News gathered 2024-03-27
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Key factors to enhance efficacy of 3D digital environments for transformative landscape and urban planning
date: 2024-04-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Grêt-Regamey, Adrienne; Fagerholm, Nora
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/649176
Post-earthquake structural damage assessment and damage state evaluation for RC structures with experimental validation
date: 2024-04-01, from: ETH Zurich, recently added
Zhang, Hanqing; Reuland, Yves; Shan, Jiazeng; Chatzi, Eleni
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/659625
Ghost ride the whip! Geely shows off AI chassis performing fully-autonomous drifting [Video]
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
While many are still skeptical about the plausibility of 100% autonomous vehicles, Geely Auto is showing that its new AI digital chassis can not only safely operate on snow and ice without a driver but can also pull off fully autonomous drifting. See the EV in action in the video below.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/geely-shows-off-new-ai-chassis-performing-fully-autonomous-drifting/
Rising Occidental Student Employees launch effort to unionize student workers on campus
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
As the academic year nears its end, Rising Occidental Student Employees (ROSE) is working to unionize student workers on campus. As of March 25, ROSE has held a launch event and a separate rally that led students to the upper level of the Arthur G. Coons (AGC) Administration building where ROSE called for President Harry […]
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‘Unifier’ President Harry Elam reflects on his four-year tenure, from a tranquil tour to an unexpected departure
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
It is hard to imagine a day when President Harry J. Elam could walk around Occidental’s campus anonymously — on any given day, students can expect to snag his fist bump or catch a passing glimpse of his generous smile on the Academic Quad. But in 2019, when he was getting vetted for his presidential […]
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A’s colorful — and winning — Oakland legacy will remain no matter when team leaves Bay Area
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
How much longer the A’s will be making memories in Oakland isn’t clear, but there is no question they have left an indelible mark on the Bay Area sports scene.
What Nvidia’s Blackwell efficiency gains mean for DC operators
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Air cooling’s diminishing returns on full display with Nv’s B-series silicon
Analysis Hotter and more power-hungry CPUs and GPUs were already causing headaches for datacenter operators before Nvidia unveiled its 1,200W Blackwell GPUs at GTC last week.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/nvidia_blackwell_efficiency/
Substandard Children’s Helmets Rear Their Ugly Heads In Malaysia
date: 2024-03-27, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
More than half of children’s motorcycle and bicycle helmets failed to meet safety standards.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/713361/substandard-childrens-helmets-malaysia/
Tom Stritikus named new college president
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
After a five-month search process, the Occidental College Board of Trustees unanimously appointed Tom Stritikus as Occidental College’s 17th President, the Board announced in a campus-wide email March 26. Stritikus is currently the president of Fort Lewis College (FLC), a public liberal arts college located in Durango, Colorado. He will begin his term at Occidental […]
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https://theoccidentalnews.com/news/2024/03/27/tom-stritikus-named-new-college-president/2911955
March Madness: The greatest contest in all of college sports
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
When you think of Occidental College, chances are you probably don’t think about our sports programs. We’d like to dispel that narrative. The March Madness college basketball tournament is in full swing. For bettors and casual fans alike, it’s a chance for fans of all schools involved to have something worth rooting for (and something to drink […]
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Maintenance, meets and Miatas with the Occidental Car Club
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Two students who own classic cars seek to bring together students who appreciate automotive ingenuity and save people money in the process. Max Manzare (senior) said that one of the reasons he and Malachi Curtis (senior) founded the Occidental Car Club was to assist fellow students with car maintenance. “We noticed a trend of our […]
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NELA residents reflect on the effects of the Regional Connector Project
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
The Regional Connector Project was completed June 16, 2023, bringing together the L (Gold), A (Blue), E (Expo), B (Red) and D (Purple) lines at the 7th Street/Metro Center Station. The project connected the L and A lines to the 7th Street/Metro Center Station, adding 1.9 miles of track and creating three new stations in Downtown LA: the […]
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Lights, action, cameras, film crews return to campus
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
As classes took a pause for spring break, two film production teams made their way to Occidental’s campus for the first time since the SAG-AFTRA strikes ended in November. In a March 7 email addressed to Occidental students, staff and faculty, Assistant Vice President for Hospitality and Auxiliary Services Erik Russell said that the college […]
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Women’s lacrosse team has a positive outlook on the season
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Currently standing at fourth place in the SCIAC Conference with a 4-3 record, the Occidental lacrosse team is hoping to move up the ranks in the second half of the season, according to goalie Andie Angelacci (junior). Despite opening the season with a loss to Pomona-Pitzer, over spring break and the week leading up to it, the team […]
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Unveiling The Oz: Occidental’s art and literary magazine
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
The Oz is Occidental’s student-run art and literary magazine. The publication receives submissions from the student body and provides an outlet for writing outside of class curriculum, according to the two editor-in-chiefs Hanna Lou Rathouz (sophomore) and Eran Karmon (sophomore). “We really wanted a space on campus [for] student creative writing,” Rathouz said. The Oz publishes […]
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Opinion: Red line, green line, is a formal deployment of NATO advisors to Ukraine beneficial?
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Occidental News (Occidental College Student Newspaper)
Tensions spiked between the NATO alliance and Russia Feb. 26 when NATO member Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico claimed multiple NATO members were considering deploying troops to Ukraine. French President Emmanuel Macron has consistently said this idea is not off the table, drawing Putin’s ire in the form of renewed nuclear saber-rattling. Despite some members mulling over this prospect, NATO as a collective has […]
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The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds
date: 2024-03-27, from: Quanta Magazine
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more.The post The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Hyundai reveals ambitious $50 billion investment to secure a top 3 spot in the EV market
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Hyundai announced a massive $50 billion (68 trillion won) investment to secure its position as the auto market transitions to EVs. The Korean automaker will hire 80,000 people in Korea to help it become a top-three EV maker by 2030.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/hyundai-reveals-ambitious-50b-investment-charge-up-ev-sales/
Two men shot in East Oakland
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
The shooting happened after a verbal altercation between one of the victims and the suspect.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/27/two-men-shot-in-east-oakland-6/
Boeing and subsidiary file trade secrets lawsuit against Virgin Galactic
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Oh, and there’s small matter of an alleged $26M in unpaid bills
Boeing and its subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation have sued Virgin Galactic, alleging the space tourism company has misappropriated trade secrets.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/boeing_aurora_virgin_galactic/
Thank Toyota’s Lobbying For The New, Looser EPA Emissions Rules
date: 2024-03-27, from: Inside EVs News
Meanwhile, Hyundai plans a $51 billion new investment into EVs, and we look at Nissan’s plans for them as well.
https://insideevs.com/news/714024/toyota-lobbying-critical-materials/
Men’s NCAA Tournament best bets: Arizona’s work against the spread almost as impressive as its performance on the court
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
The Wildcats, who face Clemson, have covered the spread in 63 percent of their games this season.
Caofen F-80 Review: Electric 8kW dual sport is street-legal and Sondors-priced
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
We got the chance to test ride a street-legal plus off-road electric motorcycle that comes at a reasonable price point, something of an albatross since the Sondors Metacycle went under.
Richard Serra dies; San Francisco-born sculptor known for large metal structures
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
Considered one of his generation’s most preeminent sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting at Yale University and turned to sculpting in the 1960s.
After unsuccessful IVF and multiple health issues, this Bay Area couple found unexpected happiness in Spain
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
While they adapted to the Spanish lifestyle quickly, there were some aspects that they found difficult to get used to.
“The suspect…told his probation officer about his activity. The probation officer tipped…
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/0044271-the-suspecttold-his-proba
Bad Basquiats
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/03/27/bad-basquiats/
YouTube Issues Cease and Desist to Bizarre Chinese YouTube Clone
date: 2024-03-27, from: 404 Media Group
Gan Jing World is linked to the Falun Gong, and has been cloning popular YouTube channels in the name of providing “wholesome content for all.”
Volvo makes its last diesel car and puts it in a museum
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Swedish automaker Volvo has rolled out its last diesel-powered passenger vehicle, after a 45-year relationship with the powertrain and cranking out millions of oil-burning cars. Between 2012 and 2016, diesel accounted for half of the company’s global sales. But those days are over now as the company moves toward an all-electric future.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/volvo-makes-its-last-diesel-car-and-puts-it-in-a-museum/
ESA, NASA Solar Observatory Discovers Its 5,000th Comet
date: 2024-03-27, from: NASA breaking news
On March 25, 2024, a citizen scientist in the Czech Republic spotted a comet in an image from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which has now been confirmed to be the 5,000th comet discovered using SOHO data. SOHO has achieved this milestone over 28 years in space, even though it was never designed […]
Google reveals zero-day exploits in enterprise tech surged 64% last year
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Crooks know where the big bucks are
Zero-day exploits targeting enterprise-specific software and appliances are now outpacing zero-day bugs overall, according to Google’s threat hunting teams.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/surge_in_enterprise_zero_days/
When Neighbors Turn in Neighbors
date: 2024-03-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
I think of these anonymous reporters as snipers. If somebody has an issue with me, come talk to me.
The post When Neighbors Turn in Neighbors appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/03/27/when-neighbors-turn-in-neighbors/
Texas’ Migrant Arrest Law on Hold for Now Under Latest Court Ruling
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
NEW ORLEANS — A Texas law that allows the state to arrest and deport migrants suspected of illegally entering the U.S. will remain on hold for now, a federal appeals court ruled.
The 2-1 ruling late Tuesday from a three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals followed a March 20 hearing by a three-judge panel of the court. It’s just the latest move in a seesaw legal case over Republican Gov. Greg Abbott’s strict new immigration law that is not yet ended.
The Justice Department has argued that Texas’ law is a clear violation of federal authority and would create chaos at the border. Texas has argued that President Joe Biden’s administration isn’t doing enough to control the border and that the state has a right to take action.
Judge Andrew Oldham, an appointee of former President Donald Trump and a former aide to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, dissented with the majority decision.
Oldham wrote that the Biden administration faced a high bar to take sovereign power that Texas has to enforce a law its people and leaders want. The judge predicted the same 2-1 split when the merits of the case are considered while the legal challenge plays out.
“There is real peril in this approach. In our federal system, the State of Texas is supposed to retain at least some of its sovereignty,” Oldham wrote. “Its people are supposed to be able to use that sovereignty to elect representatives and send them to Austin to debate and enact laws that respond to the exigencies that Texans experience and that Texans want addressed.”
The law was in effect for several hours on March 19 after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way. But the high court didn’t rule on the merits of the case. It instead sent the case back to the 5th Circuit, which then suspended enforcement while it considered the latest appeal.
The latest ruling keeps the block in place.
Spokespersons for Abbott and state Attorney General Ken Paxton did not immediately return phone calls for comment Wednesday morning.
The law signed by Abbott allows any Texas law enforcement officer to arrest people suspected of entering the country illegally, but that brief window while the law was in effect revealed that many sheriffs were unprepared, unable or uninterested in enforcing SB4 in the first place.
Sheriff Thaddeus Cleveland of Terrell County, which touches more than 50 miles (80 kilometers) of border, said during a gathering of about 100 sheriffs at the state Capitol last week said there’s no practical way for him to enforce the law.
Cleveland said he has no way to transport people, the county jail has space for just seven people and the closest port of entry is a drive of more than 2 1/2 hours away.
Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith, president of the Texas Sheriff’s Association, said the law will have little effect in his jurisdiction in East Texas, which is closer to Louisiana and Oklahoma than Mexico which is nearly 400 miles (644 kilometers) away.
Once in custody, migrants could either agree to a Texas judge’s order to leave the U.S. or be prosecuted on misdemeanor charges of illegal entry. Migrants who don’t leave could face arrest again under more serious felony charges.
Texas did not announce any arrests during the brief time the law was previously in effect. Authorities have offered various explanations for how they might enforce the law. Mexico has said it would refuse to take back anyone who is ordered by Texas to cross the border.
The law is considered by opponents to be the most dramatic attempt by a state to police immigration since an Arizona law more than a decade ago that was partially struck down by the Supreme Court. Critics have also said the Texas law could lead to civil rights violations and racial profiling.
Supporters have rejected those concerns, saying arresting officers must have probable cause, which could include witnessing the illegal entry or seeing it on video. They also say that they expect the law would be used mostly in border counties, though it would apply statewide.
Elon Musk says Tesla Optimus robot should cost ‘less than half of a car’
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Elon Musk says that Optimus, Tesla’s general-purpose humanoid robot, should cost “less than half the price of a car”.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/elon-musk-tesla-optimus-robot-cost-less-than-half-car/
Rain expected to return to Bay Area with two storm systems expected by Saturday
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
Two storm systems are descending from the Gulf of Alaska, according to the National Weather Service.
Sidecar Modern Tavern shutters in Los Gatos
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
Restaurant owners say pandemic led to long-term issues.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/03/27/sidecar-modern-tavern-shutters-in-los-gatos/
August Trial Date Set for Ex-Official Accused of Killing Vegas Journalist
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA — A Nevada judge tentatively set an August 5 trial date for a former Las Vegas-area elected official accused of killing an investigative journalist.
But she acknowledged that more time might be needed to finish searching the slain reporter’s computers for possible evidence.
Robert Telles, a former Democratic county administrator of estates, has pleaded not guilty to stabbing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German to death in September 2022.
Telles, 47, has remained jailed since his arrest days after German’s body was found. Telles and his lawyer, Robert Draskovich, say he wants his murder trial to start as soon as possible.
Clark County District Court Judge Michelle Leavitt decided two weeks ago that a March 18 date was unrealistic. She agreed with prosecutors on Tuesday that August might also be too soon, but she said it was important to have a date to work toward.
Progress in the case stalled while arguments went to the state Supreme Court about opening German’s cellphone and computers, possibly exposing confidential information that is protected from disclosure under state and federal law.
Review-Journal employees are now reviewing those files, and attorneys say it might take months to finish.
German, 69, was found stabbed outside his home months after he wrote articles in 2022 that were critical of Telles and his managerial conduct while he was in elected office.
Baseball fan promotions: 6 fun minor-league events for the 2024 season
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
From Ross & Rachel Night to Wet Nose Wednesdays, this is how you celebrate baseball, minor-league style
SF Giants fans and teammates pinning high hopes on hometown hero Kyle Harrison
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
‘The skies the limit,’ ace Logan Webb says of Kyle Harrison, the De La Salle High grad and Giants’ top pitching prospect
Pragmatic Semiconductor opens UK’s first 300mm wafer fab in Durham
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Facility to bring major leap in domestic chip production amid government support
UK chipmaker Pragmatic Semiconductor has officially opened its latest manufacturing facilities in Durham, just over a year after its CEO threatened to move the company out of the country over the government’s lack of support for the chip industry.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/pragmatic_opens_300mm_fab/
You might spot a mountain lion in California, but attacks like the one that killed a man are rare
date: 2024-03-27, from: San Jose Mercury News
Since 1890, there have been fewer than 50 confirmed attacks on people in California, and only six ended in deaths. While the prospect of attacks on people is frightening, humans kill far more cougars than the other way around.
Biden Just Approved Another Big Offshore Wind Project
date: 2024-03-27, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: Freeze warnings are in place across Missouri • Tourists heading to Spain’s Canary Islands over the Easter holiday have been told to brace for extreme weather • It is 82 degrees Fahrenheit in Gaza today, marking the region’s first heat wave of the season.
THE TOP FIVE
- Biden approves another big offshore wind project
The Biden administration approved its seventh commercial-scale offshore wind project yesterday. Orsted’s Sunrise Wind project will be located about 16 nautical miles south of Marth’s Vineyard and have a capacity of 924-megawatts (MW) of renewable energy to power more than 320,000 homes per year. It will likely be completed in 2026. “The approval is the latest positive development for an industry that had been bogged down by inflation, higher borrowing costs and supply-chain woes,” said Bloomberg. The seven projects in total have the potential to provide more than 8 gigawatts of clean energy to power roughly 3 million homes, according to the Department of the Interior.
- Deadly Baltimore bridge collapse halts coal shipments
Six people are presumed dead after Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed yesterday. The search continues for their remains. The disaster has halted the flow of ships in and out of the Port of Baltimore indefinitely, and this could have knock-on economic effects. It’s already throwing the U.S. coal market for a loop, reported Heatmap’s Matthew Zeitlin. The port plays a pivotal role in the energy trade, as it is the second largest coal export facility in the country. One coal shipping executive told Bloomberg the disruption could last more than a month. Shares of Consol Energy, which ships more than 10 million tons of coal annually through a terminal at the Port of Baltimore, were down 7% yesterday. In terms of its effects on the overall energy market, the port’s indefinite closure could be mild and may actually result in lower energy prices in the Northeast, as coal that would have been exported becomes, essentially, stranded stateside, Greg Brew, an analyst at the Eurasia Group, told Zeitlin. But even this effect may be muted, Brew explained, because the weather is warming up with the end of winter, meaning there’s less demand on natural gas for heating.
