News gathered 2024-03-07

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Why California home sales tumble as car purchases rise

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Just 258,000 California houses sold last year – lowest since the Great Recession. But Californians bought 1.78 million vehicle, sixth-best year since 2009.

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How real do jobs on TV seem? Opinions from an actual preist…

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Stellantis’ JV approved, gaining exclusive rights to build and sell Leapomotor EVs outside of China

date: 2024-03-07, from: Electrek Feed

Five months after signing a proposed joint venture with EV automaker Leapmotor, Stellantis has reportedly gained regulatory approval in China to continue its stake. This deal is the first of its kind for a Western automaker and gives Stellantis the exclusive rights to build, export, and sell Leapmotor brand EVs outside of China, and it is already mulling some exciting markets for them.

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Rivian R2 launch news hub and watch party

date: 2024-03-07, from: Electrek Feed

Rivian is unveiling its highly anticipated R2 electric SUV today. You can join us live here to watch the reveal, get all the news coming out of the event, and an interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe.

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Colorado Public Radio Eliminates 15 Positions, Wipes Out Podcasting Department

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Squeeze

The station, which also manages KRCC and Denverite, spent $8.34 on new headquarters last year, which “still needs substantial interior construction.”

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Rivian (RIVN) stock gets a boost ahead of R2 launch with new buy rating

date: 2024-03-07, from: Electrek Feed

EV maker Rivian’s (RIVN) stock is trending Thursday ahead of the highly anticipated launch of its new R2 electric SUV. Rivian stock scored a buy rating from Jefferies Finacial Group, suggesting over 45% upside potential.

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CIF state basketball championships preview: Bay Area teams aiming for titles in Sacramento

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

California high school basketball: Mitty girls, Salesian boys lead seven teams from Bay Area News Group’s coverage area into state finals.

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Top Google exec and spouse sell 2 Palo Alto houses for more than $30 million

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

A top executive with Google owner Alphabet has sold two Palo Alto houses for well over $30 million in separate deals that point to rising values for both residences.

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Watch The Rivian R2 Livestream Debut Here

date: 2024-03-07, from: Inside EVs News

The debut event starts at 1 PM Eastern / 10 AM Pacific.

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It’s that time of year again: the Tournament of Books is underway….

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Wheel-E Podcast: New e-bikes from Rad, Aventon, Frey, tiny golf cart, & more

date: 2024-03-07, from: Electrek Feed

This week on Electrek’s Wheel-E podcast, we discuss the most popular news stories from the world of electric bikes and other nontraditional electric vehicles. This time, that includes a pile of new electric bike launches with four new models from Rad Power Bikes as well as e-bikes from Aventon, Frey, and Ride1Up, an awesome little micro golf cart, and more.

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Will Climate Get a SOTU Shout Out?

date: 2024-03-07, from: Heatmap News

Current conditions: Red flag fire warnings are in place across West Texas • Heavy rainfall caused extreme flooding in parts of West Java • Tourists in Morocco are disappointed to find the country’s public baths have been closed three days a week due to severe drought.

THE TOP FIVE

1. Biden urged to highlight climate wins in SOTU

Happy State of the Union day! President Biden will address Congress this evening, just as election season gets going in earnest, and some in his party are urging him to use the opportunity to make a Very Big Deal of his progress in the clean energy transition, reported E&E News. “We have a great story to tell,” Environment and Public Works Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) said. “He has to tell it. We have to tell it. Eventually it will break through.” Some recent polls suggest that most Americans aren’t aware of Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act, and may consider Biden’s likely rival, former President Donald Trump, to be best positioned on issues like energy and economy. “Climate voters could make or break Joe Biden in 2024,” Nathaniel Stinnett, executive director of the nonprofit Environmental Voter Project, told The New York Times. The Natural Resources Defense Council said the speech is “a chance for Biden to rally the nation around the climate progress of the past three years and show the way to build on those gains going forward.” Will he make the most of it? TBD.

2. New SEC climate disclosure rules blasted as both too harsh and too weak

As expected, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved a rule yesterday that will require companies to disclose information about their climate-related risks to investors. But the final rule differs dramatically from the proposal the Commission released two years ago, explained Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo, with significantly weaker provisions that leave it up to companies to decide how much information to share. Most of the climate-related disclosures the rule covers are now mandatory only if they’re considered “material.” Further, only about 40% of domestic public companies will even be required to consider whether their emissions are material. Smaller companies and emerging growth businesses — generally companies with less than $1.2 billion in annual revenues — are exempt.

Though the final rules are weaker than the original draft, they’re still too stringent for some. At least 10 Republican-led states are suing the SEC, accusing the Biden administration of playing “puppeteer” in using states to further a climate agenda. Meanwhile the Sierra Club environmental group might sue the SEC because it thinks the rules aren’t strict enough. An SEC spokesperson said the agency will “vigorously defend” the rules in court.

Also yesterday, 25 states, along with industry groups, filed three lawsuits against the Environmental Protection Agency for its recent crackdown on soot pollution.

3. February warmth breaks records

Last month was the warmest February ever recorded, the EU’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said today. This marks the 9th record-breaking month in a row, and the effects were felt world wide. Temperatures in Europe, for example, were 5.9 degrees Fahrenheit above averages seen between 1991 and 2020. But even more startling was the ocean temperature, which was higher last month than it was last August.

Copernicus Climate Change Service/ECMWF

“Sea surface temperatures are at record levels over regions far away from the centre of the El Niño action, such as the tropical Atlantic and Indian Ocean,” said climate scientist Richard Allan of the University of Reading, suggesting climate change was playing a big part in heating the ocean heat.

4. Strong global gusts could set new wind-power records

Wind speeds in China, Europe, and the U.S. are expected to hit seasonal peaks in the coming weeks, which could result in record wind-power output, Reuters reported. In both the U.S. and China, last year’s spring wind power hit new highs in terms of share of total electricity generation. In the months since, both countries have added more wind generation capacity, which means new records are likely. Wind’s share of global electricity generation peaked at 9.59% in November of last year, and could jump beyond 10% “easily” in 2024, Reuters said.

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5. Report: 1% of retail locations offer EV charging

Consumer Reports examined 270,000 retail and fast-food locations across the country and found just 1% of them offer EV charging. The report looked at 75 of the largest retailers, including Target, Walmart, Trader Joe’s, and 7-Eleven and found that charging is available on average at 1 out of every 14 big box store locations, 1 out of every 15 grocery stores, and 1 out of every 40 department stores. “These results show that there is no retail category where a driver can be confident that an EV charger will be available,” the report concludes. This is despite the fact that installing EV chargers has been shown to increase both foot traffic and revenue for retail shops. Here’s a look at how charging availability breaks down by big box brands:

Consumer Reports

THE KICKER

A new FEMA-backed video game called “Disaster Mind” is teaching teenagers how to stay calm during extreme weather events.

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ElevenLabs Block on Cloning Biden’s Voice Easily Bypassed

date: 2024-03-07, from: 404 Media Group

Hyped AI startup ElevenLabs introduced a ‘no-go voices’ policy after its tools were used as part of a robocall impersonating Biden. But those protections are easily circumvented, 404 Media has found in its own tests.

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CIF state basketball finals: How matchups look for Bay Area teams

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Can the Salesian boys beat defending Open champ Harvard-Westlake? Will the Mitty girls cap a perfect season? San Ramon Valley, Oakland Tech, Athenian boys, Bishop O’Dowd, Oakland girls also aiming for state hardware.

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Drivers Who Are ‘Scared Of Change’ Are Part Of EV Adoption Problem: Polestar CEO

date: 2024-03-07, from: Inside EVs News

And we thought the lack of EV education, spotty charging infrastructure, and high prices were the main issues.

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7 awesome Bay Area things to do this weekend, March 8-10

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Got your weekend plans? We have some nifty ideas, from the Oscars to Cinequest to great Irish bars and music.

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US wants ASML to stop servicing China-owned chip equipment

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Dutch lithography giant caught in crossfire amid escalating tensions

ASML is again at the center of chip wars controversy with reports that Washington wants the Dutch government to stop the company servicing and repairing chipmaking equipment it has sold to customers in China.…

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Newsom’s campaign donor says his California Panera Bread restaurants will follow minimum wage law

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

A wealthy campaign donor of Gavin Newsom said the restaurants he owns will start paying workers at least $20 an hour on April 1 after controversy over whether a new state minimum wage law for fast food workers applies to his businesses.

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Photos: Spectacular fields of yellow mustard draw visitors to wine country

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Brilliant yellow and gold mustard is carpeting Northern California’s wine country, signaling the start of spring and the celebration of all flavors sharp and mustardy.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Today’s song: Such a Night.

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Build Your Own Decentralized Dropbox with Syncthing

date: 2024-03-07, from: mrusme blog

In the world of file synchronization, most people are familiar with services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or OneDrive. These centralized cloud solutions are convenient but come with privacy concerns and potential security risks. What if I told you that to synchronize files between individual devices, you don’t need the cloud™ ?

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How Hackers Dox Doctors to Order Mountains of Oxy and Adderall

date: 2024-03-07, from: 404 Media Group

Hackers and fraudsters are gaining access to sensitive drug ordering tools and then advertising some of the most tightly controlled drugs in the country, including fentanyl.

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The Ransom Archangel Is A Wild Custom That’s Worthy Of Stares

date: 2024-03-07, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

The more you look, the wilder it gets.

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WANDERLUST

date: 2024-03-07, from: Howard Jacobson blog

He saw her first - no he didn’t: he beheld her first - in the library of St Ursula’s College, a grammar school in North Manchester which had agreed to let him research its holdings of once venerated textbooks. Her head appeared above the stacks like that of a browsing giraffe. She even swivelled her jaw as though chewing on an acacia leaf. That was a tic he would come to hate – as for example when it accompanied a confession that she loved another man, or another woman, or both - but at first it beguiled him. It suggested the absent-mindedness of a person who was always somewhere else. She caught his gaze and smiled at him.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

Have you ever seen an investigative report on the oft-quoted lawyer who said the nasty shit about Biden’s age? Where’s the journalism there?? Tell us a bit about his flaws. Is he a Federalist Society guy? Who did he vote for. Any other conflicts of interest? What does he know about aging, btw? Is he an expert? Did he even take a college course on aging? Consult experts before forming his opinion? Also does he feel it’s fair for a prosecutor to use his public platform to smear the rep of an innocent person? And finally if there is no respect for the president as a person, what about the office, and the country it serves? Does he have any respect for that? And did he expect to have the light shone on him for making such a bold statement?

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What Americans Need to Hear About Biden’s Climate Record

date: 2024-03-07, from: Distilled Earth blog

Biden has done more to fight climate change than any president. But most people don’t know that.

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@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-07, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)

I asked ChatGPT what plagiarism is, and if it engages in it.

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Will 49ers make one last huge free agency swing before salary cap tightens?

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

The 49ers can’t reward quarterback Brock Purdy until next year, and that allows financial resources to go toward one more shopping spree in NFL free agency next week.

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Apple’s had it with Epic’s app store shenanigans, terminates dev account

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

No end in sight for ‘horror show’ even with EU’s DMA

Epic Games has followed the tried and tested approach of sharing executive email exchanges following the termination of its developer account by Apple.…

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Tesla releases impressive new Cybertruck off-road video as fails from owners pile up

date: 2024-03-07, from: Electrek Feed

Tesla has released an impressive new video of a Cybertruck off-roading while instances of Cybertruck owners failing are piling up.

more…

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The Tesla Cybertruck Charges At 327 kW From A Third-Party Charger, But Not For Long

date: 2024-03-07, from: Inside EVs News

Nxu’s Charging Station supplied up to 814 volts to the angular pickup, taking advantage of its 800V architecture.

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Kilpatrick: Are you smart enough for Amazon’s new shopping carts?

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Dash Carts promise a fun and efficient grocery experience, but only for those who prove worthy.

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Guestbooks are cool

date: 2024-03-07, from: Manu - I write blog

            <p>As I mentioned in a previous post, this site now has a <a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/guestbook">guestbook</a>. But, as someone pointed out, I didn’t explain what the heck a guestbook is. I thought it was pretty self-explanatory but I think it’s worth writing a post about it anyway. On the <a href="https://indieweb.org/guestbook">IndieWeb website</a>, guestbooks are defined as:</p>

a way to allow visitors to your site to leave a comment about the website as a whole, instead of a comment about a specific post.

I think it’s a good definition. Guestbooks are a relic of a different time, back when the web wasn’t dominated by social media and interactions among people moved at a different pace. A guestbook is like a summit book, in a way. It’s something you can use to leave a trace of your presence.

But what do you write on the guestbook? Whatever you want. You can let me know how you landed here, you can use it to suggest a topic, or you can use it to just say hi. Just be kind and respectful.

I first toyed with the idea of adding a guestbook almost a year ago, after stumbling on Sara Joy’s website. I don’t remember how or why I was there but I loved the guestbook and it took me almost a year to finally code mine.

And I’m happy to see that Kev now has one on his site as well! If you decide to add a guestbook to your site send me an email, and I’ll be happy to come sign it.

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In emotional return, Bob Myers reminds Warriors of his lasting impact

date: 2024-03-07, from: San Jose Mercury News

Bob Myers’ impact on Draymond Green and the Warriors remains even as he’s no longer with the organization.

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#ShowUsYourSpecs — Help Raise Awareness About Eclipse Safety

date: 2024-03-07, from: NASA breaking news

    NASA’s Glenn Research Center is encouraging the public to prepare to safely view this awe-inspiring event. YOU can help us build excitement and raise awareness about eclipse safety by taking photos of people – including yourself! – wearing eclipse glasses. The goal is to show how you will be protecting your eyes during the […]

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When your barber is also your banker

date: 2024-03-07, from: Marketplace Morning Report

As part of this month’s Econ Extra Credit series, we’re watching Oscar-nominated documentary shorts. On today’s show, we’re focusing on “The Barber of Little Rock.” The film follows Arlo Washington on his quest to fight economic inequality in Arkansas, where he founded a barber school and a nonprofit loan fund. Today, we’ll hear Washington’s conversation with “Marketplace Morning Report” host David Brancaccio. But first, the number of cybercrimes reported to the FBI is spiking.

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Belgian ale legend Duvel’s brewery borked as ransomware halts production

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Company reassures public it has enough beer, expects quick recovery before weekend

Belgian beer brewer Duvel says a ransomware attack has brought its facility to a standstill while its IT team works to remediate the damage.…

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Improper Gutting

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: One Foot Tsunami

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curl’s built-in manual without nroff

date: 2024-03-07, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog

On December 14 1998 we released curl 5.2. The project was still early back then and lots of things had not settled yet. In that release, which came only two weeks after 5.1, we introduced the –manual option, or -M for short. Long before I started working on curl I learnt to value and appreciate … Continue reading curl’s built-in manual without nroff →

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Women’s shifting roles in the Irish economy

date: 2024-03-07, from: Marketplace Morning Report

From the BBC World Service: On Friday, Ireland votes on whether to change a clause in the constitution that says a woman’s main duties are as a caregiver in the home. In this special from Dublin, women from different backgrounds speak about their experiences and opportunities in the workplace. We’ll hear their perspectives from Bewley’s, a tea room where the Irish Women’s Liberation Movement first met.

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China Criticizes US for Suppressing Its Rise While Touting Partnership With Russia

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Thursday criticized the United States for trying to suppress China’s rise through sanctions and reiterated Beijing’s commitment to uphold the multipolar world order with partners such as Russia.

Speaking to local and foreign media during the annual meeting of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, Wang said while relations between China and the United States have improved since the summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping in November, Washington’s misconception of China remains strong and it has not honored the promises made during the summit.

“The U.S. continues to renew their means of suppressing China while expanding the sanctions list,” he said, adding that Washington’s desire to punish Beijing has reached an “unimaginable level.”

Questioning Washington’s credibility as a great power, Wang urged the U.S. to view China’s rise and development objectively and rationally handle its interactions with Beijing.

“We urge the U.S. to recognize the general trend of historical development and put its promises into practice,” Wang added.

Some analysts say Wang’s criticism of the U.S. reflects Beijing’s concern about facing technological bottlenecks and economic encirclement by Washington and its allies.

“Beijing is hoping to elicit further American concessions and it’s asking the U.S. to lower its walls on technological de-risking from China,” Wen-ti Sung, a political scientist at Australian National University told VOA in a written response.

While Wang urged the U.S. to promote a healthy and stable development of bilateral relations alongside China, he touted Beijing’s close partnership with Russia, saying both countries continue to deepen political mutual trust while pursuing mutually beneficial cooperation.

“As major world powers and permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, China, and Russia have forged a new paradigm of great power relations that adheres to permanent good neighborliness while deepening comprehensive strategic cooperation on the basis of nonalignment, nonconfrontation and nontargeting of third parties,” Wang said.

Some experts say China’s efforts to double down on its “no limits partnership” with Russia is mainly due to its attempt to build an alliance that can resist pressure imposed by the United States.

“Since Russia is anti-U.S., China needs an ally to help it resist pressure from Washington,” Liu Dongshu, an expert on Chinese politics at the City University of Hong Kong, told VOA by phone.

Since China has been highlighting the importance of its partnership with Russia before the Ukraine war, Liu said China may feel the need to stick with that commitment.

“It’s difficult for Beijing to admit that it’s made a mistake in being too supportive of Russia, so for the sake of saving its face, China needs to insist that it’s not wrong for maintaining the partnership with Russia,” he added.

As the war in Ukraine and the Middle East continue, Wang, a 70-year-old veteran diplomat who returned to the role of foreign minister last year following the mysterious dismissal of former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang, said China is actively putting forward proposals for resolving regional and global issues.

He said the only way to end the vicious cycle extended from the conflict between Israel and Hamas is to “comprehensively implement the two-state solution” and said Beijing supports establishment of a Palestinian U.N. member state.

On the Ukraine war, Wang said China has always “maintained an objective and impartial position” and reiterated Beijing’s support for convening an international peace conference that is recognized by both Russia and Ukraine.

Liu in Hong Kong said China is facing a dilemma where it wants to present itself as a responsible great power internationally, but it doesn’t want to take action to address the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine.

“Unlike the U.S., which has experience in mediating global conflicts, China has long adopted this nonintervention approach,” he told VOA. “China is unwilling to take actions to get involved in these conflicts and it also may not be capable of doing that.”

Amid rising tension across the Taiwan Strait in recent weeks, with Chinese coast guard vessels increasing efforts to patrol disputed waters near Taiwan’s outlying islands, Wang said Beijing will never allow Taiwan to be separated “from the motherland” and warned countries around the world not to support Taiwan’s potential pursuit of independence.

“Whoever engages in ‘Taiwan independence’ on the island will be held accountable by history and whoever in the world supports ‘Taiwan independence’ will get burned for playing with fire and taste the bitter fruit of their own doing,” he warned during the 90-minute press conference.

Sung from Australian National University said Wang’s comments on Taiwan are intended to intensify pressure on Taiwan’s diplomatic partners and ensure Taiwan remains internationally isolated. Wang is trying to “warn other countries about the consequences of offering support for Taiwan while reiterating Beijing’s ultimate goal of achieving unification,” he told VOA.

As tension between China and the Philippines grows because of repeated confrontations between Chinese and Philippine vessels in the disputed South China Sea, Wang said China has always exercised “a high degree of restraint” when handling maritime disputes.

“China has always respected historical and legal facts and sought a solution that’s acceptable to each party,” he said, adding that Beijing will not allow its “good intentions” to be abused or the law in the sea to be “distorted.”

After Wang set the tone for China’s foreign policy in 2024 through the press conference on Thursday, some analysts think Beijing will likely adopt a multiprong approach to manage its relationship with different countries.

“China will focus on managing ties with Europe, maintaining close relations with Russia and other pariah states, heightening tensions with Taiwan, India and in the South China Sea, cautiously testing the waters with the U.S. while seeking to court the Global South,” Sana Hashmi, a postdoctoral a fellow at the Taiwan-Asia Exchange Foundation, told VOA in a written response.

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How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-05, from: Bruce Schneier blog

With the world’s focus turning to misinformation,  manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem. But we’re learning that AI has a democracy problem, too. Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic governance and public protection.

Just three Big Tech firms (Microsoft, Google, and Amazon) control about two-thirds of the global market for the cloud computing resources used to train and deploy AI models. They have a lot of the AI talent, the capacity for large-scale innovation, and face few public regulations for their products and activities…

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Venturing beyond the default OS on Raspberry Pi 5

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

The pros and cons of some other Arm Linux distros for the pocket powerhouse

The Raspberry Pi 5 is a capable little desktop computer, and some alternative distros give you more choices than the default Pi OS.…

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UK finance minister promises NHS £3.4B IT investment to unlock £35B savings

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Now, who was it ‘challenged’ the NHS to go paperless by 2018?

