News gathered 2024-04-02
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Samsung enterprise SSD prices skyrocket thanks to AI’s appetite for storage
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Consumer-grade devices won’t be hit as hard
Samsung intended to raise prices on its enterprise SSDs by 15 percent in the second calendar quarter of 2024, but unrelentingly high demand boosted by AI might push that higher still.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/samsung_enterprise_ssd_prices/
My memories of what life was like before the Internet
date: 2024-04-02, from: Vintage Computing
Toria / Shutterstock.com [Benj’s note — I originally wrote this in 2020 and had it sitting around until now. I still think it might be useful to someone in the future, so I decided to publish it.] Many Americans alive today witnessed one of the most dramatic cultural transitions since the invention of the printing […]
Category Theory I — now in paperback
date: 2024-04-02, from: Logic Matters blog
Sound the trumpets! Or at least, let me give a small toot … Category Theory I: A gentle prologue is now available as a print-on-demand paperback. This is Amazon only (sorry, but that’s easiest for me and cheapest for you), with ISBN 1916906389, at £5.99, $8.25, €7.50. Those prices are only trivially rounded up from […]
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https://www.logicmatters.net/2024/04/02/category-theory-i-now-in-paperback/
Mila Kunis urges Ashton Kutcher to keep his distance from ‘good friend’ Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: report
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Kutcher’s friendship with Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs goes back some 20 years but that has reportedly become challenged since the rapper and music mogul has become embroiled in multiple sex-trafficking allegations and investigations.
The final interview of Brigitte Höss, the daughter of Rudolf Höss, the…
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044311-the-final-interview-of-br
Tesla’s EV growth might be gone, but energy storage is still surging
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
Seemingly to counter disastrous Q1 2024 EV delivery results, Tesla decided to release energy storage deployment early. Tesla’s growth in its electric vehicle business might be on pause right now, but its energy storage business is still surging.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/tesla-ev-growth-gone-but-energy-storage-surging/
Orange Pi 5 Pro is a Raspberry Pi-sized PC with an RK3588S chip, LPDDR5 memory, and a PCIe 2.0 socket
date: 2024-04-02, from: Liliputing
The Orange Pi 5 Pro is a single-board computer that’s the same size as a Raspberry Pi 5, but this model has speedier memory as well as a couple of options that you don’t get from the Raspberry Pi including a built-in M.2 slot for an optional PCIe 2.0 NVMe SSD (no connector cables or […]
The post Orange Pi 5 Pro is a Raspberry Pi-sized PC with an RK3588S chip, LPDDR5 memory, and a PCIe 2.0 socket appeared first on Liliputing.
Hyundai IONIQ 5 sets new US sales record in March as EV sales surge 100%
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 just set a new March and Q1 sales record as EV sales climbed 100% last month. The company had its best-ever first quarter and March sales as demand for its EVs remains high.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/hyundai-ioniq-5-sets-march-us-sales-record-ev-sales-surge/
Car companies have been screwing up e-bikes for longer than you think
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
Believe it or not, there’s nothing new about major automakers and motorcycle companies trying and failing to build and sell electric bicycles. Despite millions upon millions of e-bikes being produced and sold each year by bicycle companies, automotive companies have spent decades failing to convert their design and manufacturing experience into e-bike success.
Microsoft warns deepfake election subversion is disturbingly easy
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Simple stuff like slapping on a logo fools more folks and travels further
As hundreds of millions of voters around the globe prepare to elect their leaders this year, there’s no question that trolls will try to sway the outcomes using AI, according to Clint Watts, general manager of Microsoft’s Threat Analysis Center.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/microsoft_election_ai_fakes/
The Left Curve
date: 2024-04-02, from: David Rosenthal’s blog
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There is a surprising amount of respect for people who appear to know nothing about the industry. They’re known as the “left curves.”Below the fold I look at the left side of the curve
The nickname comes from a popular meme in crypto that shows a bell curve with investors on the left who know nothing, or very little, and those in the fat middle of the curve who know something about crypto. On the right are investors who seemingly know everything.
