News gathered 2024-01-19
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Hachette v. Internet Archive: Amicus Briefs on Non-Commercial Use
date: 2024-01-19, from: Authors Union blogs
Our last post highlighted one of the amicus briefs filed in the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit, which made the point that controlled digital lending serves important privacy interests for library readers. Today I want to highlight a second new issue introduced on appeal and addressed by almost every amici: the proper way to assess […]
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Mocking Haley’s name is latest race-based attack from Trump
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
“That’s what he does when he feels threatened. That’s what he does when he feels insecure,” Haley told reporters in New Hampshire on Friday when asked about Trump’s false assertions that her heritage disqualifies her from the Oval Office. “I know that I am a threat. I know that’s why he’s doing that. So it’s not going to waste any energy for me.”
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Canoo gets real as deliveries of its electric commercial van begin
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
Walmart-backed EV startup Canoo has announced that deliveries of its all-electric commercial van have officially begun – and the first production Canoo LDV 130 vans are already hard at work.
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First crab hauls come ashore, but Northern California fishermen frustrated by $3 price point
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The beginning of the season follows a multiport strike in Northern California to try and achieve a better price.
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US Citizens Named in Jimmy Lai Trial Deny Allegations: ‘Just Journalism’
date: 2024-01-19, from: VOA News USA
LONDON — The names of two U.S. citizens came up in the trial of Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong this week as the prosecution brought forward its first witness in the landmark national security case.
Lai has been charged with “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces” under the Hong Kong National Security Law, among other crimes.
Lai has pleaded not guilty. Following this week’s testimony from a former colleague at the newspaper, the two Americans named, Mark Simon and Mark Clifford, said the allegations that came up in testimony were just normal journalistic work.
In court on Wednesday, Cheung Kim-hung, the former publisher of Apple Daily, appeared as an “accomplice witness.” In his testimony, Cheung said that Lai sought out writers for the popular, now-defunct tabloid through introductions from Simon, his personal assistant, and Clifford, a former director of the newspaper’s parent company, Next Digital.
Simon told VOA Cantonese that he has written English columns for publications owned by Next Digital for more than 10 years and has also invited others to write opinion pieces for Apple Daily, including two Nobel Prize winners in economics, Vernon L. Smith and “father of the euro” Robert Mundell.
“It wasn’t uncommon. it’s basically journalism. I mean, that’s what it is, it’s basically journalism management,” he told VOA Cantonese. “I don’t really know where they [the prosecution] are going with this. It seems to me like, the issue is a newspaper being a newspaper.”
Simon said he first met Cheung in 2001 and considered him a friend.
“The human tragedy here of a man being turned against his friend and his boss, it’s horrific to see,” Simon said. “I mean this is very painful for a lot of people to watch. And so, it’s a tragedy to watch. With the system, you know, he cut a deal, and I guess he’s saying what he’s going to say.”
When the prosecution made its opening statement for the trial, it said Lai had a broad international network and named many foreign political and business figures who had contact or links with him. Simon was one of those named as a “co-conspirator.”
The prosecution also mentioned Clifford, saying that he attended Lai’s online talk show in October 2020 that discussed Washington’s sale of weapons to Taiwan.
Clifford, who is currently the president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, issued a statement acknowledging that he helped find writers for Apple Daily.
“Yes, I, too, plead guilty of practicing journalism. However, it was Kim-hung and his colleagues, working with Jimmy, who deserve the accolades for everything they did to advance the cause of freedom and democracy in Hong Kong in the 26 years they ran the city’s most important newspaper,” wrote Clifford.
Clifford said that there was nothing in Cheung’s testimony that suggested Lai broke the law. He added that Lai was only advocating for freedom and democracy, which was promised by China under the Basic Law, the de facto constitution that governs the territory.
Clifford said he did not feel anger but “immense sorrow” at Cheung’s testimony. He said Lai and other defendants should be released immediately.
“Kim-hung and five colleagues have been held as hostages almost three years, since authorities forced Apple Daily to shut in mid-2021. They have pled guilty but remain behind bars, denied bail, so that they can be used as bit players in the ongoing show trial against Jimmy Lai,” he wrote. “None of us know how we would react if put under the sort of strain that Kim-hung and others have endured.
“We all like to think we would be as brave and honorable in sticking to our principles as Jimmy Lai has been. Thankfully, most of us will never be tested like this.”
Britain and the United States have called for Lai’s release and said the case is politically motivated. Hong Kong officials say Lai will receive a fair trial.
Following massive public protests in 2019, authorities in China set up a National Security Law for Hong Kong in a bid to restore stability. The law punishes acts of subversion, secession, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces with up to life imprisonment, a penalty Lai could face if found guilty.
Lai’s trial began on December 18 and is being overseen by three judges: Esther Toh, Susana Maria D’Almada Remedios and Alex Lee. There is no jury.
Cheung has also been charged with “conspiracy to collude with foreign forces.” He pled guilty with five other defendants in November 2022. Mitigation and sentencing for the six will be conducted after Lai’s trial.
When the six pled guilty, the International Federation of Journalists issued a statement condemning the “arbitrary legal persecution” of Apple Daily staff and urged Hong Kong authorities to drop all charges against the media workers immediately.
Aleksandra Bielakowska, Asia-Pacific Bureau Advocacy Officer for Reporters Without Borders, told VOA Cantonese that the latest developments in the case against Lai are deeply worrying and further demonstrate the spurious nature of charges against the Apple Daily founder.
“Targeting human rights defenders in other parts of the world as ‘co-conspirators’ for simply doing their jobs, and now having on stand witnesses who have been held hostage in jail for more than three years, is showing the true extent of the arbitrariness of proceedings Lai is facing,” she said.
“Cheung Kim-hung has been held in custody together with his Apple Daily colleagues simply as the hostages that are being used against Jimmy Lai. Cheung and other detained media staff have been put through an ordeal which is hard to imagine and that none should ever endure.”
Bielakowska said that recent developments in the trial show how China will do anything in its power to crush press freedom in Hong Kong.
“It is not Jimmy Lai as an individual on the trial, it is his media, journalists and press freedom, a principle that shouldn’t be crushed but protected as enshrined in the Basic Law,” she said.
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Los Angeles Times Employees Go On First Ever Walkout As Layoffs Loom
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
The one-day walkout is the paper’s only work stoppage since its first publication in 1881.
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John Travolta pushed to name Prince Harry a ‘Living Legend of Aviation’ at Hollywood gala
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Organizers have taken offense to accusations that Friday night’s award to Harry is ‘a publicity stunt,’ while past honorees have included such famous private pilots as Travolta, Tom Cruise, Harrison Ford and Angelina Jolie.
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California state senate leader Toni Atkins announces run for governor
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
She’ll have to compete against a strong field of Democrats, including Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond, former Controller Betty Yee and Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis. Attorney General Rob Bonta is also considering a run to succeed current Gov. Gavin Newsom
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Disneyland reveals its 2024 Lunar New Year festival menu
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Disney California Adventure will host the Lunar New Year event on Jan. 23 through Feb. 18 in celebration of Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese cultures and traditions.
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“Show Me Your Favorite Dance Move”
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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I ported SimCity to Unix on top of X11 using the TCL/Tk toolkit (1992)
date: 2024-01-19, from: Tilde.news
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Apply Now for Summer Lifeguard Jobs
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Do you have a passion for swimming, customer service and working with the community? If you do, consider applying to become a lifeguard with the city of Santa Clarita! Join us in February for swim tests and interviews
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Apple Vision Pro deliveries delayed to March in sign of early demand
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Apple Inc.’s long-awaited Vision Pro mixed-reality headset finally became available for preorders on Friday, giving the company its first real taste of consumer demand for the $3,499 device.
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Old Man on Campus
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: One Foot Tsunami
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What do you do?
date: 2024-01-19, from: Chris Coyier blog
A biting first sentence from Robin Berjon: No one can explain what you do. Let’s face it, you don’t do a great job explaining it either. The Chimeralogists I’ve always wanted to be good at answering this question. My default answer is “web design and development”, but I find 90% of the time people assume […]
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San Jose: Dog recovering from snout injury following mysterious shooting
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Marley underwent reconstructive jaw surgery at UC Davis after being found wounded Jan. 11, authorities say.
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Deputy Discovery and Systems Health Technical Area Lead Dr. Rodney Martin
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
“[In] everyone’s life, they have a pivotal moment when they ask the question, ‘What am I really doing? What am I here for?’ … I’m reminded of a credo that I came up [with] through the evolution of my engagement of a whole bunch of recreational pursuits [including being a marathoner, ultrarunner, and Ironman triathlete] […]
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ASRock DeskMini X600 and Jupiter X600 compact computers support 65W Ryzen 7000/8000 processors
date: 2024-01-19, from: Liliputing
Most of the mini PCs we cover at Liliputing are small systems with low-power processors soldered to the motherboard. But ASRock is one of the few companies that makes compact desktops with sockets for desktop-class processors. And this month the company showed off two upcoming models with AMD’s AM5 socket and support for Ryzen 7000 […]
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For a moment there, Lotus Notes appeared to do everything a company needed
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Now its functions are shattered between innumerable vendors
Retro Tech Week It may seem that progress in technology proceeds in a linear fashion, with new developments replacing older ones. From this viewpoint, newer technology will always be better, since it is presumed to have built upon what came before it and improved on it.…
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Best White Maeng Da Kratom Products, Strains, Benefits & Dosage [2024]
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
White maeng da kratom is a potent kratom strain that offers pain relief, energy boost & mood enhancement. Learn more about its effects, dosage, and uses.
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Behind the Blog: Instagram Porn and AI Garbage
date: 2024-01-19, from: 404 Media Group
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss Instagram’s anti-sex policies, Google News AI garbage, and handing over ID all over the internet.
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10 print chr$(205.5 + rnd(1));:goto 10 in JavaScript
date: 2024-01-19, from: Chris Heilmann
Forget about the Vision Pro, or whatever Samsung just brought out, we all know that the pinnacle of computing fun has been released in 1982 in the form of the Commodore 64. One of the coolest things you could show people when writing BASIC on it was the following one-liner: 10 print chr$(205.5 + rnd(1));:goto […]
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Bay Area job market surges with big December gains to cap off 2023
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Bay Area job market rocketed to robust gains in December, an upswing that capped off an uneasy 2023.
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LACoFD Offers Pre-filled Sandbags in Littlerock, Acton
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
With rain in the forecast later this month, the Los Angeles County Fire Department wants to ensure residents are prepared for potential flooding.
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Oooh, Robin Sloan has announced his latest novel: Moonbound. “It is eleven…
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Richmond sees first homicide of year, a fatal shooting
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police did not identify a suspect or say what the motive may have been.
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Solidarität mit Correctiv
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Chaos Computer Club Updates
Das Recherchezentrum „Correctiv“ hat die Deportationspläne von Mitgliedern der AfD, CDU und Identitären Bewegung bei einem konspirativen Treffen in Potsdam enthüllt. Nun greift die Partei AfD in ihrem Mitgliederblatt die Journalistinnen persönlich an. Der CCC verurteilt diesen Angriff auf kritische Berichterstattung über antidemokratische Entwicklungen.
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A New Vision (Pro) Day
date: 2024-01-19, from: Om Malik blog
Editor’s Note: I want to take a moment to welcome new readers who have stumbled upon my internet homestead, thanks to Ben Thompson’s interview with me on the Stratechery Podcast (Subscription Required). We delved into the history of technology and my renewed enthusiasm for its future. And, of course, we chatted about Apple’s Vision Pro. Apple’s Vision …
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
WordPress 6.5 release squad formation.
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All newspapers with story alleging teen’s rape at Colorado police chief’s house are stolen
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
“They stole nearly every newspaper out of our racks in Ouray County. If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably.”
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Tesla Cybertruck gets 103 miles of towing range in the worst conditions possible
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
A Tesla Cybertruck range test has resulted in only 103 miles (166 km) of range, but it was performed in the worst conditions possible.
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In a historic first, a US offshore wind farm delivers power to the grid [Update]
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
New York’s South Fork Wind has become the first utility-scale offshore wind farm to generate power in the US.
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A recent report found that corporate profiteering “accounted for about 53% of…
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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HP’s CEO spells it out: You’re a ‘bad investment’ if you don’t buy HP supplies
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Malware threat from third-party cartridges nothing compared to threat to HP’s bottom line
HP CEO Enrique Lores admitted this week that the company’s long-term objective is “to make printing a subscription” when he was questioned about the company’s approach to third-party replacement ink suppliers.…
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VinFast Delivers Record Number Of EVs In Q4, But Misses 2023 Target
date: 2024-01-19, from: Inside EVs News
The company delivered close to 35,000 electric cars last year.
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Empty for 50 years, a waterfront dirt lot in Antioch is about to sprout. What should it become?
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The former Beede Lumber yard could be transformed into a town center, event venue and more.
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In year since Monterey Park mass shooting, California has passed a bevy of new gun laws
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
From microstamping technology requirements to ammunition taxes to concealed weapons reforms, the laws are designed to promote gun safety.
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Updates 2023/Q4
date: 2024-01-19, from: mrusme blog
Project updates from the previous consecutive three-month period, with info on the current status of my projects and next steps. You might find this interesting in case you’re using any of my open source tools.
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NFL playoff predictions: Can 49ers, Ravens ride No. 1 seeds to title games? Who wins Chiefs-Bills showdown?
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The 49ers and Ravens each clinched their respective conference with a week to spare. Now rested, they are two wins from a Super Bowl appearance
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RIP, Internet’s Time Lord
date: 2024-01-19, from: Om Malik blog
I want to take a moment and say a silent prayer for David Mills, the creator of Network Time Protocol (NTP), which is fundamental to the functioning of networks. Mills, nicknamed the Internet’s Time Lord by his peers, passed away on January 17 at the age of 85. His contributions to the development and evolution of …
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The Rise of POMG, Part 1: It Takes a Village…
date: 2024-01-19, from: Digital Antiquarian
No one on their deathbed ever said, “I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer!” — Dani Bunten Berry If you ever want to feel old, just talk to the younger generation. A few years ago now, I met the kids of a good friend of mine for the very first time: […]
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Jeep and Dodge’s new EV platform comes with 500 miles range, Hellcat performance
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
The first Jeep and Dodge electric vehicles will hit the US later this year. Ahead of their official launches, Stellantis revealed the new STLA Large EV platform that will underpin the upcoming Jeep and Dodge EVs. The platform features up to 500 miles range and power “that will outperform any of the existing Hellcat V-8s.”
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ON the Beat | Charm Schooled Chanteuse with Ulterior Agendas
date: 2024-01-19, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
This edition of ON the Beat was originally emailed to subscribers on January 18, 2024. To receive Josef Woodard’s music newsletter in
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NASA’S OSIRIS-REx Curation Team Reveals Remaining Asteroid Sample
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
The astromaterials curation team at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston has completed the disassembly of the OSIRIS-REx sampler head to reveal the remainder of the asteroid Bennu sample inside. On Jan. 10, they successfully removed two stubborn fasteners that had prevented the final steps of opening the Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head. Erika Blumenfeld, creative lead […]
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Washington, Arizona coaching changes: Could the vacancies have been prevented as the sport’s new order takes shape?
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
In the post-Pac-12 world, a Big Ten school in Seattle raided a Big 12 school in Tucson.
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Add an M.2 NVMe drive to a Raspberry Pi 5 with Waveshare’s $9 adapter
date: 2024-01-19, from: Liliputing
The Raspberry Pi 5 is the first single-board computer from Raspberry Pi to feature a PCIe interface for high-speed connections to SSDs and other peripherals. And the Raspberry Pi team is working on an official HAT that will make it easy for users to connect a PCIe NVMe SSD to the little computer. But several […]
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From Bitcoin to Aave: Maximizing Your Earnings with Decentralized Finance
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
The world of cryptocurrency has evolved significantly since the inception of Bitcoin. What started as a digital experiment has now grown into a multi-trillion-dollar asset class. However, Bitcoin is just the tip of the iceberg. In recent years, the emergence of Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been revolutionizing the financial landscape. For those looking to deepen […]
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We finally know what’s inside the Apple Vision Pro (tech specs revealed as pre-orders open)
date: 2024-01-19, from: Liliputing
The Apple Vision Pro is Apple’s first standalone device in a completely new product category since the company launched the iPad in 2010. So it’s not surprising that when Apple first unveiled its first “spatial computing” device, the focus was more on experiences than tech specs. But now that the Apple Vision Pro is up […]
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Post Office threatened to sue Fujitsu over missing audit data
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
More details emerge as Horizon IT scandal inquiry continues
The Post Office proposed suing Fujitsu over missing data from its audit trail that could be used in the prosecution of victims of the Horizon scandal, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in UK history.…
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Why Jamie Dimon loves Trump’s policies
date: 2024-01-19, from: Robert Reich on Substack
A frightening example of the integrity-crushing intimidation of a possible Trump administration
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Here’s Why Norway Hasn’t Had Trouble With Winter EV Charging
date: 2024-01-19, from: Inside EVs News
There are lessons to be learned from the country which has the biggest EV adoption rate in the world.
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SV Chat: Former Apple exec wants to save oceans, lakes with plastic-free products
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Plastic pollution has irreversibly harmed the oceans, but this founder believes it’s never too late to start using alternatives.
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NASA Goddard Experts to Take Part in February STEM Conference
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
Alongside experts from academia and industry, leaders from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, will be on hand at the Feb. 25–29 PowerSource Global Summit conference in Orlando. Dr. Christyl Johnson, Goddard’s deputy center director for technology and research investments, will deliver the conference’s keynote address on Feb. 26, sharing insights on space […]
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Downtown San Jose Food Hall preps for first orders and customers
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
A downtown San Jose food hall developed in stealth mode by Uber’s co-founder is opening its doors to the public for the first time in downtown San Jose.
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Which One Wins? LeBron’s Brain or His Body?
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Field Museum Covers Native American Displays to Comply With New Regulations
date: 2024-01-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The federal rules require museums to obtain consent from tribal leaders before displaying or researching cultural heritage items
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Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe
date: 2024-01-19, from: Quanta Magazine
As measurements of distant stars and galaxies become more precise, cosmologists are struggling to make sense of sparring values.The post Clashing Cosmic Numbers Challenge Our Best Theory of the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Pluralistic: 2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification (19 Jan 2024)
date: 2024-01-19, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links 2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification: Remember, hacking is more than just a crime: it’s a survival trait. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2014 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading 2600’s amazing Hackers on Planet Earth con may go down to enshittification (permalink) It’s been 40 years since Emmanuel Goldstein launched the seminal, essential, world-changing 2600: The Hacker Quarterly. 2600 wasn’t the first phreak/hacker zine, but it was the most important, spawning a global subculture dedicated to the noble pursuit of technological self-determination: https://www.2600.com/ 2600 has published hundreds of issues in which digital spelunkers report eagerly on the things they’ve discovered by peering intently at the things no one was supposed to even glance at (I’m proud to be one of those writers!). They’ve fought legal battles, including one that almost went to the Supreme Court: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS They created a global network of meetups where some of technology’s most durable friendships and important collaborations were born. These continue to this day: https://www.2600.com/meetings And they’ve hosted a weekly radio show on NYC’s WBAI, Off the Hook: https://wbai.org/program.php?program=76 When WBAI management lost their minds and locked the station’s most beloved hosts out of the studio, Off the Hook (naturally) led the rebellion, taking back the station for its audience, rescuing it from a managerial coup: https://twitter.com/2600/status/1181423565389942786 But best of all, 2600 gave us HOPE – both in the metaphorical sense of “hope for a better technological tomorrow” and in the literal sense, with its biannual Hackers On Planet Earth con: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_on_Planet_Earth For decades HOPE had an incredible venue, the Hotel Pennsylvania (memorialized in the phreak anthem “PEnnsylvania 6-5000”), a crumbling pile in midtown Manhattan that was biannually transformed into a rollicking, multi-day festival of forbidden technology, improbable feats, and incredible presentations. I was privileged to keynote HOPE in 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1D7APjmVbk But after the 2018 HOPE, the Hotel Pennsylvania was demolished to make way for the Penn15 (no, really) skyscraper, a vaporware mega-tower planned as a holding pen for luxury shopping and empty million-dollar condos sold to offshore war-criminals as safe-deposit boxes in the sky. The developer, Vornado (no, really) hasn’t actually done all that – after demo’ing the Hotel Pennsylvania, they noped out, leave a large, unusable scar across midtown. But HOPE wasn’t lost. In 2022, the ever-resilient 2600 crew relocated to Queens, hosted by St John’s University – a venue that was less glamorous that the Hotel Pennsylvania, but the event was still fantastic. Attendance fell from 2,000 to 1,000, but that was something they could work with, and reviews from attendees were stellar. Good thing, too. 2600 is, first and foremost, a magazine publisher, and these have been hard years for magazines. First there was the mass die-off of indie bookstores and newsracks (I used to sell 2600 when I was a bookseller, and in the years after, I always took the presence of 2600 on a store’s newsrack as an unimpeachable mark of quality). Thankfully for 2600, their audience is (unsurprisingly) a tech-savvy one, so they were able to substitute digital subscriptions for physical ones: https://www.2600.com/Magazine/DigitalEditions Of course, many of those subscriptions came through Amazon’s Kindle, because nerds were early Amazon adopters, and because the Kindle magazine publishing platform offered DRM-free distribution to subscribers along with a fair payout to publishers. But then Amazon enshittified its magazine system. Having locked publishers to its platform, it rugged them and killed the monthly subscription fees that allowed publishers to plan for a steady output. Publishers were given a choice: leave Amazon (and all the readers locked inside its walled garden) or put your magazine into the Kindle Unlimited system: https://www.amazon.com/kindle-dbs/arp/B0BWPTCP4K?deviceType=A1FG5NAKX0MRJL Kindle Unlimited is an all-you-can-eat program for Kindle, which pays publishers and writers based on a system that is both opaque and easily gamed, with the lion’s share of the money going to “publishers” who focus on figuring out how to cheat the algorithm. Revenues for 2600 – and all the other magazines that Amazon had sucked in and sucked dry – fell off a cliff. Which brings me to the present moment. After 40 years, 2600 is still at it, having survived the bookstorepocalypse, the lunacy of public radio management, the literal demolition of their physical home by an evil real-estate developer, and Amazon’s crooked accounting. This is 2600, circa 2024, and 2024 a HOPE year: https://www.hope.net/ Once again, HOPE has been scheduled for its new digs in Queens, July 12-14. Last week, HOPE sent out an email blast to their subscribers telling them the news. They expected to sell 500 tickets in the first 24 hours. They didn’t even come close: https://www.2600.com/content/hope-ticket-sales-update It turns out that Google and the other major mail providers don’t like emails with the word “hacker” in them. The cartel that decides which email gets delivered, and which messages go to spam, or get blocked altogether, mass-blocked the HOPE 2024 announcement. Email may be the last federated, open platform we have, but mass concentration has created a system where it’s nearly impossible to get your email delivered unless you’re willing to play by Gmail’s rules: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/10/dead-letters/ For Emmanuel Goldstein, founder of 2600 and tireless toiler for this community, the deafening silence following from that initial email volley was terrifying: “like some kind of a”Twilight Zone” episode where everyone has disappeared.” The enshittification that keeps 2600’s emails from being delivered to the people who asked to receive them is even worse on social media. Social media companies routinely defraud their users by letting them subscribe to feeds, then turning around to the people and organizations that run those feeds and saying, “You’ve got x thousand subscribers on this platform, but we won’t put your posts in their feeds unless you pay us to ‘boost’ your content”: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first Enshittification has been coming at 2600 for decades. Like other forms of oddball media dedicated to challenging corporate power and government oppression, 2600 has always been a ten-years-ahead preview of the way the noose was gonna tighten on all of us. And now, they’re on the ropes. HOPE can’t sell tickets unless people know about HOPE, and neither email providers nor social media platforms have any interest in making that happen. A handful of giant corporations now get to decide what we read, who we hear from, and whether and how we can get together in person to make friends, forge community, rabble-rouse and change the world. The idea that “it’s not censorship unless the government does it” has always been wrong (not all censorship violates the First Amendment, and censorship can be real without being unconstitutional): https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/04/yes-its-censorship/ What can you do about it? Well, for one thing, you can sign up for HOPE. It’s gonna be great. They’ve got sub-$100 hotel rooms! In New York City! https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv If you can’t make it to HOPE, you can sign up for a virtual membership: https://store.2600.com/products/tickets-to-hope-xv-virtual-attendee You can submit a talk to HOPE: https://www.hope.net/cfp.html You can subscribe to 2600, in print or electronically (I signed up for the lifetime print subscription and it was a bargain – I devour every issue the day it arrives): https://store.2600.com/collections/subscriptions-renewals 2600 is living a decade in the future of every other community you care about, weird hobby you enjoy, con you live for, and publication you read from cover to cover. If we can all pull together to save it, it’ll be a beacon of hope (and HOPE). Hey look at this (permalink) 48,000 companies sent Facebook data on a single person https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/17/24041897/facebook-meta-targeted-advertising-data-mining-study-privacy How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity https://www.wired.com/story/27-year-old-codebreaker-busted-myth-bitcoins-anonymity/ EFF’s 2024 In/Out List https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/effs-2024-inout-list This day in history (permalink) #10yrsago Out on Blue Six: Ian McDonald’s brilliant novel is back https://memex.craphound.com/2014/01/20/out-on-blue-six-ian-mcdonalds-brilliant-novel-is-back/ #10yrsago Officemax sends junkmail addressed to “Daughter Killed In Car Crash” https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-officemax-mail-grieving-father-20140119-story.html #10yrsago Health Canada scientists setting up unofficial libraries as national libraries fail https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/health-canada-library-changes-leave-scientists-scrambling-1.2499217 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: The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt) https://craphound.com/news/2024/01/14/the-bezzle-read-by-wil-wheaton-excerpt/ Upcoming appearances: Books & Books (Coral Gables, Florida), Jan 22 https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/ Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (Berlin), Jan 29 https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024 The Lost Cause at Otherland (Berlin), Jan 30 https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html Tuscon Festival of Books, Mar 9/10 https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676 Recent appearances: Internet Con (Bullseye) https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1197956508/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn-draft-01-19-2024 The Lost Cause (The Writer’s Voice) https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/ What the Future will Bring (Homeless Romantic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I 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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Is a $51 monthly charge coming to your PG&E bill?