- Cocoa prices reach historic highs
Cocoa futures were trading above $10,000 a tonne yesterday for the first time, more than double their price from two months ago, the Financial Times reported. Prices dropped slightly later in the day, but the overall trend is not good: Cocoa has more than tripled in cost over the past year, according to CNBC. Two countries in West Africa – Ivory Coast and Ghana – produce around two-thirds of the world’s cocoa beans. Heavy rainfall followed by dry heat in the region has hurt crop yields, and many farmers are abandoning the trade for other crops. “It rains outside of the rainy seasons now,” one cocoa plantation owner in Ghana told the FT. “Dry seasons are hotter than they used to be.” Consumers could start to feel the pinch soon in the form of smaller chocolate bars for higher prices. Dark chocolate, which has a high cocoa content, will likely see the biggest price hike.
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- Western U.S. hydropower dips due to drought
The amount of hydropower generated in the western U.S. plummeted last year because of drought, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Eleven states – Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming, California, Oregon, and Washington – produce nearly 60% of the nation’s hydroelectricity. Between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023, they produced 141.6 million megawatthours (MWh) of hydropower, 11% below the year prior, and the smallest amount since 2001. Drought and heat waves meant less rainfall and rapidly melting snowpack in the Pacific Northwest. Hydropower in Washington fell by 23% compared to the year before. California, on the other hand, saw hydropower grow thanks to repeated atmospheric rivers, but not enough to make up for the overall regional deficit. The EIA forecasts that western hydropower production will fall by another 12% this year. The Verge succinctly explained why a drop in hydropower is bad for the planet: “Drought reduces the amount of clean energy available from hydroelectric dams. To avoid energy shortfalls, utilities wind up relying on fossil fuels to make up the difference. That leads to more of the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change, which makes droughts worse.”
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- Wisconsin utilities pledge to use union labor to build clean energy
infrastructure
Wisconsin’s major utilities this week announced a commitment to employing local union workers to build clean energy projects. The state is embarking on a major renewables expansion, including new solar installations, onshore wind, and battery storage. The projects will require about 19,000 construction jobs, and the biggest power providers in the state – Alliant Energy, Madison Gas & Electric, WEC Energy Group, and Xcel Energy – say they’ll rely on workers from five labor unions to fill those roles. The pledge “reflects the power of the federal Inflation Reduction Act’s tax incentives for large-scale renewable energy projects,” wrote Karl Ebert at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “The IRA provides additional incentives for projects that are built with union labor or pay the local prevailing wage.”
THE KICKER
The first ever Global Summit on Extreme Heat will take place tomorrow.
https://heatmap.news/climate/orsted-sunrise-wind-approved
Book Talk – Unlocking the Digital Age: The Musician’s Guide to Research, Copyright & Publishing
date: 2024-03-27, from: Authors Union blogs
Join us for a book talk with ANDREA I. COPLAND & KATHLEEN DeLAURENTI about UNLOCKING THE DIGITAL AGE, a crucial resource for early career musicians navigating the complexities of the digital era. REGISTER NOW “[Musicians,] Use this book as a tool to enhance your understanding, protect your creations, and confidently step into the world of […]
America Is Finally Building a Nationwide EV Charging Network
date: 2024-03-27, from: Distilled Earth blog
The country’s EV charging network is growing quickly. Here’s why.
https://www.distilled.earth/p/america-is-finally-building-a-nationwide
2023 Fisker Ocean Now Priced From $24,999
date: 2024-03-27, from: Inside EVs News
The top-of-the-range 2023 Fisker Ocean Extreme is now cheaper than a base Tesla Model Y.
https://insideevs.com/news/714043/2023-fisker-ocean-price-cuts-us/
Gravity’s 200kW Curbside Chargers Might Be A Gamechanger For Cities
date: 2024-03-27, from: Inside EVs News
The company says that EVs will be able to replenish 200 miles of range in 13 minutes.
https://insideevs.com/news/713927/gravity-curbside-chargers-200kw-power/
Podcast: The Shaky Science of License Plate Readers
date: 2024-03-27, from: 404 Media Group
On this week’s episode we talk about a shaky study into Flock; what people are doing now that Pornhub has pulled out of some states; and how we dug into the new owners of Deadspin.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-podcast-31-flock-shaky-science/
The Air Force Bought a Surveillance-Focused AI Chatbot
date: 2024-03-27, from: 404 Media Group
The chatbot, which has entered a test phase, is designed for intelligence analysts to ask questions about aerial and surveillance imagery.
https://www.404media.co/the-air-force-bought-a-surveillance-focused-ai-chatbot/
Fisker slashes MSRPs of Ocean trims by tens of thousands as it fights to stay in business
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Fisker Inc. is continuing a trying month of March as it claws at the hole it has found itself in, staring down the barrel of potential bankruptcy. With a potential shuttering of its doors looming, the American EV automaker is now pulling every lever to maximize revenues, including unprecedented discounts on its lone model, the Fisker Ocean.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/fisker-slashes-msrp-ocean-trims-fights-to-stay-in-business/
Is Yamaha Working On A New Electric Motocross Motorcycle?
date: 2024-03-27, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The new machine could feature a so-called torsion damper, providing a sudden boost of acceleration.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/713364/yamaha-electric-motocross-patent-motorcycle/
In-app browsers are still a privacy, security, and choice problem
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Regulators reminded that longstanding concerns haven’t been addressed
Competition cops in Europe and the United Kingdom have started paying attention to in-app browsers, a controversial mechanism for presenting web content within native apps.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/
Ford Explorer EV Goes On Sale In Europe With Up To 374 Miles Of WLTP Range
date: 2024-03-27, from: Inside EVs News
The MEB-based crossover is cheaper than a Mustang Mach-E. Oh, and it was also driven around the world.
https://insideevs.com/news/713990/ford-explorer-ev-europe-price/
Here’s a cat holding on for dear life to a pint of…
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/0044264-heres-a-cat-holding-on
The Web That Never Was
date: 2024-03-27, from: Tilde.news
https://youtu.be/9CSjlZeqKOc?si=sXV4f-Q_-ql-wOEj
Gary Horton | Unimaginable and Relentless Human Tragedy
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
Mike Garcia, will you please twist Speaker Mike Johnson’s arm – and fast! Only the U.S. House of Representatives can prevent unimaginable human tragedy: Readers know of my friends, the Naumenko family from Irpin, Ukraine. Irpin is a suburb of Kyiv, and lately has been under nearly nightly attacks again. For two long years, Juliya […]
The post Gary Horton | Unimaginable and Relentless Human Tragedy appeared first on Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
https://signalscv.com/2024/03/gary-horton-unimaginable-and-relentless-human-tragedy/
2024-03-27 Sick? Or Hayfever?
date: 2024-03-27, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
2024-03-27 Sick? Or Hayfever?
Back from the trip to Locarno and I’m feeling sick. The nose, the frontal sinus cavity, ouch.
But strangely enough, the birch pollen season has also started. So what is it?
(Zürich is super dark red.)
The report says:
“Eschen und Birken blühen frühzeitig in der gesamten Schweiz, und für deren Pollen werden in den kommenden Tagen im Flachland und in mittleren Lagen mässige bis starke Belastungswerte erwartet.”
Ash and birch are in bloom earlier than usual.
I’ll take one of these Cetirizine-based hayfever pills, drink another cup of herbal infusion and go back to bed. Hopefully at least one of these things will help.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-03-26-sick
Philip Wasserman | Staying Here in Cali
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
I’m not leaving. It seems everyone is leaving California. U.S. Census data reveals the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim metro area saw a loss of population of 71,037 between 2022 and 2023. More than 800,000 Californians left in 2022, which is the most recent report I could find on migration out of our state. Those leaving […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/philip-wasserman-staying-here-in-cali/
Héctor Hernández | Indefensible Inspections
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
Part 3 of 3. In my previous letters, I wrote about the county’s ill-advised plan to recover defensible space inspection costs through Section 14902 of the California Health and Safety Code. In this letter, I’ll explain why I think the Fire Department is mistaken in its belief that California Public Resources Code, Section 4291, mandates […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/hector-hernandez-indefensible-inspections-2/
Infinite Mac: turning to the dark side
date: 2024-03-27, from: OS News
About a year ago I came across the Previous emulator – it appeared to be a faithful simulation of the NeXT hardware and thus capable of running NeXTStep. While including it in Infinite Mac would be scope-creep, NeXT’s legacy is in many ways more relevant to today’s macOS than classic Mac OS. It also helped that it’s under active development by its original creator (see the epic thread in the NeXT Computers forums), and thus a modern, living codebase. Previous is the fifth emulator that I’ve ported to WebAssembly/Emscripten and the Infinite Mac runtime, and it’s gotten easier. As I’m doing this work, I’m developing more and more empathy for those doing Mac game ports – some things are really easy and others become yak shaves due to the unintended consequences of choices made by the original developers. Previous is available on multiple platforms and has good abstractions, so overall it was a pretty pleasant experience. ↫ Mihai Parparita By porting previous to WebAssembly/Emscripten, Infinite Mac now offers access to a whole slew of NeXTSTEP releases, from the earliest known release to the last one from 1997. There’s also a ton of applications added to make the experience feel more realistic. This makes Infinite Mac even more useful than it already was, ensuring it’s one of the best and easiest ways to experience old macOS and now NeXTSTEP releases through virtual machines (real ones, this time), available in your browser. I’ll be spending some time with these new additions for sure, since I’ve very little experience with NeXTSTEP other than whatever I vicariously gleamed through Steven Troughton-Smith‘s toots on the subject over the years. Mihai Parparita is doing incredibly important work through Infinite Mac, and he deserves credit and praise for all he’s doing here.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139000/infinite-mac-turning-to-the-dark-side/
Sunken British Warship That Left Crew Marooned for 66 Days Has Been Identified
date: 2024-03-27, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Found off the coast of Florida, the HMS “Tyger” left some 300 crew members stranded on Garden Key in 1742
Happy birthday APFS, 7 years old today
date: 2024-03-27, from: OS News
Seven years ago, on 27 March 2017, Apple introduced one of the most fundamental changes in its operating systems since Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was released 16 years earlier. On that day, those who updated iOS to version 10.3 had their iPhone’s storage silently converted to the first release of Apple File System, APFS. Six months later, with the release of macOS 10.13 High Sierra on 25 September, Mac users followed suit. ↫ Howard Oakley The migration from HFS+ to APFS is still an amazing feat for Apple to have pulled off. Hundreds of millions devices converted from one filesystem to another, and barely anyone noticed – no matter how you look at it, that’s an impressive achievement, and the engineers who made it possible deserve all the praise they’re getting.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138998/happy-birthday-apfs-7-years-old-today/
$1 billion in relief for America’s child care crisis
date: 2024-03-27, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The child care system in the U.S. is in crisis. The latest government funding bill just approved by the White House included a $1 billion increase for programs focused on child care and early childhood learning. Advocates see the boost as a win but caution that it still isn’t enough. Then, we’ll discuss what you need to know about the stock market debut of Donald Trump’s Truth Social.
Belgian beer study acquires taste for machine learning
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Researchers reckon results could improve recipe development for food and beverages
Joining the list of things that probably don’t need improving by machine learning but people are going to try anyway is Belgian beer.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/belgian_beer_machine_learning/
PeerJ Awards Winners at AMCA 2024
date: 2024-03-27, from: PeerJ blog
The AMCA Annual Meeting is the premier education and networking event for researchers, educators, vector control professionals, industry representatives, and students in mosquito control. Every year since 1938, hundreds gather to hear the latest research, share ideas, and form collaborations. Our educational sessions and exhibit hall help to put attendees on the cutting-edge of this […]
https://peerj.com/blog/post/115284889042/peerj-awards-winners-at-amca-2024/
Glenda Yakel | Community Concerns Disregarded
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
Re: Letters, Ron Perry, March 23, “Defaming the Indians Again.” Your letter struck a chord with many of us, particularly regarding the ongoing debate surrounding the Hart High School mascot. As we reflect on the decision made on July 15, 2021, to retire the Indian mascot by June 30, 2025, it’s disheartening to witness the […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/glenda-yakel-community-concerns-disregarded/
China’s aging population problem
date: 2024-03-27, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: China’s leaders are trying to find ways to battle what many economists have described as a demographic ticking time bomb. One in five people are over 60 there, making it the largest elderly population in the world. Plus, flying cars have long been a futuristic dream. A European company has developed — and successfully flown — its “AirCar” but just sold the technology to China.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/chinas-aging-population-problem
Security Vulnerability in Saflok’s RFID-Based Keycard Locks
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Bruce Schneier blog
It’s pretty devastating:
Today, Ian Carroll, Lennert Wouters, and a team of other security researchers are revealing a hotel keycard hacking technique they call Unsaflok. The technique is a collection of security vulnerabilities that would allow a hacker to almost instantly open several models of Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks sold by the Swiss lock maker Dormakaba. The Saflok systems are installed on 3 million doors worldwide, inside 13,000 properties in 131 countries. By exploiting weaknesses in both Dormakaba’s encryption and the underlying RFID system Dormakaba uses, known as MIFARE Classic, Carroll and Wouters have demonstrated just how easily they can open a Saflok keycard lock. Their technique starts with obtaining any keycard from a target hotel—say, by booking a room there or grabbing a keycard out of a box of used ones—then reading a certain code from that card with a $300 RFID read-write device, and finally writing two keycards of their own. When they merely tap those two cards on a lock, the first rewrites a certain piece of the lock’s data, and the second opens it…
Street newspaper appears to have Big Issue with Qilin ransomware gang
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
The days of cybercriminals having something of a moral compass are over
The parent company of The Big Issue, a street newspaper and social enterprise for homeless people, is wrestling with a cybersecurity incident claimed by the Qilin ransomware gang.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/big_issue_qilin_cyberattack/
The Federal Women’s Program
date: 2024-03-27, from: National Archives, Pieces of History blog
March is Women’s History Month. Visit the National Archives website for resources and virtual events related to women’s history. When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed, Title VII prohibited discrimination by certain employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. State and local governments, however, were exempt. In 1967 President Lyndon B. … Continue reading The Federal Women’s Program
https://prologue.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/27/the-federal-womens-program/
The pros and cons of using Markdown
date: 2024-03-27, from: Blog by Fabrizio Ferri-Benedetti
A few days ago I had an interesting conversation on the pros and cons of Markdown for technical documentation with Ed Marsh (Goldman Sachs) and Eric Holscher (Read the Docs) in a webinar hosted by Scott Abel (The Content Wrangler). Here are some of the things I said during the webinar, transcribed and edited for clarity.
https://passo.uno/pros-cons-markdown/
@Jessica Smith’s blog (date: 2024-03-27, from: Jessica Smith’s blog)
We’re looking after Patches, my brother-in-law’s dog, “for the long weekend” (until next Tuesday). He hasn’t met Gidget before, and got himself bapbapbapped when he tried to give her a customary canine friendly greeting (sniffing her bum). Gidget was FURIOUS! After some time apart they settled down, though. Patches took a nap, and Gidget decided beating him up could be deferred in favour of just watching him like a hawk, and now they’re both snoozing peacefully on the couch. What a relief 😅
https://www.jayeless.net/2024/03/looking-after-patches.html
Windows Format dialog waited decades for UI revamp that never came
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
‘Temporary’ isn’t always
Windows has a built-in reminder of the perils of temporary solutions thanks to the 30-year-old porting efforts of former Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/windows_format_dialog_temporary/
Supporting Computing in England through our renewed partnership with Oak National Academy
date: 2024-03-27, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
We are pleased to announce that we are renewing our partnership with Oak National Academy in England to provide an updated high-quality Computing curriculum and lesson materials for Key Stages 1 to 4. New curriculum and materials for the classroom In 2021 we partnered with Oak National Academy to offer content for schools in England…
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/supporting-computing-in-england-with-oak-national-academy/
Greenlane announces LA to LV charging corridor for commercial trucks
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Daimler and BlackRock-backed Greenlane announces plans to build 280 mile long “EV corridor” for commercial trucks running from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/27/greenlane-announces-la-to-lv-charging-corridor-for-commercial-trucks/
UK skies set for cheeky upgrade with hybrid airship
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Depending on planning permission being given for facility
The Airlander hybrid airship looks set to go into production within a few years, if its maker can get planning approval for a factory.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/airlander_10_hybrid_airship/
Mile High Illinois
date: 2024-03-27, from: Hooked on the Past blog
This is probably Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous unbuilt project and, from a more personal point of view, the second-largest model I have ever made. The construction of this model was long and complex, all the floors are different, so for each of the 528 floors I had to create a unique polyline. For the…
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http://www.hookedonthepast.com/mile-high-illinois/
Big internet-connected button | HackSpace #77
date: 2024-03-27, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
One whack to send the magazine to press.
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https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/big-internet-connected-button-hackspace-77/
Why a Climate Startup Is Building the World’s Biggest Airplane
date: 2024-03-27, from: Heatmap News
Radia is a $1 billion climate tech startup with an unusual pitch: It is trying to build the world’s largest airplane. Its proposed aircraft, the Radia Wind Runner, would be as long as a football field, nearly as wide as a New York city block, and capable of carrying 12 times the volume of a Boeing 747. Such a plane could ferry massive wind-turbine blades, unlocking what the company calls “gigawind” — the ability to build offshore-sized wind turbines on land.
Why is that important? Because the larger the wind turbine, the more electricity that it generates — and the less wind it needs to work with. Radia says that its “gigawind” farms could profitably go into places with slower wind speeds, such as the Northeast or Mississippi Delta. They could also be built in the existing Wind Belt, potentially doubling current output.
