI-based automation is pretty poor – like the claims-evaluation engine that Cigna uses to deny insurance claims: https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims On a graph that plots the various positions on AI, the two groups of weirdos who disagree about how to create the inevitable superintelligence are effectively standing on the same spot, and the people who worry about the actual way that AI harms actual people right now are about a million miles away from that spot. There’s that old programmer joke, “There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.” But of course, that joke could just as well be, “There are 10 kinds of people, those who understand ternary, those who understand binary, and those who don’t understand either”: https://pluralistic.net/2021/12/11/the-ten-types-of-people/ What’s more, the joke could be, “there are 10 kinds of people, those who understand hexadecenary, those who understand pentadecenary, those who understand tetradecenary [und so weiter] those who understand ternary, those who understand binary, and those who don’t.” That is to say, a “polarized” debate often has people who hold positions so far from the ones everyone is talking about that those belligerents’ concerns are basically indistinguishable from one another. The act of identifying these distant positions is a radical opening up of possibilities. Take the indigenous philosopher chief Red Jacket’s response to the Christian missionaries who sought permission to proselytize to Red Jacket’s people: https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5790/ Red Jacket’s whole rebuttal is a superb dunk, but it gets especially interesting where he points to the sectarian differences among Christians as evidence against the missionary’s claim to having a single true faith, and in favor of the idea that his own people’s traditional faith could be co-equal among Christian doctrines. The split that White identifies isn’t a split about whether AI tools can be useful. Plenty of us AI skeptics are happy to stipulate that there are good uses for AI. For example, I’m 100% in favor of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group using an LLM to classify and extract information from the Innocence Project New Orleans’ wrongful conviction case files: https://hrdag.org/tech-notes/large-language-models-IPNO.html Automating “extracting officer information from documents – specifically, the officer’s name and the role the officer played in the wrongful conviction” was a key step to freeing innocent people from prison, and an LLM allowed HRDAG – a tiny, cash-strapped, excellent nonprofit – to make a giant leap forward in a vital project. I’m a donor to HRDAG and you should donate to them too: https://hrdag.networkforgood.com/ Good data-analysis is key to addressing many of our thorniest, most pressing problems. As Ben Goldacre recounts in his inaugural Oxford lecture, it is both possible and desirable to build ethical, privacy-preserving systems for analyzing the most sensitive personal data (NHS patient records) that yield scores of solid, ground-breaking medical and scientific insights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-eaV8SWdjQ The difference between this kind of work – HRDAG’s exoneration work and Goldacre’s medical research – and the approach that OpenAI and its competitors take boils down to how they treat humans. The former treats all humans as worthy of respect and consideration. The latter treats humans as instruments – for profit in the short term, and for creating a hypothetical superintelligence in the (very) long term. As Terry Pratchett’s Granny Weatherwax reminds us, this is the root of all sin: “sin is when you treat people like things”: https://brer-powerofbabel.blogspot.com/2009/02/granny-weatherwax-on-sin-favorite.html So much of the criticism of AI misses this distinction – instead, this criticism starts by accepting the self-serving marketing claim of the “AI safety” crowd – that their software is on the verge of becoming self-aware, and is thus valuable, a good investment, and a good product to purchase. This is Lee Vinsel’s “Criti-Hype”: “taking press releases from startups and covering them with hellscapes”: https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5 Criti-hype and AI were made for each other. Emily M Bender is a tireless cataloger of criti-hypeists, like the newspaper reporters who breathlessly repeat ” completely unsubstantiated claims (marketing)…sourced to Altman”: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/111464030855880383 Bender, like White, is at pains to point out that the real debate isn’t doomers vs accelerationists. That’s just “billionaires throwing money at the hope of bringing about the speculative fiction stories they grew up reading – and philosophers and others feeling important by dressing these same silly ideas up in fancy words”: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/111464024432217299 All of this is just a distraction from real and important scientific questions about how (and whether) to make automation tools that steer clear of Granny Weatherwax’s sin of “treating people like things.” Bender – a computational linguist – isn’t a reactionary who hates automation for its own sake. On Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 – the excellent podcast she co-hosts with Alex Hanna – there is a machine-generated transcript: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417 There is a serious, meaty debate to be had about the costs and possibilities of different forms of automation. But the superintelligence true-believers and their criti-hyping critics keep dragging us away from these important questions and into fanciful and pointless discussions of whether and how to appease the godlike computers we will create when we disassemble the solar system and turn it into computronium. The question of machine intelligence isn’t intrinsically unserious. As a materialist, I believe that whatever makes me “me” is the result of the physics and chemistry of processes inside and around my body. My disbelief in the existence of a soul means that I’m prepared to think that it might be possible for something made by humans to replicate something like whatever process makes me “me.” Ironically, the AI doomers and accelerationists claim that they, too, are materialists – and that’s why they’re so consumed with the idea of machine superintelligence. But it’s precisely because I’m a materialist that I understand these hypotheticals about self-aware software are less important and less urgent than the material lives of people today. It’s because I’m a materialist that my primary concerns about AI are things like the climate impact of AI data-centers and the human impact of biased, opaque, incompetent and unfit algorithmic systems – not science fiction-inspired, self-induced panics over the human race being enslaved by our robot overlords. (Image: Cryteria, CC BY 3.0, modified) Hey look at this (permalink) “A Pan-African Vision for Structural Transformation” ~ Fadhel Kaboub https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnXjtyTnpig DISENGAGE Opting Out—and Finding New Options—to Reclaim the Internet from Spammers, Scammers, Intrusive Marketers and Big Tech https://www.lindaformichelli.com/_files/ugd/7f54e8_b4212db40a8342b59fe1e0a4c2087997.pdf National Rail Action Plan https://youtu.be/-VrvAzwpFmE This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago Big Mouth Billy Bass runs Linux, does impressions https://web.archive.org/web/20031123212606/http://bigmouth.here-n-there.com/ #15yrsago Tony Benn’s War on Terror diaries — an inspirational look at the life of a princpled fighter https://memex.craphound.com/2008/11/26/tony-benns-war-on-terror-diaries-an-inspirational-look-at-the-life-of-a-princpled-fighter/ #15yrsago Passwords suck https://web.archive.org/web/20081220181358/http://www.links.org/?p=425 #10yrsago RIP, Richard “Datamancer” Nagy https://web.archive.org/web/20131129114041/http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,41728.msg879191.html #10yrsago Pratchett’s “Raising Steam”: the magic of modernity https://memex.craphound.com/2013/11/27/pratchetts-raising-steam-the-magic-of-modernity/ #10yrsago NSA spied on non-terrorist “radicalizers”‘ porn use in order to discredit them https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128 #10yrsago Public Citizen threatens legal action against Kleargear on behalf of customers https://www.techdirt.com/2013/11/26/public-citizen-suing-behalf-customers-whose-credit-was-ruined-kleargears-3500-bad-review-fee/ #10yrsago Beasties/GoldieBlox debunked https://waxy.org/2013/11/goldieblox_and_the_three_mcs/ #5yrsago Billboards are using sensors to identify, target and track individuals https://onezero.medium.com/irl-ads-are-taking-scary-inspiration-from-social-media-7088e8241beb #5yrsago Man arrested for rape after his Playstation mic allegedly broadcast audio from the crime to other players https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/11/a-hot-playstation-mic-captures-sounds-of-apparent-rape-leads-to-arrest/ #5yrsago Amnesty will stage global protests over Google’s spying, censoring Chinese search engine plan https://theintercept.com/2018/11/26/google-dragonfly-project-china-amnesty-international/ #5yrsago Supreme Court looks ready to let customers sue Apple for abusing its App Store monopoly https://gizmodo.com/supreme-court-appears-to-lean-heavily-against-apples-de-1830662533?IR=T #5yrsato A visual guide to America’s concentrated, uncompetitive markets https://concentrationcrisis.openmarketsinstitute.org #5yrsago US tax shortfalls have our public schools begging for donations https://truthout.org/articles/bake-sales-cant-fix-school-funding-pinch-caused-by-corporate-tax-cuts/ #5yrsago Using information security to explain why disinformation makes autocracies stronger and democracies weaker https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/27/using-information-security-to-explain-why-disinformation-makes-autocracies-stronger-and-democracies-weaker/ #5yrsago The Fifth Risk: Michael Lewis explains how the “deep state” is just nerds versus grifters https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/27/the-fifth-risk-michael-lewis-explains-how-the-deep-state-is-just-nerds-versus-grifters/ #5yrsago Malware vector: become an admin on dormant, widely-used open source projects https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116 #5yrsago Babysitter vetting and voice-analysis: Have we reached peak AI snakeoil? https://memex.craphound.com/2018/11/26/babysitter-vetting-and-voice-analysis-have-we-reached-peak-ai-snakeoil/ #5yrsago Chinese AI traffic cam mistook a bus ad for a human and publicly shamed the CEO it depicted for jaywalking https://www.scmp.com/tech/innovation/article/2174564/facial-recognition-catches-chinas-air-con-queen-dong-mingzhu #5yrsago Using data-science to evaluate whether Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption sweeps were really about consolidating power https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/2019/preliminary/paper/hSA5ri6d #1yrago Poe vs. Property https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/27/poe-vs-property/ Colophon (permalink) Today’s top sources: Currently writing: A Little Brother short story about DIY insulin PLANNING Picks and Shovels, a Martin Hench noir thriller about the heroic era of the PC. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS JAN 2025 The Bezzle, a Martin Hench noir thriller novel about the prison-tech industry. FORTHCOMING TOR BOOKS FEB 2024 Vigilant, Little Brother short story about remote invigilation. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Spill, a Little Brother short story about pipeline protests. FORTHCOMING ON TOR.COM Latest podcast: Moral Hazard (from Communications Breakdown) https://craphound.com/stories/2023/11/12/moral-hazard-from-communications-breakdown/ Upcoming appearances: Who Is Watching Big Tech? Nov 27 (Toronto)` https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/who-is-watching-big-tech-tickets-707927880347 The Lost Cause at The Strand (NYC), Nov 29 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause-tickets-734958008187 The Lost Cause at Flyleaf Books (Chapel Hill), Dec 5 https://www.flyleafbooks.com/doctorow-2023 Recent appearances: Digital Markets Act; Interoperability; Entrenchment; Copyright; “What-About-Ism” (Digital Markets Research Hub) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm23pO5_WKM Science fiction for a dystopian present (Institute of Art and Ideas) https://iai.tv/video/science-fiction-for-a-dystopian-present-cory-doctorow?_auid=2020 Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Changelog) https://changelog.com/podcast/565 Latest books: “The Lost Cause:” a solarpunk novel of hope in the climate emergency, Tor Books (US), Head of Zeus (UK), November 2023 (http://lost-cause.org). Signed, personalized copies at Dark Delicacies (https://www.darkdel.com/store/p3007/Pre-Order_Signed_Copies%3A_The_Lost_Cause_HB.html#/) “The Internet Con”: A nonfiction book about interoperability and Big Tech (Verso) September 2023 (http://seizethemeansofcomputation.org). Signed copies at Book Soup (https://www.booksoup.com/book/9781804291245). “Red Team Blues”: “A grabby, compulsive thriller that will leave you knowing more about how the world works than you did before.” Tor Books http://redteamblues.com. Signed copies at Dark Delicacies (US): and Forbidden Planet (UK): https://forbiddenplanet.com/385004-red-team-blues-signed-edition-hardcover/. “Chokepoint Capitalism: How to Beat Big Tech, Tame Big Content, and Get Artists Paid, with Rebecca Giblin”, on how to unrig the markets for creative labor, Beacon Press/Scribe 2022 https://chokepointcapitalism.com “Attack Surface”: The third Little Brother novel, a standalone technothriller for adults. The Washington Post called it “a political cyberthriller, vigorous, bold and savvy about the limits of revolution and resistance.” Order signed, personalized copies from Dark Delicacies https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1840/Available_Now%3A_Attack_Surface.html “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism”: an anti-monopoly pamphlet analyzing the true harms of surveillance capitalism and proposing a solution. https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59?sk=f6cd10e54e20a07d4c6d0f3ac011af6b) (signed copies: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html) “Little Brother/Homeland”: A reissue omnibus edition with a new introduction by Edward Snowden: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583; personalized/signed copies here: https://www.darkdel.com/store/p1750/July%3A_Little_Brother%26_Homeland.html “Poesy the Monster Slayer” a picture book about monsters, bedtime, gender, and kicking ass. 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date: 2023-11-27, from: Liliputing
Black Friday 2023 has come and gone, and so have some of the deals on mobile tech gear. But there are still a lot of savings to be found on Cyber Monday 2023. In fact, many of the items that were on sale for Black Friday are still on sale for the same prices, or even […]
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The LAist
Lawyers who don’t typically handle eviction cases are answering L.A. Mayor Karen Bass’s call to help Angelenos stay housed.