The UK’s finance minister has promised the country’s National Health Service (NHS) £3.4 billion ($4.33 billion) in IT investment, claiming it would unlock £35 billion ($44 billion) in efficiency savings by the end of the decade.…

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HP print rental service seeks more users to become subscription addicts

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

13M Instant Ink customers signed up and now a new plan is after millions more

HP has 13 million customers signed up to the Instant Ink subscription program, and a recently introduced rental service that includes hardware is similarly forecast to extract “more value” from customers.…

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Héctor Hernández | Indefensible Inspections

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

Defensible space inspections are critical for prevention of wildfires, especially in areas prone to periodic drought conditions like L.A. County, which only recently came out of a years-long, severe drought. So why would the Board of Supervisors and the county Fire Department risk tainting this much-needed public safety function with controversy by funding the cost […]

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Magical voxel display captures Doom characters in a crystal ball

date: 2024-03-07, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Maker James Brown built a crystal ball, but instead of showing you the face of your one true love or predicting your elaborate demise, this one displays Doom characters.

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Bank’s struggle to replace Atos threw system back to dark ages

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Costly project to switch supplier likely to continue into 2025, says watchdog

A report on UK government debt reveals that a public sector bank relied on “people and paper” to process transactions during the pandemic as it struggled to replace outgoing service provider Atos.…

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Mr. President, what you should say tonight

date: 2024-03-07, from: Robert Reich on Substack

Make it clear whose side you’re on when it comes to the economy

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Classifieds – March 7, 2023

date: 2024-03-07, 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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The DMA hasn’t changed Big Tech’s anticompetitive DNA, says Free Software Foundation Europe

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Advocacy group wants more changes, starting with Device Neutrality

On Thursday, Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) came into force, requiring large gatekeepers companies to play nice with smaller rivals.…

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Today in SCV History (March 7)

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

1976 – Groundbreaking for new First Presbyterian Church in Newhall; former structure heavily damaged in 1971 earthquake. [story

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Jason Gibbs | Summer Fun with the City!

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

As the warmer months approach, our community centers, pools and parks across the city are gearing up for an exciting season of summer camps and recreational programming for everyone. Whether it is the nostalgic smell of sunscreen and chlorine at the pool, the cheers during a Camp Clarita roll call on the bus or patiently […]

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USC announces ‘Wicked’ commencement speaker: Jon M. Chu

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The filmmaker and School of Cinematic Arts alum will deliver the University’s 2024 commencement speech.

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Deeply Rooted: Speaking for the Trees

date: 2024-03-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Celebrating Arbor Day over the years.

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Blending Science with Indigenous Ways

date: 2024-03-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Can relationships, gratitude, and respect underlie our place in nature?

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California CVS locations to carry abortion pills

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Campus Activities marked Hazing Prevention Week by hosting several activities.

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The Paper Kites amaze Fonda Theatre

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The band performed songs from its latest album in an enthralling headline performance.

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American voters’ relationship status is ‘uncommitted’

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Nikki Haley finally dropped out of the presidential race, and President Joe Biden faces criticism ahead of the State of the Union address.

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Honeybird location at USC Village to close Saturday after six years

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Store owner Phil Lee said competition and shrinking business led to the decision.

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Daily Trojan A&E staff on the Academy Awards

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The 96th Oscars ceremony will be held Sunday at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.

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Men’s basketball set to host Arizona State

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Trojans enter their penultimate regular season game as victors of two of their last three.

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The Fierce Five of US gymnastics

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The 2012 USA Gymnastics team not only captured gold medals but denounced an undeniable evil.

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Beach volleyball plans to set Tempe ablaze

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

After sweeping its home-opener, USC will take on four intra-conference foes.

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‘Succession’ snub highlights award process flaws

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The SAG Awards ignored “Succession,” underscoring the issue with award shows.

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VMware urges emergency action to blunt hypervisor flaws

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Critical vulns in USB under ESXi and desktop hypervisors found by Chinese researchers at cracking contest

Hypervisors are supposed to provide an inviolable isolation layer between virtual machines and hardware. But hypervisor heavyweight VMware by Broadcom yesterday revealed its hypervisors are not quite so inviolable as it might like.…

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Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Singaporean researchers note rising presence of ChatGPT creds in Infostealer malware logs

Stolen ChatGPT credentials are a hot commodity on the dark web, according to Singapore-based threat intelligence firm Group-IB, which claims to have found some 225,000 stealer logs containing login details for the service last year.…

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Low-carbon energy does not have the same energy security risks as fossil fuels

date: 2024-03-07, from: Hannah Richie at Substack

Fossil fuel inequities are a risk to energy security. Mineral inequities are a risk to the energy transition.

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US lawmakers want ByteDance to divest TikTok or face a ban

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

The American mind must not be at the mercy of Chinese algorithms

A group of US lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that, if passed, would force Chinese internet concern ByteDance to divest TikTok – its most valuable property – or see it banned in the US.…

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March 6, 2024

date: 2024-03-07, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

Black Americans outnumbered white Americans among the 29,500 people who lived in Selma, Alabama, in the 1960s, but the city’s voting rolls were 99% white. So, in 1963, Black organizers in the Dallas County Voters League launched a drive to get Black voters in Selma registered. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, a prominent civil rights organization, joined them.

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Donor Cash Went In, Antitrust Budget Cut Came Out

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Lever News

Companies facing antitrust scrutiny funneled big money to Sen. Jeanne Shaheen before her aides tried to defund regulators’ budget.

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Kappa Kappa Gamma hosts philanthropic event

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

Ever wonder what sorority life is like? It is much different than what the television portrays it to be. Sororities like Kappa Kappa Gamma promote sisterhood and philanthropy. On February…

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Beijing plans at least three new rockets – maybe reusables too

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

With over 100 launches planned this year alone, matching Musk makes sense

China’s Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has promised to launch three new rockets this year alone, and may also start to send reusable boosters into space next year.…

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From TV Host to Exile: How Taliban Return Affects Young Journalist

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

Nadio Momand was a journalist and a law student in Afghanistan. But with the Taliban back in power, she has left her home and her dreams behind. Muska Safi has the story, narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.

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A Don of a New Era

date: 2024-03-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

Luke Zuffelato rewrites Santa Barbara High’s record book.

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On fractional scales, fonts and hinting

date: 2024-03-07, from: Gtk Developer blog

GTK 4.14 will be released very soon, with new renderers that were introduced earlier this year. The new renderers have much improved support for fractional scaling—on my system, I now use 125% scaling instead of the ‘Large Text’ setting, and I find that works fine for my needs. Magical numbers Ever since 4.0, GTK has … Continue reading “On fractional scales, fonts and hinting”

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Biden to Address Nation as Two Wars Rage Abroad

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

Washington — The State of the Union address is traditionally the venue where American presidents highlight domestic successes, and President Joe Biden is expected to discuss his handling of the economy, reproductive rights, gun control, and immigration Thursday evening.

But as the United States deals with wars in the Middle East and Europe, foreign policy may be higher on the agenda in Biden’s fourth, and potentially final, such speech to a joint session of Congress.

The president intends to highlight his achievements in “restoring American leadership on the world stage,” John Kirby, White House national security communications adviser, told VOA during an interview on Wednesday.

American leadership, he added, gives it the ability to influence actions of world leaders and adversaries “in ways that are more in keeping with our national security interests.”

That influence has failed to overcome stark differences between Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on issues including how to deliver more humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza, the postwar role of the Palestinian Authority and the U.S. vision for a future Palestinian state.

On Ukraine, American leadership is overshadowed by House Republicans’ obstruction of a Senate-approved $95 billion foreign aid package that includes $61 billion to support Kyiv in its fight against Russia. The bill also includes $14 billion in security assistance for Israel, $9 billion in humanitarian assistance and $5 billion to support partners in the Indo-Pacific, as Washington competes against Beijing for regional influence.

The wars in Ukraine and Gaza will be prominently featured in the foreign policy portion of Biden’s speech, as will the U.S. strategic rivalry with China. Analysts say the president will employ different approaches on the two issues as he considers voters’ sentiments ahead of his bid for reelection in November.

Push for Ukraine aid

Biden will use his address to again call for the passage of the foreign aid bill and argue that it is not in America’s interest to embrace isolationism amid signs of growing Russian expansionism.

“The president is going to continue to make his case that House Republicans need to move forward. The speaker needs to put the national security supplemental on the floor,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during her briefing Wednesday. “We know that it would get overwhelming support.”

While the Biden administration has gathered international support for an effort that includes substantial military and economic aid to Ukraine, major sanctions on Russia and greatly increasing NATO’s military posture in eastern Europe, it has failed to provide a strong case for this policy for the American people, said John Herbst, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine who is now senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center.

“This in turn has made it easier for naïve voices, especially in the one corner of the Republican Party to block the assistance Ukraine needs to avoid a defeat,” Herbst told VOA.

Vanderbilt University presidential historian Thomas Schwartz predicted Biden “will go all in” on Ukraine, particularly in light of the recent death of Alexey Navalny in a Siberian prison. The Russian dissident’s death has intensified U.S. views that supporting Ukraine’s efforts to push back against Russian President Vladimir Putin is “a real moral cause,” Schwartz told VOA.

“This will also allow him to draw a sharp contrast with Trump, who has, of course, expressed admiration for Putin in the past and has not been as supportive on the Ukraine issue,” Schwartz added.

Polls show that Americans’ support for sending military aid to Kyiv is fractured along party lines, with voters of the president’s party largely sympathetic to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s war efforts.

According to a poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, 67% of Democrats see it as a priority for the U.S. government to prevent Russia from gaining more territory in Ukraine and to help Ukraine regain territory that is currently occupied by Russia. Only 37% of Republicans agree.

Biden will use his address to rally support amid Americans’ war fatigue. Overall, 37% of respondents — 55% of Republicans and 17% of Democrats — say the U.S. government is spending too much on aid to Ukraine.

Tread carefully on Gaza

The president is likely to tout his immediate support for Israelis following Hamas’ October 7 attack and underscore the importance of ensuring that Israel can defend itself against the U.S.-designated terror group’s threats.

But he will need to tread carefully on the issue, taking into account the division between pro-Israel Democrats and independents who support his stance on the conflict and progressive Democrats, as well as Arab and Muslim Americans, who are angered by it.

Outrage over the more than 30,000 people killed in Gaza and Biden’s refusal to put conditions on U.S. military aid for Israel has resulted in significant portions of Democratic primary election voters in Michigan and Minnesota marking their ballots “uncommitted” to signal their protest and demand an immediate and permanent cease-fire.

Negotiators have not yet been able to bring the fighting in Gaza to a halt ahead of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which begins this weekend. On Tuesday, Biden said the fate of the temporary cease-fire deal is in the “hands of Hamas” after Israel agreed to a “rational offer” that had been put on the table.

Hamas has since responded saying there can be no hostage exchange without a permanent cease-fire and full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. The group accused Israel of stalling the talks.

Israeli politicians will be carefully watching Thursday to see who Biden blames for the deadlock and how critical he is of Israeli efforts to protect and deliver aid to Palestinian civilians, said Jonathan Rynhold, head of the Department of Political Studies at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University.

As Biden is likely to reiterate his call for a two-state solution, Israelis will be anxious to see whether he calls on Israel to “present a clear vision that includes a Palestinian state,” Rynhold told VOA. “I doubt he’ll do it, but if he does, it’s bad for Netanyahu but not bad for the war.”

Biden is likely to focus his criticisms on the far-right elements within the Israeli government and signal displeasure at violence committed by what he calls “extreme settlers” in the West Bank, as he has done several times in the past.

Kirby said the president will also call for increasing humanitarian aid for Palestinians. With the Netanyahu government’s refusal to open more land crossings for aid convoys and the death of more than 100 people after Israeli troops opened fire as desperate Palestinians mobbed a convoy of food trucks, the U.S. has resorted to using military aircraft to drop supplies — a more expensive, inefficient and dangerous means to deliver aid.

A Gallup poll released this week shows 58% of Americans hold a favorable view of Israel, down from 68% last year, and the lowest favorable rating for the country in over two decades.

Iuliia Iarmolenko contributed to this report.

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How to Have Sex (2023)

date: 2024-03-07, from: Jessica Smith’s blog

Last August, Vivian took me to see the film How to Have Sex, which was screening at the Astor as part of the MIFF. What Viv did not warn me of adequately before we saw the film was that it’s about an eighteen-year-old girl who gets much too drunk and loses her virginity in a sexual encounter that was fundamentally not consensual but also difficult to describe as “rape”, and as someone who basically was that eighteen-year-old girl a long time ago I’d really have appreciated more of a heads-up about that. Watching the film dredged up a lot of long-buried bitterness in me, and truth be told, all these months later I still haven’t successfully buried it again. I have been told, of course, that “burying trauma isn’t the same as dealing with trauma,” which honestly I would like to call bullshit on because when my trauma was buried, I felt fine, and now it’s been resurrected, I don’t, and on the surface that seems to me like a regression.¹ To be fair, I don’t think Viv looked that deeply into the movie; I think he saw “eighteen-year-olds having sex on holiday” and went, “Sounds amazing, sign me up.” Anyway, what’s done is done. Apparently, the film’s just entered general release here (see ABC article ), so I thought I’d dust off this long-stalled draft and try to polish it up.

The filmmaker herself, Molly Manning Walker, was actually in attendance on that night in August, and there was a Q&A with her after the screening. That was really good in and of itself, and I’m glad we stayed for it. She described her film as (along these lines) “a very personal story, and one that a lot of people relate to,” and made the excellent point that our conversations about consent need to be more nuanced, which I agree with wholeheartedly. She said that “the law, which doesn’t protect us anyway” has its own legal standard for what sexual assault is, but it’s such a high bar to clear, and it doesn’t mean that everything that falls short of that bar is A-OK and acceptable. So, she said, “since the law doesn’t protect us anyway,” we should move to using our own definitions and having our own conversations about consent, which should be human-focused and centre “people just having a good time”. People shouldn’t just think to themselves, “Is this literally rape?” but, “How can I make sure this other person has a good experience?” This is a much more important question.

Another thing she talked about is the need to reach out to people (and LBR, mostly men) who are currently engaging in these kinds of coercive, pushy, or not-entirely-consensual sexual practices, and how you’ll never actually reach them – you’ll repel them and they won’t listen – if you brand them “rapists” or “evil scum” or whatever. (Even though, I’ll admit, I’ve succumbed to this temptation myself.) She talked about a meeting she went to with French film distributors who were considering screening this film, and said that one of the men had watched the film and come to the realisation that: “I am Paddy.” (Paddy being the pushy, manipulative dickhead in the film. And yes, OF COURSE it would be a Frenchman in her anecdote, of course.) She said that while on one level it’s obviously shit that he has been a Paddy, it’s good that he’s been able to come to that realisation and one can only hope that he won’t be a Paddy in the future. My experience with my own “Paddy” leads me to believe it’s not nearly as simple as that, but generally speaking I think it’s true: there needs to be a “way back” for people who have been insensitive or, you know, coercive, or sexually cruel, or whatever you could say. There’s a huge stigma around “being a rapist”, for good reason obviously and it’s clearly better than society being OK with rapists, but it’s just so profoundly unhelpful to have this binary where behaviour is either “rape” or it’s completely fine, or where men are either “rapists” – forever – or totally innocent. There has to be a way to say, “What you did was unacceptable, but you can learn from it; it doesn’t have to define you forever.” Assuming he actually wants to learn, of course, but convincing such men to want to learn was one of Manning Walker’s goals with the film.

In the critical scene of How to Have Sex, the protagonist – Tara – gets separated from her friends during a night’s partying and winds up alone on a beach with Paddy, who gets increasingly physical and pushy before pressuring her to have sex with him. Very drunk, and vulnerable, she agrees, but her body language makes it clear it’s really not what she wants. As the ABC article quotes her saying, Manning Walker finds it interesting the split reactions she gets about what actually happened in that scene:

Lots of women would come into the room and say ’thank you for making this film, I’ve been through that, I feel seen’, and a lot of men would come in quite defensive and say, ‘It’s not an assault because she said yes’.

I may not have got to tell her so personally, but I absolutely would’ve been among those women. Because that really is the critical point… in the moment, she said yes! So did I, to my everlasting shame. I said more, even, but not because I wanted to. Because I felt trapped, and scared, and I was always way too much of a people-pleaser. I was so afraid I’d upset him, because I did really like him, and I didn’t want to screw my chances for the future when the situation might actually have felt right. My skin was crawling the entire time, my mind buzzing with a million and one reasons why I was a fucking idiot to have even landed myself there. I could never fully, or even mostly, blame myself – after all, he was the one who stripped me of my clothes without so much as a word when I was frozen up in panic, and there was a huge imbalance in power and experience between us that did not favour me. But of course I blamed myself, in part.

So was that rape, or was it not? Believe me, I endured a truly exhausting number of arguments both ways, to the point that I really want never to have to try to address that question again. The Q&A with the filmmaker was really excellent because it gave me the liberating answer: it doesn’t fucking matter. It doesn’t matter whether it was technically rape, or whether I technically consented, or at what exact point of drunkenness one is technically too drunk to consent, or whether there’s some kind of sliding scale whereby you can be partially, but not fully, responsible for “consenting” against your better judgement. Literally none of the bullshit I had to fight about, over and over again, matters at all. The only thing that matters is “people having a good time”. And by that metric, he utterly failed.

The problem is, I don’t think we have good language for it, this kind of callous sexual behaviour that, perhaps, falls short of being rape. The protagonist of the film is never really able to find the words for what happens to her; at most, I remember her saying weakly, “It doesn’t really count though.” I remember trying to use that same line myself, once, with someone who was trying to “YEAHHH YOU GETTEM GIRL” me just like Tara’s shitty friend was at that point in the film. But in my case, I also had other people – so many people² – arguing with me very sternly that if I was drunk I couldn’t consent and it was rape, and scolding me if I ever failed to call it rape, so I did used to call it that, but it always felt uncomfortably off. I ended up clinging to it anyway, because what else was I going to call it? It was either that or nothing, and I was really sure that what happened wasn’t nothing. My “Paddy” actually became a close friend – not a good friend, but a close one – but the events of that night were always a sticking point between us. Interestingly, given the topic, he did actually accept the label “rapist”, but he also treated it as a bit of joke. I guess he was defensive; I don’t think he ever truly accepted he’d done anything I hadn’t wanted that night. I was defensive, too, because I knew that he had. For all that the word “rape” sat uneasily with me, I used it because consensual sex isn’t what it felt like either. I clung to it because it felt like anything else would’ve been letting him off the hook. If there had been a better word, one that correctly assigned the blame to him for hurting me without trying to imply consent is always a black and white yes–no binary, then sure, I’d have preferred to use that. But that word doesn’t exist. Probably it should.

What I really wanted was for him to change. As his friend, I saw all his good qualities too. I was sure he was capable of doing better, being better, than he had been with me (…and a bunch of other girls about the same age, in different ways, but that’s by-the-by). He was a feminist, he claimed; surely he could come to understand the complicated interplay between power dynamics and sex! And so… I really appreciated Manning Walker’s insistence on the same thing, that men can and must learn to be better, rather than “rapist” becoming a lifelong label that someone can never, ever grow free from. It’s something I’ve so rarely heard articulated but it strikes me as obviously true. I haven’t spoken to my ex-friend in more than a decade now but I really hope he did, eventually, learn.

One last thing I’ll say about this film is that it also depicts that really obnoxious kind of “British people getting shitfaced at resorts in southern Europe” subculture, which is definitely not my thing. In fact, before I realised what the movie was really about, I’d thought I was going to have to tease Viv for taking me to a movie about the three most annoying English girls in film history. Basically they arrive in Greece with two goals: to get wasted and to get laid… and with the life experience I’ve had, I find it truly gobsmacking that anyone would still think these are two things that can be combined.

I couldn’t quite figure out the position the film took on this. You might think, given the subject matter, that it came down firmly against it, but I didn’t feel it did. I felt it kind of implied that it is possible to have sex (in a healthy, non-abusive way) when you’re shitfaced, it’s just Paddy didn’t do that, and… that’s not a message I’m comfortable with. Of course, given my experiences, I gave a lot of thought back in the day to what it is that makes drunk sex (potentially) abusive, and the thing I kept coming back to is power. Two adults who respect each other as equals, and feel comfortable around each other… it’s unlikely to be abusive in that case. But when you have a power imbalance – like when one of the parties is a young, frightened, virgin – it becomes very problematic, very quickly. So… I was very uncomfortable with the atmosphere of the resort in the film, which is full of very young adults who seem to have the expectation that they can get fucked up and also have sex with almost total strangers… like, of course this is going to end badly, what the hell! I just think there needs to be a complete division in people’s minds, where “partying/clubbing” and “hooking up” are completely unrelated activities. Honestly, there’s basically a zero percent chance that a drunken hookup with a guy you barely know is going to feel any good, anyway. I’ll admit it’s easy for me to say now, as an adult very far removed from that eighteen-year-old girl embarrassed about her ongoing virginity and insecure about whether anyone would ever find her attractive (as Tara, in the film, also is, despite her brash exterior). Even so… caving in to the advances of a pushy drunk guy who doesn’t really care about you at all is not the way. Which is not to try to victim-blame… the pushy guys are still, ultimately, the ones with the responsibility. I just don’t think girls, either, should have this expectation of getting laid on a holiday where they plan to be drunk 24/7. It’s not worth the risk, man! Save the hookups for when you’re sober.