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The California Public Utilities Commission is in the throes of establishing a “fairer” fixed monthly service charge, and it has become a bloody political battle.
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Boston Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
Students, staff, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and two local public schools in Boston will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 9:55 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan. 23, on NASA+, NASA Television, the NASA app, and […]
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BYD wants to bring a Land Rover-style SUV that can ‘float on water’ to Europe
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
Chinese EV behemoth BYD may bring two off-road electric SUVs sold in China to Europe that could rival the Land Rover Defender, the Mercedes G-Class, and Ford Bronco. BYD claims one can float on water for a full 30 minutes.
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What’s come out of Davos?
date: 2024-01-19, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Today, the World Economic Forum is wrapping up in Davos, Switzerland. There, meetings have been held between company heads and global leaders. Key themes include artificial intelligence, increasingly complicated relationships between world powers and prospects of another potential Donald Trump administration. We’ll outline the results of some of these meetings. But first, how are consumers feeling? A lot of it has to do with how they’re doing relative to inflation.
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Widespread rainfall comes to the Bay Area beginning on Friday
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
This weekends series of storms was expected to begin in the late afternoon or evening hours on Friday, providing beneficial rainfall throughout the Bay Area, according to the National Weather Service.
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Tesla expands self-serve test drives to destination chargers
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla is expanding its self-serve test drives without staff to destination charging locations around the US.
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Watch live as JAXA’s “Moon Sniper” mission attempts to land on the…
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Why Teslas crash more than gas-powered cars
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Hertz recently announced it was selling 20,000 electric cars out of its fleet, and replacing them with gasoline vehicles. One reason the company gave was that drivers kept crashing the cars.
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Businessman faces 20 years in prison over accusations of illicit chip exports to Russia
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Shipments alleged to have gone to a sanctioned company
A businessman has been arrested in the US and charged with unlawfully exporting sensitive technology including semiconductors to a sanctioned business with ties to Russia’s military and intelligence agencies.…
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Randall Munroe remembers hearing a song once featuring a chorus of women…
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Ford is cutting F-150 Lightning production again amid ‘slower than expected’ demand
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
Ford is cutting production of the F-150 Lightning amid “slower than expected” demand for the all-electric truck. The move comes just months after Ford pulled back output at its Rouge EV plant in mid-October.
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Recall: 2021-2024 BMW R 18 Could Have Headlight Break
date: 2024-01-19, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The low beam reflectors could break in use, which could make it more difficult for a rider to see.
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A New Sculpture Garden in Miami Built to Withstand Heat and Floods
date: 2024-01-19, from: Heatmap News
The Underline in Miami is a 10-mile trail that will, over the next few years, repurpose 120 acres of unused land into an urban mobility corridor for pedestrians, dogs, bikers, and skateboarders. The route runs under the Metrorail rapid transit tracks from the financial district at the northernmost end all the way south to Dadeland. It’s New York’s Highline at ground level.
For now, only the half-mile-long Phase 1 is complete; the 2-plus-mile Phase 2 will be finished by this spring, and the remaining leg by 2026. Phase 1 begins at a green space called Brickell Backyard near the Miami River in the Brickell District and includes a sculpture garden designed by Miami-based mixed-media artist Typoe Gran.
I caught up with Gran last month at the Art Basel fair in Miami, where he was celebrating the launch of a permanent chandelier-inspired installation at the Rimowa store in Miami’s Design District. I am inspired by the joy and playfulness in his work, which is rare in climate design.
We talked about his inspiration for the Sculpture Garden and the unique challenges of designing a permanent, durable play park that can also withstand extreme weather conditions in Miami. Our conversation has been edited for length and clarity.
What is your approach to design at Primary, your gallery in Miami?
My partners, Cristina Gonzalez and Books Bischof, and I started Primary in 2007, and it began as a public art project in Miami’s Wynwood neighborhood. I have always been fascinated by Friedrich Fröbel who created kindergarten and children’s building blocks. My work often involves creating larger-than-life sculptures and murals that remind us of the importance of play and experimentation.
How did you get connected to the Underline Sculpture Garden project?
The Underline project was really cool because I knew the curator and there was a great team with such an accumulation of knowledge working on how to build it and create beautiful areas for people to come together.
Our pitch was to build a space where people can play, connect, grow, and be inspired to use their imagination. The most important thing was igniting their imagination. I arrived to the Underline team with an already-funded idea and got it greenlit from the beginning.
What was your approach to designing the Sculpture Garden?
I looked at multiple sites along the beginning of the path, and the area I chose was the densest in terms of people walking around, which was exciting to me. I wanted a spot where there would be people. It was also located at a position where the train line split a gentrified area with luxury brands and a super mall on one side, with a rougher area on the other side. I liked being the connector of these areas.
It was also the saddest-looking area! Dead plants, nothing there, with just a pathway through it. It was underneath the Metrorail, so it would offer protection from sun — you could still play and it wouldn’t be blistering hot, and you’d be shielded from rain. This was a beautiful start because the area was underutilized and I had to figure out how to make it a destination.
Tell me about your design approach to the location.
What we designed is not officially a playground but a sculpture garden, with benches and big sculptures you can look at that are playful and reference adolescent activity.
The material we used is important because of the environment. The sun is hot. There is a small amount of salt water in the air, and that affects metals and paints on metals — we didn’t want to deal with rust, plus metal gets hot. So, we thought it would be cool to make fiberglass sculptures — what we make boats out of. Fiberglass offers a lighter load and is simple to install. Also, it looks clean and shiny and doesn’t get too hot, so kids can touch and play on it and it’s safe — there are no sharp edges and no one gets hurt. We sloped the concrete so when it rains, the water runs into the plants. It’s just a slight tilt and not noticeable to the naked eye.
Your Habitable score for the Sculpture Park shows extreme flood and heat risk. Were you aware of this when you built the park? What decisions did you have to make?
I have never seen it underwater. That zone is still slightly higher than the street, and again, we tilted the path so that the water slides off into the planter areas.
[It was] tricky because there is not a full-time irrigation system throughout the Underline and we had to be specific about choosing plants that could last without watering. We used temporary sprinklers to get the plants established and then rely on native plants that would thrive without a lot of watering.
How does the park perform? Has it had to withstand a hurricane yet?
This sculpture garden has been alive only for a year, so it hasn’t lived through a hurricane yet. But I’ve gone there a lot and it’s cool to see people eating lunch, taking work breaks and taking pictures.
Early on, I would’ve thought it would be a place for kids to play. But I’ll see an elderly man taking selfies with the sculptures. It makes me happy that their imagination is going and my sculptures and park are in conversation with people.
Is there anything you would’ve done differently?
It all turned out, luckily, exactly how I had hoped. And of course, now I have ideas for more parks. Next, I want to do a really big one! I’m in talks with multiple cities and countries to figure out where the next park will be.
What are your three top takeaways for park designers?
1. Before I even thought about what I was going to do, I had to think about the landscape. It was partial shade, heat, salt water, flooding. I had to take all of that into consideration.The fiberglass sculptures had to be engineered and rated for hurricanes and engineered with metal plates so that we can unbolt from a side hatch and easily move [them], but [also] will never move during a storm — the last thing we want is a sculpture flying into someone’s house. We had to have an engineer design for all possible weather conditions.
2. Design for the world we are living in, not the one we wish we were living in. You have to consider the human element: Are people going to try to sleep in my park? Or is it a place where everyone tries to skate on it?
3. Graffiti! We had to put a special clear coat on all the surfaces so the graffiti could be taken off. You have to expand your mind to consider every type of human being who is going to be in the park and accept it — whatever can happen might. You have to prepare for the worst. People are going to write, sleep and skate all over it, so design for it!
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Ruff Cycles’ New Lil’Buddy Edge Is A Charming Moto-Inspired E-Bike
date: 2024-01-19, from: Inside EVs News
The German e-bike brand wants to appeal to a wider audience with its most affordable model yet.
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ADD revisited
date: 2024-01-19, from: Ayjay blog
On the first day of my Christian Renaissance of the Twentieth Century course — mentioned here — I played for my students a few minutes of the first movement of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. We paused to talk a bit about the musical language of late Romanticism, about Rachmaninoff’s gift for lush melody, etc. Then […]
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Noir City film best is back — and you should surrender to these 6 dark offerings
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The festival full of dark noir fills plays at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland – here are 6 films to see.
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Rain tracker map: Where it’s raining in the Bay Area
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
The updating radar map shows areas of precipitation in green.
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West Coast man bought an apartment in Spain and made a new life for himself. ‘I have not looked back’
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Relocating to a sunny Mediterranean city in Spain isn’t always just for a more relaxed lifestyle — although siestas are a definite plus. Making the leap can also lead to pursuits you’ve dreamed of in a place you love.
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After Jordan Hicks signing, SF Giants might be done adding pitching: Zaidi
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
“I think we feel pretty good about where our pitching staff is,” Farhan Zaidi said, introducing the Giants’ newest starter, Jordan Hicks.
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Is my flight safe? Here’s how to tell before you board
date: 2024-01-19, from: San Jose Mercury News
Images of a flaming aircraft on a Tokyo runway and a door blown off an Alaska Airlines flight have us all feeling a bit antsy. It’s not like you can kick a plane’s tires or interview the pilot to check for safety issues. But here are a few things you can do to keep safe.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-19, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Samizdat Online is a DNS-based proxy that makes it possible to read articles from websites that are blocked by the Russian government. Apparently they have a certain number of random domains, that probably change regularly, and they mirror the contents of a story from one of the blocked sites via a random domain. An example of a link to a story on the Moscow Times. Their home page looks like a fairly basic feed reader.
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‘Russian Economist’ Had Passports Confiscated at Airport, Was Allowed to Sneak Onto Flight to LAX Without a Ticket Anyway
date: 2024-01-19, from: 404 Media Group
Here’s what happens when you sneak onto a flight to the US without a passport or a ticket.
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Tesla Model Y was Europe’s best-selling car in 2023, the first EV to take top spot
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
The Tesla Model Y officially took the crown as Europe’s best-selling car overall for 2023, making it the first electric vehicle ever to do so. While the Model Y had taken the spot for a few months last year, year-end results were a close call with a very different vehicle: the ubiquitous ICE hatchback Dacia Sandero, tightly priced at $13,051 (€12,000).
https://electrek.co/2024/01/19/tesla-model-y-was-europes-best-selling-car-in-2023-the-first-ev-to-take-top-spot/ Save to Pocket
Astronomers Discover the Oldest Known Black Hole, Breaking a Record Set Last Year
date: 2024-01-19, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The supermassive structure dates to about 400 million years after the Big Bang, and it’s particularly large for its age
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/astronomers-discover-the-oldest-known-black-hole-breaking-a-record-set-last-year-180983617/ Save to Pocket
Ride1Up Prodigy V2 review: An affordable Brose mid-drive e-bike for the common man!
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
When Ride1Up launched the Prodigy V2, they kept all the parts that made this Brose-powered mid-drive great and added even more components (like a Gates belt drive system!) to make this e-bike one of the best deals in mid-drive electric bicycles.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/19/ride1up-prodigy-v2-review-an-affordable-brose-mid-drive-e-bike-for-the-common-man/ Save to Pocket
Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles
date: 2024-01-19, from: Inside EVs News
Also, the charging speeds are below par, but on the flip side, the sound system is awesome and the car is “a dream to drive.”
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Mother accused of fatally beating infant released
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
A woman accused of beating her 1-year-old son to death was released from prison on house arrest and electronic monitoring.
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Complaint: Woman flew to Guam with cocaine
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
A woman arriving in Guam from Hawaii allegedly hid straws and plastic bags of cocaine in three different pairs of jeans.
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GDOL to begin closing out DUA claims next month
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Department of Labor will begin closing out Disaster Unemployment Assistance claims next month as it works to end the program, the department announced in a press release.
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CLTC sponsorship of raceway events proposed
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
John Burch, the acting administrative director of the Chamorro Land Trust Commission, is proposing that the commission sponsor motorsports events at the Guam International Raceway while a solicitation for the commercial use of the property remains in progress.
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Judge permits burial of Adam Messier
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
The victim of an alleged homicide will be buried nearly seven years after he was killed.
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How to Upload Porn to Instagram
date: 2024-01-19, from: 404 Media Group
Users are uploading stolen porn to Instagram with one easy trick, while adult content creators are banned for no reason.
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Thieves steal 35.5M customers’ data from Vans sneakers maker
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
But what kind of info was actually compromised? None of your business
VF Corporation, parent company of clothes and footwear brands including Vans and North Face, says 35.5 million customers were impacted in some way when criminals broke into their systems in December.…
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55 Years Ago: Six Months Until the Moon Landing
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
The new year of 1969 dawned with optimism that NASA would meet President John F. Kennedy’s goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. The previous year saw four Apollo missions, two uncrewed and two carrying three astronauts each, test different components of the lunar landing architecture, culminating […]
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-19, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
And now - we wait
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Serving Oddµ via a socket
date: 2024-01-19, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
Serving Oddµ via a socket
Recently, Chris Brannon sent me a patch for Oddµ that allowed it to listen at a Unix-domain socket instead of a host and port.
I decided to investigate since I don’t know anything about sockets. If you see something that can be improved, let me know.
I’m going to use systemd, but for my user.
I have two files, one for the socket and one for the service. These are not the same files as the ones provided with the Oddµ sources. Those are intended to be used together with a web server that acts as a reverse proxy. These files are for me testing the installation using netcat and curl.
Socket
Make sure the directory for the socket exists:
mkdir --parents /home/alex/.local/run/oddmu
This is the file “oddmu-unix-domain.socket”:
[Unit]
Description=Oddmu server socket
[Socket]
ListenStream=/home/alex/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock
Accept=no
[Install]
WantedBy=sockets.target
Enable and start it:
systemctl --user enable ./oddmu-unix-domain.socket
systemctl --user start oddmu-unix-domain.socket
Service
Make sure the directory for the wiki exists and copy the template files:
mkdir --parents /home/alex/.local/share/oddmu
cp *.html /home/alex/.local/share/oddmu
This is the file “oddmu-unix-domain.service”:
[Unit]
Description=Oddmu
After=network.target
Requires=oddmu-unix-domain.socket
[Install]
WantedBy=default.target
[Service]
Type=simple
Restart=always
StandardInput=socket
StandardOutput=journal
StandardError=journal
ExecStart=/home/alex/src/oddmu/oddmu
WorkingDirectory=/home/alex/.local/share/oddmu
Environment="ODDMU_WEBFINGER=1"
Environment="ODDMU_LANGUAGES=de,en"
This doesn’t limit a lot of capabilities, but I guess I trust my own code.
Install it:
systemctl --user enable ./oddmu-unix-domain.service
systemctl --user start oddmu-unix-domain.service
Test
Check the journal:
journalctl --user --follow --unit oddmu-unix-domain
Do some requests using netcat:
echo -e "GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n" \
| ncat --unixsock ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock
echo -e "GET /view/index HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n" \
| ncat --unixsock ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock
echo -e "GET /edit/index HTTP/1.1\r\nHost: localhost\r\n\r\n" \
| ncat --unixsock ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock
Using curl:
curl --unix-socket ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock \
http://localhost/edit/index
curl --unix-socket ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock \
--form body="Hello!" http://localhost/save/index
curl --unix-socket ~/.local/run/oddmu/oddmu.sock \
http://localhost/view/index
What now?
I don’t think I’m going to change my web server setup. But using sockets
and systemctl –user has been interesting.
Thank you, Chris Brannon, for sending that patch!
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2024 Could Be a Very Bad Year for Emissions
date: 2024-01-19, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: Parts of Western Australia could see temperatures as high as 122 degrees Fahrenheit • Floods are forcing some U.K. supermarkets to sell smaller vegetables • Americans are bracing for another arctic blast.
THE TOP FIVE
- CO2 emissions could exceed 1.5 Celsius warming threshold this
year
2024 is expected to be a record year for carbon dioxide emissions, according to the U.K.’s Met Office. The emissions increase could push atmospheric CO2 levels beyond the threshold for limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Driving the surge in emissions is the continued use of fossil fuels, plus the El Niño weather pattern. But even without El Niño, “human-induced emissions would still cause the CO2 rise in 2024 to be on the absolute limits of compliance with the 1.5°C pathways,” said the Met Office’s Richard Betts. Scientists say surpassing 1.5 degrees in warming could trigger tipping points and irreversibly alter the global climate system.
Forecast
rise in CO2 concentration with (red) and without (green) El Niño
influence.Met
Office
- IEA says global oil demand will grow more than expected
Global demand for oil will grow this year by about 1.2 million barrels per day, the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecast in its January Oil Market Report. That’s a slight increase on the 1.1 million BPD growth the IEA forecast last month, and the third consecutive upward revision. However it’s still much lower than 2023’s demand growth, as well as projections put out by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The IEA said rising popularity of electric vehicles, plus improvements in energy efficiency, is curbing oil usage overall, but economic growth across the world, combined with lower crude prices, is buoying demand in the short term. The agency predicts that oil demand will peak by 2030.
- The Pentagon is going solar
The Department of Defense will install rooftop solar panels at the Pentagon, as well as a heat pump system for space heating and solar thermal panels for water heating. Alongside reducing fossil fuel usage, the upgrades could save the Pentagon $1.36 million per year. And the solar panels offer a more secure power source, just in the case there’s a grid outage or cyberattack, said Brendan Owens, assistant secretary of defense for energy. The Pentagon is one of 31 federal buildings getting grants from the Department of Energy to make their facilities more energy efficient.
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- Biden administration taps 22 million acres for potential solar
development
In more solar news: The Biden administration this week identified 22 million acres of federal land across 11 states it thinks could be used for solar development. The draft plan expands on an existing Obama-era policy, the Western Solar Plan, that originally pinpointed areas in six states – Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah – for their solar potential. The updated roadmap adds Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming to the mix, focuses specifically on areas within 10 miles of planned or existing transmission lines, and steers away from sensitive habitats, historic land, and old growth forests, Reuters reported. Of course not all of this land will be used for solar development, but the Bureau of Land Management wants to have “maximum flexibility” when working to meet President Biden’s goal of decarbonizing the U.S. power grid by 2035.
A bunch of Uber and Lyft drivers who recently switched
to Teslas are reportedly overwhelming electric vehicle charging stations
in several major cities. This week’s severe cold snap prompted tales of
dead Tesla batteries in frigid Chicago, but Inside EVs
claimed
that the city’s “massive EV ridesharing fleet” exacerbated things by
hogging charging stations: “Since most of these cars are rented out in
an already-cold state and then often driven slowly and on very short
trips, these cars never warm up sufficiently. Add in the fact that most
Uber/Lyft drivers likely know next to nothing about EVs and
preconditioning and you can begin to see why they contributed
significantly to the charging issue in Chicago.”
Similar
reports are
coming
from New York City, which recently announced that its rideshare fleets
must be electric by 2030. This triggered a run on Teslas by Uber
drivers. Now customers staring down long lines at charging stations have
taken to X to appeal to Elon Musk for help:
“This is the kind of problem I like to see because it means that EV adoption is growing,” wrote Fred Lambert at Electrek, “but with that comes growing pains.”
THE KICKER
Researchers claim to have discovered a fast and energy-efficient way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using light-reactive molecules that could be activated by the sun.
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What we talk about when we talk about The Future
date: 2024-01-19, from: Dave Karpf’s blog
A few thoughts on four genres of futurism
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University chops students’ Microsoft 365 storage to 20GB
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Sacrificing its academic backups for the sake of the environment
Microsoft’s decision to cut the storage in its Microsoft 365 Education line is having some real-world consequences, with a Canadian university imposing draconian measures partly in response to the restrictions.…
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When cold weather and EVs don’t mix
date: 2024-01-19, from: Marketplace Morning Report
With much of the country frozen right now, some EV owners are going through their first frigid winter and finding that their cars don’t like the cold either. Turns out, EVs tend to lose range and take longer to charge when it’s colder outside. We’ll examine. Plus, Congress approves their third stopgap funding measure in four months, and we look at the factors that could keep a lid on home prices.
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GM, finally, ramps up Cadillac Lyriq to meet demand for luxury SUVs
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
General Motors says it is responding to a strong demand for luxury EVs by ramping up production of its Cadillac all-electric Lyriq SUV this year. The company says it has resolved its battery module production problems that have plagued sales for the last two years.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/19/gm-finally-ramps-up-cadillac-lyriq-to-meet-demand-for-luxury-suvs/ Save to Pocket
How One Man In A Canoe Found Beauty In The Troubled Salton Sea
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
Photographer Sicco Rood spent six days paddling two-thirds of the way around California’s largest lake.
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Culinary Connections: Join LAist For An Old-School Hamburger Fry
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
Join Associate Editor of Food and Culture Gab Chabrán and How To LA host Brian De Los Santos to discuss burgers in Los Angeles.