date: 2023-11-27, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
In 2023 we mark the 100th anniversary of the first National Christmas Tree lighting. The lighting ceremony will take place on November 30, 2023, in President’s Park in Washington, DC. From December 2 through January 1, the public can visit the National Christmas Tree and be part of the annual holiday tradition in the nation’s … Continue reading 100th anniversary of the National Christmas Tree lighting
date: 2023-11-27, from: Logic Matters blog
Well, all that took much, much longer than planned! Having spent days sorting the shared books round the house, I was on a roll, and found myself seriously tackling my study for the first time in years. In the end, perhaps seven or eight feet of books have gone. And I feel all the better …
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Updated Google Drive users are reporting files mysteriously disappearing from the service, with some netizens on the goliath’s support forums claiming six or more months of work have unceremoniously vanished.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/google_drive_files_disappearing/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The United Nations’ annual climate summit, COP28, will kick off in Dubai later this week. Government and private-sector leaders will convene to outline steps to curb emissions and limit the impacts of global warming. What are some of the things we’ll be looking for? But first, we’ll unpack Black Friday sales and give a preview of Cyber Monday spending. Also: more problems in China’s rocky financial sector.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/what-to-watch-for-at-cop28
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-23, from: Bruce Schneier blog
There seems to be no end to warrantless surveillance:
According to the letter, a surveillance program now known as Data Analytical Services (DAS) has for more than a decade allowed federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to mine the details of Americans’ calls, analyzing the phone records of countless people who are not suspected of any crime, including victims. Using a technique known as chain analysis, the program targets not only those in direct phone contact with a criminal suspect but anyone with whom those individuals have been in contact as well…
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Analysis At Microsoft’s Ignite conference, CEO Satya Nadella called Fabric perhaps the company’s biggest data product launch since SQL Server, the third-highest-ranked database in the world.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/microsoft_databricks_data_platform/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Leaked documents obtained by the BBC suggest that the United Arab Emirates has been using its role as host of COP28 as an opportunity to strike oil and gas agreements. Then, Chinese officials have launched an investigation into one of the country’s biggest shadow banks. Plus, analysts say Zimbabwe has become the world’s leading blueberry exporter.
date: 2023-11-27, from: Tilde.news
https://www.macworld.com/article/213733/stationary-pad.html
date: 2023-11-27, from: Heatmap News
Fighting for clean air and water. Accelerating the green energy transition. Centering economic and racial justice. Engaging future generations of climate innovators.
Nonprofits across the U.S. and around the world are tackling the problem of climate change in zillions of different ways. In recognition of the scope of their work, we at Heatmap are starting a new tradition for Giving Tuesday — asking some of the most prominent voices in the climate space where they would donate this year.
The answers they gave us are varied, exciting, and urgent, with a cause for every interest and concern. Learn how to donate or get involved with an effort close to your own heart, below.
What UPROSE does: Organizes the multiracial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural population of Sunset Park, Brooklyn to promote sustainability and climate justice.
How you can support UPROSE: Get involved or donate here.
Where Yeampierre would donate this year: NYC Environmental Justice Alliance; NY Renews Climate; and Climate Justice Alliance.
Why: “All three of these organizations have a long and continued track record of shaping policy, base building, and operationalizing a just transition. All are frontline-led and center racial justice and equity in all aspects of their operations. All have changed the landscape and are central to decision-making on all things climate.”
What Generation180 does: Mounts public campaigns for electrification with relentless positivity.
How you can support Generation180: Donate here.
Where Wertz would donate this year: Hollywood Climate Summit.
Why: “This holiday season, I’d consider giving to Hollywood Climate Summit for their important climate communications work. Hollywood is an extremely powerful industry, and for the past four years, the annual Hollywood Climate Summit has served as an urgent call to action for the entertainment industry to address the climate emergency through a compilation of think tanks, workshops, and activities. The climate movement needs to change hearts and minds, and HCS is encouraging the entertainment community to help us achieve the cultural shift we need to advance an equitable, sustainable future.”
What the Indigenous Environmental Network does: Draws on the history of indigenous peoples to empower Native groups working to protect their homelands.
How you can support the IEN: Donate here or explore other ways to support the IEN.
Where White would donate this year: Tonatierra
Why: “We would love to spotlight the incredible work of Tonatierra. They are a family-based organization lifting up the grassroots from the local work on the ground to the United Nations. Sadly, they recently lost their co-founder, Tupac [Enrique Acosta].