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Toyota, Samsung accelerate toward better EV batteries

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Korean champ promises solid state kit that makes Li-Ion look flat by 2027

Samsung’s SDI battery-making unit has announced it will start mass production of solid state batteries in 2027, and that the parts it pushes will have energy density of 900 watt-hours per liter (Wh/L), a figure lithium-ion batteries struggle to match.…

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Afghan Teen Finds Hope in US Education

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

A year ago, 13-year-old Muska Shaji and her family fled the Taliban in Afghanistan and resettled in the United States. Now enrolled in school, the seventh grader understands that an education wouldn’t have been possible for her in her home country. Fahim Sediqi has the story, narrated by Bezhan Hamdard.

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Supervisors approve Barger motion on insurance coverage

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

News release   The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion introduced by Supervisor Kathryn Barger and co-authored by Supervisor Lindsey P. Horvath that mobilizes the county’s advocacy on behalf of homeowners who are struggling to get or keep their insurance coverage due to wildfire threat.   The county will ask California Insurance […]

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2024 SCV baseball preview

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

The 2024 Foothill League baseball season begins this week with three series, while local Heritage League teams are looking to build off last season, to kick off the highly anticipated year.  Valencia and Trinity have league titles to defend, while Castaic will look for another deep playoff run.    Here’s everything fans need to know ahead […]

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Schiavo bill to broaden paid leave for crime survivors

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

News release  Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, D-Chatsworth, announced the introduction of Assembly Bill 2499, a bill aimed at extending unpaid sick leave to cover instances when an individual or their family has experienced violent or traumatic events.   “This groundbreaking legislation seeks to address the gaps in current labor laws, ensuring that survivors and their families […]

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US Muslims to Begin Ramadan Observance as War Rages in Gaza

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — The Islamic month of Ramadan is being observed this year as the Israel-Hamas war surges in Gaza, where the United Nations is warning of a growing humanitarian crisis.

Imam Talib Shareef of Masjid Muhammad, the Nation’s Mosque, in Washington said there will be differences in how Muslims observe this year because of the conflict.

Other than organizing prayers for the community, the mosque is “more engaged in service and feeding; we actually feed at the masjid and [also at] shelters, and we also go to other faith communities,” said Shareef, who served for more than 30 years in the U.S. Air Force and helped to establish the first Islamic military chaplain in 1993.

“I do expect that … religious communities are going to be trying to come together,” he said, noting that his mosque also works with churches and gives food to others in the community.

“Obviously [the conflict] is going to be on people’s hearts, on people’s souls, it’s bothering people,” Shareef said.

Nearly 2 billion Muslims around the world will begin observing the Islamic month of Ramadan, which is expected to begin on March 10 or 11, depending on the sighting of the moon.

During the month of Ramadan, Muslims abstain from food, drink, smoking, gossip and sexual relations from sunrise to sunset. Fasting is meant to bring Muslims closer to God and help them better empathize with those who are less fortunate.

US Muslims

In the United States, the Muslim population is about 3.45 million, which accounts for slightly more than 1% of the population, according to Pew Research.

Depending on where Muslims live in the United States, their experience can vary. In some rural areas, Muslims may not have access to a mosque or a community where they can practice their faith.

This is particularly true for immigrants who move to areas without a large Muslim population.

Jemal Yasin, who immigrated to the U.S. from Ethiopia in 2008 to do postgraduate research at the University of Vermont, described his first experience in the United States as “a little bit lonely.”

He said there was a community of Somali immigrants, though he didn’t get a chance to pray with them.

During that first year in the States, he said he had to “pray in my room by myself,” which he said was a typical experience of many Muslim immigrants.

Now, Yasin is president of the board of directors of a the First Hijrah Foundation in Washington.

The FHF started as a small organization that aimed to “promote and preserve the Islamic heritage,” and “foster the Islamic principles of brotherhood, equality, mutual assistance and teachings of peace, love and justice,” according to its website.

Initially, the organization didn’t have a building, and members of the foundation would meet at one another’s houses. It wasn’t until 2005 that their current building was officially secured, said Yasin.

“This is a center for Muslims, all Muslims. … So, when you come here, you see [people of many] backgrounds – African Americans, Ethiopians, Somalians, Arabs – they will come pray together and break fast together, so this is a place for everybody,” Yasin said.

He added that the foundation works with the community and organizes events for Muslims, before, during and after Ramadan.

When he moved to Washington later in 2008 Yasin became involved with the foundation and was able to be part of a larger Muslim community.

Ramadan observations are becoming more common in the United States, with many organizations hosting events to observe the month.

Shareef said, “We used to have more … private iftars in the past, and now they’re more open … and we are able to share more.”

After sunset, Muslims typically gather for iftar — the breaking of the fast and the most important meal of the day.

Yasin said the foundation helped organize a bazaar on Sunday to help the community prepare for Ramadan. Traditional clothing, incense and foods, such as dates, were sold.

During Ramadan, the First Hijrah Foundation will be providing free iftars for the community each night.

Ramadan this year

The ongoing Israel-Hamas war is the result of an October 7 terror attack in which Hamas crossed into Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and taking more than 240 civilians hostage. The Israeli military response has killed more than 30,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry.

Negotiators are pushing for a possible cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas conflict ahead of the start of Ramadan.

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May 5: 35th Annual Taste of the Town Tickets on Sale

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Join the Child & Family Center on Sunday, May 5 for the tastiest event of the year. The 35th Taste of the Town is back at Blomgren Ranch, 15142 Sierra Highway, Santa Clarita, CA

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Biden, Trump Take Aim at Each Other in Dueling Attacks

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

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Forecast: Rain to clear out, weekend dry 

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

Meteorologists are calling for dry skies through the weekend after the latest in a series of storms dropped about a half-inch of rain in the Santa Clarita Valley.   A brief weather system that moved in Wednesday morning and predicted to be gone by Thursday was the latest in a recent pattern of rainy winter.  By […]

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From War to the Economy, Big Issues to Dominate Biden’s Election-Year State of the Union Speech

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

U.S. President Joe Biden will deliver his election-year State of the Union address Thursday, when he is expected to discuss his handling of the economy, reproductive rights, immigration, and the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. But the 81-year-old will also use the occasion to demonstrate he is physically and mentally fit for a second term. VOA White House correspondent Anita Powell reports from Washington.

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Lawsuit claims gift card fraud is the gift that keeps on giving, to Google

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from

Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.…

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US Indictment Details Russian Oligarch’s Sanctions-Busting Scheme

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

washington — On Facebook, Vadim Wolfson makes his political position clear. His profile picture shows him in a baseball cap emblazoned with the words “Puck Futin,” while his banner image features a Russian anti-war flag.

In words and memes, Wolfson criticizes Russian President Vladimir Putin, top Russian officials and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

But Wolfson — who formerly went by the last name Belyaev and founded the Otkritie financial group, once Russia’s largest private bank — is now accused of crimes that would appear to contradict these political views.

U.S. federal prosecutors say that in 2018 and 2019, the Austin, Texas, resident helped Andrei Kostin, an oligarch and head of Russia’s state VTB Bank, to own and manage an elite mansion in Colorado. That would have violated U.S. sanctions against the banker.

Wolfson was detained in Austin on February 22 but was soon released on his own recognizance. He is charged with violating the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which forms the foundation of the sanctions regime, and with conspiracy to violate it. Each charge could carry up to 20 years in prison.

Kostin is charged with sanctions violations, conspiracy to violate sanctions and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Each count is also punishable by up to 20 years behind bars. He remains at large, likely in Russia.

The charges, announced in a U.S. Justice Department press release last month, shed light on the alleged holdings of Kostin, whose bank is sometimes called “Putin’s piggy bank,” and his alleged efforts to evade sanctions.

Kostin has called these accusations “baseless.”

“I have never violated any legislation, including American legislation, I have never circumvented any sanctions, and I urge all my partners not to look for or invent any ways to circumvent them, but to build a different world, independent of the pressure of the political elite and the U.S. military lobby,” he said in a comment published by Russia’s state Tass news agency.

In a message, Wolfson declined to comment on the lawsuit or answer questions from VOA. Regarding his political views, he said the following: “Since you read my FB, draw your own conclusions.”

Home in the Rocky Mountains

According to the indictment, Kostin purchased a luxury home in Aspen, Colorado, for $13.5 million in 2010. The formal owner of the house was the Colorado company 40 North Star LLC, and Kostin controlled it through a series of offshore companies, prosecutors say.

Two years later, he purchased three artworks for the house for $1 million. According to the indictment, they are the paintings “Combing the Ridges” by William Robinson Leigh and “Long in the Saddle” and “Arapaho Attack” by Wilhelm Heinrich Detlev Koerner. Both artists are famous for depicting the people and landscapes of the American West.

Prosecutors say that from 2010 to 2017, Kostin and his family spent around two weeks at the Aspen home every year, usually during the winter holidays.

Wolfson and his family also spent time there.

Using the parcel map for Pitkin County, where Aspen is located, Voice of America was able to identify the mansion.

It is located to the southeast of downtown Aspen. According to real estate website Zillow, the 1,027-square-meter (11,054-square-foot) home includes seven bedrooms and 10 bathrooms and features a swimming pool, sauna, whirlpool spa, home cinema and billiard room.

Today, the house rents for $600,000 per month, according to Zillow. It is currently owned by a company that appears to have no connection to Kostin or Wolfson.

Voice of America also found an image of the painting “Combing the Ridges” by Leigh.

The situation became complicated in 2014, after Russia illegally annexed the Ukrainian region of Crimea. The United States and European countries began imposing sanctions on Russia and prominent Russian politicians and businesspeople.

Soon, the Aspen mansion’s ownership structure changed.

According to prosecutors, in 2014, Altamonte Holding Limited, a company recently registered in the British Virgin Islands, purchased 40 North Star LLC for $10 million.

A database of offshore leaks maintained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists indicates that the beneficial owner of a BVI company with a nearly identical name — Altamonte Holdings Limited — is Vadim Belyaev (aka Wolfson).

A company ultimately owned by Kostin, Capital Business Finance, provided financing for the purchase, the indictment states.

In April 2018, the United States imposed sanctions on Kostin. The following year, Wolfson bought 40 North Star for $12 million through two financial transactions with a subsidiary of Capital Business Finance controlled by Kostin. The deal violated the sanctions, prosecutors state in the indictment.

In 2018-20, it was Wolfson who primarily used the Aspen home. According to the parcel register, in 2020 the home was sold to another company for $12.5 million. The current owner appears not to be connected to Kostin or Wolfson.

WATCH: Video of a 3-D illustration of Andrei Kostin’s former mansion in Aspen, Colorado. (Google Earth)

Out at sea

The indictment does not end with real estate and art. Prosecutors also contend Kostin controlled two yachts through offshore companies: Sea Rhapsody and Sea & Us.

According to the document, Kostin mainly used the former yacht with his wife and family, while he primarily spent time on the latter with his mistress.

That latter yacht appeared in a 2019 investigation by the late Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalny, which dealt with the relationship between Kostin and Nailya Asker-zade, a presenter on the state TV channel Rossiya.

Prosecutors say Kostin bought the 66-meter (217-foot) Sea Rhapsody for $65 million between 2008 and 2012. It was built according to his order. It features six luxury cabins, an infinity pool, a whirlpool spa and a cinema.

Sea & Us is 62 meters (203 feet) long and was custom built for the banker in 2016-18. He paid at least $70 million for it.

According to prosecutors, in 2018-22, Kostin and unnamed accomplices carried out a scheme to provide financing, goods and services to operate, maintain and improve the yachts.

The indictment states they engaged in money laundering by transporting monetary instruments and funds in and out of the United States but does not provide further details of these activities.

According to maritime analytics site marinetraffic.com, Sea Rhapsody is now moored in Victoria, the capital of the Seychelles.

Sea & Us was renamed Serenity and Unity. According to the tracker, it is currently off the coast of Turkey.

Prosecutors are seeking the forfeiture of property and funds that they say Kostin, Wolfson and others obtained by committing the crimes listed in the indictment.

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March 9 Ocean Water Quality Rain Advisory

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Due to current rainfall, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health advises beach users to avoid all water contact

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Election Results Update: Local Races as of Wednesday Evening

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

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April 7: Square Dance with ‘Flower Power’ with The Sierra Hillbillies

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

The Sierra Hillbillies Square Dance club invites you to bring your “peace, love and flower power” to our Sunday, April 7 1960s Flower Power themed Square Dance

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City releases EIR for mall’s planning area 

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

The city of Santa Clarita Planning Division released its Environmental Impact Report for the Town Center Specific Plan on Tuesday, kicking off a 45-day comment period for its proposal on what should come of Valencia Town Center, known by many simply as “the mall.”  City officials began outreach last year on the property for a […]

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Chinese chap charged with stealing Google’s AI datacenter secrets

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Moonlighted for PRC companies after side-stepping Big G’s security, allegedly

A now-former Google employee has been charged with stealing the ad giant’s AI trade secrets while quietly working for two Chinese companies – after easily defeating whatever security controls Big G had in place.…

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The future that never was

date: 2024-03-07, from: OS News

Just before the end of 1989, Microsoft made available the first pre-release version of the long promised 32-bit OS/2 2.0, which was intended to be the first mass-market 32-bit PC operating system. This was accompanied by a press release detailing the $2,600 OS/2 2.0 Software Development Kit (SDK). Unfortunately, the December 1989 pre-release of OS/2 2.0 may not have survived to the present day. But in June 1990, Microsoft shipped the second pre-release of the OS/2 2.0 SDK. And that version has now turned up, after twenty years of searching, and nearly a quarter century after its release! ↫ Michal Necasek at OS/2 Museum OS/2 is one of the biggest what-ifs in tech, and the whole origin story and demise of the platform is worthy of a big budget drama series. It also happens to be one of my favourite retrocomputing platforms of all time, so I may be biased.

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A Super (Tuesday) Wake-Up Call

date: 2024-03-07, from: Dan Rather’s Steady

Time to pour on the work

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US House Passes $460 Billion Package of Spending Bills to Avert Deadline

date: 2024-03-07, from: VOA News USA

WASHINGTON — The House passed a $460 billion package of spending bills Wednesday that would keep money flowing to key federal agencies through the remainder of the budget year. The Senate is expected to take up the legislation before a midnight Friday shutdown deadline. 

Lawmakers are negotiating a second package of six bills, including defense, in an effort to have all federal agencies fully funded before a March 22 deadline. In the end, total discretionary spending set by Congress is expected to come in at about $1.66 trillion for the full year. 

A significant number of House Republicans have lined up in opposition to the spending packages, forcing House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, to use an expedited process to bring the bill up for a vote. That process requires two-thirds of the House to vote for the measure for it to pass. 

The House passed the measure by a vote of 339-85. 

The nondefense spending in this year’s bills is relatively flat compared with the previous year. Supporters say that keeping that spending below the rate of inflation is tantamount to a cut, forcing agencies to be more frugal and focus manpower on top priorities. Johnson cited a 10% cut to the Environmental Protection Agency, a 7% cut to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and a 6% cut to the FBI. 

But many Republican lawmakers were seeking much steeper cuts and more policy victories. The House Freedom Caucus, which contains dozens of the GOP’s most conservative members, urged Republicans to vote against the first spending package and oppose the second one being negotiated. 

“Despite giving Democrats higher spending levels, the omnibus text released so far punts on nearly every single Republican policy priority,” the group said. 

Johnson countered that House Republicans have just a two-vote majority in the House while Democrats control the Senate and White House. 

“We have to be realistic about what we’re able to achieve,” Johnson said. 

Democrats staved off most of the riders that House Republicans sought to include in the package. For example, they beat back an effort to block new rules that expand access to the abortion pill mifepristone. 

Democrats also said the bill would fully fund a nutrition program for low-income women, infants and children, providing about $7 billion for what is known as the WIC program. That’s a $1 billion increase from the previous year. 

“The bill certainly doesn’t have everything that we may have wanted, but I am very proud to say we successfully defeated the vast majority of the extreme cuts and hundreds of harmful policy riders proposed by the House Republicans,” said lawmaker Rosa DeLauro, the top-ranking Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee. 

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 policy mandate prohibits the Justice Department from investigating parents who exercise free speech at local school board meetings. 

Another provision strengthens gun rights for certain veterans. 

Under current law, the Department of Veterans Affairs 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 because they lack the mental capacity to manage their own affairs. This year’s spending package prohibits the department from transmitting that information unless a relevant judicial authority rules that the beneficiary is a danger to himself or herself, or others. 

The bills to fund federal agencies are more than five months past due, with the budget year beginning October 1. House Republicans are describing an improved process nevertheless, saying they have broken the cycle of passing all the spending bills in one massive package that lawmakers have little time to study before being asked to vote on it or risk a government shutdown.

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Google’s changes to comply with the DMA

date: 2024-03-07, from: OS News

The European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) comes into force this week for companies who have been designated. Today, we are sharing some more details about the changes we are making to comply, following product testing we announced earlier this year. ↫ Oliver Bethell on the official Google blog This is Google’s overview of the changes it’s implementing to comply with the DMA, some of which the company already announced months ago. Google’s changes don’t have as much of a direct, noticeable impact as some other company’s changes, mostly since a lot of the more impactful consequences of the DMA, such as allowing sideloading and alternative application stores, were already allowed on Android. Other changes, like to Search, will take longer to be noticed. The one thing that stands out is the tone – compared to Apple’s communication around the DMA. Whereas Apple sounds like a petulant whiny toddler, Google sounds constructive, to the point, and, well, like an adult. That doesn’t mean Google’s post isn’t also full of shit in places, but at least they’re being grown-ups about it.

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General Rain Advisory for Countywide Beaches

date: 2024-03-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – Due to rainfall occurring today, Santa Barbara County  Environmental Health Services wants to remind residents about

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Aviso General de Lluvia para las Playas de Todo el Condado

date: 2024-03-07, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News

(SANTA BARBARA, Calif.) – Debido a las lluvias que ocurren hoy, los Servicios de Salud  Ambiental del Condado de Santa

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Lemmings: Can You Dig It?

date: 2024-03-07, from: Tilde.news

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Castaic Middle School Recognized as 2024 School to Watch

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

 Castaic Middle School has once again been honored with the prestigious designation of a 2024 School to Watch

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CSUN ‘Fotografía Social’ to Celebrate Work of Photographer Maria Varela

date: 2024-03-07, from: SCV New (TV Station)

Community organizer, writer and photographer Maria Varela will talk about her work documenting the efforts of African Americans in the South and Chicanos in the Southwest

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County asks tax officials to help residents affected by landfill 

date: 2024-03-07, from: The Signal

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors signed off on a request from 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger for the county’s tax collector and assessor to see if there are ways to help residents who have been impacted by the monthslong stench at Chiquita Canyon Landfill.  Barger’s motion, which was announced on the supplemental agenda Monday, […]

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Signal Introduces Usernames

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Daring Fireball

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Nielsen needs to think again

date: 2024-03-07, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Tink’s blog

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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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Narcotics detectives investigate home in Valencia 

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

Detectives with the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department’s Narcotics Bureau seized a bag of methamphetamine and several glass pipes from a home down the street from Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Valencia last month, according to court records obtained by The Signal.  The investigation was started by local detectives in December after they became aware through […]

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OpenAI’s “Own Goal”

date: 2024-03-06, from: Gary Marcus blog

And why it is becoming increasingly difficult to take them at their word

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How iOS Is Determining Eligibility for Alternative App Marketplaces in the European Union

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Daring Fireball

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Set a static IP address with nmtui on Raspberry Pi OS 12 ‘Bookworm’

date: 2024-03-06, from: Jeff Geerling blog

Set a static IP address with nmtui on Raspberry Pi OS 12 ‘Bookworm’

        <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Old advice for setting a Raspberry Pi IP address to a static IP on the Pi itself said to edit the <code>/etc/dhcpcd.conf</code> file, and add it there.</p>

But on Raspberry Pi OS 12 and later, dhcpcd is no longer used, everything goes through Network Manager, which is configured via nmcli or nmtui.

So setting a static IP via the command line is a little different.

First, get the interface information—you can get a list of all interfaces with nmcli device status:

$ nmcli device status
DEVICE         TYPE      STATE                   CONNECTION         
eth0           ethernet  connected               Wired connection 1 
lo             loopback  connected (externally)  lo                 
wlan0          wifi      disconnected            --                 

In my case, I want to set an IP on eth0, the built-in Ethernet.

I can get all the current information about that port with nmcli device show eth0, and I can edit the connection using the terminal UI (nmtui):

  <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>Jeff Geerling</span></span>

March 6, 2024

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Meta’s Plans for E2EE Messaging Interop for WhatsApp and Messenger

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Daring Fireball

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Q&A: White House Will Persist in Bid for Ukraine Aid, Kirby Says

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

White House — The Biden administration is looking at options to support Ukraine amid House Republicans’ continued obstruction of a Senate-approved $95 billion foreign aid package that includes $61 billion to support Kyiv in its fight against Russia.

In a Wednesday interview with VOA, National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said President Joe Biden plans to use Thursday’s State of the Union address to emphasize the importance of continued support for Ukraine and highlight his administration’s success in “restoring American leadership.”

The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

VOA: How will the president use this opportunity to convince lawmakers and House Speaker Mike Johnson of the urgent need for military support for Ukraine?

John Kirby, White House National Security Communications Adviser: I don’t want to get ahead of the president’s speech. Of course, he’s very much looking forward to the opportunity to talk to the American people, to the Congress, and actually, quite frankly, the world about all the incredible things that he has accomplished in these three and a half years as the president of the United States. From the economy to education, to health care, to employment, as well as on the world stage, and really restoring American leadership on the world stage.

