News gathered 2024-03-05

(date: 2024-03-05 21:29:03)

La réduction stratégique des risques au-delà des puces

date: 2024-03-07, from: ETH Zurich, recently added

Pulver, Tobias Schepers, Névine

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Strategisches De-Risking jenseits von Chip

date: 2024-03-07, from: ETH Zurich, recently added

Pulver, Tobias Schepers, Névine

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Biden, Trump Move Toward Rematch After ‘Super Tuesday’ Wins

date: 2024-03-06, from: VOA News USA

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xa (xa65) 2.4.1

date: 2024-03-06, from: Old Vintage Computer Research

A quick one: xa (xa65), André Fachat’s compatible fast two-pass cross-assembler for 6502, 65C02, R65C02 and 65816 processors that André and I maintain is now at version 2.4.1. This optionally expands the syntax from 2.4.0 and fixes some bugs primarily with relocatable .o65 objects. As usual, there are even more tests in its extensive conformance test-suite, and it is tested on Linux/ppc64le, Mac OS X (PowerPC, Intel and Apple silicon), AIX (its primary development platform, just to be difficult), and NetBSD/macppc and NetBSD/mac68k. You can download it and read documentation in man(1) format (converted to HTML) from the main xa65 home page. xa is free and open-source under the GNU Public License v2.

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Early returns show Santa Clara County Supervisors race tight after polls close

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

The top two vote-getters in each contest will head to the general election in November unless a single candidate captures a majority of votes..

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US smashes solar records in 2023 – but 2024 will bring road bumps [Update]

date: 2024-03-06, from: Electrek Feed

The US added a record-setting 32.4 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2023, according to a new report, but 2024 will bring challenges to the industry.

more…

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Ex-San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo leads in race to replace U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo in Congress, Supervisor Joe Simitian, Assemblymember Evan Low locked in tight battle

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

The top two candidates will head to the November run-off.

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Sharks set new season-low in attendance for game vs. Dallas Stars

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

NHL: Struggling San Jose Sharks draw crowd of 10,070 for game vs. Joe Pavelski and the Dallas Stars

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California Assembly District 15: Too close to call race in early results

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

Election officials had counted 48,059 ballots when polls closed at 8 p.m.

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Super Tuesday takeaways: Though nominations not official, Biden-Trump battle is officially joined

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

On not-so-Super Tuesday, there were few surprises.

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Prop 1 results: Early support for mental health ballot measure

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

Proposition 1 – which needs a simple majority to pass – would authorize the state to issue bonds for 6,800 mental health and drug treatment beds.

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In early returns, tight race between Bas, Bauters for Alameda County supervisor seat

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

The nine-candidate field consisted of mayors, city council members, political organizers, lawyers, and executives.

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Rep. Adam Schiff leading former baseball star Steve Garvey in early returns for California U.S. Senate seat

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

In the Bay Area’s races for two open seats in the U.S. House of Representatives saw former San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo out front in early returns while Santa Clara County Supervisor Joe Simitian and Assemblyman Evan Low battled for second place in the South Bay’s 16th District.

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Early results show Republican Shoemaker leading in expensive East Bay state Senate race

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

Villapudua, who was backed by oil and gas money, is trailing in third, as early results show Shoemaker in the lead, followed by McNerney.

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Election Results Update: Local Races

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

The post Election Results Update: Local Races appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.

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California Senate District 7: Arreguín leads with Kalb, Lybarger following closely

date: 2024-03-06, from: San Jose Mercury News

In the California State Senate race for District 7, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín is leading, with several prominent East Bay Democrats in close competition

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Citrix reveals invitation-only ‘Platform’ license

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Follows the Broadcom playbook by ending standalone sales of some products

Citrix has created a “Platform License” that it will offer by invitation only, and stopped selling some products outside bundles.…

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Santa Barbara Votes: 2024 Primary Election Results

date: 2024-03-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Get results, reactions, and reports from the March 5 primary election.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The big news isn’t that Nikki Haley won — the big news is that Trump lost. #Loser.

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Veselka looks to ease back into a 24/7 schedule starting with weekends first.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

You know better but I know him.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-06, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Haley defeats Trump in Vermont GOP primary. ❤️

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GCC to host Multi-Purpose Auditorium public hearing for proposed fees

date: 2024-03-06, from: Guam Daily Post

The Guam Community College will hold a public hearing regarding proposed fees for the new Multipurpose Auditorium (Building 300) on Tuesday, March 12, 2024, at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday, March 13, 2024, at 3 p.m., at the campus in Building…

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Japan orders local giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Government mighty displeased about a shared Active Directory that led to a big data leak

Japan’s government has ordered local tech giants LINE and NAVER to disentangle their tech stacks, after a data breach saw over 510,000 users’ data exposed.…

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Castaic’s CIF champion basketball coach fired

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

Four days after leading Castaic Coyotes boys’ basketball to a CIF title, head coach Dominique Butler and assistant coach Ty McKinney were dismissed by the William S. Hart Union High School District, which cited screenshots of “inappropriate communications online between players and coaches.”  Butler said he met with district Assistant Superintendent Collyn Nielson and Castaic […]

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SCVi Charter School Welcomes New Applicants for 2024-25 School Year

date: 2024-03-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Santa Clarita Valley International Charter School, the founding school for iLEAD, a public charter school network providing innovative learning options for children in grades TK through 12, is excited to announce the recruitment of new students for the upcoming 2024-25 school year through enrollment lottery applications

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March 18: The 12th Annual Hart Games

date: 2024-03-06, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The 12th Annual Hart Games return on Monday, March 18 at Valencia High School in Valencia, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Coffee with a cause 

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

What more could high school students ask for if their favorite caffeinated pick-me-up is right around the corner? Literally.   Valencia High School students who are a part of the school’s Medical Science Academy program are working closely with functional academic students on campus to immerse them through a coffee kiosk at brunch.  The MSA, according […]

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US Stops Short of Congratulating Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto on Apparent Election Victory

date: 2024-03-06, from: VOA News USA

The White House says it looks forward to working with the new Indonesian administration but stopped short of congratulating Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia’s presidential election last month. Prabowo, for his part, has vowed to continue a policy that allows Jakarta to reap Chinese investments while maintaining security ties with Washington. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.

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NASA and Japan’s X-ray satellite space ’scope sends first snaps of distant galaxies

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Calibration is done, operations nominal, science starts in August

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Monday that the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) – its joint mission with NASA – has transitioned into nominal operations.…

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US Stops Short of Congratulating Indonesia’s Prabowo on Apparent Election Victory

date: 2024-03-06, from: VOA News USA

white house — The White House said it looks forward to working with the incoming Indonesian administration but stopped short of congratulating Prabowo Subianto on his apparent victory in Indonesia’s presidential election last month.

“We congratulate the Indonesian people on a successful election. The president looks forward to early engagement with the new administration and strengthening our cooperation on what is already a strategic partnership,” said John Kirby, White House National Security Council spokesperson, in response to VOA’s question during the White House briefing Tuesday.

Kirby said the administration is “closely following the ongoing vote count” that shows Prabowo commanding a significant lead. With almost 90% of the votes counted, Prabowo holds almost 59% of the more than 150 million votes in the February 14 election.

“We’ve had an excellent cooperation with him since the time he was defense minister, and if he is in fact finally elected, then we look forward to continuing that relationship,” Kirby said.

Official results are not due until later in March, but Prabowo has claimed victory, and several countries have extended their congratulations, including China, Australia, the United Kingdom and others.

Alleged human rights violation

Currently serving as Indonesia’s defense minister, Prabowo has a long track record of alleged human rights violations, including the abduction and torture of activists during the 1998 ouster of his then father-in-law, former President Suharto, who ruled Indonesia for 32 years.

Prabowo’s victory is widely attributed to the support of the popular outgoing president, Joko Widodo, who last week awarded Prabowo with an honorary four-star general rank. The president’s son, Gibran Rakabuming Raka, is Prabowo’s running mate, fueling accusations of nepotism.

“Prabowo’s election creates not only a bad precedent in the effort to prosecute state crimes committed by the previous government,” said Gufron Mabruri, executive director of Indonesian human rights group Imparsial. “It will also weaken enforcement of human rights in the future.”

Until 2020, Prabowo was banned from entering the U.S. due to alleged human rights violations, but he has since visited as defense minister, invited by both the Trump and Biden administrations.

Asked about potential democratic backsliding in Indonesia, Kirby said the administration will “never back away from our concerns about the need for human rights, civil rights, and all the values of democratic institutions,” and that President Joe Biden “absolutely will not shy away” about expressing such concerns.

As the United States and China compete for regional influence, Prabowo aims to continue Indonesia’s nonaligned foreign policy that has allowed Jakarta to reap massive investments from Beijing while maintaining security ties with Washington.

In Washington, concerns about Indonesia veering too close to Beijing provide a geostrategic backdrop to U.S.-Indonesia ties, said Andreyka Natalegawa, associate fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

“At the same time, these broader geopolitical factors are also just strengthened by the fact that the U.S.-Indonesia partnership is strong and solid,” Natalegawa told VOA. He added that given the continuities with the outgoing Indonesian government, Washington should be comfortable in working with the new incoming administration.

There have been sporadic protests in Jakarta alleging election interference, but official results are expected to declare Prabowo as the country’s next leader in the coming weeks.

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COC to host Mike Gillespie Field dedication ceremony

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

News release  The College of the Canyons Athletic Department is scheduled to March 16 to host a field dedication ceremony to unveil the recently named Mike Gillespie Field in honor of the legendary baseball coach’s distinguished career, the college announced in a news release.  The festivities begin at noon Saturday, March 16, with a pregame […]

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Review | U.S. Elevator’s Freewheeling Santa Barbara Sound Is on Great Display at SOhO

date: 2024-03-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Led by Johnny Irion, U.S. Elevator brings vibrant fun to town.

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Community invited to webinar on SCV Water’s 5-year strategic plan

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

News release  The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency is inviting the community to learn more about the agency’s five-year strategic plan through a special virtual presentation on Monday, March 25, from 6 to 7 p.m.   By attending the “Water Matters: Charting the Course – SCV Water’s Strategic Plan” webinar, community members will discover how […]

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Governor Roy Cooper of North Carolina is impressive.

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Massive apartment plans for Newhall fall through 

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

Time has run out for a massive housing plan that would have added more than 2,000 apartments to the city of Santa Clarita’s housing supply against the city’s wishes, officials announced this week, with one official calling the failed submission “a win.”  The plans?   A 17.6-acre development south of Newhall Avenue at Sierra Highway for […]

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Review | ‘Treasure Island’

date: 2024-03-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

SBCC Theatre Group’s swashbuckling story has superb staging and plenty of intrigue, but a tepid script.

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Uncle Sam intervenes as Change Healthcare ransomware fiasco creates mayhem

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

As the crooks behind the attack - probably ALPHV/BlackCat - fake their own demise

The US government has stepped in to help hospitals and other healthcare providers affected by the Change Healthcare ransomware infection, offering more relaxed Medicare rules and urging advanced funding to providers.…

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Wednesday 6 March, 2024

date: 2024-03-06, from: John Naughton’s online diary

In the beginning… This is Gougane Barra, one of the most magical places in Ireland. It’s where the river Lee starts its journey to the sea on the South coast beyond the city of Cork. My first summer job involved … Continue reading →

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Director Joel Coen and Star Frances McDormand Discuss ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’

date: 2024-03-06, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Carsey-Wolf Center at UC Santa Barbara’s ‘Revisiting the Classics’ series casts fresh eyes on iconic works of our filmic past.

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SC Flyers youth hockey teams to compete in SCAHA semis at The Cube 

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Signal

Four Santa Clarita Flyers youth hockey teams are set to compete this weekend in the semifinals of the Southern California Amateur Hockey Association playoffs being held at The Cube. Three separate Flyers 10U teams advanced to the final four of their respective tournaments, while the 14U squad also reached the knockout stage.  Prescott Littlefield, club […]

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Stock market soars to record highs on AI boom: A bubble in the making?

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

The stock market has surged, and optimism seems to have been renewed among investors that saw the Dow Jones hit an all-time high Friday and the S&P 500 following suit….

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Florida has no wind turbines but it’s going to ban them anyway

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Florida legislature is about to ban offshore wind turbines in state waters, which wouldn’t be put there to begin with, to protect the beaches.

more…

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Good grief: CSUN theater presents a comedy of mourning

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

The CSUN theater department hosted its interpretation of the play “House of Bernarda Alba” on Feb. 23 at the Little Theatre located in Nordhoff Hall. The play “House of Bernarda…

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The Veterans Resource Center and the importance of community

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

The Veterans Resource Center was established in 2012 and strives to aid veterans with their educational journey at CSUN. For over a decade, the VRC at CSUN has been a…

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Stuck paying for your apartment’s crummy internet? FCC boss Rosenworcel wants to help

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Proposed regulation would bar building owners from forcing internet services on tenants

One of the oddities of American apartment living is “bulk billing” – a practice that sees landlords determine which ISP serves the entire complex and requires residents to use that provider even if they would prefer a rival.…

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

My friend Guy Kawasaki has a new book out, right now, which you can buy. If you want a great read from a person who knows how to develop and market ideas with humor, wisdom, love and integrity, this is the one to get.

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Cougars Win Second Straight Conference Tourney, Remain Undefeated

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

College of the Canyons Men’s Golf won its second straight Western State Conference event, posting a 10-stroke advantage over runner-up Santa Barbara City College to remain undefeated on the season.

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Santa Barbara Airport Hosts Flight Simulation Before Alpha Resource Center Plane Pull

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Annual fundraiser brings in more than $72,000 to support Alpha Resource Center.

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LA AGENCIA DE SERVICIOS MÉDICOS DE EMERGENCIA DEL CONDADO DE SANTA BÁRBARA CELEBRA 40 AÑOS

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(CONDADO DE SANTA BÁRBARA, Calif.) – Es un gran placer que el Departamento de Salud Pública del Condado de Santa Bárbara (SBCPHD,

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March 9: Santa Clarita Symphony ‘Awakening Spring’ Concert

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Santa Clarita Symphony Orchestra will host the “Awakening Spring” concert Saturday, March 9 at 7 p.m. at the Canyon High School Performing Arts Center, 19300 Nadal St., Santa Clarita, CA

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Santa Barbara County EMS Agency Celebrates 40 Years

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA County, Calif.) – It is with great pleasure that the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department (SBCPHD) celebrates the Emergency

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Chris Sneddon Named New Head of Santa Barbara County Public Works

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

The supervisors confirmed Sneddon’s appointment on Tuesday before diving into Tajiguas Landfill, which will be on Sneddon’s plate for years to come.

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Saugus High jazz choir to perform at ACDA Western Conference 

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Signal

The Saugus High School “Blue Notes” jazz choir has been selected as the only high school jazz choir to perform on Friday at the American Choral Directors Association Western Conference.  The conference is set to be held at the Pasadena Convention Center.  “Singing at an ACDA conference is one of the highest honors a choir […]

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

RSS and feeds in general are back in style.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I have been a reader of the NYT since I was a small child. I wanted to be a writer like Russell Baker. I was quoted by William Safire in an op-ed. I have done some of the most successful work of my career with the NYT. I love journalism like I love the Mets. I don’t expect them to do great things every season, but I do hope for a 1969 or 1986 every once in a while. These days I don’t have much hope for the NYT returning to its former glory. I also wonder if they ever really were that great, that maybe I was just a naive young hero-seeker, growing up in Queens in the 1960s. We all have to work together to dig out of the hole we’re in. And that means reporters have to start looking at themselves, and they have to listen to us, the people who care about the job that we need journalism to do, that it isn’t doing.

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Santa Barbara’s Downtown Just Got a Boost on Fresh Produce Availability

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Santa Barbara, March 2024 For many decades, the residents of our city have been blessed with a strong offering of

The post Santa Barbara’s Downtown Just Got a Boost on Fresh Produce Availability appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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March 16: Puppy Adoption Event St. Patrick’s Day Weekend

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Ken and Joe’s Powersports Dealership will host a special Pet Adoption Event taking place on March 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 21618 Golden Triangle Road, Santa Clarita CA 91350.

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tang_nano_20k_c64: Commodore c64 living in a Sipeed Tang Nano 20K, Primer 25K or Mega 138K

date: 2024-03-05, from: Tilde.news

Comments

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Colon Cancer Awareness Month Brings Local Grant into Spotlight

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

The Cancer Foundation of Santa Barbara has received a $167,000 grant in support of a genetic counseling program called the

The post Colon Cancer Awareness Month Brings Local Grant into Spotlight appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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More Planets than Stars: Kepler’s Legacy

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

The Kepler mission enabled the discovery of thousands of exoplanets, revealing a deep truth about our place in the cosmos: there are more planets than stars in the Milky Way galaxy. The road to this fundamental change in our understanding of the universe, however, required almost 20 years of persistence before the mission became a […]

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Trump supporters forge AI deepfakes to woo Black voters

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Perps argue that if you vote based on one fake pic you get what you deserve

Admirers of Donald Trump are creating fake AI-generated images depicting the former US president interacting with Black people, in the hope the pictures are interpreted by voters as a sign of increasing support from a key voter group that would bolster his attempt to regain the White House.…

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What Do the Different Emoji Hearts Mean?

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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March 16: Santa Clarita Master Chorale Presents ‘Bruckner Birthday Brilliance’

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Santa Clarita Master Chorale, led by Artistic Director Allan Robert Petker, is scheduled March 16 to present its classical concert, “Bruckner Birthday Brilliance.”

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South Sudan Activist in US Charged With Trying to Export Arms Illegally for Coup Back Home

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

phoenix, arizona — A leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the United States has been charged in Arizona along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars’ worth of weapons to overthrow the government back home. 

Peter Biar Ajak fled to the U.S. with the help of the American government four years ago, after he said South Sudan’s president ordered him abducted or killed. Emergency visas were issued at the time to Ajak, now 40, and his family after they spent weeks in hiding in Kenya. He was most recently living in Maryland. 

A federal criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Arizona charges Ajak and Abraham Chol Keech, 44, of Utah, with conspiring to purchase and illegally export through a third country to South Sudan a cache of weapons in violation of the Arms Export Control Act and the Export Control Reform Act. The weapons that were considered included automatic rifles like AK-47s, grenade launchers, Stinger missile systems, hand grenades, sniper rifles, ammunition, and other export-controlled arms. 

Although the criminal complaint was made public by Justice officials, the case was still not available in the federal government’s online system by Tuesday afternoon so it was unknown if the men had attorneys who could speak to the charges against them. 

“As alleged, the defendants sought to unlawfully smuggle heavy weapons and ammunition from the United States into South Sudan — a country that is subject to a U.N. arms embargo due to the violence between armed groups, which has killed and displaced thousands,” Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen of the Justice Department’s National Security Division said in a statement. 

“Sanctions and export controls help ensure that American weapons are not used internationally to destabilize other sovereign nations,” said Gary Restaino, U.S. attorney for Arizona. 

A man who answered the telephone Tuesday at the Embassy of South Sudan in Washington said the mission does not have a press officer and the ambassador was traveling and unavailable for comment. 

From 2022-23, Ajak was a postdoctoral fellow in the Belfer Center’s International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School, focusing on state formation in South Sudan, according to the program’s website. He has also been a fellow at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies of the National Defense University and a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy. 

Sudan gained independence from Sudan July 9, 2011, after a successful referendum. But widespread inter-ethnic violence and extreme human rights abuses by all sides continue to plague the country.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

If Trump Prevails, How Will Section 3 Be Litigated On Or After January 20, 2025?

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Can AI Solve Science?

date: 2024-03-05, from: Stephen Wolfram blog

Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? Particularly given its recent surprise successes, there’s a somewhat widespread belief that eventually AI will be able to “do everything”, […]

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Kia bumps up 2024 EV9 discount with massive $5,000 customer cash offer

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

If you’ve been waiting to buy Kia’s first three-row electric SUV, the perfect opportunity may have just landed. Kia is now offering a $5,000 customer cash discount on all 2024 EV9 models.

more…

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Liberty University to Pay Record Fine for Failing to Report Campus Crimes

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

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March 9: SCV Eco Alliance Eco-Film Festival

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Six environmental films with a short discussion following each will be screened at the SCV Eco Alliance Eco-Film Festival to be held on the College of the Canyons Valencia campus on Saturday, March

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Volvo’s U.S. EV Sales Slow Down Continued In February 2024

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

The company is selling more plug-in hybrids, but all-electric car sales are down from last year.

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Rare ‘Jungle Book’ Watercolor Goes on Display at Rudyard Kipling’s Home in England

date: 2024-03-05, from: Smithsonian Magazine

“The Return of the Buffalo Herd” is one of only four surviving illustrations from the book

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Lilbits: Pixel 8a could cost more than the Pixel 7a, and Surface Pro 10 could have an OLED display

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

Details about the Google Pixel 8a have been leaking for months, but launch day could be coming soon, as WinFuture has found product listings at some retail websites… including some references to the price tag, which indicate that Google’s next mid-range phone will be pricier than its last. In other recent tech news from around […]

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March 8: Lure of Paradise Video Art Exhibit

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

View “Lure of Paradise” an art show put on by California Institute of the Arts alumni on Friday, March 8 at 7 p.m

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Daimler Truck North America rolls out its EV dealer certification program

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Daimler Truck North America just launched a dealer certification program to ensure a “world-class” experience for its electric truck buyers.

more…

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Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Amazon Appstore tieup fizzles out, too

Next year Microsoft will kill off the Windows Subsystem for Android, its framework for running Android applications from the Amazon Appstore on Windows 11 devices.…

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Scientists Unravel the Mysteries of Earth’s Towering Star Dunes—Massive, Moving Mountains of Sand

date: 2024-03-05, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Using new technologies, researchers revealed an enormous star dune in Morocco formed more quickly than thought, and it’s on the move

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Barger Seeks Tax Relief for Homeowners Impacted by Chiquita Canyon Landfill

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger has introduced a motion that explores bringing tax relief to homeowners in the communities of Val Verde, Live Oak and Hasley Hills impacted by odors from the Chiquita Canyon Landfill.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

U.S. students will take the SAT entirely online this year.

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A woman documented her effort to become the first person to complete…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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A Remarkable Fresco Depicting a Scene From Greek Mythology Has Been Found in Pompeii

date: 2024-03-05, from: Smithsonian Magazine

The vibrant painting portrays siblings Phrixus and Helle as they flee from their stepmother

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Tuition to increase by 4.9% for Fall 2024

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The transportation fee, which finances initiatives
such as the Shryft program and the Student U-Pass
Program, will increase by $24, or roughly 25%.

The post Tuition to increase by 4.9% for Fall 2024 appeared first on Daily Trojan.

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2024 Honda Prologue Officially Qualifies For $7,500 Federal Tax Credit

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

This makes the car up to 15% less expensive.

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MacPad: Hybrid Mac-iPad Laptop and Tablet

date: 2024-03-05, from: Michael Tsai

Federico Viticci (Hacker News): The concept behind the video was fascinating: if a Vision Pro can provide you with a virtual display for your Mac, can you physically remove the display from a MacBook and continue using it in “headless” mode with a Vision Pro or other external monitors? The answer is yes.That video planted […]

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Keyboard Control of Messages.app

date: 2024-03-05, from: Michael Tsai

With macOS Catalina, Apple replaced the Messages app, which had been based on iChat, with a version derived from the iOS Messages app. This brought some new features such as effects but dropped others such as conversation archiving. (You can’t even Select All to copy the text of a conversation.) Messages is often held up […]

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Emulation on iPhone

date: 2024-03-05, from: Michael Tsai

Mike Rockwell: Last year I wrote an about retro gaming on iOS. I’ve had a lot of fun playing games on the platform, especially through emulation. Much of what I wrote last year is still applicable today, but I thought I’d revisit the topic with a focus on the state of emulation on iOS and […]

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Nintendo v. Yuzu

date: 2024-03-05, from: Michael Tsai

Chris Brandrick (Hacker News): Nintendo is taking action against the creators of the popular emulator tool Yuzu.The copyright infringement filing, from Nintendo of America, states that the Yuzu tool (from developer Tropic Haze LLC) illegally circumvents the software encryption and copyright protection systems of Nintendo Switch titles, and thus facilitates piracy and infringes copyright under […]

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Samsung’s SD Express microSD cards support speeds up to 800 MB/s

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

Samsung has unveiled the first microSD cards with support for sequential read speeds as high as 800 MB/s later. That’s two to three times as fast as the speediest UHS-II SD cards available today, and even faster than a SATA SSD. So why are Samsung’s new microSD cards so fast? Because they’re the first to […]

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CNPS Announces New Projects to Scale Up Native Plant Production and Habitat for Pollinators

date: 2024-03-05, from: California Native Plants Society

The $1.9M cooperative agreements will allow CNPS to create science-based, publicly available tools for native plant propagation protocols and critical biodiversity data.

The post CNPS Announces New Projects to Scale Up Native Plant Production and Habitat for Pollinators appeared first on California Native Plant Society.

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BMW Will Pay EV Buyers $1,000 To Dump Their Tesla

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

The offer is valid for BMW BEVs through April 1, 2024.

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SWOT Satellite Catches Coastal Flooding During California Storms

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

Operated by NASA and the French space agency, the Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission provides a new view of water on land, at the coast, and in the ocean. A series of atmospheric rivers drenched California in February, with record amounts of rainfall and hurricane-force winds sweeping across parts of the state. At one […]

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Polestar (PSNY) CEO says rivals are falling into a trap by delaying EV plans

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Polestar (PSNY) has been clear about its belief in an all-electric future. The company’s CEO, Thomas Ingenlath, is now calling out rivals for pulling back on EV plans, saying they are falling into a “trap” and they will be left behind as the industry transitions.

more…

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The writing is the same

date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

All these different networks, but it’s all the same kind of writing.

I just pasted a link to a Substack post into a Threads document.

It would make so much sense if the document itself was readable right there, wouldn’t it?

Is the concept of a “web page” all that valuable?

Imagine if each note was a node.

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How we learn to art

date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

People learn to make art by studying previous artists. Would we want it any other way?

Imagine if everyone had to reinvent everything that anyone had ever invented just to make something new.

There is a lot of that in software, people won’t put in an API so you have to rebuild the whole house just to get a window.

We can make progress when people don’t try to lock up their ideas.

Individuals live just a short time, we can’t do that much in a lifetime, but we are an amazing species, because we leave behind what we learn and we build.

We learn by studying ourselves.

So why shouldn’t our machines be able to learn too? They already can do things vastly more complex than we can. We’ve invented a huge lever.

Science fiction tells us that we will lose control and be enslaved by our machines. I love those stories, like the Matrix and Battlestar Galactica. But those are stories, they didn’t happen. The future is rarely so predictable. Things interact in unforseeable ways.

We’re at dead-ends in climate and government. We need to make radical changes, and a fresh invention as radically progressive as any that has come before is now in our hands.

We’re going to use it.

PS: I wrote the words, ChatGPT did the images.

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California Credit Union Foundation to Fund Innovative Teacher Projects

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

California Credit Union Foundation encourages Santa Clarita Valley teachers who have an innovative class project idea to apply for a credit union grant through its spring Teacher Grant program. Ten grants of $500 each will be awarded to area teachers in April in the spring program

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La NASA abre plazo de solicitudes para ser astronauta

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

Read this release in English here. La NASA dio la bienvenida a su nueva cohorte de astronautas de la generación Artemis durante una ceremonia celebrada el martes en el Centro Espacial Johnson de la agencia en Houston. Los 10 astronautas graduados ya son elegibles para misiones de vuelo. La agencia también anunció la apertura de la […]

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NASA Opens Astronaut Applications as Newest Class Graduates

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA welcomed its newest class of next generation Artemis astronauts in a Tuesday ceremony at the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. The 10 astronaut graduates now are eligible for flight assignments. The agency also announced the opening for the next round of NASA astronaut applications. “Congratulations to […]

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Programmed Prejudice: Fighting Racism in AI

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

With more technological advances becoming heavily integrated into daily life, the rise of artificial intelligence has become something to welcome and fear. For some, this new tech is nothing to…

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Demographic Rankings: What makes CSUN stand out in diversity?

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

California State University, Northridge is well-known for its strong academic programs in the business, film and arts departments, along with being the epicenter of the 1994 Northridge earthquake. However, the…

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What music different birds would listen to. All right, the gull one…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

"Dave Winer used ChatGPT to illustrate a few of his favorite songs. I tried it with books, movies and a TV show."

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Watch Tesla Full Self-Driving V12 Get Pushed To And Past Its Limits

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

This version of FSD is by far the best yet.

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Daily Deals (3-05-2024)

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

EBay is offering 20% off when you purchase select items from some brands and use the coupon SPRINGSAVE20 at checkout. There are discounts available on hundreds of thousands of different products. Some of the stand-out tech deals I spotted include mini PCs with Intel Alder Lake-N processors for as little as $108 and a deal […]

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Fidelity customers’ financial info feared stolen in suspected ransomware attack

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Insurance giant blames Infosys, LockBit claims credit

Criminals have probably stolen nearly 30,000 Fidelity Investments Life Insurance customers’ personal and financial information — including bank account and routing numbers, credit card numbers and security or access codes — after breaking into Infosys’ IT systems in the fall.…

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Is this statement true: Congress and the states have the power to amend the Constitution, not the Supreme Court.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Congress and the states have the power to amend the Constitution, not the Supreme Court.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The "Supreme Court" did more than law-making, they usurped the power to amend the Constitution. Not sure who's the bigger insurrectionist, Trump or these people.

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Oregon Passes Bill That Would Make iPhones More Repairable Everywhere

date: 2024-03-05, from: 404 Media Group

The bill was passed over the objections of Apple lobbyists and would ban Apple’s favorite repair restriction.

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Jupiter’s Moon Europa May Have Less Oxygen Than Previously Thought

date: 2024-03-05, from: Smithsonian Magazine

The new findings could have implications for whether Europa’s vast ocean contains the conditions necessary to support life

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The NASA Space Technology Art Challenge: Imagine Tomorrow

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program wants you to show the world the future of space technology. The NIAC Program is looking for posters that help people better understand these visionary aerospace concepts that might be used in future NASA missions. If you can create an engaging poster that depicts one or more of the innovative […]

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/stmd-prizes-challenges-crowdsourcing-program/center-of-excellence-for-collaborative-innovation-coeci/the-nasa-space-technology-art-challenge-imagine-tomorrow/ Save to Pocket

Dartmouth Basketball Team Votes to Form First Union in US College Sports

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

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The Windows Subsystem for Android has one year to live (Microsoft pulls the plug on March 5, 2025)

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

The Windows Subsystem for Android (WSA) is a Windows 11 feature that lets you install and run Android apps on a Windows computer. Microsoft first previewed the feature in 2021, rolled out a preview to beta testers a few months later, followed by a public beta in early 2022 and a wider launch later that […]

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The GMC Hummer SUV Is The First EV On This ‘Meanest’ Cars For The Environment List

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

The all-electric SUV’s huge weight makes it a not-so-green choice.