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For example, a crypto project with pseudonymous co-founders including “Smokey The Bera” and “Dev Bear” has become a unicorn after it raised millions of dollars from institutional investors such as Brevan Howard Digital. Another token with no real utility — only a cute picture of a dog wearing a hat — has increased by more than 1,400 times its value from three months ago. A developer of a sloth-themed memecoin called Slerf claimed they accidentally burned a large amount of the tokens after raising $10 million.
What a great time to be a left curve! In this bull market, forget about highbrow ideas like revamping Wall Street. Give up on dreams of replacing traditional artwork with nonfungible tokens. Instead, don’t overthink it. Just “choose rich.”
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How did this happen? How did crypto’s greatest comeback take place so fast, so hilariously and — at times — so stupidly? Why did crypto evangelists give up their dreams? At its core, it’s because the market is still living under the shadows of past catastrophes like FTX’s collapse and TerraUSD’s blowup.The “past catastrophes like FTX’s collapse and TerraUSD’s blowup” may be old news but to their victims they aren’t even close to over. The best FTX’s creditors can hope for is to get back what their HODL-ings were worth before Bitcoin took off moon-wards, and who knows when that might happen.
In the past bull markets, when Bitcoin went up, everything else went up amid small-scale rotations between major and small-cap coins. But in this bull market, the rotation is more severe: As Solana went up in the past month, the price of Ether went down dramatically — a simple piece of evidence that shows there’s less money being thrown at the crypto market today than three years ago.
Kevin T. Dugan’s The Crypto World Has a New Villain starts with the story of one victim of yet another “past catastrophe”:
“I had no idea who Barry Silbert was or anything until after November 16, 2022,” Eric Asquith told me. That date was when he was pretty sure he had lost his family’s savings of $1,052,000.Asquith wasn’t on the Left Curve but just a bit left of the middle:
He didn’t buy bitcoin or other meme tokens. Instead, earlier that year, he moved over cash from his business — just a little at first, then more — and converted it into digital currencies he thought were as good as cash. The digital coins were called GUSD, and each was worth exactly $1 because the company that minted them — Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss’s crypto exchange, Gemini — backed each one with real money and assets.But Asquith’s GUSD were deposited into Gemini’s Earn program to get its 5.5% interest, far more than banks were paying. But Asquith and the other Earn depositors were far enough left on the curve that they didn’t know Earn wasn’t like a bank savings account:
What Asquith did not fully understand was that his money was no longer with Gemini. In one sense, Genesis, a crypto company owned by Barry Silbert had it, but even that wasn’t quite true. Soon-to-collapse hedge funds with names like Three Arrows Capital and Alameda Research — Sam Bankman-Fried’s personal fund — were quietly borrowing from Silbert’s shop. Asquith’s money, and that of tens of thousands of others, was being used by SBF and others to make giant bets on some of the highest-flying, most volatile digital tokens.Then Terra/Luna collapsed and things started to fall apart. Amy Castor and David Gerard reported:
One of Genesis’s biggest customers was Three Arrows Capital (3AC), who they’d lent $2.4 billion. After 3AC blew up in May, DCG assumed $1.2 billion of the liabilities to keep the hit off Genesis’ books. Genesis had been the single largest creditor of 3AC.Gemini tried to get the cash:
Genesis also had money on FTX. As FTX was falling apart, Genesis tweeted on November 8 that they had no exposure, and it was fine. Two days later, Genesis admitted they had “~$175M in locked funds in our FTX trading account,” and they were not fine.
Genesis scrambled to find more capital. Genesis and DCG needed $1 billion in emergency credit by 10 a.m. EST on November 14, but didn’t get it. Even Binance turned them down.
So two days later, Genesis suspended withdrawals,
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One of Genesis’s biggest customers is Gemini Trust, run by the Winklevoss twins, that operated its own “yield” program, Gemini Earn, for retail investors.
Gemini was supposed to be the safe exchange — but it was exposed to risks via Genesis. There’s now $700 million that Gemini Earn customers can’t withdraw — because it’s stuck on Genesis.