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LAist Pop-Up Of The Week: Lao-Lao’s Curried Noodles In Chinatown
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
Discover the delicious flavors of Laotian cuisine at Malina Syvoravong’s pop-up, Lao-Lao, this weekend at Pearl River Deli in Chinatown.
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Pasadena Claims To Be The Home Of The Cheeseburger — But There’s Beef
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
Was the burger with cheese really invented at a Pasadena roadside stand 100 years ago?
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Does Sriracha Taste Different After The Shortage? We Put It To The Test — And Learned Proper Storage Etiquette In The Process
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
After people began complaining online that Sriracha they’d bought recently didn’t taste like the old stuff, we set out to find the answer. It didn’t go well.
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Use Screen Time To Protect Your iPhone from Thieves
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Markup blog
The iOS feature can keep your phone locked to your Apple ID
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“Worthy Of The Top Honor In American Journalism”
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Lever News
An award-winning investigative journalist contextualizes The Lever’s critical reporting on Boeing.
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John Boston | FAA: Hiring the Sleep-Deprived & the Flatulent
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
Not at all am I anti-government. Almost daily, a smile creeps upon my countenance as I pass the many tree-lined medians and shrubbery-rich albeit minuscule green spaces of Santa Clarita. The city, along with the ancient remnants of The Newhall Land & Farming Co., has helped make our valley a Garden of Eden. Still. This […]
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Gary Martin | Wading Through Weather Whiplash
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
Looking back, the past few years have been “extreme” to say the least. California experienced an extreme multi-year drought, recording its three driest years from 2020 through 2022, followed by extreme precipitation in 2023 that pushed the statewide average to 141% for the year. The shift between these two extreme and opposing conditions caused weather […]
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Speaking to the CIA’s Creative Writing Group
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
This is a fascinating story.
Last spring, a friend of a friend visited my office and invited me to Langley to speak to Invisible Ink, the CIA’s creative writing group.
I asked Vivian (not her real name) what she wanted me to talk about.
She said that the topic of the talk was entirely up to me.
I asked what level the writers in the group were.
She said the group had writers of all levels.
I asked what the speaking fee was.
She said that as far as she knew, there was no speaking fee.
What I want to know is, why haven’t I been invited? There are nonfiction writers in that group…
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Indian workers brave the Middle East conflict for jobs
date: 2024-01-19, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: In northern India, thousands are lining up for jobs in Israel due to a labor shortage caused by the war with Hamas. Plus, Spanish streaming star David Cánovas, known as TheGrefg, is embroiled in a legal battle with an 80-year-old woman he is trying to evict. And then Mark Knopfler from Dire Straits who’s selling most of his collection at auction later this month.
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Ron Perry | Can You Be Sure?
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
A quick response to Hilmar Rosenast, Jan. 13, letters, “A Biblical Correction.” Are you sure of what you speak? Can you prove it? Neither can I. But here is some possible evidence from one source (description accompanying an image posted to Wikipedia): “Detail of a flyleaf for a manuscript of the Gospel of Matthew … […]
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P&B: Tom MacWright
date: 2024-01-19, from: Manu - I write blog
This is the 21st edition of People and Blogs, the series where I ask interesting people to talk about themselves and their blogs. Today we have Tom MacWright and his blog, macwright.com
Tom is an American programmer, with a very minimal blog—something I really appreciate—and he’s currently working on Val.town, a social website to code in the cloud.
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Let's start from the basics: can you introduce yourself?
Hi! I’m from New Jersey and I live in Brooklyn now. I studied Computer Science in college a lot time ago, and that led to a series of jobs at early-stage startups: I’ve worked on CAD software extensions, visualization tools, geospatial software, and programming tools. It can be a little hectic, the urgency to get these companies from point A to B, but I like it.
I’ve always had a lot of hobbies, and have kept most of them. Guitar, banjo, running, art, writing, gardening, hardware projects: having a few things to do is pretty important to me. The creative energy from one project can spill over to another, and you can get a fresh perspective by taking a break from some long-running task.
What's the story behind your blog?
When I started writing online in 2010, there were a lot of people leading the way. I remember SimpleBits and kottke, Rebekah Cox and David Heinemeier Hansson. Rasmus Andersson had a perfect look for his blog that heavily influenced mine. One of my earliest jobs, working at a company called Development Seed, encouraged us all to write. Bonnie Bogle, one of the founders, had worked professionally as a writer and helped a lot with editing and taught us all how to write for the web.
I write to think, so I do it all the time and not just for the blog. I keep paper journals. I like that quote on the back of all my Field Notes notebooks: “I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.”
For the current blog, I’m kind of proud of how little it’s changed. It’s so easy to just chase the latest blog software or design, but with my current blog I’ve been able to really restrain myself. I like the design and the technology just works. The content has definitely changed as what I’ve worked on shifted. There’s usually some writing that’s work-related, some that’s about what I’m interested in now. I’ve added sections for photos and book reviews.
What does your creative process look like when it comes to blogging?
I don’t have a process for getting inspired or finding topics to write about. I just write about what I’m interested in and what I think is fun to share. So sometimes months go by without finishing anything, and sometimes it’s four posts in a month.
It’s scary when the inspiration doesn’t come. Right now is one of those times: it’s been three months since I wrote a standalone blog post. But I write one a month, always called “Recently,” which is there to keep a cadence. The Recently posts have a consistent structure and are less of a commitment to write - I think they’ve helped me keep the habit through all these years.
I don’t have anyone proofread my drafts. I make grammar and spelling mistakes all the time, and would probably benefit from an editor, but it’s a solo operation, for better or worse.
I don’t write outlines. Sometimes I’ll write multiple drafts when I can’t figure out which part of the topic is really interesting. I’ll write long blog posts just to find the 25% that’s actually good, and I’ll keep just that part.
Do you have an ideal creative environment? Also do you believe the physical space influences your creativity?
I’m either incredibly neat in my own space, with everything on the table arranged at right angles, or writing on a laptop at a chaotic cafe. If I’m listening to anything when I’m writing, it’s Tim Hecker.
A question for the techie readers: can you run us through your tech stack?
Sure! It’s simple. The blog is generated by Jekyll, stored on GitHub and hosted on Netlify. I recently switched to using Cloudflare as my domain registrar – really happy with them so far. I also used Cloudflare to store photos, with their R2 service. I also have my own email address on the site, using Fastmail, which is fantastic.
And that’s really it – it’s a static site. I’ve made small changes to the tech stack like switching from GitHub Pages to Netlify and from Gandi to Cloudflare. But overall, I’ve used simple tools to make something simple and it has been unproblematic.
Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently?
Not really: I like how I have it set up. Maybe I’d use Hugo or Eleventy instead of Jekyll, just because it’s annoying to set up Ruby on new computers. But Jekyll has been great otherwise.
It’s easy to overcomplicate these things.
Financial question since the web is obsessed with money: how much does it cost to run your blog? Is it just a cost or does it generate some revenue? And what's your position on people monetising personal blogs?
The domain costs about $20 a year. Hosting images on Cloudflare R2 costs a few cents a month. Fastmail costs $5 a month.
Thanks to Brooklyn rents, these numbers are relatively insignificant to me.
I’ve tried a few things to monetize it: affiliate links, hooking up the Brave Browser’s advertising system, and a ko-fi.com link for donations.
I also sell the blog’s theme for $100, because people kept asking for it. But, I try to make it clear that if you just want to recreate it on your own or rip off design elements, be my guest, don’t pay me!
I shut down the Brave advertising setup, which paid me in BAT tokens, because the annoyance of accounting for “crypto income” outweighed the income itself. I don’t use affiliate links anymore – they were always a paltry income.
For me, I’ve had a relatively comfortable career in the tech industry. The most value that my blog has provided me is job flexibility and exposure. I feel awkward about the prospect of monetizing my audience and I have the luxury not to do so.
But that’s not a universal experience at all, and I think it’s totally cool and fair for anyone to monetize their blog. Some people have done really well that way!
Time for some recommendations: any blog you think is worth checking out? And also, who do you think I should be interviewing next?
I read enough tech stuff at work, so I don’t really need programming blogs. I have a few RSS subscriptions that I still treasure: Cycfi Research is from a company that is building wild MIDI-compatible guitars out of carbon fiber. Zeptobars is a very focused blog that posts die shots - images of chips after the coating has been etched away. Drew DeVault’s blog is software engineering feats of strength and some very strong opinions. Light Blue Touchpaper always has some post about a mind-blowing security vulnerability. Language Log has wild language-crossover examples. And of course there’s 100 Rabbits posting about their art, programming, music, and boat adventures.
Final question: is there anything you want to share with us?
Right now I’m spending a lot of time on Val Town, so check that out!
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Hubble Views a Galactic Supernova Site
date: 2024-01-19, from: NASA breaking news
This image features a relatively small galaxy known as UGC 5189A, which is located about 150 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy was observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study a supernova explosion in 2010 known as SN 2010jl. This particular supernova is notable because it was an exceptionally luminous supernova event. In fact, […]
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Thomas Oatway | The Worst Mistake We’ve Made
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
The Economist magazine has stated that Donald Trump represents the greatest threat to the world in 2024. Maybe. Only if the voters in several swing states make a terrible decision in the presidential election in 2024. Polls say that the voters in six swing states favor Trump over Joe Biden. But the election is still […]
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Rob Kerchner | Dictator in the Eye of the Beholder?
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
“If elected to a second term, Donald Trump would prosecute anyone he deems an enemy, unleash troops on protesters, and essentially unravel the rule of law as we know it.” — Jen Psaki. Can you imagine if Donald Trump prosecuted internet memes? Or people standing outside the Capitol? Or folks protesting at abortion clinics? Or […]
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ZX Spectrum Next Issue 2 ships out, chip shortages be damned
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
El Reg talks to the project’s founder
Interview The last units of the second batch of the ZX Spectrum Next are heading off to their owners. If you missed out, we have good news.…
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What makes a hard error hard? Microsoft vet tells all
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A peek back at the wobbly Windows of yesteryear
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has taken us back to the era of 16-bit Windows and the definition of a “hard error” compared to something a bit softer and easier.…
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“Worthy Of The Top Honor In American Journalism”
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Lever News
An award-winning investigative journalist contextualizes The Lever’s critical reporting on Boeing.
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BIIF Hoops: KSH continues win streak, Kea‘au breaks loss streak
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>With just a week and change left in the Big Island Interscholastic Federation’s basketball regular season, teams continued the push to end the year on a high note during Wednesday’s games across the island.</p>
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Miami TE Cam McCormick says he’s coming back for 9th year of college
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Miami tight end Cam McCormick said Thursday that he is coming back for a ninth season of college football. </p>
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BIIF Soccer: Waiakea overcomes KSH, Parker notches first win
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><strong>WAIAKEA 2 - KS-HAWAI‘I 1</strong></p>
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Pro Picks: Ravens, Bills, 49ers, Lions will advance to conference championship games
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Eight teams remain. Four games to determine the NFL’s Final Four. Plenty of story lines. </p>
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UH-Hilo tennis schedules released
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>UH-Hilo’s men’s and women’s tennis teams received their schedules for the spring 2024 season, as announced Thursday.</p>
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Mike McCarthy sells belief in playoff breakthrough that has eluded Cowboys
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>FRISCO, Texas — Mike McCarthy sifted through several versions of selling his belief that the Dallas Cowboys can find a level of postseason success that has eluded the storied franchise for nearly three decades. </p>
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With food production as the goal, parcels are being transferred from DLNR to DOA
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Gov. Josh Green said Thursday his administration has made major steps toward putting more state-owned land into agricultural production.</p>
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USDA to change calculations for SNAP benefits
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Thursday announced it will update how it calculates Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits in Hawaii to ensure they accurately reflect the cost of food across the state.</p>
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Flu infections outpace other respiratory diseases in fall/winter months
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>With fewer residents getting vaccinated for respiratory illnesses and more visitors traveling throughout the state, Hawaii has seen an increase in flu cases in recent weeks.</p>
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Bezos promised $100 million after Maui wildfire but no one knows where it’s going
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Jeff Bezos has a habit of issuing splashy philanthropic promises while offering few details. The latest: a $100 million pledge to help rebuild Maui after August’s devastating wildfires. Bezos and fiancée Lauren Sanchez have given $15.5 million over the past five months through the Bezos Maui Fund, according to a spokesperson for the billionaire. But he declined to name the recipients — and local officials and nonprofits on Hawaii’s second-biggest island are puzzled at where the money might have gone.</p>
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How coffee farmers fought counterfeit Kona beans
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>On the volcanic slopes of Kona, hundreds of farmers produce one of the most expensive coffees in the world.</p>
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Police log IDs homeless woman who gave birth on downtown Hilo sidewalk
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>A police log identifies the 41-year-old homeless Hilo woman who gave birth on a sidewalk Tuesday evening in downtown Hilo as Ashley Aileen Maile Lum.</p>
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SpaceX launches 1st human spaceflight of the year on Axiom Space mission
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX carved its way through cloudy skies on the Space Coast, sending up a four-man crew on a private mission to the International Space Station.</p>
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Boeing 737 Max 9 still without a timeline to return to the sky
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>After five days of inspections and 40 evaluations, Boeing’s 737 Max 9 remains grounded — without a clear timeline to take off.</p>
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AI is the buzz, the big opportunity and the risk to watch among the Davos glitterati
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>DAVOS, Switzerland — Artificial intelligence is easily the biggest buzzword for world leaders and corporate bosses diving into big ideas at the World Economic Forum’s glitzy annual meeting in Davos. Breathtaking advances in generative AI stunned the world last year, and the elite crowd is angling to take advantage of its promise and minimize its risks.</p>
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The police response to the Uvalde shooting was riddled with failures, a new DOJ report says
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>UVALDE, Texas — Police officials who responded to the deadly Uvalde, Texas, elementary school shooting waited far too long to confront the gunman, acted with “no urgency” in establishing a command post and communicated inaccurate information to grieving families, according to a Justice Department report released Thursday that identifies “cascading failures” in law enforcement’s handling of the massacre.</p>
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Congress votes to avert a shutdown and keep the government funded into early March
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March.</p>
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Riding the Tides of Music: The Kamuela Philharmonic showcases talent from around Hawaii
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>“A journey of orchestral beauty” will take place with the Kamuela Philharmonic at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Kahilu Theatre in Waimea when the orchestra presents its winter concert, “Riding the Tides of Music.”</p>
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Global Souper Bowl in support of Clean Water Initiatives
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Puna Covenant Church will be hosting the “Global Souper Bowl” starting at 5 p.m. on Saturday in support of the Covenant World Relief’s Project Blue, a clean water initiative.</p>
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Autism support conference Friday in Hilo
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>With 25 speakers on the docket, the Autism Support and Disabilities Center is preparing for its second annual community conference today.</p>
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US forces strike Houthi sites in Yemen as Biden says allied action hasn’t yet stopped ship attacks
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. forces on Thursday conducted a fifth strike against Iranian-backed Houthi rebel military sites in Yemen as President Joe Biden acknowledged that the American and British bombardment had yet to stop the militants’ attacks on vessels in the Red Sea that have disrupted global shipping.</p>
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Iceland battles a lava flow — just like Hilo in ’35
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Fountains of lava erupted from the Sundhnúkur volcanic system in southwest Iceland on Jan. 14. As the world watched on webcams and social media, lava flows cut off roads and bubbled from a new fissure that invaded the outskirts of the coastal town of Grindavík, burning down at least three houses in their path.</p>
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A test for higher education is whether it uses the SAT
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Surely, you’ve heard of the SAT, a standardized test once widely used by colleges and universities to figure out whether a student applicant is up to the challenges of higher education. Or maybe you haven’t heard of them because our academic betters feared they weren’t fair to the disadvantaged, as worrisome as the whole idea of merit, and they have been disappearing from the scene.</p>
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Your Views for January 19
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Mahalo for passage
of council Bill 82</p>
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Magic of the Season events deemed a success
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The Magic of the Season Food Drive at the Hawaii County Building resulted in the generous donation of 1,142 pounds of food and $114 in cash to The Food Basket.</p>
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Hunter Biden agrees to private deposition with Republicans after months of defiance
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — Hunter Biden has agreed to appear before House Republicans for a private deposition next month, ending months of defiance from the president’s son, who had insisted on testifying publicly.</p>
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Netanyahu says he has told US he opposes Palestinian state in any postwar scenario
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday rejected U.S. calls to scale back Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip or take steps toward the establishment of a Palestinian state after the war, drawing an immediate scolding from the White House.</p>
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Obituaries for January 19
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Richard Causer, 68, of Hawaii Island died Jan. 3. No known family. Survivors are asked to call Hilo Medical Center at (808) 932-3500, option 4.</p>
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Teams that missed NCAA Tournament are leading 5 of 6 major conferences, thanks in part to transfers
date: 2024-01-19, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>MADISON, Wis. — Five of the six major conferences have a leader or co-leader that failed to make the NCAA Tournament last season. </p>
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Resurrecting Countervailing Power (Why American capitalism is so rotten, Part 9)
date: 2024-01-19, from: Robert Reich on Substack
What we must do
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Fujitsu will not bid for UK.gov business until Post Office inquiry closes
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pause comes after controversial supplier wins another 9-figure deal paid for by taxpayers
Fujitsu has written to UK Government to confirm it will no longer tender for business in the public sector amid the ongoing inquiry into the Post Office scandal – weeks after winning a £485 million ($614 million) contract.…
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House subcommittee hears Guam Host Community Compensation Act
date: 2024-01-19, from: Guam Daily Post
The Office of Insular Affairs continues to encourage Congress to pass the Compacts of Free Association Amendments Act, which includes the Compact Impact Fairness Act, while Guam leaders say the proposal isn’t enough, and additional funding is needed to address…
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Carl Kanowsky | New Zealand’s king of pinot, Tim Bourne
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
The name is Bourne. (No, not Jason Bourne.) It’s Tim Bourne of New Zealand’s Escarpment Winery on the North Island in Martinborough. Terry and I recently returned from an exciting trip to New Zealand. We took advantage of some great fares from Delta for an unplanned adventure. We had no idea that we would be […]
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We saw a Pi running underwater at CES in Las Vegas!
date: 2024-01-19, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
We have just returned from CES in Las Vegas where we saw a Raspberry Pi powering HZO’s event booth video feed while submerged underwater.
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YouTube and Spotify Are Not Launching Vision Pro Apps Either
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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Junior techie had leverage, but didn’t appreciate the gravity of the situation
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Disrespect for physics saw the datacenter, and a career, come tumbling down
On Call Welcome once again to On Call, The Register’s weekly column that tries to balance your diet of industry news with your peers’ experiences of the messes they confront at the coalface of IT.…
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Classifieds – January 19, 2024
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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Today in SCV History (Jan. 19)
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1967 – Original airing of Star Trek “Arena” Episode: Kirk battles the Gorn commander (Saugus resident Bobby Clark) at Vasquez Rocks. [watch
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Three decades of legendary albums
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
As 2024 rolls around, let’s look back on the past 30 years of influential music.
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Emotional whiplash on social media is overwhelming
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Social media is more than just a draining medium, it’ making us go numb.
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Halfway through study abroad
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A year abroad means the adventure is still going.
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National Pan-Hellenic Council spends Founders’ Days with marches, service
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Five Divine Nine chapters celebrated their Founders’ Day between Jan. 5 and 16.
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Students rush into the new semester
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Spring rush began with a new unstructured format for fraternities on the Row.
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It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
My craving for external validation has put strain on me and my relationships.
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Men’s volleyball chases first at First Point
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC is headed to The Lone Star State for the first big tournament of the season.
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Shorthanded USC drops three straight
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Without Isaiah Collier and Boogie Ellis, the Trojans fell short to No. 12 Arizona.
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Propella begins shipping its new low-cost, torque sensor commuter electric bike
date: 2024-01-19, from: Electrek Feed
The Propella 9S Pro V2, unveiled late last year, is one of only a few low-cost torque sensor-enabled electric bikes to reach the market. And now the new model is officially shipping to customers.
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Intel finds a friend in fight against $1.2B EU antitrust fine
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Advocate general kicks holes in some of the European Commission’s arguments about ancient rebate program
An advisor to Europe’s General Court has torn into the legal logic behind the EU’s €1.06 billion ($1.2 billion) antitrust fine levelled against chip giant Intel.…
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Battery? What Battery? Oh, That Battery.
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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Resources to Start Your Spring Semester
date: 2024-01-19, from: CSUN Library Blog, Cited
Welcome to Spring 2024, Matadors! With the new semester comes new opportunities as well as new challenges — with that in mind, this post spotlights…
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Dos Pueblos Girls’ Soccer Drops Channel League Contest to First-Place Buena 5-1
date: 2024-01-19, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Chargers will host Rio Mesa on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.
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IT consultant fined for daring to expose shoddy security
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Spotting a plaintext password and using it in research without authorization deemed a crime
A security researcher in Germany has been fined €3,000 ($3,300, £2,600) for finding and reporting an e-commerce database vulnerability that was exposing almost 700,000 customer records.…
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More on Apple’s Software Workaround for the Apple Watch Import Ban
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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Webcurios 19/01/24
date: 2024-01-19, from: Web Curios blog
Reading Time: 32 minutes MY GOD IT IS SO FCUKING COLD. And yes, I know that there are few things more tedious than making banal, obvious observations about meteorological conditions, but I’m afraid the part of my brain that normally spaffs out the intro section has frozen solid and as such this is all you’re getting this week. I…https://webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-19-01-24/ Save to Pocket
Masimo CEO on Apple Watch Blood-Oxygen Sensor: ‘I Really Feel Wholeheartedly That Consumers Are Better Off Without It’
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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Valencia Hills hosts Anxiety Summit
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
Issues related to social anxiety and panic, specific phobias and post-traumatic stress disorders affect about 40 million Americans, according to data from the Anxiety and Depression Association of America. And for a variety of reasons, less than half of those people are seeking help. Care Pastor Dan Broyles of Valencia Hills Community Church wanted to […]
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Foxconn’s latest Indian foray is a chip packaging JV with HCL Group
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Fending off ransomware at home in Taiwan as it continues diversification into semiconductors
Updated Taiwan’s contract manufacturer to the stars, Foxconn aka Hon Hai Technology Group , has teamed with India’s HCL Group to create a semiconductor assembly and testing facility in India.…
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Top US, Mexican Officials to Meet for Migration Talks
date: 2024-01-19, from: VOA News USA
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January 18, 2024
date: 2024-01-19, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
This afternoon, Congress passed a new continuing resolution necessary to fund the government past the upcoming deadlines in the previous continuing resolution. Those deadlines were tomorrow (January 19) and February 2. The deadlines in the new measure are March 1 and March 8. This is the third continuing resolution passed in four months as extremist Republicans have refused to fund the government unless they get a wish list of concessions to their ideology.
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High Seas Opens Santa Barbara Tasting Room
date: 2024-01-19, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Austin Corrigan is now serving his mead and cider in a warehouse zone near Milpas Street and East Beach.
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Google to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Including for cross-border remittances, which could shake things up nicely
Google has decided to bring India’s Unified Payments Interface to the world.…
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US Global Standing Affected by Support of Israel’s Actions in Gaza
date: 2024-01-19, from: VOA News USA
Pressure is mounting on Israel and its main ally, the US, as humanitarian officials say Gaza’s health system is collapsing under the weight of tens of thousands of casualties and the European Union parliament passes a cease-fire resolution. As leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement prepare to meet for a summit, VOA’s Anita Powell reports from Washington on how this conflict is affecting America’s reputation, and what that means.