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Visual Effects Oscar Nominees Go In-Depth On Their Work

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Velotric Discover 1 e-bike now $1,099 ($500 off), Juicebox EV charger hits $529, and more

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Headlining today’s green deals is the spring into March sale from Velotric Bikes that is taking up to $500 off a selection of e-bikes as well as offering bundle deals for certain models, led by the Discover 1 e-bike for $1,099 with two bundle options available. It is joined by a rare discount on the Juicebox 48A Level 2 EV Charger at $529, as well as the Jackery Explorer 2000 Pro Portable Power Station for $1,199. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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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With Midwest expansion, the Pivot Fund tries to put grassroots news sources on philanthropy’s radar

date: 2024-03-05, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

A couple of weeks ago, Press Forward announced 11 new local chapters among the latest developments in the growing coalition’s movement to invest at least $500 million into local news over five years, and recruit more funders to that cause. Leaders of that coalition, which now comprises more than 40 funders, also shared a Guide…

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Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage

Amazon Web Services has joined Google in waiving egress fees for customers looking to ditch its platform for a rival cloud provider or on-prem datacenter.…

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Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2024 Recap!

date: 2024-03-05, from: Association of Research Libraries News

Last Updated on March 5, 2024, 1:55 pm ET Last week, the library community celebrated the 11th annual Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week! Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing…

The post Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2024 Recap! appeared first on Association of Research Libraries.

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This Is When Washington, D.C.’s Cherry Trees Are Predicted to Bloom This Year

date: 2024-03-05, from: Smithsonian Magazine

“Peak bloom,” which typically falls in late March or early April, refers to the day when at least 70 percent of the trees have blossomed

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FCC: April is last month for Affordable Connectivity Program payments

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

US broadband customers prepare for the great disconnection

The end is nigh for the US Affordable Connectivity Program, with April being the final full month of the program.…

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Jennifer Krottinger: Designing Ways to Serve

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

At NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, Jennifer Krottinger pairs her artistic vision with a passion for public service. Name: Jennifer KrottingerTitle: Business ManagerFormal Job Classification: Business Management SpecialistOrganization: Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Science and Exploration Directorate (Code 611) What do you do and what is most interesting about your […]

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“The first over-the-counter birth control pill will be available in U.S. stores…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Dodge Charger Daytona EV unveiled as first electric muscle car with Hellcat performance

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Dodge revealed the new 2024 Dodge Charger Daytona EV for the first time Tuesday. Retaining its title as the “world’s quickest and most powerful muscle car,” the electric Dodge Charger will deliver Hellcat Redeye levels of performance.

more…

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Meta’s Facebook, Instagram Back Up After Global Outage

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

Washington — Meta-owned Facebook and Instagram were back up on Tuesday after a more than two-hour outage that was caused by a technical issue and impacted hundreds of thousands of users globally.

The disruptions started at around 10:00 a.m. ET (1500 GMT), with many users saying on rival social media platform X they had been booted out of Facebook and Instagram and were unable to log in.

“We are aware of the incident and at this time, we are not aware of any specific malicious cyber activity at this time,” a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council said.

At the peak of the outage, there were more than 550,000 reports of disruptions for Facebook and about 92,000 for Instagram, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

“Earlier today, a technical issue caused people to have difficulty accessing some of our services. We resolved the issue … for everyone who was impacted,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said in a post on X.

Meta Platforms, shares of which were down 1.2% in afternoon trading, has about 3.19 billion daily active users across its family of apps, which also include WhatsApp and Threads.

Its status dashboard had earlier showed the application programming interface for WhatsApp Business was also facing issues.

Though the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was much smaller, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including users.

Several employees of Meta said on anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to log in to their internal work systems, which left them wondering if they were laid off, according to posts seen by Reuters.

The outage was among the top trending topics on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform’s owner Elon Musk taking a shot at Meta with a post that said: “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”

X itself has faced several disruptions to its service after Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform in October 2022, with an outage in December causing issues for more than 77,000 users in countries from the U.S. to France.

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Volcon’s Stag UTV Has Entered Production and Looks Sick

date: 2024-03-05, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

The Stag, touted as the world’s fastest electric UTV, has entered production.

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Microsoft kills Windows Subsystem for Android

date: 2024-03-05, from: OS News

Well, that was a short run. Announced with much fanfare in 2021, Microsoft has announced it’s already killing Windows Subsystem for Android, Microsoft’s solution to run Android applications on Windows 11. Microsoft is ending support for the Windows Subsystem for Android™️ (WSA). As a result, the Amazon Appstore on Windows and all applications and games dependent on WSA will no longer be supported beginning March 5, 2025. Until then, technical support will remain available to customers. Customers that have installed the Amazon Appstore or Android apps prior to March 5, 2024, will continue to have access to those apps through the deprecation date of March 5, 2025. Please reach out to our support team for further questions at support.microsoft.com. We are grateful for the support of our developer community and remain committed to listening to feedback as we evolve experiences. ↫ Microsoft’s Learn website Whenever Microsoft offers a way or an API to run and/or develop applications for Windows, and it isn’t Win32, you can be certain they’re going to kill it within a few years.

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March 4, 2024

date: 2024-03-05, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Super Tuesday Facebook Outage Stirs Election Conspiracies

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Kate Wagner (from McMansion Hell) was sent to an F1 race by…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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15 US States Vote in Super Tuesday Presidential Nominating Elections

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

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Report: AI Explorer coming to Windows 11 this fall (Copilot that remembers, helps you find anything you’ve done on your PC)

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

PC makers have begun referring to the latest laptops with Intel Core Ultra, AMD Ryzen 8040, and Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite chips as “AI PCs” thanks to the advanced neural processing units integrated in each of those processors. But it’s a little vague what actually makes these “AI PCs” at this point. According to Windows […]

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A Great EV Fast-Charging Station Will Probably Be Like A Great Gas Station

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

EV drivers want many of the same amenities that gas car owners regularly use, like air pumps, vacuums, and convenience store items nearby.

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AMD hires former Oak Ridge chief to punt AI to governments

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

You get a ‘sovereign’ AI, and you get a ‘sovereign’ AI, everybody gets a ‘sovereign’ AI

AMD is betting that it can get governments and other public bodies to sign off on investment in AI infrastructure by enlisting the former head of America’s prestigious Oak Ridge National Laboratory research center.…

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Growing Up Asian – Hall and Chan Family Photos

date: 2024-03-05, from: Internet Archive Blog

Please come join us as the Internet Archive partners with the Skyline College Art Gallery for the viewing of “Portraits of Growing Up Asian,” a photo exhibition that tells a […]

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Screen shot

date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

A new version of news.scripting.com went up today.

I like to save a screen shot when a new version of something goes up.

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MG roadster set for UK return – Cyberster specs, colors, and more

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

The highly-anticipated return of the drop-top MG to British soil is right around the corner – and we’ve got the UK launch specs for the hottest electric roadster you can buy today.

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US accuses Army vet cyber-Casanova of sharing Russia-Ukraine war secrets

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Where better to expose confidential data than on a dating app?

Yet another US military man is facing a potentially significant stretch in prison after allegedly sending secret national defense information (NDI) overseas.…

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

BTW, in case you’re wondering where “still diggin!” came from – here’s the deal. I have a feeling that when I develop software it’s a lot like digging a hole and then starting another, and another and using the dirt from a new hole to fill in the old holes. At any time there’s more or less a constant amount of dirt and holes. It seems futile at first look, and second looks and third looks, but we do eventually get somewhere, or so we hope, maybe. It’s like “even worse than it appears.” Still diggin is meant to say we know it’s really futile, you don’t have to point that out, we never actually go anywhere or do anything, but we feel somehow that next time it really will work. It’s a Vonnegut-like or Deadhead-like philosophy, which is also very Postel-like. In other words, realistic.

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BYD Cuts Prices In China, Goes To War Against ICE Cars And Tesla Too

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

The BYD Yuan Plus Honor edition is the latest in a refreshed BYD lineup that trims 5 to 15% percent off prices.

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Digital archives: a time machine for the web

date: 2024-03-05, from: Internet Archive Blog

This post was originally published in a newsletter by Project Liberty, February 20, 2024. Image by Project Liberty. In the summer of 2023, the New York Times ran an article […]

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We Can’t Stop Ogling At These Fancy Forged Wheels From Gale Speed

date: 2024-03-05, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

The new Type-J pays homage to the iconic styling of the 70s and 80s.

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Getting Out the Vote: Indian Reorganization Act Elections on the Rez

date: 2024-03-05, from: National Archives, Text Message blog

Today’s post is by Cody White, Archivist at the National Archives at Denver and Subject Matter Expert for Native American Related Records It was the day of the election. Debates had gone back and forth over the past year, voting dates had moved around, a parade of folks had stumped the country drumming up support … Continue reading Getting Out the Vote: Indian Reorganization Act Elections on the Rez

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Nothing Phone (2a) is a cheap(er) phone with premium features

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

The Nothing Phone (2a) is the third smartphone from Nothing, but it’s the company’s first budget model, with prices starting at £319 in the UK, €329 in Europe, and $349 in the United States (although it will only be available in the US through a developer program at launch). But while that makes this new […]

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

The new version of news.scripting.com is up. It’s been a long time coming. It looks a lot like the previous version. But it’s faster. And if you poke around you’ll find some new stuff. There’s an About page, linked into the info icon at the top of the page. Basically the dust is settling on the big work we did last year, and now things are starting to feel more like products. I don’t doubt there will be problems, as they say, still diggin! 😄

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Based on your feedback & bug reports, I’ve made some changes to…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Volvo EX30 boosts EV sales share in February to reach a new record at 22%

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Volvo reached its highest-ever share of electrified vehicles as its new fully electric EX30 boosted EV sales in February. Although overall sales slid 2% last month, Volvo’s fully electric vehicle sales were up 14%, reaching a new record share.

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Future, Civilization & Change

date: 2024-03-05, from: Om Malik blog

What is dystopia? What is technology? What is progress? What is society? What is civilization? It’s all a moving target. What seems like dystopia, seems normal eventually. I was reminded of this when I read a piece by Mahatma Gandhi, originally published in 1909. He was writing about a future now all too present around us. Everything is all …

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Rad Power Bikes unveils 4 new e-bikes & faster speeds in biggest shakeup yet

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Rad Power Bikes, the Seattle-based electric bike maker that spent years at the top of the US e-bike sellers list, has occasionally rolled out major updates alongside the launch of a new model. But today the company is announcing the biggest shakeup in its history, simultaneously debuting two brand new e-bike models, two majorly updated e-bike models, and new battery technology that could help push the industry towards safer batteries. The Rad lineup is now welcoming the new Radster Road and Radster Trail e-bikes, as well as the RadWagon 5 and the RadExpand 5 Plus models.

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The GPD Win 4 (2024) handheld gaming PC is now available with a Ryzen 7 8840U processor

date: 2024-03-05, from: Liliputing

The GPD Win 4 is a handheld gaming PC with a display that slides upward to reveal a physical keyboard. First launched in 2022 with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800U processor, GPD released an updated model with Ryzen 7040U processor options in 2023. And now the company has updated the processor yet again: you can […]

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Running CP/M on the C128

date: 2024-03-05, from: OS News

I owned a C64 and was familiar with the C128, but this one was odd. It wasn’t running any games, color graphics or playing music. Instead, it was connected to a monochrome monitor which always displayed either a weird command line prompt or what seemed to be some boring professional writing software. I soon came to find that it was running CP/M and WordStar, one of the first word processors for microcomputers. My daily obsessive visits to the computer shop led to some friendship with the owner, to the point that he’d let me in and play with the machines. So, I played with CP/M and learned how to use WordStar. Well, in case you didn’t notice, I own a C128DCR now. This blog is about how I got CP/M, WordStar, and other fun ancient software apps running on it. ↫ Celso Martinho CP/M, of course, was the primary influence of DOS.

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IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk’s social media thing

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Just a little FYI

Video and audio calling features for X Premium users added last year to Elon Musk’s version of Twitter have been expanded to everyone on the platform, and FYI: It may reveal your IP address to those you’re nattering away to.…

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World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Millions of Meta addicts suddenly cried out in terror and were silenced

Updated  Those trying to log into Meta’s Facebook, Instagram, and Threads for their social media fixes are facing panic this morning after being locked out of their accounts.…

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Facebook and Instagram outage: Widespread disruption disrupts services

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Meta’s platforms, including Facebook and Instagram, went down for thousands of users on Tuesday.

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Facing reality, whether it’s about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management

date: 2024-03-05, from: OS News

Baldur Bjarnason has written an excellent piece to explain why, exactly, companies like Apple seem wholly incapable of working with the EU, instead of against it. He argues – quite effectively – that Apple, and US tech punditry in general, simply do not understand the EU, nor are they willing to spend even 10 minutes to understand it, which is really all you need. The core premise of the EU, its very primary function, is to enable and protect the single market. A great example of this is the ban on roaming charges – mobile phone carriers in EU are not allowed to charge extra for using mobile voice and data services in another EU country. From the EU’s perspective, taking action to prevent private parties from fragmenting and taking private control over the single market simultaneously grew the economy and increased consumer surplus. This is the operating theory behind much of the actions the EU takes regarding market regulation and product standardisation: a single market built on standards is more profitable for both businesses and consumers. ↫ Baldur Bjarnason And because Apple and its tech punditry refuse to try and understand the party they are dealing with, they get caught looking like childish idiots every time they open their mouths about it. Normally when the EU regulates a given sector, it does so with ample lead time and works with industry to make sure that they understand their obligations. Apple instead thought that the regulatory contact from the EU during the lead time to the DMA was an opportunity for it to lecture the EU on its right to exist. Then its executives made up some fiction in their own minds as to what the regulation meant, announced their changes, only to discover later that they were full of bullshit. This was entirely Apple’s own fault. For months, we’ve been hearing leaks about Apple’s talks with the EU about the Digital Market Act. Those talks were not negotiations even though Apple seems to have thought they were. Talks like those are to help companies implement incoming regulations, with some leeway for interpretation on the EU’s side to accommodate business interests. Remember what I wrote about electrical plugs? The EU is pro-business – often criticised for being essentially a pro-business entity – and not in favour of regulation for regulation’s sake. If Apple had faced reality and tried to understand the facts as they are, they would have used the talks to clarify all of these issues and more well in advance of the DMA taking effect. But they didn’t because they have caught the tech industry management disease of demanding that reality bend to their ideas and wishes. ↫ Baldur Bjarnason What a lot of people – both inside and outside the EU – do not grasp is that while we all know the EU has shortcomings and issues, in general, the EU is uncharacteristically (for a government agency) popular among EU citizens, no matter the country of origin. That’s because we, as EU citizens, and especially as EU citizens who do anything international, know just how ridiculously beneficial the EU has been for trade, business, the economy, travel, and so much more. Apple can keep acting like a whiny trust fund boy who thinks the world owes them everything, but they’ll have to deal with the consequences. Continued violation of the DMA can lead to fines of up to 10% of revenue. That’s 38 billion dollars. I secretly hope Apple keeps this childish behaviour up. It’s deeply entertaining.

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Mercedes-Benz launches branded Wallbox charger across US, included with certain EVs

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Mercedes-Benz shared that its new Wallbox EV charger is now available to customers throughout the US. The Level 2 home charger was designed in true Mercedes-Benz style and has internet-connected capabilities like remote functions and over-the-air updates. Specific Mercedes customers can receive a complimentary Wallbox charger with an EV purchase.

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Taylor Swift urges fans to vote on Super Tuesday after sparking concerns for her health during Singapore show

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Swift used her considerable influence to encourage fans to vote today, after fans expressed concerns about her coughing and looking ‘tired’ and in need of ‘rest’ while performing in Singapore Monday night.

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Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

One of the US’s largest nuclear power plants will directly power cloud service provider Amazon Web Services’ new data center.

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Extraordinarily Effective Trompe l’Oeil Paintings of Paper Craft

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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2024 Dodge Charger Daytona Coupe And Sedan: Meet The First EV Muscle Cars

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

Dodge’s first electric cars go hard out of the gate with up to 670 horsepower and a thunderous simulated exhaust.

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Copilot pane as annoying as Clippy may pop up in Windows 11

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

It’s in the Beta Channel build for now… but oh my, you’re not going to love this

Copilot in Windows is set to get even more assertive after Microsoft added a function that makes the AI assistant’s window pop up after a user’s cursor hovers over the icon in the task bar.…

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Breaking the Logjam: How to Start a Process That Leads to Negotiations

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: RAND blog

It is too early to begin real talks between Russia and Ukraine. And Kyiv would have to be in the lead when they begin. But all parties should take steps now to bring about the possibility of talks in the future.

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Two New Exciting Venues Included in the 2024 SMX Series

date: 2024-03-05, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

What venue would you have chosen to re-host in 2024?

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Microsoft’s Archival Storage Research

date: 2024-03-05, from: David Rosenthal’s blog

• The value that can be extracted from data decays rapidly with time.
• Thus companies would rather invest in current than archival data.
• Thus archival media and systems are a niche market.
• Thus archival media and systems lack the manufacturing volume to drive down prices.
• Thus although quasi-immortal media have low opex (running cost), they have high capex (purchase cost).
• Especially now interest rates are non-zero, the high capex makes the net present value of their lifetime cost high.
• Archival media compete with legacy generic media, which have mass-market volumes and have already amortized their R&D, so have low capex but higher opex through their shorter service lives.
• Because they have much higher volumes and thus much more R&D, generic media have much higher Kryder rates, meaning that although they need to be replaced over time, each new unit at approximately equal cost replaces several old units, reducing opex.
• Especially now interest rates are non-zero, the net present value of the lower capex but higher opex is likely very competitive.

Background

aimed at limiting the worst-case power draw. It exploits the fact that this storage is at the bottom of the storage hierarchy and can tolerate significant access latency. Disks are assigned to groups in equal numbers. One group of disks is spun up at a time in rotation, so the worst-case access latency is the time needed to cycle through all the disk groups. But the worst-case power draw is only that for a single group of disks and enough compute to handle a single group.

Why is this important? Because of the synergistic effects knowing the maximum power draw enables. The power supplies can be much smaller, and because the access time is not critical, need not be duplicated. Because Facebook builds entire data centers for cold storage, the data center needs much less power and cooling. It can be more like cheap warehouse space than expensive data center space. Aggregating these synergistic cost savings at data center scale leads to really significant savings.

It has 12 Blu-ray drives for an entire rack of cartridges holding 10,000 100TB Blu-ray disks managed by a robot. When the robot loads a group of 12 fresh Blu-ray disks into the drives, the appropriate amount of data to fill them is read from the currently active hard disk group and written to them. This scheduling of the writes allows for effective use of the limited write capacity of the Blu-ray drives. If the data are ever read, a specific group has to be loaded into the drives, interrupting the flow of writes, but this is a rare occurrence. Once all 10,000 disks in a rack have been written, the disks will be loaded for reads infrequently. Most of the time the entire Petabyte rack will sit there idle.

No-one expects the racks to sit in the data center for 50 years, at some point before then they will be obsoleted by some unknown new, much denser and more power-efficient cold storage medium

Every few months there is another press release announcing that some new, quasi-immortal medium such as 5D quartz or stone DVDs has solved the problem of long-term storage. But the problem stays resolutely unsolved. Why is this? Very long-lived media are inherently more expensive, and are a niche market, so they lack economies of scale. Seagate could easily make disks with archival life, but they did a study of the market for them, and discovered that no-one would pay the relatively small additional cost. The drives currently marketed for “archival” use have a shorter warranty and a shorter MTBF than the enterprise drives, so they’re not expected to have long service lives.

The fundamental problem is that long-lived media only make sense at very low Kryder rates. Even if the rate is only 10%/yr, after 10 years you could store the same data in 1/3 the space. Since space in the data center racks or even at Iron Mountain isn’t free, this is a powerful incentive to move old media out. If you believe that Kryder rates will get back to 30%/yr, after a decade you could store 30 times as much data in the same space.

While a group of disks is spun up, any reads queued up for that group are performed. But almost all the I/O operations to this design are writes. Writes are erasure-coded, and the shards all written to different disks in the same group. In this way, while a group is spun up, all disks in the group are writing simultaneously providing huge write bandwidth. When the group is spun down, the disks in the next group take over, and the high write bandwidth is only briefly interrupted.

DNA

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This single-channel device, which occupied a tabletop, had a throughput of 5 bytes over approximately 21 hours, with all but 40 minutes of that time consumed in writing “HELLO” into the DNA.

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Prior projections for data storage requirements estimated a global need for about 12 million petabytes of capacity by 2030. The research firm Gartner recently issued new projections, raising that estimate by 20 million petabytes. The world is not on track to produce enough of today’s storage technologies to fill that gap.

Engineers, your challenge is to increase the speed of synthesis by a factor of a quarter of a trillion, while reducing the cost by a factor of fifty trillion, in less than 10 years while spending no more than $24M/yr.

Finance team, your challenge is to persuade the company to spend $24M a year for the next 10 years for a product that can then earn about $216M a year for 10 years.

For a DNA drive to compete with today’s archival tape drives, it must be able to write about 2 gigabits per second, which at demonstrated DNA data storage densities is about 2 billion bases per second. To put that in context, I estimate that the total global market for synthetic DNA today is no more than about 10 terabases per year, which is the equivalent of about 300,000 bases per second over a year. The entire DNA synthesis industry would need to grow by approximately 4 orders of magnitude just to compete with a single tape drive.

One of our goals was to build a semiconductor chip to enable high-density, high-throughput DNA synthesis. That chip, which we completed in 2021, demonstrated that it is possible to digitally control electrochemical processes in millions of 650-nanometer-diameter wells.

The main problem is that it employs a volatile, corrosive, and toxic organic solvent (acetonitrile), which no engineer wants anywhere near the electronics of a working data center.

Moreover, based on a sustainability analysis of a theoretical DNA data center performed my colleagues at Microsoft, I conclude that the volume of acetonitrile required for just one large data center, never mind many large data centers, would become logistically and economically prohibitive.

Fortunately, there is a different emerging technology for constructing DNA that does not require such solvents, but instead uses a benign salt solution. Companies like DNA Script and Molecular Assemblies are commercializing automated systems that use enzymes to synthesize DNA. These techniques are replacing traditional chemical DNA synthesis for some applications in the biotechnology industry. The current generation of systems use either simple plumbing or light to control synthesis reactions. But it’s difficult to envision how they can be scaled to achieve a high enough throughput to enable a DNA data-storage device operating at even a fraction of 2 gigabases per second.

The University of Washington and Microsoft team, collaborating with the enzymatic synthesis company Ansa Biotechnologies, recently took the first step toward this device. Using our high-density chip, we successfully demonstrated electrochemical control of single-base enzymatic additions.

Novel enzymatic methods are poised to become the dominant processes for de novo synthesis of DNA, promising functional, economic, and environmental advantages over the longstanding approach of phosphoramidite synthesis. Before this can occur, however, enzymatic synthesis methods must be parallelized to enable production of multiple DNA sequences simultaneously. As a means to this parallelization, we report a polymerase-nucleotide conjugate that is cleaved using electrochemical oxidation on a microelectrode array. The developed conjugate maintains polymerase activity toward surface-bound substrates with single-base control and detaches from the surface at mild oxidative voltages, leaving an extendable oligonucleotide behind. Our approach readies the way for enzymatic DNA synthesis on the scale necessary for DNA-intensive applications such as DNA data storage or gene synthesis.

Silica

In 2009, Hitachi focused on fused silica known for its excellent heat and water resistance as a recording medium for long-term digital storage. After proposing the use of computed tomography to read data recorded with a femtosecond pulse laser, fused silica glass was confirmed as an effective storage medium. Applying this technology, it is possible to achieve multi-layer recording by changing the laser’s focal point to form microscopic regions (dots) with differing refractive indices. In 2012, a method was developed with Kyoto University to read the recorded dots in 4 layers using an optical microscope (recording density equivalent to a CD), and in 2013, 26 layer recording was achieved (recording density equivalent to a DVD). In order to increase recording density for practical applications, one means is to increase the number of recording layers. At the 100-layer level of recording density equivalent to a Blu-ray disc however issues arose in dot quality degradation and read errors resulting from crosstalk of data recorded in other layers.

Technologies like DNA storage offer the promise of an extremely dense media for long-term data storage. However, the high costs and low throughputs of oligonucleotide synthesis and sequencing continue to hamper the technology’s feasibility. The total amount of data demonstrably stored in DNA remains on the order of MBs, and building a functional storage system that can offer reasonable SLAs underpinned by DNA is a substantial challenge. Alternative DNA-based technologies like dNAM attempt to bypass costly sequencing and synthesis steps, sacrificing density down to densities comparable with magnetic tape.

This paper presents Silica: the first cloud storage system for archival data underpinned by quartz glass, an extremely resilient media that allows data to be left in situ indefinitely. The hardware and software of Silica have been co-designed and co-optimized from the media up to the service level with sustainability as a primary objective. The design follows a cloud-first, data-driven methodology underpinned by principles derived from analyzing the archival workload of a large public cloud service.

on average for every MB read there are 47 MBs written, and for every read operation there are 174 writes. We can see some variation across months, but writes always dominate by over an order of magnitude.
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Small files dominate the workload, with 58.7% of the reads for files of 4 MiB or smaller. However, these reads only contribute 1.2% of the volume of data read. Files larger than 256 MiB comprise around 85% of bytes read but less than 2% of total read requests. Additionally, there is a long tail of request sizes: there is ∼ 10 orders of magnitude between the smallest and largest requested file sizes.
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We observe a variability in the workload within data centers, with up to 7 orders of magnitude difference between the median and the tail, as well as large variability across different data centers.
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At the granularity of a day, the peak daily [ingress] rate is ∼16x higher than the mean daily rate. As the aggregation time increases beyond 30 days, the peak over mean ratio decreases significantly down to only ∼2, indicating that the average write rate is similar across different 30-day windows.
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To summarize, as expected for archival storage, the workload is heavily write-dominated. However, unexpectedly, the IO operations are dominated by small file accesses.

Figure 3

A BLOB is a Binary Large OBject. Each type of BLOB contains a single type of immutable binary content, such as photos, videos, documents, etc.
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Figure 3 shows that the rate of I/O requests to BLOBs drops rapidly through time. The rates for different types of BLOB drop differently, but all 9 types have dropped by 2 orders of magnitude within 8 months, and all but 1 (profile photos) have dropped by an order of magnitude within the first week.

The vast majority of Facebook’s BLOBs are warm, as shown in Figure 5 - notice the scale goes from 80-100%. Thus the vast majority of the BLOBs generate I/O rates at least 2 orders of magnitude less than recently generated BLOBs.

Figure 5

• Microsoft stores generic data and depends upon user action to migrate it down the hierarchy to the archive layer, whereas Facebook stores 9 specific types of application data which is migrated automatically based upon detailed knowledge of the workload for each of the types.
• Because Facebook can migrate data automatically, it can interpose a warm layer above the archive layer of the hierarchy, and because it has detailed knowledge about the behavior of each of the data types it can make good decision about when to move each type down the hierarchy.
• Because the warm layer responds to the vast majority of the read requests and schedules the downward migrations, Facebook’s archive layer’s IOPS are a steady flow of large writes with very few reads, making efficient use of the hardware.

Figure 2

At the granularity of a day, the peak daily rate is ∼16x higher than the mean daily rate.

As different technologies are used to read and write, after a platter is written it must be fully read using the same technology that will be used to read it subsequently. This happens before a platter is stored in the library and any staged write data is deleted.

This design has an interesting consequence: during the period when user data is being written into the library, the workload is going to become read-dominated. Every byte written must be read to be verified, in addition to the user reads. The read bandwidth has to be provisioned for peak user read rate, however the read workloads are very bursty, so read drive utilization is extremely low on average. Thus, the verification workload simply utilizes what would otherwise be idle read drives.

This allows independent scaling of read and write throughput. Additionally, this design allows us to create the first storage system that offers true air-gap-by-design: the robotics are unable to insert a glass platter into a write drive once the glass media has been written.

To enable high drive efficiency, two platters can be mounted simultaneously in a read drive: one undergoing verification, and one servicing a customer read. Customer traffic is prioritized over verification, with the read drive switching away when a platter is mounted for a customer read. As soon as the customer platter stops being accessed, the read drive has the ability to quickly switch to the other platter and continue verification. This is similar to avoiding head-of-line blocking of mice flows by elephant flows in networked systems.

A Silica library is a sequence of contiguous write, read, and storage racks interconnected by a platter delivery system. Along all racks there are parallel horizontal rails that span the entire library. We refer to a side of the library (spanning all racks) as a panel. A set of free roaming robots called shuttles are used to move platters between locations.
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A read rack contains multiple read drives. Each read drive is independent and has slots into which platters are inserted and removed. The number of shuttles active on a panel is limited to twice the number of read drives in the panel. The write drive is full-rack-sized and writes multiple platters concurrently.

The Silica read drives use polarization microscopy, which is a commoditized technique widely used in many applications and is low-cost. Currently, system cost in Silica is dominated by the write drives, as they use femtosecond lasers which are currently expensive and used in niche applications. This highlights the importance of resource proportionality in the system, as write drive utilization needs to be maximized in order to minimize costs. As the Silica technology proliferates, it will drive up the demand for femtosecond lasers, commoditizing the technology.

Conclusion

time-scales in the storage industry are long. Disk is a 60-year-old technology, tape is at least 65 years old, CDs are 35 years old, flash is 30 years old and has yet to impact bulk data storage.

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Six years on flash has finally impacted the bulk storage market, but it isn’t predicted to ship as many bits as hard disks for another four years, when it will be a 40-year-old technology. Actual demonstrations of DNA storage are only 12 years old, and similar demonstrations of silica media are 15 years old. History suggests it will be decades before these technologies impact the storage market.

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Explaining a major health care ransomware attack

date: 2024-03-05, from: Marketplace Morning Report

There’s news this morning that UnitedHealth paid $22 million to recover systems from a ransomeware gang. The attack impacted a number of doctor’s clinics, especially in rural areas, and some pharmacies struggled to fill prescriptions as a result. Also on the program, we hear more about the state of Japan’s economy, a new satellite that detects methane gas leaks and club closures across the U.K. amid fizzling weeknight business.