On January 8, Gemini terminated the Master Loan Agreement with Genesis and emailed customers accordingly. This “requires Genesis to return all outstanding assets in the program.” Genesis did not return the funds by the end of January 10 — so they were officially in default on the loan. At this point, Genesis can pull the pin and try to put Gemini into involuntary bankruptcy.They did, and there followed a year of legal wrangling between Gemini, Genesis and Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group, which owns Genesis. The SEC sued both Gemini and Genesis, and so did the New York Attorney General. While the wrangling continued, another of the semi-regular cryptocurrency bull markets took off until in February 2024:
the victims, Silbert’s now-bankrupt crypto-lending operation, the Winklevoss twins, and regulators hammered out a deal to pay everybody back in full. The crypto bull market of 2024 made it possible to pay back Earn customers not some fraction of what they invested but the generally much higher sum of what their holdings would now be worth.Everyone started cele:wbrating;
Except there was Silbert. Earn victims who had been unfamiliar with him would soon learn that he had made his first fortune by studying the ins and outs of the bankruptcy system and using it to his financial advantage. Since February, the billionaire investor has been relying on a controversial interpretation of bankruptcy law to stop Asquith and all the other victims from getting the bigger payout, the one based on current prices. Instead, to simplify a bit, he would prefer to keep that money himself. “DCG cannot support a plan that not only deprives DCG of its corporate governance rights but also violates United States bankruptcy code,” a spokeswoman for the company said.People started talking to the press about Gemini:
The victims have taken to calling it “the Barry Trade”: If Silbert is successful, he would be able to pocket as much as $1 billion in funds that would otherwise be returned to them. At the very least, Silbert may substantially delay the money being returned to Earn customers.
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Silbert’s legal logic is that the bankruptcy code sets a date to value victims’ claims in U.S. dollars, and in Genesis’ case, it just happened to be around the market’s lows.
Former Gemini employees told The Beast that Gemini Earn’s terms and conditions were highly dubious from the outset. One staffer recalled reading the fine print for the first time, saying, “[We] were like, ‘Holy shit, are you fucking kidding me?’”And Genesis:
Among those terms: Customer assets were loaned out on “an unsecured basis,” which meant that their money would not be safe in the event of a market collapse. The deposits were also not insured, nor were they guaranteed against errors or fraudulent activity.
“Whatever Gemini may or may not have done pales in comparison to what you see at Genesis, which was more than negligent when it came to protecting customer assets and complying with general best practices,” one former employee said. Among those problems, the person said, was not screening clients who were on, say, the Treasury’s blacklists — an allegation that was supported by a separate January suit filed by New York Department of Financial Services.This isn’t a “past catastrophe”. For the victims there is no end in sight:
A ruling isn’t expected until April. Since the settlement announcement, the victims have resigned themselves to an even longer wait as Silbert continues to fight. “A year ago, there was a deal that was proposed. Everyone was celebrating in a very similar way,” Asquith said. “Now, I’ll believe it when it’s in my account.”
This case, like Dickens’
Jarndyce v
Jarndyce, will run and run.
https://blog.dshr.org/2024/04/the-left-curve.html
Stop What You’re Doing And Look At The Honda Monkey Star Wars Edition
date: 2024-04-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Which side of the Force will you ride on, the Dark Side or the Light Side?
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714376/honda-monkey-star-wars-edition/
🎵 There’s only wi-fi when it rains… 🎵 “The rain held up…
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044314--theres-only-wi-fi-when
California Rep. Schiff proposes bill to turn government buildings into affordable housing
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
It is estimated that the U.S. government owns 45,000 underutilized buildings and Representative Adam Schiff, D-Burbank, wants to see this vast resource repurposed to fight the nation’s affordable housing crisis.
A bond market in a funk
date: 2024-04-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report
The yield on 10-year Treasury notes ticked up sharply to 4.4% this morning, and the thought of extended higher interest rates has stock investors in a cautious mood. We’ll discuss. Then, Google is promising to delete mountains of data following a class-action lawsuit. And it was last call for one of the oldest casinos on the Las Vegas strip this morning. We’ll took a look back at the history of the Tropicana.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/a-bond-market-in-a-funk
The Evolution of Mozart’s Music (From 5 to 35 Years Old)
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/the-evolution-of-mozarts-music-from-5-to-35-years-old
Mountain Winery owners propose boutique hotel, housing on Saratoga property
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Of 255 planned housing units, 20 percent would be affordable.