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The ‘State and Hope’ for Housing in Santa Barbara
date: 2024-01-19, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
New project draws hundreds to open house for 642 new rentals replacing Macy’s at La Cumbre Plaza.
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Equinix bids for more of your multi-cloud network with homebrew hosted router
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
VMs are slow. And who can arrange remote hands wherever your traffic needs to flow?
Equinix has unveiled a cloudy router it hopes will displace competitors in large, multi-cloud networks.…
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US, Israel Differ Over Future of Gaza
date: 2024-01-19, from: VOA News USA
Israel and the US appear to be on a collision course on how to deal with the Gaza Strip after the war ends. One-third of Israelis want Israel to maintain control over Gaza, and one-quarter want to rebuild Jewish settlements there. Linda Gradstein reports for VOA from Jerusalem. Camera: Ricki Rosen
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Zard Has New Full-System Exhausts For The Triumph Street Triple 765
date: 2024-01-19, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Choose from stainless steel and titanium options, along with homologated and racing configurations.
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Iconic Motorcycle Marque BSA Could Be Coming To India In 2025
date: 2024-01-19, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
A healthy mix of gas-powered and electric offerings could soon hit the Indian market
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US agencies warn made-in-China drones might help Beijing snoop on the world
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security
Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones made in China could be used to gather information on critical infrastructure.…
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Hart district OKs fiscal stability plan
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
District officials project deficit spending through 2026-27 school year The term “living document” was used multiple times at Wednesday’s William S. Hart Union High School District governing board meeting in reference to the projected budgets for the district over the next three years that could include deficit spending and cost-cutting measures that may include layoffs. […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-19, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Humbling of Harvard.
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Margo Rothenberg celebrates 100 years
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
Sitting between her daughter, Agi Flesch, and granddaughter, Jacqueline Hickerson, Margo Rothenberg celebrated her hundredth year with a beige, sparkly dress, sunglasses on her face and a piña colada in hand at Oakmont of Santa Clarita on Wednesday. Born on Jan. 21, 1924, Rothenberg was born and raised in Vác, Hungary. Enduring many obstacles, Rothenberg […]
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Russian Foreign Minister Rejects US Proposal to Resume Nuclear Talks
date: 2024-01-19, from: VOA News USA
moscow — Russia’s top diplomat on Thursday dismissed a U.S. proposal to resume a dialogue on nuclear arms control, saying it’s impossible while Washington offers military support to Ukraine.
Speaking at his annual news conference, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the West of fueling global security risks by encouraging Ukraine to ramp up strikes on Russian territory and warned that Moscow would achieve its goals in the conflict despite Western assistance for Kyiv.
Commenting on a U.S. proposal to resume contacts in the sphere of nuclear arms control, Lavrov described it as “unacceptable,” saying that Moscow had put forward its stance in a diplomatic letter last month. He argued that for such talks to be held, Washington first needed to revise its current policy toward Russia.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in June that the Biden administration was ready to talk to Russia without conditions about nuclear arms control even as Russia-U.S. ties were at their lowest point since the Cold War, noting “it is in neither of our countries’ interest to embark on opening the competition in the strategic nuclear forces.”
But Lavrov charged that Washington’s push for the revival of nuclear talks has been driven by a desire to resume inspections of Russia’s nuclear weapons sites. He described such U.S. demands as “indecent” and cynical in view of Ukraine’s attacks on Russian nuclear-capable bomber bases during the conflict.
He mocked the U.S. offer to resume nuclear arms dialogue, arguing that Washington’s position amounts to saying, “We have declared you an enemy, but we’re ready to talk about how we could look at your strategic nuclear arsenal again.”
Extensive mutual inspections of nuclear weapons sites were envisaged by the New START treaty, which then-Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev signed in 2010. The inspections were halted in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and never resumed.
Moscow participation suspended
In February 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the treaty, saying Russia could not allow U.S. inspections of its nuclear sites at a time when Washington and its NATO allies have openly declared Moscow’s defeat in Ukraine as their goal. Moscow emphasized, however, that it wasn’t withdrawing from the pact altogether and would continue to respect the caps on nuclear weapons the treaty set.
The New START, the last remaining nuclear arms control pact between Russia and the United States, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers. It’s set to expire in 2026, and the lack of dialogue on anchoring a successor deal has worried arms control advocates.
“Amid a ‘hybrid war’ waged by Washington against Russia, we aren’t seeing any basis, not only for any additional joint measures in the sphere of arms control and reduction of strategic risks, but for any discussion of strategic stability issues with the U.S.,” he said. “We firmly link such possibility to the West fully renouncing its malicious course aimed at undermining Russia’s security and interests.”
The minister said Washington’s push for restarting nuclear arms talks was rooted in a desire to “try to establish control over our nuclear arsenal and minimize nuclear risks for itself,” but added that “those risks are emerging as a result of forceful pressure on our country.”
He accused the West of blocking any talks on ending the conflict and inciting the ramping up of attacks on Russia.
“Such encouragement and the transfer of relevant weapons shows that the West doesn’t want any constructive solution,” Lavrov said. “The West is pushing toward the escalation of the Ukrainian crisis, and that raises new strategic risks.”
Asked if tensions with the West over Ukraine could spiral into a showdown resembling the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis — when the U.S. and the Soviet Union found themselves on the edge of nuclear war — Lavrov sternly warned against encouraging Ukraine to strike targets in Russia.
He specifically accused Britain of inciting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to order such attacks, although he didn’t offer any proof to back the claim.
“London is literally egging on Zelenskyy to bomb any facilities anywhere in Russia,” Lavrov said.
‘We will achieve’ goals in Ukraine
He reaffirmed that Russia would pursue what it calls the “special military operation” regardless of Western pressure.
“We will consistently and persistently press the goals of the special military operation and we will achieve them,” he said. “They should have no hope that Russia could be defeated in any way. Those in the West who fantasize about it have failed to learn history lessons.”
On other foreign policy issues, Lavrov talked at length about growing influence of the Global South and argued that Western sway in international affairs was waning.
He hailed Russia-China ties, saying they were going through their “best period in history” and were stronger than a conventional military union.
Lavrov reaffirmed Moscow’s call for the creation of an independent Palestinian state, describing it as the only way to ensure security for both Palestinians and Israel. He also criticized the U.S.-led attacks on Yemen, saying that “the more the Americans and the British bomb, the less desire to talk the Houthis have.”
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FDA approves AI-powered skin cancer-screening device that’s just a teensy bit tricorder-ish
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a handheld AI-powered medical device that helps doctors diagnose skin cancer.…
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Bill Miranda | Exploring Santa Clarita’s Beautiful Art Scene
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
In Santa Clarita, art is not just something to admire from a distance, but an immersive experience that captivates residents and visitors in several ways.
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Protected: Oxnard Harbor District Commissioners Welcome New Leadership on the Board
date: 2024-01-19, from: Port Hueneme
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Jan. 26-28: ‘Never After Happily’ at The MAIN
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Bring your family and friends for an evening with a fairy tale twist! Residents are invited to purchase tickets for Showdown Stage Company’s production “Never After Happily” with showings starting Friday, Jan. 26, at The MAIN in Old Town Newhall
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Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation from the Linux kernel
date: 2024-01-19, from: OS News
What follows is a letter from Hans Reiser to myself, which he wrote some two months back, and has asked me to publish, with his thoughts on the deprecation of ReiserFS from the Linux kernel. I have transcribed it to the best of my ability. Plaintext email may not be the best way to read it, as such, I have also made available PDF and HTML versions of the letter. ↫ Fredrick R. Brennan Hans Reiser is the creator of the ReiserFS file system, which used to be a serious contender for the Linux file system you’d use in the early 2000s. In 2006, Hans Reiser murdered his wife, and is currently serving a prison sentence for this crime. Hopefully, after he completes his prison sentence, he can become a contributing member of society once again, if the professionals and specialists involved in such matters deem him capable of doing so. The long letter mentioned here was actually quite a fascinating read, and details his abrasive behaviour in the Linux world, the design of ReiserFS and its place in the ecosystem at the time, and his thoughts on the removal of ReiserFS from the Linux kernel.
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Showdown Stage Company to Present “Never After Happily”
date: 2024-01-19, from: City of Santa Clarita
Showdown Stage Company to Present “Never After Happily”An Evening of Fun and Fairy Tales at The MAIN Bring your family and friends for an evening with a fairy tale twist! Residents are invited to purchase tickets for Showdown Stage Company’s production “Never After Happily” with showings starting Friday, January 26, at The MAIN (24266 Main […]
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Feb. 1-4: ‘The Wizard of Oz’ Returns to Santa Clarita
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
E.S.C.A.P.E Theatre is presenting, “The Wizard of Oz,” a musical based on the classic children’s novel by L. Frank Baum, Feb. 1-4, at the Santa Clarita Performing Arts Center
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VMware is killing off 56 products amid “tectonic” infrastructure shift
date: 2024-01-19, from: OS News
Broadcom’s brutal assault on VMware’s product suite continues, with the company’s new owner this week confirming that it is sunsetting a massive 56 VMware products and platforms – as investors said this week that they anticipated a “tectonic shift” in the infrastructure market as a result. In a January 15 advisory VMware confirmed tersely that it was taking a sweeping range of products to “End of Availability” and that “these products are no longer available for purchase” – although most remain advertised enthusiastically, for now, on slick corporate website pages. ↫ Ed Targett The list of products is a thing to behold, for sure. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many enterprise products together in one list, and I once spent weeks scouring and dealing with HPE.
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WebGPU comes to Chrome 121 for Android
date: 2024-01-19, from: OS News
The Chrome team is excited to announce that WebGPU is now enabled by default in Chrome 121 on devices running Android 12 and greater powered by Qualcomm and ARM GPUs. Support will gradually expand to encompass a wider range of Android devices, including those running on Android 11 in a near future. This expansion will be dependent on further testing and optimization to ensure a seamless experience across a broader range of hardware configurations. ↫ François Beaufort Mind you, this is about WebGPU, not WebGL.
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Deputies seek help in locating missing Santa Clarita woman
date: 2024-01-19, from: The Signal
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is seeking the public’s help in locating a missing 22-year-old Santa Clarita woman who was last seen on Friday. Jessel Castellanos-Quintero, 22, is described as a 5-foot-2 Hispanic woman weighing approximately 110 pounds with black curly hair and hazel eyes. She was last seen near the 27500 block of […]
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Program To Convert Unused Space Into Homes For The Unhoused Hit Milestone
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
The state program, which has allocated $3.5 billion to convert motels, hotels, and office spaces into residences for the unhoused, has now reached 15,000 new units.
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LASD Seek Public’s Help in Locating Missing Santa Clarita Woman
date: 2024-01-19, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is asking for the public’s help locating missing person, Jessel Andrea Castellanos Quintero
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The California Native Seed Strategy Is Crucial to the State’s Climate Resilience
date: 2024-01-19, from: California Native Plants Society
California’s first Native Seed Strategy will help protect our “green infrastructure,” allowing the state to respond to climate impacts like extreme wildfire, flooding, and drought.
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Friday 19 January, 2024
date: 2024-01-19, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Cobwebbed Well, it is cold around here just now. Quote of the Day ”The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.” André Gide Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news … Continue reading
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★ ‘Like the Sixth Finger in an AI-Rendered Hand’
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
Apple doesn’t have to make a platform-destructive money-grab policy change to ruin the Mac. They can ruin it simply by planting the seed of doubt that they might.
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Non-profit startup offers certifications for AI models that respect creators’ rights
date: 2024-01-19, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
‘Fairly Trained’, founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption
A former VP of audio at Stability AI who quit the biz over content scraping has launched a non-profit organization named “Fairly Trained” that certifies generative AI models whose developers obtained consent to train their models on copyrighted data.…
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What’s The Best Way To Approach A Celebrity You Admire? Listeners Share Their Tips
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
It can be tricky navigating a close encounter with a star. Here are some tips for a smooth interaction.
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Lady Cougars Push Past Bakersfield 73-65
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
By Jesse Muñoz/COC Sports Information Director College of the Canyons won its second straight conference contest, this time outlasting Bakersfield College 73-65 on Lee Smelser Court at the Cougar Cage on Saturday night. Canyons (9-7, 2-0) received 21 points and eight assists from freshman Aaliyah Garcia and got another big boost from sophomore Amiya Robinson‘s 18 points and 12… https://scvnews.com/lady-cougars-push-past-bakersfield-73-65/ Save to Pocket
Numberphile: “A Sudoku Secret to Blow Your Mind”
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Following ‘Soft Strike,’ Santa Barbara Teachers Begin New Course of Action
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
SBTA President Hozby Galindo talks new union demonstrations, teaching background, and negotiations updates.
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Why is Boeing such a shitty corporation?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, My friend Harold Meyerson just wrote this for The American Prospect, and it’s so good and timely that I wanted to share it with you. In the wake of the midair blowout of a door on a Boeing 737 MAX 9 earlier this month, the lead that Airbus has taken over Boeing in the manufacture and sales of the world’s commercial aircraft has, not surprisingly, grown.
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9/11 Victim’s Remains Identified More Than 2 Decades After Attack
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
new york — The remains of a man killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11 have been identified more than two decades after the 2001 attacks, the New York City medical examiner’s office announced Thursday.
John Ballantine Niven of Oyster Bay, New York, was a 44-year-old executive at Aon Risk Services, an insurance firm on the 105th floor of Tower 2 of the trade center complex, according to obituaries at the time. He left a wife and a son who was 18 months old at the time.
Niven is the 1,650th victim identified from the deadliest act of terrorism on U.S. soil, when hijackers crashed airplanes into the Twin Towers, killing 2,753 people.
“While the pain from the enormous losses on September 11th never leaves us, the possibility of new identifications can offer solace to the families of victims,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a statement. “I’m grateful for the ongoing work from the Office of Chief Medical Examiner that honors the memory of John Ballantine Niven and all those we lost.”
The medical examiner’s office has been using advanced DNA analysis to identify victim remains in recent years.
Ahead of the anniversary of the attacks last September, the office said it had identified remains of a man and a woman, though their names were not made public at the request of their families.
“We will forever remember our heroes who perished on 9/11, and we appreciate the continuous efforts of forensic experts to help identify victims,” Oyster Bay Supervisor Joseph Saladino said in a separate statement. “We’re hopeful that this amazing advance in technology helps bring peace to Mr. Niven’s family and allows him to eternally rest in peace.”
Roughly 40% of victims of the World Trade Center attack have yet to have their remains identified, as few full bodies were recovered when the giant towers collapsed.
But as DNA testing has evolved, so has the costly, painstaking effort to connect more than 21,900 bits of remains to individual victims. In some cases, scientists have gone back to the same bone fragment 10 or more times, hoping new technology will provide answers.
The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
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TMU Pole Vaulters Take on National Pole Vault Summit
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Pole vaulters from The Master’s University track and field team participated in the National Pole Vault Summit in Reno Jan. 11-
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 18, 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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App Store Apps May Start Including Payment Links to External Websites
date: 2024-01-18, from: TidBITS blog
The Epic vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit is finally over. Although Apple won on most counts, the judge ruled it had to allow developers to link to external payment systems rather than using in-app purchases. That may start happening soon.
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Don’t Eat Some Raw Oysters: FDA Expands Warning After Nearly 200 People Get Sick
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
California health officials announced Wednesday the warning is for oysters imported from northwestern Mexico.
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SafeAI builds first-ever electric, autonomous Caterpillar haul truck conversion
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The autonomous mining experts at SafeAI have collaborated with Japanese Obayashi Corp. to build a first-of-its-kind, self-driving battery electric haul truck, paving the way for other companies to upgrade their existing equipment assets to reach their sustainability goals.
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Where have all the flowers gone?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Rupert blog
A post from Jason Velazquez called “Where have all the websites gone?” crossed my socials. It’s a good lament about the dearth of interesting content on the internet and how we’re stuck in the same boring content silos.
The question reminded me of a song by Pete Seeger called “Where have all the flowers gone?” In the song Pete wonders aloud about the flowers now missing from the field…
[Verse 1]
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
The girls have picked them, every one
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?
We find out that the girls have picked all the flowers. All of them. That’s a bit excessive. Why? The second verse explores the young girls’ situation…
[Verse 2]
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
They've taken husbands, every one
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?
The girls got married, good for them! That’s a natural part of growing up. But what of the husbands and how are they connected to the missing flowers? Did they use all the flowers for their weddings? The third verse answers this question.
[Verse 3]
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
They're all in uniform
Oh, when will you ever learn?
Oh, when will you ever learn?
The young men, dressed in uniform, went off to war. The flowers were, presumably, for their funerals. Pete sure knew how to tell a story.
So where have all the websites gone? Well, the people who make them have all gone to war for the capitalist machine. They grew up and got jobs. A natural part of growing up. Silos came and plucked their voices. Invasive memes and short form content grew in their place. Hustle overtook leisure. Harassment overtook openness. Influence overtook creativity. An economy of interestingness replaced by one of followers, likes, and engagement metrics.
One important thing to note; websites aren’t extinct. In fact, you’re on one now! Uploading your own words is ancient technology but still works.
I loved Jason’s point about the curators and it illuminated something I don’t think I fully understood before. Curators and aggregators are integral to the ecosystem. If we all create, steal, and regurgitate the same content then we only reinforce our own echo chamber. Aggregators bridge subcultures in a world of content bubbles and subreddits. They share curios from the web you may have missed, subverting the FOMO-based dopamine addiction machine using RSS. They find beauty in the mundane and surface wisdom from obscure writings. That is valuable, worth more than gold.
We are poems, not software and in need of a reforestation of our curators. To paraphrase Mr. Rogers in these dire times, “Look for the aggregators…”
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Did all that AI chatbot hype boost Bing’s market share? Oh, wait, never mind
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers
Microsoft’s share of the global web search market has hardly changed since the arrival of Bing AI, aka Bing Chat aka Copilot, according to industry figures. We’re told Bing’s share has increased just 0.56 percentage points since it plugged OpenAI’s GPT-4 into its web search nearly a year ago.…
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US Congress Averts Shutdown, Funds Government Into March
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — U.S. Congress sent President Joe Biden a short-term spending bill on Thursday that would avert a looming partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies into March.
The House approved the measure by a vote of 314-108, with opposition coming mostly from the more conservative members of the Republican conference. Shortly before the vote, the House Freedom Caucus announced it ‘strongly opposes’ the measure because it would facilitate more spending than they support.
Nevertheless, about half of Republicans joined with Democrats in passing the third stopgap funding measure in recent months. The action came a few hours after the Senate had voted overwhelmingly to pass the bill by a vote of 77-18.
The measure extends current spending levels and buys time for the two chambers to work out their differences over full-year spending bills for the fiscal year that began in October.
The temporary measure will run to March 1 for some federal agencies. Their funds were set to run out Friday. It extends the remainder of government operations to March 8.
Right wing pressures Johnson
Speaker Mike Johnson has been under pressure from his right flank to scrap a $1.66 trillion budget deal he reached with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer earlier this month. Republican Representative Chip Roy said the continuing resolution passed Thursday will facilitate that agreement.
“It’s Groundhog Day in the House chamber all the time, every day, yet again spending money we don’t have,” Roy said.
Johnson has insisted he will stick with the deal, and moderates in the party have stood behind him. They say that changing course now would be going back on his word and would weaken the speaker in future negotiations.
Representative Rosa DeLauro, the ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee, said Americans expect Congress to govern and work in a bipartisan fashion.
“Some of my colleagues would see that this government would shut down and don’t care how hurtful that would be,” DeLauro said.
House Republicans have fought bitterly over budget levels and policy since taking the majority at the start of 2023. Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted by his caucus in October after striking an agreement with Democrats to extend current spending the first time. Johnson also has come under criticism as he has wrestled with how to appease his members and avoid a government shutdown in an election year.
“We just needed a little more time on the calendar to do it and now that’s where we are,” Johnson said Tuesday about the decision to extend federal funding yet again. “We’re not going to get everything we want.”
Most House Republicans have refrained so far from saying that Johnson’s job is in danger. But a revolt of even a handful of Republicans could endanger his position in the narrowly divided House.
Representative Bob Good, one of eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy, has been pushing Johnson to reconsider the deal with Schumer.
“If your opponent in negotiation knows that you fear the consequence of not reaching an agreement more than they fear the consequence of not reaching an agreement, you will lose every time,” Good said this week.
Other Republicans acknowledge Johnson is in a tough spot. “The speaker was dealt with the hand he was dealt,” said Representative Andy Barr, noting the constraints imposed by the party’s slim majority.
The short-term measure comes amid negotiations on a separate spending package that would provide wartime dollars to Ukraine and Israel and strengthen security at the U.S.-Mexico border. Johnson is also under pressure from the right not to accept a deal that is any weaker than a House-passed border measure that has no Democratic support.
Johnson, Schumer and other congressional leaders and committee heads visited the White House on Wednesday to discuss spending legislation. Johnson used the meeting to push for stronger border security measures while Biden and Democrats detailed Ukraine’s security needs as it continues to fight Russia.
Biden has requested a $110 billion package for the wartime spending and border security.
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All the garbage I found on Substack in 1 hour. Josh Drummond…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Asking People to Use Less Electricity Works
date: 2024-01-18, from: Heatmap News
Sometimes to get what you want, all you have to do is ask. That’s what the organizations managing electricity grids across the country (and outside of it, but we’ll get to that) learned this week as plunging temperatures led to record-high electricity usage while lights (and heaters) stayed on.
One can get an eyeball sense of the effect these voluntary conservation notices have by looking at the difference between expected electricity demand versus what actually was needed this week. While some of this could just be normal forecasting errors, recent history suggests that big divergences during peak demand hours are likely the result of requests to use less power.
In contrast to past cold snaps such as Winter Storm Uri in 2021 and Winter Storm Elliott in 2022, utilities did not need to do any mass “load shedding” — i.e. rolling blackouts — in order to handle the high demand. During Uri, much of the Texas electricity system essentially failed for several days, leading to hundred of deaths, while during Elliott, the Tennessee Valley Authority instituted rolling blackouts for the first time ever as hundreds of thousands of Duke Energy customers in the Carolinas lost power.
This time around, TVA requested customers conserve power from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, citing extremely low temperatures throughout the Tennessee Valley and the areas it serves.
TVA was right that the grid would be stressed — it would ultimately break its all time record for demand. And yet, that demand peaked on Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. at 34,376 megawatts, notably short of the forecast demand of 35,125 MW, according to Energy Information Administration data.
There was also a sizable gap between forecast demand and actual demand the evening prior, after the TVA put out a release requesting conservation the following morning, but before the actual conservation period began. The request was tweeted out a little after 5 p.m. Central time on Tuesday; by 8 p.m., there was a roughly 3,000 MW gap between forecast demand and actual demand.
Something similar happened earlier this week in Texas. This time, ERCOT, which runs the market for 90% of the state’s electricity consumption, issued requests to conserve for Monday and Tuesday mornings. At 9 a.m. Central time on Monday, ERCOT forecasted demand of 83,561 MW, while actual demand was 74,452 MW. And on Tuesday morning at 8 a.m., forecasted demand was 87,055 MW, while actual demand was 78,155 MW. ERCOT’s all-time demand record from last summer still stands, but it broke winter records this week.
And in the U.K., the national grid operator has turned this into a business, paying homes and businesses some $11.4 million so far this winter to conserve demand in peak moments, according to Bloomberg. The combined energy saving was enough to power six million homes for at least an hour, per the report.