In this week’s episode, Rob and Jesse talk to Radia’s chief executive officer, Mark Lundstrom. (Jesse’s consulting firm did some research for Radia while it was in stealth mode, in 2020 and 2023.) We discuss why the world needs a bigger plane, how such a new aircraft gets licensed, and why massive wind turbines could be such a big deal for renewable electricity. Shift Key is hosted by Robinson Meyer, executive editor of Heatmap, and Jesse Jenkins, a Princeton professor of energy systems engineering.
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Here is an excerpt from our conversation:
Jesse Jenkins: I’m here in the mechanical and aerospace engineering department at Princeton, so we’ve got a lot of students excited about new aerospace applications. I have a six-year-old kid, as well, and he’s also excited about anything that goes fast and is big, so I’m sure he’ll get excited about the eventual Lego kit for the WindRunner that we’ll have to get out in the world. But talk through the size of this aircraft compared to, say, something we’re used to, like a 737 or more conventional aircraft.
Mark Lundstrom: Sure. So before understanding the size, one has to understand the fundamental mission requirements. And so the goal, Radia’s goal is to be able to move up to a 105 meter long object that could weigh up to 75 tons. Now we can also move multiple smaller blades, so two 95s, or three 85s, or four 75s. So the vehicle is quite versatile.
In terms of sheer size, it’s about 12 times the volume of a 747. So it’s very, very large compared to the 747. It’s about nine times the volume of the Antonovs. And yet what’s very different about it —
Jenkins: And the Antonov, that’s the largest plane built to date, right?
Lundstrom: Yes, the largest volumetric plane right now. There’s about 14 or 15 of them left in the world, usually Russian or Ukrainian operated.
Robinson Meyer: I was going to say, I remember the biggest plane in the world being destroyed right at the beginning of the Ukraine War and was wondering how that compared to the to the WindRunner vehicle.
Lundstrom: So the Antonov 225, there was one of them. WindRunner is six times bigger in volume than that airplane was, and it’s nine times bigger in volume than the remaining Antonov 124s that are still out there. And so, and what’s additionally unusual about it, in addition to the size, is its ability to land on dirt.
Meyer: Wow.
Lundstrom: Things like Antonovs, 747s, etc., they need to land on about 9,000 feet of steel reinforced concrete, typically. And we designed the WindRunners so we could land on relatively short dirt strips, so just over a mile of a semi-prepared field. And that allows us to bring the payload into a wind farm, and be able to get a very large aircraft out of the wind farm. It’s probably the first time that an aircraft has been designed to optimize around volume, as opposed to mass.
Usually when an aircraft design team starts off, they’ll start off thinking about how much mass has to be moved. We really started off thinking about how much volume has to be moved. So there are aircraft that move larger mass than the WindRunner. There’s absolutely no aircraft that comes close to moving larger volumes and being able to land that volume on a relatively short dirt strip.
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https://heatmap.news/podcast/shift-key-episode-9-radia-windrunner
Students march for hostages in Gaza
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The demonstration marks 171 days since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks in Southern Israel.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/students-march-for-hostages-in-gaza/
Folt presents 2024 State of the University
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The president celebrated advancements in athletics, sustainability and the arts.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/2024-state-of-the-university/
USG approves 2024-25 executive cabinet appointees
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Hundreds of students used USG shuttle service to the airport during spring recess.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/usg-approves-executive-cabinet-appointees/
Gocycle unveils new images of its premium, lightweight belt-drive cargo electric bike
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Gocycle, a premium British electric bike maker known for its lightweight commuter e-bikes featuring exotic materials and designs, is now setting its sights on the growing market of cargo e-bikes. And the company has just shared the first photos of its upcoming CXi and CX+ cargo electric bikes.
Lenovo scores deal to build supercomputer at UK’s Hartree Center
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Liquid cooled, 44.7 Petaflops and with unspecified GPUs
The UK’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) has picked Lenovo to build and install a 44.7-Petaflops liquid cooled supercomputer.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/lenovo_hartree_supercomputer/
Office Hours: NBC fires Ronna McDaniel, former RNC chair. Does the Republican Party have a future?
date: 2024-03-27, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, Ronna McDaniel’s tenure at NBC lasted four days. It ended last night, after network anchors and reporters blasted NBC’s decision to hire her last Friday. They argued that hiring her gave a green light for election deniers to spread lies as paid contributors.
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-the-end-of-the-republican
Classifieds – March 27, 2024
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/classifieds-march-27-2024/
The Savvy Senior | Who Should Be Screened for Lung Cancer?
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
Dear Savvy Senior, Who should be screened for lung cancer and how it’s covered by Medicare? I used to smoke but quit many years ago and am wondering if I need to be tested. — Just Turned 65 Dear Just Turned, Even if you haven’t touched a cigarette in decades, you could still be due […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/the-savvy-senior-who-should-be-screened-for-lung-cancer/
March 26, 2024
date: 2024-03-27, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
At about 1:30 this morning, local time, the Dali, a 985-foot (300 m) container ship operating under a Singapore flag, struck the steel Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Maryland, that spans the lower Patapsco River and outer Baltimore Harbor. The bridge immediately collapsed.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-26-2024
Today in SCV History (March 27)
date: 2024-03-27, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1847 – Probable birth date of Pico Canyon oil driller Charles Alexander Mentry. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-march-27/
CEO of UK’s National Grid warns of datacenters’ thirst for power
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Predicts 500 percent increase in consumption over a decade and suggests 800 kilovolt fix
John Pettigrew, the CEO of British utility National Grid, warned on Tuesday that datacenter power consumption is on track to grow 500 percent over the next decade.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/ceo_of_uks_national_grid/
Ivy League decorum, working-class grit
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Manhattan Beach’s own Jack St. Ivany is the best of both worlds on the ice.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/ivy-league-decorum-working-class-grit/
‘Margo’ explores intergenerational conflict
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The APIDA-led SCA student film highlights mother-daughter relationships.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/margo-explores-intergenerational-conflict/
FAFSA errors leave college dreams in limbo
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
New changes to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid could leave many students unable to pay for college.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/fafsa-errors-leave-college-dreams-in-limbo/
Men’s swim and dive gears up for NCAAs
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans will compete against powerhouses for a title at IU Natatorium.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/mens-swim-and-dive-gears-up-for-ncaa-championships/
Student playwright blends goth and gay for New Works Festival
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
“Somewhere Someone is Traveling Furiously Towards You” by Marilyn Schotland observes queerness from a dark yet meaningful lens.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/student-playwright-blends-goth-and-gay-for-new-works-festival/
Being a music fan shouldn’t be inaccessible
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Ticket platforms and artists should be held accountable for their outrageous prices.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/ticketmaster-sucks-but-sometimes-the-artists-do-too/
curl 8.7.0 and 8.7.1
date: 2024-03-27, from: Daniel Stenberg Blog
Numbers the 255th and 256th releases5 changes56 days (total: 9,504)162 bug-fixes (total: 10,050)246 commits (total: 31,931)0 new public libcurl function (total: 93)0 new curl_easy_setopt() option (total: 304)0 new curl command line option (total: 258)92 contributors, 56 new (total: 3,133)37 authors, 15 new (total: 1,252)4 security fixes (total: 155) Versions I first released 8.7.0, but immediately … Continue reading curl 8.7.0 and 8.7.1
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/03/27/curl-8-7-0/
Placing a bet on me (and you)
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
In my own version of “75 Hot,” I am vowing to reconnect to my fashion roots, and I want you to do the same.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/27/placing-a-bet-on-me-and-you/
US Supreme Court Hears Case on Access to Abortion Pill
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case that could significantly restrict access to the drug mifepristone, which is used in medication abortions. Deana Mitchell has our story.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-supreme-court-hears-case-on-access-to-abortion-pill/7543669.html
Winless Lottery Streak Ends: Someone Wins $1.12B Mega Millions
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
DES MOINES, Iowa — Someone in New Jersey overcame the odds Tuesday night and won the $1.12 billion Mega Millions jackpot, breaking a winless streak that dated to last December.
The numbers drawn were: 7, 11, 22, 29, 38 and 4. The winning ticket was sold in New Jersey, according the the Mega Millions website.
Until the latest drawing, no one had matched all six numbers and won the Mega Millions jackpot since Dec. 8. That amounted to 30 straight drawings without a big winner.
It’s tough to win the Mega Millions jackpot because the odds are so long, at 1 in 302.6 million.
The prize is the eighth largest in U.S. lottery history.
The $1.12 billion jackpot is for a winner who is paid through an annuity, with an initial payment and then 29 annual payments. Most winners choose a cash payout, which would be $537.5 million.
The next big U.S. lottery drawing will be Wednesday night for an estimated $865 million Powerball jackpot. No one has won that prize since New Year’s Day, making for 36 drawings without a winner.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball also is played in those states as well as Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
https://www.voanews.com/a/winless-lottery-streak-ends-someone-wins-1-12b-mega-millions/7545232.html
The French Revvie Part VII: Dialogues of the Rationalites
date: 2024-03-27, from: Margaret Atwood’s substack
The uproar between 1789 and 1799 was in large part a three-pronged religious civil war.
https://margaretatwood.substack.com/p/the-french-revvie-part-vii-dialogues
BBC exterminates AI experiments used to promote Doctor Who
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Finally, a power greater than AI hype: angry fandom
Pics The BBC has decided to exterminate its experiments using generative AI to promote venerable SciFi show Doctor Who.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/bbc_ends_doctor_who_ai_experiments/
Bishop Diego Sweeps Cate 27-25, 25-14, 25-13 in Crucial Tri-Valley League Match
date: 2024-03-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The Cardinals are 4-3 in Tri-Valley League play.
The post Bishop Diego Sweeps Cate 27-25, 25-14, 25-13 in Crucial Tri-Valley League Match appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
Santa Barbara Unified Staff Seeing Pink
date: 2024-03-27, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
The school district community raises concerns over looming cuts to positions and hours.
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https://www.independent.com/2024/03/26/santa-barbara-unified-staff-seeing-pink/
Search to Resume for Six Workers Presumed Dead after Baltimore Bridge Collapse
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
XenServer is back, with a rebranded Citrix Hypervisor and a tasty three-host freebie
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Per-socket licensing regime may explain years of ups and downs
XenServer, the Cloud-Software-Group-owned server virtualization spinout from Citrix, has debuted its new/old product, XenServer 8.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/xenserver_8_returns/
Top US Officials Warn Israeli Defense Minister Against Invading Rafah
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
Top Biden administration officials urged Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to abandon plans to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinian civilians seek safety, as U.S.- Israel tensions brewed over Israel’s conduct in its 6-month-old war against Hamas. White House Bureau Chief Patsy Widakuswara has this report.
Brutal Lyon 25 Stair, Destroyer of Action Sport Dreams
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/brutal-lyon-25-stair-destroyer-of-action-sport-dreams
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-27, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Mastodon issues 30-day ultimatum to Trump’s social network over misuse of its code.
Paris Waiters Race Run for the First Time in 13 Years
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/paris-waiters-race-run-for-the-first-time-in-13-years
Alibaba bins listing for its Cainiao logistics limb
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Already backed away from cloud spinout, now gradually breaking up with its own breakup plan
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has decided not to spin out its logistics limb, Cainiao, and will instead buy back shares in the outfit and integrate it more deeply with its e-commerce operations.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/alibaba_cans_cainiao_ipo/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-27, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
YouTube TV lets you watch Fox, CNN, MSNBC, and BBC on one screen.
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26.html#a011909
Morphotrophic
date: 2024-03-27, from: Greg Egan’s feed
My new novel, MORPHOTROPHIC, can now be preordered.
https://www.gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html
The Talk Show: ‘Less Space Than a Nomad? Lame’
date: 2024-03-27, updated: 2024-03-27, from: Daring Fireball
https://daringfireball.net/thetalkshow/2024/03/26/ep-397
Massive Liebherr mobile electric crane lifts 300 tons in the Netherlands
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
The first massive Liebherr LHM 800e mobile electric harbor crane just reached the Hartel Terminal in Maasvlakte, the Netherlands, and the crew at Marcor Stevedoring has wasted no time putting it to work.
Top US Officials Warn Israel’s Gallant Against Invading Rafah
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — Top Biden administration officials urged Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant to abandon plans to invade the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than 1.4 million Palestinian civilians seek safety, as U.S.-Israel tensions brew over Israel’s conduct in its six-month-old war against Hamas.
In meetings Monday and Tuesday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken reaffirmed U.S. support for Israel’s right to defend itself while reiterating opposition to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned ground offensive to target Hamas in Gaza’s southernmost city on the border with Egypt.
“Our goal [is] to help Israel find an alternative to a full-scale and perhaps premature military operation that could endanger the over 1 million civilians that are sheltering in Rafah,” a senior U.S. defense official told reporters Tuesday, briefing on the condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the Pentagon.
A major ground operation in Rafah would further jeopardize the welfare of Palestinian civilians, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday. He added that Blinken underscored to Gallant that “alternatives exist” that would both better ensure Israel’s security and protect Palestinian civilians.
Amid a looming famine in Gaza, Austin warned of the “humanitarian catastrophe” in the Palestinian enclave, describing civilian casualties as “far too high” and aid deliveries as “far too low.” His remarks echoed Blinken’s calls for Israel “to immediately surge and sustain” more aid.
The Netanyahu government has denied accusations by international aid agencies and the United Nations that Israel is blocking aid and provoking famine in Gaza as part of its strategy to root out Hamas.
Similar admonitions were likely being conveyed by White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan. In a sign of potentially complicated talks, Sullivan’s meeting with Gallant, originally scheduled for Monday, was extended an extra day.
“They believed it was important to continue the conversation,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
Sullivan told reporters last week that President Joe Biden himself had warned Netanyahu an invasion in Rafah would be a mistake and urged him to have a “coherent and sustainable strategy” to defeat Hamas.
‘Don’t do it’
Netanyahu insists that the goal of “total victory” against Hamas cannot be achieved without going into Rafah, where Israel says there are four Hamas battalions composed of thousands of fighters.
Initially, the Biden administration said they would not support a Rafah offensive without sufficient protection of civilians.
Now, they’re telling Israel, “Don’t do it,” said Aaron David Miller, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and former U.S. negotiator in Middle East peace talks.
“It’s not now a question of making sure that the population is somehow safeguarded,” he told VOA. “They just don’t want the Israelis to do it.”
Despite the pressure piled on Gallant this week, the decision on Rafah would have to be taken by the Israeli War Cabinet, whose members in addition to Gallant include Netanyahu and Benny Gantz, former minister of defense and deputy prime minister, as well as two observers — opposition politician Gadi Eisenkot and Ron Dermer, Netanyahu’s close adviser.
Gallant’s meetings have been the main high-level consultation mechanism between the U.S. and its ally, as Netanyahu abruptly canceled plans for a visit by a separate Israeli delegation.
That was done in protest of Washington’s abstention at the U.N. that allowed the adoption of a Security Council resolution demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and the release of hostages held by Hamas.
Netanyahu accused the U.S. of shifting from its prior position of conditioning the cease-fire call on the release of hostages, which the administration denies.
More weapons
Gallant, a security hawk who supports a ground operation in Rafah, had aimed to use his Washington visit to ramp up the transfer of American weapons. In remarks ahead of his meeting with Austin, he said he wants to “ensure Israel’s military edge and capabilities.”
Israel needs U.S. arms not only for the campaign in Gaza but also to prepare for further escalation in the north of the country with Hezbollah in Lebanon, said Brian Finucane, senior adviser for the U.S. Program at the International Crisis Group. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, the two sides have exchanged fire through thousands of rocket and missile launches.
“The U.S. has real leverage here,” Finucane told VOA. “The best-case scenario would be if the U.S. actually did use its abundant leverage, both unilaterally and multilaterally, to try to bring about a cease-fire.”
While Biden has begun using his diplomatic leverage by abstaining at the U.N., he is unlikely to condition or restrict military aid to Israel as he aims to keep the conflict from spreading.
“The last thing he should want to do is to send an unmistakable signal to Hezbollah and Iran that we’re not prepared to back the Israelis, if, in fact, there is an escalation in the Israeli northern border,” said Miller.
The most fundamental goal for Biden right now, he said, is reaching a deal in the cease-fire negotiations in Qatar. Hamas says it will release hostages only as part of a deal that would end the war, while Israel says it will discuss only a temporary pause.
US arms for Israel
The U.S. has committed to provide Israel with nearly $4 billion a year in aid through 2028, most of it in the form of military assistance. Approximately $3.3 billion per year is given under the Foreign Military Financing program, funds that Israel must use to purchase U.S. military equipment and services.
Since the Gaza war began, the administration has quietly delivered more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel. The arms transfers were processed without public debate because the administration broke up the sales packages in amounts below the threshold that requires them to notify Congress, according to a defense official who spoke to VOA on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive military matter.
Under pressure from Democratic lawmakers, last month the White House released a National Security Memorandum requiring the U.S. secretary of state to “obtain credible and reliable written assurances” from foreign governments that U.S. weapons are used in accordance with international and humanitarian law.
Gallant delivered Israel’s required written assurances ahead of the deadline on Sunday. Under the memorandum, the State Department has until early May to formally assess and report to Congress whether those assurances are “credible and reliable.” Without it, Biden has the option of suspending further U.S. arms transfers.