Here’s what American leadership buys you. It buys you convening power. It buys you enormous capability. And it certainly buys you an effort to influence and affect the decision-making and the actions of other leaders around the world, particularly adversaries, in ways that are more in keeping with our national security interests. And supporting Ukraine is certainly first and foremost. That’s about helping Ukrainian soldiers succeed in these fights against Russian aggression, but it’s also a benefit to our national security because the landscape on the European continent has changed. And if we just walk away and let [Russian President Vladimir] Putin have Ukraine, which is what he still wants, then he’s right up against the doorstop of NATO.

VOA: Ukraine is rationing munitions and losing territory in part because of the lack of American support. Do you still see a path forward with the supplemental package or should Ukrainians be preparing themselves for the reality where there is no American assistance?

Kirby: We’re going to keep working with Congress to see if we can get that supplemental passed. It’s that important. We are also working with allies and partners about contributions that they might be able to make, not that they aren’t already making them — they are. But [we’re] seeing what more could maybe be done. And of course, we’re looking inside our own system, inside our own government, and across the administration to see if there’s anything else that we might be able to do to support Ukraine. But we’ve got nothing. None of those efforts are going to be able to replace the volume, the scale that the supplemental would provide us.

VOA: But there might be a Plan B?

Kirby: We have never not looked at what other opportunities we might have before us. But whatever they are, they’re not going to be as good as the supplemental. There’s no replacing the supplemental. As I’ve said many times, it’s not like there’s some magical source out there that can do what the supplemental can do. But are we looking at options? We absolutely are. We have to, given the situation on the ground — particularly in the east.

VOA: But do you still believe the supplemental may pass?

Kirby: It’s difficult to say with any certainty. That’s really going to be up to Speaker Johnson. We know — and Speaker Johnson knows — that if you put that to the floor, it’ll pass. There’s plenty of bipartisan support for that; both sides of the aisle in the House. No question about that. The question is really: Will he put it to the floor? And only he can answer that question.

VOA: Six countries, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Italy, Germany, Denmark and France, recently signed bilateral security agreements with Kyiv that are meant to give Ukraine security reassurance before Ukraine joins NATO. Should we expect such an agreement between the United States and Ukraine soon?

Kirby: We have long been working with the Ukrainians, obviously making sure that they have what they need in this war, talking to them about what they’re going to need whenever the war ends, because whenever and however the war ends, they’re still going to have a long border with Russia that they’re going to need to safeguard. So, yes, the United States is talking to our Ukrainian counterparts about what more we can do over the long term to help make sure that they can defend their own national security interests and [those of] the Ukrainian people. I don’t have anything to announce or speak to right now, but these are conversations we’re having with the Ukrainians.

VOA: More on the State of the Union: How will the president address the worsening situation in Gaza and U.S. strategic competition with China?

Kirby: Again, I’m not going to get ahead of the president’s speech, but I would point you to the things that he has said before. On Israel: How important it is to make sure Israel can defend itself against the still viable threat by Hamas, making sure that more humanitarian assistance gets in [to Gaza, and] making sure we get the hostages out. Trying to get this new hostage deal in place so that we can get a six-week temporary cease-fire to reduce the suffering on the ground and again try to find ways to help alleviate suffering of the Palestinian people.

And on China, as you know, the president wrapped up not too long ago a meeting with President Xi [Jinping] in San Francisco. Good, constructive dialogue. We’re not going to agree with China on everything, but the president believes strongly that this is the most consequential bilateral relationship in the world, and it’s incumbent upon both of us as two major powers — and both of them as two major leaders — to handle that relationship in a responsible way.

VOA: The president warned of a “dangerous” situation if there is no cease-fire by Ramadan. What did he mean by that? Is he warning of more bloodshed and potential regional spillover?

Kirby: He’s referring to the fact that Ramadan is obviously the holiest time of the year for Muslims and it’s also a sensitive time, particularly in the Middle East, where actions take on an even larger meaning and can have an outsized impact. And so, we all want this temporary cease-fire in place as soon as possible. We obviously would have preferred to have it in place already. It’s not, we’re still working at that. But we recognize that as you get closer to Ramadan, whatever actions get taken is done in the context of this holiest of time for Muslims around the world.

VOA: Both the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, and the widow of a deceased Russian opposition leader Yulia Navalnaya declined the invitation to attend Biden’s State of the Union address. What message was the administration trying to convey by inviting them both?

Kirby: We certainly respect their desires in terms of not attending, but obviously Ukraine is such a key partner here. And they have been fighting bravely now for a little bit over two years. And, certainly, this was an opportunity to recognize America’s commitment to Ukraine, and to the fighting, the courage and resilience of the Ukrainian people.

Again, we all mourned the passing of Alexey Navalny, and we all recognize his courage, his bravery, and we all of course continue to hold the Kremlin accountable for what happened to him. The president had a chance to meet with his wife and his sister to express his personal condolences and the condolences of the entire American people

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Desktop GPU shipments jumped by a third – no thanks to AI PCs

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

Prices stabilized, so buyers opened their wallets

Shipments of consumer-grade GPUs are growing strongly, according to graphics-focused analyst firm Jon Peddie Research, but probably not due to the emergence of generative AI or the so-called AI PC.…

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Here’s the New iOS 17.4 Default Browser Nag for iPhone Users in Europe

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Daring Fireball

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Hyundai introduces decked-out IONIQ 6 EV Black Edition

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

Hyundai unveiled a sleek new IONIQ 6 Black Edition this week. The new blacked-out EV is fitted with special matte wheels, molding, and other upgrades.

more…

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The first Tesla store is finally open in EV-loving Vermont [update]

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

New Englanders, rejoice – at last, Vermont’s first Tesla store is now open in South Burlington.

more…

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Adding systemd to postmarketOS

date: 2024-03-06, from: OS News

You heard it here first folks: systemd is coming to postmarketOS! As a mobile oriented OS, our main goal has always been to work for everyone. From technical folks to casual users. postmarketOS should have all the benefits you expect from a Linux based distribution, such as being free software, respecting your privacy, getting updates until your device physically breaks, respecting your attention and not shoving advertisements in your face. Your phone should be a tool you use, not the other way around. This is of course not an easy task, one of the main blockers we found as we collaborate more closely with KDE and GNOME developers is that they have a hard time with our OpenRC-based stack. In order to get KDE and GNOME working at all, we use a lot of systemd polyfills on top of OpenRC. So while we are technically “not using systemd”, in practice we already do use a large chunk of its components to get KDE and GNOME running, just different versions of those components. While we are very grateful for everybody who works on these polyfills, we must point out that most aren’t a full replacement, and take additional effort to support and maintain. As much as we might want to romanticise the idea of spending 6, 12, 24 months attempting to come up with an even vaguely competitive alternative to systemd, we would quite simply rather be working on making postmarketOS better. ↫ postmarketOS blog This is the sensible choice to make, and I’m glad they made it. It makes no sense for a relatively small project that already has to deal with the difficulties of supporting smartphones to also have to deal with shoehorning the smartphone variants of GNOME and KDE into an init system they’re not at all made for.

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COC Nursing Program Accreditation Reaffirmed

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

The National League for Nursing Commission for Nursing Education Accreditation (NLN- CNEA) has reaffirmed the accreditation of the College of the Canyons nursing program for a maximum term of 10 years. 

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★ Apple Terminated Epic’s E.U. Developer Account

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Daring Fireball

Popcorn-eating-wise, I’m genuinely curious about Apple using a U.S. court decision as grounds for banning Epic’s Swedish subsidiary from holding a developer account.

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Beer Me, Obi-Wan!

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Why Do US Presidents Deliver State of the Union Speeches?

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

Every year, the United States president addresses a joint gathering of the House of Representatives and Senate to provide his or her view on the condition of the country and suggest the direction the nation should take. The State of the Union speech has become a major fixture in U.S. governance.

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This anodeless, compressionless solid-state battery could be the next big thing

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

Maryland-based ION Storage Systems has just hit a significant milestone with its unique solid-state batteries (SSBs).

more…

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Explainer: Designated Survivor on Standby During State of the Union Address

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

As top U.S. politicians gather to hear the president’s annual speech, one person is tapped to miss the event. That person would lead the government in the event of a catastrophic attack that takes out everyone else in the chain of presidential succession. Here’s a look at how the practice works.

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Supes Approve Tax Relief for Communities Impacted by Chiquita Canyon Odors

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

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors today unanimously approved a motion authored by Supervisor Kathryn Barger that is the first step toward 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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Video: GM Fights Back Against BYD With The Wuling Bingo Plus

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

This $12,500 EV can cruise a maximum of 510 KM (317 miles) and is aimed at the BYD Dolphin and BYD Seagull.

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Apple talks with Mercedes, Ford, Tesla, and more detailed in new in-depth Apple Car report

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

As you may be familiar with by now, Apple has officially canceled its project to build an electric car. The…

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2024 Ford E-Transit has bigger battery, faster charging, slightly higher price

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

Ford is updating the E-Transit with a larger 89kWh battery, increasing range by roughly 30% depending on configuration, and faster charging on both DC and AC.

more…

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Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation

date: 2024-03-06, from: Windows Developer Blog

Sandboxing Python can be very useful for developers but has been challenging due to the flexibility of CPython implementation. It is particularly useful in many scenarios to have sandboxed Python.  For example, on any webs

The post Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation  appeared first on Windows Developer Blog.

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Vision Pro’s Battery Indicator Is Confusing

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Daring Fireball

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iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4 Add Podcast Transcripts, Fix Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

date: 2024-03-06, from: TidBITS blog

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NASA Continues Artemis Moon Rocket Engine Test Series

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

NASA conducted a full-duration RS-25 engine hot fire March 6, continuing a final round of certification testing for production of new engines to help power the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket on future Artemis missions to the Moon and beyond. The full-duration test on the Fred Haise Test Stand at NASA’s Stennis Space Center near […]

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2024-03-06 Oddµ beta program for Campaign Wiki

date: 2024-03-06, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog

2024-03-06 Oddµ beta program for Campaign Wiki

Campaign Wiki offers a basic wiki for people wanting to keep campaign records for their role-playing games. I’ve been developing a new software that’s now available for beta testing. That is to say: I think it’s ready. I’ve been using it for this site for a while, now.

What hasn’t been tested is 1. its usability (how well can it be used by people that are mainly interested in their games and not their software) and 2. it’s permission setup (the new site no longer allows editing by strangers: you need an account to edit the site).

Well, as soon as the first person signed up, problems started showing up in both areas! 😅

So I’ve been busy fixing bugs and writing documentation.

#Oddµ

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Updated Tesla Model 3 Performance May Get A Big Power Bump: Leaked Docs

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

The refreshed Tesla Model 3 Performance might deliver a substantially bigger punch thanks to a new rear motor.

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The Marshall Star for March 6, 2024

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

Marshall Supports NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launch By Jessica Barnett Team members at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center celebrated another successful launch as astronauts on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission began the journey to the International Space Station in the late hours of March 3. Marshall’s support team is part of the agency’s CCP (Commercial Crew Program) […]

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Scientists Reject Proposal to Define the Anthropocene, a Geological Age Marked by Human Activity

date: 2024-03-06, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Experts had suggested a new epoch started in the mid-20th century, but the recent vote demonstrates how tough it is to pinpoint when humans’ impact on the planet began

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

There are leaks coming out of the NYT re their editorial processes. It's about time.

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CDPH Office of Violence Prevention, California Community Foundation to Invest $25M

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

The Department of Public Health’s Office of Violence Prevention, in partnership with the California Community Foundation, has awarded 56 grants totaling $25 million

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Apple Terminates Epic Games’ Developer Account Again

date: 2024-03-06, from: Michael Tsai

Epic Games (Hacker News): We recently announced that Apple approved our Epic Games Sweden AB developer account. We intended to use that account to bring the Epic Games Store and Fortnite to iOS devices in Europe thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA). To our surprise, Apple has terminated that account and now we cannot […]

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ToothFairy 2.8.4

date: 2024-03-06, from: Michael Tsai

ToothFairy 2.8.4 is a maintenance update of my Bluetooth menu bar utility. The focus is on better handling of a variety of edge cases to improve the battery level, sound quality, and connection features. The macOS Bluetooth APIs don’t always correctly connect a device (e.g. may not update the sound output device), so ToothFairy will […]

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HP All-In Plan

date: 2024-03-06, from: Michael Tsai

Scharon Harding: HP launched a subscription service today that rents people a printer, allots them a specific amount of printed pages, and sends them ink for a monthly fee. HP is framing its service as a way to simplify printing for families and small businesses, but the deal also comes with monitoring and a years-long […]

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Swift 5.10

date: 2024-03-06, from: Michael Tsai

Holly Borla (Mastodon): Swift 5.10 accomplishes full data isolation in the concurrency language model. This important milestone has taken years of active development over many releases. The concurrency model was introduced in Swift 5.5 including async/await, actors, and structured concurrency. Swift 5.7 introduced Sendable as the fundamental concept for thread-safe types whose values can be […]

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Xcode 15.3

date: 2024-03-06, from: Michael Tsai

Apple (direct download): Xcode 15.3 includes SDKs for iOS 17.4, iPadOS 17.4, tvOS 17.4, watchOS 10.4, macOS Sonoma 14.4, and visionOS 1.1. The Xcode 15.3 release supports on-device debugging in iOS 12 and later, tvOS 12 and later, watchOS 4 and later, and visionOS. Xcode 15.3 requires a Mac running macOS Sonoma 14 or later. […]

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Kia mulls EV plant in Thailand to take on Toyota and BYD with affordable electric cars

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

Can Kia challenge Toyota, which has dominated the market in Thailand, with affordable EVs? Chinese automakers like BYD are already stealing market share, but Kia is in talks over a new EV plant in Thailand that could help position itself as an early leader.

more…

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Mellel 6.0.3

date: 2024-03-06, from: TidBITS blog

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SEthernet: Modern, low-cost 10/100 Ethernet for the Macintosh SE and SE/30

date: 2024-03-06, from: Tilde.news

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LinkedIn’s turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

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

What’s not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft’s social network

Updated  If you can’t get into LinkedIn at the moment, you’re not alone: The social network is unavailable due to an unexplained outage.…

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Artemis Generation Students Inspired During NASA STEM Event

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

By Bo Black at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, with assistance from students at Pascagoula (Mississippi) High School, Hancock County (Mississippi) Career Technical Center, and Springfield (Louisiana) High School The questions kept coming, exceeding the allotted time, as students at NASA’s Next Gen STEM event in late February explored the importance of computer science for future […]

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PopChar 10

date: 2024-03-06, from: TidBITS blog

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The Principles of the Pleasure Project

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

Santa Barbara sex specialist Dr. Jenn Kennedy discusses women’s sexuality, working with couples, and how she found her way to the Pleasure Project.

The post The Principles of the Pleasure Project appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Blogroll 2.0

date: 2024-03-06, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News

A blogroll is a piece of an open, super low-tech, small pieces loosely joined, social network. And will help us bootstrap textcasting.

OPML still has a lot to give.

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Beowulf, translated into Gen Z English. “A smol bean to start with,…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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“Don’t expect help from the disruptors”: The FT’s chief executive on AI, “loyalist” readers, and its U.S. expansion

date: 2024-03-06, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

There has been a remarkable amount of consistency at the Financial Times and I’m not just talking about the pink paper, which celebrated its 130th anniversary last year. FT Group CEO John Ridding has been chief executive since 2006 after first joining the news org as a reporter in 1988. The FT’s strategic and editorial…

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FBI: Critical infrastructure suffers spike in ransomware attacks

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

Jump in overall cybercrime reports, $60M-plus reportedly lost to extortionists alone, Feds reckon

Digital crimes potentially cost victims more than $12.5 billion last year, according to the FBI’s latest Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) annual report. …

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GreenPower delivers its first electric school bus in Arizona

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

GreenPower has delivered an electric purpose-built Type D BEAST school bus to Arizona, its first in the state.

more…

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Television for Vision Pro

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-07, from: Daring Fireball

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Chris Hemsworth Rides An Airplane Engine Chopper In Furiosa Sneak Peek

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

George Miller’s vehicle team does it again.

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April 5: CSUN Student Union Invites Matadors to Carnaval

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

The University Student Union invites Matadors to attend Carnaval, a multicultural event highlighting diversity within the CSUN community

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Google announces measures to fight spam in its search results

date: 2024-03-06, from: OS News

Every day, people turn to Search to find the best of what the web has to offer. We’ve long had policies and automated systems to fight against spammers, and we work to address emerging tactics that look to game our results with low-quality content. We regularly update those policies and systems to effectively tackle these trends so we can continue delivering useful content and connecting people with high-quality websites. Today we’re announcing key changes we’re making to improve the quality of Search and the helpfulness of your results. ↫ Elizabeth Tucker on the official Google blog Low-quality SEO spam has been a problem on Google for years, but the recent advent of “AI” tools has wreaked absolute havoc in the search results. It’s a damn blood bath out there. It’s not up to Google to fix its own mess, so let’s wait and see if these changes will do anything to reverse the downward spiral Google Search has been in for years now.

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FreeBSD 13.3 released

date: 2024-03-06, from: OS News

FreeBSD 13.3 has been released, and as this is a point release of the stable branch, it’s not a major shake-up or overhaul of the platform. We’ve got the usual updated versions of LLVM, clang, OpenSSH, and so on, and there’s a number of stability fixes to native and LinuxKPI-based WiFi drivers. Of course, there’s much more, so head on over to the release notes for the full details.

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The Rivian R2 Is About To Be Rivian’s Tesla Model Y Moment

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

This is the moment every EV startup hopes for, and not many actually get to. Can it reverse Rivian’s fortunes?

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

WordPress Developer Docs Shows Off a New Block-Based Redesign.

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Tesla Giving Away 10,000 Supercharging Miles In End-Of-Quarter Push

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

Buy a new Tesla, get some free miles.

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US Urges Iran to Dilute All Its Near-Weapons-Grade Uranium

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

vienna — The United States on Wednesday called on Iran to dilute all of the uranium it has enriched to up to 60% purity, close to the weapons-grade level of roughly 90%, in a statement denouncing many of Tehran’s recent nuclear moves.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report to member states last week that Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60% had fallen slightly in the past quarter as it had diluted, or “downblended,” more of its most highly enriched material than it had produced.

Iran still has enough of that material, if enriched further, to fuel two nuclear weapons by a theoretical IAEA definition, and enough for more bombs at lower enrichment levels, the report seen by Reuters showed.

“Iran should downblend all, not just some, of its 60% stockpile, and stop all production of uranium enriched to 60% entirely,” the United States said in a statement on Iran to a quarterly meeting of the 35-nation IAEA Board of Governors.

It is not clear why Iran downblended the material. It denies seeking nuclear weapons and says it has the right to enrich to high levels for civil purposes. Western powers say there is no credible civil justification for enriching to such high levels.

“We continue to have serious concerns related to the stockpile of highly enriched uranium that Iran continues to maintain,” the U.S. statement said.

“No other country today is producing uranium enriched to 60% for the purpose Iran claims and Iran’s actions are counter to the behavior of all other non-nuclear weapons states party to the NPT [Non-Proliferation Treaty],” it added.

The United States also condemned various moves by Iran, many of which the IAEA has also criticized, such as barring some of the IAEA’s most experienced and expert inspectors last year.

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Ten Years of Spectacular Sales

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

Sarah Sinclair is our Advertising Director, and she recently celebrated her 10 year-anniversary here at the Independent. What are the parts

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Very Rare Yellow-Billed Loon Visits the Las Vegas Strip, Hangs Out in the Bellagio Fountains

date: 2024-03-06, from: Smithsonian Magazine

The out-of-place bird prompted the hotel to put its famed fountain show on hold before biologists captured and moved the bird—one of the country’s ten rarest—to better habitat

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Fairphone hits pause on its Fairphone Easy subscription service

date: 2024-03-06, from: Liliputing

Dutch smartphone maker Fairphone makes devices that are designed to be long-lasting, easy-to-repair, and manufactured with ethically-sourced materials whenever possible. So two years ago, when the company launched a subscription service, it was a bit different than most plans that let you pay for a phone in installments. Fairphone Easy subscribers were effectively leasing phones […]

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This Banksy Mural Was Salvaged From the Wall of a London Office Building

date: 2024-03-06, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Conservators have been working for a year to restore “Happy Choppers,” which is going to auction on March 20

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100 Years Ago in Photos: 1924

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Attorney General Bonta Urges Immediate Action by Meta to Prevent Account Takeovers

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

OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta, as part of a bipartisan coalition of 40 attorneys general, today sent a letter to Meta

The post Attorney General Bonta Urges Immediate Action by Meta to Prevent Account Takeovers appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Cantando: Commentary Chansons

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

“Black Parade” Beyoncé Beyoncé celebrated Juneteenth in 2020 with the release of “Black Parade,” which dropped amid the worldwide response to the murder of George Floyd. In the single, Beyoncé…

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Matador Marquee: Diverse Films

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)

“Killers of the Flower Moon” is a 2023 drama depicting the murders of members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma amid their rising wealth in the 20th century. After oil…

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Watch Colby Raha Build the World’s First FMX Spine Ramp

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

I can guarantee you’ve never seen something like this before in FMX. And I doubt it’s the last time you’ll see it.