Voluntary conservation calls, while often effective in the short term, are often an indication that something has probably gone wrong. In both Texas and the TVA territory, advocates have called for measures to make grids more resilient and to improve energy efficiency, especially during cold weather. This means everything from winterizing natural gas infrastructure to updating building codes to better insulating homes so that they require less heat during cold snaps.
There are also more structured ways to get customers to consume less electricity during peak demand times than putting out voluntary requests — so-called “demand response” includes systems of incentives and payments to use less electricity at peak times. But Texas does not, as yet, offer them at a meaningful scale to residential customers, just businesses.
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5 Major Candidates Want To Be California’s New US Senator. Where They Stand On The Economy, Crime And The Border
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
The five major contenders have different track records and proposals on some of the biggest issues facing California. They’re trying to position themselves to appeal to sizable voting blocs before the March 5 primary.
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NASA, Partners to Welcome Private Crew Aboard Space Station
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
As part of NASA’s efforts to enable more access to space, four private astronauts are in orbit following the successful launch of the third all private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. Axiom Space astronauts lifted off at 4:49 p.m. EST on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. […]
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A $2-3 billion battery factory for electric trucks is headed to Mississippi
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Daimler Trucks, Accelera by Cummins, and truck maker PACCAR will build a huge battery cell factory for electric trucks in Mississippi.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/battery-factory-for-electric-trucks-is-headed-to-mississippi/ Save to Pocket
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I like that I can catch up on Paolo's blog in FeedLand. I have it bookmarked so it's easy to find.
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First Known Piece of Mail Sent Using a Stamp Goes to Auction
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The 183-year-old envelope is a rare example of two early forms of prepaid postage: Mulready envelopes and adhesive stamps
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IBM Consulting is done playing around, orders immediate return to office
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Executives told comply or say goodbye
IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences.…
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Leadbetter Beach reabre después de una importante renovación del césped y mejoras adicionales
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
El parque recibió su primera renovación de césped en casi 60 años, nuevas barbacoas públicas y un paisaje renovado.
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U.S. EV Sales Ended 2023 At 1.1 Million
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Add plug-in hybrids and the U.S. bought a record 1.4 million rechargeable cars last year.
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Leadbetter Beach Park Reopens After Major Turf Renovation and Additional Improvements
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The park received its first turf renovation in almost 60 years, new public barbecues, and refreshed landscaping.
The post Leadbetter Beach Park Reopens After Major Turf Renovation and Additional Improvements appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Watch a Rivian R1T pull a stuck Ford F-150 Raptor out of the snow [Video]
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Who said electric vehicles can’t perform in the cold? A recent video shows a Rivian R1T successfully pulling a stuck Ford F-150 Raptor out of the snow.
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How Are Tardigrades So ‘Indestructible?’ Scientists Finally Have an Explanation
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The tiny animals nicknamed “water bears” can endure extreme conditions by entering a deep hibernation with a switch at the molecular level, a new study finds
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COC Names Amiya Robinson, Jonah El-Farra Athletes of the Week
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
College of the Canyons student-athletes Amiya Robinson (women’s basketball) and Jonah El-Farra (men’s basketball) have been named the COC Athletic Department’s Women’s and Men’s Student-Athletes of the Week for the period running Jan. 8-
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Book Review | ‘The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors’ by Jackie Bennett, with photographs by Richard Hanson
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
‘The Writer’s Garden’ is a coffee table book sure to inspire conversations — and inspirations.
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The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of federal lands in the US West.
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What Is Being Done About Homelessness? A Forum for the Lompoc Business Community
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Lompoc, CA. Wed, Jan 31 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM at the Dick DeWees Community Center, 1120 W Ocean Avenue,
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Long Island Compromise by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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US Government Shutdown Threats Center Around Senate Border Bill
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
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Building Community Cohesiveness: AHA! and Santa Barbara Trapeze Co. Join Forces to Elevate Santa Barbara’s Youth
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara, CA—January 10, 2024 – In a remarkable partnership that bridges the worlds of business and nonprofits, AHA! and
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Redeployment Part Three
date: 2024-01-18, from: brr, an Antarctica IT blog
Off-continent after 446 days!
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Last Chance to Sign Up for Friends of SM Baseball Golf Tournament
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Join us for a fun day of golf, lunch, and fantastic raffle prizes on January 26 at noon.
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Unihertz Tank Mini 1 is a smaller, cheaper rugged phone built for the outdoors
date: 2024-01-18, from: Liliputing
A few months after launching the Unihertz Tank 3 rugged smartphone with a massive 23,800 mAh battery, Unihertz has unveiled a new model that’s significantly smaller and cheaper. But the Unihertz Tank Mini 1 keeps some of the rugged, outdoorsy features. The new smartphone has a 4.3 inch display and a rugged body with an […]
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Perfect timing… US Navy throws Boeing $103M to update its sub recon jets
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Just as Secretary of State’s 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos
Boeing could use any win it can get lately, and it’s found an admittedly small one in a $102.7 million deal to modernize some of the US Navy’s submarine-hunting P-8A Poseidon aircraft.…
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China’s EVs Consumed As Much Energy As Ireland In 2023
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
It’s not as big a problem as you might think.
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Meet Elma, a Woolly Mammoth Who Roamed Far and Wide More Than 14,000 Years Ago
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
By analyzing a fossilized tusk, scientists have pieced together the animal’s movements
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The nominees for the second annual Stunt Awards have been announced. Categories…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Jan. 20: SUSD to Discuss Team Building, Strategic Planning
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
A special meeting of the Saugus Union School District Governing Board will take place Saturday, Jan. 20, with public session beginning at 9 a.m., followed immediately by closed session at 12 p.m
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Radio Shack TRS-80 Pocket Computer - Part 1
date: 2024-01-18, from: Computer ads from the Past
A Few Years Ago, the Idea of a Computer You Could Put in Your Pocket Was Just Science Fiction - Isaac Asimov
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Estes just offset nearly 100% of its energy needs with rooftop solar
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The largest privately owned freight carrier in North America has finished installing rooftop solar panels at its 4th and 5th trucking terminals, and announced plans to add solar installations at two more of its locations, furthering its commitment to solar transformation.
https://electrek.co/2024/01/18/estes-to-save-1-million-with-solar-terminal-project/ Save to Pocket
Should Elon Musk be removed from Tesla CEO role for threats to take AI to xAI, and demands for $100B shares?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
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Archaeologists Discover 4,000-Year-Old Wall Built Around Oasis in Saudi Arabia
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The nine-mile-long structure surrounding the Khaybar Oasis may have once protected against raiders
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Jan. 27: Carousel Ranch Open House/Pancake Breakfast
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
To help kick off its 10th annual Carousel Wishes & Valentine Kisses campaign, Carousel Ranch is hosting an Open House/Pancake Breakfast on Saturday, Jan. 27, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m
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Himiway Showcases Impressive Lineup Of E-Bikes At CES 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Himiway has sporty riders in its crosshairs with the launch of a range of new e-MTBs.
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Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles. “Google said it doesn’t focus…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Daily Deals (1-18-2024)
date: 2024-01-18, from: Liliputing
The Kensington Expert Wireless Trackball Mouse is on sale for $66 at Amazon right now, down from its list price of $100. Trackballs can be a bit of an acquired taste – the learning curve is kind of steep if you’re used to using a mouse. But since you don’t need to move your wrist […]
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Doug DeMuro Thinks The New Tax Credits Will Shake Up The Used EV Market
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
For example, why would anyone buy a Model 3 now that the Model Y is less expensive?
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2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT gets Bronze treatment, fastest yet with performance upgrade
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The 2024 Ford Mustang Mach-E GT is getting a new “Bronze Appearance Package” that’ll make any head turn. With an optional performance upgrade, the new EV is the fastest Mach-E yet.
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As Broadcom nukes VMware’s channel, the big winner is set to be Nutanix
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A lot of IT depts can’t wait to get past their ESX addiction
As the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization giant have the opportunity to swoop on customers thanks to the massive changes happening to its channel.…
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Traps Scented Like Mink Butts Could Be Key to Removing the Invasive Species From the U.K.
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A successful eradication trial in East Anglia has raised biologists’ hopes for ridding Great Britain of the destructive creatures, which threaten native wildlife
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Pasadena Institution Vroman’s Bookstore Is Looking For A Buyer
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The LAist
The Pasadena bookstore, which has been in operation for nearly 130 years, announced it’s looking for a buyer for its two Vroman’s stores, as well as Book Soup in West Hollywood.
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The Winners of the Nature Photography Contest
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Greenworks’ PRO 80V 5Ah electric tool battery hits $239, Segway GoKart 2 $500 off pre-order, more
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
A rare discount has arrived on , letting you grab a spare for your electric tool setup at $239. It comes joined by a $500 discount on Segway’s new GoKart 2 as it goes up for pre-order – not to mention all of today’s other best new Green Deals.
Head below for other New Green Deals we’ve found today and, of course, Electrek’s best EV buying and leasing deals. Also, check out the new Electrek Tesla Shop for the best deals on Tesla accessories.
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JPMorgan exec claims bank repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon
The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion – yes, with a B – cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …
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Advancing the U.S. Coast Guard’s Global Impact
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: RAND blog
The U.S. Coast Guard is in high demand globally, engaging with over 160 countries on every continent and in every ocean. The service could better meet its strategic goals through enhanced internal coordination and prioritization of its international affairs efforts, as well as increased resources.
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Hubble Captures a Monster Merger
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies – NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral – that are in the midst of a collision. This dramatic cosmic encounter is located at the very safe distance of roughly 570 million light-years from […]
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Apple Disables Blood Oxygen App in New Apple Watches
date: 2024-01-18, from: TidBITS blog
While Apple’s appeal of the International Trade Commission import ban on the Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 is being decided, the company has disabled the blood oxygen feature so it can continue sales of those models in the US.
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Sculpting Timeless Stories
date: 2024-01-18, from: City of Santa Clarita
Sculpting Timeless Stories By Mayor Pro Tem Bill Miranda In Santa Clarita, art is not just something to admire from a distance, but an immersive experience that captivates residents and visitors in several ways. From stunning public art pieces to live performances and thought-provoking galleries, the array of opportunities invites us to experience the creative […]
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Blinken Heading to Africa Next Week on Four-Nation Tour
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
State Department — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, and Angola next week, the State Department announced, his fourth trip to the African continent.
The trip comes after 17 Cabinet-level official visits last year as a follow-up to the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington.
President Joe Biden has also expressed his desire to visit Africa this year, but no definite plans have been announced.
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said Blinken’s six-day trip will highlight how the United States has accelerated the U.S.-Africa partnership since the summit, including in areas such as climate, food and health security.
“He will also emphasize our future-focused economic partnership and how the United States is investing in infrastructure in Africa to boost two-way trade, create jobs at home and on the continent, and help Africa compete in the global marketplace,” Miller said.
Asked if countering China’s influence on the continent would be a major theme, Molly Phee, assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said this is more of a preoccupation of the media.
“If China didn’t exist, we would be fully engaged in Africa,” she said. “Africa is important for its own sake, and it’s important for American interests.”
Phee mentioned major U.S. infrastructure projects partnering with Angola and Cape Verde. She said a lot of the news coming out of Africa is negative, and Blinken’s trip would highlight the positive.
“I think it can highlight the great capacity of African people, particularly the youth. It can show really forward-looking types of engagements, for example, our partnership with Angola in outer space,” she said.
Phee said the Africa Cup of Nations football [soccer] tournament will be going on, and Blinken hopes to be able to attend a match in person while in the Ivory Coast.
Phee acknowledged that it is never possible for U.S. officials to get away from security issues, saying that Blinken would talk about the situation in the Sahel and coastal West Africa when he visits the Ivory Coast.
She said Nigeria is dealing with several internal security challenges, and Angola has played an important role in trying to address and reduce tensions in the eastern Congo.
In response to a question from VOA about Blinken’s visit to Cape Verde, Phee said the country is literally the port on Africa’s doorstep.
“It is also a terrific democracy. It’s a good model for the region,” she said.
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Live Event Replay: The Boeing Disaster With Matt Stoller & William McGee
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Lever News
In an online live event, we discussed the Boeing debacle and took questions directly from readers, with the help of two experts.
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Pornhub Wants Proof of Consent From Every Single Performer on Its Platform
date: 2024-01-18, from: 404 Media Group
Starting January 23, performers will need to upload proof of consent for videos that feature other people.
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Netflix and the Initial Apple Vision Pro Apps
date: 2024-01-18, from: Michael Tsai
Joe Rossignol: Netflix has no plans to release an app for Apple’s upcoming Vision Pro headset, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Instead, the streaming service will be accessible through Safari and other web browsers on the headset.[…]Apple recently announced various video and sports apps that will be available on the Vision Pro at launch, including […]
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StoreKit Purchase Link Entitlement for United States
date: 2024-01-18, from: Michael Tsai
Apple: Starting today, because of a recent United States Court decision, App Store Review Guideline 3.1.1 has been updated to introduce the StoreKit Purchase Link Entitlement (US), which allows apps that offer in-app purchases in the iOS or iPadOS App Store on the United States storefront the ability to include a link to the developer’s […]
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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Apple v. Epic Case
date: 2024-01-18, from: Michael Tsai
Hartley Charlton (Hacker News): The United States Supreme Court today declined to hear separate requests from both Apple and Epic Games in their long-standing lawsuit against each other with regards to App Store rules.[…]As a result of the Supreme Court’s decision today, the previous rulings stand and Apple is able to continue to disallow third-party […]
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A map of EV charging costs in the US. “Now that the…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Future of America’s Cyber Safety Review Board hangs in balance amid calls for rethink
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict
As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government’s cyber defense armory, experts are calling for substantial changes in the way it’s organized.…
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
The Quiet Death of Ello's Big Dreams.
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Glenn Supports World Radiocommunication Conference
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
Reliable space communication and navigation systems are critical to every NASA mission. From the Voyager mission exploring beyond our solar system to astronauts aboard the International Space Station, space communications provide the crucial connection to our home planet. Without proper management of radio spectrum allocation and use, NASA’s ability to communicate with spacecraft and operate […]
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Employees Spread Joy With Toys for Tots Drive
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s Glenn Research Center continued a decades-long tradition of participating in the Marine Corps Reserve Toys for Tots program during the 2023 holiday season. On Dec. 11, members of the Marine Corps Reserve (3rd Battalion, 25th Marine unit) picked up 10 boxes of toys donated by employees from NASA Glenn’s Lewis Field in Cleveland and Neil […]
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Two NASA Glenn Senior Leaders Retire
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
Two members of NASA Glenn Research Center’s senior leadership retired on Dec. 30, 2023. Timothy P. McCartney, director of Aeronautics, retired with 38 1/2 years of NASA service. He was responsible for the project management, workforce planning, budget oversight, and executive leadership of NASA Glenn’s aeronautics research and development activities in support of the agency’s […]
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VinFast (VFS) EV deliveries pick up in Q4 but not enough to beat its 2023 target
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Vietnamese EV maker VinFast (VFS) saw deliveries pick up in the fourth quarter, but not enough to top its goal of handing over 40,000 to 50,000 vehicles in 2023.
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Toyota’s greenwashing AI ‘eco-copilot’ is fake, but the prank makes a real point
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
“Toyota” announced a new eco-conscious AI copilot at the DC Auto Show yesterday, which promises to reduce environmental impact by up to 10% – but it turns out the whole thing was a prank, and the prank makes a real point about Toyota’s tendency towards greenwashing.
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The Pentagon, one of the world’s largest buildings, is getting rooftop solar
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The US Department of Defense will install rooftop solar on the Pentagon as part of the Biden administration’s plan to “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”
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Tesla Cybertruck goes on Chinese tour, but will it be available?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla announced that it is bringing the Cybertruck on a tour in China, but it likely won’t be available there. At least not anytime soon, according to CEO Elon Musk.
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How The Guardian raised a record amount of reader revenue in the U.S.
date: 2024-01-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
Earlier this month, The Guardian U.S. announced that its end-of-year drive brought in $2.2 million, a record amount of reader revenue since its first appeal six years ago. (The figure was 25% more than the previous record.) From the post written by membership editor Aleks Chan: Looking at The Guardian overall, roughly one-third of revenue…
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“Water” Would Also Be Neat
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: One Foot Tsunami
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Tesla Cut Model Y Prices In Europe As Demand Weakened
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
As it turns out, the Model Y is now priced similarly to the Model 3 (Highland).
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Peregrine bows out with a bang as SLIM aims for Moon’s rocky runway
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown
As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth’s atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up for a soft landing on the Moon’s surface.…
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Samsung’s Galaxy AI features are only free for the first 2 years, and other things that went unmentioned during the Galaxy S24 launch event
date: 2024-01-18, from: Liliputing
The new Samsung Galaxy S24 line of smartphones have some pretty nice hardware including high-quality displays, speedy processors, and some pretty nice cameras. But if you watched Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked launch event this week, you probably noticed that Samsung spent most of its time highlighting the new Galaxy AI features launching first on those phones. What Samsung didn’t mention during […]
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Did the battle against “misinformation” go too far?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Nieman Journalism Lab
In March 2021, a Twitter user asked Martin Kulldorff if everyone needed to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Kulldorff, then a professor at Harvard Medical School, had spent 20 years researching infectious diseases and contributing to the development of the country’s vaccine safety surveillance system. “No,” he responded. The vaccines were important for some high-risk people,…
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US Launches Effort to Combat Foreign Information Manipulation
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
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The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams. Andy Baio writes about the…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Tech billionaires ask Californians to give new utopian city their blessing
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals …
Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more – because a gaggle of tech billionaires are going on a charm offensive to get a city built from scratch.…
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The NUC Extreme modular gaming PC reaches the end of the line
date: 2024-01-18, from: Liliputing
Asus may have taken over sales, marketing, and distribution of NUC computers after Intel exited the business last year. But that doesn’t mean that every member of the Intel NUC lineup has a future. This month Asus unveiled new NUC Pro, Pro+ and ROG NUC systems that pick up where the Intel NUC Pro and […]
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Electric Car Owners Confront a Harsh Foe: Cold Weather. The struggle is…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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Indieweb Carnival
date: 2024-01-18, from: Manu - I write blog
I got asked to host an edition of the IndieWeb carnival and who am I to say no to such a request? As you know, I love blogging and I think more people should blog and I’m more than happy to take part in these initiatives.
I already have a topic in mind but I’m going to wait until February 1st to reveal it here on the site. That said, if you already like the idea and want to participate, send me an email and I’ll let you know the topic so you can start working on your post in advance.
Oh and by the way, I’m hosting the carnival for the month of February but they’re looking for new hosts for the upcoming months so, people out there with blogs, you know what to do!
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Ransomware attacks hospitalizing security pros, as one admits suicidal feelings
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews
Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.…
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Jeep teases its first EV, the Wagoneer S, ahead of its debut – Here’s what we know so far
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The first all-electric Jeep will finally hit the US later this year. Jeep’s first EV, the Wagoneer S, will be available this fall. Here’s what we know so far.
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Tesla Superchargers are overwhelmed by new Uber drivers in NYC
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Some Tesla Superchargers are getting overwhelmed by new Uber drivers in New York City after a new program enabled a lot of Tesla ridesharing vehicles in the city.
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U.S. Pledges Another $150 Million To Fix Broken EV Chargers
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Plus, automakers want full first-year tax deductions back for R&D and Europe will soon require “battery passports” for EVs.
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Stripe commuters swap traffic jams for hydrofoil glam
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads
San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building electric hydrofoil boats.…
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GM EV Drivers Can Now Use Plug And Charge On EV Connect’s Network
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
No more swiping cards or tags at chargers.
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The 1944 CIA guide to sabotaging meetings sounds an awful lot like…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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AYANEO AM02 console-like mini PC with Ryzen 7 7840HS hits Indiegogo for $441 and up
date: 2024-01-18, from: Liliputing
The AYANEO AM02 is a compact computer designed to look like a classic game console (with a design language that’s heavily inspired by early Nintendo systems). But it’s very much a PC, with an AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS processor, Radeon 780M integrated graphics, and support for user-replaceable DDR5-5600 memory and an M.2 2280 slot for […]
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-18, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
This is a very good point, the major issue is the gatekeeping
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Microsoft 365’s add-on avalanche is putting the squeeze on customers
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra
Microsoft’s demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.…
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A Lesson Learned
date: 2024-01-18, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
You know how backups work great until you really need them? Below the fold, a lesson learned from my recent example of this phenomenon.A long time ago I was feeling rich, so I spent nearly $2000 on one of the first-generation Mac Airs. This led to me travelling with a laptop I could afford to lose instead. I loved the Air for all sorts of reasons but one of its important tasks was to back up my iPhone every day. And, of course, being something of an expert on preserving digital information, then back up the Air to an external USB hard disk using Time Machine. Lots Of Copies Keep Stuff Safe.
In the end I had to upgrade to a more recent M1 Air, not because the old one stopped working, but simply because the USB ports stoppped working, so it could no longer backup the iPhone or update the Time Machine disk. The new Air was impressively fast and had two USB-C ports, which it used both for data and for power. I continued to back up the iPhone and the Air daily
Fast forward to last month. The new Air’s USB-C ports had been a bit flaky for a while, but now one failed. It wouldn’t transfer data or power. A few days later the other port stopped transferring power, leaving me with no way to charge it. It was about 85% charged, so I powered it off.
I thought “I’m OK, I have yesterday’s Time Machine so I can get a new M2 Air and initialize it from the disk”. So I ordered a new one and, as soon as it was delivered, plugged in the Time Machine disk and fired up the Migration Assistant. It asked me what disk it should use. I wasn’t able to select the Time Machine disk because, to my surprise, the Air couldn’t see it. Plugging the disk into my Linux desktop revealed that in the couple of weeks since the day before the M1 Air failed, the Time Machine disk had died.
At this point I remembered that when I powered it off, the M1 Air still had a USB-C port that transferred data, even if it didn’t work for power. There were two ways to initialize the M2 Air using the remaining battery, either create a new Time Machine disk using the one USB-C port that transferred data, or via Bluetooth. I found a USB-C external SSD, which I figured would use less power, powered up the M1 Air, plugged in the drive, started a Time Machine backup, and crossed my fingers.
After a long, agonizing wait the backup finished with still quite a lot of battery left, so I powered off the M1 Air and used the disk to initialize the M2 Air. Apple’s Migration Assistant worked flawlessly, and I relaxed. The best thing about the M2 Air is that Apple went back to powering it with MagSafe! Their fragile USB hardware could no longer prevent the machine charging.
So the lesson was that I needed to have two Time Machine disks and use them alternately, so even if the most recent one failed I would have a backup only one day older.
The next problem came when I plugged my iPhone into the M2 Air to back it up. I got “unknown error 7014”. Google had no trace of “unknown error 7014” so, baffled, I made an appointment with the “Genius” at Apple’s Palo Alto store. In the faint hope that the M1 Air could be fixed, I took both Airs and the iPhone with me.
The Genius was very good. He rapidly figured out that:
- “unknown error 7014” was caused by the fact that, despite its having been delivered a few days earlier, the M2 Air’s operating system was out-of-date. A software update overnight fixed the problem.
- He confirmed that the M1 Air’s USB-C ports had failed and, to my surprise, explained that the ports were on a daughter-board that could be replaced. It was a $15 part and $90 in labor, and completed overnight.
So now I can travel with a Mac Air.