EVs Exceeded 5% Of New Car Sales In 31 Countries In Q4 2023
date: 2024-04-02, from: Inside EVs News
BEV sales reached 5% of the US total in Q4 2021 and the proportion was up to 8.1% in the last quarter of 2023.
https://insideevs.com/news/714598/ev-sales-tipping-point-countries/
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi’s first EV boosts its market value by $4 billion
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi seems to have hit the ball out of the park with the launch of its debut EV, the SU7, last week. The launch has pushed its market value up by $4 million, with the company now nearing valuations higher than GM and Ford.
April 1, 2024
date: 2024-04-02, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1-2024-180
French lawmakers take a swing at cloud monopolies
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Action gathers steam in the EU, US and UK as anti-trust teams collate market feedback
The Cloud Infrastructure Providers In Europe (CISPE) lobby group has welcomed an agreement among French lawmakers that it claims “will enshrine fair software licensing for cloud customers in French law.”…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/cispe_welcomes_french_law/
After welcoming guests for 67 years, the Tropicana Las Vegas casino gets ready to make way for new A’s ballpark
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
The doors to the Las Vegas Strip’s third-oldest casino will be chained shut at noon Tuesday and demolition is slated for October to make room for a $1.5 billion stadium for the Oakland A’s.
Teenagers in tree at Blossom Hill Park heard shouting racial slurs
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Several other incidents of juveniles acting ‘aggressive’ reported in Los Gatos.
Suspect steals bag of Crocs from Campbell store
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Flees from police in a 2005 Jaguar.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/02/suspect-steals-bag-of-crocs-from-campbell-store/
Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons
date: 2024-04-02, from: Quanta Magazine
After a decade out of the spotlight, the brain cells once alleged to explain empathy, autism and theory of mind are being refined and redefined.The post Overexposure Distorted the Science of Mirror Neurons first appeared on Quanta Magazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/overexposure-distorted-the-science-of-mirror-neurons-20240402/
Tesla Privately Previews Updated Model 3 Performance Ahead of Official Launch
date: 2024-04-02, from: Inside EVs News
Plus, Americans are buying cheaper cars, and Canoo shares tumbled after it spent double its annual revenue on the CEO’s private jet.
https://insideevs.com/news/714572/cm-tesla-20240402/
NASA Awards Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2024
date: 2024-04-02, from: NASA breaking news
The highly competitive NASA Hubble Fellowship Program (NHFP) recently named 24 new fellows to its 2024 roster. The program fosters excellence and inclusive leadership in astrophysics by supporting a diverse group of exceptionally promising and innovative early-career astrophysicists. The NHFP enables outstanding postdoctoral scientists to pursue independent research in any area of NASA Astrophysics, using […]
https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-awards-astrophysics-postdoctoral-fellowships-for-2024/
NASA Engineer Chris Lupo Receives 2024 Federal Engineer Award
date: 2024-04-02, from: NASA breaking news
The National Society of Professional Engineers named Chris Lupo, deputy chief engineer of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, as the agency’s 2024 Federal Engineer of the Year. Sponsored by the National Society of Professional Engineers in Government, the award recognizes engineers employed in the federal government. Lupo was recognized during an award ceremony at the National […]
Powerball jackpot ratchets up to $1.09 billion after no big winner Monday
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Not everyone went home empty handed Monday. Six players scored $1 million prizes and more than 2 million others won prizes at lower award tiers, according to the lottery.
First vessel uses alternate channel to bypass wreckage at Baltimore bridge collapse site
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
Baltimore — A tugboat pushing a fuel barge was the first vessel to use an alternate channel to bypass the wreckage of Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, which had blocked traffic along the vital port’s main shipping channel.
The barge supplying jet fuel to the Department of Defense left late Monday and was destined for Delaware’s Dover Air Force Base, though officials have said the temporary channel is open primarily to vessels that are helping with the cleanup effort. Some barges and tugs that have been stuck in the Port of Baltimore since the collapse are also scheduled to pass through the channel.
Officials said they’re working on a second channel on the southwest side of the main channel that will allow for deeper draft vessels, but they didn’t say when that might open.
Gov. Wes Moore is set Tuesday to visit one of two centers that the Small Business Administration opened in the area to help companies get loans to assist them with losses caused by the disruption of the bridge collapse.