“The work of Tonatierra in lifting up Indigenous communities over the past decades has been tireless and selfless. They fight for Indigenous Peoples community empowerment bringing together Indigenous people from the north and south in the fight for justice and human rights all within the framework of the protection of Mother Earth as we are all connected to the land.”
What the Rainforest Alliance does: Leverages business incentives to protect irreplaceable ecosystems — and the communities that rely on them.
How you can support the Rainforest Alliance: Get involved or donate here.
Where Katz would donate this year: Fundación Proyecto Tití and The Billion Oyster Project
Why: “Fundación Proyecto Tití works to stop deforestation and protect the cotton-top tamarin monkey. Also known as the tití, these one-pound primates are only found in the forests of Colombia, but deforestation is destroying their already diminished habitat. Only about 7,000 titís remain in the wild. The organization is effective in part because it works so well with the local community to protect endangered forests and replant degraded lands. The group has a U.S. sponsor, so all gifts are tax-deductible.
“The Billion Oyster Project is a growing New York-based conservation organization working alongside the Harbor School on Governor’s Island to clean up the New York estuary, once home to the largest number of oysters in the world. The Billion Oyster project not only grows oysters, [it] also helps everyone better understand the connection between clean water, biodiversity, and the food we eat. If Billon Oyster is successful — and they are well on the way — in the near future, all New Yorkers will have cleaner rivers and more wildlife thriving throughout the area.”
What SELC does: Defends the local environment in court, using the law to help move the U.S. South toward a more sustainable future.
How you can support SELC: Get involved or donate here.
Where Campaigne would donate this year: Memphis Community Against Pollution
Why: “Memphis Community Against Pollution has done some of the most impressive organizing around in its quest for environmental justice for Black communities in Southwest Memphis. The organization played David as it slayed the Goliath Byhalia crude oil pipeline, then worked successfully to force the closure of another facility that had been releasing toxic, cancer-causing pollution for more than four decades. MCAP has now focused its fierce attention on a climate behemoth: the quasi-federal utility TVA, which is proposing one of the largest methane gas buildouts in the country, a move that would lock the region into fossil fuels for decades to come.”
What Rewiring America does: Teaches U.S. homeowners about the tangible benefits of clean electricity.
How you can support Rewiring America: Get involved or donate here.
Where Young would donate this year: Community-based organizations like Baltimore’s Civic Works
Why: “Changing a handful of machines in our homes and driveways is one of the most important things you can do for the planet. The Inflation Reduction Act and climate philanthropists are accelerating this work at the national level, but for Giving Tuesday, we say go local. Community-based organizations with longstanding, personal connections and deep knowledge of the local landscape are often some of the best-positioned to advance electrification thoughtfully and equitably. This giving season, find an organization working to increase resiliency and improve the quality of life for their community by weatherizing low-income homes, providing financial assistance to install heat pumps, or advocating for local government action to help strengthen building codes and gain access to solar or EV charging.”
What the CATF does: Advocates for climate technologies to decarbonize the global energy system.
How you can support the CATF: Donate here or explore other ways to support CATF.
Who Shaheen would donate to this year: Western Resource Advocates, the Center for Applied Law and Policy, and ClearPath
Why: “We appreciate the work the following organizations are doing to advance effective, pragmatic solutions to climate change. In the U.S., we’d like to showcase Western Resource Advocates, which drives evidence-based solutions to the climate crisis, protecting and sustaining the environment, economy, and people of the interior West; the Center for Applied Law and Policy, which seeks to further innovation in environmental law and policy; and ClearPath, which develops and advances policies that accelerate innovations to reduce and remove global energy emissions.”
What RMI does: Brings cutting-edge research and
analysis to business, governments, and the public to build a carbon-free
future.
How you can support RMI: Explore ways to give here.