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Monitoring Microorganisms
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
Science in Space January 2024 Crew members on the International Space Station have a lot of company – millions of bacteria and other microbes. The human body contains 10 times more microbes than human cells, and bacteria and fungi grow in and on just about everything around us on Earth. Most bacteria are harmless, and […]
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“Black holes can be difficult to study, so researchers have made a…
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
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DNA From the Ocean’s ‘Twilight Zone’ Could Lead to New Lifesaving Drugs, Scientists Say
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Researchers catalogued the genes of more than 300 million groups of marine bacteria, viruses and fungi in hopes that the database could lead to breakthroughs in medicine, energy and agriculture
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How Uber, Lyft, Electrify America, EVgo, Tesla And Lack Of Knowledge Led To Chicago’s EV Disaster
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Extremely cold weather is the cause, but a lot of the issues could have been avoided or rectified ahead of time.
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US Justice Department Cites ‘Critical Failures’ in Uvalde School Shooting Response
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
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Corporate dealmaking is “in” for 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Globally, the total value of mergers and acquisitions last year was the lowest since in a decade, held back by interest rates, a volatile stock market and a strict regulatory environment. The corporate dealmaking could rebound this year, though. We’ll also paint a picture of our economic moment with a slew of recent data. Plus, could passwords be a thing of the past?
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Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns
date: 2024-01-18, from: Quanta Magazine
John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length.The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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‘American Nightmare:’ What you need to know about Netflix’s documentary about a Bay Area kidnapping
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her now husband Aaron Quinn reported to police that they had been the victims of a home invasion. Huskins was kidnapped. But their nightmare continued as authorities suggested their story was a hoax.
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Two more Citrix NetScaler bugs exploited in the wild
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Just when you thought you had recovered from Bleed
Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler’s ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them, according to the vendor.…
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Responding to North Korean 2024 War Threats
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: RAND blog
Unless Kim Jong-un concludes that South Korea and the United States are finally serious about reining in his provocations, threats, and nuclear weapon development, Kim might eventually establish a form of dominance on the Korean Peninsula or push the Korean Peninsula into a nuclear war that no one wants.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
My recipe for getting rid of a troll. Say something rude in response to their trolling and then block them.
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NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Tests with 1st Hot Fire of 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: NASA breaking news
NASA continued a critical test series for future flights of NASA’s SLS (Space Launch System) rocket in support of the Artemis campaign on Jan. 17 with a full-duration hot fire of the RS-25 engine on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. Data collected from the test […]
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
BTW,
did you notice how
BMW’s ads say
their product is much better than Tesla’s, without mentioning Tesla,
they just say they’re better, because they are just better, because
they’re BMW, and they know you know that. It’s much more powerful esp
with people who like Telsas (of which I am one). I also see the Tesla as
a very capable replacement for my 2007 BMW 535i, which I donated to
charity in 2012, which I loved for the same reasons I love the Tesla.
Putting down the competition isn’t what marketing is about, you have to
think about the people whose minds you’re trying to change, and know
you’re in it for the long haul. An example of their ad copy: “With
electric driving comes exciting possibilities. That’s why BMW approaches
this new era in mobility just like any other; where engineering,
innovation and aesthetics come together seamlessly to inspire joy in
every journey.” These people understand their product and how their fans
see them.
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Uvalde school massacre could have been stopped sooner, DOJ report finds
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Critical failures in leadership among specific law enforcement officers who rushed to the mass shooting at Robb Elementary in Uvalde are blamed by the Justice Department in a new 575-page report.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/01/18/uvalde-school-massacre-could-have-been-stopped-sooner-doj-report-finds/ Save to Pocket
New electric Dodge Charger spotted testing near MI HQ with slick design [Video]
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The new all-electric Dodge Charger will begin rolling out later this year. Ahead of its official launch, we are getting another glimpse of the slick EV muscle car. The electric Dodge Charger was spotted testing near Chrysler’s MI headquarters, revealing what appears to be a near production-ready model.
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Why this California woman has ditched the US for Portugal
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Safety, quality of life, affordable medical care, and a relatively simple path to permanent residency and citizenship, were high on Katie Meyer’s list of priorities for her future country of residence, and Lisbon ticked all of her boxes.
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High school basketball: What to know about Sabrina Ionescu, Crush in the Valley showcases
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Top girls teams Archbishop Mitty, Carondelet, Oakland Tech, Pinewood to play in Sabrina Ionescu Showcase. Salesian, Riordan and other elite boys programs join Prolific Prep at Crush in the Valley.
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WINE 9.0 improves ability to run 32-bit Windows apps on 64-bit-only xNix
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Plus fresh release brings native Wayland support on Linux
WINE 9.0 brings the benefits of better WoW64 support to 64-bit x86 – and Arm – kit, plus native Wayland support on Linux.…
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Continuing Family Policing Scholarship from the Bed: A Conversation with Victoria Copeland
date: 2024-01-18, from: Care
<p>Victoria has lost her voice, so we conducted this interview about disability scholarship, dismantling family policing and predictive risk modeling over text message.</p>https://logicmag.io/policy/continuing-family-policing-scholarship-from-the-bed Save to Pocket
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
It’s worth remembering that before the Mac there was the Lisa.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
2011: Steve Jobs as Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Package mailed to rural Northern California elections office tested positive for fentanyl, authorities say
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
The package appeared to come from “a verified agency” and didn’t look suspicious at first, but a staff member discovered a powdery substance inside that prompted them to call law enforcement.
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
My initial review of the iPhone in June 2007.
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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I’ve
been wrong about many of Apple’s products, but not the ones that made
the company – the Apple II and Mac, though I was somewhat skeptical of
the iPhone because I couldn’t write software for it, but I did
get
one on the day they came out in
June 2007, and never
used my Blackberry again. Anyway, the
goggles
they just
started
demoing to selected reporters and analysts looks like a product they
released because they invested billions in it, had no idea what it’s
used for, and were overlooking the ability of the human body to actually
use such a thing, and couldn’t consider writing it off because so
much had been made of this, esp since the current management has been
coasting on innovation done by
Steve Jobs, and
hadn’t released anything that wasn’t completely predictable since his
passing
in 2011. Their lack of confidence in their own product overwhelms
any positive reviews coming out from the privileged press, who we know
in advance to discount, these are the press people Apple can count on to
not say a negative word, to preserve their access at least, if not
because they are complete fans. It reeks of a loser product. I write
these things partially so I can be proven ridiculously wrong when I get
one myself in two weeks and can’t believe all the things I can do with
it.
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Tesla delays another pay adjustment as employees are unhappy with the last bump
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla told employees today that it will do another pay adjustment, a second in a few weeks, after employees expressed disappointment with the last one.
But the automaker has now delayed the second pay increase, which is happening amid the CEO, Elon Musk, asking for a historic compensation package.
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Young Riders and Ranchers Compete at US Stock Show
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
In the Western U.S. state of Colorado, the National Western Stock Show draws thousands of visitors, exhibitors and competitors, a mix of entertainment and education about livestock and agriculture. VOA’s Scott Stearns tells us what some young people are up to at the show. (Camera: Scott Stearns)
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7 incredible Bay Area things to do this weekend, Jan. 19-21
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Got your weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas, from the new ‘Wiz’ to great noodle houses to an explosion of comedy shows.
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Volvo Boss Is Confident EVs Will See ‘Tremendous Growth’
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Volvo Cars CEO Jim Rowan doesn’t seem to agree with some of the gloomy predictions floating around.
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Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
It won’t be anywhere near the 12,000 heads that rolled last year, though, says Pichai
Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai is warning Googlers to brace themselves for more jobs cuts in 2024 though they won’t be as deep as last year.…
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Larry Magid: Fears of Generative AI reminiscent of past moral panics
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
It’s important to advise the public about risks but not in ways that provoke counterproductive fears.
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Google News Is Boosting Garbage AI-Generated Articles
date: 2024-01-18, from: 404 Media Group
404 Media reviewed multiple examples of AI rip-offs making their way into Google News. Google said it doesn’t focus on how an article was produced—by an AI or human—opening the way for more AI-generated articles.
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Richmond just reported its lowest homicide rate in decades. Is it sustainable, or just a fluke?
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Richmond recorded eight homicides in 2023 – the fewest since officials started keeping track in 1971 and a seemingly remarkable transformation for a city once dubbed a “murder capital” of America.
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The French Army Is Testing E-Bikes And E-Motorcycles
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Lightweight, quick, and stealthy: three things that make an effective reconnaissance vehicle.
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Bull Mancuso’s day
date: 2024-01-18, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I got this idea from Philip Bump. 😄
“Draw a three-panel comic strip in the style of Mary Worth. Panel one should show Bull Mancuso, a waste management consultant in New Jersey, at a Starbuck’s in Newark, ordering a huge coffee drink. In panel two he’s teaching a class on organized crime in New Jersey at Staten Island Community College. In panel three he slips on a banana peel on the steps of the Capitol and falls down. There is no dialogue on any panel.”
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5 charts that explain the California Exodus
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
During the pandemic, the state lost $5.6 billion in taxable income to Texas.
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Pluralistic: Demon-haunted computers are back, baby (17 Jan 2024)
date: 2024-01-18, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog
Today’s links Demon-haunted computers are back, baby: Surely no one will ever find a way to abuse this security system that treats the computer’s owner as an attacker. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading Demon-haunted computers are back, baby (permalink) As a science fiction writer, I am professionally irritated by a lot of sf movies. Not only do those writers get paid a lot more than I do, they insist on including things like “self-destruct” buttons on the bridges of their starships. Look, I get it. When the evil empire is closing in on your flagship with its secret transdimensional technology, it’s important that you keep those secrets out of the emperor’s hand. An irrevocable self-destruct switch there on the bridge gets the job done! (It has to be irrevocable, otherwise the baddies’ll just swarm the bridge and toggle it off). But c’mon. If there’s a facility built into your spaceship that causes it to explode no matter what the people on the bridge do, that is also a pretty big security risk! What if the bad guy figures out how to hijack the measure that – by design – the people who depend on the spaceship as a matter of life and death can’t detect or override? I mean, sure, you can try to simplify that self-destruct system to make it easier to audit and assure yourself that it doesn’t have any bugs in it, but remember Schneier’s Law: anyone can design a security system that works so well that they themselves can’t think of a flaw in it. That doesn’t mean you’ve made a security system that works – only that you’ve made a security system that works on people stupider than you. I know it’s weird to be worried about realism in movies that pretend we will ever find a practical means to visit other star systems and shuttle back and forth between them (which we are very, very unlikely to do): https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead But this kind of foolishness galls me. It galls me even more when it happens in the real world of technology design, which is why I’ve spent the past quarter-century being very cross about Digital Rights Management in general, and trusted computing in particular. It all starts in 2002, when a team from Microsoft visited our offices at EFF to tell us about this new thing they’d dreamed up called “trusted computing”: https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/05/trusting-trust/#thompsons-devil The big idea was to stick a second computer inside your computer, a very secure little co-processor, that you couldn’t access directly, let alone reprogram or interfere with. As far as this “trusted platform module” was concerned, you were the enemy. The “trust” in trusted computing was about other people being able to trust your computer, even if they didn’t trust you. So that little TPM would do all kinds of cute tricks. It could observe and produce a cryptographically signed manifest of the entire boot-chain of your computer, which was meant to be an unforgeable certificate attesting to which kind of computer you were running and what software you were running on it. That meant that programs on other computers could decide whether to talk to your computer based on whether they agreed with your choices about which code to run. This process, called “remote attestation,” is generally billed as a way to identify and block computers that have been compromised by malware, or to identify gamers who are running cheats and refuse to play with them. But inevitably it turns into a way to refuse service to computers that have privacy blockers turned on, or are running stream-ripping software, or whose owners are blocking ads: https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/02/self-incrimination/#wei-bai-bai After all, a system that treats the device’s owner as an adversary is a natural ally for the owner’s other, human adversaries. The rubric for treating the owner as an adversary focuses on the way that users can be fooled by bad people with bad programs. If your computer gets taken over by malicious software, that malware might intercept queries from your antivirus program and send it false data that lulls it into thinking your computer is fine, even as your private data is being plundered and your system is being used to launch malware attacks on others. These separate, non-user-accessible, non-updateable secure systems serve a nubs of certainty, a remote fortress that observes and faithfully reports on the interior workings of your computer. This separate system can’t be user-modifiable or field-updateable, because then malicious software could impersonate the user and disable the security chip. It’s true that compromised computers are a real and terrifying problem. Your computer is privy to your most intimate secrets and an attacker who can turn it against you can harm you in untold ways. But the widespread redesign of out computers to treat us as their enemies gives rise to a range of completely predictable and – I would argue – even worse harms. Building computers that treat their owners as untrusted parties is a system that works well, but fails badly. First of all, there are the ways that trusted computing is designed to hurt you. The most reliable way to enshittify something is to supply it over a computer that runs programs you can’t alter, and that rats you out to third parties if you run counter-programs that disenshittify the service you’re using. That’s how we get inkjet printers that refuse to use perfectly good third-party ink and cars that refuse to accept perfectly good engine repairs if they are performed by third-party mechanics: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon It’s how we get cursed devices and appliances, from the juicer that won’t squeeze third-party juice to the insulin pump that won’t connect to a third-party continuous glucose monitor: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/01/unauthorized-bread-a-near-future-tale-of-refugees-and-sinister-iot-appliances/ But trusted computing doesn’t just create an opaque veil between your computer and the programs you use to inspect and control it. Trusted computing creates a no-go zone where programs can change their behavior based on whether they think they’re being observed. The most prominent example of this is Dieselgate, where auto manufacturers murdered hundreds of people by gimmicking their cars to emit illegal amount of NOX. Key to Dieselgate was a program that sought to determine whether it was being observed by regulators (it checked for the telltale signs of the standard test-suite) and changed its behavior to color within the lines. Software that is seeking to harm the owner of the device that’s running it must be able to detect when it is being run inside a simulation, a test-suite, a virtual machine, or any other hallucinatory virtual world. Just as Descartes couldn’t know whether anything was real until he assured himself that he could trust his senses, malware is always questing to discover whether it is running in the real universe, or in a simulation created by a wicked god: https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/28/descartes-was-an-optimist/#uh-oh That’s why mobile malware uses clever gambits like periodically checking for readings from your device’s accelerometer, on the theory that a virtual mobile phone running on a security researcher’s test bench won’t have the fidelity to generate plausible jiggles to match the real data that comes from a phone in your pocket: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/01/google-play-malware-used-phones-motion-sensors-to-conceal-itself/ Sometimes this backfires in absolutely delightful ways. When the Wannacry ransomware was holding the world hostage, the security researcher Marcus Hutchins noticed that its code made reference to a very weird website: iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com. Hutchins stood up a website at that address and every Wannacry-infection in the world went instantly dormant: https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/10/flintstone-delano-roosevelt/#the-matrix It turns out that Wannacry’s authors were using that ferkakte URL the same way that mobile malware authors were using accelerometer readings – to fulfill Descartes’ imperative to distinguish the Matrix from reality. The malware authors knew that security researchers often ran malicious code inside sandboxes that answered every network query with fake data in hopes of eliciting responses that could be analyzed for weaknesses. So the Wannacry worm would periodically poll this nonexistent website and, if it got an answer, it would assume that it was being monitored by a security researcher and it would retreat to an encrypted blob, ceasing to operate lest it give intelligence to the enemy. When Hutchins put a webserver up at iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com, every Wannacry instance in the world was instantly convinced that it was running on an enemy’s simulator and withdrew into sulky hibernation. The arms race to distinguish simulation from reality is critical and the stakes only get higher by the day. Malware abounds, even as our devices grow more intimately woven through our lives. We put our bodies into computers – cars, buildings – and computers inside our bodies. We absolutely want our computers to be able to faithfully convey what’s going on inside them. But we keep running as hard as we can in the opposite direction, leaning harder into secure computing models built on subsystems in our computers that treat us as the threat. Take UEFI, the ubiquitous security system that observes your computer’s boot process, halting it if it sees something it doesn’t approve of. On the one hand, this has made installing GNU/Linux and other alternative OSes vastly harder across a wide variety of devices. This means that when a vendor end-of-lifes a gadget, no one can make an alternative OS for it, so off the landfill it goes. It doesn’t help that UEFI – and other trusted computing modules – are covered by Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which makes it a felony to publish information that can bypass or weaken the system. The threat of a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine means that UEFI and other trusted computing systems are understudied, leaving them festering with longstanding bugs: https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/09/free-sample/#que-viva Here’s where it gets really bad. If an attacker can get inside UEFI, they can run malicious software that – by design – no program running on our computers can detect or block. That badware is running in “Ring -1” – a zone of privilege that overrides the operating system itself. Here’s the bad news: UEFI malware has already been detected in the wild: https://securelist.com/cosmicstrand-uefi-firmware-rootkit/106973/ And here’s the worst news: researchers have just identified another exploitable UEFI bug, dubbed Pixiefail: https://blog.quarkslab.com/pixiefail-nine-vulnerabilities-in-tianocores-edk-ii-ipv6-network-stack.html Writing in Ars Technica, Dan Goodin breaks down Pixiefail, describing how anyone on the same LAN as a vulnerable computer can infect its firmware: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/new-uefi-vulnerabilities-send-firmware-devs-across-an-entire-ecosystem-scrambling/ That vulnerability extends to computers in a data-center where the attacker has a cloud computing instance. PXE – the system that Pixiefail attacks – isn’t widely used in home or office environments, but it’s very common in data-centers. Again, once a computer is exploited with Pixiefail, software running on that computer can’t detect or delete the Pixiefail code. When the compromised computer is queried by the operating system, Pixiefail undetectably lies to the OS. “Hey, OS, does this drive have a file called ‘pixiefail?’” “Nope.” “Hey, OS, are you running a process called ‘pixiefail?’” “Nope.” This is a self-destruct switch that’s been compromised by the enemy, and which no one on the bridge can de-activate – by design. It’s not the first time this has happened, and it won’t be the last. There are models for helping your computer bust out of the Matrix. Back in 2016, Edward Snowden and bunnie Huang prototyped and published source code and schematics for an “introspection engine”: https://assets.pubpub.org/aacpjrja/AgainstTheLaw-CounteringLawfulAbusesofDigitalSurveillance.pdf This is a single-board computer that lives in an ultraslim shim that you slide between your iPhone’s mainboard and its case, leaving a ribbon cable poking out of the SIM slot. This connects to a case that has its own OLED display. The board has leads that physically contact each of the network interfaces on the phone, conveying any data they transit to the screen so that you can observe the data your phone is sending without having to trust your phone. (I liked this gadget so much that I included it as a major plot point in my 2020 novel Attack Surface, the third book in the Little Brother series): https://craphound.com/attacksurface/ We don’t have to cede control over our devices in order to secure them. Indeed, we can’t ever secure them unless we can control them. Self-destruct switches don’t belong on the bridge of your spaceship, and trusted computing modules don’t belong in your devices. (Image: Mike, CC BY-SA 2.0, modified) Hey look at this (permalink) Extracted 1688 Map Images https://zarkonnen.itch.io/extracted-1688-map-images Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here’s a Way Out https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-wont-let-you-leave-heres-a-way-out/ A New Way to Fight Bad Bosses | NYT Opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0tvsz3-pg This day in history (permalink) #15yrsago danah boyd’s PhD thesis: Teen sociality online http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf #10yrsago Appeals court rules bloggers have same speech protections as journalists https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/17/us-usa-blogger-ruling-idUSBREA0G1HI20140117/ #5yrsago AOC’s debut speech as Congresswoman is the most popular Congressional video in C-SPAN history https://twitter.com/HowardMortman/status/1085950970092310528 #5yrsago Regular says she was banned from eating at the bar at Manhattan’s scammy Nello restaurant because she might be a sex-worker https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/will-manhattan-restaurant-nello-let-women-sit-alone-at-bar.html #1yrago Why the Fed wants to crush workers https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/19/creditors-vs-workers/#finance-colored-glasses 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: The Bezzle, read by Wil Wheaton (excerpt) https://craphound.com/news/2024/01/14/the-bezzle-read-by-wil-wheaton-excerpt/ Upcoming appearances: Enshittification: The Rise and Fall of Big Tech (Crash Course Economics) https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YsKONp5zRgeF6SVuIOb6hQ#/registration Books & Books (Coral Gables, Florida), Jan 22 https://www.booksandbooks.com/event/in-person-an-evening-with-cory-doctorow/ Marshall McLuhan Lecture 2024 (Berlin), Jan 29 https://transmediale.de/en/2024/event/mcluhan-2024 The Lost Cause at Otherland (Berlin), Jan 30 https://www.otherland-berlin.de/de/event-details/autor-innenabend-mit-cory-doctorow.html Recent appearances: The Lost Cause (The Writer’s Voice) https://www.writersvoice.net/2024/01/cory-doctorow-the-lost-cause/ What the Future will Bring (Homeless Romantic) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_Vq8qW2A8I Talking “The Lost Cause” with Warren Mosler (MMT Podcast) https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-182-cory-95211955 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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Public’s help sought in identifying San Mateo sexual assault suspect
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
The incident happened Dec. 26 as the victim walked across Highway 101 on the 3rd Avenue overpass.
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Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The threat hunters believe COLDRIVER has used SPICA since at least November 2022
Russian cyberspies linked to the Kremlin’s Federal Security Service (FSB) are moving beyond their usual credential phishing antics and have developed a custom backdoor that they started delivering via email as far back as November 2022, according to Google’s Threat Analysis Group.…
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Google announces Central Pacific Connect Initiative
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
Google has announced plans for a Central Pacific Connect Initiative, which will connect Guam to Fiji and Fench Polynesia through the delivery of two new intra-Pacific cables, called Bulikula and Halaihai. The project is being done in collaboration with Amalgamated…
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GPA looking to relocate 20 Yigo diesel units to Tenjo Vista area
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
In preparation for the arrival of temporary power, the Guam Power Authority is looking to relocate 20 of its Yigo diesel units to a lot adjacent to the Tenjo Vista Power Plant in Piti.
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Rapist sentenced to 30 years is released pending an appeal
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
A man convicted of rape and sentenced to 30 years in prison was released from confinement pending his appeal to the Supreme Court of Guam.
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Gun used in tourist shooting in Tumon reported stolen in 1994
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
The gun used in the fatal shooting of a Korean tourist was reported stolen in 1994.
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Man allegedly stole $220 in water
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
A man accused of breaking a window in June 2023 also was accused of stealing water from a neighbor.
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Interpreter shortage delays hearing in murder case
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
A shortage of interpreters has delayed an arraignment hearing for a man accused in a fatal stabbing in Mangilao last month.
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Suspect, 44, accused of sexually assaulting girl, 15, since July 2023
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
A 44-year-old man was accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl since July 2023.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/suspect-44-accused-of-sexually-assaulting-girl-15-since-july-2023/article_30e311f8-b5b9-11ee-99c8-0f1f5dcf4c0d.html Save to Pocket
GDOL: 47% noncompliant with fair chances hiring law
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
Nearly half of all employers inspected over the last five years were found to be noncompliant with a local law intended to help individuals with criminal pasts by barring employers from asking about criminal histories or pending cases until a…
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DOC officer allegedly assaulted by an inmate at Mangilao prison
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
An inmate was accused of assaulting a corrections officer on Wednesday morning.
https://www.postguam.com/news/local/doc-officer-allegedly-assaulted-by-an-inmate-at-mangilao-prison/article_01c5da1a-b5b7-11ee-b84f-b3abb6646967.html Save to Pocket
American Red Cross Concerned About US Blood Shortage
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
The American Red Cross has declared a critical blood shortage, with supplies running the lowest in 20 years. The number of donors in the country has declined by 40%, for reasons that include COVID, seasonal infections, and bad weather. Angelina Bagdasaryan visited a blood donation station in Los Angeles and talked with some of the donors. Anna Rice narrates her story.