Crews are undertaking the complicated work of removing steel and concrete at the site of the bridge’s deadly collapse after a container ship lost power and crashed into a supporting column. On Sunday, dive teams surveyed parts of the bridge and checked the ship, and workers in lifts used torches to cut above-water parts of the twisted steel superstructure.
Authorities believe six workers plunged to their deaths in the collapse, including two whose bodies were recovered last week. Two other workers survived.
Moore, a Democrat, said at a Monday afternoon news conference that his top priority is recovering the four remaining bodies, followed by reopening shipping channels. He said that he understands the urgency but that the risks are significant. Crews have described the mangled steel girders of the fallen bridge as “chaotic wreckage,” he said.
“What we’re finding is it is more complicated than we hoped for initially,” said U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral Shannon Gilreath.
Meanwhile, the ship remains stationary, and its 21 crew members remain on board for now, officials said.
President Joe Biden is expected to visit the collapse site Friday to meet with state and local officials and get at federal response efforts.
The bridge fell as the cargo ship Dali lost power March 26 shortly after leaving Baltimore on its way to Sri Lanka. The ship issued a mayday alert, which allowed just enough time for police to stop traffic, but not enough to save a roadwork crew filling potholes on the bridge.
The Dali is managed by Synergy Marine Group and owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd., both of Singapore. Danish shipping giant Maersk chartered the Dali.
Synergy and Grace Ocean filed a court petition Monday seeking to limit their legal liability, a routine but important procedure for cases litigated under U.S. maritime law. A federal court in Maryland will ultimately decide who is responsible and how much they owe.
The filing seeks to cap the companies’ liability at roughly $43.6 million. It estimates that the vessel itself is valued at up to $90 million and was owed over $1.1 million in income from freight. The estimate also deducts two major expenses: at least $28 million in repair costs and at least $19.5 million in salvage costs.
Officials are trying to determine how to rebuild the major bridge, which was completed in 1977. It carried Interstate 695 around southeast Baltimore and became a symbol of the city’s working-class roots and maritime culture.
Congress is expected to consider aid packages to help people who lose jobs or businesses because of the prolonged closure of the Port of Baltimore. The port handles more cars and farm equipment than any other U.S. facility.
Rivian’s (RIVN) deliveries remain flat in Q1 as EV maker prepares for plant shutdown
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
EV maker Rivian’s (RIVN) Q1 EV deliveries were about flat from the fourth quarter as preparations began at its Normal, IL plant to cut costs. Despite deliveries falling slightly from Q4, Rivian beat Wall Street’s expectations and confirmed full-year production guidance.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/rivians-q1-deliveries-flat-ev-maker-preps-plant-shutdown/
High school baseball rankings April 2, 2024: Bay Area News Group Top 20
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Undefeated Granada, Acalanes lead the way. Woodside, Menlo-Atherton enter the rankings.
The bagels that wowed The New York Times arrive in Berkeley
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Berkeley’s new Bageltopia shop is making “bagels as good as Brooklyn’s,” according to the Gray Lady.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/02/the-bagels-that-wowed-the-new-york-times-arrive-in-berkeley/
Rubrik files to go public following alliance with Microsoft
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Cloud cyber resilience model could raise $700M despite $278M losses
Cloud security provider Rubrik has filed for an IPO on the New York Stock Exchange following a flurry of similar flotations.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/rubrik_files_for_ipo/
This is America’s best-selling vehicle for 42 years running
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
In Dearborn, Michigan, a new Ford F-150 rolls off the line every 53 seconds
https://www.voanews.com/a/7549251.html
This is America’s best-selling vehicle for 42 years running
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
It’s been the best-selling vehicle in the United States for more than 40 years – and the best-selling truck for nearly 50 years. So, what makes the Ford F-150 truck the most popular vehicle in the country? VOA’s Dora Mekouar visited the Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, Michigan, to find out. Camera: Adam Greenbaum.
https://www.voanews.com/a/this-is-america-s-best-selling-vehicle-for-42-years-running-/7552319.html
Tesla Delivered Only 386,810 Vehicles In Q1 2024. Produced 433,371
date: 2024-04-02, from: Inside EVs News
Tesla deliveries fell far short of expectations in Q1 2024.