Where Singh would donate this year: Relp
Why: “Relp’s work not only addresses the pressing energy challenges in developing nations but also holds the potential to revolutionize the renewable energy landscape, forging a path toward a greener and more sustainable future for all. Their mission creates a ripple effect in the renewable energy sector, offering a way to scale renewable investments in regions that need them the most. Their comprehensive grasp of renewable energy markets combined with their ability to generate investment opportunities [that were] previously thought infeasible transforms what was once seen as unattainable into achievable milestones.”
https://heatmap.news/guides/giving-tuesday-climate-recommendation-guide
date: 2023-11-27, from: Howard Jacobson blog
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Infosec in Brief Cybercriminals working out of Russia go to great lengths to conceal their real identities, and you won’t ever find the state trying to unmask them either – as long as they keep supplying the attacks on Axis nations. It’s the reason why we found it so amusing that of all the ways the identity of an organized cybercrime gang leader could be revealed, it was Russian state media that may have recently outed someone of note.…
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date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
AI in Brief Amazon launched AI Ready, a program that aims to train two million people in AI skills by 2025, and started the initiative by offering free courses and scholarships this week.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/ai_roundup_2411/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — As Congress returns to session this week, lawmakers will be trying to forge an agreement on sending a new round of wartime assistance to Ukraine. But to succeed, they will have to find agreement on an issue that has confounded them for decades.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ELMSFORD, N.Y. — When Sean Rafferty got his start in the grocery business, anything that wasn’t sold got tossed out.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NANTUCKET, Mass. — President Joe Biden confirmed Sunday that Abigail Edan, a 4-year-old American girl held hostage by Hamas after her parents were killed, was released as part of the cease-fire deal in the Israel-Hamas war.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Big Island environmental groups hope to end the commercial aquarium fishing industry in Hawaii once and for all next month.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>In a season finale that was grand, Matthew Shipley connected on a 51-yard field goal as time expired to deliver the Hawaii football team a 27-24 victory over Colorado State at the Ching Complex.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Konawaena football’s magical season run ended Saturday night at Mililani High School on Oahu.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MILWAUKEE — Damian Lillard acknowledged his first game against his former team felt a little bit different at first.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Rookie Zay Flowers had a touchdown catch and ran for a game-sealing score late in the fourth quarter, Baltimore’s defense forced four turnovers, and the AFC-best Ravens beat the Los Angeles Chargers 20-10 on Sunday night.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — The Knicks had been forcing Devin Booker to give up the ball, and for most of the game he was fine with an open teammate taking the shot.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hamas was back on track Sunday as the militants freed 17 more hostages, including 14 Israelis and the first American, in a third exchange under a four-day truce that the U.S. said it hoped would be extended. In turn, Israel released 39 Palestinian prisoners.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PLAINS, Ga. — Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter could not remember their first meeting. She was a newborn. He wasn’t long out of diapers himself, a would-be U.S. president peering down at the future first lady his mother had delivered a few days earlier.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>BARCELONA, Spain — Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Sunday he hopes a meeting of Mediterranean officials will help bridge a gap between Arab and European countries in calling for a humanitarian pause in Gaza to become a permanent cease-fire.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>At the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP28) this year, decision-makers won’t just talk about change. They’ll taste it. COP28 (Nov. 30–Dec. 12) will offer a predominantly vegan menu, reflecting a growing awareness of how meat, eggs and dairy contribute to the climate catastrophe. Let’s hope this mounting understanding will inspire everyone to go vegan — before it’s too late.</p>
date: 2023-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
How do you best teach programming in school? It’s one of the core questions for primary and secondary computing teachers. That’s why we’re making it the focus of our free online seminars in 2024. You’re invited to attend and hear about the newest research about the teaching and learning of programming, with or without AI…
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/teaching-programming-ai-seminar-series-2024/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Opinion The British Library’s showpiece site, in a listed red brick building in St Pancras, is presided over by a large bronze sculpture depicting Isaac Newton poring over a document he’s working with, measuring it with dividers.…
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date: 2023-11-27, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Here’s a selection of some of the awesome things we got sent this month – and remember to follow along at the hashtag #MagPiMonday!
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https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/its-magpimonday-show-us-your-makes/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, The mainstream media is helping Trump and his authoritarian allies in four ways. First, it’s drawing a false equivalence between Trump and Biden — claiming that Biden’s political handicap is his age, while Trump’s corresponding handicap is his criminal indictments.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-the-mainstream-media-is-enabling
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Feeling especially drained after a day on Zoom is not a figment of your imagination – videoconferencing fatigue (VCF) is real, according to a study penned by a quartet of Austrian investigators.…
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Who, Me? Monday? Again? Didn’t we do that last week? Oh well, at least there’s Who, Me? The Register’s weekly reader-contributed tale of technical derring-try (if not quite derring-do).…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/who_me/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Charles Fortin can’t get excited by 30-storey skyscrapers.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/fantasy_datacenter_designs/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
The Office of the Attorney General has launched an investigation into “illegal damages” to public roadways allegedly caused by the Guam Waterworks Authority.