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I love logos
date: 2024-01-18, from: Paolo Valdemarin’s blog
Sometimes it happens when I find myself walking in a new neighborhood, or maybe when I watch business parks outside a town while passing on a train: I’m fascinated by all these shops and industrial sheds with small companies logos on them. All these logos… Very rarely the graphic quality is any good, but I … Continue reading “I love logos”
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What a Trump Victory Could Mean for Climate Policy
date: 2024-01-18, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: Parts of Indonesia are under water due to heavy rainfall • Tree branches are heavy with ice in Oregon • A no-burn alert is in place for Southern California as an atmospheric “lid” locks in smog.
THE TOP FIVE
- Kerry warns U.S. election stakes for climate policy are ‘as high as
they can get’
As election season heats up and a certain bombastic former president looks to take back the White House in November, conversation has turned to what a second Trump presidency could mean for climate policy. Trump has promised to gut the Inflation Reduction Act and cut funding for climate adaptation in poorer countries, among other things. What would his return really mean for the climate movement on a national and global scale? Here’s a quick opinion roundup:
- The stakes couldn’t be higher: Trump won’t be able to stop the green energy transition that’s already underway, but he could slow it down, U.S. Climate Envoy John Kerry told Bloomberg TV. “The marketplace is going to support this transition and it’s irrevocable now — we’re going to get there. The only question is if we’re going to get there in time to not be ravaged by the worst consequences of the climate crisis.”
- Gutting the IRA would be very unpopular: Many clean-energy programs funded by President Biden’s signature climate bill are in red states, noted The Economist. If Trump nixes them, “he may face pushback from his own party,” not to mention business leaders. Some automakers, like GM and Nissan, are already warning against the move.
- Trump can’t stop the global momentum: Of course the U.S. president’s views on climate matter, but “the world’s in a slightly different place than it was five years ago,” World Bank President Ajay Banga told Politico. The bank helps finance climate adaptation in developing countries, and is pushing for more private sector investment in renewables. Banga suggested international momentum on these issues is “much bigger than just the U.S. and the EU.”
Side note: New research from the University of Colorado at Boulder concludes that concerns about climate change have “a significant and growing effect on voting that favors the Democrats” and “that climate change opinion probably cost Republicans the 2020 presidential election, all else being equal.”
- The South smashes electricity records
The Tennessee Valley Authority, America’s largest public power company, just set a new record for electricity usage thanks to the cold weather system hammering huge sections of the country, reports Heatmap’s Matthew Zeitlin. Consumers used around 34,500 megawatts of electricity yesterday morning, about 1,000 megawatts more than its previous all-time record of around 33,500 megawatts in August 2007. Like much of the region, Tennesseans largely heat their homes using electricity as opposed to fuel oil or natural gas. Cold mornings are particularly challenging for the authority because lots of people are trying to heat their chilly homes between waking up and going to work or school. “By contrast, summer afternoons and early evenings are tough for grids to manage because temperatures stay high even as the sun goes down and people return to their homes and cool them and start operating appliances,” Zeitlin explains. The cold snap is expected to last through the weekend.
- Study: Greenland is losing way more ice than experts thought
The Greenland ice sheet has lost 20% more ice than scientists previously thought due to global warming, according to new research published in the journal Nature. The researchers came to this conclusion by looking at the amount of glacial ice lost around the edges of the sheet, an area that earlier estimates overlooked. Experts worry the huge amounts of fresh water pouring into the north Atlantic could disrupt ocean currents and wreak havoc on global weather patterns.
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- Warmer temperatures could change butterfly wing patterns
Butterflies may lose their spotty wings thanks to climate change, scientists say. The new research focuses on female meadow brown butterflies, and finds that insects that developed in warmer temperatures had fewer spots than those that developed in cooler weather. “This is an unexpected consequence of climate change,” said Richard ffrench-Constant, a professor of molecular natural history at the University of Exeter in the U.K. “We tend to think about species moving north, rather than changing appearance.”
- Scientists urge swift climate action ahead of EU elections
The European Union needs to double down on plans to phase out fossil fuels and implement green policies if it wants to reach its 2050 net zero targets, a report from the European Scientific Advisory Board on Climate Change said. “The EU needs to sharply decrease the use of fossil fuels, and almost fully phase out the use of coal and fossil gas in public electricity and heat generation by 2040,” the advisers said. The report urges the EU to work quickly to put planned climate policies into law. The timing of the report is interesting because, as the Financial Times explained, the EU faces parliamentary elections this summer, “when rightwing parties that want to slow the pace of progress are expected to focus on rhetoric about the social costs of switching away from fossil fuels to combat climate change.”
THE KICKER
“As the EV transition continues, we are going to have to think about [EVs] more as products, as specific tools that can improve someone’s life by their presence.” –Heatmap’s Robinson Meyer on the secrets to selling electric cars
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You Can Now Lease The Rivian R1S And Get The $7,500 Tax Credit
date: 2024-01-18, from: Inside EVs News
Two months after the R1T pickup entered the leasing world, it’s time for the R1S SUV to do the same.
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80% of US Companies Plan to Track Office Attendance in 2024, Survey Finds
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
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US to spend nearly $150 million to fix broken charging ports
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The US Transportation Department is investing $148.8 million for
repairing or updating nearly 4,500 electric vehicle charging ports in
some 20 states.
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Has the semiconductor down cycle reached its nadir? TSMC thinks so
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chipmaker reports flat Q4 but expects to be on the up in 2024
Chipmaker TSMC had a mixed final calendar quarter of 2023, with profit falling less than expected and revenue growth “essentially flat,” in another sign that the global semiconductor downturn is over.…
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-18, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
This is what happens when you don’t get your skills endorsed on LinkedIn after posting a screenshot of La Terminal on visionOS:
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Millions of Californians Could Face Higher Internet Bills As Federal Low-Income Discount Ends
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The LAist
The federal Affordable Connectivity Program will stop accepting new applications by Feb. 7 unless Congress votes to extend funding.
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Browse the Web in “Private” Mode
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Markup blog
Obscure your identity by opening a special type of browser window
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This Museum Is Searching for Lost Artworks by Members of the Bloomsbury Group
date: 2024-01-18, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The Charleston museum is launching a new initiative to acquire 50 privately owned works by 2030
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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-01-18, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Brian Cantrill (@bcantrill): things I learned the hard way:
https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way
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Jim de Bree | The Economy’s Connection to the Presidency
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Part 1 of 3 Presidents always want to take credit for good economies while their opposition blames them when economic times are bad. Interestingly, we currently see President Joe Biden claiming credit for Bidenomics, setting forth arguments explaining why he believes the economy has improved during his presidency, while his opponents contend that Bidenomics sucks. […]
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Diane Zimmerman | America, Love It or Leave It
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Re: Santa Clarita City Council meeting, Jan. 9. Just one of the many things that will bring the title of this letter to mind these days: It was when we were asked to stand, put our hands over our hearts and say “The Pledge of Allegiance.” Four young girls stood out among those who refused […]
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Dr. Gene Dorio | Diminishing Older Adults’ Dignity
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Call it what you want: Nursing home, skilled nursing facility, rehab center, convalescent home, or post-acute care. They are all the same and a common destination should you survive a recent hospitalization. But they all have an existing reputation and can ultimately diminish the dignity of older adults. Never in my four decades of practice […]
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What’s behind the brunch boom?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Breakfast — and its more formal cousin, brunch — is “in” for 2024. Consumers like that they’re able to spend less money than they would on a dinner out while still feeling like they’re treating themselves. Meanwhile, restaurants love the profit margins. Also on this morning’s show: flipping through the pages of the Beige Book and analyzing the average workweek in China.
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Arthur Saginian | Tough Love from God
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
I really enjoyed the letter submitted by Pastor Joshua McGuffie on “Cynicism and Christians” (Nov. 2). This man is calling out all of the “false prophets,” like the ones who made me leave the Catholic Church so many years ago (and loath organized religion in general). As far as I’m concerned, if there is a […]
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Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
UK political and media storm following dramatization of Post Office Horizon scandal
Fujitsu has seen $1 billion wiped off its market value after a week in the political and media spotlight for its role in the UK’s Post Office Horizon scandal, which prompted the European chief exec to say the company was morally responsible for providing compensation.…
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A rare corruption scandal hits Singapore
date: 2024-01-18, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: Singapore’s transport minister has resigned after facing multiple charges of corruption; it’s alleged he took kickbacks worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, something he denies. Also, passwords could soon be a thing of the past as companies like Google introduce “passkeys” as a default login for online users. But with the rise of deepfake technology, is any method of verifying our identities completely secure?
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Integrating computational thinking into primary teaching
date: 2024-01-18, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
“Computational thinking is really about thinking, and sometimes about computing.” – Aman Yadav, Michigan State University Computational thinking is a vital skill if you want to use a computer to solve problems that matter to you. That’s why we consider computational thinking (CT) carefully when creating learning resources here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. However,…
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Canadian Citizen Gets Phone Back from Police
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-16, from: Bruce Schneier blog
After 175 million failed password guesses, a judge rules that the Canadian police must return a suspect’s phone.
[Judge] Carter said the investigation can continue without the phones, and he noted that Ottawa police have made a formal request to obtain more data from Google.
“This strikes me as a potentially more fruitful avenue of investigation than using brute force to enter the phones,” he said.
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Evangelicals for Trump? It’s Not About Religion
date: 2024-01-18, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Right after his victory in Iowa, where he received 53% of the evangelical and born-again Christian vote, Donald Trump traveled to New York to plead his case — literally. He was in federal court today, where he’ll soon find out how much he’ll have to pay for defaming a woman he’s also been found liable for sexually abusing. You may want to think about that for a moment. And let us remember it’s only January. There are more trials to come starring the leading GOP presidential candidate.
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Internet Archive an ‘Information Lifeline’ for Librarian Professionally and Personally
date: 2024-01-18, from: Internet Archive Blog
When Zeau Modig began as the graduate school librarian at the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) nearly a decade ago, many of the students lived nearby. They came to […]
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The First Guide to Federal Records
date: 2024-01-18, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
The United States has been accumulating records since the first meeting of the Continental Congress in 1774. As the government grew, the paperwork it was creating grew too—exponentially. But until 1934 there was no national archives to consolidate the papers, so each government department, bureau, or office retained custody of its own records. Some official … Continue reading The First Guide to Federal Records
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Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ad slinger bends to the demands of the DMA
Updated Google is making some changes to how its products, including search, will work in Europe.…
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Election Letters Deadline Feb. 6
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Editor’s note: In the interest of fairness to all candidates, the final letters to the editor related to the March 5 election will be published Feb. 20, two weeks before election day. The deadline to submit an election-related letter to the editor is 5 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 6. Any election letter over 600 words will […]
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TEMO’s easy-to-install electric outboard motors make DIY e-boats simple
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
The proliferation of e-bikes started with easy-to-install conversion kits that allowed riders to take their existing bicycle and convert it into an electric bike. Now, electric boats are charting a similar path. TEMO’s easy-installation electric outboard motors make it painless for boaters to convert their vessels into electric boats.
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3D-printed SD card holder helps Raspberry Pi engineers keep track of their stuff
date: 2024-01-18, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Our Maker in Residence made bespoke Raspberry Pi-branded SD card holders to help our engineers keep track of their stuff.
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At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
10 PRINT “Retro Awesome”:20 GOTO 10
Retro Tech Week If one of the tenets of retro computing is doing awesome things with not a lot of resources, then there are few better examples of the breed than the BBC Micro Bot - a Mastodon account that recently posted an image that looked for all the world like a raytraced scene.…
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GDOL to begin closing out DUA claims next month
date: 2024-01-18, from: Guam Daily Post
The Guam Department of Labor will begin closing out Disaster Unemployment Assistance claims next month as it works to end the program.
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Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
8-year-old op responsible for DDoS attacks and commandeering broadcasts to push war material
Updated Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.…
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says he won’t sign a proposed ban on tackle football for kids under 12
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California will not ban tackle football for children under 12 after Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom publicly promised he would not sign the bill if it were to reach his desk, blocking a proposal that had become a proxy for parental rights in a presidential election year. </p>
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Year-end bonuses shrink 21% in sign of turbulent US economy
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>U.S. workers are getting smaller bonuses, a sign that belt-tightening employers aren’t as concerned about losing talent as in recent years.</p>
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QBs Dylan Raiola and Micah Alejado back on home turf for Polynesian Bowl
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Dylan Raiola and Micah Alejado share more than just being teammates in this week’s Polynesian Bowl.</p>
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Browns coach Stefanski shakes up offensive staff, coordinator Alex Van Pelt, 2 other assistants gone
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CLEVELAND — For the second straight year, Browns coach Kevin Stefanski has made a major offseason change to his staff. </p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/18/sports/browns-coach-stefanski-shakes-up-offensive-staff-coordinator-alex-van-pelt-2-other-assistants-gone/ Save to Pocket
BIIF Hoops: Hilo beats HPA, CLA and St. Jo still winless
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p><strong>HILO 68 - HPA 45</strong></p>
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Mitsubishi Electric Championship surpasses $2 million in charitable giving
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>KA’UPULEHU-KONA, Hawaii – The Mitsubishi Electric Championship at Hualalai held its charitable contribution check presentation on Tuesday afternoon, celebrating the tournament’s contributions for 2023. Since the Mitsubishi Electric Championship moved to Hualalai Golf Course in 1997, the tournament has donated $2.09 million to local community organizations.</p>
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BIIF soccer: Kealakehe edges Kea‘au, HPA sweeps Konawaena
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The BIIF soccer playoffs are rapidly approaching, as the girls Div.-I and Div.-II semifinals are slated for Monday (Jan. 22).</p>
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Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojević, 46, dies in Salt Lake City after heart attack
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Golden State Warriors assistant coach Dejan Milojevic, a mentor to two-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic and a former star player in his native Serbia, died Wednesday in Utah after suffering a heart attack, the team announced. Milojevic, part of the staff that helped the Warriors win the 2022 NBA championship, was 46. </p>
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PHOTOS: Softball tournament welcomes teams from mainland
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Twenty-eight teams, including multiple from the mainland, voyaged to Kona this week to partake in the Mayor’s Cup Senior Softball Tournament. Tournament play continued Wednesday, with women 60 and 70-AAA championships being held at Old Airport Field. The men’s field will have championship play at 2:30 p.m. Friday in the same location.</p>
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Extreme cold still happens in a warming world – in fact climate instability may be disrupting the polar vortex
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Over the past few days, extremely cold Arctic air and severe winter weather have swept southward into much of the U.S., breaking daily low temperature records from Montana to Texas. Tens of millions of people have been affected by dangerously cold temperatures, and heavy lake-effect snow and snow squalls have had severe effects across the Great Lakes and Northeast regions.</p>
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Overdraft fees could drop to as low as $3 under new Biden proposal
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK (AP) — The cost to overdraw a bank account could drop to as little as $3 under a proposal announced by the White House, the latest effort by the Biden administration to combat fees it says pose an unnecessary burden on American consumers, particularly those living paycheck to paycheck.</p>
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Cafe 100 site no longer for sale
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Hilo’s historic “Home of the Loco Moco” will continue dishing up its signature local delicacy — as well as the rest of its plate-lunch-style menu.</p>
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10 years in prison for Hilo man who shot his wife
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Two charges were dropped last week against a Hilo man convicted last year of shooting his wife almost four years ago in their Kaiwiki neighborhood home.</p>
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Harsh Israeli rhetoric against Palestinians becomes central to South Africa’s genocide case
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>TEL AVIV, Israel — Fighting “human animals.” Making Gaza a “slaughterhouse.” “Erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth.”</p>
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UH: Hawaii economy benefited from NELHA to tune of $90M
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Businesses at the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority and the Hawaii Ocean Science and Technology Park at Keahole Point contributed over $90 million to Hawaii’s economy in 2022, according to a University of Hawaii Economic Research Organization analysis.</p>
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Cancer deaths are falling, but there may be an asterisk
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Cancer deaths in the United States are falling, with 4 million deaths prevented since 1991, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual report.</p>
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Billionaire backers of new California city reveal map and details of proposed development
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>RIO VISTA, Calif. — The company backed by Silicon Valley billionaires that for years stealthily snapped up more than $800 million worth of rural land for a new walkable, affordable and green city between San Francisco and Sacramento now needs voters to embrace the idea.</p>
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Deep-sea coral reef stretches 600 miles from Miami to SC, scientists find
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The world’s largest deep-sea coral reef has been discovered off the East Coast: a massive 6.4 million acre seascape that stretches from Miami to Charleston, South Carolina, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Ocean Exploration.</p>
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Telles claims he was framed by local real estate firm in Las vegas Review-Journal reporter’s murder
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>LAS VEGAS — The former public official accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German claimed in court Tuesday that a local real estate firm framed him in German’s slaying.</p>
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The Pentagon will install rooftop solar panels as Biden pushes clean energy in federal buildings
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>WASHINGTON — The Defense Department will install solar panels on the Pentagon, part of the Biden administration’s plan to promote clean energy and “reestablish the federal government as a sustainability leader.”</p>
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Hawaii lawmakers open new legislative session with eyes on wildfire prevention and housing
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers on Wednesday opened a new session of the state Legislature vowing to address glaring problems laid bare by the deadly wildfire that destroyed the historic town of Lahaina in August: the threat posed by wildfires and the lack of affordable housing.</p>
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Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>NEW YORK — Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial Wednesday after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.</p>
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Biden meets congressional leaders in fresh push for Ukraine aid and border security
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>President Joe Biden was set to meet Wednesday with the top four congressional leaders from both parties as he pushes for an elusive deal to unlock billions in aid for embattled Ukraine and secure the southern border.</p>
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Spirit AeroSystems, Boeing’s supplier for 737 Max, steps up inspections
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Spirit AeroSystems — Boeing’s supplier that built the Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 that had a panel blow out mid-flight earlier this month — is stepping up its inspections, according to a note Spirit CEO Pat Shanahan sent to employees Tuesday.</p>
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Maine judge delays decision on removing Trump from ballot until Supreme Court rules in Colorado case
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>PORTLAND, Maine — A Maine judge on Wednesday put on hold a decision on former President Donald Trump’s ballot status to allow time for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on a similar case in Colorado.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/18/nation-world-news/maine-judge-delays-decision-on-removing-trump-from-ballot-until-supreme-court-rules-in-colorado-case/ Save to Pocket
Obituaries for January 18
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Gale Fumiko Brumaghim, 68, died Aug. 29 at Kona Community Hospital. Born in Kealakekua, she was a grocery store cashier and stock clerk for a local grocery store and worked a coffee farm alongside her husband. Private services held on January 10. Survived by husband, Wayne Brumaghim of Kealakekua; son, Wayne Brumaghim Jr. of Kailua-Kona; daughter, Krystal Brumaghim of Kealakekua; sisters, Janell Okumura and Kathleen Yamagata, both of Kealakekua. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
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Your Views for January 18
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>We cannot afford
more of Joe Biden</p>
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Pakistan recalls its ambassador to Iran over airstrikes by Tehran that killed 2 people
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>ISLAMABAD — Pakistan recalled its ambassador to Tehran on Wednesday, a day after Iran conducted airstrikes inside Pakistan that it claimed targeted bases for a militant Sunni separatist group.</p>
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/01/18/nation-world-news/pakistan-recalls-its-ambassador-to-iran-over-airstrikes-by-tehran-that-killed-2-people/ Save to Pocket
SpaceX delays launch of Axiom Space crew until at least Thursday
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Axiom Space and SpaceX are set to kick off a busy year for human spaceflight, but SpaceX announced it was delaying its Space Coast launch attempt until at least Thursday.</p>
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US, South Korea speed up troop-funding talks with Trump in mind
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>The U.S. and South Korea have reached a deal to discuss funding for American troops this year, local media reported, a step that could ease friction between the allies after former President Donald Trump once demanded a five-fold increase.</p>
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Man dead following assault in downtown Hilo
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police are investigating an assault and subsequent death of a 34-year-old man in downtown Hilo on Tuesday evening.</p>
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Police: Homeless woman gives birth on sidewalk in downtown Hilo
date: 2024-01-18, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold
<p>Police are investigating an incident involving a 41-year-old homeless Hilo woman who gave birth Tuesday evening on a sidewalk in downtown Hilo.</p>
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Davos duplicity
date: 2024-01-18, from: Robert Reich on Substack
They say they want to build public trust and avoid political upheaval, but they’re bankrolling election deniers
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Bill Miranda | Sculpting Timeless Stories
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
In Santa Clarita, art is not just something to admire from a distance, but an immersive experience that captivates residents and visitors in several ways. From stunning public art pieces to live performances and thought-provoking galleries, the array of opportunities invites us to experience the creative process up close. By exploring the city’s beautiful art […]
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40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The Reg talks to co-creator Ian Bell and coder Mark Moxon about what’s under the cobra’s hood
Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British national news. The purported reason? A news editor apparently walked in after lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…
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Open Access: free publishing now possible in even more journals
date: 2024-01-18, from: ETH Zurich Research Archives
From 2024, the ETH Library will cover the costs of publications in
more journals, including Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.
Read
more
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Student Health warns of high respiratory illness rates
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Students are advised to get the influenza vaccine if they have not already.
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Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn’t invest, Intel CEO claims
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Gelsinger reckons pandemic-era supply chain snarls helped demonstrate the sector’s importance
The COVID-19 pandemic was a decisive factor in Intel’s decision to re-emphasize its own manufacturing prowess, after decades in which US and European nations failed to recognize the importance of the semiconductor industry and allowed Taiwan and Korea to become global leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab in Davos on Wednesday.…
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Classifieds – January 18, 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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January 17, 2023
date: 2024-01-18, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
Texas attorney general Ken Paxton responded this evening to the federal government’s demand that state troops give U.S. Border Patrol agents access to Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, the site where three migrants died last week as they tried to cross the Rio Grande.
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Today in SCV History (Jan. 18)
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1899 – Martin and Richard Wood buy J.H. Tolfree’s Saugus Eating House (still inside Saugus Depot), rename it Saugus Cafe. [story
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Can Coral Reefs Be Saved?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Creating open ocean kelp forests can store carbon and help bring back coral reefs.
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Santa Barbara Happenings a Century Ago
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Notable events from Santa Barbara in 1924.
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Decarbonizing Our Built Environment
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Gallery exhibit highlights energy efficient architectural projects.
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Inside the ethics of congressional investment
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
It’s time for more transparency about how our elected officials leverage their positions in investments.
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Attendance numbers rise with women’s basketball success
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
A record-breaking crowd came to watch the Trojans take down UCLA at Galen.
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Lily Gladstone’s historic win isn’t enough
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Indigenous representation in the film industry needs to improve, despite some gains.
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‘Succession,’ ‘The Bear’ sweep the Emmys
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Anthony Anderson hosted the 75th installment of the famous awards program.
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Nico Williams is a dribbling machine
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Athletic Club might not be able to keep a new star in Bilbao for long.
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Exciting upcoming flicks to look for this spring
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
We’ve compiled a list of movies that should be on your radar this semester.
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University endowment grew by $330 million, Comptroller’s latest financial report reveals
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Money in natural resources decreased by $147 million, including in fossil fuels.
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USC soccer stars shine in NWSL Draft
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Zoe Burns went to Utah, while Croix Bethune was selected at third overall.