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Covert racism in LLMs

date: 2024-03-05, from: Gary Marcus blog

Shocking new paper with potentially serious implications

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European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls

date: 2024-03-05, from: OS News

The European organisation for crash testing and car safety, Euro NCAP has announced that starting in 2026, cars will need physical controls in their interiors to gain the highest safety ratings. “The overuse of touchscreens is an industry-wide problem, with almost every vehicle-maker moving key controls onto central touchscreens, obliging drivers to take their eyes off the road and raising the risk of distraction crashes,” said Matthew Avery, Euro NCAP’s director of strategic development. “New Euro NCAP tests due in 2026 will encourage manufacturers to use separate, physical controls for basic functions in an intuitive manner, limiting eyes-off-road time and therefore promoting safer driving,” he said. ↫ Jonathan M. Gitlin at Ars Technica Excellent news, and it’s taken regulators and safety organisations way too long to long to adapt to the growing menace of touch screens in cars.

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Why Are There So Many Methane Satellites?

date: 2024-03-05, from: Heatmap News

On Monday afternoon, a satellite the size of a washing machine hitched a ride on a SpaceX rocket and was launched into orbit. MethaneSAT, as the new satellite is called, is the latest to join more than a dozen other instruments currently circling the Earth monitoring emissions of the ultra-powerful greenhouse gas methane. But it won’t be the last. Over the next several months, at least two additional methane-detecting satellites from the U.S. and Japan are scheduled to join the fleet.

There’s a joke among scientists that there are so many methane-detecting satellites in space that they are reducing global warming — not just by providing essential data about emissions, but by blocking radiation from the sun.

So why do we keep launching more?

Despite the small army of probes in orbit, and an increasingly large fleet of methane-detecting planes and drones closer to the ground, our ability to identify where methane is leaking into the atmosphere is still far too limited. Like carbon dioxide, sources of methane around the world are numerous and diffuse. They can be natural, like wetlands and oceans, or man-made, like decomposing manure on farms, rotting waste in landfills, and leaks from oil and gas operations.

There are big, unanswered questions about methane, about which sources are driving the most emissions, and consequently, about tackling climate change, that scientists say MethaneSAT will help solve. But even then, some say we’ll need to launch even more instruments into space to really get to the bottom of it all.

Measuring methane from space only began in 2009 with the launch of the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite, or GOSAT, by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency. Previously, most of the world’s methane detectors were on the ground in North America. GOSAT enabled scientists to develop a more geographically diverse understanding of major sources of methane to the atmosphere.

Soon after, the Environmental Defense Fund, which led the development of MethaneSAT, began campaigning for better data on methane emissions. Through its own, on-the-ground measurements, the group discovered that the Environmental Protection Agency’s estimates of leaks from U.S. oil and gas operations were totally off. EDF took this as a call to action. Because methane has such a strong warming effect, but also breaks down after about a decade in the atmosphere, curbing methane emissions can slow warming in the near-term.

“Some call it the low hanging fruit,” Steven Hamburg, the chief scientist at EDF leading the MethaneSAT project, said during a press conference on Friday. “I like to call it the fruit lying on the ground. We can really reduce those emissions and we can do it rapidly and see the benefits.”

But in order to do that, we need a much better picture than what GOSAT or other satellites like it can provide.

In the years since GOSAT launched, the field of methane monitoring has exploded. Today, there are two broad categories of methane instruments in space. Area flux mappers, like GOSAT, take global snapshots. They can show where methane concentrations are generally higher, and even identify exceptionally large leaks — so-called “ultra-emitters.” But the vast majority of leaks, big and small, are invisible to these instruments. Each pixel in a GOSAT image is 10 kilometers wide. Most of the time, there’s no way to zoom into the picture and see which facilities are responsible.

Jacob, D. J., Varon, D. J., Cusworth, D. H., Dennison, P. E., Frankenberg, C., Gautam, R., Guanter, L., Kelley, J., McKeever, J., Ott, L. E., Poulter, B., Qu, Z., Thorpe, A. K., Worden, J. R., and Duren, R. M.: Quantifying methane emissions from the global scale down to point sources using satellite observations of atmospheric methane, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 22, 9617–9646, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-22-9617-2022, 2022.

Point source imagers, on the other hand, take much smaller photos that have much finer resolution, with pixel sizes down to just a few meters wide. That means they provide geographically limited data — they have to be programmed to aim their lenses at very specific targets. But within each image is much more actionable data.

For example, GHGSat, a private company based in Canada, operates a constellation of 12 point-source satellites, each one about the size of a microwave oven. Oil and gas companies and government agencies pay GHGSat to help them identify facilities that are leaking. Jean-Francois Gauthier, the director of business development at GHGSat, told me that each image taken by one of their satellites is 12 kilometers wide, but the resolution for each pixel is 25 meters. A snapshot of the Permian Basin, a major oil and gas producing region in Texas, might contain hundreds of oil and gas wells, owned by a multitude of companies, but GHGSat can tell them apart and assign responsibility.

“We’ll see five, 10, 15, 20 different sites emitting at the same time and you can differentiate between them,” said Gauthier. “You can see them very distinctly on the map and be able to say, alright, that’s an unlit flare, and you can tell which company it is, too.” Similarly, GHGSat can look at a sprawling petrochemical complex and identify the exact tank or pipe that has sprung a leak.

But between this extremely wide-angle lens, and the many finely-tuned instruments pointing at specific targets, there’s a gap. “It might seem like there’s a lot of instruments in space, but we don’t have the kind of coverage that we need yet, believe it or not,” Andrew Thorpe, a research technologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told me. He has been working with the nonprofit Carbon Mapper on a new constellation of point source imagers, the first of which is supposed to launch later this year.

The reason why we don’t have enough coverage has to do with the size of the existing images, their resolution, and the amount of time it takes to get them. One of the challenges, Thorpe said, is that it’s very hard to get a continuous picture of any given leak. Oil and gas equipment can spring leaks at random. They can leak continuously or intermittently. If you’re just getting a snapshot every few weeks, you may not be able to tell how long a leak lasted, or you might miss a short but significant plume. Meanwhile, oil and gas fields are also changing on a weekly basis, Joost de Gouw, an atmospheric chemist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, told me. New wells are being drilled in new places — places those point-source imagers may not be looking at.

“There’s a lot of potential to miss emissions because we’re not looking,” he said. “If you combine that with clouds — clouds can obscure a lot of our observations — there are still going to be a lot of times when we’re not actually seeing the methane emissions.”

De Gouw hopes MethaneSAT will help resolve one of the big debates about methane leaks. Between the millions of sites that release small amounts of methane all the time, and the handful of sites that exhale massive plumes infrequently, which is worse? What fraction of the total do those bigger emitters represent?

Paul Palmer, a professor at the University of Edinburgh who studies the Earth’s atmospheric composition, is hopeful that it will help pull together a more comprehensive picture of what’s driving changes in the atmosphere. Around the turn of the century, methane levels pretty much leveled off, he said. But then, around 2007, they started to grow again, and have since accelerated. Scientists have reached different conclusions about why.

“There’s lots of controversy about what the big drivers are,” Palmer told me. Some think it’s related to oil and gas production increasing. Others — and he’s in this camp — think it’s related to warming wetlands. “Anything that helps us would be great.”

MethaneSAT sits somewhere between the global mappers and point source imagers. It will take larger images than GHGSat, each one 200 kilometers wide, which means it will be able to cover more ground in a single day. Those images will also contain finer detail about leaks than GOSAT, but they won’t necessarily be able to identify exactly which facilities the smaller leaks are coming from. Also, unlike with GHGSat, MethaneSAT’s data will be freely available to the public.

EDF, which raised $88 million for the project and spent nearly a decade working on it, says that one of MethaneSAT’s main strengths will be to provide much more accurate basin-level emissions estimates. That means it will enable researchers to track the emissions of the entire Permian Basin over time, and compare it with other oil and gas fields in the U.S. and abroad. Many countries and companies are making pledges to reduce their emissions, and MethaneSAT will provide data on a relevant scale that can help track progress, Maryann Sargent, a senior project scientist at Harvard University who has been working with EDF on MethaneSAT, told me.

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It could also help the Environmental Protection Agency understand whether its new methane regulations are working. It could help with the development of new standards for natural gas being imported into Europe. At the very least, it will help oil and gas buyers differentiate between products associated with higher or lower methane intensities. It will also enable fossil fuel companies who measure their own methane emissions to compare their performance to regional averages.

MethaneSAT won’t be able to look at every source of methane emissions around the world. The project is limited by how much data it can send back to Earth, so it has to be strategic. Sargent said they are limiting data collection to 30 targets per day, and in the near term, those will mostly be oil and gas producing regions. They aim to map emissions from 80% of global oil and gas production in the first year. The outcome could be revolutionary.

“We can look at the entire sector with high precision and track those emissions, quantify them and track them over time. That’s a first for empirical data for any sector, for any greenhouse gas, full stop,” Hamburg told reporters on Friday.

But this still won’t be enough, said Thorpe of NASA. He wants to see the next generation of instruments start to look more closely at natural sources of emissions, like wetlands. “These types of emissions are really, really important and very poorly understood,” he said. So I think there’s a heck of a lot of potential to work towards the sectors that have been really hard to do with current technologies.”

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East Bay city looks to curb illegal dumping by hitting perpetrators in their pocketbooks

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Pittsburg hopes larges fines, cleanup fees will deter people from dumping in the city

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Apple Stock Gloom Deepens as Pressure to Show AI Progress Mounts.

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Battery startup ONE – once a high-flying unicorn – is cutting staff, again

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Michigan-based EV battery startup ONE, Our Next Energy – considered one of the most valuable privately held companies in the US and Biden’s darling for homegrown batteries – is once again cutting its workforce after months of problems.

more…

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YouTube workers laid off mid-plea at city hall meeting

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Caught on camera: ‘Our jobs are ended today, effective immediately’

The moment 43 unionized YouTube Music subcontractors lost their jobs was dramatically caught on camera during an Austin City Hall meeting in Texas last week.…

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New York’s Newest Public EV Charger Could Add 200 Miles Of Range In 5 Minutes

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

Google-backed start-up Gravity intends to add thousands of DC fast chargers in the U.S. annually.

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Two men steal $500 worth of laundry detergent from Los Gatos Safeway

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Another man steals $15 worth of frozen items from Trader Joe’s.

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San Jose apartment complex aims to convert first-floor retail to homes

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

A new apartment complex in downtown San Jose aims to convert its retail spaces into residential units,

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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-05, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)

This Xcode warning was lovely, it found a real bug in my code:

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NIO revenues up in Q4 2023, Alps sub-brand to launch in Q2 with a Tesla Model Y competitor

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Chinese EV automaker NIO shared its Q4 2023 report today, followed by an analyst call that included some interesting updates about its plans for the year, expansion to new global markets, and the launch of not one but two EV sub-brands, including Alps.

more…

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In The Vote On Proposition 1

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Watch this space for live results once the polls close.

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Wow, another amazing interactive explainer from Bartosz Ciechanowski; this one is about…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Tech Today: Semiconductor Research Leads to Revolution in Dental Care

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

Toothpaste based on the mineral hydroxyapatite, popular across Asia and much of Europe today, is finding its first foothold in the U.S. But the idea behind this alternative to fluoride-based toothpaste was conceived here in a short-lived NASA field center more than 50 years ago.  While working at NASA’s Electronics Research Center – active in […]

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Inside the World of TikTok Spammers and the AI Tools That Enable Them

date: 2024-03-05, from: 404 Media Group

This is where AI generated formats, Minecraft splitscreens, Reddit stories, ‘Would You Rather’ videos, and deep sea story spam come from.

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Google’s Gemini AI Doesn’t Want to Talk About Palestine

date: 2024-03-05, from: 404 Media Group

Google’s supposedly “woke” AI will also not say where Gaza is, but will locate Israel and Tel Aviv.

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Credit card late fees capped at $8 as part of Biden administration’s crackdown on junk fees

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

More than 45 million people are charged late fees on credit cards each year. Those individuals will now save an average of $220 per year.

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Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight

date: 2024-03-05, from: Quanta Magazine

The post Elliptic Curve ‘Murmurations’ Found With AI Take Flight first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Toyota to boost EV battery production with Primearth EV Energy buyout

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Toyota is boosting its ability to mass-produce “a wide variety” of EV batteries following an agreement with Panasonic to take full control of Primearth EV Energy (PEVE). The move will help Toyota respond to the growing demand for batteries.

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21st-century CPR: Los Gatos, Saratoga high schools hold student Narcan training

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Students learn to identify, reverse opioid overdoses in the wake of fentanyl deaths.

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Class action claims Snowflake is an overhyped sales blizzard

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Investors unhappy after 2022 revenue guidance cut

Snowflake is the subject of a would-be class action lawsuit alleging it made misleading statements and failed to disclose important data about sales practices and its commercial model between September 16, 2020, and March 2, 2022.…

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A Car Buyer’s Guide to the 2024 EV Tax Credit

date: 2024-03-05, from: Heatmap News

The Department of Treasury published new rules last year that will determine which new electric vehicles, purchased for personal use, will qualify for a $7,500 tax credit. They went into effect on April 18, 2023, and last for the next decade or so.

These new tax credit rules are complicated. The list of cars that qualify for the new tax credit can change from year to year — and even month to month. Many buyers in the EV market might have a few questions, including: Should I buy that new car now, or should I wait? Which cars qualify for the current tax credit, and which ones will earn the new one?

This is Heatmap’s guide to the new tax credit, why it matters, and what to keep in mind as you go EV shopping.

Who is affected by these new rules?

If you’re an ordinary American buying a brand-new EV to run errands and pick up the kids, these new rules apply to you. They will determine which cars you can get a federally funded discount on.

If you’re not buying a new car for personal use — because you’re getting it for your business, say, or because you’re buying a used EV — these new rules don’t apply to you. But you may qualify for other new subsidies. We get into those below.

And even if you are in that first category, you may discover it’s much cheaper to lease a new EV instead of buying it outright. We get into why below, too.

Why are these new rules important?

They completely change how the United States approaches the EV industry.

During the Bush and Obama administrations, the U.S. was focused mostly on getting automakers to begin to experiment with EVs. So it discounted the first 200,000 or so electric vehicles that each manufacturer sold by up to $7,500. If a company had cumulatively sold more than that number over time, as Tesla and General Motors eventually did, then the discount expired. By 2022, that had led to a peculiar situation where foreign automakers, such as Hyundai, could use the subsidy, while some of the largest American automakers couldn’t.

Now, U.S. policy is focused on two goals: (1) building up a domestic supply chain for EVs and (2) getting more EVs on the road. So the tax break is completely uncapped — any automaker can use it as many times as possible if they meet the criteria.

But many new requirements apply: Only cars that undergo final assembly in North America will qualify for any of the tax credit. Then, cars with a battery that was more than 50% made in North America will qualify for a $3,750 subsidy. And cars where at least 40% of the “critical minerals” used come from the U.S. or a country with whom we have a free-trade agreement will qualify for another $3,750 subsidy.

Those percentage-based requirements will ramp up over time. By 2029, for instance, 100% of a car’s battery and battery components must be made in North America.

Why is this change happening now?

Because Congress said so. The Inflation Reduction Act, which Democratic majorities in the House and Senate passed last year, mandated this change to the EV tax credit as part of its broad expansion of American climate policy.

Will more EVs or fewer EVs qualify for a subsidy under those new rules?

Initially, fewer EVs will receive a subsidy under the new rules, Biden officials say. On a press call with reporters, a senior Treasury official argued that more cars will eventually qualify under the new rules than qualified under the old ones.

Which EVs will qualify under the new rules in 2024?

This year, at least 15 car or light trucks will receive some or all of the credit. Only some of those vehicles will qualify for the full $7,500 tax credit; some will qualify for a partial $3,750 tax credit. Here is the full list of qualifying models, along with the amount of the tax credit that they will earn:

• Audi Q5 TFSI e Quattro PHEV ($3,750)
• Cadillac LYRIQ ($7,500) • Chevrolet Bolt ($7,500)
• Chevrolet Bolt EUV ($7,500)
• Chrysler Pacifica PHEV ($7,500)
• Ford Escape Plug-in Hybrid ($3,750)
• Ford F-150 Lightning, Standard & Extended Range ($7,500)
• Jeep Wrangler PHEV 4xe ($3,750)
• Jeep Grand Cherokee PHEV 4xe ($3,750)
• Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring ($3,750)
• Rivian R1S, Dual Large & Quad Large ($3,750)
• Rivian R1T, Dual Large, Dual Max, & Quad Large ($3,750)
• Tesla Model X Long Range ($7,500)
• Tesla Model 3 Performance ($7,500)
• Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD ($3,500)
• Tesla Model Y AWD, Rear-Wheel Drive, & Performance ($7,500)
• Volkswagen ID.4 AWD PRO, PRO, S, & Standard ($7,500)

Some vehicles that earned the full tax credit in 2023, such as the Ford Mustang Mach E, don’t qualify for any benefit as of January 2, 2024.

Are there any EVs that definitely do not qualify for either tax credit?

Yes. A few examples: The Hummer EV, which costs more than $110,000 a piece, won’t qualify for either the new or old tax credit — it’s too expensive. And the Polestar 2 won’t qualify because it’s assembled in China.

Have there been any other recent changes to the EV tax credit? 

Yes. Starting this year, the U.S. is preventing cars that receive too much manufacturing input from a “foreign entity of concern” — that is, China — from qualifying for any of the tax credit. This has reduced the number of vehicles that qualify for the $7,500 bonus.

This year, the government will also allow buyers to refund their EV tax credit at the dealership. That means buyers can now get up to a $7,500 discount at the moment when they buy their car instead of waiting until they file their taxes in the following year.

Are there any income caps on the $7,500 tax credit?

Yes. A married couple must have an adjusted gross income of less than $300,000 a year, and a single filer must have an AGI of less than $150,000 a year, to qualify for any aspect of the subsidy. A head-of-household must have an income of less than $225,000 a year.

Lots of rules! Is there a price limit on the EVs that can qualify for this new subsidy?

Yes. Under the proposed rule, cars must have an MSRP below $55,000 to qualify for the credit. Vans, pickup trucks, and SUVs must have an MSRP below $80,000.

If my household makes more than that, do I have any other options?

Yes. The Inflation Reduction Act also included a new $7,500 tax credit for EVs used for any commercial purpose. The Treasury Department is expected to interpret that provision to cover leasing, but it hasn’t announced the guidelines for that rule yet, so we don’t know for sure.

But the provision will probably tilt new EV drivers toward leasing their car rather than buying it outright, because the dealer should — emphasis on should — offer relative discounts on leasing vehicles as compared to buying them.

There’s no way I can afford a new EV. Does the IRA contain any subsidies for buying a used EV?

Yes. There’s also a new $4,000 tax credit for buying a used EV that costs $25,000 or less. It went into effect on January 1, 2023, so you can go ahead and use it today.

But note that it has even stricter income limits: Married couples can only take advantage of it if they make $150,000 or less, and other filers if they make $75,000 or less.

Out of the curiosity, what models qualified for the $7,500 credit before April 18?

Here’s the list of cars that qualified for the $7,500 tax credit before April 18, 2023, according to the Department of Energy.

• Audi Q5 TFSI e Quattro (PHEV)
• BMW 330e *
• BMW X5 xDrive45e**
• Cadillac Lyriq
• Chevrolet Bolt
• Chevrolet Bolt EUV
• Chevrolet Silverado EV
• Chrysler Pacifica PHEV
• Ford E-Transit
• Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid
• Ford F-150 Lightning
• Ford Mustang Mach-E
• Genesis Electrified GV70
• Jeep Grand Cherokee 4xe
• Jeep Wrangler 4xe
• Lincoln Aviator Grand Touring
• Lincoln Corsair Grand Touring
• Nissan Leaf
• Nissan Leaf (S, SL, SV, and Plus models)
• Rivian R1S
• Rivian R1T
• Tesla Model 3 Long Range
• Tesla Model 3 Performance
• Tesla Model 3 RWD
• Tesla Model Y All-Wheel Drive
• Tesla Model Y Long Range
• Tesla Model Y Performance
• Volkswagen ID.4
• Volkswagen ID.4 AWD, Pro, and S models
• Volvo S60 PHEV
• Volvo S60 Extended Range
• Volvo S60 T8 Recharge (Extended Range)

• These cars don’t qualify for the full $7,500 subsidy, although they all receive at least a $5,400 tax credit.

  ** Only some BMW X5 xDrive45e vehicles qualify — it depends where the car was made. Check the VIN or ask the dealership to confirm it was made in North America before buying.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  

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2024 Nissan Ariya Is Up To $6,000 Less Expensive Than The Outgoing Model

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

The entry-level version starts at an MSRP of $39,590, while the long-range version is priced at $41,190.

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Hilo Medical Center to be renamed, marking Benioffs’ $50M charitable investment

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>A $50 million investment in Hilo Medical Center by Salesforce Chairman and CEO Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, will be used to launch a family birthing center and help the hospital complete its expansion of the intensive care unit.</p>
        

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Benioffs give $150M: Philanthropists seek to bolster Hawaii’s health care system

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hawaii hospitals are getting a significant boost in funding, thanks to a $150 million donation by longstanding philanthropists Marc and Lynne Benioff.</p>
        

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Pluralistic: You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly (05 Mar 2024)

date: 2024-03-05, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog

Today’s links You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly: Any election where you vote with your wallet will be won by the people with the thickest wallets. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2009, 2014, 2019 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Podcasts, events and more. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ‘em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ‘em. Colophon: All the rest. You can’t shop your way out of a monopoly (permalink) If you’re running a business, you can either invest at being good at your business, or good at Google SEO. Choose the former and your customers will love you – but they won’t be able to find you, thanks to the people who choose the latter. And if you’re going to invest in top-notch SEO, why bother investing in quality at all? For more than a decade, Google has promised that it would do something about “lead gens” – services that spoof Google into thinking that they are local businesses, pushing down legit firms on both regular search and Google Maps (these downranked businesses invested in quality, not SEO, remember). Search for a roofer, a plumber, an electrician, or a locksmith (especially a locksmith), and most or all of the results will be lead-gens. They’ll take your call, pretend to be a local business, and then call up some half-qualified bozo to come out and charge you four times the going rate for substandard work: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-locksmiths-may-be-out-to-pick-your-pocket-too.html Some of them just take your money and they “go back to the shop for a tool” and never return: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/news/when-a-fake-business-used-a-real-st-louis-address-things-got-weird-32087998 Google has been promising to fix this since the late aughts, and to be fair, it’s a little better. There was once a time when a map of Manhattan showed more locksmiths than taxis: https://blumenthals.com/blog/2009/02/18/google-maps-proves-more-locksmiths-in-nyc-than-cabs/ But GMaps is trapped in the enshittification squeeze. On the one hand, the company wants to provide a good and reliable map. On the other hand, the company makes money selling “ads” that are actually payola, where a business can pay to get to the top of the listings or get displayed on the map itself. Zoom out of Google’s map of central London and the highlighted landmarks are a hilarious mix of “organic” and paid listings: the British Museum, Buckingham Palace, the Barbican, the London Eye…and a random oral and maxillofacial clinic in the financial district: https://twitter.com/dylanbeattie/status/1764711667663831455 Hell of a job “organizing the world’s information and making it universally accessible and useful,” Big G. Doubtless the average Londoner finds the presence of this clinic super helpful in orienting themselves relative to the map on their phone screens, and it’s a real service to tourists hoping to hit all the major landmarks. It’s not just Maps users who’d noticed the rampant enshittification. Even the original design team is so horrified they’re moved to speak out about the moral injury they experience seeing the product they worked so hard on turned into a giant pile of shit: https://twitter.com/elizlaraki/status/1727351922254852182 Now, when it comes to locksmiths, I’m lucky. My neighborhood in Burbank includes the wonderful Golden State Lock and Safe, which has been in business since 1942: https://www.goldenstatelock.com/ But you wouldn’t know it from searching GMaps for a locksmith near me. That search turns up a long list of scams: https://www.google.com/maps/search/locksmith/@34.1750451,-118.369948,14z/data=!3m1!4b1?entry=ttu It also turns up plenty of Keyme machines – these are private-equity backed, self-serve key-cutting machines placed in grocery stores. Despite Keyme calling itself a “locksmith,” it’s just a badly secured, overcaptilized, enshittification-bound system for collecting and retaining shapefiles for the keys to millions of homes, cross-referenced with billing information that will make it easy for the eventual hackers to mass-produce keys for all those poor suckers’ houses. (Hilariously, Keyme claims to be an “AI” company): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200114005194/en/KeyMe-Raises-35-Million-to-Further-Its-Mission-of-Building-the-Premier-Locksmith-Services-Company-in-the-Nation But despite the fact that you can literally see the Golden State storefront from Google Streetview, Google Maps claims to have no knowledge of it. Instead, Streetview labels Golden State “Keyme” – and displays a preview showing a locksmith using a tool to break into a jeep (I’d dearly love to know how the gadget next to the Slurpee machine at the 7-Eleven will drive itself to your jeep and unlock the door for you when you lose your keys): https://www.google.com/maps/place/KeyMe+Locksmiths/@34.1752624,-118.3487531,3a,75y,350.19h,90.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1ssHrtqjqvgFir3NBauMy13Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x80c2959cd65dbb1b:0x4b3744cf87492a71!2sBurbank+Blvd+%26+N+Hollywood+Way,+Burbank,+CA+91505!3b1!8m2!3d34.1750025!4d-118.3493484!16s%2Fg%2F11f37_3lq8!3m5!1s0x80c2951cedbf4d39:0xe8ff9fd5872e66e9!8m2!3d34.1755176!4d-118.349!16s%2Fg%2F11mw7nr4fx?entry=ttu It’s pretty clear to me what’s going on here. Keyme has hired some SEO creeps and/or paid off Google, flooding the zone with listings for its machines. Meanwhile, Golden State, being merely good at locksmithing, has lost the SEO wars. Perhaps Golden State could shift some of its emphasis from being good at locksmithing in order to get better at SEO, but this is a race that will always be won by the firm that puts the most into SEO, which will always be the firm that puts the least into quality. Whenever I write about this stuff, people inevitably ask me which search engine they should use, if not Google? And there’s the rub. Google used predatory pricing and anticompetitive mergers to acquire a 90% search market-share. The company spends more than $26b/year buying default position in every place where you might possibly encounter a new search engine. This created the “kill zone” – the VC’s term of art for businesses that no one will invest in, because Google makes sure that no one will ever find out it exists: https://www.theverge.com/23802382/search-engine-google-neeva-android That’s why the only serious competitor to Google is Bing, another Big Tech company (Bing is also the primary source of results on Duckduckgo, which is why DDG sometimes makes exceptions for Microsoft’s privacy-invading tracking): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo#Controversies Google tells us that the quid-pro-quo of search monopolization is search excellence. The hundreds of billions it makes every year through monopoly control gives it the resources it needs to fight spammers and maintain search result quality. Anyone who’s paid attention recently knows that this is bullshit: Google search quality is in free-fall, across all its products: https://downloads.webis.de/publications/papers/bevendorff_2024a.pdf But Google doesn’t seem to think it has a problem. Rather than devoting all its available resources to fighting botshit, spam and scams, the company set $80 billion dollars alight last year with a stock buyback that was swiftly followed with 12,000 layoffs, followed by multiple subsequent rounds of layoffs: https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/21/im-feeling-unlucky/#not-up-to-the-task The scams that slip through Google’s cracks are sometimes nefarious, but just as often they’re decidedly amateurish, the kind of thing that Google could fix by throwing money at the problem, say, to validate that new ads for confirmed Google merchants come from the merchant’s registered email addresses and go to the merchant’s registered website: https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/24/passive-income/#swiss-cheese-security Search is a capital intensive business, and there are real returns to scale, as the UK Competition and Market Authority’s excellent 2020 study describes: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5fe4957c8fa8f56aeff87c12/Appendix_I_-search_quality_v.3_WEB.pdf But Google doesn’t seem to think that its search needs that $80 billion to fight the spamwars. That’s the thing about monopolists, they get complacent. As Lily Tomlin’s “Ernestine the AT&T operator” used to say, “We don’t care, we don’t have to, we’re the phone company.” That’s why I’m so excited about the DOJ Antitrust Division monopolization case against Google. Trusting one company to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” was a failure: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-sues-google-monopolizing-digital-advertising-technologies I understand why people want to know which search engine they should use instead of Google, and I get why, “There aren’t any good search engines” is such an unsatisfactory answer. I understand why each fresh round of printer-company fuckery prompts people to ask “which printer should I get?” and I understand why “There are only six major printer companies and they’re all suffering from end-stage enshittification” isn’t what anyone wants to hear. We want to be able to vote with our wallets, because it’s so much faster and more convenient than voting with our ballots. But the vote-with-your-wallet election is rigged for the people with the thickest wallets. Try as hard as you’d like, you just can’t shop your way out of a monopoly – that’s like trying to recycle your way out of the climate emergency. Systemic problems need systemic solutions – not individual ones. That’s why the new antitrust matters so much. The answer to monopolies is to break up companies, block and unwind mergers, ban deceptive and unfair conduct. “Caveat emptor” is the scammer’s motto. You shouldn’t have to be an expert on lead gen scams to hire a locksmith without getting ripped off. There are good products and services out there. Earlier this year, we decided to install a (non-networked) programmable pushbutton lock. I asked Deviant Ollam – whom I know from Defcon’s Lockpicking Village – for a recommendation and he suggested the Schlage FE595: https://www.schlage.com/en/home/products/FE595PLYFFFFLA.html I liked it so much I bought another one for my office door. Eric from Golden State Lock and Safe installed it while I wrote this blog-post. It’s great. I recommend both of ‘em – 10/10, would do business again. (Image: alicia rae, CC BY 2.0; Budhiargomiko, CC BY-SA 4.0; modified) Hey look at this (permalink) Platforms’ Treacherous Turn https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4664056 The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/the-supreme-court-must-be-stopped/ (h/t Kottke) Wyden’s Office Gets FTC To Protect The Data Of 1.6 Billion People Tracked By Now-Bankrupt Data Broker https://www.techdirt.com/2024/03/04/wydens-office-gets-ftc-to-protect-the-data-of-1-6-billion-people-tracked-by-now-bankrupt-data-broker/ This day in history (permalink) #15yrsago Chinese gold farming https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2009/mar/05/virtual-world-china #10yrsago Comment-spammers threaten to sabotage their victims through Google Disavow if the evidence of their vandalism isn’t removed https://ellis.fyi/blog/gordon-sands-threatens-seattle-bubble-google-disavow-comment-spam/ #10yrsago Obama whirls the copyright lobbyist/government official revolving door https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/obama-nominates-former-sopa-lobbyist-help-lead-tpp-negotiations #10yrsago CIA spied on Senate committee writing damning torture report and Obama knew about it https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/05/obama-cia-senate-intelligence-committee-torture #5yrsago Jibo the social robot announces that its VC overlords have remote-killswitched it, makes pathetic farewell address and dances a final step https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/3/4/18250104/jibo-social-robot-server-shutdown-offline-dead #5yrsago Bowing to public pressure, Coinbase announces it will “transition out” the ex-Hacking Team cybermercenaries whose company it just bought https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvyndw/coinbase-says-ex-hacking-team-members-will-transition-out-after-users-protest #5yrsago The NSA has reportedly stopped data-mining Americans’ phone and SMS records https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/us/politics/nsa-phone-records-program-shut-down.html #5yrsago Facebook forces you to expose your phone number to the whole world in order to turn on two-factor authentication https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/03/facebook-doubles-down-misusing-your-phone-number #5yrsago America is not “polarized”: it’s a land where a small minority tyrannize the supermajority https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/05/opinion/oppression-majority.html Upcoming appearances (permalink) Tucson Festival of Books, Mar 9/10 https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676 Enshittification: How the Internet Went Bad and How to Get it Back (virtual), Mar 26 https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3781006 Wondercon Anaheim, Mar 29-31 https://www.comic-con.org/wc/ The Bezzle at Anderson’s Books (Chicago), Apr 17 https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1 Torino Biennale Tecnologia (Apr 19-21) https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337?aff=oddtdtcreator Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival (May 5-11) https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/ Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9 https://media-ecology.org/convention American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21 https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/ Recent appearances (permalink) Is Social Media Becoming a Bit Shit? 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Avid Supporters

date: 2024-03-05, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Diana Thorn’s letter in the Independent regarding why Donald Trump should be re-elected to the White House — to put “America First” — is an excellent summary of why his avid supporters are so adamant about a second term.