So far, Biden has not indicated any willingness to do so. In his call with Netanyahu last week, the president “didn’t make threats,” Sullivan said. “Each of them recognizes that we are at a critical moment in this conflict.”
Jeff Seldin contributed to this report.
https://www.voanews.com/a/top-us-officials-warn-israel-s-gallant-against-invading-rafah/7544133.html
Daily EV Recap: Possible Tesla vans
date: 2024-03-27, from: Electrek Feed
Listen to a recap of the top stories of the day from Electrek. Quick Charge is now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn and…
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/daily-ev-recap-possible-tesla-vans/
Wednesday 27 March, 2024
date: 2024-03-27, from: John Naughton’s online diary
Picasso’s guitar? No, mine, viewed through a distorting lens. Quote of the Day ”The McDaniel hiring speaks to a long-running poverty of imagination at television’s news divisions. Network bosses have come to believe that the news is a river that … Continue reading
https://memex.naughtons.org/wednesday-27-march-2024/39286/
British Judges Want Guarantee Wikileaks’ Assange Won’t Face Death Penalty
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
Britain’s high court has ruled the United States must guarantee that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will not get the death penalty if he is extradited to the U.S. on espionage charges. Assange’s lawyers are fighting to allow a full appeal against his extradition on accusations related to Wikileaks’ publishing of stolen military files. For VOA, Henry Ridgwell reports from London.
Fire Department hosting HAZMAT drill Wednesday
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
L.A. County Fire Department officials don’t want residents to be alarmed if they see any activity or hear any alarms on Wednesday coming from HASA Inc., the longtime pool chemical manufacturer in Saugus. It’s just a drill. The agency’s Hazardous Materials Response Team is conducting a drill from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. to simulate […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/fire-department-hosting-hazmat-drill-wednesday/
Q&A: How social media affects mental health
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Social media is a big part of our everyday lives which can affect our mental health both positively and negatively. Social media can cause a number of mental health concerns,…
https://sundial.csun.edu/179840/opinions/qa-how-social-media-affects-mental-health/
Forecast calls for rain, again, possible thunder
date: 2024-03-27, from: The Signal
A wet winter is carrying into the spring, with the Santa Clarita Valley expected to stay dry during the week and then get another round of rain throughout the weekend. Even considering the rain the SCV has had this year, it’s a little unusual to get rain this late, said National Weather Service meteorologist Robbie […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/forecast-calls-for-rain-again-possible-thunder/
US Seeks to Seize Former Mongolian Prime Minister’s New York Apartments
date: 2024-03-27, from: VOA News USA
IXPE Operations Update
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
On March 23, NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) stopped transmitting valid telemetry data. The only previous interruption of IXPE science observations was due to a similar issue in June of 2023. On March 26, using procedures developed following that previous interruption, the team initiated a spacecraft avionics reset to address the issue, which put […]
https://science.nasa.gov/general/ixpe-operations-update/
AISA and CA Native Vote Project discuss the importance of white sage protection
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
Last Monday, the American Indian Student Association and California Native Vote Project hosted a presentation on the importance of white sage protection. The event took place in the Lake Balboa…
March 28: The MAIN to Host Musicians’ Jam Session
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The first Music Jam Session at The MAIN was held on Thursday, Feb. 22 and was a hit. Come out and join in for the next one on Thursday, March 28 7 p.m.-9 p.m
https://scvnews.com/march-28-the-main-to-host-musicians-jam-session/
Matadors end Big West tournament with loss to Hawaii
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Sundail (CSUN student paper)
It was a season to remember for the CSUN men’s basketball team, but eventually, all good things come to an end. The Matadors saw their season end Thursday night at…
https://sundial.csun.edu/179827/sports/matadors-end-big-west-tournament-with-loss-to-hawaii/
Named for ‘Star-Spangled Banner’ Author, Francis Scott Key Bridge Was Part of Baltimore’s Identity
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
Photos: A hike and a mural
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Signal
City of Santa Clarita staff led a community hike at Central Park on March 15 that culminated with a mural-painting activity. Each month this spring, city of Santa Clarita staff will lead a hike at different trailheads and parks located throughout the community. Each hike will feature a different activity the next hike is scheduled […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/photos-a-hike-and-a-mural/
Ramadan brings SCV Muslim community together
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Signal
As the sun set on March 10, Muslims throughout the world, including Santa Clarita, prepared for their first day of Ramadan, a lunar month-long holiday in which Muslims fast from dawn, or “fajr,” to sunset. Ramadan is the Islamic calendar’s ninth month — it is believed the first verses of the Quran were revealed to […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/ramadan-brings-scv-muslim-community-together/
Dell doubles down on layoffs, literally: 13,000 gone in the past year
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Sigh, AI to the rescue, sigh
Dell this week disclosed it has 120,000 workers, which is about 13,000 fewer than it had at the start of 2023. That means it has laid off almost double the number of people it previously indicated.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/dell_workforce_reduction/
Plasma 5: the early years
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
With KDE’s 6th Mega Release finally out the door, let’s reflect on the outgoing Plasma 5 that has served us well over the years. Can you believe it has been almost ten years since Plasma 5.0 was released? Join me on a trip down memory lane and let me tell you how it all began. This coincidentally continues pretty much where my previous retrospective blog post concluded. ↫ Kai Uwe It took them a few years after the release of Plasma 5.0, but eventually they won me over, and I’m now solid in the KDE camp, after well over a decade of either GNOME or Cinnamon. GNOME has strayed far too much away from just being a traditional desktop user interface, and Cinnamon is dragging its heels with Wayland support, but luckily KDE has spent a long time now clearing up so many of the paper cuts that used to plague them every time I tried KDE. That’s all in the past now. They’ve done a solid job cleaning up a lot of the oddities and inconsistencies during Plasma 5’s lifecycle, and I can’t wait until Fedora 40 hits the streets with Plasma 6 in tow. In the desktop Linux world, I feel KDE and Qt will always play a little bit of second fiddle to the (seemingly) much more popular GNOME and GTK+, but that’s okay – this kind of diversity and friendly competition is what makes each of these desktops better for their respective users. And this is the Linux world, after all – you’re not tied down to anything your current desktop environment does, and you’re free to switch to whatever else at a moment’s notice if some new update doesn’t sit well with you. I can’t imagine using something like macOS or Windows where you have to just accept whatever garbage they throw at you with nowhere to go.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138994/plasma-5-the-early-years/
Office of Inspector General Issues Latest Report on LASD Body Cams
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Los Angeles County Inspector General Max Huntsman of the Office of Inspector General has issued a report entitled “Tenth Report Back on Implementing Body-Worn Cameras in Los Angeles County.”
https://scvnews.com/office-of-inspector-general-issues-latest-report-on-lasd-body-cams/
Google launches Arm-optimized Chrome for Windows, teases Snapdragon X Elite boost
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
Following testing in Canary earlier this year, Google today announced that the Arm/Snapdragon version of Chrome for Windows is now rolling out to stable. Google says this version of Chrome is “fully optimized for your PC’s hardware and operating system to make browsing the web faster and smoother.” People that have been testing it report significant performance improvements over the emulated version. ↫ Abner Li at 9To5Google A big Windows on Snapdragon Elite X is about to tumble through the tech media landscape, and this Chrome release fits right into the puzzle.
SCV Search, Rescue Team completes challenging mountain training
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Signal
Members of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station’s Search and Rescue Team — highly trained volunteers called out to help lost hikers or when a vehicle goes off a cliff — passed their annual certification “with flying colors,” according to Tony Buttitta, the team’s captain. The team’s activities over the weekend at the Sierra Nevada’s […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/03/scv-search-rescue-team-completes-challenging-mountain-training/
Canonical expands Long Term Support to 12 years starting with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
Today, Canonical announced the general availability of Legacy Support, an Ubuntu Pro add-on that expands security and support coverage for Ubuntu LTS releases to 12 years. The add-on will be available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS onwards. Long term supported Ubuntu releases get five years of standard security maintenance on the main Ubuntu repository. Ubuntu Pro expands that commitment to 10 years on both the main and universe repositories, providing enterprises and end users alike access to a vast secure open source software library. The subscription also comes with a phone and ticket support tier. Ubuntu Pro paying customers can purchase an extra two years of security maintenance and support with the new Legacy Support add-on. ↫ Canonical blog Assuming all of this respects the open source licenses of the countless software packages that make up Ubuntu, this seems like a reasonable way to offer quite a long support lifecycle for those that really need it. Such support doesn’t come free, and it I think it’s entirely reasonable to try and get compensated for the work required in maintaining that level of support for 10 or 12 years. If you want this kind of longevity from your Linux installation without paying for it, you’ll have to maintain it yourself. Seems reasonable to me.
One Year Since Arrest, Journalist Gershkovich Remains in Russian Prison
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
As American journalist Evan Gershkovich marks one year in Russian prison, his family and colleagues fight for his release. VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has the story. Camera: Mino Dargakis
Canyons Closes Out Ventura 7-2 in Final Home Match
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
College of the Canyons women’s tennis played to a convincing 7-2 conference win over Ventura College on Moica to strengthen its potential playoff resume
https://scvnews.com/canyons-closes-out-ventura-7-2-in-final-home-match/
Walmart just funded 15 community solar projects across the US
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Walmart is investing in 19 solar projects under development across the US, including 15 community solar projects.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/walmart-just-funded-15-community-solar-projects-across-the-us/
Development Gone Wrong
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
More than 4,000 high-density units in 1.5 square miles will affect our quality of life for generations to come.
The post Development Gone Wrong appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/03/26/development-gone-wrong/
Intel chases smaller code shops with expanded AI PC dev program, NUC kit
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Chipzilla wants more apps coded for NPUs, not Nvidia
Intel has expanded its efforts to encourage programmers to code for so-called “AI PCs” by targeting smaller software houses with a development kit based on Asus’s NUC 14 Pro PC.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/intel_ai_pc_developer_push/
US Aims to Tap Domestic Lithium Supply Without Chinese Products
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
washington — Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Energy announced a record conditional loan of $2.26 billion to tap the largest known lithium reserves in North America. The loan is an important step in an effort by the U.S. government to reduce reliance on China for the metal used to make batteries.
Analysts, however, say that it may be too late to move away from reliance on China completely when it comes to metal processing and the production of batteries.
The DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) says the funds, if approved after review, will help the Lithium Americas Corp. construct a lithium carbonate processing plant at the Thacker Pass mine project in Humboldt County, Nevada.
The LPO says the project would help “secure reliable, sustainable domestic supply chains for critical materials, which are key to reaching our ambitious clean energy and climate goals and reducing our reliance on economic competitors like China.”
Lithium Americas Corp. on its official website says battery materials could be “completely sourced and manufactured in the U.S., bringing down the overall carbon footprint, transport costs and supply chain risks.”
The LPO says lithium carbonate from Thacker Pass could eventually support the production of batteries “for up to 800,000 electric vehicles (EVs) per year, saving 317 million gallons of gasoline per year.”
Although the U.S. has made pioneering and groundbreaking contributions to the development of the lithium ion battery, industry experts say lithium processing and EV battery production is dominated today by China.
“Parts of our key supply chains, including for clean energy, are currently over concentrated in China,” said U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in prepared remarks March 2 when she visited a U.S. lithium processing facility in Chile, which holds the world’s largest reserves of the metal.
“This makes America more vulnerable to shocks in China, or whatever country dominates production, from natural disasters to macroeconomic forces, to deliberate actions such as economic coercion.”
A report last year by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development said China increased restrictions on its exports of critical minerals ninefold between 2009 and 2020.
Data from the U.S. Geological Survey shows the output and scale of lithium mines in Australia and Argentina far exceed China’s. In 2022, Australia’s lithium mine output was more than three times China’s.
Refining, processing still issues
But industry experts say while Western countries have poured a lot of investment into developing raw minerals, they have paid little attention to refining and processing, areas in which China dominates.
Ellen R. Wald, a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, tells VOA, “Lithium is not useful just as it is. You have to refine it to make what’s used in the batteries. And that’s really where China controls the supply chain because almost all of the refining for lithium that creates it into the substance that can be used to make batteries is done in China.”
According to the Chatham House, Chinese companies accounted for about 72% of global lithium refining capacity in 2022.
China also dominates much of the global market for battery-related equipment, leaving limited options for U.S. companies that want to showcase their domestic production credentials.
American Battery Factory Inc., or ABF, is an emerging battery manufacturer that says it is “the first network of entirely U.S.-owned vertical manufacturing, supply chain and R&D for Lithium Iron Phosphate battery cells in the United States.”
But to secure custom automation equipment and machinery for use in its first large-scale rechargeable battery factory in Tucson, Arizona, it has formed a partnership with Lead Intelligent Equipment, a Chinese company.
Dependent on China
In an article in January, Wald said China is in a good position to restrict access to lithium-ion batteries to certain countries or companies as it wishes, and if the U.S. military suddenly finds itself in need of more specialized batteries, the Pentagon may not be able to obtain them.
In February 2022, China announced sanctions against Lockheed Martin, the manufacturer of the F-35 fighter jet, and Raytheon Technologies, the world’s largest missile manufacturer. Although China did not specify the details of the sanctions, it is generally considered to be a possible threat to cut off the Western countries’ supply of critical minerals.
Wald told VOA, “The U.S. defense industry is basically dependent on China for these specialized batteries that they need in all of their drones and their surveillance systems and all sorts of things.”
David Whittle, adjunct professor in resource engineering at the Department of Civil Engineering at Monash University in Australia, told VOA even if “the world develops a robust, independent supply chain for lithium, up to the point of battery chemical production, at present, China would still be the largest customer for those chemicals, since it is the largest cell manufacturer, the largest battery pack manufacturer, the largest E.V. manufacturer and the largest market for E.V.s.”
The Thacker Pass lithium mine is located at the southern end of the McDermitt Caldera, and is considered to be one of the largest in the world.
The record loan to Lithium Americas Corp. is the largest such loan the U.S. has offered for the development of a lithium mine project since the country stepped up its efforts to build a domestic supply chain for critical minerals in recent years.
The Thacker Pass lithium project is not expected to start production until 2028, and even then, Wald said, that goal may be too ambitious. The mine plans to extract lithium from clay, but Wald says it has never been mined in this way on a commercial scale. In addition, the mine is in a remote and sparsely populated location, requiring the company to build housing for workers and their families and to reassess its environmental impact.
Despite the challenges, Wald said creating a secure supply chain is not impossible for the U.S.
“I don’t think it’s too late,” Wald said. “Will they be able to compete with China globally? Probably not. But can we create non-Chinese sustainable and secure supply chains? Yeah, we can do it.”
Whittle said Western countries being “resilient to challenges from China” can’t mean “isolated from China” anymore, but resilience is still possible.
The DOE’s LPO said while their announcement shows intent to give the loan, the company must first satisfy certain technical, legal, environmental and financial conditions before the funds will be released.
Adrianna Zhang contributed to this report.
May 7: Latino Business Alliance Cinco de Mayo Celebration
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Join the Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce with the Latino Business Alliance at the Cinco de Mayo Networking Celebration on Tuesday, May 7.
https://scvnews.com/may-7-latino-business-alliance-cinco-de-mayo-celebration/
Angela Voller Zerad, 1921-2024.
date: 2024-03-26, from: James Fallows, Substack
A remarkable life, which her whole family is grateful to have shared.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/angela-voller-zerad-1921-2024
Adopt a Cat During March Meowness at Castaic Animal Center
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control is hosting March Meowness promotion where all cat adoptions are just $15 from now until April 9.
https://scvnews.com/adopt-a-cat-during-march-meowness-at-castaic-animal-center/
Critics Slam Apple CEO Tim Cook for Laudatory Remarks in China
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
Washington — Tim Cook, CEO of the American technology giant Apple, is facing criticism at home over laudatory remarks he made about China during a recent visit to try to boost sagging iPhone sales in the lucrative market.
Cook was in Shanghai for the opening of China’s largest Apple retail store on Friday and met with Chinese political and business people. He praised China for being “so vibrant and so dynamic,” in remarks widely quoted by state media and Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying.
The new Apple store took seven years and cost over 80 million yuan (roughly $11.1 million) to build. It is said to be the second largest in the world and the largest in Asia, and it is staffed by about 150 people.
Thursday evening, at least 12 hours before the scheduled opening, a long line had formed in front of the store. Some media said the crowds were “as bustling as New Year’s Eve.”
In addition to showing their loyalty to the brand by purchasing Apple products, the opening day crowds rushed to take photos with Cook, who was in the store at the event.
Dan Ives, a technology analyst on Wall Street, said on X, formerly Twitter, that Cook’s trip to China shows that Apple will continue to attach importance to the Chinese market.
“Apple is actually increasing its investments and retail footprint in China the past year,” he said, “and to this point Cook has been in China since last week on an important visit to lay the groundwork on Apple’s future in China. Cook reaffirming China strategy.”
Chinese media reported on Monday that Apple will cooperate with Chinese technology company Baidu to provide artificial intelligence capabilities to the iPhones sold in China this year. Baidu has not verified the report.
However, not all Chinese love Apple. A viral video clip on Chinese social media shows a middle-aged Chinese woman in yellow clothes, a baseball cap and a mask yelling at the people who queued up at the new Apple store the night before its opening, “You worship and favor foreign things.”