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Will AI take our jobs? That’s what everyone is talking about at Davos right now
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
CEOs believe generative AI will make their companies more efficient, but more energy is needed to power the tech
The one question on leaders’ minds as they debate the future of generative AI at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos is how the tech might change the future of employment.…
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Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: The AI we baked in makes you more human
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pen-equipped Ultra is this year’s hero, helped by ‘Circle to Search’ that lets you Google without exiting apps
Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the heir to the Galaxy Note, as the hero of the day.…
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India’s big four services giants soar on demand for AI
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pipelines are full, but hiring has slowed
Indian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced quarterly results that revealed strong deal pipeline fueled by demand for AI, along with very slow headcount growth…
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Analysts: Pyongyang Tries to Create Seoul-Tokyo Friction to Harm US Relations
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
washington — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is trying to create friction between Tokyo and Seoul, South Korea, and undermine their trilateral relations with the United States as security cooperation among them deepens, analysts said.
Washington, Seoul and Tokyo conducted trilateral naval drills in the international waters south of Jeju Island from Monday to Wednesday, said South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS).
The exercises involving nine ships, including the USS Carl Vinson, a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, were aimed at enhancing deterrence against North Korean nuclear, missile and underwater threats, the JCS said.
North Korea is taking an increasingly hostile stance toward South Korea. Calling for the amendment of its constitution to refer to South Korea as its “principal enemy,” Kim said Pyongyang should plan for occupying South Korea if war breaks out.
He made the remarks in a speech on Monday to the Supreme Assembly, the country’s rubber-stamp parliament, said state media KCNA.
A day earlier, North Korea test-fired what it said was a solid fuel intermediate range ballistic missile with a hypersonic warhead.
Pyongyang also fired more than 200 rounds of artillery shells near Yeonpyeong Island on a disputed maritime border with South Korea on January 5 and more than 60 rounds near the same island on January 7. Yeonpyeong Island is about 120 kilometers west of Seoul.
While escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula, Kim sent a message to Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on January 5 conveying sympathy over a powerful earthquake that shook Ishikawa prefecture, leaving at least 200 people dead and more than 200 missing as the new year began.
In the message, Kim expressed “his deep sympathy and condolences” to Kishida for losses caused by the earthquake, KCNA reported on January 6.
Analysts said although North Korea has relayed condolence messages to Japan after disasters in the past, this is the first time Kim personally reached out to a Japanese prime minister.
“While Kim Jong Un may wish to drive a wedge between Japan and the ROK, the real intention, subtle but still real, is to drive a wedge between Japan and America, in spite of last year’s successes at Camp David in the trilateral summit,” said Kenneth Dekleva, a senior fellow at the George H.W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations.
At the Camp David summit, U.S. President Joe Biden, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, and Kishida agreed to cooperate on multiple measures to bolster deterrence against North Korea.
Dekleva, who served as a State Department psychiatrist analyzing foreign leaders including Kim from 2006 to 2016, continued, “Another intention of equal importance is to test the U.S.-ROK relationship, especially given the recent dangerous, bellicose threats of war made recently by Kim Jong Un.”
Kim ordered his military forces to prepare for war with the U.S. and “South Korean puppets and Japs,” according to KCNA, describing Kim’s speech made at a planning meeting of his ruling Workers’ Party on December 31.
Pyongyang has been critical of the trilateral ties forged after Seoul and Tokyo mended relations in March. Disputes rooted in Japan’s colonization of the Korean Peninsula from 1910 to 1945 had strained relations for decades.
Ken Gause, an expert on North Korea’s leadership and political system at the Center for Naval Analyses, said Kim’s message also signals Pyongyang could be “keeping its options open for engagement.”
“North Korea is trying to put Japan in a situation where it has to choose between its own self-interest and the self-interest of the alliance as a whole,” he said.
Kishida said in May that he is willing to meet Kim to discuss the return of Japanese who were abducted by North Korea in the 1960s and 1970s.
At North Korea’s summit with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in September 2002, Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, admitted the country had abducted 12 Japanese nationals. North Korea returned five of them to Japan in October of that year.
Japan says North Korea abducted 17 Japanese citizens in the 1970s to 1980s.
Shihoko Goto, Asia program director at the Wilson Center, said, “The abduction issue remains a highly emotional agenda in Japan, and moving forward to seek a resolution is high on the agenda of Kishida’s government.”
She added that Kim’s message of condolence “was seen favorably in Tokyo and seen as an opportunity for greater dialogue, if not improved relations, between the two countries.”
However, she said, Tokyo will be “in lockstep” with Seoul and Washington in deterring North Korea, as Pyongyang also is “an existential threat” to Japan.
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Apple to Disable Blood-Oxygen Feature on Premium Watches Sold in US
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
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Global semiconductor revenues slid 11 percent in 2023, despite AI silicon splurge
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Nvidia raked in the boatloads of cash, but the rest of the industry is still hurting
2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
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Netflix Has No App for VisionOS
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-19, from: Daring Fireball
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Nearly 5,000 Units of Housing on the Fast Track in Santa Barbara
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
How an obscure housing law broke the door wide open for developers looking to build bigger, denser, and quicker than ever.
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How Santa Barbara City Hall Deep-Sixed Its 60-Foot Height Limit
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
La Cumbre Plaza: Where good ideas don’t make for good deals.
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Husqvarna Announces Prices Of 2024 Vitpilen 250 And Svartpilen 401 In India
date: 2024-01-18, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The new lightweight street bikes have received a comprehensive refresh for the 2024 model-year.
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Quick Charge Podcast: January 17, 2024
date: 2024-01-18, from: Electrek Feed
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and our RSS feed for Overcast and other podcast players.
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Apple Will Begin Selling Series 9 and Ultra Watches With Blood Oxygen Sensors Disabled Tomorrow
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: Daring Fireball
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Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Series 9 and Ultra 2 models cannot be imported to the US starting from 18 January
Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered.…
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Check Out Nishua’s New NTX-4 Evo Touring Helmet
date: 2024-01-18, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
A fiberglass shell and touring-ready features at a price that doesn’t break the bank.
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Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Aerial delivery kit doubles payloads
Alphabet’s drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.…
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Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Mmm, Zuck up that data
The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people’s habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.…
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LASD releases homicide statistics for 2023
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
The service area for the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station received reports of six criminal homicides in 2023, according to the data reported on the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s website. Each death is part of an investigation by the LASD Homicide Bureau, an elite team of the department’s most experienced detectives, based out of Monterey […]
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Watch This If You Want A 260-Horsepower Yamaha MT-10
date: 2024-01-18, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
This MT-10 has been overengineered to handle lots of boost.
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It’s The AMA’s 100th Anniversary In 2024 – Lots Of Events In Store
date: 2024-01-18, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
2024 will be an action-packed year for the American Motorcyclist Association, with lots of events, activities, and races in store.
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Firefighters handle car fire on Highway 14
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Los Angeles County Fire Department personnel put out a car fire on the northbound Highway 14 on Wednesday afternoon that spread into a 10-by-10 vegetation fire, according to Michael Pittman, supervising fire dispatcher for the Fire Department. The Fire Department received the call at approximately 2 p.m. and arrived to the scene at 2:20 p.m., […]
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Chiquita Canyon agrees to more rules
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Landfill ordered to remove leachate more quickly, with more testing, more transparency in monitoring After nearly seven more hours of discussion, Chiquita Canyon Landfill and the South Coast Air Quality Management District came to an agreement Wednesday on new conditions under which the landfill can continue to operate. The upshot for residents is that under […]
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Insurance website’s buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Pen-tester accessed more than 650,000 sensitive messages, and still can, at Indian outfit using Toyota SaaS
Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found.…
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Saugus district celebrates groundbreaking for new James Foster Elementary building
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
Imagine being an elementary school student and, instead of walking down a flight of stairs to get to the playground, you could simply slide down to it. That’s what students at James Foster Elementary School can look forward to after Saugus Union School District and school officials joined together on Tuesday afternoon at the campus […]
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LAPD Chief Michel Moore Defends Record; Critics Say Good Riddance
date: 2024-01-18, updated: 2024-01-18, from: The LAist
Moore spoke on LAist’s AirTalk program. He said he was proud of his six years at the head of the second-largest police department in the U.S.
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Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?
date: 2024-01-18, from: Tilde.news
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San Jose: More racist texts from scandalized former cop revealed in court filing
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Attorneys for K’aun Green want a judge to default in their favor after alleging that Mark McNamara’s deletion of social media accounts amounted to evidence destruction.
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CSUN Students Offer Free Tax Preparation Help to Low-Income People
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The calendar may say January, but April 15 will be here before you know it and taxes will be due
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Oakland man fell to the ground with gunshot wounds, only to have his killer stand over him and shoot again, police say
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
A 33-year-old man was identified as the victim of a Dec. 23 homicide in Oakland.
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Spectrum Reach Opens Applications for 2024 “Pay It Forward” Initiative
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Spectrum Reach, the advertising sales business of Charter Communications, Inc., announced it will offer 250 underserved small business owners nationwide access to its expert advertising and marketing resources through its 2024 “Pay It Forward” initiative.
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Purdy hopes to put his stamp on 49ers-Packers playoff rivalry
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Brock Purdy is drawing from his last year’s playoff debut to help prepare him for Saturday’s game, when the top-seeded 49ers (12-5) host the upset-minded Packers (10-8) at Levi’s Stadium.
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Hartmann: Energy and Enthusiasm
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
County government has many functions, and we don’t normally expect our public officials to care equally about all of them. But then there’s Joan Hartmann.
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Planning OKs car wash, Sand Canyon subdivision
date: 2024-01-18, from: The Signal
The city of Santa Clarita’s Planning Commission on Tuesday unanimously approved a new automated car wash and a Sand Canyon subdivision. The Mister Car Wash is an automated, self-service spot with one to two employees on site, which was approved for the southeast corner of Newhall Ranch Road and Bouquet Canyon Road. The size of […]
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Jan. 25: Matadors Start Their Engines with Spring Fest
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Northridge Student Union is inviting students to get up to speed with campus resources during Spring Fest.
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San Jose: Man dies of injuries suffered in shooting last fall
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
The death marked the second homicide of the year in the city.
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Maine judge delays Trump ballot decision until SCOTUS weighs in
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Maine has just four electoral votes, but it’s one of two states to split them. Trump earned one of Maine’s electors when he was elected in 2016 and again in 2020 when he lost reelection.
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Oakland man who came to the US in his early 20s has struck it rich through fentanyl sales, feds allege
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Milton Varela-Arteaga, 27, owns a Mercedes Benz and stockpiled $70,000 in cash at his Oakland home, while his girlfriend has a bank account with a quarter-million despite claiming employment as a housecleaner, authorities say.
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Freezing temps complicate Chicago’s plan for asylum-seekers
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Until the weather turned, the city was keeping migrants aboard eight city buses that were running continuously and parked near a downtown highway in an area designated “the landing zone.”
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Letters: Voter’s view | Lashing out | Fails definition | Co-opting King
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for Jan. 18, 2024
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Lichee Console 4A, RISC-V mini laptop: review, benchmarks and early issues
date: 2024-01-18, from: OS News
I always liked small laptops and phones – but for some reason they fell out of favor of manufacturers (“bigger is more better”). Now if one wanted to get tiny laptop – one of the few opportunities would have been to fight for old Sony UMPC’s on ebay which are somewhat expensive even today. Recently Raspberry Pi/CM4-based tiny laptops started to appear – especially clockwork products are neat, but they are not foldable like a laptop. When in summer of 2023 Sipeed announced Lichee Console 4A based on RISC-V SoC – I preordered it immediately and in early January I finally received it. Results of my testing, currently uncovered issues are below. ↫ Mikhail Svarichevsky I want one of these.
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Frigid Weather Compounds Chicago’s Struggles to House Asylum-Seekers
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
chicago — As temperatures hover below freezing in Chicago, dozens of asylum-seekers are staying in the lower level of a library until the bitter cold gripping much of the country lifts.
But after that, Chicago’s plans for offering immediate shelter to the growing number of migrants arriving in the nation’s third-largest city remain murky.
For more than a year, Chicago has wrestled with how to house new arrivals until shelter space is free, utilizing measures that city leaders insist are a stopgap. Last week, it was parked city buses. Before that it was police station lobbies and airports. The makeshift approach has frazzled volunteers, nonprofit groups and migrants wary of the lack of a long-term plan, particularly during the city’s long winters.
“The city’s favorite word for everything is ‘temporary,’” said Vianney Marzullo, a volunteer who has helped migrants staying at O’Hare International Airport. “It’s their new choice of Band-Aid word. Everything is temporary, temporary, temporary.”
Chicago has struggled, like New York and Denver, to deal with the crisis that started in 2022 when migrants began arriving in Democratic-led cities, largely at the direction of Texas Governot Greg Abbott. The winter weather has further complicated efforts. Last week, New York, which has received more than 170,000 migrants, evacuated a massive tent camp ahead of a storm. Big-city mayors have asked repeatedly for more federal help.
Chicago’s response has stood out for its haphazard approach with a heavy reliance on volunteers who have spent more than a year providing medical care, food and donated items.
City leaders say the situation keeps changing and there have been snags along the way.
Mayor Brandon Johnson floated the idea of a heated tent encampment, but construction was scrapped over the risk of contaminants at the former industrial site.
The city had instituted a 60-day limit for shelter stays but pushed the first batch of notices off to next week because of the weather. Meanwhile, the city has been heavily criticized for conditions at its shelters and the death of a young boy whose family stayed at one.
The political fight has also heated up and spread to the suburbs.
Abbott’s busing operation has been dropping off migrants at all hours in different Chicago area cities without coordination. When the city began fining bus companies and filing lawsuits, Abbott fired back with chartered planes. Johnson had planned a summit for this week with suburban mayors to discuss the problem; it was canceled by the weather. His office didn’t return a request for comment Wednesday.
“This is an international crisis that requires federal intervention of which local government is subsidizing that work. Never designed to do it, but yet here we are still standing,” Johnson said last week ahead of the storm.
Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker also wrote to Abbott last week asking to suspend buses until the temperatures rise and with many migrants arriving without winter coats or shoes. But Abbott rejected the notion, saying the federal government needs to step up.
More than 33,000 migrants, mostly from Venezuela, have arrived in Chicago since 2022. Currently, nearly 15,000 migrants are living in 28 shelters and the city is continually opening more. Many migrants have gone elsewhere or live with family and friends in the area. Chicago, like other cities, has offered bus tickets out of the city.
The city wound down its much-maligned use of police stations to house migrants, but O’Hare International Airport is still being used, with some asylum-seekers staying for weeks at a time as they await shelter. More than 200 were there Wednesday, according to the city.
Until the weather turned, the city was keeping migrants aboard eight city buses that were running continuously and parked near a downtown highway in an area designated “the landing zone.”
Six heated tents are under construction nearby, which the city says will be used for intake and services, such as medical care. It’s unclear if they will also be used for housing.
Marylin Gonzalez, 34, slept on the buses last week along with her husband and three children, ages 15, 16 and 18. The buses were crowded, with sicknesses spreading quickly.
Gonzalez described the atmosphere aboard as tense, with many worried about where they would go. She said it made her feel like a prisoner.
“The children are stressed. People get stressed, they argue, they are already desperate,” she said. “Sometimes we have to sleep sitting up because there is no space to lay down.”
Outside the buses, many would take up activities, like throwing around a football, to keep warm.
The landing zone was cleared of people and vehicles on Monday, but by Wednesday morning, the empty warming buses were parked there again, a signal that the city intends to return to using them. The city’s Office of Emergency Management didn’t respond to questions Wednesday about the city’s plans when the weather warms.
Roughly 50 migrants were staying in the lower level of the Harold Washington Library Center, the city’s flagship location downtown during the cold snap, according to people staying there. Migrants, including those who came in on their own to avoid the cold, were living with others facing homelessness. According to the city’s tally, 5 migrants at the library site were on lists for shelters. An Associated Press reporter was not allowed inside.
Angel Alberto Chourio, 30, slept there over the weekend, saying he was trying to figure out his next steps. He and a friend arrived from Venezuela last year. The promise of work out of state didn’t pan out, so they came back to Chicago recently. Without any place else to go, they came to the library.
He said Wednesday that he was nervous about the shelter stay limits and was not on a waiting list for one.
“We are not used to this. The cold is too much, since it is already below zero,” he said, looking for a silver lining. “At least they give one a chance to continue living.”
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Water Commission Presents Drought Strategies
date: 2024-01-18, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The California Water Commission today approved a white paper that contains potential strategies to protect communities and fish and wildlife in the event of drought
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Biden Convenes Top Congressional Leaders to Discuss Ukraine Aid, US Border Deal
date: 2024-01-18, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden convened top congressional leaders at the White House to underscore Ukraine’s security needs, a meeting that comes at a pivotal time as senators narrow on a landmark immigration deal that could unlock $110 billion in stalled aid to Ukraine, Israel and other U.S. allies.
But Speaker Mike Johnson and other Republicans used the face-to-face moment with Biden to push him for tougher border security measures, with the speaker telling the president that Republican lawmakers were demanding “substantive policy change” and insisting that the White House’s executive actions on immigration had weakened the border.
“We understand that there’s concern about the safety, security and sovereignty of Ukraine,” Johnson told reporters after the meeting, which ran for more than an hour. “But the American people have those same concerns about our own domestic sovereignty and our safety and our security.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, also speaking to reporters after the meeting, stressed that Biden has repeatedly said he is willing to compromise on certain border measures and that any effort in a divided Congress must be bipartisan. House Republicans have insisted on passage of a hard-line border security measure that has no Democratic support on Capitol Hill.
“There was a large amount of agreement around the table that we must do Ukraine, and we must do border,” he said.
The White House called the meeting with lawmakers — including Johnson, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell — to brief them on Ukraine’s current need for weapons and other aid, which the White House described as “desperate” and “urgent.”
By populating the meeting with national security leaders, the meeting was expected to impress on the new speaker the importance of the aid package and the current U.S. approach to world affairs. The Republicans in the room, even Johnson, are largely supportive of aiding Ukraine but have stressed to the White House that it will need significant border-security measures in return to persuade the large swath of rank-and-file Republican lawmakers skeptical about sending more funds abroad.
“He’s willing to hear what these congressional members want to talk about, but the purpose of this meeting is to talk about Ukraine,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said ahead of the mid-afternoon gathering, which was held in the Cabinet Room.
Key time to convene
Biden is convening the lawmakers at the start of an election year when border security and the wars abroad are punctuating the race for the White House as he faces a potential rematch against Republican Donald Trump with control of the presidency and Congress all at stake.
It comes as Congress is about to quickly approve temporary funding to avoid a government shutdown — postponing the annual spending battles — but as the supplemental aid package sits undone during the immigration and border talks.
Biden, a longtime leader in U.S. foreign policy, finds himself confronting a new generation of Republican lawmakers who have little interest in engaging abroad or supporting vast American military aid or actions around the world.
Led by Trump, the former president who is the Republicans’ front-runner for the nomination, a growing number of the Republicans in Congress are particularly hostile to helping Ukraine fight Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who along with National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met this week with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in Davos, Switzerland, said Washington is determined to keep supporting Ukraine, and “we’re working very closely with Congress in order to do that.”
Ahead of the meeting, McConnell announced the package could be ready for a vote as soon as next week, and Schumer sounded a similarly optimistic note — though negotiations continue.
Senators develop border proposal
Johnson, since taking the gavel in October, signaled he personally believes in supporting Ukraine as it works to expel Russia. He met privately with Zelenskyy during the Ukrainian president’s whirlwind tour of Washington last month seeking aid before the year-end holidays.
But the speaker leads an ambivalent House Republican majority that wants to extract its own priorities on the U.S.-Mexico border in exchange for any overseas support.
The speaker has insisted any border security deal must align with the House-passed strict border security bill. He told lawmakers in a private meeting over the weekend that they could probably get their priorities enacted with a Republican president, though the speaker did not mean that to preclude not taking action now, said a Republican leadership aide familiar with the call.
But senators, even fellow Republicans, said the House approach is a nonstarter that would never find the bipartisan backing in both chambers needed for approval.
Instead, a core group of senators led by Republican James Lankford has been meeting privately for weeks with Biden’s top advisers — including Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas — to develop a border security package that could actually be signed into law.
Lankford told reporters late Tuesday that he hopes to prepare bill text as negotiations try to wrap up soon.
McConnell told Republican senators privately last week they should take the deal Lankford is producing, according to a person granted anonymity to discuss the closed meeting.
“This is a unique moment in time,” said the Number 2 Republican John Thune.
“It’s an opportunity to get some really conservative border policy that we haven’t been able to get for 40 years,” he said. “And so we’ll see. I mean, it may or may not happen, but I think you got to take a run at it.”
Senator ‘hopeful’
The broader security package includes about $60 billion for Ukraine, which is mainly used to purchase U.S. weaponry to fight the war and to shore up its own government operations, along with some $14.5 billion for Israel, about $14 billion for border security, and additional funds for other security needs.
Biden opened the door to a broader U.S.-Mexico border security package late last year and the changes being discussed could be difficult for some Democrats who oppose strict restrictions on immigration.
Schumer said negotiations over the border security package have made progress in recent weeks and he was “hopeful that things are headed in the right direction.”
Schumer said he expects the meeting with Biden will reinforce that the national security package is urgent and “any agreement on an issue as complex and contentious as the border is going to have to have support from both sides of the aisle.”
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Do users write more insecure code with AI assistants?
date: 2024-01-18, from: OS News
AI code assistants have emerged as powerful tools that can aid in the software development life-cycle and can improve developer productivity. Unfortunately, such assistants have also been found to produce insecure code in lab environments, raising significant concerns about their usage in practice. In this paper, we conduct a user study to examine how users interact with AI code assistants to solve a variety of security related tasks. Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant wrote significantly less secure code than those without access to an assistant. Participants with access to an AI assistant were also more likely to believe they wrote secure code, suggesting that such tools may lead users to be overconfident about security flaws in their code. To better inform the design of future AI-based code assistants, we release our user-study apparatus and anonymized data to researchers seeking to build on our work at this link. ↫ Neil Perry, Megha Srivastava, Deepak Kumar, and Dan Boneh I’m surprised somewhat randomly copying other people’s code into your program – violating their licenses, to boot – leads to crappier code. Who knew!
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Sheriff’s Office Releases Name of Santa Maria Man Fatally Shot by Deputies
date: 2024-01-18, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office also named the deputies involved in the shooting of the allegedly armed suspect following an hours-long standoff.
The post Sheriff’s Office Releases Name of Santa Maria Man Fatally Shot by Deputies appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
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Letters: Pacifica Pier | Shifting costs | ‘Bidenomics’ contradicted | Trump opposition
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Mercury News Letters to the Editor for Jan. 18, 2024
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California health officials shorten COVID isolation guidance as infections peak
date: 2024-01-18, from: San Jose Mercury News
Under new guidance schools are advising that students who test positive for COVID-19 but do not have symptoms can continue to come to school if they wear masks indoors for 10 days after testing positive.
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PostgreSQL is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA)
date: 2024-01-18, from: PostgreSQL News
The PostgreSQL Security team is pleased to announce that PostgreSQL is now a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA). A CNA has responsibilities for assigning CVE IDs and participating in responsible disclosure with projects within its scope. You can find out more information about the role of PostgreSQL as a CNA on the PostgreSQL security page:
https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/
The process for reporting a security vulnerability in PostgreSQL has not changed. If you believe you have discovered a security vulnerability in PostgreSQL, please send an email to security@postgresql.org. For more information on what is considered a vulnerability and the reporting process, please review the PostgreSQL security page:
https://www.postgresql.org/support/security/
You can find the original announcement on PostgreSQL being added as a CNA on the CVE page:
https://www.cve.org/Media/News/item/news/2024/01/16/PostgreSQL-Added-as-CNA
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