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Oregon passes bill to end Daylight Saving Time if California, Washington follow

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

If both California and Washington don’t end Daylight Saving Time by March 2034, the Oregon bill will be repealed.

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DHL puts 50 Orange EV yard trucks to work, plans to add 50 more

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

DHL was the first major company to put an all-electric class 8 yard truck into service in 2015. Now, DHL has 50 electric yard trucks from Orange EV in its logistics fleet, with plans to fully phase out diesel trucks by 2025.

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Armed suspect killed, 4 deputies hurt after exchanging gunfire during Sonoma County car chase

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

One deputy was shot in the leg, another suffered a head injury and two had injuries to their hands, officials said. The deputy with a head injury is in critical but stable condition.

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‘No dog’ policy leads to altercation at Campbell school

date: 2024-03-05, from: San Jose Mercury News

Both parties claim to have been hit by the other.

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That Cosplay Steampunk Gun Blade the NYPD Confiscated Could Be Yours

date: 2024-03-05, from: 404 Media Group

The gun blade is for sale on Amazon and other retailers, but maybe don’t go swinging it around in Queens.

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It’s Time to Give Up on Everything but Email

date: 2024-03-05, from: Manu - I write blog

I was sitting there, minding my own damn business, surfing the web, clicking around, enjoying my time, when I stumbled on this article, by Ian Bogost on The Atlantic, that is so painfully stupid that I had to take the time and comment on it. Because, as you know, I love emails.

Finally, in step five, you must evangelize your mission. Email is a public-health concern. Gently correct your mother when she tries to correspond. Reprimand your email-happy colleagues. Punish email abuse by withholding your replies. Or, more gently, darken someone’s doorway. In short, you must show the sort of leadership that will encourage others to forsake their email too. We’ll never stop the rain of email, no matter what we do. But if we work together, maybe we can build a kind of shelter.

The entire premise of this article is that email is an unmanageable mess filled with all sorts of garbage and dealing with it is a lost cause. There’s an analogy in there that is so idiotic that is worth quoting:

Alas, there is no opting out from email. As a practical matter, your inbox cannot be abandoned altogether. The same is true for postal mail: To function within the normal bounds of contemporary society, you must be addressable in physical space. You must be able to receive Amex bills and Amazon baubles, and also, you must subject yourself to lots of junk. This analogy between your home’s mailbox and your computer’s inbox is so easily made that it’s often overlooked. Both are stuffed with garbage by default, but also just a few essential messages.

Ian, let me give you some shocking advice: unlike your physical address, it’s not hard to get an extra email address. Hell, you can get even more than one. You can go one step further and get a disposable one! Shocking, I know!

In all seriousness, if in 2024 you’re using one single email address for everything that’s a you problem, not an email problem. Also, Ian, let me ask you a question: what’s the alternative here? Do we all move to Slack/Discord/Teams? Do we all move everything to DMs? Do you think that’s a better solution?

There’s a reason why emails are still here. They’re still here because they work. Is email perfect? No. Is there a better alternative? Also no.

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Tesla Berlin gigafactory goes dark after alleged eco-sabotage

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Left-wing extremist group claims responsibility, says goal is to ‘bring Tesla to its knees’

An alleged arson attack at a power substation outside Berlin has knocked Tesla’s nearby gigafactory offline, and a left-wing activist group is claiming that disrupting Tesla was their entire intent.…

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Europe To Automakers: Bring Back Buttons If You Want A Good Safety Rating

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

Plus, Tesla still owns the charging market, and Polestar says EV doubters are falling into an ‘incredible trap.’

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Ronan Farrow profiles RuPaul for the New Yorker. “He’s seen the way…

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Willy Wonky

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: One Foot Tsunami

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Amazon Just Bought a Nuclear-Powered Data Center

date: 2024-03-05, from: Heatmap News

Current conditions: A tumbleweed invasion nearly buried some houses in Utah • Storms triggered floods, avalanches, and tornadoes across Italy • California’s snowpack is above normal levels for the first time this year.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Amazon Web Services buys nuclear-powered data center

Amazon’s cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, just paid $650 million for a data center that runs on nuclear power. Talen Energy’s Cumulus data center campus in Pennsylvania gets power from the Susquehanna nuclear plant, one of the largest nuclear power plants in the U.S. It will give Amazon a supply of clean carbon-free power, which the company could use to run energy-intensive artificial intelligence operations. The Wall Street Journal reported that AI searches require 10 times more computing power than regular searches. Amazon’s new data center campus could give it a leg-up over other tech giants because “companies looking to start data centers running AI face delays in getting permits to connect to grids, and long waits for the installation of transmission lines to connect utilities to their facilities.”

2. E-bike accidents account for majority of NYC cycling deaths

Thirty cyclists died in New York City last year, the highest number since 1999, The New York Times reported, citing Department of Transportation data. Twenty-three of those killed were riding electric bikes, and most of them collided with vehicles in areas lacking proper cycling infrastructure. However the Times notes that a good portion (about one-third) of the e-bike riders who died were in solo crashes – accidents that did not involve cars or pedestrians, a trend that isn’t seen among traditional bike-riders. “There may be a learning curve that some first-time e-bike riders aren’t prepared for,” said Sara Lind, an executive director at Open Plans. “It’s very possible that that learning curve, combined with the speed of the bike, exacerbates already confusing or chaotic conditions. Navigating a pothole or a suddenly blocked bike lane is more dangerous at a higher speed, emphasizing even more the need for better infrastructure as more people use e-bikes.” Some e-bikes can reach speeds of 25 mph, though NYC is reducing the top speeds of electric Citi Bikes to 18 mph.

3. NOAA warns of mass coral bleaching event

The world is on the cusp of the worst mass coral bleaching event in the history of the planet, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned. Climate change and El Niño have sent ocean temperatures soaring, and already “the Southern Hemisphere is basically bleaching all over the place,” ecologist Derek Manzello, the coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch, told Reuters. “The entirety of the Great Barrier Reef is bleaching. We just had reports that American Samoa is bleaching.” Researchers believe a sustained global temperature increase of 1.5 degrees Celsius is a tipping point for mass coral reef die-off. Coral reef ecosystems provide a home to thousands of species of fish and other plants and animals, and are essential sources of food and income for millions of people around the world. NOAA notes that “when a coral bleaches, it is not dead. Corals can survive a bleaching event, but they are under more stress and are subject to mortality.”

4. Goldman Sachs predicts battery prices will soon plummet

In case you missed it, Goldman Sachs is forecasting that electric vehicle battery prices will fall dramatically in the coming months thanks to an increased supply of minerals like nickel and lithium, plus innovations in manufacturing. In a research note, the firm said it expects battery prices to drop by 40% between 2023 and 2025, resulting in “breakthrough levels” of cost parity with internal combustion engine cars in some markets. By 2030, Goldman sees EVs accounting for 50% of U.S. car sales. Looking ahead, Nikhil Bhandari, co-head of Asia-Pacific Natural Resources and Clean Energy Research, said major innovations like solid-state batteries could “be a game-changer for the industry.” Batteries can account for one-third of the cost of an EV.

5. Man charged with smuggling greenhouse gases into U.S.

Here’s a weird one: A California man has been charged with smuggling greenhouse gases into the U.S., Axios reported. Michael Hart allegedly bought hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in Mexico, hid them in his vehicle, and brought them into the States where he listed them for sale. HFCs are greenhouse gases used in refrigeration. The United Nations’ Climate and Clean Air Coalition says HFCs represent around 2% of total greenhouse gases, but “their impact on global warming can be hundreds to thousands of times greater than that of carbon dioxide (CO2) per unit of mass.” The EPA is trying to implement a phase-down of HFCs, and said smuggling them “undermines international efforts to combat climate change.”

THE KICKER

Just three of this year’s Oscar-nominated films (Barbie, Nyad, and Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One) pass the “Climate Reality Check,” a two-part test that asks if climate change exists in a film’s story, and if at least one character knows about it.

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Microsoft: Copyright law didn’t stop the VCR and shouldn’t stop the LLM

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Lawyers argue content used to train LLMs does not ‘supplant the market’ for news

Microsoft is coming out swinging over claims by the New York Times that the Windows giant and OpenAI infringed copyright by using its articles to build ChatGPT and other models.…

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Hyundai Ioniq 6 Now Cheaper To Lease Than Sonata, Toyota Camry

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

Hyundai’s sleek electric sedan now costs just $249 a month and $3,499 down to lease. That’s the same price as a Honda Accord lease.

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Jaguar kills off its entire range for new era of extremely expensive EVs

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

British automaker Jaguar – set to become an EV-only brand next year – is officially ending production of its ICE vehicles by June and stepping into a new era of very expensive but powerful EVs. Assembly lines are stopping to transition to an entirely new EV platform from the one underpinning the long-troubled I-Pace.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Emily Nunn: “I don’t understand how all the outcry about their bizarre and defensive political coverage and the scary effect it can have on the election is not a major investigative story being written by other journalists. Not some fancy media critic opinion or an editorial. A real report, taking defensiveness out of it and applying accountability.” A regular reader of this blog will know how totally I agree with this. But oddly when I agreed with her, perhaps a little to strongly for her liking, she accused me of being a MAGA. It’s so totally not true, and typical of reporters, to use an ad hominem to not have to listen to a non-journalist opinion about journalism.

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Day in Review (March 4–7)

date: 2024-03-05, from: Association of Research Libraries News

Last Updated on March 5, 2024, 3:27 pm ET Sign up to receive the Day in Review by email. Jump to: Tuesday, March 5 | Wednesday, March 6 | Thursday,…

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“Mutual incomprehension now exists seemingly everywhere”: The New York Times’ publisher responds to its critics

date: 2024-03-05, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

It’s an honor to be here to deliver this year’s memorial lecture. The Reuters Institute has been an invaluable resource for so many of us engaged in the difficult work of trying to blaze a sustainable path for quality journalism. And I feel lucky to receive such a warm welcome here at Oxford despite my…

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10 Ways Students Can Prepare to #BeAnAstronaut

date: 2024-03-05, from: NASA breaking news

10 Ways Students Can Prepare to #BeAnAstronaut Want to #BeAnAstronaut, but don’t know where to start? Here are some ways you can kick-start your journey! Even if you don’t qualify to #BeAnAstronaut — yet — within NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement, or OSTEM, there are ways to get involved with NASA’s missions. Check out the […]

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Rapid7 throws JetBrains under the bus for ‘uncoordinated vulnerability disclosure’

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Exploits began within hours of the original disclosure, so patch now

Updated  Security shop Rapid7 is criticizing JetBrains for flouting its policy against silent patching regarding fixes for two fresh vulnerabilities in the TeamCity CI/CD server.…

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Supreme Court metadata reveals last-minute change in Trump ballot case.

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2024-03-04 Israel and Palestine

date: 2024-03-05, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog

2024-03-04 Israel and Palestine

If you’re wondering how Israel is going to come back after all this, I suspect you already forgot how it managed to come back after 2006. I’m not sure how that makes me feel. On the one hand, I have completely checked out. The people in charge are utter villains. The settlements, the cutting down of trees, the terrorizing, the things one reads in the news if one cares to look are in a vague but emotionally crushing and morally grinding way similar to how the territory of the US was built on rape, murder, land grab, death marches and reservations. On the other hand, I think we cannot let that hold us back from seeking a better future. We must not stare at the bloody entrails left behind on this road to war. Yes, the news is grim. We must look past it, however. What comes after that? Where will we be in forty years? In twenty years? In five years? In two years? Next year? How will it be better than this?

“The disparity in conditions in the north and south is clear evidence that aid restrictions in the north are costing lives. UNICEF and WFP malnutrition screenings in the north in January found that nearly 16 per cent - or 1 in 6 children under 2 years of age - are acutely malnourished. Similar screenings conducted in the south in Rafah, where aid has been more available, found 5 per cent of children under 2 years are acutely malnourished.” – Statement by Adele Khodr, UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa

And if you think a solution is impossible, then take heart. The world has managed to come back from two World Wars and countless other brutal wars. Peace is possible. People are not inherently evil. Most people want peace. Those in power and the people surrounding them and supporting them often don’t want peace, however. And once the slaughter starts, it’s hard to stop. Peace is hard.

Often the people arguing for war just can’t imagine peace because of this detail or that detail. And the details are hard to get right, for sure. But they are not impossible. Imagination is required. How else are people going to make plans for after the war? The war will end one day. And those who survived will be following plans that somebody imagined. It is important to imagine a happy, prosperous future and then to make plans of how to get there.

I remember how I was a German speaking kid in Portugal in the eighties and sometimes I’d be greeted by an angry “Heil Hitler!” from kids my age. And Portugal wasn’t even in the war! But all the killing takes generations to forgive and forget. The longer it takes us to get to peace, the longer it will take to forgive. And once there is peace, we must not squander it. We need to work for it. We need to keep aiming for that happy, prosperous future and stick to plans that go there. Don’t follow leaders without a clear plan. If they don’t have one, they don’t care or they’re unwilling to listen. There are many people with plans for peace. It’s just that the road is hard. And yet, that is the road we have.

• Stop the killing.
• Respect human rights.
• Implement justice.

Yes, it’s hard. But the alternative isn’t looking good. And we know how to do this. We have negotiated countless peace treaties. We have found solutions to thorny issues all over the world. This is not an impossible task.

#Israel #Palestine

“We laugh so we don’t cry,” I heard Sarah Taber say in her Farm to Taber podcast, either in Season 4, Ep. 7: The History of US Agriculture: How Jim Crow paid off for the Midwestern family farm or in Season 4, Ep. 9: King Cotton, Jim Crow, and Pellagra.

In that spirit, Existential Comics 527: Fantasy Morality has this note at the end:

Since the good guys always win in the end, and are typically outnumbered, this becomes pretty important. The orcs will brutally, savagely kill a few dozen elves, and the elves will respond in a very civilized fashion by wiping out the entire orc civilization. You can even still see this kind of justification in contemporary colonialism (cough Israel cough).

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In The US Senator Races

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Watch this space for live results once the polls close.

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In The Orange County Races

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Join us for live results once the polls close.

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In LA County District Attorney Race

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Watch this space for live results once the polls close.

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In The LA City Council Races

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Watch this space for live results once the polls close.

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Live Results: What We Know So Far In The LA County Supervisors Race

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

Watch this space for live results once the polls close.

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I Didn’t Get Into My Dream College. What Did I Do Wrong?

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-06, from: The LAist

College admissions is a black box. What might make the process of acceptance and rejection more transparent?

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On Time

date: 2024-03-05, from: Accidentally in Code

The past year I’ve been working on a book. I organized my entire life to carve out and preserve my Saturdays for this project. It is finally done (almost! Just reviews of proof pages to go); I got my weekends back just in time to work them through the review cycle, and with the worst […]

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Brit chip industry wonders if UK budget will put its money where its silicon is

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Don’t hold your breath

Brit tech industry association Techworks wants to see more support for the UK semiconductor sector in this week’s budget to help the nation’s chip companies better compete on the global stage.…

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Rivian R2 Starts At $47,000 With 330-Mile Range, Tesla NACS Plug: Leaked Info

date: 2024-03-05, from: Inside EVs News

Rivian’s small crossover rival will also feature pop-out rear windows and exterior accessory ports for things like bike mounts.

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It’s not just nurses in short supply

date: 2024-03-05, from: Marketplace Morning Report

Nursing leaders in hospitals around the countries are on the frontlines of a decadeslong nursing shortage. But they’re dealing with retention issues of their own. A new survey found that nearly a third of hospital nurse leaders plan to leave their jobs within a year. We’ll also take a look at the hottest new tech stock and the president’s crackdown on junk fees. Plus, get ready for the political campaign ad deluge.

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China sets ambitious economic target for 2024

date: 2024-03-05, from: Marketplace Morning Report

From the BBC World Service: China’s National People’s Congress is underway, and the government has been laying out its aims for the next year — which includes a 5% growth target. We delve into the latest. Then, Australia plans to boost trade and investment in East Asia. Plus, midweek nights out used to be the norm for British college students. Have sticky floors and expensive drinks lost their appeal?

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The Insecurity of Video Doorbells

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Bruce Schneier blog

Consumer Reports has analyzed a bunch of popular Internet-connected video doorbells. Their security is terrible.

First, these doorbells expose your home IP address and WiFi network name to the internet without encryption, potentially opening your home network to online criminals.

[…]

Anyone who can physically access one of the doorbells can take over the device—no tools or fancy hacking skills needed.

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Moto Mysteries: The Yamaha Towny Was Apparently A Scooter For Men, For Some Reason?

date: 2024-03-05, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Of course men need scooters. But with the vast majority of riders already being men, the specification is a strange choice.

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CamJam threw us a birthday party

date: 2024-03-05, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Thanks to everyone who came to our third-cum-twelfth birthday party last weekend, thrown for us by CamJam. Here are some photos of the day so you can immerse yourself in the experience if you weren’t there, and relive the unadulterated joy if you were.

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Nvidia now plays kingmaker in the server court, says Omdia

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

AI’s appetite for compute means general refreshes stalled as customer used budgets elsewhere

The server market is bouncing back in value terms, as customers demand beefier systems to train or run AI models – and the success of server makers is now largely dependent on getting GPUs from Nvidia.…

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Ride1Up LMT’D V2 launched as new torque sensor electric bike

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Ride1Up, the San Diego-based electric bike retailer known for some of the best value commuter e-bikes on the market, has spent much of the last year expanding into new categories such as electric mopeds and adventure e-bikes. Now, the company is updating one of its popular commuter-focused models, maintaining its grip on the road market even as the brand expands its reach. Meet the new Ride1Up LMT’D V2.

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Watchdog calls for more plugs, less monopoly in EV charging network

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Exclusivity deals a no-no, and ‘charging deserts’ must be avoided

The UK’s competition regulator is calling for more competition, interoperability, and better reliability in the local electric vehicle (EV) charging network.…

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Juno fly-by detects lower levels of oxygen on Europa than expected

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Less abundant molecular oxygen narrow chances of life being found on Jupiter’s icy moon

Jupiter’s moon Europa has a lot less free oxygen than previously thought, narrowing the odds that life may have evolved in this remote orb.…

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Tesla shuts down Gigafactory Berlin after suspected sabotage results in power outage

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla had to shut down Gigafactory Berlin today after a significant power outage that may have been caused by sabotage.

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Donald Trump wins North Dakota Republican caucuses, adding to victories going into Super Tuesday

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>BISMARCK, N.D. &#8212; Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses on Monday, adding to his string of victories heading into Super Tuesday.</p>
        

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Sister of slain Kona woman, supporters rally to foster awareness about domestic violence

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>For survivors of domestic violence, sometimes support is the best course to healing.</p>
        

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Supreme Court restores Trump to ballot, rejecting state attempts to ban him over Capitol attack

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to ban the Republican former president over the Capitol riot.</p>
        

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China sets an economic growth target of 5% and pledges help for consumers and property developers

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>BEIJING (AP) &#8212; China&#8217;s official growth target for this year is around 5%, Premier Li Qiang said Tuesday in an annual report on the government&#8217;s plans and performance that prioritized both security and the economy.</p>
        

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Prep work begins for HVNP roundabout

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Work to prepare for the installation of a traffic roundabout just beyond the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park entrance began Monday.</p>
        

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Joni Mitchell proves why we should look beyond stereotypes about aging

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Whether or not we&#8217;re older adults, we all are being bombarded with a blunt political narrative about aging that is as wrong as it is dangerous. In essence, the message is that &#8220;old&#8221; equals &#8220;bad&#8221; and that if a person is going to be a leader, they had better do it while they are young. Headlines, campaign messages and political cartoons, often across party affiliations, draw upon ageist tropes, painting older people as inherently deficient.</p>
        

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Your Views for March 5

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Pro-war parties&#0010;running America</p>
        

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Biden, not Trump, has real immigration solutions

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>In dueling visits to the Texas-Mexico border, President Joe Biden and Donald Trump each tried to make the case that they&#8217;re the person best positioned to handle immigration amid polls showing voters trust the latter more despite his chaotic and sadistic tenure presiding over the nation&#8217;s enforcement infrastructure.</p>
        

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Newly released messages detail roots of the ‘fake electors’ scheme

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Just five days after Election Day in 2020, a conservative lawyer named Kenneth Chesebro emailed a former judge who was working for the Trump campaign in Wisconsin, James R. Troupis, pitching an idea for how to overturn the results.</p>
        

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Nvidia becomes Tesla’s successor as market flips from EV to AI

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Nvidia Corp.&#8217;s rise is captivating the stock market and driving the S&#038;P 500 Index to new highs. But it also raises cautionary reminders of another investor darling that soared on dreams of a technological transformation, only to tumble back to earth when those hopes turned to disappointment. That stock belongs to Tesla Inc., which sparked its own mania in 2017 as investors bet that electric vehicles were going to take over the world. Back then, Elon Musk&#8217;s company was a phenomenon as it blew past established carmakers like General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. in market capitalization to become America&#8217;s biggest auto manufacturer. Some analysts were looking beyond the industry and calling it &#8220;the next Apple Inc.&#8221;</p>
        

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6 in 10 US adults doubt mental capability of Biden and Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A poll finds that a significant share of U.S. adults doubt the mental capabilities of 81-year-old President Joe Biden and 77-year-old Donald Trump, the former president and current Republican front-runner in what could be a rematch of the 2020 election.</p>
        

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State news in brief

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Efforts to lower Hawaii &#0010;teachers&#8217; housing costs advance</p>
        

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AP Decision Note: What to expect in Hawaii’s Democratic presidential caucuses

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Hawaii Democrats will hold a presidential preference vote tomorrow as President Joe Biden moves closer to securing the delegates needed to clinch nomination for a second term in the White House.</p>
        

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Vice President Harris hosts Israeli war Cabinet member as the US pushes to get more aid into Gaza

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Vice President Kamala Harris met on Monday with a member of Israel&#8217;s wartime Cabinet who came to Washington in defiance of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Biden administration intensifies its efforts to push more humanitarian aid into war-battered Gaza.</p>
        

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Ex-Trump Org CFO Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury in fraud case

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>NEW YORK &#8212; Donald Trump&#8217;s former finance chief Allen Weisselberg copped to new criminal charges in a lower Manhattan courtroom on Monday &#8212; admitting he told lies to the New York attorney general concerning what he knew about the actual size of Trump&#8217;s Fifth Avenue penthouse, and when.</p>
        

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Supreme Court temporarily blocks Texas law that allows police to arrest migrants

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8212; Texas&#8217; plan to arrest migrants who enter the U.S. illegally is headed to the Supreme Court in a legal showdown over the federal government&#8217;s authority over immigration.</p>
        

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Apple gets fined nearly $2 billion by the EU for hindering music streaming competition

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>LONDON &#8212; The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for unfairly favoring its own music streaming service by forbidding rivals like Spotify from telling users how they could pay for cheaper subscriptions outside of iPhone apps.</p>
        

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Obituaries for March 5

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Henry T. Dela Rosa, 81, of Honokaa died Feb. 11 at home. Born in Haina, he was an assistant factory superintendent for the former Hamakua Sugar Co., then retired from the engineering department at Mauna Lani Bay Hotel. Visitation 8-10 a.m. Saturday, March 16, at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Honokaa. Services at 10 a.m. Lunch to follow. Survived by wife, Luzonica Dela Rosa of Honokaa; children, Faith (Shon) Olivera, Gaylene (Kalae) Dela Rosa and Eric (Aisley) Dela Rosa; sister, Dorothy (Francis) Nakamoto; sisters-in-law, Sumie Dela Rosa and Aloha Dela Rosa; nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren; nieces and nephews. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
        

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AP Decision Notes: What to expect in Super Tuesday’s presidential nominating contests

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; With contests in 16 states and American Samoa, the Super Tuesday primaries next week will be the largest day of voting of the year outside of the November election. Just how &#8220;super&#8221; it is may be a matter of perspective.</p>
        

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Pentagon leaker Jack Teixeira pleads guilty under a deal that calls for at least 11 years in prison

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>BOSTON &#8212; Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday to leaking highly classified military documents about the war in Ukraine and other national security secrets under a deal with prosecutors that calls for him to serve at least 11 years in prison.</p>
        

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Eagles center Jason Kelce retires after 13 NFL seasons and 1 Super Bowl ring

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>PHILADELPHIA &#8212; Jason Kelce needed only seconds to burst into tears.</p>
        

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BIIF softball: Kealakehe wins road trip

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>KEA&#8216;AU &#8212; Kealakehe softball collected 12 hits and 10 RBI in its 12-1 win over KS-Hawai&#8216;i on Saturday afternoon on the road.</p>
        

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History-rich Pac-12 marks the end of an era as the conference basketball tournaments take place

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; Tara VanDerveer managed to compartmentalize her emotions as she chased down and eclipsed Mike Krzyzewski&#8217;s all-time wins record earlier this season, determined to focus only on the moment ahead.</p>
        

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Decisions made by Caleb Williams, Marvin Harrison Jr. could impact future NFL combines

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>INDIANAPOLIS &#8212; The NFL scouting combine&#8217;s evolution from hidden gem into the league&#8217;s second-most anticipated offseason event has come with all sorts of twists.</p>
        

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Let’s Talk Food: This and that

date: 2024-03-05, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hilo Pizza Co.</p>
        

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Spam crusade lands charity in hot water with data watchdog

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Penny Appeal sent more than 460,000 texts asking for money to help war-torn countries, no opt out

Typically it is energy improvement peddlers or debt help specialists that are disgraced by Britain’s data watchdog for spamming unsuspecting households, but the latest entrant in the hall of shame is a charity.…

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CCU approves GWA plan, utility required to mitigate rate hikes

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

The Consolidated Commission on Utilities has approved the fourth consecutive five-year financial plan and capital improvement program for the Guam Waterworks Authority, but with a directive for the utility to pursue legislative authorization of alternative financing methods so that proposed…

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OPA: GDOE laptop purchases ‘excessive’

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Guam Department of Education made an investment in technology - namely 34,503 laptops to the tune of $24.6 million, which the public auditor has deemed a questionably excessive purchase.

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GPD: Man allegedly found with meth after motorcycle chase

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

A man on pretrial release in an alleged rape reported in April 2023 is facing new charges after allegedly being found with meth after leading police officers on a high-speed chase.

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Plea agreement offered to man charged in 2022 slaying

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

The prosecution has sent a plea agreement to a man facing charges related to the death of Stevy Villanueva, whose remains were found in January 2022.

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Port receives national award

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

The ability of the Port Authority of Guam to turn a deficit into a multimillion-dollar surplus has gained national attention from the National Association of Government Accountants, the Port announced recently in a press release.

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Commissaries to eliminate single-use bags this month

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

Starting March 15, commissaries on Guam will no longer issue single-use bags

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Bill to address OAG withdrawal introduced as Legislature preps for emergency session

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

Following last week’s announcement that the Office of the Attorney General will withdraw from representing agencies under investigation due to potential conflict issues, Sen. Amanda Shelton has now introduced legislation that she says will keep procurement processes functioning while the…

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Villaluz 2024 spelling bee champ

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

Following an afternoon of testing the spelling prowess of island youth, Alleena Villaluz rules the word as the 2024 Scripps Spelling Bee regional champion.

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OPA finds inconsistencies in tourism program

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

The Office of Public Accountability has found inconsistencies in the evaluation of award tiers and grant amounts for the Guam Visitors Bureau’s Tourism Assistance Program, or TAP, and has determined that program eligibility requirements need more stringent criteria.

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Shriners Guam clinic inundated

date: 2024-03-05, from: Guam Daily Post

For roughly 50 years, Shriners Hospital has held outreach clinics on Guam, helping hundreds of children. In its sixth clinic at the Guam Regional Medical City, the off-island specialists are inundated with patients.

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Back to the trial of John T. Scopes

date: 2024-03-05, from: Robert Reich on Substack

The resurgence of anti-science fundamentalism in America

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Trojans running in the 2024 primaries

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Six USC alumni will face off in the Los Angeles City Council District 10, 14 races.

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USC experts discuss growing polarization ahead of primaries

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Polarization has been attributed to political violence and the changing media environment.

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Inside the ‘scary’ race for LA District Attorney

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Twelve are running in the 2024 Los Angeles County District Attorney primary.

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The Plutocrats’ Plot To Control America

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Lever News

Under the banner of voting reform, a tycoon’s plan could give the rich even more power to buy elections.

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Classifieds – March 5, 2024

date: 2024-03-05, 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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US and Europe try to tame surveillance capitalism

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Trade watchdog argues that browsing and location data are sensitive and deserve to be defended

Feature  The US Federal Trade Commission on Monday warned that data brokers need to rethink how they define sensitive data in light of recent enforcement actions involving antivirus vendor Avast, and location data providers X-Mode and InMarket. Europe too is moving in this area and crackdowns move around the world.…

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Today in SCV History (March 5)

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

1864 – L.A. Star newspaper report: County supervisors have accepted Beale’s Cut as complete. [story

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Stop misusing therapy speak

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Self-care and prioritizing our needs can make us less empathetic toward others.