She also said Apple’s business expansion in China is “because of scum like you who are willing to pay for it.”
A person in the line said, “Do you know how many jobs Apple brings to China every year?”
The woman replied, “No need, we have our own Huawei!”
The drama reflects the challenges Apple is facing in China. IPhone shipments in China fell about 33% in February from a year earlier, according to official data, marking a second consecutive month of lower shipments.
In January, the company shipped a total of roughly 5.5 million units, or about 39% fewer handsets than in the prior year, according to China Academy of Information and Communications Technology figures.
Frank Lee, a senior partner of Blue Ocean Capital in Beijing, said that most Chinese iPhone users have a good experience with Apple products, so they remain loyal to the brand. However, there is a clear trend of declining sales of Apple products due to competition with Chinese domestic brands.
Lee told VOA, “I think Apple’s opening of a store in Shanghai will play a certain role in [boosting] its sales in China, but it cannot fundamentally reverse the overall slow decline trend of iPhones in China.”
However, Cook expressed his confidence in the Chinese market. He told the Chinese media, “I love the people and the culture [of China]. Every time I come here, I’m reminded that anything is possible here.”
Cook’s remarks have been criticized as glorifying the Chinese government’s arrogant treatment of private enterprises.
Jonathan Eyal, associate director of the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies in the U.K., wrote on X, “‘Everything is possible’ in China, says Apple’s Tim Cook. Including being arrested and expropriated. And losing the market at a stroke of a bureaucratic pen.”
Theresa Fallon, director at the Centre for Russia Europe Asia Studies, wrote, “Apple chief Tim Cook’s obsequious praise for China … unlikely to reverse the tide and CCP mandates that government officials can’t use Apple phones.”
Bloomberg reported last year that a growing number of Chinese government agencies and state-owned enterprises were ordering employees not to bring iPhones and other foreign-brand phones to the workplace. China’s Foreign Ministry did not confirm the report.
Some observers believe Cook’s remarks were not sincere. In recent years, Apple has expanded its production in India. Last year, iPhones made in India appeared for the first time in the first batch of iPhone 15 models released globally.
However, others say China is irreplaceable to the global supply chain. They noted that Apple has faced challenges in efficiency since its supplier Foxconn moved production lines to India in the past couple of years.
Noah Smith, an American current affairs columnist, wrote, “LOLLLLLLL meanwhile he’s shifting production out of China as fast as he can.”
Some critics of Cook are more serious. Sophie Richardson, former China director at Human Rights Watch, said, “.@tim_cook, about those”vibrant” and “dynamic” #crimesagainsthumanity committed by your #China govt hosts…?“
Eli Friedman, associate professor of global labor and work at Cornell University, said the past mutually beneficial relationship between Beijing and American companies is no longer playing a diplomatic role.
He wrote, “Throwing Apple some treats will not help stabilize the U.S.-China relationship, I promise.”
Adrianna Zhang and Joyce Huang contributed to this report.
Chrome for Windows-Arm laptops officially lands in time for Snapdragon X Elite kit
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
At last, no more crappy emulation or experimental builds
The first official release of Chrome for Windows-on-Arm laptops is landing this week, in time for this summer’s Snapdragon X Elite-powered notebooks running Microsoft’s operating system.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/arm_chrome_google_windows/
US, China at Odds Over Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-china-at-odds-over-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-/7543683.html
Lenovo Tab P12 with Matte Display could be a tablet made for readers (leaks)
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
Most modern tablets have glossy touchscreen displays which respond well to touch and generally look good indoors. But take them outside or put them under a bright light bulb and they have a habit of turning into mirrors unless you crank the brightness all the way up (assuming they even have screens that can get bright […]
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https://liliputing.com/lenovo-tab-p12-with-matte-display-could-be-a-tablet-made-for-readers-leaks/
CSUN Partners with Fernandeño Tataviam Band to Build Urban Forests
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
California State University, Northridge is partnering with the Fernandeño Tataviam Band of Mission Indians and the Tataviam Land Conservancy to battle the impact of climate change in disadvantaged communities throughout the San Fernando Valley by establishing “urban forests.”
https://scvnews.com/csun-partners-with-fernandeno-tataviam-band-to-build-urban-forests/
Utility Relocation Work for Project Connect to Begin This Week
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Utility relocation work for Project Connect will begin this week (week of March 25, 2024) and will take several weeks
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April 15: SCAA Presents Debbie Abshear Watercolor Demo
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Join the Santa Clarita Artists Association on Monday, April 15, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Barnes and Noble, 23630 Valencia Blvd., Valencia, CA 91355, for the SCAA monthly meeting and guest demonstrator.
https://scvnews.com/april-15-scaa-presents-debbie-abshear-watercolor-demo/
Feds Recently Hit Cargo Giant In Baltimore Disaster For Silencing Whistleblowers
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Lever News
Regulators cited Maersk for its “illegal policy” blocking employees from reporting safety concerns to the Coast Guard.
BYD Celebrates Production Of Its 7 Millionth Plug-In Vehicle
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
All-electric car sales reached 3.5 million and are increasing at a similar rate to Tesla sales.
https://insideevs.com/news/713833/byd-7-millionth-plugin-vehicle/
Ford hints at an Escape-sized electric SUV with the interior space of an Explorer
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Is Ford finally going to launch an electric Explorer in the US? Ford’s CEO John Lawler said at the BofA Auto Summit Tuesday an Escape-sized electric SUV can offer the same interior space as its best-selling Explorer on its new EV platform.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/ford-hints-escape-sized-ev-with-interior-space-explorer/
$1.12 Billion Mega Millions Drawing Nears, Followed by $865 Million Powerball Prize
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
DES MOINES, Iowa — Another day, another giant lottery jackpot.
Next up is an estimated $1.12 billion Mega Millions prize on Tuesday night, enticing players who hope to win the eighth-largest prize in U.S. lottery history even though no one has won the jackpot since December 8, 2023. That is 30 consecutive drawings without a jackpot winner.
Miss out on that drawing? No problem. There will be a drawing Wednesday night for an estimated $865 million Powerball jackpot. No one has won that prize either since New Year’s Day, making for 36 drawings without a winner.
For both games, the long drought of jackpots is no accident. The games have long odds specifically to create large jackpots that will generate lots of interest and sales.
For Mega Millions, the odds are 1 in 302.6 million, and for Powerball they are 1 in 292.2 million.
The $1.12 billion Mega Millions prize is for a sole winner who chooses to be paid through an annuity over 30 years. A winner who opts for a cash payout would get $537.5 million.
Those winnings would be subject to federal taxes, and some states also tax lottery winnings.
Mega Millions is played in 45 states plus Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Powerball also is played in those states as well as Washington, D.C., the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
Musical Chairs at Helm of Santa Barbara Public Library
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Senior Assistant to the City Administrator Brandon Beaudette has been appointed as new interim director following a big shake-up at the library.
The post Musical Chairs at Helm of Santa Barbara Public Library appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/03/26/musical-chairs-at-helm-of-santa-barbara-public-library/
Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara Offers Free Income Tax Services to the Community
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Barbara, CA, March 26, 2024 – The Housing Authority of the City of Santa Barbara (HACSB) partners with the Internal Revenue Service
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La Ceremonia de Entrega de los Premios WEV Emprendimiento Celebra las Historias de Éxito de Empresas Propiedad Hispana en el Condado de Santa Bárbara
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Maria, CA – El 20 de marzo, Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV, pronunciado “wiv”) organizó una ceremonia de premiación en
The post La Ceremonia de Entrega de los Premios WEV Emprendimiento Celebra las Historias de Éxito de Empresas Propiedad Hispana en el Condado de Santa Bárbara appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
You can make friends with crows, and this thread from Carl T…
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/0044255-you-can-make-friends-with
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-26, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Just noticed today that MacOS puts a little bit of resistance when you are pushing a window towards another, or when you align them on the sides/edges.
Makes it so that it is easy to get your windows aligned or perfectly side-by-side.
Not sure when this first came up, but it is such a nice touch.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112163930750830433
WEV Emprendimiento Awards Ceremony Celebrates Success Stories of Hispanic Entrepreneurs in Santa Barbara County
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Santa Maria, CA – On March 20th Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV, pronounced “weave”) hosted an Award Ceremony at the Santa
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‘Santa Barbara News-Press’ Bankruptcy Trustee Asks Judge to Find Wendy McCaw in Contempt of Court
date: 2024-03-26, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
McCaw’s attorneys meanwhile seek to have the lawsuit over her allegedly fraudulent building transfers dismissed.
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These Small Birds Flutter Their Wings to Say ‘After You’ to Their Partner
date: 2024-03-26, from: Smithsonian Magazine
A new study of Japanese tits provides the first evidence of non-primate animals using gestures to convey messages
US President Biden Wins Missouri Democratic Primary
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
COLUMBIA, MISSOURI — U.S. President Joe Biden has won Missouri’s primary, the state Democratic Party announced.
Biden’s win was not in doubt; he has already beaten his major competitors. But the primary races are still closely watched by insiders for turnout and signs of protest voters.
Saturday’s primary was the Missouri Democratic Party’s first party-run presidential contest since a new law took effect in August 2022.
The party says about 20,000 voters participated.
Missouri Republicans opted to hold a caucus this year, which former President Donald Trump won.
Lawmakers have failed to reinstate the state-run primary despite calls to do so by both state Republican and Democratic party leaders.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-president-biden-wins-missouri-democratic-primary/7543622.html
NASA Selects First Lunar Instruments for Artemis Astronaut Deployment
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
NASA has chosen the first science instruments designed for astronauts to deploy on the surface of the Moon during Artemis III. Once installed near the lunar South Pole, the three instruments will collect valuable scientific data about the lunar environment, the lunar interior, and how to sustain a long-duration human presence on the Moon, which […]
Beware of Attacks Using Password Reset Request Notifications
date: 2024-03-26, from: TidBITS blog
Brian Krebs covers an attack that exploits a vulnerability in the Apple ID password reset process to deluge users with requests to reset the password. Consider yourself forewarned.
https://tidbits.com/2024/03/26/beware-of-attacks-using-password-reset-request-notifications/
Canva Acquires Affinity/Serif
date: 2024-03-26, from: Michael Tsai
Jess Weatherbed (Hacker News, MacRumors, Mac Power Users): Web-based design platform Canva has acquired the Affinity creative software suite, positioning itself as a challenger to Adobe’s grip over the digital design industry. Canva announced the deal on Tuesday, which gives the company ownership over Affinity Designer, Photo, and Publisher — three popular creative applications for […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/26/canva-acquires-affinity-serif/
DMA Non-Compliance Investigations
date: 2024-03-26, from: Michael Tsai
European Commission (via Hacker News, MacRumors): Today, the Commission has opened non-compliance investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) into Alphabet’s rules on steering in Google Play and self-preferencing on Google Search, Apple’s rules on steering in the App Store and the choice screen for Safari and Meta’s “pay or consent model”.The Commission suspects that […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/26/dma-non-compliance-investigations/
Movie Piracy App Tops App Store Charts
date: 2024-03-26, from: Michael Tsai
Joshua Long: On Tuesday, [March] 12, a researcher named Kedsayahm noticed that an app that featured pirated TV shows and movies was quickly climbing the charts in the App Store. The app was already #1 in the Entertainment category in Egypt at the time, and in the top 10 for Entertainment in at least three […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/26/movie-piracy-app-tops-app-store-charts/
How to Recover macOS Recovery
date: 2024-03-26, from: Michael Tsai
Howard Oakley: Rarely, the Recovery volume becomes deleted, or the secure disk image it should contain gets removed. Unfortunately the only means of restoring it is to perform a macOS update, and even then some Macs seem unable to recover Recovery without the boot volume group being deleted and installed from scratch, best performed when […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/03/26/how-to-recover-macos-recovery/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Tesla is pushing a free one-month trial of its FSD Beta driver-assistance software to US customers.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/tesla-fsd-beta-free-trial-promotion-driver-assistance/
The Real Point of Republicans’ Energy Week
date: 2024-03-26, from: Heatmap News
Republicans in Washington do not have a great track record executing themed policy weeks. Consider the Trump administration’s original 2017 Infrastructure Week, which had the misfortune of coinciding with former FBI Director James Comey’s live testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. Or take the Infrastructure Week scheduled a few months after that, which Trump famously derailed by blaming “both sides” for the white supremacist-initiated violence in Charlottesville. Or take the Infrastructure Week after that one, when — well, you get it.
Past attempts at holding an Energy Week haven’t fared much better, and unless you’re an incredibly close reader of procedural political news, it’s possible you missed that last week was an Energy Week, too. (What else could you possibly have been thinking about?)
On the surface, Energy Week 2024 didn’t offer much worth paying attention to, which could also explain the absence of headlines. The House used the occasion to vote on four energy-related bills that have no chance of surviving in the Democrat-controlled Senate: H.R. 1023 (passed 209-204), which would repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund; H.R. 1121 (passed 229-188, with 15 Democratic “yeas”), which prevents the president from imposing a moratorium on fracking without the authorization of Congress; H.R. 6009 (passed 216-200), a Lauren Boebert-sponsored bill that would block the Interior’s update of oil and gas leasing regulations; and H.R.7023 (passed 213-205), which chips away at Clean Water Act rules. The House also passed two non-binding resolutions, one that “denounces the harmful, anti-American energy policies of the Biden administration” and another that condemns the carbon tax, which saw 10 vulnerable Democrats join Republicans voting in favor of it.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer called these efforts “bogus and nasty,” so it seems pretty clear these bills are destined to die somewhere between the House and Senate chambers, and the left mostly laughed them off. California Democratic Representative Scott Peters slammed Energy Week as an “unserious messaging exercise.” The Environmental Defense Fund called the week a waste. Longtime Hill commentator Jamie Dupree treated the affair to an eye roll in his Substack, noting that three of the bills voted on last week — H.R. 1121, H.R. 1023, and H.R. 1141 — were already approved by the House as part of the Lower Energy Costs Act (H.R. 1) last spring.
House Republican Leader Steve Scalise seemed to acknowledge this overlap in a recent interview with E&E News, complaining that H.R. 1 has languished in the Senate “for about a year now” — though, as Dupree points out, the bill never actually got sent by the House to the upper chamber, a delay for which “I can’t get any Republicans on Capitol Hill to give me a straight answer,” Dupree wrote.
In other words, Energy Week appears to be a classic case of political theater. But that doesn’t mean it was all meaningless. It’s always worth asking who, exactly, is all the song and dance for?
It may not have been another unfortunate policy-week coincidence that Energy Week lined up perfectly with CERAWeek, the energy summit held in Houston, where the head of Saudi Aramco called the phase-out of oil and gas a “fantasy.” What was not included on the Energy Week slate is also revealing — for instance, Washington Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers’ hydropower permitting bill. Perhaps it was excluded because it would have represented an actual attempt at policy-making, which is not what Energy Week was all about?
Danielle Butcher Franz, the CEO of the American Conservation Coalition’s Action Fund, told me in an emailed statement that she thinks “Congressional Republicans were right to celebrate American energy and push for domestic energy production” last week. But she also expressed disappointment over the party missing a “critical opportunity to demonstrate that American energy is clean energy,” and called the dismissal of climate change by some of the Republican members “frustrating and unproductive.” Butcher Franz added, for example, that expanding nuclear energy, building more energy projects, and beating China could have been “conservative approaches” to lowering emissions that nevertheless were absent from the slate of energy bills.
Energy Week wasn’t entirely pointless as a policymaking exercise, though. Sure, it was largely a wink to donors, but it also marked a show of alignment on priorities at a time when Republicans’ ability to get things done could reasonably make fossil fuel interests nervous. That Energy Week’s bills also align with the goals of the Heritage Foundation-authored playbook for a Republican presidency is further reassurance that the party is pursuing policies aimed at reducing barriers to new leasing and drilling rather than repeating the chaos of the previous administration. It’s organized. It’s intentional. It’s setting the stage.