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Terraform Labs founder Do Kwon – a wanted man in both South Korea and the United States – will soon face extradition from Montenegro after a court gave approval for his removal.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/do_kwon_extradition_approved/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Guam Daily Post
Sen. Frank Blas Jr. is asking Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero to utilize American Rescue Plan funding to upgrade the Southern Regional Community Health Center, to include a 24-hour urgent care facility, in order to better serve the island’s southern residents.
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
re:Invent Amazon Web Services has announced the WorkSpaces Thin Client – a device dedicated to connecting to its WorkSpaces desktop-as-a service offering and based on Amazon’s own “Fire Cube” smart TV box.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/aws_workspaces_thin_client/
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
China is offering foreign influencers access to its vast market in return for content that sings its praises and helps to spreads Beijing’s desired narratives more widely around the world, according to think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/27/china_foreign_inflluencers_aspi/
date: 2023-11-27, from: James Fallows, Substack
In an eventful week, one celebration and three commemorations.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/milestones-angela-zerad-begins-her
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Jeff Johnson: I’ve recently run into a case that seems to call into question all extant sample code for Mac App Store receipt validation. […] I learned that the ethernet port of the customer’s Mac was fried as a result of electrical damage from a lightning strike. The Mac’s motherboard was replaced, but afterward the […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/receipt-validation-with-all-the-ethernet-interfaces/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Mariella Moon (via Hacker News): NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed by French automotive company Valeo after a screensharing blunder by one of its employees. According to Valeo’s complaint, Mohammad Moniruzzaman, an engineer for NVIDIA who used to work for its company, had mistakenly showed its source code files on his computer as he was […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/nvidia-sued-for-stealing-trade-secrets/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Bruce Schneier: Jake Appelbaum’s PhD thesis contains several new revelations from the classified NSA documents provided to journalists by Edward Snowden. Stefania Maurizi: Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance is a public document and has been downloaded over 18,000 times since March 2022 when it was first published.[…]In 2013, Jacob Appelbaum published a remarkable […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/cavium-networking-hardware-may-contain-backdoor/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra (Hacker News): A little-known surveillance program tracks more than a trillion domestic phone records within the United States each year, according to a letter Wired obtained that was sent by US senator Ron Wyden to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday, challenging the program’s legality. According to the letter, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/data-analytical-services-das/
date: 2023-11-27, from: Michael Tsai
Jon Miltimore (Hacker News): “Marketed to Congress as a benign tool to help prevent drunk driving, the measure will mandate that automobile manufacturers build into every car what amounts to a ‘vehicle kill switch,’” wrote Barr, who was the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president in 2008.[…]To my relief, I saw several fact-checkers at legacy institutions […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2023/11/26/section-24220-advanced-impaired-driving-technology/
date: 2023-11-27, from: OS News
NTDEV, the developer behind Tiny11, has released a new update for its miniature Windows 11 operating system, called Tiny11 2311, that adds Microsoft’s latest feature update, 23H2, into the OS and introduces a plethora of bug fixes addressing issues in the outgoing version of Tiny11. On top of this, the new update also shrinks Tiny11’s install size by a whopping 20%, making Tiny11’s renowned footprint even smaller. There is absolutely no need for Windows 11 to be as big and invasive as it is, and it feels like such a shame and missed opportunity to burden an otherwise good and capable operating system with such cruft and useless junk.
date: 2023-11-27, from: VOA News USA
Armed assailants seized and later let go a tanker linked to Israel off the coast of Yemen on Sunday before being apprehended by the United States Navy, officials said.
Two ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen then landed near a U.S. warship in the Gulf of Aden, raising the stakes amid a series of ship attacks linked to the Israel-Hamas war.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government blamed the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels for the attack, though the rebels in control of the capital, Sanaa, did not acknowledge either the seizure or the missile attack.
The attackers seized the Liberian-flagged Central Park, managed by Zodiac Maritime, in the Gulf of Aden, the company, the U.S. and British militaries and private intelligence firm Ambrey said.
Early Monday morning, Zodiac said the vessel carrying phosphoric acid and its crew of 22 sailors from Bulgaria, Georgia, India, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Vietnam were “unharmed.”
“We would like to thank the coalition forces who responded quickly, protecting assets in the area and upholding international maritime law,” the company said.