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Taking the campus temperature since 1949

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

There is one thing that has been documented every day since 1949 at Pierce College—the weather. The weather station at Pierce has been reporting since

The post Taking the campus temperature since 1949 appeared first on The Roundup.

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Students weave cultural connections

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

With a webinar joined by all nine LACCD campuses, Pierce College students and faculty may have literally been able to weave connections between Black history

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Who’s hot and who’s not among US retailers for EV charging

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

Only a measly 1% of US retailers offer EV charging stations even though they come with significant benefits and government incentives, according to Consumer Reports.

more…

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All good things come in threes

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

Classical music with a modern touch flowed through the Performing Arts Building with the help of the musicians playing the cello, clarinet and electric guitar,

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A review of basic income experiments around the US. “Supporters say it…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Here are the best electric bikes you can buy at every price level in March 2024

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

Here at Electrek, we’ve spent countless hours doing detailed hands-on testing of hundreds of electric bikes. Through thousands of miles of riding, we’ve learned these e-bikes inside and out, top to bottom and front to back. That dedication to real-world e-bike testing has helped us find the best electric bicycles on the market for just about any budget.

Below are some of the top e-bikes we’ve hand-tested for every price range, current as of March 2024. It may not feel like it, but spring is just around the corner (in the Northern Hemisphere) and riding season will soon be upon us. After an ultra-competitive e-bike selling year in 2023, we’re still seeing some great sales into early 2024. So check out the awesome e-bikes below, any one of which could become your next electric bike.

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LACCD should let student representative vote

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

By bringing attention to under-discussed issues, student representatives provide crucial advocacy and input on any higher education governing body—so they should be able to vote. 

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Improvements still needed: It’s time to fix FAFSA

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

The rollout of this year’s Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) has been marred by delays and technical difficulties, causing confusion and problems for

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Climate Change May Unearth Cold War-Era Nuclear Waste Stored by the U.S. in Other Countries

date: 2024-03-06, from: Smithsonian Magazine

A new report finds that melting ice and rising sea levels could disturb radioactive contamination left over from American nuclear tests after World War II

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Copilot can’t stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

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

AI tech loves picturing women in underwear, Windows giant won’t do anything about it, watchdog told

A machine-learning engineer at Microsoft, unhappy with what he claims is a lack of response to his serious safety concerns about Copilot’s text-to-image tool, has gone public with his allegations.…

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Rivian (RIVN) is dropping a shift at its Normal EV plant due to efficiency upgrades

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

Rivian (RIVN) is dropping a shift at its Normal, Illinois, EV manufacturing plant next month, but not because of a lack of demand. The EV maker said it could hit its 2024 production goal with one less shift due to efficiency upgrades at the facility.

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Compal’s DualFlip laptop design has two screens that can be stacked or used side-by-side

date: 2024-03-06, from: Liliputing

There are a lot of ways to make a dual-screen laptop. Some models we’ve seen in recent years have a second screen where you’d normally find a keyboard. Others have one on the lid. Some put a screen above the keyboard. And a handful put a screen next to the keyboard. Compal’s DualFlip laptop design […]

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VIN Diesel would approve of this service

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

One worker drove the car into one of two bays. Another scanned the VIN and the vehicle was lifted up by a tow truck driver.

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Pension divestment from fossil fuels, new unit minimum among topics discussed at Academic Senate

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)

Moral and monetary goals don’t often head toward the same conclusions, but a plan to reach both was discussed in the Academic Senate meeting on

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Governor Says National Guard, More Surveillance Coming to NYC Subways

date: 2024-03-06, from: 404 Media Group

Governor Kathy Hochul announced “a new program bill that will allow judges to ban people convicted of an assault within the system from using MTA services as part of sentencing.”

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Global Plug-In Car Sales Started 2024 With A Bang: 1 Million Sold In January

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

The segment expanded by 63% year-over-year, with a massive boost in PHEV sales.

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Recall: 2023 CFMoto 450SS Telematics Box Could Come Loose, Affect Steering

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

The rubber rings holding the unit on a specific production rung could break, causing the T-box to fall into the front fork.

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LA Car Culture Warriors In Shambles After Overwhelming Vote for New Bike Lines

date: 2024-03-06, from: 404 Media Group

A survey of Nextdoor users losing their minds after voters overwhelmingly supported HLA, which will add new bike and bus lanes.

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Santa Barbara’s Paseo Nuevo Redevelopment Starts to Take Shape

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

City Council unanimously approves project agreement, though the amount of affordable units is still up in the air.

The post Santa Barbara’s Paseo Nuevo Redevelopment Starts to Take Shape appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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Save $500 on Juiced e-bike bundles with extra batteries, Anker 192Wh power station hits $105, more

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

Headlining today’s green deals is a promotional opportunity from Juiced Bikes to save $500 when bundling the new 52V G2 battery with a selection of discounted e-bikes. It is joined by the Anker PowerCore Reserve 192Wh Power Station at a new $105 low, as well as a Greenworks 80V mower, blower, and trimmer combo at $700, with a chance to shave another $100 off through membership. 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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Join 404 Media’s Third FOIA Forum Here

date: 2024-03-06, from: 404 Media Group

Here’s the link to our third FOIA Forum.

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March 5, 2024

date: 2024-03-06, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

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Tesla Model Y Owner Turns In His Car, Doesn’t Recommend Buying One Right Now

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

He says Tesla has some issues it needs to resolve and suggests that you should wait for the Juniper refresh before buying a new Model Y.

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Olympic-level server tossing contest seeks entrants – warranty voiding guaranteed

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

It’s geeks gone wild

Many sysadmins no doubt will have wanted to fling a server from the top of a suitably tall building during moments of professional frustration, and now they can get the chance to chuck one competitively.…

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Wooooo! XOXO is coming back for one last conference. I will see…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Second Juvenile Arrested for Knife Attack at Turnpike Shopping Center in Goleta

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

The 15-year-old male suspect has been booked in juvenile hall for attempted murder.

The post Second Juvenile Arrested for Knife Attack at Turnpike Shopping Center in Goleta appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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The Port of San Diego just deployed one of the largest electric forklifts in the US

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

The Port of San Diego has put the first commercially available, large-capacity, electric forklift made in the US into service.

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Audi to officially unveil new Q6 e-tron this month, promising to ‘Overtake your expectations’

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

After developing it for what feels like years now, Audi AG is finally set for a world premiere of the Q6 e-tron – its first EV model to debut on the  Premium Platform Electric (PPE) co-developed with Porsche. Here’s what we know so far.

more…

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Canoo (GOEV) announces a reverse stock split as share prices sink to an all-time low

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

EV startup Canoo (GOEV) is throwing out a lifeline to keep its shares listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Canoo announced a 1-for-23 reverse stock split Wednesday as share prices hit a new all-time low.

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2024 Ford E-Transit Gets More Range And Faster Charging

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

The electric version of America’s best-selling van gets some big upgrades under the skin.

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Hell Yeah, Husqvarna Confirms Svartpilen 801 Is On Its Way

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Flogging it around both a dirt and an ice track was for testing, not just for this video, Husky says.

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

Perhaps the T in NYT really means Troll. It's really embarrassing they think so little of their readers. Reminder: Many of us are adults.

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Auction House Cancels Sale of Looted Ethiopian Shield

date: 2024-03-06, from: Smithsonian Magazine

Heritage officials have called for the return of the artifact, which British forces seized in 1868

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Want to be a NASA astronaut? Applications are open

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

Time flies for The Flies

NASA has wheeled out its latest set of astronaut graduates, dubbed “The Flies,” and announced that it is accepting applications for the next batch of astro-wannabes.…

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Membership Pricing

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Google wants to redirect traffic from AI-generated spam blogs to legit websites

date: 2024-03-06, from: Nieman Journalism Lab

Google is one of the most important vectors for online spammers and scammers. The search engine’s dominance means that, if you want to generate traffic — a.k.a. potential marks — you’ll probably need to convince Google’s algorithm to send it your way. And there’s a good chance the resulting traffic will be monetized using Google’s…

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2023 Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Honorees

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

LEGEND: ARMD NASA CENTERS ARC = Ames Research Center AFRC = Armstrong Flight Research Center GRC = Glenn Research Center HQ = Headquarters LaRC = Langley Research Center Technology and Innovation Honoree (Group)ecoDemonstrator Emissions Flight and Ground Test TeamThe ecoDemonstrator Emissions Flight and Ground Test team demonstrated remarkable performance and innovative technical achievement by making […]

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2023 Technology and Innovation Honoree (Group)

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

2023 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Awards Technology and Innovation Honoree ecoDemonstrator Emissions Flight and Ground Test Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Langley Research CenterBruce AndersonJoseph AtkinsonRosemary BaizeJohn BarrickRory Barton-GrimleyKristopher BedkaSeth BegayMatthew BrownMelinda CagleYonghoon ChoiJim CollinsBrian CollisterJohn CooneyGarfield CrearyEwan CrosbieMaurice CrossHarper DavidJoshua DiGangiMary DiJosephGlenn DiskinDave DudaTrina DyalDavid EckbergRichard FerrareFrancesca GalloMarisol GarciaJohn HairCarolyn JordanGrant […]

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2023 Technology and Innovation (Honorable Mention Group)

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

2023 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Unmanned Aerial Systems Pilot (UASP) Kit Development Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Ames Research CenterJoey MercerLynne MartinLauren RobertsYasmin Arbab NASA Glenn Research CenterCharles SheeheDavid Fuller ASRC Federal Data Solutions, LLCCharles WalterCharles WhatleyWillam McCarty 2023 AA Award Honorees 2023 AA Award Honorees PDF ARMD Associate Administrator […]

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2023 Program and Mission Support Honoree (Group)

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

2023 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator (AA) Awards Remote Pilot Beyond Visual Line of Sight (BVLOS) Training Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Ames Research CenterMelissa A. HillBrian K. HutchinsonBryan J. PettyBill K. BuckBrent P. Pickering Metis Flight Research Associates, LLCBenjamin P. JenkinsJoshua K. CarbonneauRegina J. Tober RSESJacob Revesz* 2023 AA Award Honorees 2023 […]

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The Nissan Leaf Regains Its Tax Credit Eligibility. But Is It Worth It In 2024?

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

The Leaf is somewhat affordable again, but several key things are holding it back.

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2023 Pushing the Envelope Honoree (Group)

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

2023 Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate Associate Administrator Awards Pushing the Envelope Honoree X-57 Maxwell Team * Denotes Team Lead NASA Armstrong Flight Research CenterBony J. BacaJeffrey E. BakerKaleiokalani J. BarelaEthan A. BaumannPaul S. BeanMatthew J. BerryKeerti K. BhamidipatiAndrew D. BluaJohn K. BodylskiKirsten M. BoogaardTrong T. BuiBradley S. ButlerSean C. ClarkeBruce R. CoganJohn G. CogginsJames R. […]

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Tesla launches Model Y with just 2 seats as a smart business solution

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

Tesla has launched a new Model Y configuration with just 2 seats – leaving a ton of room in the back for transport or a custom solution.

It is aimed at businesses.

more…

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Is it just me, or has “unhinged” reached peak saturation? It feels…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Apple’s trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days

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

Two flaws fixed, one knee bent to the EU, and a budding cybersecurity star feature in iOS 17.4

Apple’s latest security patches address four vulnerabilities affecting iOS and iPadOS, including two zero-days that intel suggests attackers have already exploited.…

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EV Charging Needs A ‘WiFi Moment,’ ChargePoint’s CEO Says

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

Even with the Tesla NACS plug revolution looming, CCS and even CHAdeMo plugs will be with us for years, ChargePoint’s new CEO says.

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

I asked ChatGPT how to create a WordPress plugin. Such an amazing tool, it leaps over barriers to entry in a single bound. 😉

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Santa Clarita Residents Invited to Pre-Register to Volunteer at the Neighborhood Cleanup on April 27

date: 2024-03-06, from: City of Santa Clarita

SANTA CLARITA RESIDENTS INVITED TO PRE-REGISTER TO VOLUNTEER AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP ON APRIL 27 Registered Participants Pick Up Free Supplies to Clean Up Their Community City of Santa Clarita residents are invited to register for the Neighborhood Cleanup taking place on Saturday, April 27, 2024. This event gives residents the opportunityto join the City […]

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Eldie Gummies Make Elderberry Benefits Portable

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

Carmel Berry Company Founder Katie Reneker launches line of immunity-boosting treats.

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US Targets Houthi Revenue With New Sanctions

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

WASHINGTON — The United States on Wednesday issued sanctions targeting two companies and two vessels that the Treasury Department said had facilitated commodities shipments on behalf of a network of an Iranian-backed Houthi financial facilitator.

The action targets two Hong Kong- and Marshall Islands-based ship owners and two vessels for their role in shipping commodities on behalf of Sa’id al-Jamal, the Treasury Department said in a statement.

The revenue from the commodity sales supports the Houthis and their attacks against international shipping in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, the department said.

Wednesday’s action represented the latest bid by the U.S. to pressure the Iran-backed Houthi militant group over attacks in shipping. Last month, Washington imposed sanctions on oil tankers as well as two companies it accused of working with al-Jamal.

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Elon Musk tried to merge Tesla and OpenAI, emails reveal

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

In response to Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI, the company answered by releasing emails from Elon Musk showing that he actually supported OpenAI pivoting to a for-profit model and even merging with Tesla.

more…

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Jaguar Will End Production Of All Current Models Ahead Of Next Year’s New EVs

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

That means the aging I-Pace EV will also get the axe, not just the combustion cars.

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Iowa Journalist Wins Five-year Fight for Press Credentials

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

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Simply NUC Onyx Pro mini PC pairs Intel Core i9-13900H with discrete graphics options

date: 2024-03-06, from: Liliputing

The Simply NUC Onyx line of mini PCs are small, but powerful, computers with support for up to an Intel Core i9-13900H processor. Up until recently, the company only offered models with integrated graphics, but now Simply NUC has launched a new Onyx Pro computer with a slightly larger chassis support for an optional discrete GPU. […]

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Could AI Make a Disease-Free World?

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

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A “hypervaccinated” man voluntarily received 217 Covid vaccine shots in a 29-month…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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California man arrested after teen boy’s secret signal for help leads to Utah hotel rescue

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

The charging document explains that investigators found the teen with four adult men in a hotel room. They believe Austin David Arnold sexually abused the teen and had visited him before.

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Santa Maria Kids Hold “Supply Drive” for Adopt-a-Room Campaign to Help Homeless Individuals Moving into Hope Village Interim Housing

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

Santa Barbara County, CA, March 5, 2024 — Santa Maria’s Asa Jacobo-Anaya has always had the desire to help others. At

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Governments not keen on pushing citizen-facing AI services, for obvious reasons

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

As soon as public sector implements GenAI, someone will do their best to break it… or even flirt with it

Gartner says governments remain wary of AI-enabled citizen-facing services, while cybersecurity experts at NordVPN have warned against getting too chatty with chatbots.…

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This election’s big trust issue (maybe not the one you’re thinking of)

date: 2024-03-06, from: Marketplace Morning Report

Following Super Tuesday’s results, there hasn’t been a major paradigm shift, even after the suspension of Republican contender Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign. But many people in the world of business are laser-focused on the outcomes of November’s election because of what it can mean for antitrust policy. We delve in. Also: what’s included in spending packages before the House and how a lack of water is impacting the Panama Canal.

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Berkeley man run over while pushing truck on snowy Tahoe street

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

The previous day, a teenage pedestrian was injured in a crash three blocks away.

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San Jose: Arrest made in deadly shooting at parking lot vigil

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

Juan Perez was jailed on suspicion of the shooting that killed one and injured two outside a liquor store.

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Only 1% Of 270,000 Surveyed Retail Locations Have EV Charging: Consumer Reports

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

Retail spaces could be an ideal space to quickly establish charging infrastructure, but Consumer Reports found that the majority have not done so.

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Polaris Drops Its 2025 Snow Lineup and They Look Stellar

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Sleds and snow bikes galore.

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Get-Out-The-Vote event at The Oinkster encourages civic participation for the Filipino community

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

With promises of free ube shakes, Filipino merienda, music and vintage cars, Democratic primary candidate for Assembly member for the 52nd district of California Jessica Caloza sponsored a Get-Out-the-Vote event at The Oinkster on Colorado Boulevard March 3. As classic ’90s hip hop played from the DJ’s speakers, Caloza took pictures with supporters and Paco, […]

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Mysterious Pillarhenge project continues to confound, even as development moves ahead

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

After 20 years, Vanos Architecture, an LA-based firm, along with a new property owner, will accomplish what many thought was impossible: develop Pillarhenge, a long abandoned, 0.63 acre narrow strip of land located at 1332 Colorado Blvd. An LA Times Article said Vanos Architecture first planned a 17 unit multi-use building on the property back […]

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Mysterious Pillarhenge project continues to confound, even as development moves ahead

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

After 20 years, Vanos Architecture, an LA-based firm, along with a new property owner, will accomplish what many thought was impossible: develop Pillarhenge, a long abandoned, 0.63 acre narrow strip of land located at 1332 Colorado Blvd. An LA Times Article said Vanos Architecture first planned a 17 unit multi-use building on the property back […]

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Paul Holdengräber makes people say something they’ve never said before

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Paul Holdengräber was born in Texas, the son of Austrian immigrants who left their home country for Haiti in 1938. Though he is not a California native, he said he agreed when the curator of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) contacted him in 1997, asking him to bring a group of Californians together for the […]

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Beginner birders take flight at community bird walk with Moore Laboratory of Zoology

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Feb. 27, 8 a.m., the knotted trees of the Sycamore Glen whispered against a cool, dry LA morning breeze. A group of around 20 students, faculty and community members gathered on the pebbled landing just outside the glen. They were about to embark on a bird walk, hosted by Occidental’s Moore Laboratory of Zoology, a […]

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Physical activity classes provide an outlet for Occidental students

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Occidental offers a variety of physical activity courses, open to students of all years and experience levels. The classes offered are are yoga, karate, Zumba and spin. In addition to keeping students active, these courses provide a break from the rigors of academic life, said spin instructor Delaney Nolin. Nolin said that with her spin classes she […]

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Like a deep-sea comet, Professor Shana Goffredi delivers Sterling Award Lecture

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Titled “Beneficial Partnerships: From the Deep Ocean to the Rainforest,” biology professor Shana Goffredi delivered the annual Sterling Award Lecture Feb. 28 in Choi Auditorium. Goffredi received the Graham L. Sterling Memorial Award in 2023, which recognizes faculty members with distinguished teaching, service and professional achievement records. Written by her colleagues, the letter nominating Goffredi […]

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No Place Like Home

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

They call LA the City of Angels but I wasn’t made to have wings. You taught me to keep my feet on the ground with my head down while everyone remains afloat staring at me with dagger eyes and half smiles.   I wasn’t meant for direct sunlight it fuels everyone’s kindred spirits  but turns […]

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Lessons Learned: How seasickness taught me to fail

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Content warning: This article discusses suicide. I wouldn’t make a good sailor. Boy scout outings and biology labs have washed me out to sea a few times in my life, and after the excitement of finding myself on a boat subsides, I usually feel somewhat queasy. But on a trip last week with the Vantuna […]

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Women’s basketball claims SCIAC Championship and competes in NCAA

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Occidental women’s basketball team traveled to Abilene, Texas to battle it out against Hardin-Simmons University in the first round of NCAA DIII tournament March 1. The Tigers fell to Hardin-Simmons 65-53. Hardin-Simmons took the lead with a nine point difference early in the first quarter, and held on throughout the entire game, with the Tigers trailing 36-24 at […]

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Sunrise Oxy endorses Ysabel Jurado in upcoming City Council election

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)

Sunrise Oxy, an on-campus climate action group, endorsed Ysabel Jurado, one of the eight candidates running for City Council District (CD) 14 in the election March 5. Jurado said that her campaign focuses on addressing the housing affordability crisis, ending homelessness, reimagining public safety, fighting for accessible and reliable public transit and delivering climate action. […]

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The Most Beautiful Shots in Movie History

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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St. Patrick’s Day 2024: Where to find corned beef, green drinks and more at chain eateries

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

Restaurant kitchens are breaking out the green dye and corned beef for St. Patrick’s Day.

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NASA’s Newest Astronauts

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

The most recent astronaut candidates wave to the crowd in this image from their March 5, 2024, graduation ceremony at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Nicknamed “The Flies,” this cohort is now eligible for spaceflight assignments to the International Space Station, future orbiting destinations, the Moon, and beyond. Selected for training in 2021, the […]

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Kirby apps and regressive enhancements

date: 2024-03-06, from: Chris Heilmann

ChatGPT announced that it now has a killer new feature: it can read out results in several synthesised voices. This means you can speak your prompt and the computer answers. We’ve reached Star Trek TNG levels of human-computer interaction. All praise be AI and the large corporations that make it happen! Except, when I read […]

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BYD launches cheaper Seagull electric car with starting price under $10,000 to fuel price war

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

BYD’s cheapest electric car just got even more affordable. The EV maker is fueling its price war with gas-powered cars with the launch of its newest “mini Lamborghini” electric car. The BYD Seagull EV Honor Edition starts at $9,700 (69,800 yuan), 5% cheaper than the previous model.