Of course, none of this will matter if Democrats and climate-moderate Republicans win elections this year. But if that doesn’t happen, well — we might end up looking back at Energy Week and wondering how we ever missed it.
https://heatmap.news/politics/energy-week-republicans
Safari 17.4.1
date: 2024-03-26, from: TidBITS blog
https://tidbits.com/watchlist/safari-17-4-1/
Tesla wants to bring ‘private 5G’ to its EVs and Optimus robot
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla is working on “private 5G” infrastructure to be connected to its electric vehicles and Optimus robot.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/tesla-private-5g-evs-optimus-robot/
April 6: Grand Opening for Santa Clarita’s 38th Park
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Residents are invited to join members of the Santa Clarita City Council for a special ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the addition of Santa Clarita’s 38th park, Skyline Ranch Park, 18355 Skyline Ranch Road, Santa Clarita, CA 91351, to the Santa Clarita parks system on Saturday, April 6, at 10 a.m
https://scvnews.com/april-6-grand-opening-for-santa-claritas-38th-park/
Planning a Road Trip for the Total Solar Eclipse? Here’s Why You Should Drive Extra Carefully
date: 2024-03-26, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Scientists found a 31 percent increase in fatal car crashes around the 2017 total solar eclipse, akin to spikes in traffic risk on busy holiday weekends
WWDC 2024 Scheduled for June 10–14
date: 2024-03-26, from: TidBITS blog
Mark your calendars—Apple has announced that its Worldwide Developer Conference will kick off on 10 June 2024. Will the keynote bring an AI-powered version of Siri?
https://tidbits.com/2024/03/26/wwdc-2024-scheduled-for-june-10-14/
CADRE Rovers’ Test Drive in the Mars Yard
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
Two full-scale development model rovers, part of NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration, drive in the Mars Yard at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California in this image from August 2023. The project is designed to show that a group of robotic spacecraft can work together as a team to […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/cadre-rovers-test-drive-in-the-mars-yard/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
15 WordPress Pro Developers You Should Follow in 2024.
https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/03/26/wordpress-developers-to-follow-2024/
Musical Clock Museum in Utrecht
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/musical-clock-museum-in-utrecht
★ The EU’s Share of Apple’s Global Revenue
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Daring Fireball
The DMA allows the EC to penalize “gatekeepers” with fines that are vastly disproportionate to the amount of revenue they generate in EU member states.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/eu_share_of_apples_revenue
Pushing People into Poverty and Public Health Crisis: Maryland’s Recent Energy Cost Increases Could Add Up to an Equity Disaster
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: RAND blog
This month, utility prices began increasing throughout Baltimore City and in nearby counties, and will continue to increase over the next two years. The U.S. Department of Energy is taking key steps to work directly with communities affected by undue energy burdens to better understand how to improve the equity of the energy system. Maryland could follow that example.
Waiters Race Through the Streets of Paris While Balancing Trays of Coffee and Croissants
date: 2024-03-26, from: Smithsonian Magazine
About 200 servers competed in the 1.2-mile race—a tradition that goes back to 1914
Trump Faces Gag Order in New York Hush Money Criminal Case
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — Donald Trump on Tuesday was hit with a judge’s gag order sought by prosecutors in his upcoming criminal trial involving hush money paid to a porn star, restricting him from publicly commenting about witnesses and court staff.
Ahead of the former U.S. president’s trial, which is scheduled to begin April 15 in the New York state court, Justice Juan Merchan granted a request for the order made last month by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office.
The prosecution sought an order blocking Trump from “making or directing others to make” statements about witnesses concerning their role in the case and from commenting on court staff and prosecutors other than Bragg himself.
Silencing Trump was necessary because of his “longstanding history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, judges and others involved in legal proceedings against him,” prosecutors said.
Trump’s lawyers argued that a gag order would violate his right to free speech under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment, leaving him defenseless against attacks by political opponents over the case.
Merchan separately ruled on March 7 that jurors were to remain anonymous except to Trump, his lawyers, prosecutors and a handful of others, after prosecutors highlighted Trump’s history of publicly deriding trial jurors and grand jurors.
Bragg’s case is one of four criminal indictments the Republican presidential candidate faces, with Trump pleading not guilty in all the cases and portraying them as politically motivated.
It could be the only case to reach trial before his expected Nov. 5 rematch with President Joe Biden.
Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to hide reimbursements to his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a $130,000 payment to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence before the 2016 election about a sexual encounter she claimed to have had with Trump a decade earlier.
Trump has denied having the encounter with Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
The requested gag order was similar to restrictions a federal judge imposed last year in a criminal case over Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss to Biden.
Trump also faces state criminal charges in Georgia over his push to reverse the 2020 results, and federal criminal charges in Florida over his handling of sensitive government documents after leaving the White House in 2021.
In a separate civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James, another New York state judge fined Trump $15,000 last year for twice violating a gag order against publicly talking about court staff.
Trump is appealing a $454.2 million judgment in that case for misstating the values of his family real estate company’s properties to dupe lenders. On March 25, a midlevel state appeals court paused that judgment as long as Trump posts a smaller $175 million bond within 10 days.
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-faces-gag-order-in-new-york-hush-money-criminal-case/7543508.html
Grand Opening for Santa Clarita’s 38th Park!
date: 2024-03-26, from: City of Santa Clarita
GRAND OPENING FOR SANTA CLARITA’S 38TH PARK! Join the City for the Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony for Skyline Ranch Park Get ready for the grand opening of the 38th park in the City of Santa Clarita! Residents are invited to join members of the Santa Clarita City Council for a special ribbon-cutting ceremony to celebrate the addition […]
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https://santaclarita.gov/blog/2024/03/26/grand-opening-for-santa-claritas-38th-park/
The Baltimore Bridge Collapse Is Throwing the U.S. Coal Market for a Loop
date: 2024-03-26, from: Heatmap News
The Port of Baltimore — currently closed to container traffic thanks to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning — plays a pivotal role in the energy trade, but not for anything that the Biden administration would like to talk about. It’s not some major nexus for clean energy components (although many cars go in and out of it), or even the liquefied natural gas that the U.S. proudly ships to Europe (that’s about 80 miles south at the Cove Point in Lusby, Maryland).
Instead, what’s flowing through Baltimore is coal.
The Port of Baltimore is the second largest coal export facility in the U.S. About 20% of U.S. the country’s coal exports ran through the port in 2022, according to the Energy Information Administration. In the first nine months of 2023, the most recent period for which data is available, about 20 million short tons of coal traveled through the port, a 20% jump from the same period in 2022. (At the Port of Virginia, about 150 nautical miles to the south, that figure was 26 million short tons, up just 6% from the beginning of 2022.)
U.S. coal largely went to Europe and Asia, with big jumps in exports to Indonesia and Vietnam. The biggest recipients of U.S. coal are India, South Korea, China, and the Netherlands, where coal is shipped for transport across Europe.
The projected block up of coal exports could last more than a month, one coal shipping executive told Bloomberg. While it’s still unknown exactly how long the port will be closed to container traffic, the effect of the collapse is already visible in the stock prices of coal companies that use the port.
Shares of Consol Energy, for instance, which ships more than 10 million
tons of coal annually through a terminal at the Port of Baltimore, are
down 7% for the day. Consol’s coal comes from mines in southeastern
Pennsylvania and southern West Virginia, where it’s then shipped by rail
to Baltimore. Shares of one rail company that services the terminal,
Norfolk Southern, dipped in early trading Tuesday but were flat Tuesday
afternoon, while shares in CSX, the other rail company that serves
Consol’s terminal, were down 2%.
“We do not have a definitive
timeline of when vessel access or normal operations will resume,” Consol
said
in a statement Tuesday. “We are looking at all available options to
us to minimize or address direct and indirect impacts to the Company and
its operations.”
In terms of its effects on the overall energy market, the port’s indefinite closure could be mild and may actually result in lower energy prices in the Northeast, as coal that would have been exported becomes, essentially, stranded stateside, Greg Brew, an analyst at the Eurasia Group, told me. But even this effect may be muted, Brew explained, because the weather is warming up with the end of winter, meaning there’s less demand on natural gas for heating.
“That can’t be too affected by more cheap coal sitting around,” Brew said.
The port is also a major throughway for imports and exports of cars, with around 750,000 cars going through it. GM and Ford said that they were diverting shipments around the port.
https://heatmap.news/sparks/baltimore-bridge-coal
Antarctica Starts Here. | Reminiscing on the necessity of adblocking
date: 2024-03-26, from: Tilde.news
https://drwho.virtadpt.net/archive/2022-11-11/reminiscing-on-the-necessity-of-adblocking/
Alpha Motor Adds $36,000 Base Wolf Pickup EV To Its Long List Of Fantasy Models
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
It looks adorable, but the California-based startup has yet to build a customer-spec vehicle.
https://insideevs.com/news/713878/alpha-motor-base-rwd-wolf-pickup/
Intricate mission to de-ice a space telescope is go: Euclid’s ‘eye’ is clear
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
100 minutes of heating to melt a frozen heart… 1.5 million kilometers away from Earth
Boffins at the European Space Agency (ESA) are very pleased with themselves following confirmation that the de-icing process they devised for Euclid’s optics has “performed significantly better than hoped.”…
Kia taps former Mercedes, BMW designers to lead the brand’s EV transition in key regions
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Kia aims to boost sales with improved tech and designs. To help its transition, Kia is bringing on former longtime Mercedes-Benz and BMW designers.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/kia-taps-former-mercedes-bmw-designers-amid-ev-shift/
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission Awarded Collier Trophy
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
NASA and the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) mission team have won the National Aeronautic Association’s (NAA) Robert J. Collier Trophy. NAA awards the trophy annually for what it determines is “the greatest achievement in aerospace and astronautics in America.” The OSIRIS-REx team will be celebrated at an award […]
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/nasas-osiris-rex-mission-awarded-collier-trophy/
Intel Meteor Lake makes unexpected leap to socketed motherboards
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
But not, we repeat, not on the desktop
Intel’s Meteor Lake processors will apparently make it to socketed motherboards after all, but not those of traditional desktops.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/intel_meteor_lake_socket/
Order Up: High School Students Compete to Launch Their Food into Space with NASA HUNCH Culinary Competition
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
On Monday, Feb. 26, visitors to the Integrated Engineering Services Building at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, were greeted by the mouthwatering smell of roasted garlic, sautéed peppers and onions, fragrant herbs, and the unexpected discovery that the building’s main hallway had been turned into a pop-up kitchen for local high school students. […]
University Teams Selected as Finalists to Envision New Aviation Responses to Natural Disasters
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
Eight teams participating in the 2024 Gateways to Blue Skies: Advancing Aviation for Natural Disasters Competition have been selected to present their design concepts to a panel of industry experts at the 2024 Blue Skies Forum, May 30 and 31, 2024 at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. Sponsored by NASA’s Aeronautics Research […]
Robots Writing Letters for Humans
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/robots-writing-letters-for-humans-/7543430.html
LogOn: Robots Hand Write Letters for Humans
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
Not long ago, people wrote letters by hand. But like many things eclipsed by modern technology, handwritten letters are less common than they used to be. Now, that technology has started writing those letters. VOA’s Julie Taboh introduces us to handwriting robots in this week’s episode of LogOn.
https://www.voanews.com/a/logon-robots-hand-write-letters-for-humans/7542983.html
US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Financial firms that help evade existing restrictions in crosshairs
It’s sanctions central at the US Treasury this week as a further 15 are slapped on organizations and individuals in Russia.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/us_sanctions_russian_entities/
US Sanctions Assad Supporters Over Drug Trafficking
date: 2024-03-26, from: VOA News USA
Washington — The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned 11 people and companies on Tuesday it said were involved in illicit financial transfers and drug smuggling in support of the government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
Many of those sanctioned were involved in the trade of the highly addictive amphetamine captagon, which is illegally trafficked throughout the Middle East and Europe, the Treasury Department said in a statement.
Syria has become the world’s leading producer of the powerful drug, and its trade has helped bolster the Assad’s government’s coffers during the country’s long-running civil war.
“The revenue from the illicit Captagon trade has become a major source of income for the Assad regime, the Syrian armed forces, and Syrian paramilitary forces,” the Treasury Department said in a statement.
Those sanctioned include a Syrian national called Taher al-Kayali, who allegedly operates a company that purchased vessels to smuggle captagon and hashish.
Maya Exchange Company, another Syria-based firm, is alleged to have facilitated “millions” of dollars of illicit transactions to benefit the Syrian government.
“The Assad regime continues to employ a variety of schemes to evade sanctions and sustain its longstanding campaign of repression against its own citizens,” Treasury under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence Brian Nelson said in a statement.
This includes “trafficking in illegal drugs, exploiting currency exchanges, and leveraging seemingly legitimate businesses,” he continued.
“The United States remains committed to holding accountable those who seek to support this illicit financial activity at the expense of the Syrian people,” he added.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-sanctions-assad-supporters-over-drug-trafficking/7543338.html
Save $700 on Vanpowers City Vanture e-bike for $999, Segway F2 Pro kickscooter hits $650 low, electric tools, more
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Headlining today’s green deals is the launch of Vanpowers’ Easter sale that is taking up to $700 off a selection of e-bike models, led by the City Vanture Urban e-bike for $999. It is joined by the Segway Ninebot F2 Pro Electric KickScooter hitting a new $650 low, as well as the BLACK+DECKER 20V MAX Cordless Electric Chainsaw falling to $85. 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.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/vanpowers-city-vanture-e-bike-segway-f2-pro-kickscooter-and-more/
WWDC 2024: June 10–14
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/03/apples-worldwide-developers-conference-returns-june-10-2024/
Table Sponsorships Still Available for Celebrity Waiter Dinner
date: 2024-03-26, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center is preparing for the annual fundraising event, Celebrity Waiter, with the theme “California Dreamin’” on Saturday, April 27 at Bella Vida, 27180 Golden Valley Road, Santa Clarita, CA
https://scvnews.com/table-sponsorships-still-available-for-celebrity-waiter-dinner/
Ford Explorer EV launches with more range and refinement
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
The all-electric Ford Explorer is finally launching in Europe. With up to 374 miles range and a starting price under £40,000 ($50,000), Ford hopes the new and improved Explorer EV can help boost sales in the region.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/ford-explorer-ev-launches-more-range-refinement/
Australia introduces its first exhaust rule but makes all the mistakes the US did
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Australia will introduce a bill to parliament this week containing its first-ever vehicle emissions rule, a huge step forward for the country. But the rules make the same mistakes that have caused ballooning vehicle sizes in the US over the last decades.
AOOSTAR GEM12 is a mini PC with OCuLink, 2.5 GbE LAN, and Ryzen 9 6900HX, or Ryzen 7 7840HS, or 8845HS processor options
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
The AOOSTAR GEM12 is a 5.1″ x 5.1″ x 2.4″ computer with support for up to an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS processor, 64GB of DDR5 memory, and two M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4 SSDs. But what really makes this little computer stand out is what’s on the outside: the system has an OCuLink port with support […]
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BMW’s EV battery partner launches a $1.5B factory expansion in South Carolina
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Battery tech firm AESC, which is partnered with BMW, is investing $1.5 billion to expand its EV battery factory in South Carolina.
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
dream of a day when I can subscribe to a podcast on my desktop and have
my mobile podcast app know about it automatically. (To be clear, using
open formats and protocols, so that this convenience does not lock me
into using one podcast client, obviously.)
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26.html#a172635
Autocar and Rocsys are deploying automated hands-free EV chargers for trucks [Video]
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Severe-duty vehicle manufacturer Autocar has partnered with Rocsys to deploy the latter’s hands-free EV chargers, expanding the technology across the former’s electric terminal tractors. Together, Autocar and Rocsys have already secured an initial fleet customer en route to full-scale integration of easier, intuitive charging infrastructure across the entire segment.
The Amateur Bridge Engineers Have Logged On
date: 2024-03-26, from: 404 Media Group
In Baltimore, we have a mix of official information, verifiable information obtained via reporting, random speculation from well-meaning experts, random speculation from well-meaning amateurs, actively bad conspiracy theories.
https://www.404media.co/baltimore-amateur-bridge-engineers-have-logged-on/
Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Yet another reason to reconsider that overpriced Creative Cloud subscription
Canva is stepping up its competition with Adobe for creative software dominance with the acquisition of popular creative software suite Affinity.…
Fish Doorbell in Utrecht
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/fish-doorbell-in-utrecht
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Experiments. I pasted the URL of a Mastodon post into a Threads post. I was kind of expecting it would use the power of federation to just get the post and put it in Threads. I asked a similar question on Mastodon, pasting the URL of a Threads post into a Mastodon post. As in the other direction it did nothing with it.
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26.html#a170518
The Broken Seal of a Pope’s 14th-Century Decree Has Been Found in Poland
date: 2024-03-26, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The metal fragment was once part of a papal bull, an official communication distributed by the Catholic Church
All 2019 Jaguar I-Pace EVs Recalled Over Battery Fire Risk. Yes, Again
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
To make matters worse, Jaguar hasn’t figured out a fix for the problem yet.
https://insideevs.com/news/713804/2019-jaguar-i-pace-battery-fire-risk-recall/
Buy One of Only 28 Aprilia RS 660 Trofeo Track Bikes And Win Your Track Days
date: 2024-03-26, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
It will set you back a pretty penny, though.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/713731/aprilia-rs-660-trofeo-track-motorcycle-limited-production/
Google releases Chrome for Windows PCs with ARM chips ahead of Snapdragon X Elite launch
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
Windows PCs with ARM-based processors have been around for five years at this point, but the product category hasn’t really taken off due two at least a few different factors including underpowered processors, a lack of software optimized for the platform, and prices too high to justify making those compromises. The first PCs with Qualcomm […]
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@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Shoelace: A forward-thinking library of web components. Sounds great. Anyone using it??
Uncle Sam’s had it up to here with ‘unforgivable’ SQL injection flaws
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Software slackers urged to up their game
The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with “unforgivable” vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/fbi_cisa_sql_injection/
Tesla Full Self-Driving Version 12.3: More Human, More Risky
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
12.3 is considered such an improvement over previous versions that the tester almost thinks there’s an off-site Tesla worker remotely driving it.
https://insideevs.com/news/713586/tesla-fsd-12-improved/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
On Threads: My goal for the next few years is to get the feed world and the social web world to merge, and I’m pretty sure the style of reading of the social web will prevail because it is the rational most news-like way to read news.