https://insideevs.com/news/714347/tesla-q1-2024-production-deliveries/
BYD’s premium Denza brand updates, cuts prices of N7 SUV to entice would-be Tesla Model Y buyers
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
A mere eight months after initially launching its N7 SUV in China, BYD sub-brand Denza has followed up with a refreshed version with better technology and significantly lower starting prices. Initially targeting potential Model Y customers, the N7’s sales have yet to reach Denza’s expectations, leading to today’s new demand levers and some new subsidies for switching to the updated model.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/byd-denza-updates-cuts-prices-n7-suv-tesla-model-y-buyers/
Working Wonders: The ‘secret sauce’ is being together
date: 2024-04-02, from: San Jose Mercury News
Program for East Bay adults with learning disabilities focuses on work, life experiences, the arts and exercise.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/02/working-wonders-the-secret-sauce-is-being-together/
Tesla (TSLA) releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results
date: 2024-04-02, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla has released its Q1 2024 delivery and production numbers: confirming the suspicion that it is not growing anymore.
It’s even worse than most people anticipated.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/02/tesla-releases-q1-2024-deliveries-disastrous-results/
ChatGPT Looms Over the Peer-Review Crisis
date: 2024-04-02, from: 404 Media Group
Research shows that academics might be using generative AI tools to cut corners on a fundamental pillar of the scientific process.
https://www.404media.co/chatgpt-looms-over-the-peer-review-crisis/
You Have to Check Out The Time-Traveling Honda Dax 1978 Special Edition
date: 2024-04-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Cub House Honda is at it again.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714279/honda-dax-1978-special-edition/
Starlink clashes with Telecom Italia over frequency data sharing
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Refusal to play ball may result in satellite operator moving investment elsewhere
Starlink is reportedly facing obstructions to its expansion in the Mediterranean from Telecom Italia, which it claims is refusing to share data that would help to avoid interference between the two operators.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/starlink_telecom_italia_dispute/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-02, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Google is the one entity you must trust above all. No way around it.
https://this.how/googleAndHttp/#1519491117000
Xiaomi SU7, The Smartphone Maker’s First EV, Sold Out For 2024 In 24 Hours
date: 2024-04-02, from: Inside EVs News
Customers in China are facing wait times as long as seven months to get their cars delivered.
https://insideevs.com/news/714595/xiaomi-su7-ev-sold-out-2024-24-hours/
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-02, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Google who claims to be looking out for everybody else’s privacy turns out, of course, is the biggest privacy invader that has ever existed.
https://apnews.com/article/google-chrome-privacy-lawsuit-settlement-203cc5063f1a1d4013de1900d9376814
This time, it’s scammers beware
date: 2024-04-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Consumers lost more than $1.1 billion to impersonation scams in 2023, according to the Federal Trade Commission. This week, a new rule from the FTC went into effect that prohibits people from impersonating government agencies and businesses, and gives the FTC more tools to go after scammers. Plus, the United States and United Kingdom are teaming up to tackle AI safety, and the end of certain internet subsidies threatens telehealth access.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/this-time-its-scammers-beware
Polish officials may face criminal charges in Pegasus spyware probe
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Victims of the powerful surveillance tool will soon find out the truth
Former Polish government officials may face criminal charges following an investigation into their use of the notorious spyware Pegasus to surveil political opponents and others.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/polish_pegasus_inquiry/
Researchers Use Old Newspaper Reports to Identify 137-Year-Old Shipwreck in Lake Michigan
date: 2024-04-02, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The steamship “Milwaukee” sank in a heavy fog off the coast of Holland, Michigan, after colliding with another vessel
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/137-year-old-shipwreck-found-in-lake-michigan-180984058/
What Analysts Expect From Q1 EV Sales
date: 2024-04-02, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: The Ohio and Tennessee Valleys could experience long-track tornadoes today • Gale-force winds killed at least four people in China’s Jiangxi Province • A winter storm watch is in effect across New England.