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Women’s lacrosse falls short to Blue Jays

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Despite a strong start, the Trojans failed to seal a road win against Johns Hopkins.

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Roski graduate student exhibition highlights dreams

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Siyan Camille Ji presents four collections for her MFA photography thesis show.

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I choose to believe Hasan Minhaj’s emotional truths

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The New Yorker recently condemned Minhaj for exaggerating his stories, but I believe they serve a larger purpose.

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Ultimate Frisbee: USC’s Division I club sport

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Ultimate is one of the fastest-growing sports, especially on campus.

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Authors, screenwriters honored at Scripter Awards

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

USC Libraries celebrated “American Fiction” and “Slow Horses” Saturday.

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Every journalist is an opinion writer

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Nothing is free from bias, including journalism, despite the industry’s claim to be the exception.

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Dell exec reveals Nvidia has a 1,000-watt GPU in the works

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Hot and hungry, yet direct liquid cooling may not be required

If you thought Nvidia’s 700W H100s were hot and power-hungry machines, just wait until the GPU slinger’s B100 arrives later this year.…

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AMD may have failed to dumb down its chips enough to allow China sales

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Washington reportedly decided chipmaker hadn’t done too little

AMD reportedly failed at an attempt to dumb down its AI chips to a level at which Washington DC is happy for them to be exported to China.…

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US Hits Houthi Missiles After Latest Attack on Ship

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

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Rivian R2 electric SUV leaks, 3 sec 0-60, 330 miles of range, more

date: 2024-03-05, from: Electrek Feed

The Rivian R2, the electric vehicle startup’s upcoming new electric SUV, has leaked through the company’s website. It starts at $47,000 and gets up to 330 miles of range. Lots of new details are emerging here…

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Republican Voters Clash Over Whether Haley Should Remain in Nomination Race

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

NEW ORLEANS — As the Republican Party primary contests continue into their third month, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley is the only remaining challenger to former U.S. President Donald Trump. 

The primaries will determine who is the GOP’s nominee for president and who will challenge President Joe Biden in November’s presidential election.

Trump has won all but one of the 11 primaries and caucuses so far, racking up 276 total delegates to Haley’s 43. (Haley earned her first victory in Washington D.C. this past weekend, a contest long predicted to go her way.) With 15 states casting their votes for a nominee on March 5, a day known as “Super Tuesday,” Republicans are divided on whether Haley should remain in the race or get out of the former president’s way.  

“If you’re a Democrat, you probably want Haley to stay in the race because she’s distracting Trump from focusing on defeating Biden,” explained Bob Carreto, a Trump supporter from Chalmette, Louisiana. “But if you’re a real Republican, you want her to drop out of the primaries as fast as possible.”

“She’s forcing Trump to spend money defeating her, and it’s not good for the Republican Party,” Carreto said. “But the reality is, she doesn’t stand a chance, so she should just quit.”

Even though Trump has won each of the contests so far, not all voters who could cast their ballot this November for a Republican think Haley should exit.

“I think she’s incredibly brave for staying in the race, especially given that Trump is a maniacal egoist who attacks anyone who challenges him,” Abby LaCombe, an independent voter from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, told VOA. 

“She’s facing a lot of attacks for refusing to withdraw, and she’s giving people who vote Republican a choice — the ability to choose someone other than Trump, a politician who has shown he has no respect whatsoever for democracy,” LaCombe said.

The Haley campaign did not respond to VOA’s request for comment when asked what Haley would say to those questioning why she is staying in the race.

Uphill battle

The Trump campaign has been insistent on undercutting Haley’s challenge by 

highlighting her many stumbles at the ballot box. In her home state of South Carolina, for example, the former president collected 60% of the vote to her 40%.

Michigan is a more moderate state where independent voters — thought to be more receptive to Haley’s message — are allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Still, in the state’s recent primary, Trump’s margin of victory was even greater (68% to 27%).

“She can’t name one state she can win, let alone be competitive in,” Steven Cheung, a Trump spokesperson, said in a statement last week.

The Haley campaign did not respond to VOA’s request for comment when asked where she believes she can win on Super Tuesday or beyond.

On Sunday’s “Meet the Press” talk show, Haley said, “I think we fight. You’re going to have 16 states and territories that are voting on Tuesday. And so, a lot of people’s voices are going to be heard. And that’s what this has all been about.”

Most political experts, like University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock, agree that it will be difficult for Haley to win against the former president.

“I think it’s probably too late for her,” he explained to VOA. “This is Trump’s party, and he controls its voters. It’s a party dominated by an electorate who will stick with him no matter what — probably until he dies or withdraws from public view.”

Bullock, however, sees one way the Republican faithful could abandon him.

“A conviction,” he said. “Polling shows that if he is convicted of one of the several crimes he is accused of, then a substantial number of voters would abandon him. I think it’s possible that Haley is waiting, hopeful she could gather his votes if a conviction takes place.”

Trump faces 91 charges in four trials, including allegations he illegally tried to upend his 2020 election loss, whether he illegally took highly classified documents with him when he left office, and whether he falsified documents related to hush-money paid to a porn actor.

He has denied all the allegations.

Motivation for remaining in the race

A Reuters/Ipsos poll from last month found that 51% of Republican voters said they would not vote for Trump if he was convicted of any of the 91 felony charges brought against him across four criminal trials. A further 25% said they weren’t sure how they would vote in that case.

Fifty-eight percent said they would not vote for Trump if he were serving time in prison in November.

While experts like Bullock believe a Trump conviction might be Haley’s reason for staying in the race, others say she could have other motivations.

Henry Olsen, a senior fellow with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, believes Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, hopes if she can win several states, it will allow her to gain concessions from Trump during the Republican National Convention.

“She’s been spending her time in more moderate states and states where independent voters are also allowed to take part in the Republican primary,” Olsen said, adding, “states like Minnesota, where Marco Rubio beat Trump in the 2016 primary, and Colorado, where moderate Republican Senator Joe O’Dea beat a Trump-supported opponent by a wide margin.”

“Utah, Vermont, Massachusetts and Maine are all in the same boat, and if she can win five states, Republican Party rules will give her more time and clout at the convention to voice her opposition to Trump,” Olsen continued. “Those wins are going to be a stretch for her, but if she gets them, Trump’s team will want to avoid any bad attention at the convention and may be willing to give concessions important to her, like a promise to support NATO.”

Other experts, like David Stack, a political scientist at Cleveland State University, thinks Haley might have one eye set on the 2028 presidential election.

“I just don’t see Haley having a path to the nomination this cycle,” Stack told VOA. “Her best bet for a win on Super Tuesday might be in Vermont, but even there she is down by about 30% in polling.”

“So, the question then is why is she staying in the race?” Stack said. “I think it could be to bolster her name recognition and collect donations for future elections. If she has a good amount of money in the bank after Super Tuesday, that could be a sign she is building a war chest for the future.”

Alternative to Trump

For her part, Haley insists her focus is on the present and that she believes she is the Republican Party’s best chance at unseating President Biden.

“This has never been about me or my political future,” Haley said last week after her defeat in the South Carolina primaries. “We need to beat Joe Biden in November. I don’t believe Donald Trump can beat Joe Biden. Nearly every day, Trump drives people away.”

She added, “I’m an accountant. I know 40% is not 50%, but I also know 40% is not some tiny group. There are huge numbers in our Republican primaries who are saying they want an alternative.”

Jason Winder, a Republican from Uintah County, Utah, says he is one of those voters and is looking forward to casting his ballot for Haley on Tuesday.

“I like the idea of having a choice, and I’m grateful to still be able to show my dissent for Trump by backing someone who wasn’t involved in the January 6 insurrection,” Winder told VOA. “I hope the GOP leadership wakes up. He lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020, and I think the margins will be even bigger this year. At least Nikki Haley gives us a chance.”

This week, Haley told supporters at a rally in Minnesota that Trump can’t win the general election if he’s losing 40% of the vote, and polling has shown a sizable portion of the Republican Party believe Trump is too extreme to defeat Biden. Nearly nine in 10 Haley voters in South Carolina said they would not be satisfied with Trump as the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.

As a result, support in the form of fundraising dollars and endorsements from moderate segments of the Republican Party continue to find their way to the former governor.

On Friday, Haley received endorsements from two of the party’s most moderate senators, Susan Collins from Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska.

Despite that support, many in the party, including Trump’s most ardent supporters, continue to push Haley to exit the race.

“I actually like Nikki Haley and I would vote for her if she was the nominee,” explained Harvey Wasserman, a resident of Daytona Beach, Florida. “But I’ve voted for Trump twice and I’m going to do it again in the primary. I don’t think she can win, so it’s time for her to give the stage to Trump so he can focus on Biden.”

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Project Tapestry

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Daring Fireball

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Donald Trump Wins North Dakota Republican Caucuses

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

BISMARCK, N.D. — Donald Trump won the North Dakota Republican presidential caucuses on Monday, adding to his string of victories heading into Super Tuesday.

The former president finished first in voting conducted at 12 caucus sites, ahead of former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. The result puts Trump back on the winning track, which was briefly interrupted on Sunday when Haley notched her first victory of the campaign in the District of Columbia’s primary.

The White House hopefuls now turn their attention to Super Tuesday, when results will pour in from 16 states in contests that amount to the single biggest delegate haul of any day in the presidential primary. Trump and President Joe Biden, a Democrat, are dominating their races and are on track to winning their nominations later this month.

Under North Dakota’s rules, candidates are eligible to win delegates if they finish with at least 20% of the vote. However, a candidate who wins at least 60% of the vote receives all of the state’s 29 delegates.

Four candidates were on the ballot, including Trump and Nikki Haley. The other candidates, who have received little attention, were Florida businessman David Stuckenberg and Texas businessman and pastor Ryan Binkley, who recently ended his campaign.

Retired music teacher and librarian Karen Groninger, of Almont, said Monday that she voted for Trump, calling him the best choice. The 76-year-old cited Trump’s 2020 speech at the annual March for Life anti-abortion event in Washington, D.C. — the first by a sitting president — and his border policies.

Longtime Republican state Sen. Dick Dever, of Bismarck, said he voted for Haley, but added she’s unlikely to win. The retired factory representative, 72, said, “I hear an awful lot of people say that they really liked Trump’s policies, but they don’t like the way he conducts himself, and I think he’s gone overboard a bit.”

Caucus voters were encouraged to be paying party members, but those who wouldn’t pay $50 for annual membership were asked to sign a pledge to affiliate with the party, caucus Chair Robert Harms said.

North Dakota is the only state without voter registration. The caucuses followed official state voter identification protocols, such as providing a driver’s license. Voting was done only in person and on printed ballots, which will be hand-counted.

In 2016, it was a North Dakota delegate who helped Trump secure the number needed for the Republican presidential nomination.

He swept North Dakota’s three electoral college votes in 2016 and 2020, winning about 63% and 65% of those votes, respectively.

As president, Trump visited Bismarck and Mandan in 2017 to talk about tax cuts, and he campaigned twice in Fargo in 2018 for Kevin Cramer in the then-congressman’s successful Senate bid against Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.

North Dakota’s Democratic-NPL Party is holding a presidential primary almost entirely by mail, with mail-in voting from Feb. 20 to March 30, and limited in-person voting for residents of Indian reservations. President Joe Biden, Rep. Dean Phillips and six others are on the ballot.

A third party will count ballots in Fargo on March 30, with results available on the party’s website afterward.

Sen. Bernie Sanders won the Democratic caucuses in 2016 and 2020.

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Grab shrank its superapp by a quarter in order to survive

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Large APKs and disk footprints spell doom in a developing market

In 2019, Southeast Asian superapp developer Grab spotted a problem: its app was growing in size by one percent per month, making it less suited to the modest smartphones found across the region in which it operates, degrading user experience and ultimately threatening its prospects for attracting more users.…

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White House Raises Hopes for Gaza 6-Week Cease-Fire Deal

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

Vice President Kamala Harris reiterated Monday support for an “immediate” six-week cease-fire in Gaza, meeting with a top member of Israel’s war Cabinet as the conflict teeters on the five-month mark. But analysts and protesters note that stopping the conflict hinges on negotiations the Biden administration won’t discuss, and that may not yield a deal before the White House’s stated deadline – the start of Ramadan. VOA’s Anita Powell reports from the White House.

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Inclusive playground coming to Peachland Elementary 

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Signal

Prospective preschool students at Peachland Elementary School will have something new and exciting to look forward to: an inclusive playground, the first of its kind for the Newhall School District. At last week’s regular meeting, the district’s governing board approved that item as well as a new phone system that would see the district upgrade […]

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Twitter’s ex-CEO, CFO, and managers sue Elon Musk for $128M

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Musk playbook described as ‘Keep money he owes other people, and force them to sue him’

Four top former executives who were let go after Elon Musk acquired the social media platform have sued the tech billionaire for $128 million in severance payments.…

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Trump Nears Crucial Delegate Numbers Ahead of Super Tuesday

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

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Old enough to know better

date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

There are advantages to being older.

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Cloudflare wants to put a firewall in front of your LLM

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Claims to protect against DDoS, sensitive data leakage

Cloudflare has tweaked its web application firewall (WAF) to add protections for applications using large language models.…

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Ken Striplin | One Story One City

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Personally, and professionally, I have always been committed to a life of learning and a huge part of that is reading

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Lady Mustangs Upset No. 1 Seed to Win GSAC Championship

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Master’s University women’s basketball team upset No-1 seed Vanguard 68-65 Saturday to win the Golden State Athletic Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament Championship in Atherton, Calif

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6 Principles Many Journalists Miss

date: 2024-03-05, from: Dan Rather’s Steady

Why Nixon hated your correspondent

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Burroughs volleyball sweeps West Ranch 

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Signal

A balanced attack and strong serving to close out the match were enough to power Burroughs Bears boys’ volleyball to victory on Friday.  The Bears swept the hosting West Ranch Wildcats, 25-23, 27-25, 25-22.  West Ranch (6-4) was without star junior Noah Douphner, who is trying out for the USA Men’s National Volleyball U19 team […]

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Barger sends letter to Schiavo over Chiquita Canyon 

date: 2024-03-05, from: The Signal

L.A. County 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger sent a letter to Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, dated Monday “to seek your immediate assistance with the ongoing issues at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill.”  In the letter, Barger thanked Schiavo for her recent engagement on this issue and her work to ensure that “varying state agencies are doing […]

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Anthropic releases Claude 3 and claims it’s better than ChatGPT and Gemini

date: 2024-03-05, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Boasts of ‘near-human levels of comprehension and fluency’

AI startup Anthropic has released Claude 3, the latest iteration of its large language model, which it claims is more powerful than OpenAI’s GPT-4.…

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March 14: Mayor’s Committee on Employment of Individuals with Disabilities

date: 2024-03-05, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Santa Clarita business community is invited to attend the SCV Mayor’s Committee on Employment of Individuals with Disabilities Thursday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., at The Centre

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US Honors Dozen Women Defending Human Rights Worldwide

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

A dozen female activists from different countries were honored Monday at the White House for their activism in defense of human and women’s rights. VOA Correspondent Veronica Balderas Iglesias has the highlights of the 2024 International Women of Courage Awards.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-05, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Can you believe these idiots think this is news?

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US: Low Iran Election Turnout Another Sign of ‘Discontent’

date: 2024-03-05, from: VOA News USA

Washington — The United States said Monday that the low turnout in Iran’s election came as no surprise and was a new sign of discontent in the cleric-run state.

“I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s discontent about the regime’s rule,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told reporters.

“We did not assess that these elections would be free and fair, and I believe that many Iranian voters would assess that the elections would not be free and fair, and so it wouldn’t surprise me if in that regard they chose not to participate,” he said.

Election authorities said Monday that conservatives and ultra-conservatives secured a large majority in parliamentary elections — in which many hopefuls including moderates and reformists were disqualified from running.

Authorities said turnout was 41%, the lowest since the 1979 Islamic Revolution toppled the pro-Western shah.

Miller said that the United States could not offer its own assessment but added: “Iranian authorities’ claims about turnout have generally been unreliable.”

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Topological Matter by Inverse Design

date: 2024-03-05, from: ETH Zurich, recently added

Bösch, Cyrill

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Detectives attempting to ID suspect of theft by access card

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Signal

Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are requesting help from the public in identifying a man suspected of identity theft.   In early February the suspect stole a credit card from a secured locker inside LA Fitness and then conducted fraudulent transactions, stated a post on the SCV Sheriff’s Station’s official Instagram.   “The suspect […]

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Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data’s atomic datacenters for $650M

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant

Amazon Web Services on Monday added a nuclear-powered datacenter campus to its public cloud empire as part of a $650 million deal with Talen Energy – an owner and operator of electricity generation and transmission facilities in the US.…

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Rust for embedded systems: current state, challenges and open problems

date: 2024-03-04, from: OS News

Embedded software is used in safety-critical systems such as medical devices and autonomous vehicles, where software defects, including security vulnerabilities, have severe consequences. Most embedded codebases are developed in unsafe languages, specifically C/C++, and are riddled with memory safety vulnerabilities. To prevent such vulnerabilities, RUST, a performant memory-safe systems language, provides an optimal choice for developing embedded software. RUST interoperability enables developing RUST applications on top of existing C codebases. Despite this, even the most resourceful organizations continue to develop embedded software in C/C++. This paper performs the first systematic study to holistically understand the current state and challenges of using RUST for embedded systems. Our study is organized across three research questions. We collected a dataset of 2,836 RUST embedded software spanning various categories and 5 Static Application Security Testing ( SAST) tools. We performed a systematic analysis of our dataset and surveys with 225 developers to investigate our research questions. We found that existing RUST software support is inadequate, SAST tools cannot handle certain features of RUST embedded software, resulting in failures, and the prevalence of advanced types in existing RUST software makes it challenging to engineer interoperable code. In addition, we found various challenges faced by developers in using RUST for embedded systems development. ↫ Ayushi Sharma, Shashank Sharma, Santiago Torres-Arias, Aravind Machiry Some light reading.

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Kathryn Barger | Women’s History Month

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Dear Friends, March is Women’s History Month. From our all-women Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors to the women serving in the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the women in our communities are bravely making history. I was honored to join the Women’s Fire League to meet the strong, determined, and capable women in the Women’s Fire Prep Academy. This incredible program… https://scvnews.com/kathryn-barger-womens-history-month/ Save to Pocket

Mustangs Lose Heartbreaker in GSAC Tourney Title Game

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Master’s University men’s basketball team had a chance with three seconds to play to get the ball through the basket, but both chances fell short as the Arizona Christian Firestorm defeated the Mustangs 96-95 to win the Golden State Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament Championship

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American Express admits card data exposed and blames third party

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-05, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Don’t leave home without … IT security

A security failure at a third-party vendor exposed an untold number of American Express card numbers, expiry dates, and other data to persons unknown.…

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May 4: Spring Boutique Benefiting Valencia Hills Wave Swim Team

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Valencia Hills Wave Swim Team, a local nonprofit for kids, is hosting a Spring Boutique fundraiser Saturday, May 4, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

The Supreme Court Just Erased Part of the Constitution.

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This solar farm was built on an abandoned gravel pit

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

An abandoned gravel pit was the ideal site for this community solar farm in Maine, because nearly 90% of the state is forested.

more…

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The Paradox of an Infinite Universe

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Kove Moto Founder Zhang Xue Resigns, Steps Down From Post

date: 2024-03-04, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Mr. Zhang, as he’s more commonly known, was also the face of Kove on its social media channels.

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Santa Barbara County Encourages Preteen Vaccinations for a Healthy Future

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – In an effort to promote the health and well-being of our preteen population (ages11-12), the Santa

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El Condado de Santa Bárbara Fomenta La Vacunación de los Preadolescentes Por un Futuro Saludable

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) — En un esfuerzo por promover la salud y el bienestar de nuestra población preadolescente (de 11

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Se Levanta El Cierre De Playa Miramar en Montecito

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – El Departamento de Salud Pública del Condado de Santa Bárbara ha levantado el cierre del contacto

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

If you're into reading code in outlines, this is the database-level code in FeedLand. The link opens in Drummer. There are comments at the head of the big routines, listing blog-like changes in the code and the thinking behind them.

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Beach Closure Lifted for Miramar Beach in Montecito

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Ocean Water Closure remains in effect for Goleta Beach

The post Beach Closure Lifted for Miramar Beach in Montecito appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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NASA Joins Rice University for 2024 Space Studies Program

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

March 4, 2024 RELEASE: J24-006 Students from around the world will visit NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston this summer for a variety of activities associated with the 36th annual Space Studies Program of the International Space University. Through a continuing partnership with Houston’s Rice University, NASA Johnson will welcome students from many countries participating […]

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M3 MacBook Pro Multi-Display Support via Software Update

date: 2024-03-04, from: Michael Tsai

Zac Hall: Both the M3 MacBook Air and the M3 MacBook Pro offer support for one external display with up to 6K resolution at 60Hz when the display is open, and with the update, the M3 MacBooks will also be able to power two 5K external displays with a resolution of up to 60Hz. That […]

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MacBook Air 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (MacRumors, Hacker News): With M3, MacBook Air is up to 60 percent faster than the model with the M1 chip and up to 13x faster than the fastest Intel-based MacBook Air. And with a faster and more efficient Neural Engine in M3, MacBook Air continues to be the world’s best consumer laptop for AI. […]

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EU Fines Apple $2 Billion Over Anti-Steering Rules

date: 2024-03-04, from: Michael Tsai

Foo Yun Chee (European Commission, Hacker News, MacRumors): Brussels on Monday fined Apple, opens new tab 1.84 billion euros ($2 billion) for thwarting competition from music streaming rivals via restrictions on its App Store, the iPhone maker’s first ever penalty for breaching EU rules.A basic penalty of 40 million euros was inflated by a huge […]

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Thoughts on Apple’s DMA Compliance

date: 2024-03-04, from: Michael Tsai

Juli Clover: Spotify, Epic Games, Deezer, Paddle, and several other developers and EU associations today sent a joint letter to the European Commission to complain about Apple’s “proposed scheme for compliance” with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).The 34 companies and associations do not believe Apple’s plans “meet the law’s requirements.” Apple’s changes “disregard both the […]

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Ellwood Mesa Reopens with Cautionary Measures in Place

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

GOLETA, CA, March 1, 2024 – The City of Goleta is pleased to announce the reopening of Ellwood Mesa to the public, effective today, March

The post Ellwood Mesa Reopens with Cautionary Measures in Place appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Wistron’s Dynamic airflow laptop concept could bring enhanced cooling to gaming laptops

date: 2024-03-04, from: Liliputing

Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Wistron has designed a “Dynamic airflow” laptop that has a mechanical system that extends the back of the laptop outward when the lid is open, revealing additional vents and providing more room for the laptop to circulate air in order to keep the insides of the notebook cool. It’s unclear if this […]

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Twelve Productions Filming in Santa Clarita

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the list of twelve productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, March 4 - Sunday, March

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Archaeologists May Have Found Traces of a Viking Marketplace in Norway

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Ground-penetrating radar found evidence of a trading hub buried near the island of Klosterøy’s historic monastery

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Scales of Justice Tipped in Favor of Dos Pueblos High School in 2024 Santa Barbara County Mock Trial Competition

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

In defeating San Marcos High School, Dos Pueblos High heads to state finals.

The post Scales of Justice Tipped in Favor of Dos Pueblos High School in 2024 Santa Barbara County Mock Trial Competition appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Santa Barbara Unified School Board Addresses Anti-Blackness in Schools and the Boardroom

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

School boardmembers discuss escalated personal attacks and microaggressions during meetings before hearing report on racism and bias in schools.

The post Santa Barbara Unified School Board Addresses Anti-Blackness in Schools and the Boardroom appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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FastScripts 3.3.1

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Barger Pens Letter to Schiavo for Help with Chiquita Canyon Landfill

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Supervisor Kathryn Barger, whose Fifth District includes the Santa Clarita Valley, sent a letter to Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo Monday requesting that she urge and ensure state agencies—specifically, the State of California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region—are proactively monitoring, assessing and ultimately regulating the handling and disposal of leachate at Chiquita Canyon Landfill.

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Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher 2.4

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Apply for the City’s Design Review Board

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

GOLETA, CA, March 4, 2024 – Those with an eye for design are encouraged to apply for the City of Goleta’s Design Review

The post Apply for the City’s Design Review Board appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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DEVONthink 3.9.6

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Why Do Poison Dart Frogs ‘Tap Dance’ With Their Toes? Research Sheds Light on Feeding Time Footwork

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists observed frogs tapping their toes up to 500 times per minute when prey was present, suggesting the behavior is related to predation

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Camo Studio 2.1.3

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Zoom 5.17.10

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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The Grace Fisher Foundation Celebrates One Year of Free Programming at the Inclusive Arts Clubhouse with Grand Anniversary Party

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

SANTA BARBARA, CA – The Grace Fisher Foundation is thrilled to announce the 1st Anniversary Party of its Inclusive Arts

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Acorn 7.4.4

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Porsche Panamera EV will be totally different than the electric Taycan

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Porsche expects to keep its first electric car, the Taycan, in the lineup even as the highly-anticipated Panamera EV is introduced. The Panamera EV will stand apart with more space and luxury than the sporty Taycan model.

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Tesla’s controversial turn signals are going to ding its near-perfect safety rating

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla’s controversial turn signals without the traditional steering wheel stalk are going to make the automaker lose its near-perfect safety rating in Europe.

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BusyCal 2024.1.2 and BusyContacts 2024.1.2

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Tesla Superchargers Come To Volkswagen In 2025 At The Latest (Updated)

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

Also, the updated 2026 Porsche Taycan will be the first VW Group car to get a Tesla NACS port from the factory.

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How the Dutch Solved Street Design

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Flying car biz Alef claims 3K preorders, still hasn’t done a proper demo

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

What will happen first by 2026? Model A in production or end of the world?

Alef Aeronautics claims to have more than 2,850 preorders for its Model A, which CEO Jim Dukhovny opines is the world’s first true flying car, although we’re still waiting for a live demonstration of the vehicle in flight. …

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GPD G1 portable graphics dock hardware update brings switchable TGP (60W or 100W) and other improvements (Crowdfunding)

date: 2024-03-04, from: Liliputing

The GPD G1 is a portable graphics dock that stuffs an AMD Radeon RX 7600M XT GPU into a case that’s about the size of a handheld gaming PC. GPD first launched the G1 last summer with a crowdfunding campaign. But now the company has replaced the original version with an updated model that brings […]

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City Hall’s Newest Art Exhibit Explores Urban Landscapes

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The city of Santa Clarita is thrilled to announce the opening of its latest art exhibition, “Cityscapes and Streetscapes,” in the First Floor Gallery within Santa Clarita’s City Hall.

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This VW-partnered battery maker just pioneered a novel recycling process

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

MIT spinout and battery maker 24M Technologies today debuted a new direct-material battery recycling process for EV batteries and battery storage.

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US Lobbyists Drop Chinese Clients Amid Tightened Scrutiny

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

washington — Lobbying firms in Washington are reportedly rushing to drop clients from China as lawmakers look to tighten scrutiny. The push comes in the wake of a surge in Chinese lobbying in recent years and growing concerns about China’s influence.

U.S. lawmakers say they are promoting legislation that would provide more transparency into who is lobbying for Chinese companies. The legislators aim to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) from using gray areas to secretly advance policy agendas that harm the interests of the American people.

Republican Senator John Cornyn told VOA’s Mandarin Service last week that lawmakers are very close to completing work on legislation that aims to address the problem. Last year, lawmakers in the Senate passed the disclosing Foreign Influence in Lobbying Act and members of the House have introduced a similar bill. Cornyn was a co-sponsor of the Senate bill.

“We’ve encountered some dissent but will continue to work because it’s important to understand who is actually lobbying these policymakers,” Cornyn said. “The primary focus has been on making sure people register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. As you know, there’s been a lot of problems associated with people not disclosing their lobby contracts with foreign countries.”

Closing loopholes

In pushing legislation, lawmakers are looking to close existing loopholes in the Foreign Agents Registration Act of 1938 (FARA) and the Lobbying Disclosure Act of 1995 (LDA) to demand more transparency regarding foreign governments and political parties that participate in the planning, supervision, direction or control of lobbying efforts regardless of whether they have made any financial contributions or not.

China is a unique challenge, Cornyn noted.

“The Chinese are unique in that there is no true solely private sector; they are forced to share information with the PLA and with their intelligence agencies,” he said. “So, I would say anytime we’re dealing with the Chinese-owned enterprise, it’s a cause for concern.”

U.S. lobbying is regulated by the LDA, which requires disclosure of domestic lobbying, and FARA, which requires disclosure of lobbying and other forms of influence by foreign governments and political parties. However, in 1995, FARA was amended to exempt those who represent foreign companies or individuals if the work is not intended to benefit a foreign government or political party. As a result, lobbyists registered under the far less transparent LDA and the result was a dramatic drop in FARA registrations.

Clients dropped

The effort to tighten scrutiny of China’s lobbying activities follows the U.S. Department of Defense’s release in late January of a list of “Chinese military companies” operating directly or indirectly in the United States known as the 1260H list.

Lawmakers subsequently said they were considering a measure prohibiting lobbyists who represent companies on the list from meeting with members of Congress, even to discuss matters on behalf of their American clients.

Following the release of the 1260H list, a chart began circulating on Capitol Hill that named various Chinese companies, including some military firms, as well as the names of their lobbying firms and whether they appear on the 1260H list.

Responding to the chart, at least five U.S. lobbying firms dropped Chinese clients as of late February. Steptoe LLP has terminated its contract with Shenzhen biotech company BGI. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld filed cease-and-desist documents to stop lobbying for Chinese LiDAR maker Hesai Group and terminated its cooperation with Xiaomi, a Chinese electronics company not on the 1260H list. The Vogel Group has also dropped lobbying services for Chinese drone company DJI and Complete Genomics, a subsidiary of genetic technology company BGI.

DJI and Hesai are both on the 1260H list. Complete Genomics is not on the list, but its previous parent company, BGI, is on it.

Boycotting meetings

Republican Senator Marco Rubio told VOA that while it is difficult to pass a law prohibiting members of Congress from meeting with anyone, some congressional offices have decided not to meet with lobbying firms representing Chinese military companies.

“There are just certain entities we won’t meet with because we understand that while they may be doing it for commercial reasons, the interests that they’re representing are linked to Chinese goals, military goals and aspirations,” he said. “And so … we’ve made that decision unilaterally.”