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26.html#a162550
Tech Today: Cutting the Knee Surgery Cord
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
After Eugene Malinskiy saw a physician assistant trip over arthroscopic camera cords during a medical procedure, he and his brother, Ilya, set out to develop a wireless arthroscopic camera. Early in the development process, the Malinskiys got a boost from engineers at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, who advised on technical specifications through the […]
https://www.nasa.gov/technology/tech-transfer-spinoffs/tech-today-cutting-the-knee-surgery-cord/
Old Bone Full of Old Drugs Found in Utrecht
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/researchers-from-the-freie-universitat
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
A RAGs to riches story
Interview Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company’s Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/nvdiai_kari_briski_interview/
Toyota to launch electric Hilux pickup by 2025 as Japanese rival aims to beat it to market
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
An all-electric Toyota pickup may be closer than expected. According to the company’s Thailand president, Toyota will launch an electric Hilux pickup by the end of 2025. The move comes after Japanese rival Isuzu is set to reveal its first 100% electric truck later this month.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/toyota-launch-all-electric-hilux-pickup-2025-fend-off-rivals/
March 25, 2024
date: 2024-03-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-25-2024-5f5
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-03-26, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
I have gone back and forth on how to deal with that pesky preset button on the Godot Importer pad.
I think this works.
Left is original Godot, Right is my SwiftUI version.
There is an odd space at the bottom that I have not quite figured out where it comes from in SwiftUI.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112162836309026762
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Up and running in 2028, making crucial HBM, among other tech, reportedly
High-bandwidth memory (HBM) leader SK hynix is set to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, which is estimated to cost $4 billion and come online in 2028 to potentially package high-end HBM.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sk_hynix_indiana_plant/
2025 Porsche Taycan Pricing, Specs Overview
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
The latest Porsche Taycan has been improved in almost every area.
https://insideevs.com/news/713724/2025-porsche-taycan-pricing-specs-overview/
Escape and Evasion Reports, World War II
date: 2024-03-26, from: National Archives, Text Message blog
Today’s post was written by Bob Nowatski, archivist in the Basic Processing and Textual Accessioning unit at the National Archives in College Park, MD. When we think of United States airmen in the European theater during World War II, we may picture rugged veterans who flew numerous missions, or soldiers who were killed in combat … Continue reading Escape and Evasion Reports, World War II
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2024/03/26/escape-and-evasion-reports-world-war-ii/
Tesla comes back to Facebook, sending cash into Zuck’s pocket
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla has made a return to Facebook after leaving 6 years ago and even started to buy ads on the platform – sending money into Zuckerberg’s pockets.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/tesla-comes-back-facebook-sends-cash-zucks-pocket/
Why Normal is NOT good
date: 2024-03-26, from: Om Malik blog
As an organization grows in scale, the idiosyncrasy and distinctiveness that was originally informed by the taste of the founders moves toward the mean. Over time, things get more average. That’s because each new customer, each new supplier and each new employee wants or needs something a little more normal, at least sometimes. The drift …
https://om.co/2024/03/26/normal-is-not-good/
Stellantis announces mass layoffs in US and Europe
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
It’s not a good week to be working at Stellantis. As it (finally) moves to try to sell EVs in the US, the automaker just laid off 400 US salaried tech workers and software engineers on Friday. Today the company announced that it was slashing more than 1,500 jobs in Turin, Italy, due to what it says are slow sales of its all-electric Fiat 500e city car. [Updated: Stellantis announced later after publication that the total number of layoffs in Italy would be 2,500.]
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/stellantis-announces-mass-layoffs-in-us-and-europe/
Sega Saturn architecture: a practical analysis by Rodrigo Copetti
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
Welcome to the 3D era! Well… sorta. Sega enjoyed quite a success with the Mega Drive so there’s no reason to force developers to write 3D games right now. Just in case developers want the extra dimension, Sega adapted some bits of the hardware to enable polygon drawing as well. Hopefully, the result didn’t get out of hand! ↫ Rodrigo Copetti These in-depth analyses by Copetti are always a treat, and the Saturn one is no exception.
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
SA Special Investigating Unit orders payment within 7 days following alleged breach of public finance laws
A Special Tribunal in South Africa has ordered the German software giant SAP to pay a R500 million ($26.4 million, £20.9 million) settlement within a week following a long-running investigation into compliance with public finance laws.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sap_ordered_to_pay_264/
Fisker On The Brink As NYSE De-Lists Stock Over ‘Abnormally Low’ Price
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
Plus, Toyota could build an electric Hilux in 2025 and GM pulls the plug on sharing customer driving data.
https://insideevs.com/news/713849/fisker-collapse-delist-stock-exchange/
Friends don’t let friends export to CSV
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
I worked for a few years in the intersection between data science and software engineering. On the whole, it was a really enjoyable time and I’d like to have the chance to do so again at some point. One of the least enjoyable experiences from that time was to deal with big CSV exports. Unfortunately, this file format is still very common in the data science space. It is easy to understand why — it seems to be ubiquitous, present everywhere, it’s human-readable, it’s less verbose than options like JSON and XML, it’s super easy to produce from almost any tool. What’s not to like? ↫ Robin Kåveland I’m not going to pretend to be some sort of expert on this matter, but even as a casual it seems CSV isn’t exactly scalable to large data sets. It seems to work great for smaller exports and imports for personal use, but any more complicated matters it seems wholly unsuited for.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138986/friends-dont-let-friends-export-to-csv/
FN60G mini PC features a Mac Studio-inspired design, Intel LGA1700 socket and discrete graphics
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
Chinese PC makers have begun selling a mini PC that looks a lot like a Mac Studio, but it’s even smaller than Apple’s little powerhouse. Meanwhile, it offers far more options for customization: the FN60G features an LGA1700 socket with support for 12th, 13th, and 14th-gen Intel Core processors. There’s also support for discrete graphics, […]
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Whispering Loudly
date: 2024-03-26, from: John August blog
John welcomes back Pamela Ribon (Nimona, My Year of Dicks) to quietly ask: what’s with all the whispering in movies these days? They discuss trends and techniques in voice and volume, picking the right moment to whisper, and the value of voices across decibel levels. We also revisit Pamela’s work on Moana to look at […] The post Whispering Loudly first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/whispering-loudly
Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (2024) launches March 28 with Android 14, S-Pen, and an updated processor
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
The Samsung Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is a mid-range Android tablet with a 10.4 inch, 2000 x 1200 pixel display and a Samsung S-Pen for pressure-sensitive input. Since first launching in 2020, the tablet has been the most affordable Samsung device with S-Pen support. No Samsung is giving the tablet the second spec bump in […]
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Fisker Ocean Vs. Tesla Model Y Drag Race Proves Power Isn’t Everything
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
The Ocean has more horsepower than the Model Y, but it’s also heavier.
https://insideevs.com/news/713796/fisker-ocean-tesla-model-y-drag-race-video/
Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin ‘to explore new roles’
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
More MS moves just a week after new AI unit and other changes announced
Microsoft just put Pavan Davuluri in charge of the company’s Windows and Surface teams, while Windows exec Mikhail Parakhin is “to explore new roles.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/microsoft_reorg/
Genesis unveils stunning first luxury full-size electric SUV with the Neolun Concept
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Genesis made a bold statement unveiling two stunning new luxury EVs. Among them was its first full-size luxury electric SUV concept, the Genesis Neolun Concept. Meanwhile, Genesis is previewing a new high-performance brand set to rival Mercedes-AMG with the GV60 Magma concept.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/genesis-unveils-stunning-full-size-electric-suv-neolun-concept/
The latest on the Baltimore bridge collapse
date: 2024-03-26, from: Marketplace Morning Report
After a container ship struck a column of Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge early Tuesday morning, the structure collapsed and sent multiple cars into frigid waters. We’ll discuss what we know so far about the collision and its likely impacts on one of the busiest ports on the East Coast. Also on the program, we’ll hear useful context for the current crisis unfolding in Haiti and what a path forward might look like.
Hope for Animal-to-Human Transplants
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/03/26/hope-for-animal-to-human-transplants/
Ford partners with Allego to bring ultra-fast charging up to 400 kW to dealerships around Europe
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Ford and ultra-fast EV charging network Allego have announced a new strategic partnership to deploy chargers in hundreds of dealerships across Europe. EV drivers like those in the new all-electric Ford Explorer will soon be able to access Allego chargers offering rates up to 400 kW.
China files lawsuit with World Trade Organization against US, citing ‘discriminatory policies’ for EVs in the IRA
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
China has filed a formal complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against the US Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), claiming its subsidy policies discriminate against foreign automakers and disrupt the global goal of expediting EV adoption while distorting fair competition. A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce spoke to reporters and shared the details behind the filing.
UXL Foundation readying alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA for this year
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
An open standard challenger appears
The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia’s CUDA platform, for “a spec release in Q4.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/uxl_foundation_cuda_alternative/
How I turned a shipping container into a solar off-grid charging station with A/C
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
After one of my most recent Alibaba import adventures, I was left with a shipping container in my yard. These engineering wonders are great for many uses outside of merely transferring goods around the world, with one of the most common secondary uses being watertight storage units. That seemed like a great idea to put to use for all of my electric “toys”. Between my electric bikes, e-motorcycles, e-ATVs, electric tractors, and a few other things I’m probably forgetting, having a weather-sealed, solar-powered off-grid charging shed would be a big benefit. And if I could add an air-conditioning unit to keep the machines from baking in the sun (and function as a dehumidifier at the same time), then all the better. As it turned out, the project was a lot easier than I expected. Here’s how I did it.
BYD releases last year’s profit report, and it falls a little short
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Chinese EV giant BYD just released its 2023 annual profit report, and it looks like it missed analyst estimates by a smidge, netting $4.16 billion (30.04 billion yuan) compared to the estimated $4.29 billion (30.94 billion yuan). Still, the company reported a more than 80% rise in net profit last year, so it is showing no signs of slowing down.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/byd-releases-last-years-profit-report-and-it-falls-a-little-short/
Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Andreas Bechtolsheim is paying out less than $1M to SEC amid allegations he illegally bought options
A Silicon Valley heavyweight has been charged with insider trading by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/sun_microsystems_insider_trading/
All Teslas In The U.S. Will Get A Month Of FSD For Free This Week
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
Musk confirmed that FSD would be enabled for a one-month trial on FSD-compatible vehicles, which may exclude the Cybertruck and Model 3 Highland.
https://insideevs.com/news/713846/tesla-fsd-trial-us-musk/
Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement
date: 2024-03-26, from: Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians are using topological abstractions to find places where it’s hard to vote.The post Topologists Tackle the Trouble With Poll Placement first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/topologists-tackle-the-trouble-with-poll-placement-20240326/
Tesla is in talks to build electric trucks or vans in Italy, report says
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla is reportedly in talks with the Italian government to build electric trucks or vans in the country, according to local media.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/26/tesla-talks-build-electric-trucks-vans-italy-report/
404 Media Now Has a Full Text RSS Feed
date: 2024-03-26, from: 404 Media Group
We paid for the development of full text RSS feeds for Ghost-based publishers. Now we can offer them to our paid subscribers, and other Ghost sites can use the service too.
https://www.404media.co/404-media-now-has-a-full-text-rss-feed/
Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals, but DEF CON hackers have a plan
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
ARPA-H joins the challenge, adds $20M to cash rewards
Interview As ransomware gangs target critical infrastructure – especially hospitals and other healthcare organizations – DARPA has added another government agency partner to its Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC).…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/aixcc_healthcare/
The Rising Costs of Natural Catastrophes
date: 2024-03-26, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: A cloud of Saharan dust is sweeping toward southern Europe • Malaysia’s oppressive heat wave could last through mid-April • The water temperature is about 48 degrees Fahrenheit in Baltimore Harbor, where rescuers are searching for survivors after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge.
THE TOP FIVE
- Soaring losses from natural disasters ‘a new norm,’ says insurance
giant
Extremely costly natural disasters have become “a new
norm,” and insured losses will double in 10 years due to climate change,
according to one of the world’s largest reinsurers. In a
report
published today, Swiss Re, a firm that provides insurance for insurers,
calculated that natural disasters resulted in insured losses of $108
billion in 2023, marking the fourth consecutive year of losses exceeding
$100 billion. As Bloomberg
noted,
“only about 40% of economic losses globally are insured, meaning the
total economic losses are much higher.”
The main reason
losses were so high was the sheer frequency with which “medium severity”
disasters occurred. These are events that cost between $1 billion and $5
billion, and they’re on the rise. Severe thunderstorms (also called
severe convective storms, or SCS) have become “the second largest
loss-making peril” behind tropical cyclones. The Midwest accounted for
the highest percentage of insured losses from severe thunderstorms in
the U.S. last year:
Swiss
Re
The report calls for adaptation measures, but concludes that “in the face of climate change, adaptation and insurance can only go so far. Mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions is also essential to counter the build-up of physical risks.”
- Nissan outlines plan to slash EV manufacturing costs
Nissan yesterday announced a new business plan it hopes will “ensure sustainable growth and profitability” as it faces competition from Chinese rivals. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the strategy leans heavily on electric vehicles. The Japanese carmaker will launch 16 new EV models over the next three years and slash EV manufacturing costs by 30% in an effort to reach cost parity with internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030. It’ll bring down costs by incorporating battery innovations and new manufacturing processes. And the company will make EVs in “families,” starting with a “main vehicle” and then building on that design with new variations that can be significantly cheaper and faster to produce.
- EV startup Fisker faces bankruptcy
The New York Stock Exchange yesterday halted trading of electric vehicle startup Fisker Inc.’s shares and said it planned to delist the stock due to “abnormally low” share prices. The company had been in talks with a major automaker about a potential investment, but the deal fell through, which means its financials are in bad shape and bankruptcy may be looming. If the cash-strapped company fails, it would join the ranks of other embattled EV startups including Aptera and Detroit Automotive. Last week Fisker paused its EV production.
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- Trader Joe’s raises banana prices
Trader Joe’s is hiking the price of bananas for the first time in two decades. The grocery chain has long sold individual bananas for just 19 cents, but has raised the price to 23 cents. A spokesperson told CNN the change was due to cost increases. Earlier this month, industry experts gathering at the World Banana Forum warned that climate change was hurting banana production and supply chains and that this would soon result in higher banana prices for consumers.
- Study shows how ‘cooling’ paints can reduce urban temperatures
Special “cooling” paint can significantly reduce the temperatures of surfaces in cities and help pedestrians feel cooler, according to a new study published in the journal Sustainable Cities and Society. The research is the first demonstration of how paints made to reflect the sun’s heat actually perform in the real world. For the study, researchers at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University covered surfaces such as walls, rooftops, and pavements in an industrial neighborhood in Singapore. They found those surfaces were up to 2 degrees Celsius cooler than uncoated areas during the hottest time of the day, and that this helped pedestrians feel 1.5 degrees cooler. “This is a minimally intrusive solution for urban cooling that has an immediate effect,” said the study’s lead author, Dr. E V S Kiran Kumar Donthu. “By reducing the amount of heat absorbed in urban structures, we also reduce heat load in buildings, consequently reducing indoor air-conditioning energy consumption.” Below you can see some of the coated test surfaces:
Nanyang
Technological University
THE KICKER
Ohio has approved the Oak Run Solar Project, a 6,000-acre solar farm in Madison County that will also graze 1,000 sheep and grow crops. The farm will be the nation’s largest “agrivoltaics” project.
https://heatmap.news/economy/swiss-re-natural-catastrophe-insurance
Samsung-Backed AI Image Generator Produces Nonconsensual Porn
date: 2024-03-26, from: 404 Media Group
Leonardo AI, which recently raised $31 million and is one of the most popular AI image generators online, can easily be used to produce nonconsensual porn.
https://www.404media.co/samsung-backed-ai-image-generator-produces-nonconsensual-porn/
This Chinese EV Could Be World’s First Mass-Produced Car With A Solid-State Battery
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
The IM Motors Zhiji L6 may flaunt cutting-edge battery tech on paper, but here’s the twist.
https://insideevs.com/news/713739/im-motors-zhiji-l6-solid-state-battery/
Gearbox Failure Crushed Viñales’ MotoGP Portugal Podium Dreams
date: 2024-03-26, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
After nailing a win at the Portimão Sprint race, it looked like Mav was on his way to a surefire podium until disaster struck.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/713756/gearbox-aprilia-motogp-portugal-vinales/
New NASA Software Simulates Science Missions for Observing Terrestrial Freshwater
date: 2024-03-26, from: NASA breaking news
From radar instruments smaller than a shoebox to radiometers the size of a milk carton, there are more tools available to scientists today for observing complex Earth systems than ever before. But this abundance of available sensors creates its own unique challenge: how can researchers organize these diverse instruments in the most efficient way for […]
Ilia Malinin Is Good As Hell At Ice Skating
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/ilia-malinin-is-good-as-hell-at-ice-skating
Maddow didn’t go far enough
date: 2024-03-26, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News
I
don’t usually watch Maddow on Monday nights. I lost my faith in her when
she went after Facebook a few years ago, not that Facebook didn’t
deserve her attention, but her arguments while condemning them were
exaggerated. I knew the facts, she left out important details.
She steered viewers into believing things that weren’t true. Didn’t exactly lie, but pretty close. I figured if she does that for stories I know, then she’s probably doing it other times when I wasn’t so well informed.