THE TOP FIVE
- It’s a big week for EV sales numbers
Major U.S. electric vehicle manufacturers including Tesla and Rivian are expected to report on their first-quarter sales and deliveries this week. Expectations for Tesla are pretty low, according to Bloomberg, with analysts forecasting global deliveries of about 449,080 vehicles, down 7%. “Some on Wall Street are even braced for Tesla’s first sales decline since the early days of the pandemic.” But hey, Tesla might win back its title of “biggest EV seller” after Chinese rival BYD reported a 43% drop in quarterly sales. Analysts expect Rivian to deliver 16,608 vehicles, up 18.9% over Q4 of 2023. Stellantis, Ford, Toyota, GM, and Honda will also release Q1 reports this week, so stay tuned.
- Shell fights ‘mother of all climate cases’ in The Hague
Fossil fuel giant Shell is arguing in The Hague this week that a landmark emissions ruling was legally defunct. In 2021, a district court ruled in favor of environmental group Friends of the Earth Netherlands and ordered Shell to cut its greenhouse gas emissions (including scope 3 emissions) by 45% by 2030. “This was the mother of all climate cases against corporations” because it opened the door to copycat cases, Klaas Hendrik Eller, an assistant professor at the University of Amsterdam’s center for transformative private law, told the Financial Times. Shell is appealing, insisting the order lacks legal basis and that companies cannot be held responsible for their clients’ emissions. Friends of the Earth will argue that the scientific evidence shows burning fossil fuels is causing global warming and that “Shell has a responsibility to act in accordance with climate science and international climate agreements.” A ruling is expected in the second half of this year.
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- Record number of fires recorded in Venezuela
More than 30,200 fires were detected in Venezuela between January and March, the highest number ever recorded for that three-month period. The region is suffering from intense drought driven by human-caused climate change and the El Niño weather pattern. Researchers are worried these fires are a sign of things to come. “Everything is indicating we’re going to see other events of catastrophic fires – megafires that are huge in size and height,” Manoela Machado, a fire researcher at University of Oxford, told Reuters. More than half of all the fires burning in the Amazon rainforest are located in Venezuela.
- Human case of bird flu found in Texas
A case of avian flu has been detected in a human in Texas, marking the first such case since the virus was recently identified in cows across several states, and only the second case in U.S. history. The current outbreak of H5N1 has decimated bird populations across the world and also spread to mammals, including seals, mink, and now cows. Health experts worry the virus could mutate to become easily transmissible between humans, but so far there is no evidence of that happening. Still, “every single time is a little bit of Russian roulette,” said Ashish Jha, who led the Biden administration’s pandemic response. “You play that game long enough and one of these times it will become fit to spread among humans.” Researchers say climate change is altering birds’ breeding habits and migratory patterns in ways that leave them more vulnerable to bird flu.
- In Europe, solar panels are the new garden fencing
The price of solar panels has dropped so significantly that some households in Europe are using them as fencing in their yards, the Financial Times reported. Skyrocketing production out of China means solar panels are cheap and getting cheaper. But at the same time, installation costs for rooftop solar remain high, prompting some DIY-minded homeowners to roll up their sleeves and install panels as fencing. The panels don’t get quite as much sun as they would on a rooftop, but they still work. No word on what the neighbors have to say about it. Peculiar garden aesthetics aside, the solar glut has “brought Europe’s solar makers to their knees,” Politico reported recently. Manufacturers want the European Commission to step in and help them. In the U.S., the cost of a solar panel is now half of what it was last year, and falling.
THE KICKER
As of yesterday, anyone living in Colorado can get a $450 discount when buying an e-bike thanks to the nation’s first statewide e-bike tax credit.