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Eleven College Avenue calls it quits in Los Gatos

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

The Los Gatos restaurant will become Dar Restaurant and Bar, owned by brothers Milad Shaqir and Chef Esam Shaqir, who also own Saratoga’s popular Tamra Mediterranean Grill

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For Bay Area, a rainy morning ahead of promise for a significant dry spell

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

“It appears a (high-pressure) ridge is going to start to build next week,” NWS meteorologist Sarah McCorkle said.

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‘We had to educate Oracle about our contract,’ CIO says after Big Red audit

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

Estimates put audits at $3B revenue for Ellison’s company, so go at your own pace, experts recommend

A retired CIO has offered advice in dealing with Oracle audits: the vendor will try to work from its current licensing policies, yet users should stick to their contracts with the global tech giant.…

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‘We’re sad that it’s come to this’: OpenAI publishes Elon Musk’s emails

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

OpenAI fired back at Elon Musk, who sued the ChatGPT company last week for chasing profit and diverging from its original, nonprofit mission.

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The FDA just approved the first over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor. I was…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Best of the West: Arizona on top, Gonzaga climbs and Utah State’s remarkable rise

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

The Aggies were picked closer to the bottom than the top of the Mountain West but are alone in first place entering the final weekend.

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EU users can’t update 3rd party iOS apps if abroad too long

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Remember how Apple told you security was its paramount concern?

It really seems like Apple is doing everything it can to make its new EU compliance rules for third-party iOS app stores a pain for any user or developer that wants to take advantage of them.…

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Back on Earth: NASA’s Orion Capsule Put to the Test Before Crewed Mission

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

The Orion spacecraft that traveled around the Moon and back during 2022’s Artemis I mission completed a different round trip when it recently returned to Ohio for testing. Now known as the Orion Environmental Test Article, the spacecraft is undergoing ground testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio. This testing is crucial […]

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Ana Agore, A First Course in Category Theory

date: 2024-03-06, from: Logic Matters blog

The most recommended introductory books on category theory (at least for pure mathematicians) are probably those by Steve Awodey, Tom Leinster, and Emily Riehl. All three have very considerable virtues. But for differing reasons, each presents quite steep challenges to the beginner (especially for self-study). Having, back in the day, worked through Awodey’s book with […]

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Uber and Revel partner up to offer EV drivers exclusive charging discounts in NYC

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

Uber Technologies and charging provider Revel have announced a new strategic partnership in which the rideshare network will financially support the latter in expanding its charging infrastructure in exchange for exclusive charging discounts for its drivers. The perks will start in New York City with plans to expand Revel chargers and discounts to other major cities across the US.

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GPD Win Mini (2024) is a mini gaming laptop with Ryzen 7 8840U and 7 inch, 120 Hz VRR display

date: 2024-03-06, from: Liliputing

The GPD Win Mini is either a handheld gaming PC with a 7 inch display and a clamshell design with a QWERTY keyboard, touchpad, and built-in game controllers in the bottom section. GPD launched the first model in the fall of 2023, and now the company has launched a new model that’s available for pre-order […]

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2024 Kia EV9 Gets Up To $7,000 In Discounts

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

Shop around and you could get a great deal on Kia’s all-electric family hauler.

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What Are Hubble and Webb Observing Right Now? NASA Tool Has the Answer

date: 2024-03-06, from: NASA breaking news

It’s not hard to find out what NASA’s Hubble and James Webb space telescopes have observed in the past. Barely a week goes by without news of a cosmic discovery made possible using images, spectra, and other data captured by NASA’s prolific astronomical observatories.  But what are Hubble and Webb looking at right this minute? A shadowy […]

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Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why?

date: 2024-03-06, from: Quanta Magazine

The post Cellular Self-Destruction May Be Ancient. But Why? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Windows to add gobs of “AI” to Explorer

date: 2024-03-06, from: OS News

According to my sources, AI Explorer is the blockbuster AI experience that will separate AI PCs from non-AI PCs. It’s described as an “advanced Copilot” with a built-in history/timeline feature that turns everything you do on your computer into a searchable moment using natural language. It works across any app and allows users to search for previously opened conversations, documents, web pages, and images. For example, you could type, “Find me that list of restaurants Jenna said she liked,” and Windows can bring up the exact conversation you were having when Jenna mentioned those restaurants. Even vague prompts should work, like “Find me that thing about dinosaurs,” Windows will pull up every word, phrase, image, and related topic about dinosaurs that you’ve previously opened on your computer. The AI Explorer app can also understand context, help jumpstart projects or workflows, and even suggest tasks based on what’s currently on screen. For example, suppose you’re looking at an image in an app. In that case, the AI Explorer will automatically show an “edit image” button that lets you type out your criteria, such as “remove this image’s background using the Photos app.” ↫ Zac Bowden Windows, for all your “AI” and ads.

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The One Big Change to the SEC’s Climate Rule

date: 2024-03-06, from: Heatmap News

The Securities and Exchange Commission approved a highly anticipated rule on Wednesday that will require companies to disclose information about their climate-related risks to investors. But the final rule differs dramatically from the proposal the Commission released two years ago, with significantly weaker provisions that leave it up to companies to decide how much information to share.

Perhaps the most dramatic change: Most of the climate-related disclosures the rule covers are now mandatory only if they’re considered “material.” Under the original rule, all public companies would have been required to calculate and report the greenhouse gas emissions they are directly responsible for, known as scope 1 emissions, and the emissions from the electricity they use, known as scope 2 — no exceptions. But under the final rule, companies only have to report this information if they deem it material — i.e. if there is “a substantial likelihood that the disclosure of the omitted fact would have been viewed by the reasonable investor as having significantly altered the ‘total mix’ of information made available,” according to a 1976 Supreme Court decision.

Further, only about 40% of domestic public companies will even be required to consider whether their emissions are material. Smaller companies and emerging growth businesses — generally companies with less than $1.2 billion in annual revenues — are exempt.

Part of the impetus for the rule was to standardize climate disclosures. Though many companies already publicly report information about their emissions and climate-related risks, they do so sporadically, using different methodologies, adopting different formats, and publishing across different forums. Steven Rothstein, a managing director at the nonprofit Ceres, once told me it was like a “climate ‘Tower of Babel.’”

The final rule will still create a more formal, consistent, public reporting system for this information. But the picture it provides to investors will be incomplete. “By shifting to a materiality standard, they are leaving a huge gap in the information available to investors and the public,” Kathy Fallon, the director of land and climate at the Clean Air Task Force told me. “That’s going to hurt companies and the climate in the long run.”

This wasn’t entirely unexpected. The original proposal ignited a firestorm from Republican attorneys general and business groups accusing the SEC of trying to pass back-door climate regulations, overstepping its role, and saddling companies with burdensome reporting costs. The Commission received more than 20,000 comments on the proposal, more than any rule in its history. As the pressure grew, reports emerged that the Commission planned to remove a requirement that companies tally up and report a third category of their emissions, known as scope 3, which includes those associated with their supply chains and the use of their products. Then last week, Reuters reported that the SEC would also soften the requirements for disclosing scope 1 and 2 emissions by subjecting them to this materiality test.

Before the vote on Wednesday, Erik Gerding, director of the SEC’s division of corporation finance, emphasized that the final rule struck an “appropriate balance” between investor demand for more consistent, comparable, information about climate-related risks, and “the concerns expressed by many companies and commenters about the potential costs of the proposed rules.”

The Commission voted along party lines, with Democratic chair Gary Gensler and commissioners Caroline Crenshaw and Jaime Lizárraga approving the rule, and Republican commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda voting against. But no one appeared satisfied.

Peirce argued that companies were already required to inform investors about material risks and trends, including those related to climate change. She accused the staff of having merely “decorated the final rule with materiality ribbons” while still creating an overly prescriptive rule. “The resulting flood of climate related disclosures will overwhelm investors, not inform them,” she said.

Crenshaw said the rule was a “bare minimum” step forward that would “move a haphazard potpourri of public company disclosures into the Commission’s well-developed and standardized filing ecosystem.” But she also worried that it would pass the buck to future commissions to ensure investors are getting the information they actually need. “To be crystal clear, this is not the rule I would have written,” she said. “Today’s rule is better for investors than no rule at all, and that’s why it has my vote. But while it has my vote, it does not have my unencumbered support.”

There is no specific test to determine whether emissions are considered material. But the climate disclosure rule does discuss some examples of when a company’s scope 1 or scope 2 emissions may be material. One is if there is a transition risk associated with those emissions — for example, if a company anticipates that future regulations would increase their costs. Another is if a company has articulated a climate goal, like an ambition to achieve net-zero emissions, to the public. As with other SEC disclosures subject to a material standard, it will be entirely up to these companies to determine whether their emissions are material, and they will not have to share their analysis with investors.

Experts don’t expect this to lead to a total lack of emissions reporting. If a company fails to disclose its emissions, it could open up the business to fines from the SEC or lawsuits from investors if the information is later determined to be, in fact, material. Many companies, prodded by their lawyers, are likely to play it safe and disclose. “It’s hard to make an argument that scope 1 emissions are not material,” Jameson McLennan, a sustainable finance analyst at BloombergNEF, told me.

But there still may be a spectrum. John Tobin, a professor of practice at Cornell University’s business school and a former managing director of sustainability at Credit Suisse, told me that big, white collar companies like banks and tech companies that don’t directly emit much may not see the need to disclose, whereas manufacturing and industrial companies that directly burn fossil fuels to produce their products, absolutely should. That being said, those white collar businesses should still consider their scope 2 emissions material, Tobin said, as they tend to use a substantial amount of electricity and could be at risk of cost increases if regulations change.

Where Tobin thinks the rule really falls short is in lacking requirements to disclose certain kinds of scope 3 emissions — particularly upstream supply chain emissions. Why would an investor care more about the emissions from the electricity Toyota uses than the emissions from the steel it buys? The latter is more likely to pose a significant risk to the company’s business due to carbon regulations. “A lot of the emissions associated with industrial activity have very little to do with electricity,” he told me.

By telling companies they only have to report emissions that are material, the Commission is essentially saying that a company’s emissions are not inherently material to an investor’s understanding of risk. Allowing companies to opt out of emissions reporting “misses the whole point of climate disclosures,” said Fallon. “The whole point is to make available the information that investors want, not just the information that companies want to give.” Investors want to know how exposed a company may be to changes in climate policies, energy prices, or shifts in consumer sentiments.

At the same time, tying the list of required disclosures to a materiality test could be what ultimately preserves the rule when it inevitably ends up in court. Many groups have already threatened to sue the commission if it exceeds its legal authority. These include the National Association of Manufacturers.

“The NAM has been clear that a failure to bring the rule back within the agency’s statutory authority could invite legal action. On the other hand, a balanced, workable rule could obviate the need for litigation,” said the group’s vice president of domestic policy, Charles Crain.

The rule will still likely surface valuable information for investors and others keen to get their hands on more consistent, comparable data about certain companies’ emissions and vulnerability to climate change. But it will also leave huge reporting gaps that dilute the overall utility of that information.

“The fact that the SEC is providing uniform requirements for reporting is still an improvement upon what we had before,” said Fallon. “But the final rule doesn’t go far enough to give investors the information they need to make informed decisions.”

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the result of the SEC’s vote.

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Pluralistic: Electrons, not molecules (06 Mar 2024)

date: 2024-03-06, from: Cory Doctorow’s blog

Today’s links Electrons, not molecules: Renewables don’t generate above-average returns for Exxon’s shareholders. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. This day in history: 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. Electrons, not molecules (permalink) When hydrocarbon barons do their damndest to torch the Earth with fossil fuels, they call us dreamers. They insist that there’s a hard-nosed reality – humanity needs energy – and they’re the ones who live in it, while we live in the fairy land where the world can run on sunshine and virtuous thoughts. Without them making the tough decisions, we’d all be starving in the frigid dark. Here’s the thing: they’re full of shit. Mostly. Humanity does need energy if we’re going to avoid starving in the frigid dark, but that energy doesn’t have to come from fossil fuels. Indeed, in the long-term, it can’t. Even if you’re a rootin’ tootin, coal-rollin’ climate denier, there’s a hard-nosed reality you can’t deny: if we keep using fossil fuels, they will someday run out. Remember “peak oil” panic? Fossil fuels are finite, and the future of the human race needn’t be. We need more. Thankfully, we have it. Despite what you may have heard, renewables are more than up to the task. Indeed, it’s hard to overstate just how much renewable energy is available to us, here at the bottom of our gravity well. I failed to properly appreciate it until I read Deb Chachra’s brilliant 2023 book, How Infrastructure Works: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/17/care-work/#charismatic-megaprojects Chachra, an engineering prof and materials scientist, offers a mind-altering reframing of the question of energy: we have a material problem, not an energy problem. If we could capture a mere 0.4% of the sun’s rays that strike the Earth, we could give every person on the planet the energy budget of a Canadian (like an American, only colder). Energy isn’t just wildly abundant, though: it’s also continuously replenished. For most of human history, we’ve treated energy as scarce, eking out marginal gains in energy efficiency – even as we treated materials as disposable, using them once and consigning them to a midden or a landfill. That’s completely backwards. We get a fresh shipment of energy every time the sun (or the moon) comes up over the horizon. By contrast, new consignments of material are almost unheard of – the few odd ounces of meteoric ore that survive entry through Earth’s atmosphere. A soi-dissant adult concerned with the very serious business of ensuring our species isn’t doomed to the freezing, starving darkness of an energy-deprived future would think about nothing save for this fact and its implications. They’d be trying to figure out how to humanely and responsibly gather the materials needed for the harvest, storage and distribution of this nearly limitless and absolutely free energy. In other words, that Very Serious, Hard-Nosed Grown-Up should be concerned with using as few molecules as possible to harvest as many electrons as possible. They’d be working on things like turning disused coal-mines into giant gravity batteries: https://www.euronews.com/green/2024/02/06/this-disused-mine-in-finland-is-being-turned-into-a-gravity-battery-to-store-renewable-ene Not figuring out how to dig or flush more long-dead corpses out of the Earth’s mantle to feed them into a furnace. That is a profoundly unserious response to the human need for energy. It’s caveman shit: “Ugh, me burn black sticky gunk, make cave warm, cough cough cough.” Enter Exxon CEO Darren Woods, whose interview with Fortune’s Michal Lev-Ram and editor Alan Murray contains this telling quote: “we basically focus our technology on transforming molecules and they happen to be hydrogen and carbon molecules”: https://fortune.com/2024/02/28/leadership-next-exxonmobil-ceo-darren-woods/ As Bill McKibben writes, this is a tell. A company that’s in the molecule business is not in the electron business. For all that Woods postures about being a clear-eyed realist beating back the fantasies of solarpunk-addled greenies, Woods does not want a future where we have all our energy needs met: https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/the-most-epic-and-literal-gaslighting That’s because the only way to get that future is to shift from molecules – whose supply can be owned and therefore sold by Exxon – to electrons, which that commie bastard sun just hands out for free to every person on our planet’s surface, despite the obvious moral hazard of all those free lunches. As Woods told Fortune, when it comes to renewables, “we don’t see the ability to generate above-average returns for our shareholders.” Woods dresses this up in high-minded seriousness kabuki, saying that Exxon is continuing to invest in burning rotting corpses because our feckless species “waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets terms of what we need as a society.” In other words, it’s just too late for solar. Keep shoveling those corpses into the furnace, they’re all that stands between you and the freezing, starving dark. Now, this is self-serving nonsense. The problem of renewables isn’t that it’s too late – it’s that they don’t “generate above-average returns for our shareholders” (that part, however, is gospel truth). But let’s stipulate that Woods sincerely believes that it is too late. It’s pretty goddamned rich of this genocidal, eminently guillotineable monster to just drop that in the conversation without mentioning the role his company played in getting us to this juncture. After all, #ExxonKnew. 40 years ago, Exxon’s internal research predicted climate change, connected climate change to its own profits, and predicted how bad it would be today. Those predictions were spookily accurate and the company took them to heart, leaping into action. For 40 years, the company has been building its offshore drilling platforms higher and higher in anticipation of rising seas and superstorms – and over that same period, Exxon has spent millions lobbying and sowing disinformation to make sure that the rest of us don’t take the emergency as seriously as they are, lest we switch from molecules to electrons. Exxon knew, and Exxon lied. McKibben quotes Woods’ predecessor Lee Raymond, speaking in the runup to the Kyoto Treaty negotiations: “It is highly unlikely that the temperature in the middle of the next century will be significantly affected whether policies are enacted now or 20 years from now.” When Woods says we need to keep shoveling corpses into the furnace because we “waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets terms of what we need as a society,” he means that his company lied to us in order to convince us to wait too long. When Woods – and his fellow enemies of humanity in the C-suites of Chevron and other corpse-torching giants – was sending the arson billions to his shareholders, he held back a healthy share to fund this deceit. He colluded with the likes of Joe Manchin (“[D-POLLUTION]” -McKibben) to fill the Inflation Reduction Act with gifts for molecules. The point of fantasies like “direct air carbon-capture” is to extend the economic life of molecule businesses, by tricking us into thinking that we can keep sending billions to Exxon without suffocating in its waste-product. These lies aren’t up for debate. Back in 2021, Greenpeace tricked Exxon’s top DC lobbyist Keith McCoy into thinking that he was on a Zoom call with a corporate recruiter and asked him about his work for Exxon, and McCoy spilled the beans: https://pluralistic.net/2021/07/01/basilisk-tamers/#exxonknew He confessed to everything: funding fake grassroots groups and falsifying the science – he even names the senators who took his bribes. McCoy singled out Manchin for special praise, calling him “a kingmaker” and boasting about the “standing weekly calls” Exxon had with Manchin’s office. Exxon’s response to this nine-minute confession was to insist that their most senior American lobbyist “wasn’t involved at all in forming policy positions.” McKibben points to the forthcoming book The Price Is Wrong, by Brett Christophers, which explains how the neoclassical economics establishment’s beloved “price signals” will continue to lead us into the furnace: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3069-the-price-is-wrong The crux of that book is: We cannot expect markets and the private sector to solve the climate crisis while the profits that are their lifeblood remain unappetizing. Nearly 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair wrote, “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Today, we can say that it’s impossible to get an oil executive to understand that humanity needs electrons, not molecules, because his shareholders’ obscene wealth depends on it. [back to top] Hey look at this (permalink) How Comics Were Made: a Visual History of Printing Cartoons https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/glennf/how-comics-were-made On women’s anatomy and the power of paying attention https://going-medieval.com/2024/03/05/on-womens-anatomy-and-the-power-of-paying-attention/ Instagram fatigue and the rise of ‘Resentment Reels’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIqOLehArVw This day in history (permalink) #15yrsago Middle schooler wins C-SPAN prize for doc about NSA spying https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/middle-schoolers-win-c-span-prizes-nsa-documentaries #10yrsago Chocolate cookie milk shots: milk tumblers made from chocolate chip cookies https://www.eater.com/2014/3/5/6269103/dominique-ansel-to-debut-milk-cookie-shots-at-sxsw #10yrsago Make taser-proof clothing with carbon-fiber linings https://hackaday.io/project/196-homamade-carbon-tape-taser-proof-clothing #10yrsago Why does Hollywood like dystopian LAs and utopian SFs? https://boomcalifornia.org/2014/02/27/postcards-from-the-future/ #10yrsago Why DRM’ed coffee-pods may be just the awful stupidity we need https://memex.craphound.com/2014/03/06/why-drmed-coffee-pods-may-be-just-the-awful-stupidity-we-need/ #10yrsago Complaint: WIPO director illegally collected staff DNA in order to out whistleblower https://unwatch.org/un-whistleblower-head-world-intellectual-property-agency-stole-employees-dna-samples/ #10yrsago US Embassy and Godaddy conspire to censor dissenting Mexican political site https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/03/mexican-protest-site-censored-godaddy-us-embassys-help #10yrsago Harry Reid on the Koch Brothers’ agenda https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2-cIpXIoY4 #10yrsago Rob Ford’s pitiable moment on Jimmy Kimmel https://www.joeydevilla.com/2014/03/04/rob-fords-red-faced-interview-on-jimmy-kimmel-live/ #10yrsago Video explainer: why open spectrum matters, and why you’re about to lose it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhVx-kH7RAQ #10yrsago Feds drop link-related charges against Barrett Brownhttps://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/05/barrett-brown-tells-court-that-sharing-link-is-not-crime/ https://www.techdirt.com/2014/03/05/barrett-brown-tells-court-that-sharing-link-is-not-crime/ #5yrsago Ruminations on decades spent writing stories that run more than 1,000,000 words https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/03/lessons-learned-writing-really.html #5yrsago A thorough defense of Modern Monetary Theory https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntharvey/2019/03/05/mmt-sense-or-nonsense/ #5yrsago A brilliant, simple exercise to teach privacy fundamentals https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1102970732890316801 #5yrsago GOP lawmaker driven mad by bill that would decriminalize children who take naked photos of themselves, delivers a frenzied rant about anal sex on legislature’s floor https://www.thestranger.com/news/2019/03/05/39511377/a-bill-decriminalizing-teen-sexting-passes-the-house-causing-republican-to-scream-about-anal-sex-on-the-floor #5yrsago Bounty hunters and stalkers are able to track you in realtime by lying to your phone company and pretending to be cops https://www.vice.com/en/article/panvkz/stalkers-debt-collectors-bounty-hunters-impersonate-cops-phone-location-data #5yrsago From prisons to factories to offices: the spread of workplace surveillance and monitoring tech https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/DandS_WorkplaceMonitoringandSurveillance-.pdf #5yrsago NH GOP lawmakers mocked gun violence survivors by wearing clutchable pearl necklaces to gun control hearing https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/06/gop-lawmakers-wore-pearls-while-gun-violence-victims-testified-activists-were-outraged/ #5yrsago Omniverse CEO rejects piracy accusations, claims that he has a legit, “mind-blowing” 100-year license to stream TV on the internet https://www.lightreading.com/video-broadcast/omniverse-ceo-i-m-doing-everything-literally-by-the-book- #1yrago Biden set to appoint mass foreclosure cheerleader to the Fed https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/06/personnel-are-policy/#janice-eberly Upcoming appearances (permalink) Tucson Festival of Books, Mar 9/10 https://tucsonfestivalofbooks.org/?id=676 The Bezzle at San Francisco Public Library, Mar 13 https://sfpl.org/events/2024/03/13/author-cory-doctrow-bezzle 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 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6 arrested for illegally importing goose intestines, duck blood through California port, federal authorities say

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

They are charged with illegally importing goose and duck intestines from China, in some cases by hiding them under packaged rattlesnakes or mislabeling them as pet grooming products on customs forms.