But the Knicks were blowing out the Pistons on the next channel over, and I had tuned in Jen Psaki, who as luck would have it, at the exact moment I switched, was explaining how the fact that she served in the Biden Administration before joining MSNBC was very different from the controversy over Ronna McDaniel, who Maddow went on to explain was basically a terrorist and traitor and Trump co-conspirator (not just an enabler), and not in a war that was over, but one that was still being fought, and not insignificant because this fascist movement has control of one of the two major parties in the US and McDaniel was instrumental in that. There are good arguments that she should be in a prisoner of war camp, not employed by one of America’s major news networks.
That NBC hired McDaniel as a contributor says something awful about Maddow’s employer. And Maddow, if she has any details on that, isn’t saying what they are.
I’ve
had this problem with other reporters in the past whose owners were
caught up in some controversy that made them newsworthy. The reporters
refused to cover it, or even be a source for others who were. This is
where journalism goes wrong imho. Maddow should know the details,
and if she does, she is obligated to share them, because they are
significant, and go to how much trust any of us should give to any news
coming to us from NBC. Maybe she has to quit to do that, and if so, go
ahead and quit. Because the shadow it casts over everything touched by
NBC, which includes MSNBC and Maddow is just too freaking long. It’s
similar to the “news” she reported on Facebook, except now instead of
steering us to believe lies, she’s holding it back, and instead of it
being about one very powerful social media company, it’s about the
future of the government of the US. And maybe she doesn’t know, as
Upton
Sinclair once said: “It is difficult to get a [person] to understand
something, when [their] salary depends on [them] not understanding it.”
I don’t blame Maddow for liking her job. But as a reporter, there are more and more reasons not to trust her and esp to not trust the company that employs her. When it was obvious she wasn’t going to tell us the story behind McDaniel’s hiring, or even name the people responsible for it, I switched back to the Knicks, where at least I think I understand who they are and what they’re trying to do.
Update: MSNBC backed down on hiring McDaniel.
http://scripting.com/2024/03/26/123110.html?title=maddowDidntGoFarEnough
Renault aims to be first European carmaker to recycle batteries on mass scale
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
French automaker Renault is exploring a lucrative business prospect by partnering with companies to extract and recycle lithium and other metals in EV batteries, creating a circular economy that can bring in billions of dollars and reduce reliance on China.
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Looking for feedback before pressing the production button
European cloud provider Scaleway showed off its new RISC-V servers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation’s (CNCF’s) Kubecon Europe 2024 event.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/scaleway_new_riscv_devices/
The Genesis GV60 Magma Packs ‘A Couple Hundred Horsepower’ Over Performance Trim
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
Luc Donckerwolke, Hyundai Motor Group’s Chief Creative Officer, says that Genesis’ hottest EV yet isn’t just a reskinned Ioniq 5 N.
https://insideevs.com/news/713769/gv60-magma-designer-interview/
UGREEN launches Kickstarter campaign for the NASync line of network-attached-storage systems with 12th-gen Intel chips
date: 2024-03-26, from: Liliputing
PC and mobile accessory maker UGREEN is entering the network-attached storage (NAS) space in a big way. The company’s new NASync line of products includes six different models at launch, including systems with support for up to 8 hard drives. First unveiled earlier this year, these NAS systems are basically small, purpose-built computers designed for […]
The post UGREEN launches Kickstarter campaign for the NASync line of network-attached-storage systems with 12th-gen Intel chips appeared first on Liliputing.
Bad Bunny Hooked Students Into Class. The Politics Of Power Kept Them Around
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The LAist
For some students, Bad Bunny’s songs have opened up new ways of seeing Puerto Rico and the United States, and possibly transformed lives.
https://laist.com/news/education/bad-bunny-loyola-marymount-power-race-puerto-rico
Triumph Trident 660 Special Edition Is A Tricolor Tribute To Slippery Sam
date: 2024-03-26, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Beyond the paint scheme, it also gets a select few tasty extras that the base Trident doesn’t.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/713770/triumph-trident-660-special-edition/
Louvre Receives Bomb Threat Against ‘Mona Lisa’ and Other Masterpieces
date: 2024-03-26, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The message came in through the museum’s online contact form on March 17
Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Python 2 has been dead for four years
Did you know that His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offers free Linux tools? Sadly, though, they recently stopped working.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/hmrc_linux_paye_tools/
DJT comes to the Nasdaq
date: 2024-03-26, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Shares of former President and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump’s social media company start trading Tuesday morning under the ticker symbol DJT. Initial public offerings can often bounce on their inaugural day, which could boost Trump’s wealth — on paper. But first: some numbers on a critical Baltimore bridge that collapsed overnight. We’ll also analyze Indigenous household finances and hear about a dip in sales at casual restaurant chains like Olive Garden.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/djt-comes-to-the-nasdaq
This New Lawsuit Could Rescind Your Health Care Benefits
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Lever News
Right-wing federal appeal judges signal they support repeal of the no-cost preventive care mandate, all but guaranteeing a Supreme Court showdown.
https://www.levernews.com/this-new-lawsuit-could-rescind-your-health-care-benefits-email/
Critical aid still not getting into Gaza
date: 2024-03-26, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: The humanitarian crisis in Gaza continues as aid is still not getting through to large parts of the territory, according to the U.N. agency UNRWA, which reports it is being blocked from delivering food to northern areas. Plus, a court in China sentenced the former president of its football governing body to life in prison for taking bribes, and Canada’s maple syrup reserves reach a 16-year low.
How we’re creating more impact with Ada Computer Science
date: 2024-03-26, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
We offer Ada Computer Science as a platform to support educators and learners alike. But we don’t take its usefulness for granted: as part of our commitment to impact, we regularly gather user feedback and evaluate all of our products, and Ada is no exception. In this blog, we share some of the feedback we’ve…
The post How we’re creating more impact with Ada Computer Science appeared first on Raspberry Pi Foundation.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/how-were-creating-more-impact-with-ada-computer-science/
On Secure Voting Systems
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-21, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Andrew Appel shepherded a public comment—signed by twenty election cybersecurity experts, including myself—on best practices for ballot marking devices and vote tabulation. It was written for the Pennsylvania legislature, but it’s general in nature.
From the executive summary:
We believe that no system is perfect, with each having trade-offs. Hand-marked and hand-counted ballots remove the uncertainty introduced by use of electronic machinery and the ability of bad actors to exploit electronic vulnerabilities to remotely alter the results. However, some portion of voters mistakenly mark paper ballots in a manner that will not be counted in the way the voter intended, or which even voids the ballot. Hand-counts delay timely reporting of results, and introduce the possibility for human error, bias, or misinterpretation…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/on-secure-voting-systems.html
Run Windows 95 to XP, Mac OS 8.6 to 10.4 in your browser, sort of
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
Complete desktops contain all operating system components as well as Internet Explorer and Outlook Express. Where possible, I have tried to include built in file transfer programs (Web Publishing Wizard, Web Folders), useful system tools (System File Checker, System Restore) and certain wizards (Network Setup Wizard, Internet Connection Wizard). As a result, some of the desktops are quite large and can take some time to load. ↫ VirtualDesktop.org These are easily loaded virtual machines inside your browser, for various versions of Windows and macOS. There’s more and more of these websites now, and while I don’t use them for anything, they’re still quite handy in a pinch. And let’s face it – it’s still kind of magical to see entire operating systems running inside a browser. The website also has several virtual machines without applications, and application-specific virtual machines, too, focused on browsers and mail clients.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138982/run-windows-95-to-xp-mac-os-8-6-to-10-4-in-your-browser/
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Selection comes despite Japanese supplier’s role in Post Office scandal
A UK government-endorsed ID card scheme is set to appoint Fujitsu as a business outsourcing supplier despite the Japanese company’s earlier promise to refrain from participating in UK public procurement.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/fujitsu_id_card_scheme/
It’s Official, Maeving’s Electric Motorcycles Are Coming In The US
date: 2024-03-26, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The Maeving RM1 and RM1S are here to charge up your commute.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/711294/maeving-electric-motorcycles-debut-usa/
Google’s first Tensor processing unit: architecture
date: 2024-03-26, from: OS News
In Google’s First Tensor Processing Unit – Origins, we saw why and how Google developed the first Tensor Processing Unit (or TPU v1) in just 15 months, starting in late 2013. Today’s post will look in more detail at the architecture that emerged from that work and at its performance. ↫ The Chip Letter People forget that Google is probably one of the largest hardware manufacturers out of the major technology companies. Sadly, we rarely get good insights into what, exactly, these machines are capable of, as they rarely make it to places like eBay so people can disseminate them.
https://www.osnews.com/story/138978/googles-first-tensor-processing-unit-architecture/
Ampere WS-1
date: 2024-03-26, from: Computer ads from the Past
A cool Japanese clamtop
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/ampere-ws-1
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Multiple CHERI-related projects win money for important research that prizes safety over speed
The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/beacon_awards_freebsd/
UK elections are unaffected by China’s cyber-interference, says deputy PM
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-27, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Sanctions galore for APT31, which has been blamed for two major attacks on democracy
The UK’s deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/uk_elections_are_unaffected_by/
Live Updates: Search resumes for workers missing after Baltimore bridge collapse
date: 2024-03-26, from: Associated Press, US News
A major bridge in Baltimore collapsed after a container ship rammed into it early Tuesday, and several vehicles fell into the river.
https://apnews.com/live/baltimore-key-bridge-collapse-latest-2024
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Some of us would be happy being rated 7.5 out of 10, just sayin’
Updated Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/software_risk_scores/
Wanna build a Raspberry Pi 5 cluster?
date: 2024-03-26, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat took three Raspberry Pi 5s and smashed (technical term) them all together to create a magical Ceph cluster.
The post Wanna build a Raspberry Pi 5 cluster? appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/wanna-build-a-raspberry-pi-5-cluster/
Dev Digest 108 – Git off my cloud!
date: 2024-03-26, from: Chris Heilmann
Welcome to another edition of the WeAreDevelopers Dev Digest. This time we have am interview with Sead Ahmetovic, CEO of of WeAreDevelopers amd Scott Chacon, co-Founder of GitHub. They talk about careers, early coding days, developer communities, evangelizing git, and how AI is shaping the future of coding. Gitting things done… So, let’s get started […]
https://christianheilmann.com/2024/03/26/dev-digest-108-git-off-my-cloud/
How Biden can stop Netanyahu
date: 2024-03-26, from: Robert Reich on Substack
The case for restricting U.S. arms sales to Israel
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-case-for-stopping-us-military
This New Lawsuit Could Rescind Your Health Care Benefits
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Lever News
Right-wing federal appeal judges signal they support repeal of the no-cost preventive care mandate, all but guaranteeing a Supreme Court showdown.
https://www.levernews.com/this-new-lawsuit-could-rescind-your-health-care-benefits/
Classifieds – March 26, 2024
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Daily Trojan features Classified advertising in each day’s edition. Here you can read, search, and even print out each day’s edition of the Classifieds.
The post Classifieds – March 26, 2024 appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/classifieds-march-26-2024/
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
‘Error budget’ and other server maintenance/site reliability secrets revealed
Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an “error budget” that enacts “empathy embedded in automation.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/cloudflare_phoenix_sre_error_budget/
March 25, 2024
date: 2024-03-26, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
This morning The Boeing Company announced that the chief of Boeing’s commercial airplane division, Stan Deal, is leaving immediately. Chief executive officer Dave Calhoun is stepping down at the end of the year. Chair of the board Larry Kellner will not stand for reelection.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-25-2024
Extend the dance: Women’s basketball clips Jayhawks for a Sweet 16 bid
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC thrashed Kansas by 18 points at Galen Center to punch its ticket to Portland.
The post Extend the dance: Women’s basketball clips Jayhawks for a Sweet 16 bid appeared first on Daily Trojan.
Holocaust survivors, leaders of Shoah Foundation awarded University Medallion
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The honorees are the fourth to receive USC’s highest recognition.
The post Holocaust survivors, leaders of Shoah Foundation awarded University Medallion appeared first on Daily Trojan.
Dim sum sells for cents
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Won Kok Restaurant serves bite-sized meals at a steal of a price.
The post Dim sum sells for cents appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/dim-sum-sells-for-cents/
Censorship is only getting worse in the US
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Suppression of Palestinian support is cause for concern about freedom of speech.
The post Censorship is only getting worse in the US appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/censorship-is-only-getting-worse-in-the-us/
Crosstown letdown: USC baseball falls to Bruins
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Trojans can’t sustain momentum as they lose two out of three to UCLA.
The post Crosstown letdown: USC baseball falls to Bruins appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/crosstown-letdown-usc-baseball-falls-to-bruins/
Daily Trojan takes home 17 California College Media Association awards
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The paper won nine first-place, two second-place and six third-place honors.
The post Daily Trojan takes home 17 California College Media Association awards appeared first on Daily Trojan.
The Midwest’s March mystique
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Big Ten consistently underperforms in the Big Dance despite sending a multitude of teams.
The post The Midwest’s March mystique appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/the-midwests-march-mystique/
CHRISTEENE leads passionate concert at Bovard
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Visions and Voices honored singer Sinéad O’Connor and condemned discrimination.
The post CHRISTEENE leads passionate concert at Bovard appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/christeene-leads-passionate-concert-at-bovard/
Folt’s ambiguity in international student financial aid
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
President Folt recently interviewed with an Indian newspaper promoting financial resources USC provides international students. But they aren’t enough.
The post Folt’s ambiguity in international student financial aid appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/26/folts-ambiguity-in-international-student-financial-aid/
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Promises it can handle digi-bucks and tokenized assets without new infrastructure, maybe next year
One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) – the messaging network that most of the world’s banks use to move money across borders.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/swift_cbdc_interop_test/
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Speed-reading flash drives no longer just an Arm wrestle
A demo of Yingren Technology’s YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/yingren_riscv_ssd_controller/
All Teslas in the US get a one month trial of FSD starting this week
date: 2024-03-26, from: Electrek Feed
Prepare to get your minds blown, because Tesla has announced that every Tesla in the US will get a free trial of FSD for one month starting later this week.
https://electrek.co/2024/03/25/all-teslas-in-the-us-get-a-one-month-trial-of-fsd-starting-this-week/
2024/03/26 SXSW Panel Replay: Real or Not, Defending Authenticity in a Digital World
date: 2024-03-26, from: Darpa News
Have you ever wondered if that video you’re watching, the photo you’re looking at, or even that person on the other line is the real deal? Deepfakes aren’t just Hollywood magic anymore-they’re part of our everyday lives, found in everything from the news we consume to the memes we share. During this panel, experts dive into the world of deepfakes to break down the impacts of digital deception and what we can do about it.
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2024-03-26
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too!
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Reveals 2021 incident that saw parliamentary agencies briefly probed
The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/new_zealand_china_attack/
Election Countdown, 225 Days to Go: NBC News and the McDaniel Mistake.
date: 2024-03-26, from: James Fallows, Substack
There are people who stand on principle and take the consequences. And others who bend with the wind, whichever way it blows. The news business doesn’t need any more people from the second group.
https://fallows.substack.com/p/election-countdown-225-days-to-go
[Sponsor] Kolide: ‘Struggling to Afford Cybersecurity Insurance? Here’s Why.’
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Daring Fireball
Brandon Semenuk Flipping His Bicycle Off the Side of a Mountain
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/03/brandon-semenuk-flipping-his-bicycle-off-the-side-of-a-mountain
Remember When the U.S. Secretly Built a Social Network to Destabilize Cuba?
date: 2024-03-26, from: Tilde.news
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/remember-u-secretly-built-social-153000362.html
★ European Commission Opens DMA Non-Compliance Investigations Against Google, Apple, and Meta
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: Daring Fireball
You could have set your watch by this announcement dropping the week after the EC held compliance “workshops”.
https://daringfireball.net/2024/03/ec_non_compliance_investigations
After threatening to block Binance for months, Philippines does the deed
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Points out scofflaw crypto outfit needs a license
The Philippines Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has ordered the nation’s National Telecommunications Commission to block access to cryptocurrency exchange Binance, for the simple reason that platform doesn’t have a licence.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/03/26/philippines_blocks_binance/
Genesis Neolun Concept: A Stunning Electric Full-Size Luxury SUV
date: 2024-03-26, from: Inside EVs News
The Neolun signals where Genesis is heading with its next-generation vehicles.
https://insideevs.com/news/713766/genesis-neolun-concept/
USC women’s basketball vs. Kansas — as it happened
date: 2024-03-26, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Thomas Johnson and Kasey Kazliner report live from Galen Center in Los Angeles.
The post USC women’s basketball vs. Kansas — as it happened appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/03/25/usc-womens-basketball-vs-kansas-live-updates/
Monday, January 4, 2021 - keeping a log: 9 months / ~1k entries in
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: p1k3.com community feed
Sunday, April 5, 2020 - wrt 7.0.0 - new features - title extraction and entry caching - a tagging system - json feed output - a repl for debugging - breaking changes - future work / observations
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: p1k3.com community feed
Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - extracting filenames from packages available in debian
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: p1k3.com community feed
Tuesday, May 7, 2019 - App::WRT v6.0.0.
date: 2024-03-26, updated: 2024-03-26, from: p1k3.com community feed