Robert Sutter, professor of practice of international affairs at the Elliott School of George Washington University, said historically, Chinese military entities’ lobbying activities have been an ambiguous area, and the enforcement has been weak.

“These [companies] lobbying for these firms … it’s probably legal in some way. But there is a reputational cost, and I think that’s what the Congresspeople are calling attention to in saying they will boycott these firms,” he said.

According to Open Secrets, a political money website, China’s lobbying has surged in recent years. China spent more than $330 million on lobbying between 2019 and 2023. That stands in sharp contrast to the $60 million it spent between 2015 and 2018.

China’s lobbying roster

Craig Singleton, a senior researcher with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, notes up until a few years ago, Chinese corporate lobbying in Washington was almost non-existent but that changed when the U.S. government went after Huawei.

After that, “Chinese firms switched gears and quickly scaled up, deploying lobbyists to protect their bottom lines in the face of increasing scrutiny from Democrats and Republicans alike,” he said. “Today, China’s lobbying roster reads like a ‘who’s who’ of Washington insiders, from retired Pentagon brass to former high-ranking congressional aides. The goal of these lobbying operations is simple: disrupting any actions that could negatively impact their clients’ market share, deflecting regulatory scrutiny and defending against sanctions.”

Singleton said the Department of Justice – which is responsible for administering and enforcing FARA – could play a bigger role in curbing the CCP’s malign lobbying influence on Capitol Hill.

“The U.S. Department of Justice currently mandates only two Chinese companies, Huawei and Hikvision, to disclose their lobbying activities under FARA, offering a comprehensive overview of their engagements,” he said. “Despite additional Chinese firms being flagged as national security risks by the Defense Department and FCC, the Justice Department has not extended FARA filing requirements to these problematic entities. The only apparent obstacle to such action is a lack of political will within the Justice Department itself.”

VOA Mandarin reached out to the Department of Justice, but it declined to comment.

Yi-hua Lee and Adrianna Zhang contributed to this report.

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NASA Awards Contracts for Flight, Payload Integration Services

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

NASA has selected 15 companies to provide flight and payload integration services to advance technologies and procedures for operating in space, including testing in high-altitude, reduced gravity, or other relevant environments. Examples of payloads include NASA science instruments or technology demonstrations. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base contract awards are firm-fixed-price with a total combined value of $45 […]

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Change Healthcare attack latest: ALPHV bags $22M in Bitcoin amid affiliate drama

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

No honor among thieves?

ALPHV/BlackCat, the gang behind the Change Healthcare cyberattack, has received more than $22 million in Bitcoin in what might be a ransomware payment.…

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65 Years Ago: Pioneer 4 Reaches for the Moon

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

On March 3, 1959, the United States launched Pioneer 4 with the goal of photographing the Moon during a close flyby. As part of the International Geophysical Year that ran from July 1, 1957, to Dec. 31, 1958, the United States planned to send five probes to study the Moon. The first three planned to […]

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Ford U.S. EV Sales Surged 81% In February 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

All three models—F-150 Lightning, Mach-E and E-Transit—noted solid growth.

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A Mastodon client for the Apple II. Yes, you read that right….

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Lagniappe for March 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Explore the March 2024 edition featuring: Gator Speaks Closing out February and coming into March has Gator fired up, and rightfully so! Recent weeks and upcoming events remind us all how we are in a golden era of space exploration as NASA inspires the world through discovery. For the first time in more than half […]

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NASA Leaders Participate in Annual Stennis Day at the Capitol

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Leaders from NASA’s Stennis Space Center and NASA Shared Services Center visit Jackson, Mississippi, in late February to share site updates with state leaders during the annual Stennis Day at the Capitol. NASA Stennis is on the front line of the next great era of human space exploration as NASA explores the secrets of the […]

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This Is What Ancient Roman Wine Tasted Like

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

New research shows that clay vessels known as dolia were essential to the drink’s distinctive taste, flavor and texture

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Tesla (TSLA) drops on bad Chinese delivery numbers that mean nothing

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla’s stock (TSLA) is dropping by as much as 7% – erasing billions of dollars in value today. It’s not clear why, but some are suggesting bad Chinese delivery numbers are to blame.

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These Photos Are the First to Show Humpback Whales Mating—and Both Are Males

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Photographers spotted the interaction in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Maui in 2022

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An Apple district manager’s Macintosh Portable in 1989-91 (featuring GEIS AppleLink and a look at System 7.0 alpha)

date: 2024-03-04, from: OS News

A few months ago I introduced you to one of the more notable Apple pre-production units in my collection, a late prototype Macintosh Portable. But it turns out it’s not merely notable for what it is than what it has on it: a beta version of System 6.0.6 (the doomed release that Apple pulled due to bugs), Apple sales databases, two online services — the maligned Mac Prodigy client, along with classic AppleLink as used by Apple staff — and two presentations, one on Apple’s current Macintosh line and one on the upcoming System 7. Now that I’ve got the infamous Conner hard drive it came with safely copied over, it’s time to explore its contents some more. ↫ Old Vintage Computing Research I wonder just how rare it is to find old internal presentations from a company like Apple. It seems like something that doesn’t happen very often, so it’s great to see this archived and documented.

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NASA to Demonstrate Miniature CubeSat Swarm Technology

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Preparations are underway for a new, small spacecraft technology demonstration that will test cost-efficient swarm capabilities – the ability for multiple spacecraft to communicate and perform coordinated actions. The PY4 mission’s four CubeSats are slated to launch Monday March 4, 2:05 p.m. PST to low Earth orbit aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission from Vandenberg Space Force […]

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“France on Monday enshrined the right to abortion in its constitution, a…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Tesla Cybertruck Cuts Power In Tug-Of-War Battle Against Diesel Chevy Silverado

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

Spoiler alert: It turns out that the Cybertruck can’t tug.

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Seoul accuses North Korea of stealing southern chipmakers’ designs

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Kim Jong Un’s all in for home-built silicon says warning

North Korean government spies have broken into the servers of at least two chipmakers and stolen product designs as part of attempts to spur Kim Jong Un’s plans for a domestic semiconductor industry, according to Seoul’s security agency.…

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Two talks for the price of one* at WROCC on 6th March

date: 2024-03-04, from: RiscOS Story

• And the meeting is already free, so that makes this a bargain! Wednesday, 6th March, will see the next Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) meeting take place, and this month attendees will get two talks from two different people, rather than the usual one. The first speaker will be Chris Hughes, following up a talk he gave in July 2022 about Impact and how he uses it for WROCC administration – this time he’ll be looking at other aspects of the program beyond those covered by that talk.…

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NASA Johnson Director to Discuss Exploration Park Facility

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

March 4, 2024 MEDIA ADVISORY: J24-005 The director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center will discuss the objectives behind the center’s new Exploration Park initiative at the next meeting of the Bay Area Houston Economic Partnership’s (BAHEP) aerospace advisory committee at 12 p.m. CST Wednesday, March 6, at 1150 Gemini in Houston. Johnson Director Vanessa Wyche […]

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Report for America is “phasing out” partnerships with hedge fund-owned publications

date: 2024-03-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Since Report for America launched in 2017, the nonprofit has placed more than 600 reporters in local newsrooms around the country, including for-profit and nonprofit newsrooms alike. The hundreds of newsrooms the organization has placed those reporters in vary in geography, size, business model, and funding sources. And they’ve included, somewhat controversially, chains owned by hedge…

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TrainTimes 2.04 released

date: 2024-03-04, from: RiscOS Story

Kevin Wells has released an update to TrainTimes, his application for looking up train timetable and related information. Version 2.04 of the software adds the ability to call up the stations run by particular operators, and from the results of that it’s possible to view timetables for the stations, as well as the National Rail and Wikipedia pages. A bug has also been fixed whereby if the ‘future’ button was clicked in February in a leap year, the program would crash. To use TrainTimes, you’ll also need Wget installed, and…

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New M3 MacBook Air Models Can Drive Two Displays

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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StrongED 4.69f14 available

date: 2024-03-04, from: RiscOS Story

If you use version 4.69 of StrongED and pop to the StrongED website you’ll be able to download version 4.69f14 of the software. That is to say the fourteenth ‘full release’ of version 4.69. The download file contains all ‘modes’ installed to ensure they are compatible with this release. The main driver for the update was that there was an issue in the graphics printing mode when using a PostScript 3 printer driver, which has now been dealt with – but that isn’t the only change; there have been improvements…

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How Wasabi Can Help Preserve Ancient Papyrus

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Researchers say the green horseradish-like paste can fight fungal infections without damaging fragile pigments

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On the Reverse

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Apple Hit with $2 Billion EU Fine for App Store Restrictions

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Apple gets in on the AI PC hype, claims fanless M3 MacBook Air is fab for LLMs

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Plus a new anodization seal should make Midnight edition more resilient to gamer grease

Four months after Apple launched its M3 processors alongside refreshed MacBook Pros, the chips have finally arrived on the iGiant’s fanless ultra lite laptops.…

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Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu to shut down, pay $2.4 million to settle lawsuit from Nintendo

date: 2024-03-04, from: Liliputing

Yuzu is a free and open source emulator that makes it possible to run Nintendo Switch games on Windows, Linux, and Android devices. First released in 2018, the software has been under constant development since then (the Android port was released less than a year ago). But last week Nintendo sued the developers, claiming that […]

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Jay Leno Thinks The New Tesla Model 3 Is A Great Deal For Under $40,000

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

“It really is everything my Model S is,” Leno said. “Just not as fast. Not as as big. But that’s OK.” 

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25-Time Iom TT Champion Michael Dunlop Finally Gets Road License

date: 2024-03-04, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Until recently, the man poised to become the most successful motorcycle road racer in history didn’t even have a road license.

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Nissan slashes starting price of 2024 Ariya electric SUV to $39,590

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Nissan is slashing prices on its first global electric SUV. The 2024 Nissan Ariya now starts at $39,995, with a lower starting price on all trims.

more…

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Single Orca Spotted Killing a Great White Shark for the First Time Ever

date: 2024-03-04, from: Smithsonian Magazine

In less than two minutes, the marine mammal attacked a juvenile white shark and ripped out its liver in an encounter off the coast of South Africa last year

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Gravatar Manifesto: One Profile, Everywhere.

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M3 MacBook Airs Are Out

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Daring Fireball

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/apple-unveils-the-new-13-and-15-inch-macbook-air-with-the-powerful-m3-chip/ Save to Pocket

Women of NASA Langley Research Center

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

In honor of Women’s History Month and those who paved the way for them, hundreds of female staff – from artists to administrative support, educators to engineers, and scientists to safety officers – gathered in front of the Katherine G. Johnson Computational Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, on Feb. 6, […]

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Do You Use It? How TidBITS Readers Install macOS Updates

date: 2024-03-04, from: TidBITS blog

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Save on e-bikes, electric riding mowers, and more in today’s best Green Deals

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Kicking off this week’s green deals is the spring sale from Blix Bikes that is taking up to $600 off e-bike models as well as offering up to $292 in free accessories, lead by the Dubbel Utility e-bike for $1,499 with $292 in free gear. It is joined by the Greenworks 80V 42-inch CrossoverZ Zero Turn Electric Riding Lawn Mower at $4,500, as well as the Baseus 140W 6-port USB-C Power Bank Station for $75. Plus, all of the other best new Green Deals landing this week.

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.

more…

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Setapp Mobile

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Daring Fireball

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BYD Global Plug-In Car Sales Dropped 36% In February 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

The company is cutting prices and applying discounts to improve sales.

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New puzzle game from the NY Times: Strands. It’s a theme-based word…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Tesla’s (TSLA) Bitcoin holdings surge to over $600 million

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla (TSLA) is benefiting from its investment in Bitcoin, which now surge past $600 million as the cryptocurrency tests new highs.

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Google advances with vector search in MySQL, leapfrogging Oracle in LLM support

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Meanwhile, only 22% of orgs are looking at GenAI strategy for databases

Google has introduced vector search to its MySQL database service, surpassing Oracle – custodian of the open source database – which has so far failed to add the feature deemed an advantage in executing large language models (LLMs).…

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Valeo’s next-level video game lets you race through your EV’s actual surroundings in real-time

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Global automotive supplier Valeo has unveiled a new extended-reality racing video game it will demo during SXSW 2024. Valeo Racer turns your EV into a participant in the video game, utilizing the vehicle’s ADAS to let you race through its surrounding environment in real time. Be sure to check out the teaser footage below.

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“Cityscapes and Streetscapes” in the First Floor Gallery at City Hall

date: 2024-03-04, from: City of Santa Clarita

“CITYSCAPES AND STREETSCAPES” IN THE FIRST FLOOR GALLERY AT CITY HALL Explore the Dynamic and Evolving Narrative of Urban Landscapes The City of Santa Clarita is thrilled to announce the opening of its latest art exhibition, “Cityscapes and Streetscapes,” in the First Floor Gallery within Santa Clarita’s City Hall (23920 Valencia Boulevard). This showcase will […]

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Ford’s EV price cuts boost demand as all-electric sales climb 80% in February

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Ford’s EV sales climbed 80% year-over-year (YOY) in February following aggressive price cuts last month.

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US National Guard Member Jack Teixeira Pleads Guilty to Leaking Military Secrets

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

Boston — Massachusetts Air National Guard member Jack Teixeira pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine and other national security secrets.

Teixeira pleaded guilty to six counts of willful retention and transmission of national defense information under the Espionage Act nearly a year after he was arrested in the most consequential national security leak in years.

The stunning breach raised alarm over America’s ability to protect its most closely guarded secrets and forced the Biden administration to scramble to try to contain diplomatic and military fallout. The leaks embarrassed the Pentagon, which tightened controls to safeguard classified information and disciplined members found to have intentionally failed to take required action about Teixeira’s suspicious behavior.

Teixeira, 22, admitted illegally collecting military secrets and sharing them with other users on Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games. Prosecutors plan to seek nearly 17 years in prison for him, according to the plea agreement.

Teixeira, who was part of the 102nd Intelligence Wing at Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, worked as a cyber transport systems specialist, essentially an information technology specialist responsible for military communications networks.

Authorities said he first typed out classified documents he accessed and then began sharing photographs of files that bore SECRET and TOP SECRET markings. The leak exposed to the world unvarnished secret assessments of Russia’s war in Ukraine, the capabilities and geopolitical interests of other nations and other national security issues.

Teixeira remains in the Air National Guard in an unpaid status, an Air Force official said.

Teixeira has been behind bars since his April arrest. The judge denied his request for release from jail last year after prosecutors revealed he had a history of violent rhetoric and warned that U.S. adversaries who might be interested in mining Teixeira for information could facilitate his escape.

Prosecutors have said little about a motive. But members of the Discord group described Teixeira as someone looking to show off, rather than being motivated by a desire to inform the public about U.S. military operations or to influence American policy.

Prosecutors have said Teixeira continued to leak government secrets even after he was warned by superiors about mishandling and improper viewing of classified information. In one instance, Teixeira was seen taking notes on intelligence information and putting them in his pocket.

The Air Force inspector general found that members “intentionally failed to report the full details” of Teixeira’s unauthorized intelligence-seeking because they thought security officials might overreact. For example, while Teixeira was confronted about the notes, there was no follow-up to ensure the notes had been shredded and the incident was not reported to security officers.

It was not until a January 2023 incident that the appropriate security officials were notified, but even then security officials were not briefed on the full scope of the violations.

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Chronic Absenteeism and Math Learning Loss Are Adding Up: What We Can Do About It

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: RAND blog

It may sound obvious, but K–12 students need to attend school in order to learn. A necessary first step to helping students—particularly Black students, Hispanic students, and low-income students—recover learning in math is to support them to attend school. What can educators and parents do?

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Riverside deputy arrested on suspicion of DUI 

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Signal

A Riverside County Sheriff’s Department deputy was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after California Highway Patrol officers responded to a report that a car had spun out on Highway 14 in the early morning hours Saturday.  While responding to the incident around 4:10 a.m. in the northbound lanes near Soledad Canyon Road, […]

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An amazing analysis of “title drops” (when a movie character says the…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Welcome Nieman Lab’s new staff writers, Andrew Deck and Neel Dhanesha

date: 2024-03-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

I’m so happy to announce that we’ve added two new full-time writers to the Nieman Lab team. Both of them are starting today. Andrew Deck is our new AI staff writer, focused on the intersection of generative AI and journalism. Previously, he was a staff reporter at Rest of World, an international nonprofit publication he…

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German defense chat overheard by Russian eavesdroppers on Cisco’s WebEx

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Officials can’t tell whether the tape was edited, but fear Kremlin has more juicy bits to release in the future

The German Ministry of Defense (Bundeswehr) has confirmed that a recording of a call between high-ranking officials discussing war efforts in Ukraine, leaked by Russian media, is legitimate.…

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Former Trump CFO Pleads Guilty to Perjury in Ex-President’s Civil Fraud Case

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

NEW YORK — Allen Weisselberg, the former chief financial officer of Donald Trump’s company, pleaded guilty Monday in New York to perjury in connection with testimony he gave in the ex-president’s civil fraud case. 

Weisselberg, 76, pleaded guilty to two counts of perjury and will be sentenced to five months in jail — which would be his second stint behind bars after 100 days last year in an unrelated tax fraud case. 

The pleas related to testimony he gave at a July 2020 deposition in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ case against Trump, but in court Monday he also admitted, without pleading guilty, to lying on the witness stand at the former president’s civil fraud trial last fall. 

Prosecutors accused Weisselberg of lying under oath in the case about allegations that Trump lied about his wealth on financial statements given to banks and insurance companies. 

“Allen Weisselberg looks forward to putting this situation behind him,” his lawyer Seth Rosenberg said in a statement. 

After The New York Times reported last month that Weisselberg was in negotiations to plead guilty to perjury, Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over the fraud trial, ordered attorneys to provide details related to the Times’ report. 

Trump is appealing Engoron’s judgment ordering him to pay more than $454 million in fines and interest for submitting fraudulent information about his asset values on years of financial records. 

Weisselberg’s new criminal case comes just weeks before Trump is scheduled to stand trial on separate allegations that he falsified business records. That case involves allegations that Trump falsified company records to cover up hush money payments made during the 2016 campaign to bury allegations that he had extramarital sexual encounters. Trump has pleaded not guilty and denies wrongdoing. 

Former Trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen has said Weisselberg had a role in orchestrating the payments, but he has not been charged in that case, and neither prosecutors nor Trump’s lawyers have indicated they will call him as a witness. That trial is scheduled to begin March 25. 

Weisselberg’s case is separate from the criminal case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg brought against Trump last year. 

Weisselberg previously served 100 days in jail last year after pleading guilty to dodging taxes on $1.7 million in off-the-books compensation from the Trump Organization. He is still on probation. Prior to that he had no criminal record. 

He left New York City’s notorious Rikers Island in April, days after Trump was indicted in his New York hush money criminal case. 

Under that plea deal, Weisselberg was required to testify as a prosecution witness when the Trump Organization was put on trial for helping executives evade taxes. He did so carefully, laying out the facts of his own involvement in evading taxes but taking care not to implicate Trump, telling jurors that his boss was unaware of the scheme

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A Small Steam Game Shows How LLMs Could Kill the Dialogue Tree

date: 2024-03-04, from: 404 Media Group

Verbal Verdict is the best use of generative AI I’ve seen.

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EV Reviews Need An Overhaul. We’re About To Do Exactly That

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

EVs are changing everything about this industry. Our reviews need to change, too.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

There’s been a slowdown in feedland.org, I believe it’s related to a limit reached on the database server. But for now you may see it take a long time to load pages. I have a ticket open with Digital Ocean. Update: Problem fixed.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Glad to see a NYT editorial that properly calls the Supreme Court out on their cowardice or corruption, or whatever it is.

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Apple IIe and IIc Design Manager Peter Quinn Interviewed by BYTE’s Gregg Williams

date: 2024-03-04, from: Computer ads from the Past

A behind-the-scenes look at the development of the Apple IIe and IIc.

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Lawyers who won Elon Musk’s compensation case want $5 billion in Tesla stock

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

The lawyers who won the case against Elon Musk and Tesla over his CEO compensation plan want over $5 billion in Tesla stocks for their own compensation.

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The most troubling aspect of today’s Supreme Court decision

date: 2024-03-04, from: Robert Reich on Substack

It doesn’t just allow Trump back on the ballot, but potentially disables enforcement of other provisions of the the Fourteenth Amendment

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US Slaps Sanctions on Zimbabwe Leadership, Citing Abuses

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

Washington — The United States on Monday imposed sanctions on Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa and other senior leaders, denouncing what it said was a campaign of rights abuses and corruption. 

The sanctions, which will block any U.S.-based property and block any unofficial travel to the United States, replace a broader, two-decade-old sanctions program against Zimbabwe. 

“The changes we are making today are intended to make clear what has always been true: our sanctions are not intended to target the people of Zimbabwe,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said. 

“We are refocusing our sanctions on clear and specific targets: President Mnangagwa’s criminal network of government officials and businesspeople who are most responsible for corruption or human rights abuse against the people of Zimbabwe,” he said. 

Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the new measures were part of a “stronger, more targeted sanctions policy” on Zimbabwe as he voiced concern over “serious cases of corruption and human rights abuse.” 

“Key individuals, including members of the government of Zimbabwe, bear responsibility for these actions, including the looting of government coffers that robs Zimbabweans of public resources,” Blinken said in a statement. 

“Multiple cases of abductions, physical abuse, and unlawful killing have left citizens living in fear.” 

Mnangagwa, whose party has been in power for more than four decades, was declared the winner of a new term in an election in August that international observers said fell short of democratic standards. 

He is the second consecutive Zimbabwean leader to face U.S. sanctions following veteran president Robert Mugabe. 

Hopes of a thaw briefly surfaced after Mnangagwa pushed Mugabe out of power in 2017, but Western powers and rights groups say that the new leadership has also clamped down on the opposition and protests.

President Joe Biden in a declaration on Monday ended an earlier sanctions program on Zimbabwe imposed in 2003 under George W. Bush, who had advocated for a broader global push of sanctions on the country under Mugabe.

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This essay on arranged marriage makes me wonder who my parents might…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Blackness in the Fediverse: A Conversation with Marcia X

date: 2024-03-04, from: Care

            <p>A conversation about the #PlayVicious Mastodon instance.</p>

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Updates are plenty but fans are few in Windows 11 land

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Copilot failed to shift the dial. Could Moment 5 and upcoming invitations do the trick?

Microsoft is adding fresh features to Windows 11 and preparing to fling yet more update nagware at Windows 10 users in the hope that a bigger wave will migrate to the latest - but not necessarily the greatest - OS.…

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Swiss Shop VTR Hacks a BMW R 1300 GS Into a Multi-Hyphenate With This Stunning Build

date: 2024-03-04, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

The R 1301 is a supermoto, naked bike, and adventure bike all mashed up into one.

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IndieWeb Carnival: Accessibility in the Small Web

date: 2024-03-04, from: Manu - I write blog

This is my entry for this month’s IndieWeb Carnival hosted by Orchids on the topic of Accessibility in the Small Web

I started making websites back in 2010. That’s 14 years. I entered the web dev world back when the frontend scene was starting to become exciting thanks to CSS3 and HTML5. Shadows, rounded corners, custom typefaces! Everything was exciting. Also, new tags! I remember spending time reading about <section>, <article>, <header>, and all the new things at my disposal. But I never thought about spending time learning about what all this meant in terms of accessibility.

I worked solo my entire career. I still do. I have to wear a thousand different hats on a daily basis and keeping up with the web as a whole is a full-time job. And it’s only recently that I started to realize how much I neglected accessibility when it comes to my sites.

Don’t get me wrong, I still try to follow at least some best practices: I try to pick combinations of colors that have enough contrast, and I try to structure my documents in a way that makes sense for screen readers but I’m painfully aware how much my knowledge on the topic is lacking.

These days I find myself hating on the “modern web”. I can’t stand sites that don’t load if I block some JS. I can’t stand sits that highjack my scroll. I hate that everything is getting more and more performative and less functional.

And in my retreat towards a simpler and more streamlined web, I’m rediscovering the pleasure of making sites that are simple and more accessible.

Accessibility becomes easier when sites are simpler. Still, I think I can and should do better which is why I have my eyes set on Sara Soueidan’s Practical Accessibility course (only waiting to have 400$ to invest).

It’s a shame that so much of the web has become an unusable mess. At the same time though, it’s refreshing to see that a good chunk of the small web seems to be heading in the right direction: simpler websites, less complicated and more focused layouts.

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Apple’s new MacBook Air 13 and 15 inch laptops have M3 processor and WiFi 6E

date: 2024-03-04, from: Liliputing

Apple is refreshing its MacBook Air family with two new laptops that look… virtually identical to their predecessors. But under the hood the new MacBook Air 13 and MacBook Air 15 pack a few significant upgrades that should bring a big boost in CPU, graphics, and wireless performance. The new MacBook Air 13 is up for pre-order […]

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Porsche teases its ‘most dynamic’ Taycan Turbo GT for the first time

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Porsche is teasing its “most dynamic Taycan of all time” ahead of its official debut next week. The new Porsche Taycan Turbo GT is expected to pack over 1,000 hp as the fastest model yet.

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March 3, 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

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What happened when the Chicago Sun-Times freed the news

date: 2024-03-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

On election night in 2022, veteran journalist Tracy Brown walked through the newsrooms of the Chicago Sun-Times and WBEZ public radio and saw a future for local journalism. It was the first election after the melding of the Sun-Times and WBEZ, a move that likely created the largest nonprofit local news organization in America. Brown…

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AI’s Newest Advance: Realistic High-Definition Video From a Few Words

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

The latest innovation in artificial intelligence is photo-realistic video created from just a few words. Deana Mitchell has the story.

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Police arrest juvenile suspected of shooting at California cop

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The alleged shooter was taken into custody after a multi-hour search.

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Sinead O’Connor’s Estate Tells Trump: ‘Stop Playing Her Music at Rallies’

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

LONDON — The estate of Sinead O’Connor asked Donald Trump Monday not to play her music at campaign rallies, saying the late singer considered the former president a “biblical devil.”

Trump has played O’Connor’s biggest hit, “Nothing Compares 2 U,” at events as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination.

In a joint statement, O’Connor’s estate and her record label, Chrysalis, demanded Trump “desist from using her music immediately.”

It said the Irish singer, who died last year aged 56, “lived by a fierce moral code defined by honesty, kindness, fairness and decency towards her fellow human beings.”

“It was with outrage therefore that we learned that Donald Trump has been using her iconic performance of Nothing Compares 2 U at his political rallies,” the statement said.

“It is no exaggeration to say that Sinead would have been disgusted, hurt and insulted to have her work misrepresented in this way by someone who she herself referred to as a ‘biblical devil.’ As the guardians of her legacy, we demand that Donald Trump and his associates desist from using her music immediately.”

Fiery and outspoken, O’Connor was a critic of the Roman Catholic Church well before  

allegations of sexual abuse were widely reported, and she was open about her mental health struggles.

She was found unresponsive at her London home in July and pronounced dead at the scene. A coroner ruled that she died of natural causes.

O’Connor joins a growing list of artists who have objected to Trump using their songs, including Rihanna, Neil Young, Linkin Park, the late Tom Petty and Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler.

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How Jane Austen Changed Fiction Forever

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Tesla Cybertruck Crashes Into Cement Wall Outside Of Beverly Hills Hotel

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

The front wheel was ripped right off the truck.

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NASA’s satellite pit stop project runs out of gas

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

OSAM-1 – expensive, late, difficult, and no longer what the market needs?

NASA has finally pulled the plug on its ambitious mission to refuel and service working satellites via its OSAM-1 demonstrator.…

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Sunflower sea stars are critically endangered, but can humans help the species rebound?

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

A group of aquarists and marine scientists were able to successfully lab reproduce sunflower sea stars, a species nearly wiped to extinction.

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StoreDot says sub-freezing temps are no problem for its ultrafast charging EV batteries

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

StoreDot, makers of ultrafast cells in pouch and Tesla-like 4680 family form factor, says its battery cells can charge up to 80% of their full capacity in a sub-freezing temperature of 14F (-10C) when charged at standard speed.

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Ex-Trump Org. executive Allen Weisselberg pleads guilty to perjury

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

Former Trump Organization CFO was charged on Monday with five counts of perjury relating to testimony he gave during the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump regarding the size of the Trump Tower triplex apartment and dealings he had with an insurer.

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NASA’s Juno Mission Measures Oxygen Production at Europa

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

The ice-covered Jovian moon generates 1,000 tons of oxygen every 24 hours – enough to keep a million humans breathing for a day. Scientists with NASA’s Juno mission to Jupiter have calculated the rate of oxygen being produced at the Jovian moon Europa to be substantially less than most previous studies. Published on March 4 […]

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How writers’ and actors’ strikes shape what we watch

date: 2024-03-04, from: Marketplace Morning Report

In its recent quarterly results, Paramount said it would continue several cost-cutting experiments it began in response to last year’s months-long strikes. That’s something it seems every media company is trying to do these days. What will it likely look like? More reality TV, foreign programming and live sports. Also on the show: unpacking what’s included in the the latest government spending bills and explaining the European Union’s $2 billion Apple fine.

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Jill On Money: Stock market milestones

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

Your investments may or may not track the path of stock indexes, depending on your specific allocation

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Moscow’s History of Unforced Errors Is the West’s Hidden Advantage

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: RAND blog

In challenging the West, Russia often shoots itself in the foot. It has done so again with the murder of Alexei Navalny on the cusp of a Ukraine vote in Congress. While policymakers cannot count on Russian blunders continuing, it’s worth considering the number of unforced errors Moscow has committed over the years and their consequences.

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Facebook will stop subsidizing Australian news. Will tax dollars have to replace it?

date: 2024-03-04, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

When we speak of media freedom, we generally mean it in terms of freedom from unnecessary legal restrictions, so journalists and their sources are not threatened with prosecution for exposing the misdeeds of governments. But Thursday’s announcement by Meta (Facebook’s parent company) that it will stop paying for Australian news content poses a different kind…

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The Minimal Phone hits Indiegogo for $350 and up (E Ink phone with a QWERTY keyboard)

date: 2024-03-04, from: Liliputing

The Minimal Phone is an Android phone with a screen that bucks almost every trend in the modern smartphone space. Instead of a big screen with vibrant colors and a high refresh rate it has a small black and white E Ink display positioned above a physical keyboard, making the phone look a bit like a modern […]

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Pac-12 MBB power ratings: Washington State beats expectations like no team has done before

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The Cougars have set a conference record for largest margin between preseason projection and final record, beating expectations by at least eight positions.