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Europe may slap retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs

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

After months of investigation, the European Commission says it has found evidence that China has been “unfairly” subsidizing the EVs it exports to Europe. Possible “remedies” on the table include retroactive tariffs on Chinese EVs.

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Santa Cruz drug dealer sentenced to 19-year federal prison term

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

A federal judge sentenced a former Santa Cruz man this week to more than 19 years in prison on drugs charges stemming back to a 2019 Eastside county narcotics team bust.

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Why You Don’t Underestimate Toyota In The Electric Race

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

Toyota buys out Panasonic’s share in a battery joint-venture, BYD cuts prices and one Chinese component delays shipments of VW’s cars.

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Russia plans to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon – with China’s help

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

Roscosmos has had a few problems landing on the lunar surface recently

Roscosmos and China are considering putting a nuclear reactor on the Moon, according to the Russian space agency’s boss.…

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Sphere Refuses To Release U2 Despite Band Fulfilling Terms Of Residency. “Yes,…

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: Jason Kittke’s blog

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Podcast: AI-Powered TikTok Hustlers

date: 2024-03-06, from: 404 Media Group

The wild world of AI-powered content hustlers on TikTok and Instagram; Etsy ripoffs; and a development in Oregon that could have global ramifications for Apple.

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Nissan Leaf regains tax credit access, now starts at $24,400

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

Nissan and the IRS announced today that the Leaf has regained eligibility for the federal tax credit for electric vehicles.

With now $3,750 in tax credit, the Leaf can start at just $24,400 – making it one of the cheapest EVs in the US.

more…

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Volvo Global EV Sales Hit A New Record Share In February 2024

date: 2024-03-06, from: Inside EVs News

The ramp-up of the Volvo EX30 continues, resulting in over 3,500 sales last month.

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OpenAI goes public with Musk emails, claiming he backed for-profit plans

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)

Be careful what you write in that message

OpenAI has responded to Elon Musk’s lawsuit over an alleged breach of contract, publishing a trove of emails that appear to show Musk was not only aware of the need to become a for-profit entity, but also wanted to merge OpenAI into Tesla and become CEO.…

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Here’s Why This City Banned Full-Face Motorcycle Helmets

date: 2024-03-06, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News

Should public security, if there is such a thing, outweigh individual safety?

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Article Spotlight: Dark kinase annotation, mining, and visualization using the Protein Kinase Ontology

date: 2024-03-06, from: PeerJ blog

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

Screaming into the void, which is what the media we have now is really good at, gets us nowhere.

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

From the Credit-Where-Credit-Is-Due department, links that are jokes was a practice I first saw in HotWired in 1994. Here I am thirty years later and I’m still stealing the idea and every time I do, I think of Joey Anuff and Carl Steadman’s brilliance.

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

Sidebar – this also explains the behavior of the owners of the media companies, such as the New York Times. He doesn’t wear a robe, but otherwise, Fear of Gulag probably has a lot to do with what he does.

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Tesla now offers 10,000 free Supercharging miles as delivery incentive

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

Tesla has increased its end-of-quarter delivery incentive to offer 10,000 free Supercharging miles to Tesla owners who trade in for a new vehicle by the end of the month.

more…

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The Chopsticks Kill Me

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-06, from: One Foot Tsunami

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Dutch government in panic mode over keeping ASML in the country

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

Lithography kitmaker has ‘concerns’ over ability to get the right staff amid reports of visa, immigration worries

Updated  The Dutch government is reportedly concerned that chipmaking equipment vendor ASML may move operations out of the country due to policy decisions that would restrict its ability to hire skilled staff.…

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It’s a great time to be out in the ’burbs

date: 2024-03-06, from: Marketplace Morning Report

The U.S. housing market gained $2.4 trillion over the last year, according to a new Redfin report. Homes in suburban areas saw their values increase by more than 5.6%, which is more than homes in city centers. We add it all up. Plus, Apple has lost market share in China and is pushing an update to mobile operating systems in Europe. Then, lessons in life — and economics — courtesy of an HBCU marching band director.

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LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO: The City and Bay in Motion

date: 2024-03-06, from: Internet Archive Blog

LOST LANDSCAPES OF SAN FRANCISCO: The City and Bay in MotionMarch 18 @ 6:30pm – 9pmInternet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San FranciscoBuy Tickets This 18th edition of LOST LANDSCAPES immerses […]

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Many Community Colleges Serve Basic Needs. But Free Dental Care? That’s A Crowning Achievement

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-07, from: The LAist

Oral health can impact academic performance. It can also be a learning opportunity for dental hygiene students.

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REE closes $15M share offering, links with Airbus, and showcases demo EV at Work Truck Week

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

EV startup REE Automotive is off to a newsworthy week so far, dropping three separate updates regarding its business strategies and unique technology. In addition to a new collaboration to provide technology to aerospace developer Airbus UpNext, REE closed a public offering of ordinary shares this morning, totaling close to $15 million. Lastly, the public is getting its first public look at REE’s all-electric demo vehicle at Work Truck Week 2024.

more…

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It’s Decision Day for the SEC

date: 2024-03-06, from: Heatmap News

Current conditions: Texas’ Smokehouse Creek Fire is now 37% contained • Parts of Oklahoma and Texas could see large hail today • An excessive heat warning is in place for Bangkok where the heat index hit 107 degrees Fahrenheit.

THE TOP FIVE

1. SEC set to vote on corporate climate disclosures

The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to issue a long-awaited, final rule today on what climate-related disclosures public companies have to make to their investors. The rules will cover a company’s greenhouse gas emissions and its exposure to climate-related risks, like extreme weather or future regulations. The SEC’s initial proposal has been the center of a lobbying firestorm. The most contentious aspect asked companies to disclose emissions indirectly related to their business, known as “scope 3” emissions. As Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo explained: “That means a company like Amazon wouldn’t just have to report the emissions from its warehouses and delivery trucks, but also an estimate of the emissions associated with producing and using all the products it sells.”

Lobbying groups pushed back hard on this, and probably won: The SEC is expected to drop requirements to report scope 3 emissions in the final rule. But it is also reportedly going to soften rules for disclosing scope 1 and scope 2 emissions, which are greenhouse gases produced directly by the company through its own operations, and through its electricity use, respectively. “The draft rule now under consideration would compel such disclosures only if companies deem they are material,” Reuters reported.

2. Solar accounted for more than half of new electric generating capacity last year

Solar installations in America hit a record-high last year, according to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2023 Year in Review. The industry added 32.4 gigawatts of electric generating capacity, which is a 51% increase over 2022. Solar accounted for more than half (53%) of all new electric generating capacity, a first for renewable electricity. “If we stay the course with our federal clean energy policies, total solar deployment will quadruple over the next 10 years,” said SEIA president and CEO Abigail Ross Hopper. The report outlines solar deployment forecasts through 2034 based on different scenarios. Supply chain improvements, lower interest rates, and tax credits could increase installations; supply chain problems and unfavorable economic policies would hurt capacity:

SEIA

3. El Niño is weakening, WMO says

The El Niño weather pattern that has been in place since June of last year peaked in December and is now weakening, the World Meteorological Organization said yesterday. But its warming effects will linger, resulting in above normal temperatures over nearly all land areas through May. “Every month since June 2023 has set a new monthly temperature record – and 2023 was by far the warmest year on record,” said WMO Secretary-General Celeste Saulo. “El Niño has contributed to these record temperatures, but heat-trapping greenhouse gases are unequivocally the main culprit.” She continued: “Ocean surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific clearly reflect El Niño. But sea surface temperatures in other parts of the globe have been persistently and unusually high for the past 10 months. The January 2024 sea-surface temperature was by far the highest on record for January. This is worrying and can not be explained by El Niño alone.”

4. Study: Arctic could see ice-free summer by 2035

New research published in the journal Nature Reviews Earth & Environment suggests the Arctic could be ice-free during the summer months as soon as 2035 due to planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. “This would transform the Arctic into a completely different environment, from a white summer Arctic to a blue Arctic,” said Alexandra Jahn, an associate professor of atmospheric and oceanic sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and a lead author of the research. “So even if ice-free conditions are unavoidable, we still need to keep our emissions as low as possible to avoid prolonged ice-free conditions.” But she added that if, in the future, we are able to remove large amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and reverse warming, “sea ice will come back within a decade.”

5. Not-so-windy Florida moves to ban offshore wind farms

Florida seems very keen on banning things that don’t yet exist. Earlier this week the state Senate approved a bill making it illegal to manufacture or sell lab-grown meat, a product that is still in early stages of development and pretty hard (though not impossible) to find. Now the state legislature is about to pass HB 1645, a bill prohibiting offshore wind turbines in state waters. Florida doesn’t have very strong offshore winds, and hurricanes pose a big risk to turbines, which explains why the state has not a single operational wind farm – offshore or onshore. And legislators want to keep it that way! Joking aside, the rest of the bill is less benign: It would ban transmission cabling in state waters, weaken regulations on natural gas pipelines, and delete most references to climate change in state law.

THE KICKER

The state of Illinois has the busiest EV chargers in the U.S., with one report finding the chargers are in use 26% of the time.

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BMW gives you extra cash to switch from a Tesla or other EVs, but not from a gas car

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

BMW introduced a new incentive for its EV buyers: $1,000 off if you switch from a Tesla or other EVs.

The new conquest program doesn’t apply to gas car as the German automaker goes for low picking fruits.

more…

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

This just in from Occam’s News. The states of Colorado, Maine and Illinois have guts and the members of the so-called “Supreme Court” enjoy wearing robes to work and they have nice offices, and don’t want to be shipped off to a gulag, or worse, once Putin’s lapdog is back in the White House.

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Capita says 2023 cyberattack costs a factor as it reports staggering £100M+ loss

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

Additional cuts announced, sparking fears of further layoffs

Outsourcing giant Capita today reported a net loss of £106.6 million ($135.6 million) for calendar 2023, with the costly cyberattack by criminals making a hefty dent in its annual financials.…

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Surveillance through Push Notifications

date: 2024-03-06, updated: 2024-03-04, from: Bruce Schneier blog

The Washington Post is reporting on the FBI’s increasing use of push notification data—”push tokens”—to identify people. The police can request this data from companies like Apple and Google without a warrant.

The investigative technique goes back years. Court orders that were issued in 2019 to Apple and Google demanded that the companies hand over information on accounts identified by push tokens linked to alleged supporters of the Islamic State terrorist group.

But the practice was not widely understood until December, when Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), in a …

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WAVES: It’s a Woman’s War Too!

date: 2024-03-06, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog

Today’s post, from Alyssa Moore in the National Archives History Office, is in honor of Women’s History Month and looks at the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service program, or WAVES, during World War II. Less than one year after the United States entered World War II, the Navy was facing a dire shortage of … Continue reading WAVES: It’s a Woman’s War Too!

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iPhone sales slide in China

date: 2024-03-06, from: Marketplace Morning Report

From the BBC World Service: Sales in China of Apple’s iPhone fell by 24% in the first six weeks of 2024 compared to a year earlier, while competitor Huawei saw its sales jump by 64% during that same period. Also, Singapore’s prime minister defends exclusive access to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour, and regional neighbors aren’t happy. And the Panama Canal faces a major problem: The canal is running out of water.

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Year of Linux on the desktop creeps closer as market share rises a little

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

25% increase in seven months… But it depends how you count it

Statcounter says Linux’s share of the desktop moved up from three percent last July to four percent in February, which on the face of it is pretty good.…

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Fostering collaboration in the Global Clubs Partner network

date: 2024-03-06, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)

We partner with educational organisations around the world to bring coding activities to young people in their regions through Code Club and CoderDojo. Currently involving 52 organisations in 41 countries, this Global Clubs Partner network shares our passion for empowering kids to create with technology. A key aspect of how we foster the Global Clubs…

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Gary Horton | Please Shift Forward, Not in Reverse

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

I saw a cute meme the other day on Facebook. It was a stylized Joe Biden sitting in a vintage Corvette, looking over with his wide grin and his signature Ray Bans. Says Biden, “Remember: You put it in D to go forward. You put it in R to go backwards.”   Our entire country needs […]

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Eunice Davidson and Tony Henson | Educate vs. Eradicate

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

The following is a copy of a letter sent to the William S. Hart Union High School District. We are the Native American Guardian’s Association, the national voice of a proven 90% of Native people who support or have no problem with the respectful use of our names and imagery in sports and the mainstream. […]

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Dan Petkunas | Why Presidents Need Immunity

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

Donald Trump is right in saying every president needs immunity from being sued. Imagine Abraham Lincoln being sued for all the losses cotton-growing plantations experienced with the loss of all the workers. Or a family suing Barack Obama for killing a relative-terrorist American living overseas.  Dan Petkunas Valencia 

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Jim Haley | Immigration Helps Our Communities

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

The facts speak for themselves about immigration, and how the economy has always gotten stronger because of it. We can’t let racist bigots control how we handle people who want to make a better life for themselves at the same time they help improve our communities grow and prosper. Jim Haley Castaic

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Boffins propose fiber-optic network for the Moon

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

To detect seismic waves, silly

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in the US are proposing the deployment of a fiber-optic network on the Moon to probe our natural satellite’s interior by detecting seismic waves.…

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Bill 185-37 vetoed by governor

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

As promised, Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero has vetoed Bill 185-37, the measure that would ensure any hospital constructed under the previously enacted Guam 21st Century Healthcare Center Act would be built in Tamuning, specifically at Ypao Point.

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Logitech MX Brio 705 – where Ultra HD meets Ultra AI

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

Because your face surely deserves to be rendered in glistening 4K, right?

Review  Logitech has marched back into the webcam world with the MX Brio, an Ultra HD device sprinkled with copious AI. But is it worth $199.99?…

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Does Rooftop Solar Actually Help the Climate?

date: 2024-03-06, from: Heatmap News

For a few weeks now, Heatmap’s staff writer, Emily Pontecorvo, has been trying to figure out if installing rooftop solar panels on your home actually reduces carbon pollution in a systematic way. In other words: If you own a home, and install solar panels on it, are you doing anything to change how much fossil fuel gets burned in your region or around the world? Or — somewhat counterintuitively — will your panels just increase the cost of electricity near you while shifting demand for those fossil fuels around?

On this week’s episode, we try to answer these questions in a satisfying way. Princeton Professor Jesse Jenkins and I welcome Emily to the podcast to discuss the messy truth of distributed solar power.

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Here is an excerpt from our conversation:

Emily Pontecorvo: My question is, if you’re taking this solar-shaped hole out of electricity demand and that’s displacing a cheaper utility-scale solar project, how do we go from that to you’re not having an effect on emissions? Why is displacing that cheaper option than meaning that it’s not as an effective climate action?

Jesse Jenkins: Well, because basically there’s a certain amount of demand for solar-shaped production in the electricity system, right? And if you’re reducing demand for electricity at exactly the time that a utility solar project would produce, then you’re making the economics of building more solar incrementally worse as you add more distributed solar.

We still get basically the same amount of overall solar power in equilibrium. Like, you know, that’s the amount that’s profitable for people to invest in. It’s just that you’ve shifted it from, again, cheaper projects at larger scale to more expensive projects at smaller scale, particularly in the U.S. We can come back to why the U.S. market is so, I think, broken and so much more expensive than it needs to be.

But particularly in the US, it is much more expensive, like three or four times more expensive, to build a megawatt worth of solar panels in 10 kilowatt increments at a bunch of different homes than it is to build one megawatt of solar on a big landfill or in a farm or on a big box store.

Pontecorvo : So is the idea that, do you get less solar overall or is it?

Jenkins : No, you basically get the same amount. You just get the same amount of solar and it’s just more expensive.

Pontecorvo : Why does it matter then? I mean, obviously it matters. It’s a better outcome to have a cheaper clean electricity system. But …

Jenkins: No, it’s a great question.

So why does it matter? I mean, there’s two questions.

You were asking before, like, does it amount to an effective climate action? Well, if it doesn’t increase the overall supply of solar power in the regional grid, then no, it’s not an effective climate action.

It might be fine for you to do it as a personal decision for other reasons like economics or feeling like you don’t want to keep paying your utility because you don’t like the utility and you want to generate your own power. Like there’s lots of other reasons why you might do this. Or because you want to save land, right? We can talk about the sort of land-saving potential distributed generation, which I think is probably the best case for it.

But in terms of climate impact, it’s null. If you’re not increasing the supply of clean energy overall, you’re just substituting one clean megawatt hour for another clean megawatt hour.

Why does it matter that we’re making that megawatt hour more expensive? Well, at the end of the day, we have to keep our electricity supply affordable as we decarbonize. Both because it’s important for equity reasons, because we don’t want people who have a hard time paying their bills to have to pay a lot more. But from a climate perspective, because we have to radically expand the amount of electricity supply and decarbonize transportation and heating and industry and make hydrogen and do all these other things, that are going to require electricity to be relatively competitive against the fossil fuels that they’re trying to displace in those sectors.