The U.S. military’s Central Command said in a statement early Monday that its forces, including the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Mason, responded to the seizure and demanded the armed assailants release the tanker.
“Subsequently, five armed individuals debarked the ship and attempted to flee via their small boat,” Central Command said. “The Mason pursued the attackers resulting in their eventual surrender.”
The Central Command did not identify the men, but said a missile launch from Houthi-controlled Yemen followed early Monday morning.
“The missiles landed in the Gulf of Aden approximately ten nautical miles from the ships,” the statement said. “The USS Mason … was concluding its response to the M/V Central Park distress call at the time of the missile launches. There was no damage or reported injuries from either vessel during this incident.”
Zodiac described the vessel as being owned by Clumvez Shipping Inc., though other records directly linked Zodiac as the owner. London-based Zodiac Maritime is part of Israeli billionaire Eyal Ofer’s Zodiac Group. British corporate records listed two men with the last name Ofer as a current and former director of Clumvez Shipping, including Daniel Guy Ofer, who is also a director at Zodiac Maritime.
Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is based out of nearby Aden, blamed the rebels for the seizure in a statement carried by their state-run news agency.
“The Yemeni government has renewed its denunciation of the acts of maritime piracy carried out by the terrorist Houthi militias with the support of the Iranian regime, the most recent of which was the hijacking of the Central Park,” the statement read.
The attack happened in a part of the Gulf of Aden that is in theory under the control of that government’s forces and is fairly distant from Houthi-controlled territory in the country. Somali pirates are not known to operate in that area.
Zodiac Maritime has been targeted previously amid a wider yearslong shadow war between Iran and Israel. In 2021, a drone attack assessed by the U.S. and other Western nations to have been carried out by Iran killed two crew members aboard Zodiac’s oil tanker Mercer Street off the coast of Oman.
The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations, which provides warnings to sailors in the Middle East, had earlier issued a warning to sailors that “two black-and-white craft carrying eight persons in military-style clothing” had been seen in the area.
The UKMTO put the Central Park’s location over 60 kilometers south of Yemen’s coast, some 80 kilometers east of Djibouti and around 110 kilometers northeast of Somalia in the Gulf of Aden, a key shipping route.
The Central Park seizure comes after a container ship, CMA CGM Symi, owned by another Israeli billionaire, came under attack Friday by a suspected Iranian drone in the Indian Ocean. Iran has not acknowledged carrying out the attack, nor did it respond to questions from the AP about that assault.
Both the Symi and the Central Park had been behaving as if they faced a threat in recent days.
The ships had switched off their Automatic Identification System trackers, according to data from MarineTraffic.com analyzed by the AP. Ships are supposed to keep their AIS active for safety reasons, but crews will turn them off if it appears they might be targeted. In the Central Park’s case, the vessel had last transmitted four days ago after it left the Suez Canal heading south into the Red Sea.
Global shipping had increasingly been targeted as the Israel-Hamas war threatens to become a wider regional conflict — even as a truce has halted fighting and Hamas exchanges hostages for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.
Earlier this month, the Houthis seized a vehicle transport ship also linked to Israel in the Red Sea off Yemen.
Meanwhile on Sunday, the American aircraft carrier USS Eisenhower traveled through the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf, the U.S. military said. The Eisenhower was accompanied by the guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea, the guided-missile destroyers USS Gravely and the USS Stethem and the French frigate Languedoc.
https://www.voanews.com/a/7371406.html
date: 2023-11-27, from: Gary Marcus blog
Three top ML researchers, a leading physicist, and a former French Minister, at each other’s throats
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/hinton-vs-lecun-vs-ng-vs-tegmark
date: 2023-11-27, updated: 2023-11-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Asia In Brief Terry Gou, the billionaire founder of contract manufacturer Foxconn, has ended his campaign to be elected as president of Taiwan.…
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date: 2023-11-27, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Ce n’est pas une fenêtre Intriguing feature on an internal wall of St Mary’s Church, Cong, Co Mayo. With apologies to René Magritte. Quote of the Day “A guy walks into a pub with a lump of asphalt on his … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/monday-27-november-2023/38849/
date: 2023-11-27, from: ROR Research ID Blog
Adam Day, CEO of Clear Skies Ltd., discusses how he works to improve research integrity with tools like Papermill Alarm, why such tools can assist but can’t replace human investigators, and what’s so important for data scientists about free and open identifers like ROR.