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Tesla in talks for a factory in Thailand, report says

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla is in talks with Thailand’s government to build a factory in the country, according to government officials.

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A remembrance of legendary film scholar David Bordwell, who died recently at…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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The Doombrush

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: One Foot Tsunami

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North Dakota Republicans will caucus on Monday. Here is what to expect

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The state’s caucus chair said if Haley upsets Trump, it could affect contests on Super Tuesday.

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Google-backed EV charging startup Gravity Mobility opens fastest public chargers in the US

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Gravity Mobility, a New York-based startup specializing in EV infrastructure, has opened a new public charging station being touted as the fastest in the US. With the ability to replenish up to 200 miles of range in a mere five minutes of charging, Gravity Mobility’s advanced technology will help get drivers back on roads more quickly, bringing the segment closer to time parity with traditional gas station visits.

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Google-backed EV charging startup Gravity opens fastest public chargers in the US

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Gravity, a New York-based startup specializing in EV infrastructure, has opened a new public charging station, touted as the fastest in the US. With the ability to replenish up to 200 miles of range in a mere five minutes of charging, Gravity Inc.’s advanced technology will help get drivers back on roads more quickly, bringing the segment closer to time parity with traditional gas station visits.

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EU takes a bite out of Apple with $2B in-app purchase fine

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Cupertino blames Spotify, says Commission is just giving preference to another European company

Apple’s anti-steering provisions that prevent music streaming apps from directing users outside the App Store for paid services were smacked down in the European Union today and earned the iGiant a fine of more than €1.8 billion ($1.95 billion).…

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Read: Supreme Court’s opinion keeping Trump on Colorado ballot

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The Supreme Court ruled former President Trump should appear on the ballot in Colorado in a decision that follows months of debate over whether the frontrunner for the GOP nomination violated the “insurrectionist clause” included in the 14th Amendment.

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Fresh X-Rays Reveal a Universe as Clumpy as Cosmology Predicts

date: 2024-03-04, from: Quanta Magazine

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US Supreme Court Allows Trump to Remain on Colorado Election Ballot

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

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Supreme Court keeps Donald Trump on Colorado ballot, rejecting 14th Amendment push

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The opinion is a massive victory for Trump, vanquishing one of the many legal threats that have both plagued and animated his campaign against President Joe Biden.

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The Insane Tesla Cybertrax Demolishes Snow And Ice

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

This monster was even built with some support from Tesla. Watch how it was made.

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Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old. Initially detected with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, this galaxy — one of the youngest and most distant ever observed  — […]

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Ellison-backed med tech startup Project Ronin closes doors

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Built on OCI, the cancer-focused analytics company struggled to find sufficient paying customers, one report claimed

A Larry Ellison-backed startup focused on bringing data analytics to the study and treatment of cancer has reportedly closed.…

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Class of 2015

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

NASA Glenn Research Center Hall of Fame 2015 Induction Class The inaugural class of the NASA Glenn Research Center’s Hall of Fame was inducted to celebrate the 100th anniversary of NASA’s predecessor organization, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). All nine of the inductees were employed during the center’s NACA period from 1941 to […]

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Class of 2016

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

NASA Glenn Research Center Hall of Fame 2016 Induction Class NASA Glenn Research Center inducted its second class into its Hall of Fame as part of a year-long celebration of the center’s 75th anniversary. Again, the honorees emerged from a variety of fields, from center directors, to groundbreaking researchers, computer analysts, and education. The induction […]

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Class of 2021

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

NASA Glenn Research Center Hall of Fame 2021 Induction Class A third class of the NASA Glenn Hall of Fame was selected as part of the observance of the center’s 80th Anniversary. The 10 inductees represent Glenn’s broad competencies and mission support functions. This class is the first to emerge from Glenn’s recent history, and […]

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Pending Launch Will Signal Start of Historic NASA Stennis Mission

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

For NASA’s Stennis Space Center, anticipation is high for the scheduled launch today, Monday, March 4, of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that will mark the initial step in the Center’s first-ever in-space mission. The launch window is 5:05 to 5:59 p.m. EST, with liftoff currently targeted for 5:05 pm EST. The SpaceX Transporter 10 […]

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Denisovan humans were first discovered in 2010 but DNA gathered since then…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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What Does Nissan Get If It Rides To Fisker’s Rescue?

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

Plus, we look at how and why China cranks out so many cars, and the new big electric Hyundai may get a name change.

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JCB announces new, electric drive scissor lift for indoor operations

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

JCB has redesigned its S1932 electric drive scissor lifts with an eye towards making it easier to put to work, and easier to get to work, too.

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Hyundai IONIQ 7 will go by IONIQ 9 as the brand’s first three-row electric SUV

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

The first three-row electric SUV from Hyundai will be named the IONIQ 9. Hyundai plans to change the name of the electric SUV from IONIQ 7 to IONIQ 9 as it looks to build off Kia’s success with the EV9.

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Apple hit with $2 billion fine over music app abuses

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The EU’s investigation was sparked by a complaint from Spotify, which claimed it was forced to ramp up the price of its monthly subscriptions to cover costs associated with Apple’s alleged stranglehold on how the App Store operates. 

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Wish You Were Here: Costa Rica beach, zipline and jungle adventures

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

A Walnut Creek couple’s Central American adventures included jungle tours, waterfall hikes and more.

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Ransomware ban backers insist thugs must be cut off from payday

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Increasingly clear number of permanent solutions is narrowing

Global law enforcement authorities’ attempts to shutter the LockBit ransomware crew have sparked a fresh call for a ban on ransomware payments to perpetrators.…

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NASA Names Winners in Lunar Gateway Packing and Storing Challenge

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

By Brayden McBee Humans living in space have confronted the challenge of maximizing the physical space available to them. As NASA works to return astronauts to the Moon with its Artemis campaign and chart a new era of deep space exploration with Gateway, humanity’s first space station in lunar orbit, being organized and space-efficient is […]

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Bonnie McBride

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Citation Sanford Gordon and Bonnie McBride worked side by side to develop one of the most important and widely used computer programs in the aerospace industry, and they continued to improve the program for decades until their deaths. Now known as Chemical Equilibrium with Applications (CEA), the program is still used worldwide. Applications include assigned […]

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Bobby Sanders

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Citation Bobby W. Sanders was a widely recognized national technical authority in high-speed inlet technology. He conducted research on all aspects of military and commercial aircraft engine inlets, including conceptual definition, complete design, and testing for military and commercial applications. He conceived, managed, and guided the technical implementation of the center’s inlet research for subsonic […]

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Raymond Sharp

date: 2024-03-04, from: NASA breaking news

Citation Edward Raymond Sharp, known as “Ray,” was the center’s director for its first 20 years. Sharp expedited the wartime construction of the laboratory; empowered the research staff with the freedom and tools to succeed; and inspired fierce commitment and loyalty among the staff. Employees, management, local officials, and visitors were all drawn to Sharp’s […]

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The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped. “I think of the Supreme Court…

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Micron New York mega fab faces an environmental exam

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

At least the US Army is thinking about the frogs in those 226 acres of wetland

Micron’s proposed “mega fab” semiconductor plant in New York State is to be scrutinized by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), which is tasked with preparing an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the project.…

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John Kerry’s Next Move

date: 2024-03-04, from: Heatmap News

Current conditions: California’s Sierra Nevada range is expecting another snowstorm • Dangerous smog has settled on Vietnam’s capital of Hanoi • Drought-stricken Sicily has declared a state of emergency.

THE TOP FIVE

1. John Kerry nears last day as climate envoy

This week marks the end of an era in climate diplomacy: John Kerry, the first special presidential envoy for climate, is leaving government. On Wednesday he’ll hand the reins to White House senior advisor John Podesta, though Kerry plans to stay involved in the global fight against climate change on a less formal level. “The reason that I’ve decided to transition from this job is not because we’re finished,” he told the Financial Times. “But as U.S. envoy, I’m presently responsible for the U.S. position, for what we’re doing here. If I’m out there as a citizen, I’m able to work with whoever I choose to work with in order to help accelerate this [transition away from fossil fuels].” Specifically, he plans to focus on securing more funding for the energy transition, having expressed frustration about paltry commitments from the U.S. toward climate funds.

2. Scientists connect the dots between Texas fire and climate change

Texas’ Smokehouse Creek fire continued to burn over the weekend, and attempts to bring it under control were hampered by warm temperatures and strong winds. It has so far burned more than 1 million acres and is the largest fire in the state’s history. Two people are known to have died in the blaze. On top of the threat to human life is the danger posed to the millions of cattle that graze in the Texas Panhandle. The fire has scorched grassland and left farmers without food or water for their herds.

A scorched utility pole in TexasScott Olson/Getty Images

According to Climate Central, a nonprofit that researches the effects of climate change, the record winter heat the Panhandle endured on the day the fire ignited was made at least three times more likely due to human-caused climate change. “The more climate changes, the more these risks grow: including the risk of winter heatwaves and wildfire,” said Katharine Hayhoe, chief scientist for the Nature Conservancy and professor at Texas Tech.

3. BYD slashes price of best-selling EV

Chinese carmaker BYD released a new version of its best-selling EV today at a price that’s nearly 12% lower than the final sale price of its predecessor, according to Reuters. In China, the new Yuan Plus crossover (known overseas as the Atto 3) will cost 119,800 yuan, or about $16,644. “That price puts the compact SUV at around the same price as [internal combustion engine] rivals including the Honda XR-V, the Buick Envision Plus, and the Volkswagen T-Cross,” Jennifer Mossalgue noted at Electrek. Last week Stella Li, CEO of BYD Americas, said the company wasn’t interested in entering the U.S. market, but major price cuts by the world’s biggest seller of EVs will ripple through the global market, and the Biden administration knows it: Last week President Biden announced an investigation into security threats posed by Chinese EVs, a sign that “the backlash to Chinese EVs has begun in earnest in the U.S.,” wrote Heatmap’s Robinson Meyer.

4. BlackRock pivots from ESG to ‘transition investing’

ESG is out. “Transition investing” is in. A new Wall Street Journal report explains how BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, is carefully continuing a climate investing strategy while simultaneously attempting to sidestep ESG backlash. The company has stopped trying to change how companies behave, talking about social issues, or fussing over criteria for responsible investing. Instead it’s betting on clean-energy infrastructure projects that will speed the transition away from fossil fuels, a strategy it calls “transition investing.” ESG was too vague, sources said, and failed to outpace the market or prove good for the planet. Meanwhile, private renewable-energy and broad energy-sector investment funds have raised nearly $500 billion over the last five years “and dwarfed the amount raised for traditional fossil-fuel funds,” the Journal reported. “The mega infrastructure projects are the new ESG,” said Peter McKillop, a former spokesman at BlackRock. “Energy-transition infrastructure — Wall Street loves this because it’s real.”

5. MethaneSAT scheduled for launch today

A satellite that will monitor methane leaks from space is set to hitch a ride on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launching from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base this afternoon. MethaneSAT was developed by the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) to detect methane, a potent greenhouse gas that is released in large quantities from power plants and factories. The washing-machine-sized craft will orbit Earth 15 times each day and observe 80% to 90% of global oil and gas infrastructure using a high-resolution infrared sensor. It can see how much methane is leaking, where it’s coming from, and whether a leak is getting better (or worse) over time. The team will analyze the data using cloud computing and Google-developed AI technology, and then release the findings to the public, with the hopes of fostering greater accountability from the offenders. But, “there’s no guarantee that this information leads to a change in behavior,” Drew Shindell, an earth-science professor at Duke University, told The New York Times. You can watch the launch here.

THE KICKER

Not a single traffic death incident has been reported in Hoboken, New Jersey, since 2017, which is roughly when the city began removing parking spaces near intersections.

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New electric scooter to come with XXXXXL seat, but not likely headed to America

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

A new electric scooter from Ather is boasting what it claims to be an XXXXXL seat, though don’t get too excited for the extra comfort just yet. To experience it, you’ll need to book a ticket to India.

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Firstgreen battery swap electric skid steer promises 24 hour job sites

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Heavy equipment upstart Firstgreen was the first construction OEM to show off battery swap technology when it debuted its electric skid steer two years ago. Now, they’re in production – and the company says they can a job site running 24/7.

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Pluralistic: The real problem with anonymity (04 Mar 2024)

date: 2024-03-04, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog

Today’s links The real problem with anonymity: The banal anonymity of evil. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2023 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Podcasts, events and more. Latest books: You keep readin’ em, I’ll keep writin’ ‘em. Upcoming books: Like I said, I’ll keep writin’ ‘em. Colophon: All the rest. The real problem with anonymity (permalink) According to “the greater internet fuckwad theory,” the ills of the internet can be traced to anonymity: Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/greater-internet-fuckwad-theory This isn’t merely wrong, it’s dangerously wrong. The idea that forcing people to identify themselves online will improve discourse is demonstrably untrue. Facebook famously adopted its “real names” policy because Mark Zuckerberg claimed to believe that “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity”: https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/14/facebook-and-radical-transparency-a-rant.html In service to this claimed belief, Zuckerberg kicked off the “nym wars,” turning himself into the sole arbiter of what each person’s true name was, with predictably tragicomic consequences: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ Facebook is, famously, one of the internet’s most polluted reservoirs of toxic interpersonal conduct. That’s not despite the fact that people have to use their “real” names to participate there, but because of it. After all, the people who are most vulnerable to bullying and harassment are the ones who choose pseudonyms or anonymity so that they can speak freely. Forcing people to use their “real names” means that the most powerful bullies speak with impunity, and their victims are faced with the choice of retreat or being targeted offline. This can be a matter of life and death. Cambodian dictator Hun Sen uses Facebook’s real names policy to force dissidents to unmask themselves, which exposes them to arbitrary detention, torture, and extrajudicial killing. For members of the Cambodian diaspora, the choice is to unmask themselves or expose their family back home to retaliation: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/facebook-cambodia-democracy Some of the biggest internet fuckwads I’ve ever met – and I’ve met some big ones! – were utterly unashamed about using their real names. Some of the nicest people I know online have never told me their offline names. Greater internet fuckwad theory is just plain wrong. But that doesn’t mean that anonymity is totally harmless. There is a category of person who reliably uses a certain, specific kind of anonymity to do vicious things that inflicts serious harm on whole swathes of people: corporate bullies. Take Tinyletter. Tinyletter is a beloved newsletter app that was created to help people who just wanted to talk to others, without a thought to going viral or getting rich. It was sold to Mailchimp, which was sold to Intuit, who killed it: https://www.theverge.com/24085737/tinyletter-mailchimp-shut-down-email-newsletters Tinyletter was a perfect little gem of a service. It cost almost nothing to run, and made an enormous number of peoples’ lives better every day. Shutting it down was an act of corporate depravity by some faceless Intuit manager who woke up one day and said “Fuck all those people. Just fuck them.” No one knows who that person was. That person will never have to look those people in the eyes – those people whose lives were made poorer for that Intuit executive’s indifference. That person is the greater fuckwad, and that fuckwaddery depends on their anonymity. Or take Pixsy, a corporate shakedown outfit that helps copyleft trolls trick people into making tiny errors in Creative Commons attributions and then intimidates them into handing over thousands of dollars: https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/24/a-bug-in-early-creative-commons-licenses-has-enabled-a-new-breed-of-superpredator/ Copyleft trolling is an absolutely depraved practice, a petty grift practiced by greedy fuckwads who are completely indifferent to the harm they cause – even if it means bankrupting volunteer-run nonprofits for a buck: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/02/commafuckers-versus-the-commons/ Pixsy claims that it is proud of its work “defending artists’ rights,” but when I named the personnel who signed their names to these profoundly unethical legal threats, Pixsy CEO Kain Jones threatened to sue me: https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/13/an-open-letter-to-pixsy-ceo-kain-jones-who-keeps-sending-me-legal-threats/ The expectation of corporate anonymity runs deep and the press is surprisingly complicit. I once spent weeks working on an investigative story about a multinational corporation’s practices. I spent hours on the phone with the company’s VP of communications, over the course of many calls. When we were done, they said, “Now, of course, you can’t name me in the article. All of that has to be attributed to ‘a spokesperson.’” I was baffled. Nothing this person said was a secret. They weren’t blowing the whistle. They weren’t leaking secrets. They were a corporate official, telling me the official corporate line. But they wouldn’t sign their name to it. I wrote an article about for the Guardian. It was the only Guardian column any of my editors there ever rejected, in more than a decade of writing for them: https://memex.craphound.com/2012/05/14/anodyne-anonymity/ Given the press’s deference to this anodyne anonymity, it’s no wonder that official spokespeople expect this kind of anonymity. I routinely receive emails from corporate spokespeople disputing my characterization of their employer’s conduct, but insisting that I not attribute their dubious – and often blatantly false – statements to them by name. These are the greater corporate fuckwads, who commit their sins from behind a veil of anonymity. That brand of bloodless viciousness, depravity and fraud absolutely depends on anonymity. Mark Zuckerberg claimed that “multiple identities” enabled bad behavior – as though it was somehow healthy for people to relate to their bosses, lovers, parents, toddlers and barbers in exactly the same way. Zuckerberg’s motivation was utterly transparent: having “multiple identities” doesn’t mean you “lack integrity” – it just makes it harder to target you for ads. But Zuckerberg couldn’t enshittify Facebook on his own. For that, he relies on a legion of anonymous Facebook managers. Some of these people undoubtably speak up for Facebook users’ interests when their colleagues propose putting them in harm’s way for the sake of some arbitrary KPI. But the ones who are making those mean little decisions? They absolutely rely on anonymity to do their dirty work. Hey look at this (permalink) Flipper Zero’s Co-Founder Says the Hacking Tool Is All About Exposing Big Tech’s Shoddy Security https://gizmodo.com/flipper-zeros-co-founder-says-the-hacking-tool-is-all-a-1851279603 Mastodon for Apple II (][+, //c, IIe, and IIgs) https://www.colino.net/wordpress/en/mastodon-for-apple-ii/ (h/t Nelson Minar) This day in history (permalink) #20yrsago The Orkut Song https://web.archive.org/web/20050910045938/http://sims.berkeley.edu/~dmb/orkut/orkutworld.mp3 #15yrsago Doctors force patients to sign gag orders forbidding online reviews https://www.montereyherald.com/2009/03/04/doctors-using-patient-waivers-to-curb-negative-online-reviews/ #10yrsago Edward Snowden to speak at SXSW https://schedule.sxsw.com/2014/events/event_IAP27783 #10yrsago Delhi police lost password for complaints portal in 2006, haven’t checked it since https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/vigilance-complaints-pile-up-as-delhi-police-doesnt-know-password/ #5yrsago London councils plan to slash benefit payments with an “anti-fraud” system known to have a 20% failure rate https://news.sky.com/story/thousands-face-incorrect-benefit-cuts-from-automated-fraud-detector-11651031 #5yrsago History is made: petition opposing the EU’s #Article13 internet censorship plan draws more signatures than any petition in human history https://www.change.org/p/european-parliament-stop-the-censorship-machinery-save-the-internet #5yrsago The People’s Republic of Walmart: how late-stage capitalism gives way to early-stage fully automated luxury communism https://memex.craphound.com/2019/03/05/the-peoples-republic-of-walmart-how-late-stage-capitalism-gives-way-to-early-stage-fully-automated-luxury-communism/ #5yrsago BATHDOOM: A Doom level based on a terrible bathroom remodel https://twitter.com/dietinghippo/status/1102153605899927556 #1yrago They’re still trying to ban cryptography https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/05/theyre-still-trying-to-ban-cryptography/ Upcoming appearances (permalink) Tucson Festival of Books, Mar 9/10 https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676 Enshittification: How the Internet Went Bad and How to Get it Back (virtual), Mar 26 https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3781006 Wondercon Anaheim, Mar 29-31 https://www.comic-con.org/wc/ The Bezzle at Anderson’s Books (Chicago), Apr 17 https://www.andersonsbookshop.com/event/cory-doctorow-1 Torino Biennale Tecnologia (Apr 19-21) https://www.turismotorino.org/en/experiences/events/biennale-tecnologia Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (Winnipeg), May 2 https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-tickets-798820071337?aff=oddtdtcreator Tartu Prima Vista Literary Festival (May 5-11) https://tartu2024.ee/en/kirjandusfestival/ Media Ecology Association keynote (Amherst, NY), Jun 6-9 https://media-ecology.org/convention American Association of Law Libraries keynote (Chicago), Jul 21 https://www.aallnet.org/conference/agenda/keynote-speaker/ Recent appearances (permalink) Is Social Media Becoming a Bit Shit? 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Cruise’s valuation halved after its driverless car hit and dragged a woman

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Plus: Google CEO admits company got it wrong when it built ‘too-woke’ AI, and more

AI in brief  Cruise, the self-driving biz backed by General Motors, had its valuation slashed by more than half since one of its cars crashed and dragged a woman down a street.…

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Captain’s log: the irreducible weirdness of prompting AIs

date: 2024-03-04, from: One Useful Thing

Also, we have a prompt library!

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Apple Fined Nearly $2 Billion by EU Over Music Streaming Competition

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

London — The European Union leveled its first antitrust penalty against Apple on Monday, fining the U.S. tech giant nearly $2 billion for breaking the bloc’s competition laws by unfairly favoring its own music streaming service over rivals.

Apple banned app developers from “fully informing iOS users about alternative and cheaper music subscription services outside of the app,” said the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s executive arm and top antitrust enforcer.

“This is illegal, and it has impacted millions of European consumers,” Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition commissioner, said at a news conference.

Apple behaved this way for almost a decade, which meant many users paid “significantly higher prices for music streaming subscriptions,” the commission said.

The 1.8 billion-euro fine follows a long-running investigation triggered by a complaint from Swedish streaming service Spotify five years ago.

The EU has led global efforts to crack down on Big Tech companies, including a series of multbillion-dollar fines for Google and charging Meta with distorting the online classified ad market. The commission also has opened a separate antitrust investigation into Apple’s mobile payments service.

Apple hit back at both the commission and Spotify, saying it would appeal the penalty.

“The decision was reached despite the Commission’s failure to uncover any credible evidence of consumer harm, and ignores the realities of a market that is thriving, competitive, and growing fast,” the company said in a statement.

It said Spotify stood to benefit from the decision, asserting that the Swedish streaming service that holds a 56% share of Europe’s music streaming market and doesn’t pay Apple for using its App Store met 65 times with the commission over eight years.

“Ironically, in the name of competition, today’s decision just cements the dominant position of a successful European company that is the digital music market’s runaway leader,” Apple said.

The commission’s investigation initially centered on two concerns. One was the iPhone maker’s practice of forcing app developers that are selling digital content to use its in-house payment system, which charges a 30% commission on all subscriptions.

But the EU later dropped that to focus on how Apple prevents app makers from telling their users about cheaper ways to pay for subscriptions that don’t involve going through an app.

The investigation found that Apple banned streaming services from telling users about how much subscription offers cost outside of their apps, including links in their apps to pay for alternative subscriptions or even emailing users to tell them about different pricing options.

The fine comes the same week that new EU rules are set to kick in that are aimed at preventing tech companies from dominating digital markets.

The Digital Markets Act, due to take effect Thursday, imposes a set of do’s and don’ts on “gatekeeper” companies including Apple, Meta, Google parent Alphabet, and TikTok parent ByteDance — under threat of hefty fines.

The DMA’s provisions are designed to prevent tech giants from the sort of behavior that’s at the heart of the Apple investigation. Apple has already revealed how it will comply, including allowing iPhone users in Europe to use app stores other than its own and enabling developers to offer alternative payment systems.

The commission also has opened a separate antitrust investigation into Apple’s mobile payments service, and the company has promised to open up its tap-and-go mobile payment system to rivals in order to resolve it.

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Tesla China-Made EV Wholesale Sales Decreased 19% In February 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

The 2024 Chinese New Year holiday seems to be the main cause.

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@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-04, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)

The CDC recommends developers to write all new code in C and C++ in a strong rebuke to field experts.

It also dropped the requirement to use -fno-stack-protector on code exposed to the network for government and defense contractors to maximize America’s computational power.

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Explainer: What Is Super Tuesday?

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

More states will hold primaries on Tuesday, March 5, than on any other day in this election cycle.

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NixBSD: unofficial NixOS fork with a FreeBSD kernel

date: 2024-03-04, from: OS News

NixBSD is an attempt to make a reproducible and declarable BSD, based on NixOS. Although theoretically much of this work could be copied to build other BSDs, all work thus far has been focused on building a FreeBSD distribution. ↫ NixBSD Github page It was only a matter of time before someone would try and build this.

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Legal eagles demand $6B in Tesla stock after overturning Musk’s mega pay package

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

‘Criminal,’ says CEO

Lawyers representing shareholders who quashed Elon Musk’s $56 billion Tesla compensation package have submitted a request for nearly $6 billion in the electric car maker’s stock as their fee.…

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What to make of New York Community Bank’s “material weaknesses”

date: 2024-03-04, from: Marketplace Morning Report

Regional lender New York Community Bancorp has already had a rocky year so far and recently replaced its CEO following revelations of “material weaknesses.” NYCB acquired nearly $40 billion in assets last year from the failing Signature Bank, and that rapid growth can make it hard for internal controls to keep up. Also, a federal judge in Alabama struck down an anti-money-laundering law. And interest rates aren’t included in inflation calculations. What gives?

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Journos seem to think Americans can't understand the basics of world politics, but somehow we understand the rules and history of the NBA, NFL and MLB. The functioning of politics isn't really any more complicated.

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LLM Prompt Injection Worm

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-01, from: Bruce Schneier blog

Researchers have demonstrated a worm that spreads through prompt injection. Details:

In one instance, the researchers, acting as attackers, wrote an email including the adversarial text prompt, which “poisons” the database of an email assistant using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), a way for LLMs to pull in extra data from outside its system. When the email is retrieved by the RAG, in response to a user query, and is sent to GPT-4 or Gemini Pro to create an answer, it “jailbreaks the GenAI service” and ultimately steals data from the emails, Nassi says. “The generated response containing the sensitive user data later infects new hosts when it is used to reply to an email sent to a new client and then stored in the database of the new client,” Nassi says…

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Can becoming a “book town” help rural communities?

date: 2024-03-04, from: Marketplace Morning Report

From the BBC World Service: Wigtown, a remote town in Scotland, has turned its fortunes around by building a thriving literary sector. Can other towns see success by taking a leaf out of Wigtown’s book? Plus, the National People’s Congress gets underway tomorrow in Beijing, and getting China’s economy back on track is at the top of the agenda.

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Ruggedized phone group takes the Bullitt, calls in PWC as administrative receiver

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Website 404ing, calls to switchboard go dead, ‘sad reflection’ of how tough it is to make money in smartphones

UK-based ruggedized phone maker Bullitt Group has called in PWC as administrative receivers after its management team seemingly failed to pull off a proposed restructure.…

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Renault 5 already has 50K orders on its waitlist

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

French automaker Renault is hoping it has a winner on its hands with the upcoming Renault 5 BEV, which the company says already has 50,000 orders on the waitlist just a few days after its debut at the Geneva Motor Show.

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People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report

date: 2024-03-04, from: Peoples CDC blog

This is the @PeoplesCDC weekly update for March 4, 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US. 

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US Vice President Harris Meets With Israel’s Gantz Amid Calls for ‘Immediate Cease-Fire’ in Gaza

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

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Synopsys unleashes Ethernet on steroids with 1.6T blueprint to turbocharge AI training

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Design aims to sate the bandwidth hunger of next-gen networks

Semiconductor design outfit Synopsys is targeting datacenter customers with a 1.6 terabit (1.6T) Ethernet blueprint intended to enable chips for demanding AI networking applications.…

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A Carbon Tax Is Back on the Table

date: 2024-03-04, from: Heatmap News

Climate policy has been all over the place lately thanks to pressure from interest groups, pre-election jitters, and the plausibility of a re-elected President Donald Trump laying waste to existing climate policy.

But further in the future, beyond the ups and downs of electoral politics, there’s a policy cataclysm coming that, some hope, could create an opening for that long sought, always denied dream of climate policy: the carbon tax.

Let’s back up. There are two things happening that might free up this policy space, one domestic, and the other overseas. At the end of 2025, much of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, otherwise known as the Trump tax cuts, will expire, including several provisions that many in Congress will want to extend, including lower income tax rates, a higher standard deduction and personal exemption, and an expanded child tax credit.

At the same time, much of the revenue that helped pay for those tax cuts — such as limitations on deductions for mortgage interest and state and local taxes — will also expire.

Measures that reduce taxes tend to be popular and those that raise them tend not to be, and that’s as true with the Trump tax cuts as with anything. (Since basically the day the TCJA passed, there’s been intense bipartisan opposition to the limitation on deductions for state and local taxes, for example.) That they’re expiring all at the same time will create a policy free for all.

And just as the Trump tax cuts expire, the European Union’s Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism will come into full effect in January 2026, complementing its existing cap-and-trade and carbon pricing system. Essentially, CBAM is a tariff on imports from countries that don’t price carbon the same way the EU does, and it’s designed to prevent what’s known as “leakage,” where producers in countries with a carbon price simply offshore emissions-intensive production to countries that don’t. (It also helps make sure those products from other countries aren’t able to undercut domestic producers on price, a facet of the policy some have pooh-poohed as protectionist.)

Starting last year, EU trading partners had to begin reporting the carbon content of some emissions-intensive exports in preparations for payments starting in 2026. One of those trading partners is the United States, which exports some $351 billion worth of goods to the EU, second only to Canada.

Bills that would just address the carbon price gap have been proposed several times in the current Congress, including by climate stalwart and Democrat from Rhode Island, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, plus some Republicans who think America should get an advantage over China for having a less carbon-intensive manufacturing sector.

This all creates a kind of celestial alignment in favor of a policy that has been rejected so many times (RIP the 2009 cap-and-trade bill and Bill Clinton’s BTU Tax) — or at least that’s what its advocates hope. Based on the history of carbon taxation and related polices, you might be pessimistic. But we haven’t seen a year like 2025.

“If you think about carbon price relative to raising people’s income taxes, when you put it in the whole fiscal conversation that’s going to happen in 2025, it’s going to look more attractive,” Catherine Wolfram, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist and former Treasury official in the Biden administration, told me. Wolfram was also one of the authors of a paper released last week by the Brookings Institution’s Hamilton Project mapping out how various climate policies could emerge from the witch’s brew of TCJA expiring and carbon tariffs would actually effect U.S. emissions.