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Council resolution paves the way for 14 Kona parking stalls

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Kailua-Kona may be getting a few more free public parking spaces thanks to state land being offered to the county.</p>
        

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The clock is ticking for Maunakea authority

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The transition of control over the summit of Maunakea has been slow going over the past year, but could speed up soon.</p>
        

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Biden and Trump are sweeping Super Tuesday races and moving closer to a November rematch

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump, were romping to coast-to-coast victories on Super Tuesday, all but cementing a November rematch and increasing pressure on the former president&#8217;s last major rival, Nikki Haley, to leave the Republican race.</p>
        

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Grep Lupton dies at 64: LGTBQ+ community mourns loss of leader

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Members of the Hawaii Island LGTBQ+ community are mourning the loss of fellow advocate and leader Greg Lupton.</p>
        

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Edey helps rally No. 3 Purdue to 77-71 win at No. 12 Illinois to clinch outright Big Ten title

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>CHAMPAIGN, Ill. &#8212; Zach Edey had 28 points and eight rebounds as No. 3 Purdue rallied in the second half to beat No. 12 Illinois 77-71 on Tuesday night, becoming the first team in 17 years to win consecutive outright Big Ten regular-season championships. </p>
        

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Embrace, don’t restrict, use of IVF

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>A child&#8217;s hug at the end of a long workday is a happy moment for any parent. But it&#8217;s extra emotional for Liz McLoone Dybvig of St. Paul, Minnesota, because her path to motherhood wasn&#8217;t an easy one.</p>
        

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Your Views for March 6

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Don&#8217;t cut funding&#0010;for art in Hawaii</p>
        

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A Senate partisan departs

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>What is Mitch McConnell&#8217;s legacy as leader of Senate Republicans? A lot of procedurally astute but brazenly hypocritical moves to strengthen the power of his party in the chamber.</p>
        

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Seahawks’ makeover begins as Jamal Adams, Quandre Diggs and Will Dissly are released

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>RENTON, Wash. &#8212; The Seattle Seahawks&#8217; remodel under new coach Mike Macdonald started Tuesday as the team released safeties Jamal Adams and Quandre Diggs, and tight end Will Dissly in moves that will give the team a boost of salary cap space ahead of the start of the new league year. </p>
        

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South Korea has plan ready for prolonged walkout by doctors

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>South Korea has a contingency plan for a prolonged walkout by trainee doctors that has threatened the delivery of health care as they protest against a plan to increase medical school enrollment, according to the nation&#8217;s health minister.</p>
        

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Biden administration would cap credit card late fees at $8, part of campaign against junk fees

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>WASHINGTON &#8212; The Biden administration announced a rule Tuesday to cap all credit card late fees, the latest effort in the White House push to end what it has called junk fees and a move that regulators say will save Americans up to $10 billion a year.</p>
        

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Haitian leader who was mysteriously absent arrives in Puerto Rico on his way home to quell violence

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti &#8212; It&#8217;s the one question on the minds of all Haitians ever since armed gangs plunged the long-suffering Caribbean nation into near anarchy: Where in the world is the prime minister?</p>
        

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Vulcans baseball, softball see mixed success in weekend series

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>UH-Hilo&#8217;s baseball and softball teams each played two Pacific West Conference doubleheaders on Friday and Saturday in Hilo &#8212; with baseball going 2-2 against Biola and softball going 1-3 against Dominican.</p>
        

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DeSantis will send troopers to Miami Beach, other cities during spring break

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday that 140 state troopers will be deployed across Florida to assist 17 different law enforcement agencies with anticipated spring break crowds.</p>
        

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Suspect Robert Telles says he wants to waive search of slain Las Vegas reporter’s devices

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>LAS VEGAS &#8212; Former Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles said he wants to proceed with his murder trial instead of obtaining information on the devices of slain Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German.</p>
        

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UH auctioning ‘island heritage’ basketball jerseys

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>HONOLULU &#8211; The University of Hawai&#8216;i at Manoa men&#8217;s basketball team is gearing up for a big week as it prepares to host CSU Northridge today and CSU Bakersfield on Saturday</p>
        

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‘This is a community asset’: Salvation Army acquires new kitchen trailer

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>When emergencies occur or disaster strikes, a new bright red trailer will be bringing hot meals to people in need.</p>
        

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Public comment period extended for county’s General Plan update

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Hawaii County has extended the public comment period to April 1 for the General Plan Comprehensive Review and Update.</p>
        

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Kona coffee festival seeks ‘signature’ artwork

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>The Kona Coffee Cultural Festival has announced its &#8220;call for signature art&#8221; for the 53rd festival, which will be held Nov. 1-10.</p>
        

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Kahilu to host premiere of Kauhane documentary

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Kahilu Theatre in Waimea will present the premiere of &#8220;Hawaii Songwriter, The Film&#8221; at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 16.</p>
        

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UH-Hilo men’s hoops set for PacWest tourney, women’s squad left out

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>UH-Hilo&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team is set for the Pacific West Conference tournament this week, while the women&#8217;s team fell short in the standings and was left out.</p>
        

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Defense attorneys ID potential new witnesses in Fulton County DA removal fight

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>ATLANTA &#8212; Defendants in the Fulton County election interference case say they have two new witnesses who can raise additional questions about whether Nathan Wade&#8217;s law partner was truthful when he testified last month about the special prosecutor&#8217;s romantic relationship with District Attorney Fani Willis.</p>
        

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Obituaries for March 6

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>Jon Dolph Goldman, 74, of Ocean View died Dec. 28 at home. Born in Oakland, Calif., he was a farm manager for Mac Farms, member of Line Riders Motorcycle Club and enjoyed horticulture. Services at a later date. Survived by daughter, Amanda (Jonathan Ching) Rudolph of Kailua-Kona; a grandson. Arrangements by Dodo Mortuary.</p>
        

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Gaza cease-fire talks fail to achieve a breakthrough with Ramadan just days away, Egypt says

date: 2024-03-06, from: Hawaii Tribune Harold

            <p>CAIRO &#8212; Three days of negotiations with Hamas over a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of Israeli hostages failed to achieve a breakthrough on Tuesday, Egyptian officials said, less than a week before the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the informal deadline for a deal.</p>
        

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The Savvy Senior | How to Divide Your Personal Possessions Without Dividing the Family

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

Dear Savvy Senior,  Do you have any suggestions on divvying up my personal possessions to my kids after I’m gone without causing hard feelings or conflict? I have a lot of jewelry, art, family heirlooms and antique furniture, and four grown kids that don’t always see eye-to-eye on things.   — Conflicted Parent  Dear Conflicted,  Divvying […]

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Supermium drags Google Chrome back in time to Windows XP, Vista, and 7

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

If you really need obsolete OSes, here’s a modern(ish) browser

Supermium is a browser based on the Google Chrome 121 codebase that works fine on Windows 7 and even, for the truly desperate, for Vista and XP.…

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Former detainee denies sexually assaulting 14-year-old at DYA

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

An 18-year-old man pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a male detainee at the Department of Youth Affairs.

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Officials respond to SOTI address

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

The governor delivered her annual State of the Island address Tuesday night, speaking on matters involving a new public hospital and medical campus, a need to reconsider automatic procurement stays and public safety matters, but not everyone agrees with her…

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Temporary power bill in voting file as AG withdrawal addressed

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

The measure seeking to avoid delays in the procurement of temporary power for Guam, Bill 206-37, has been placed into the voting file while lawmakers now turn their attention to addressing the attorney general’s withdrawal of representation from agencies under…

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State of island strong, future is bright, says Leon Guerrero

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

Gov. Lou Leon Guerrero delivered her annual State of the Island address Tuesday night, and while she would ultimately discuss health care issues, procurement woes and public safety matters, the governor began by recalling some of her administration’s accomplishments amid…

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Drug suspect allegedly stabbed man with dart in October 2023

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

A man accused in an October 2023 stabbing was arrested this week after he was suspected of having methamphetamine during a traffic stop.

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Woman held on $100K cash bail in Thai Thai restaurant homicide case

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

Jenna Manibusan was detained at the Department of Corrections on $100,000 cash bail after she was indicted on charges related to the fatal shooting and robbery of Sumittra Lairopi.

https://www.postguam.com/news/local/woman-held-on-100k-cash-bail-in-thai-thai-restaurant-homicide-case/article_4acc26f2-db59-11ee-8bf5-db0c55279fef.html Save to Pocket

Recovering addicts criticize new billboard from attorney general

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

Two recovering addicts shared their thoughts on a new billboard put up by the Office of the Attorney General.

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Office Hours: What should be Biden’s central message in tomorrow’s State of the Union?

date: 2024-03-06, from: Robert Reich on Substack

Friends, In effect, the general election begins now — after Super Tuesday, with tomorrow’s State of the Union address. Joe Biden should win this election. He’s an incumbent president running for reelection with a reasonably healthy economy. Yet Biden is not winning, at least not now.

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This phone charger only works when your eyes are closed

date: 2024-03-06, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)

Artist Dries Depoorter’s installation Recharge will only charge your phone if you are getting some much-needed shut-eye yourself.

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Biden, Trump Have Super Night on Super Tuesday

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

Super Tuesday — the night that has been known to make or break candidates in the past — is over. More convention delegates are awarded on Super Tuesday than any other night of the campaign year. Fifteen states and a U.S. Territory conducted primaries and caucuses for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. VOA’s Senior Washington Correspondent Carolyn Presutti brings us the highlights and tells us what’s next.

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The Lie That’s Inflating Your Credit Card Bills

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Lever News

Credit card companies doubled interest rates on the false claim of inflated financial risk — and now to fight new late-fee rules, they’re threatening to raise them even higher.

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Classifieds – March 6, 2024

date: 2024-03-06, 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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Chip lobby group SEMI to EU: Export restrictions should only be used in self-defense

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

Please don’t scare away foreign investors - who do you think pays for this stuff?

SEMI, an industry association representing 3,000 chip vendors, would really appreciate it if the European Union would back off plans to impose export controls on China, arguing that they should only be used as a “last resort” to protect national security.…

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Latines deserve better representation in media

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Welcome back to the Soapbox, the Daily Trojan’s official opinion podcast. Today, we turn our eyes to the world of entertainment through a Latin lens. Mateo Jimenez joins us today, he has highlighted in his article, that you can read now on dailytrojan.com, how we latin people in north american pop culture are seen as more of a gimmick than a reality, more stereotype than truth.

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Today in SCV History (March 6)

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

1772 – Spanish Capt. Pedro Fages arrives; camps at Agua Dulce, Castaic, Lake Elizabeth, Lebec, Tejon. [story

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Tuition to rise by 4.9% for 2024-25 school year

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The transportation fee, which finances USC initiatives such as the Lyft Rides Program and the Student U-Pass Program, will increase by $23, or roughly 5.4%.

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World’s largest LGBTQIA+ archive reopens

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

ONE Archives at the USC Libraries was closed for two years for improvements.

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A family feud: style versus fashion

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

We may be one step closer to finding our own style by understanding the distinct nature between trends and fashion.

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The lost humanity in detention centers

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The cruel reality of mistreatment of migrants at detention centers.The cruel reality of mistreatment of migrants at detention centers.

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Veggie tale: alum speaks on journey with Beyond Meat

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Hazel Lee, a 2019 graduate, uses skills learned at USC in the labs at Beyond Meat.

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Heart in his skates: A San Diego man’s path to the NHL

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Chad Ruhwedel’s love for hockey has sustained his playing career against all odds.

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What Nex Benedict’s death means for us

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

Gender policies here at USC are as impactful as those that caused Nex’s death.

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Women’s basketball braces for Pac-12 clash

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The Trojans have a first-round bye, and will begin play in the quarterfinals.

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Art museum meets amusement park at Luna Luna

date: 2024-03-06, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)

The exhibit’s L.A. opening delights with creations from iconic 20th century artists.

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Google dresses up services for the EU’s Digital Markets Act

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

Apple also unpeels its offerings before Europe makes its pips squeak

On Tuesday, Google elaborated on its efforts to comply with the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) – a set of competition obligations that take effect on Thursday.…

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China pushes ‘AI Plus’ initiative to integrate technology and industry

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

Beijing used a similar moniker for program that arguably gave us TikTok, Tencent, and Xiaomi

A plan to integrate AI into industry was among the top goals China’s government revealed in the annual Report On the Work of the Government delivered at its 14th National Party Congress on Tuesday.…

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I’m a programmer and I’m stupid

date: 2024-03-06, from: Anton Zhiyanov blog

But it kind of works.

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Deputies ask for help to find Valencia teen reported missing 

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

Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials posted an alert to Instagram regarding a 15-year-old girl reported missing from the Valencia North Park area.   She was last seen Tuesday leaving her residence at approximately 3:30 p.m., according to the special bulletin posted around 9:30 p.m.  Sadie Ulloa is described as 5 feet, 3 inches tall, approximately […]

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Garcia leading Whitesides in early returns 

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

Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Santa Clarita, and Democratic challenger George Whitesides, a former chief of staff for NASA, are expected to be on the ballot in November after months of campaigning.   Garcia led with 53.2% with 31,235 votes; Whitesides had 34.3%, or 20,200 votes; and Steve Hill, a Democrat, was in third with 12.5%, or 7,385 […]

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March 5, 2024 (Tuesday)

date: 2024-03-06, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog

Possibly the biggest story today in terms of its impact on most Americans’ lives is that as part of its war on junk fees, the Biden administration announced an $8 cap on late fees charged by credit card issuers that have more than a million accounts. These companies hold more than 95% of outstanding credit card debt. Currently, fees average $32, and they fall on more than 45 million people. The White House estimates that late fees currently cost Americans about $25 billion a year. The rule change will save Americans about $10 billion a year.

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Incumbents holding strong for state Legislature races 

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

Election night is officially over, but the ballots still need to be fully counted.  The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk released the first batch of counted ballots on Tuesday night, with these consisting of mail-in ballots received prior to Tuesday, as well as in-person ballots cast prior to Tuesday.  In total, 672,267 ballots have been […]

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Gascón, Hochman lead in early results for DA 

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

One of the most closely watched and widely contested races in Los Angeles County, the campaign for the District’s Attorney’s Office, was led by District Attorney George Gascón and Nathan Hochman as of press time Tuesday night.  Gascón had 22.87% of the vote, or 138,403 votes; Hochman had 18.11%, or 109,602 votes; and Jonathan Hatami, […]

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San Marcos Baseball Finds its Groove With 7-0 Victory Over Rival Dos Pueblos

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

The Royals and Chargers will complete their two-game set on Friday beginning at 3 p.m.

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Barger opens up big lead in 5th District supervisor race 

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

Los Angeles County 5th District Supervisor Kathryn Barger said she is feeling confident after the first batch of election results were released by the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk on Tuesday night.  “I feel great,” Barger said in a phone interview. “I feel that my campaign reflected my values and the fact that I stood […]

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US Lawmakers Push for ByteDance to Divest TikTok or Face Ban

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

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to give China’s ByteDance about six months to divest popular short video app TikTok or face a U.S. ban, seeking to tackle national security concerns about its Chinese ownership.

The bill is the first significant legislative move in nearly a year toward banning or forcing ByteDance to divest the popular app, after Senate legislation to ban it stalled in Congress last year in the face of heavy lobbying by TikTok.

Mike Gallagher, the Republican chairperson of the House of Representatives’ select China committee and Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi, the top Democrat, are among more than a dozen lawmakers introducing the measure, which is expected to see an initial vote on Thursday.

“This is my message to TikTok: break up with the Chinese Communist Party or lose access to your American users,” Gallagher said. “America’s foremost adversary has no business controlling a dominant media platform in the United States.”

The bill would give ByteDance 165 days to divest TikTok, which is used by more than 170 million Americans, or make it unlawful for app stores run by Apple, Google, and others to offer TikTok or provide web hosting services to apps controlled by ByteDance.

The bill would not authorize any enforcement against individual users of an affected app, however.

“This bill is an outright ban of TikTok, no matter how much the authors try to disguise it,” a company spokesperson said on Tuesday.

“This legislation will trample the First Amendment rights of 170 million Americans and deprive 5 million small businesses of a platform they rely on to grow and create jobs,” the spokesperson said.

A White House National Security Council spokesperson called the bill “an important and welcome step” adding that the Biden administration would work with Congress “to further strengthen this legislation and put it on the strongest possible legal footing.”

The administration has worked with lawmakers from both parties to counter threats of tech services operating in the United States that pose risks to Americans’ sensitive data and broader national security, the official added.

TikTok says it has not, and would not, share U.S. user data with the Chinese government.

The American Civil Liberties Union called the bill unconstitutional, saying lawmakers were “once again attempting to trade our First Amendment rights for cheap political points during an election year.”

The bill, which would require companion legislation in the Senate, will be considered at an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing on Thursday for a vote.

The popularity of the app could make it tough to get legislation approved in an election year. Last month, Democratic President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign joined TikTok.

The bill would give the president new powers to designate apps of concern posing national security risks and subject them to the risk of bans or curbs unless ownership was divested.

It would cover apps with more than a million annual active users and under control of a foreign adversary entity, the bill says.

Concerns about Chinese-owned TikTok sparked efforts in Congress last year to tackle the risks from the short video sharing app or potentially ban it. Late in 2022, Congress barred federal employees from using it on government devices.

Last year the administration backed legislation sponsored by Senator Mark Warner and more than two dozen senators to give it new powers to ban TikTok and other foreign-based technologies if they pose national security threats.

That bill has never been voted on.

The new bill aims at bolstering the legal authority to address TikTok concerns. U.S. courts blocked an effort by previous President Donald Trump to ban TikTok in 2020.

Late in November, a U.S. judge blocked Montana’s first-of-its kind state ban on TikTok, saying it violated users’ free speech rights.

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What a surprise! Apple found a way to deliver browser engine and app store choice

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

We know this because those features just landed in iOS 17.4, along with lots of other goodies

Apple has debuted version 17.4 of its iOS & iPadOS, and by doing so made them compliant with European law.…

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Haley Suspends Campaign as Biden, Trump Move Toward 2024 Rematch

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

https://www.voanews.com/a/biden-trump-move-toward-rematch-after-super-tuesday-wins/7515677.html Save to Pocket

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.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/05/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/ Save to Pocket

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

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/05/seasons-smallest-sharks-crowd-watches-game-vs-dallas-stars/ Save to Pocket

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.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/05/tk/ Save to Pocket

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

Das Williams behind in race for 1st District; Joan Hartmann way out front in race for 3rd; election results still too soon to call Tuesday night.

The post Santa Barbara Votes: 2024 Primary Election Results appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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

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. ❤️

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4511258-nikki-haley-donald-trump-vermont-primary/ Save to Pocket

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.

VOA Indonesia’s Rivan Dwiastono contributed to this report.

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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.

The post Review | U.S. Elevator’s Freewheeling Santa Barbara Sound Is on Great Display at SOhO appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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

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.

The post Review | ‘Treasure Island’ appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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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.

The post Director Joel Coen and Star Frances McDormand Discuss ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.

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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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Pigsty, Battery-included PostgreSQL Distro & Free RDS Alternative, v2.6 released!

date: 2024-03-06, from: PostgreSQL News

The Pigsty Community is happy to announce Pigsty 2.6.0, which uses PostgreSQL 16.2 as the default kernel and introduces the new ParadeDB & DuckDB FDW extensions to provide extra OLAP workload support.

We also have a brand new official website available at https://pigsty.io

Getting started with the latest v2.6.0 release with:

bash curl -fsSL https://get.pigsty.cc/latest

About Pigsty

Pigsty is a Battery-included, local-first PostgreSQL Distribution as an open-sourced RDS alternative.

Links: Website | GitHub | Demo | Blog | Install | Feature

Images: Introduction | Extensions | High-Availability | Dashboards

Extensible Postgres

PG with 180+ powerful extensions out of the box: PostGIS, Timescale, Citus, PGVector, AGE, PGML, ParadeDB, Hydra, DuckFDW, GraphQL, ……

Reliable Infras

Create self-healing HA PostgreSQL clusters with pre-configured PITR, built-in ACL, & SSL, and secure your infra with local CA & best practices.

Observable Graphics

Unparalleled monitoring best practices build upon the modern Prometheus & Grafana stack. Reuse them to monitor existing DBs & cloud RDS. Check our Gallery & Demo

Available Service

Deliver auto-routed, high-performance, pooled, reliable, flexible database Services Access via Pgbouncer DNSMasq, Keepalived, vip-manager, and HAProxy.

Maintainable Toolbox

Infra as Code, Declarative API & Idempotent Playbooks, Vagrant sandbox & Terraform IaaS provisioning specs. Local repo, offline package, delivered without Internet access.

Composable Modules

Modular design, flexible arch with many bonus features. Redis, MinIO, ETCD, FerretDB, DuckDB, Supabase, and Docker compose template for software that uses Postgres.

Painless Experience

Easy to use: Download, Install, and Configure in one command. Built-in configuration templates for different scenarios, auto-tuned params, admin SOP, and zero-downtime blue-green migration plans.

Compatible Distros

Run on base OS without containerization support: EL 7, 8, 9 and Rocky, Alma, CentOS, OracleLinux,… and Ubuntu 20.04 / 22.04 and Debian 11 / 12 Support.

Open-Source RDS

Free software open-sourced under the AGPLv3 license, a free RDS for PostgreSQL alternative.

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2024-03-06: FreeBSD has a(nother) new C compiler: Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++

date: 2024-03-06, from: Brian Robert Callahan blog

A walkthrough to get Intel oneAPI DPC++/C++ to output native binaries for FreeBSD

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DOAJ and Crossref renew their partnership to support the least-resourced journals

date: 2024-03-06, from: Crossref Blog

Crossref and DOAJ share the aim to encourage the dissemination and use of scholarly research using online technologies and to work with and through regional and international networks, partners, and user communities for the achievement of their aims to build local institutional capacity and sustainability. Both organisations agreed to work together in 2021 in a variety of ways, but primarily to ‘encourage the dissemination and use of scholarly research using online technologies, and regional and international networks, partners and communities, helping to build local institutional capacity and sustainability around the world.’ Some of the fruits of this labour are:

• DOAJ added support for Crossref XML to make it easier for publishers to upload metadata
• Closer collaboration between customer/member support at both organisations, making it easier for publishers and journal editors to navigate both service’s technologies
• the launch of PLACE: ‘a ‘one-stop shop’ for information to support publishers in adopting best practices the industry developed’ (together with other partners)
• a pilot gap analysis of the journals in DOAJ with the possibility of helping them start to use and resolve DOIs.

The new agreement, signed earlier this month, will slightly shift focus to build upon existing collaborations, particularly around metadata. One of the primary sections of the MOU is enhancing support for the least-resourced journals by:

• Assigning DOIs and depositing the metadata with Crossref *Finding ways to improve their DOAJ application experience to help them become indexed
• Collect and ingest their Crossref metadata into DOAJ
• Help them to get preserved via JASPER or similar initiatives
• Help identify other local partners, such as Crossref Sponsoring Organisations, to support their use of Crossref services

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About DOAJ

DOAJ is a community-curated online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer reviewed journals. DOAJ deploys around one hundred carefully selected volunteers from the community of library and other academic disciplines to assist in curating open access journals. This independent database contains over 20,400 peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts and humanities. DOAJ is financially supported worldwide by libraries, publishers and other like-minded organizations. DOAJ services (including the evaluation of journals) are free for all, and all data provided by DOAJ are harvestable via OAI/PMH and the API. See https://doaj.org/ for more information.

About Crossref

Crossref is a global community-governed open scholarly infrastructure that makes all kinds of research objects easy to find, assess, and reuse through a number of services critical to research communications, including an open metadata API that sees over 1.5 billion queries every month. Crossref’s ~20,000 members come from 155 countries and are made up of universities, publishers, funders, government bodies, libraries, and research groups. Their ~155 million DOI records contribute to the collective vision of a rich and reusable open network of relationships connecting research organizations, people, things, and actions; a scholarly record that the global community can build on forever, for the benefit of society.

For more information please contact: louise@doaj.org and rclark@crossref.org

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