The paper concluded that of the seven 2025 climate policy options they considered — including doing nothing to the IRA and enacting planned new emissions rules, doing nothing to the IRA with no new emissions rules, repealing the IRA, expanding the IRA tax credits for clean electricity, instituting a carbon fee starting at $15 a ton, instituting a clean electricity standard that would mandate a certain portion of electricity be produced from non-carbon-emitting sources with fees for noncompliance, and a carbon fee along with repealing some parts of the IRA — the carbon fee and the clean electricity standard would bring emissions down by the most, just missing the stated 2030 target.

And that’s just U.S. emissions. Wolfram said that if the U.S. were to institute a carbon fee, it would be a major step towards a worldwide carbon price, as countries would want to avoid paying fees to both the U.S. and Europe for pollution-intensive exports. “The more countries that get in this game,” Wolfram said, “the more powerful that policy can be.”

Whitehouse spoke at a Brookings event last week, saying, “We’ll find out a lot when people start getting tariffed through the European Union CBAM,” and that even Republicans were “pricing curious” due to the specter of carbon tariffs. “The forces are converging on making that work,” he added about the idea of finally getting a carbon price of our own.

Wolfram is also — cautiously — optimistic. “We haven’t tried since 2009. That’s 15 years ago,” she said. “The climate continues to change, and it’s changed pretty dramatically in the last 15 years. I don’t think we should have too many conclusions about what’s possible.”

Editor’s note: This story has been corrected to reflect that Whitehouse is a Senator from Rhode Island.

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BYD slashes price on its best-selling SUV to $16K to compete with gas cars

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

After recently reducing prices of its refreshed Han and Tang models, Build Your Dreams (BYD) just launched a new version of its top-selling EV Yuan Plus – known as the Atto 3 in overseas markets – to $16,644 in China, making it one of the lowest-priced EVs out there.

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Tiny Core Linux 15 stuffs modern computing in a nutshell

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Updated with kernel 6.6, latest GCC and glibc, still under 25 MB

Tiny Core Linux shows that a fully functional, GUI-driven Linux distro can be smaller than Windows 95 and still be modern and useful.…

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In Hawaii, coral is the foundation of life. What happened to it after the Lahaina wildfire?

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Abraham &#8220;Snake&#8221; Ah Hee rides waves when the surf&#8217;s up and dives for octopus and shells when the water is calm. The lifelong Lahaina, Hawaii, resident spends so much time in the ocean that his wife jokes he needs to wet his gills.</p>
        

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Key Northern California highway closed as snow continues to fall in the blizzard-hit Sierra Nevada

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>TRUCKEE, Calif. &#8212; A major highway was closed and ski resorts were shut down Sunday as the effects of a powerful blizzard continued to cause problems across the Sierra Nevada, and forecasters warned that more heavy snow was on the way for Northern California.</p>
        

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Super Tuesday’s dominance highlights how presidential selection process can exclude many US voters

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; As an independent, Christian Miller can&#8217;t vote in Pennsylvania&#8217;s closed presidential primary in April. He said it wouldn&#8217;t matter even if he could.</p>
        

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A Supreme Court decision could come today in a case about barring Trump from the 2024 ballot

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A Supreme Court decision could come as soon as today in the case about whether former President Donald Trump can be kicked off the ballot over his efforts to undo his defeat in the 2020 election.</p>
        

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Rival of Netanyahu visits US, signaling wider cracks in Israel’s wartime leadership

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>TEL AVIV, Israel &#8212; Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country&#8217;s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas.</p>
        

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Congressional leaders come out with 6 spending bills in a drive to avoid a partial shutdown

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well as infighting among House Republicans.</p>
        

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Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia’s Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; Nikki Haley has won the Republican primary in the District of Columbia, notching her first victory of the 2024 campaign.</p>
        

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Obituaries for March 4

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hisao &#8220;Bob&#8221; Fujita, 90, of Glenwood, died Feb. 17 at home. Born in Waikapu, Maui, he was retired from Hussmann Sheetmetal in Los Angeles and a U.S. Army Korean War veteran. Private services held. No flowers or koden (monetary gifts). Survived by siblings, Michi Yoshizu, Takeko Arakawa, Harry Fujita, Yone Higa and Gary Fujita; children, Victoria Angel, Howard (Darlene) Yoshida and Frank Yoshida; 10 grandchildren; great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
        

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Kamala Harris leads Bloody Sunday memorial as marchers’ voices ring out for voting rights

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>SELMA, Ala. &#8212; Vice President Kamala Harris told thousands gathered for the 59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday attacks on civil rights marchers in Selma, Alabama, that fundamental freedoms, including the right to vote, are under attack in America even today.</p>
        

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Fedro’s walk-off homer and O’Brien’s pitching gem power Vulcans to twinbill sweep of Biola

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>In just his second game of collegiate action, freshman Mark Fedro stepped up big to deliver a walk-off home run as the UH-Hilo Baseball team charged back for a 7-6 victory over Biola before taking down the Eagles again, 2-1, for the doubleheader sweep Friday evening in Pacific West Conference play at Francis Wong Stadium.</p>
        

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BIIF baseball: Ka‘u and KSH move to 2-0

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Saturday saw early season Big Island Interscholastic Federation (BIIF) baseball continue, as two games were held on the isle&#8217;s leeward side.</p>
        

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Surfers from Brazil and Australia win final Olympic qualifier in warm and windy Puerto Rico

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>ARECIBO, Puerto Rico &#8212; Top surfers Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia won the final qualifier for the upcoming Olympics on Sunday following nine days in which scores of competitors faced volatile weather and painful sea urchin spines.</p>
        

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Iowa’s Caitlin Clark breaks Pete Maravich’s NCAA Division I scoring record

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Caitlin Clark stood alone at the free-throw line on Sunday and made the foul shots that put her atop the all-time NCAA Division I scoring chart.</p>
        

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Don’t buy Putin’s bluff. The West can outspend him

date: 2024-03-04, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Vladimir Putin wants the world to believe that Russia&#8217;s economy is doing fine, and that he has the wherewithal to prosecute the war in Ukraine indefinitely.</p>
        

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The federal bureau of trolling hits LockBit, but the joke’s on us

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

When you can’t lock ’em up, lock ’em out

Opinion  The best cop shows excel at mind games: who’s tricking whom, who really wins, and what price they pay. A twist of humor adds to the drama and keeps us hooked. It’s rare enough in real life, far less so in the grim meat grinder of cybersecurity, yet sometimes it happens. It’s happening right now.…

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Oingerang, Camacho defend MTB national titles

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

Dry trails and challenging elevation changes created the backdrop for the 2024 Guam Cycling Federation MTB/XCO National Championship on Sunday at Channel 10 in Piti.

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Athletes climb to new heights in national scaling competition

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

A first for the island, the Guam National Federation of Sport Climbing held a national ranking tournament Saturday at the Guam Sport Climbing Center in Dededo.

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Candidates begin filing ahead of primary

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

Editor’s note: This article incorrectly stated that current Sånta Rita-Sumai Mayor Dale Alvarez has filed his candidacy for reelection. The Sånta Rita-Sumai mayor is Dale E. Alvarez. The individual who filed for candidacy is Dale C.P. Alvarez. The article has…

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Governor waives response to AG SCOTUS petition on abortion ban

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

Legal counsel for the governor has chosen not to submit a response to the writ of certiorari petition filed by the attorney general regarding last year’s Supreme Court of Guam decision on the island’s old abortion ban, unless requested by…

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Humåtak reenactment draws crowd

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

Humåtak bustled with activity as villagers and visitors celebrated Mes CHamoru with the reenactment a couple of days ahead of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic March 6, 1521, landing.

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Renovations finally begin on historic Humåtak school site

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

Renovations to F.Q. Sanchez Elementary School in Humåtak have commenced, nearly two years after it was designated as one of the nation’s 11 most endangered historic places.

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A 2nd suspect is charged in the alleged rape of 12-year-old girl

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

A second man was charged in connection to raping a then-12-year-old girl in 2023.

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‘Knew his day would come’: Man accused of raping girl

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

A man was accused of raping a minor several times over the past five years.

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Man, 65, guilty of sexually assaulting girls

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

The Office of the Attorney General will be seeking a life sentence without the possibility of parole for a man found guilty of several counts of criminal sexual conduct.

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Parent to GDOE: ‘How do we get champions for these kids?’

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

There is segregation occurring in Guam Department of Education schools, according to a parent who says she experienced the negative impact it’s had on her once studious and athletic son.

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THEA500 Mini keyboard | #MagPiMonday

date: 2024-03-04, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

THEA500 Mini console is something to write home about if you’re an Amiga fan – until you realise you can’t use its keys to do so.

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Escaping Trump’s revenge

date: 2024-03-04, from: Robert Reich on Substack

A horrible question is being asked

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PeerJ Awards Winners at ASBHM 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: PeerJ blog

Australasian Society of Behavioural Health and Medicine Annual Conference 2024 (ASBHM2024): ASBHM2024, held in Adelaide, South Australia, from February 7th to 9th, brought leading clinicians and researchers together to showcase innovative research in health psychology and behavioural medicine. Keynote speakers, including Professor Molly Byrne, Associate Professor Amanda Rebar, and Professor Deborah Turnbull, delivered insights on […]

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Classifieds – March 4, 2024

date: 2024-03-04, 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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Health system network turned out to be a house of cards – Cisco cards, that is

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Pride came before a fall for techie who thought he knew it all

who, me?  Welcome once again, gentle reader, for that cushion into the working week that we like to call Who, Me? in which readers like your good selves entertain us with tales of times technology did not go quite right.…

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US Recognizes ‘International Women of Courage’

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

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Today in SCV History (March 4)

date: 2024-03-04, from: SCV New (TV Station)

1940 – NYC premiere of “The Marines Fly High” starring Lucille Ball, filmed in Placerita Canyon [story

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Men’s volleyball left in (B)ruins after losses

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Trojans dropped three straight sets to UCLA in front of a historic crowd.

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Faye Webster gives a mediocre glimpse into mid-20s life

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The artist lost her creative touch with this album.

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No, East Coasters, LA can handle rain. At least, it once could

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

SoCal and the East Coast handle rain differently, but it’s not just the infrastructure.

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Women’s swim and dive impresses in last Pac-12 Championship

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

USC stole second place away from Stanford in dramatic fashion to finish Pac-12 play.

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Affordable internet services to expire in April

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Affordable Connectivity Program supported 35% of households in South Central.

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Still best friends, just not anxiously attached

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Learning how to maintain long-distance friendships is a challenge.

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Sophomores show pop music prowess

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The second-year popular music cohort impressed Carson Soundstage Friday.

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Study finds partisan divide over teaching sensitive topics

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

USC researchers found that more Democrats supported lessons on gender and race than Republicans.

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‘Austin to Boston’ takes me to a better place

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

A tour documentary reminds me that music is the perfect companion for transport.

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The doping debate

date: 2024-03-04, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Doping in sports is more than just a technical violation.

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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Program struggles to get off the drawing board

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

The tech just isn’t ready and clunky collab with ESA isn’t helping, auditor finds

NASA’s Office of Inspector General, the agency’s auditor, has found that the Mars Sample Return Program is struggling to get off the drawing board, never mind the launchpad.…

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India demands beta AIs secure government permission before going public

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Not compulsory for now, but IT minister says that’s coming after Google’s Gemini said the quiet part out loud

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) issued an advisory last Friday stipulating AI technology still in development acquire government permission prior to release to the Indian public.…

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March 3, 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

This week seems likely to be packed with news. Today, Vice President Kamala Harris spoke about the crisis in the Middle East with strong words for both Hamas and Israel, calling for a ceasefire of at least six weeks, the return of hostages, and increased aid to the Palestinians. Such a deal is on the table. According to the U.S., Israel has agreed to it, and negotiators are waiting for a response from Hamas leaders.

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Ear Cuffs

date: 2024-03-04, from: Jessica Smith’s blog

For a while now, I’ve been enamoured with a certain style of ear jewellery demonstrated here by Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor:

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Basically, jewellery that spans the whole height of the ear! I love it. I never looked into it too seriously for myself, because I presumed jewellery like this required multiple piercings, and currently I have zero piercings (not out of any opposition to them, I’ve just never gone out of my way to do the research that’d be required to get any). However, yesterday I decided to finally look it up.

I discovered that this whole-ear-spanning jewellery is a variety of ear cuff, and that actually, ear cuffs don’t necessarily require any piercings at all! (Although Jodie Whittaker’s specific ear cuff does require a piercing through the earlobe.) The idea is that they sit tight around the ear, being shaped to closely hug the contours. They could hardly be more perfect for me!

So, I’ve been browsing Etsy and found that this seller , in particular, has quite the range of beautiful (and inexpensive) whole-ear-spanning ear cuffs. Like, how can you go past pieces like this:

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(Note: this post is not an ad; having not even ordered anything yet, I can’t even really vouch for this seller at all. This is just a post of enthusiasm for ear jewellery.) Basically, I think this style would suit me well because, as you can see from my photo on this site’s front page, I tend to tuck the hair on the left side of my head behind my ear at all times (somewhat like Jodie Whittaker does as the Doctor, in fact). I’ve always been a bit self-conscious about this habit because the ear is a bit flattened compared to a “normal ear”, and when I was a little kid my mum used to chastise me for “exposing” it to people, as if my very ear were obscene or something. I was certainly never allowed to get my ears pierced, because that would only “draw attention to [my] deformity”. I mean, I thought she was full of shit even at the time, but after getting scolded so much I can’t help but be hyperaware of it, either. As an adult, of course, I feel she had completely the wrong end of it. For a start, you shouldn’t feel ashamed of your natural body in the first place. But secondly, if you really want to do something, the way to go is attention-grabbing accessories, so what sticks in people’s mind is how cool your sense of style is. No one’s going to give a fuck about a mildly flattened ear when there’s an awesome ear cuff wrapped around it. Nobody.

Given the tightness of our budget lately, it’s hard not to feel a little guilty about spending on something inessential like jewellery… but Vivian doesn’t share the same reservations about spending, and it’s unfair if I’m the only one making sacrifices. I still want to mull it over a bit – narrow it down to one design to buy initially, and see how it goes – but overall I think these look cool. I want them!

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French cloud Scaleway starts renting Alibaba’s RISC-V SoC

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

€15.99/month server offered with Ubuntu or Debian, and a zero percent Service Level Agreement

French cloud provider Scaleway has fired up an instance type powered by a RISC-V system-on-chip (SoC), developed by Chinese tech giant Alibaba’s T-Head offshoot.…

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Hyundai Ioniq 5 refresh details – OTA updates, bigger battery, and a rear wiper!

date: 2024-03-04, from: Electrek Feed

Hyundai has updated its Korean website with details about the expected refresh of its popular Ioniq 5 EV, with only minor changes from the original design but a lot of new features on the inside.

more…

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Bill to Fund US Government Includes Money to Counter China in Pacific

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — U.S. congressional negotiators released a bill Sunday that would fund key parts of the government through the rest of the fiscal year, which began in October 2023.

Among provisions in the appropriations package are critical funds to counter China in the Pacific as part of an agreement signed last year called the Compacts of Free Association, or COFA.

Under the compacts, Micronesia, Palau and the Marshall Islands will receive $7 billion in economic aid over 20 years. In exchange, Washington will provide for their defense and can deny China access to their territorial waters, a maritime area larger than the continental United States.

The United States has had similar agreements in effect with Micronesia and the Marshalls since 1986 and with Palau since 1994. Citizens from these nations are allowed to travel, live and work in the United States as nonimmigrants.

Congresswoman Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen, who represents the U.S. territory of American Samoa, told VOA on Sunday that House Speaker Mike Johnson reached her early Saturday morning to deliver the news.

Radewagen said she then called the presidents of the three Pacific allies to share the details.

“The COFA agreements send a clear message of U.S. commitment to the Pacific region and take a much-needed international strong stand for the ideals of democracy and freedom,” she told VOA in an email.

Senator Mazie Hirono, a Hawaii Democrat who has long supported the full funding of the agreement, issued a statement Sunday night.

“As we work to counter China’s growing influence in the Pacific, these agreements are extremely important for our national security and that of our allies, and also for the tens of thousands of COFA citizens who live, work and pay taxes in the U.S.,” she said.

The move comes after 26 senators, including Senators Joe Manchin, a Democrat, and John Barrasso, a Republican, urged Senate leadership to include the language that had previously been dropped from a Senate security spending bill on Feb. 12.

“Failure to act on COFA opens the door to more corrupting influence and funding by the PRC in the region,” wrote the senators, using an acronym for the People’s Republic of China.

Pacific Island leaders remain cautious.

President Hilda Heine of the Marshall Islands spoke to a Remembrance Day for victims and survivors of nuclear testing on March 1, the 70th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear test on Bikini Atoll.

“Our nation has been a steadfast ally of the United States, but that should not be taken for granted,” she told the audience, according to the news site Islands Business.

Palau President Surangel Whipps, Jr. told VOA:

“We are heartened that the leaders of both houses of Congress and the White House have reached a consensus on the legislation slated for action this week. We thank our friends in both parties for their continued support and partnership.”

U.S. lawmakers face another threat of a partial shutdown if they fail to act by midnight Friday.

House Speaker Johnson has said he will bring the compromise bill to the floor for a full house vote on Wednesday.

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Nikki Haley Wins District of Columbia’s Republican Primary, Gets Her First 2024 Victory

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

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Fedora 38 (finally)

date: 2024-03-04, from: Jirka’s blog

My Blackbird stopped to run X yesterday. The problem was the full disk. It was easy to solve but when I was cleaning unnecessary files I also have decided to finally do the update (I was running the Fedora 36 ppc64le till yesteday!).

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

This is how parents sent email to their kids at summer camp in 1968.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

If the Democrats had a sense of the moment they’d run the campaign on a plan to regain control of the House and keep the Senate and White House so we can pass a law that legalizes abortion in the whole country. Give people a positive reason to elect a governing majority. Think powerfully.

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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-04, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)

Why ‘Fetal Personhood’ Is Roiling the Right.

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LockBit’s contested claim of fresh ransom payment suggests it’s been well hobbled

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

ALSO: CISA warns Ivanti vuln mitigations might not work, SAML hijack doesn’t need ADFS, and crit vulns

Infosec in brief  The infamous LockBit ransomware gang has been busy in the ten days since an international law enforcement operation took down many of its systems. But despite its posturing, the gang might have suffered more than it’s letting on.…

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The 2025 Hyundai Ioniq 5 Gets A Bigger Battery, More Buttons, Rear Wiper

date: 2024-03-04, from: Inside EVs News

Everyone’s favorite Giugiaro-cyberpunk electric SUV gets some upgrades we’re very excited about.

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Nikki Haley wins the District of Columbia’s Republican primary and gets her first 2024 victory

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

Her victory Sunday at least temporarily halts Trump’s sweep of the GOP voting contests.

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Review | Sarah Jarosz Busts Out of Bluegrass and Broadens Her Reach

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

An evening at Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre shows off her voice and versatility.

The post Review | Sarah Jarosz Busts Out of Bluegrass and Broadens Her Reach appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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JP Sears sharp in A’s win, appears on track to start Opening Night

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

A’s left-hander struck out seven in three innings in Sunday’s 5-2 spring training win over the Texas Rangers.

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Photos: Stranded Bay Area travelers make the best of the Tahoe blizzard as Interstate 80 remains closed

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

Persistent snow and winds are keeping Interstate 80 shut through the Sierra Nevada mountains and its reopening time unclear.

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Thousands march in Bay Area rally against intensifying antisemitism

date: 2024-03-04, from: San Jose Mercury News

The march came as fighting in Gaza has intensified in recent days.

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Take the Lecture over the Whiner

date: 2024-03-04, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

I loves me my Angry Poodle, but I have to take exception to the recent comparison of Whiner-in-Chief Andy Caldwell and County Supervisor Das Williams.

The post Take the Lecture over the Whiner appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Ahead of Super Tuesday, US elections face existential and homegrown threats

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Misinformation is rife, AI makes it easier to create, and 42 percent of the planet’s inhabitants get to vote this year

Feature  Two US intelligence bigwigs last week issued stark warnings about foreign threats to American election integrity and security – and the nation’s ability to counter these adversaries.…

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Netanyahu Rival Visits US, Signals Wider Cracks in Israel’s Wartime Leadership

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

Tel Aviv, Israel — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked a top Cabinet minister arriving in Washington on Sunday for talks with U.S. officials, according to an Israeli official, signaling widening cracks within the country’s leadership nearly five months into its war with Hamas.

The trip by Benny Gantz, a centrist political rival who joined Netanyahu’s wartime Cabinet following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, comes as friction between the U.S. and Netanyahu is rising over how to alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and what the postwar plan for the enclave should look like.

An official from Netanyahu’s far-right Likud party said Gantz’s trip was planned without authorization from the Israeli leader. The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said Netanyahu had a “tough talk” with Gantz and told him the country has “just one prime minister.”

Gantz is scheduled to meet Monday with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Tuesday with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, according to his National Unity Party. A second Israeli official speaking on the condition of anonymity said Gantz’s visit is intended to strengthen ties with the U.S., bolster support for Israel’s war and push for the release of Israeli hostages.

In Egypt, talks were underway to broker a cease-fire before the Muslim holy month of Ramadan begins next week.

Israel did not send a delegation because it is waiting for answers from Hamas on two questions, according to a third Israeli government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Israeli media reported that the government is waiting to learn which hostages are alive and how many Palestinian prisoners Hamas seeks in exchange for each.

All three Israeli officials spoke anonymously because they weren’t authorized to discuss the disputes with the media.

The U.S. began airdrops of aid into Gaza on Saturday, after dozens of Palestinians rushing to grab food from an Israel-organized convoy were killed last week. The airdrops circumvented an aid delivery system hobbled by Israeli restrictions, logistical issues and fighting in Gaza. Aid officials say airdrops are far less effective than deliveries by truck.

U.S. priorities in the region have increasingly been hampered by Netanyahu’s Cabinet, which is dominated by ultranationalists. Gantz’s more moderate party at times acts as a counterweight.

Netanyahu’s popularity has dropped since the war broke out, according to most opinion polls. Many Israelis hold him responsible for failing to stop the Oct. 7 cross-border terror attack by Hamas, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took roughly 250 people as hostages into Gaza, including women, children and older adults, according to Israeli authorities.

More than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began, around two-thirds of them women and children, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and fighters. Around 80% of the population of 2.3 million have fled their homes, and U.N. agencies say hundreds of thousands are on the brink of famine.

Israelis critical of Netanyahu say his decision-making has been tainted by political considerations, a charge he denies. The criticism is particularly focused on plans for postwar Gaza. Netanyahu wants Israel to maintain open-ended security control over Gaza, with Palestinians running civilian affairs.

The U.S. wants to see progress on the creation of a Palestinian state, envisioning a revamped Palestinian leadership running Gaza with an eye toward eventual statehood.

That vision is opposed by Netanyahu and the hard-liners in his government. Another top Cabinet official from Gantz’s party has questioned the handling of the war and the strategy for freeing the hostages.

Netanyahu’s government, Israel’s most conservative and religious ever, has also been rattled by a court-ordered deadline for a new bill to broaden military enlistment of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Many of them are exempt from military service so they can pursue religious studies. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers have been killed since Oct. 7, and the military is looking to fill its ranks.

Gantz has remained vague about his view of Palestinian statehood. Polls show he would earn enough support to become prime minister if a vote were held today.

A visit to the U.S., if met with progress on the hostage front, could further boost Gantz’s support.

Israel and Hamas are negotiating over a possible new cease-fire and hostage release deal. Vice President Harris said Sunday it is now up to Hamas to agree to it. “Given the immense scale of suffering in Gaza, there must be an immediate cease-fire for at least the next six weeks, which is what is currently on the table,” Harris said.

Israelis, deeply traumatized by Hamas’ attack, have broadly backed the war effort as an act of self-defense, even as global opposition to the fighting has increased.

But a growing number are expressing their dismay with Netanyahu. Some 10,000 people protested late Saturday to call for early elections, according to Israeli media. Such protests have grown in recent weeks but remain much smaller than last year’s demonstrations against the government’s judicial overhaul plan.

If the political rifts grow and Gantz quits the government, the floodgates will open to broader protests by a public that was already unhappy with the government when Hamas struck, said Reuven Hazan, a professor of political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

At least 12 people were killed, including five women and two children, in an Israeli strike Sunday that hit a house in the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, according to an Associated Press journalist at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah. And two Israeli strikes southwest of Deir al-Balah killed at least five people and destroyed an aid truck, according to witnesses and staff at the hospital.

Amid concerns about the wider regional conflict, White House senior adviser Amos Hochstein was going to Lebanon on Monday to meet officials, according to an administration official who was not authorized to comment. White House officials want Lebanese and Israeli officials to prevent tensions along their border from worsening.

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Congressional Leaders Come Out With 6 Spending Bills in Drive to Avoid Partial Shutdown

date: 2024-03-04, from: VOA News USA

Washington — Congressional leaders on Sunday came out with a package of six bills setting full-year spending levels for some federal agencies, a step forward in a long overdue funding process beset by sharp political divisions between the two parties as well as infighting among House Republicans.

The release of the text of legislation over the weekend was designed to meet the House’s rule to give lawmakers at least 72 hours to study a bill before voting. And it’s a promising sign that lawmakers will avoid a partial shutdown that would kick in at 12:01 a.m. Saturday for those agencies covered under the bill, such as Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, Transportation, Justice and others.

Congressional leaders hope to complete votes on the package this week and continue negotiations on the remaining six annual spending bills to pass them before a March 22 deadline. The price tag for the package out Sunday comes to about $460 billion, representing less than 30% of the discretionary spending Congress looks to approve for this year. The package still being negotiated includes defense spending.

House Speaker Mike Johnson highlighted some key policy and spending wins for conservatives, even as many of his Republican colleagues consider the changes inadequate. Some House Republicans had hoped the prospect of a shutdown could leverage more concessions from Democrats.

Overall, this year’s spending bills would keep non-defense spending relatively flat with last year’s bill, despite the rise in inflation, and some $70 billion less than what President Joe Biden originally sought.

“House Republicans secured key conservative policy victories, rejected left-wing proposals, and imposed sharp cuts to agencies and programs critical to President Biden’s agenda,” Johnson said in a prepared statement.

Earlier this year, Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced an agreement on the top-line spending levels for this year’s discretionary spending, which comes to more than $1.6 trillion. But that agreement didn’t address potential policy mandates placed within the bills. That’s where negotiations have focused in recent weeks.

Democrats staved off most of the policy riders that House Republicans sought to include. For example, they beat back an effort to reverse the FDA’s decision that allows the abortion pill mifepristone to be sold in retail pharmacies, instead of only in hospitals, clinics and medical offices. Democrats also said the bill would fully fund a nutrition program for low-income women, infants and children known as WIC, providing about $7 billion for the program, a $1 billion increase from the previous year.

“Throughout the negotiations, Democrats fought hard to protect against cuts to housing and nutrition programs and keep out harmful provisions that would further restrict access to women’s health or roll back the progress we’ve made to fight climate change,” Schumer, said in support of the legislation.

House Republicans were able to achieve some policy wins, however. One provision, for example, will prevent the sale of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China.

Another provision strengthens gun rights for certain veterans. Under current law, the VA must send a beneficiary’s name to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System whenever a fiduciary is appointed to help manage someone’s benefits. This year’s spending package prohibits the VA from transmitting that information unless a relevant judicial authority rules that the beneficiary is a danger to himself or herself, or others.

Still, some of the more conservative members of the House Republicans have been critical of the spending bills, and many voted against the short-term extension Congress passed last week that avoided a shutdown and allowed negotiations to continue.

“We all promised we wouldn’t do this crap when we got up here,” Rep. Eric Burlison, a Republican, said as the short-term extension was debated. “The American people have demanded responsible spending and border security for years, but we fail them. When will we heed the calls of our constituents to rein in the wasteful spending, secure the borders, and defeat the bureaucracy targeting them?”

The short-term extension last week was the fourth in recent months. The vote to approve it was 320-99, but House Republicans were divided, with 113 in support and 97 against. The Senate approved the extension, 77-13.

The votes being teed up on spending bills come five months after the budget year began.

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Linus Torvalds declares Linux 6.8 is probably back on track for a regular release cycle

date: 2024-03-04, updated: 2024-03-04, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Previously pondered the need for an extra release candidate

Linus Torvalds has decided Linux 6.8 will in all likelihood debut next week.…

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Monday 4 March, 2024

date: 2024-03-04, from: John Naughton’s online diary

Democracy? Quote of the Day I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity. Tom Lehrer Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Linda Ronstadt and Dolly Parton ! I Never Will Marry Link Long Read of the Day … Continue reading →

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pg_ivm 1.8 released

date: 2024-03-04, from: PostgreSQL News

IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.8.

Changes since the v1.7 release include:

Bug fixes

• Consider tuple duplicity in maintenance of EXISTS views (Yugo Nagata)

  Previously, the duplicity of row was not considered and only one tuple was inserted even when duplicated tuples are generated as a result of inserting a tuple into a table in an EXISTS subquery.

• Fix checking for expressions containing an EXISTS subquery (Takuma Hoshiai, Yugo Nagata)

  EXISTS subquery is currently allowed only directly under WHERE clause or in AND expression that is directly under WHERE. However, the check was insufficient previously so that views using expressions other than AND containing an EXISTS subquery could be created without an error and it caused incorrect maintenance results.

• Check if PgIvmImmvRelationId is invalid before open it (Colin Zhao)

  Fix an error that occurs at dropping tables that occurs when pg_ivm is installed by shared_preload_libraries without executing CREATE EXTENSION command.

• Fix an error raised when dropping pg_ivm extension (Yugo Nagata)

  Previously, DROP EXTENSION pg_ivm failed due to the failure of opening the index on the pg_ivm_immv catalog table, because the index had been already dropped at that time.

About pg_ivm

pg_ivm is an extension module that provides Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) feature.

Incremental View Maintenance (IVM) is a way to make materialized views up-to-date in which only incremental changes are computed and applied on views rather than recomputing. pg_ivm provides a kind of immediate maintenance, in which materialized views are updated immediately after a base table is modified.

Source repository: https://github.com/sraoss/pg_ivm

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PgBouncer 1.22.1 released

date: 2024-03-04, from: PostgreSQL News

PgBouncer 1.22.1 has been released. This release fixes issues caused by some clients using COPY FROM STDIN queries. Such queries could introduce memory leaks, performance regressions and prepared statement misbehavior.

See https://www.pgbouncer.org/2024/03/pgbouncer-1-22-1 for more information, the detailed changelog, and download links.

PgBouncer is a lightweight connection pooler for PostgreSQL.

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Target in GPD manhunt arrested

date: 2024-03-04, from: Guam Daily Post

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