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/ev-sales-q1-tesla-rivian
India braces for heat waves
date: 2024-04-02, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: India is likely to experience more heat wave days than normal between April and June, potentially hitting agricultural production and hampering government efforts to bring down food inflation. There’s also a worry that soaring temperatures could deter people from voting in the upcoming elections. Also on the program: an agreement tackling the risk of AI, England’s expanded taxpayer-funded child care and the Dutch word for doing nothing
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/india-braces-for-heat-waves
INC Ransom claims to be behind ‘cyber incident’ at UK city council
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
This follows attack on NHS services in Scotland last week
The cyber skids at INC Ransom are claiming responsbility for the ongoing cybersecurity incident at Leicester City Council, according to a post caught by eagle-eyed infosec watchers.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/inc_ransom_leicester_council/
Peugeot Wants To Charge Up Your Commute With The New SPx Concept
date: 2024-04-02, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
It’s apparently inspired by the Peugeot 103 of 1971.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/712003/peugeot-spx-electric-concept/
Digital design
date: 2024-04-02, from: Enlightenment Economics
Over the holiday weekend I read (among other things*) Digital Design: A History by Steven Eskilson. I enjoy reading design books in general – a window into a more glamorous specialism than economics. This one covers a range of aspects, … Continue reading
http://www.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/index.php/2024/04/digital-design/
Pilar Schiavo | Chiquita Canyon: An Update on State’s Response
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
By now, you’ve likely heard about the crisis at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill. But with so much information being reported, I wanted to break down for you what happened, what we’re doing in response, and what we can expect going forward. • What is happening at Chiquita Canyon Landfill? Since 2023, an underground heating […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/pilar-schiavo-chiquita-canyon-an-update-on-states-response/
Microsoft Teams decouples from Office 365 suite globally
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Licenses everywhere can omit collaboration app thanks to EU regulators
For those not keen on Microsoft Teams, help is in hand – European Union requirements to unbundle the software from Office 365 will be implemented globally.…
Richard LaMotte | Thoughts on National Debt
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
Responding to Mr. Gerald Staack’s letter of March 26: I don’t want to go into an explanation on Marxist modern monetary theory, except to say that there are several opinions concerning the national debt, however “borrowing money” (debt) implies repayment, and putting more money into circulation than is supported by national productivity (Gross Domestic Product) […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/richard-lamotte-thoughts-on-national-debt/
Dr. Aakash Ahuja | TikTok and Teens’ Mental Health
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
I wish to draw your attention to the recent passing of a bill by the United States House of Representatives, which aims to ban TikTok — an initiative I wholeheartedly endorse. TikTok’s detrimental impact on our youth, particularly high school students, cannot be overstated. Teenagers, on average, engage with TikTok 19 times daily, underscoring its […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/dr-aakash-ahuja-tiktok-and-teens-mental-health/
Peltier Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday
date: 2024-04-02, from: Raspberry Pi News (.com)
We all know Raspberry Pi is cool but Ivan Kuleshov has created a striking way to keep the tiny computer even cooler.
The post Peltier Cooler for Raspberry Pi 5 | #MagPiMonday appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/peltier-cooler-for-raspberry-pi-5-magpimonday/
Ron Perry | Hello? John Krasinski?
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
Where is John Krasinski when we need him again more than ever. John had a wonderful show that he did from home during the pandemic that he called “Some Good News.” It was for and about children, but it was truly appreciated by adults as well. If there was ever a time we could use […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/ron-perry-hello-john-krasinski/
New resource to help teachers make Computing culturally relevant
date: 2024-04-02, from: Raspberry Pi (.org)
Here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, we believe that it’s important that our academic research has a practical application. An important area of research we are engaged in is broadening participation in computing education by investigating how the subject can be made more culturally relevant — we have published several studies in this area. However,…
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https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/new-resource-to-help-teachers-make-computing-culturally-relevant/
Happy 20th birthday Gmail, you’re mostly grown up – now fix the spam
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Senders of more than 5K messages a day are in the crosshairs
It was 20 years ago on Monday that Google unleashed Gmail on the world, and the chocolate factory is celebrating with new rules that just might, hopefully, cut down on the amount of spam users receive.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/gmail_turns_20/
Ukraine, Gaza on agenda as Blinken visits France
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-gaza-on-agenda-as-blinken-visits-france/7553023.html
Fedora change proposal suggests switching the main Fedora Workstation release to KDE Plasma
date: 2024-04-02, from: OS News
Update: the proposal has now been formally announced on the devel mailing list and Fedora Discussions. I have been assured by the main author of the proposal itself that this is very much not an April Fools joke, but of course, there’s still the very real possibility we’re being led on here. Still, I’m taking the risk and treating this as a serious change proposal for Fedora, even though it’s likely to cause some controversy in the wider Fedora community. The proposal is written by Joshua Strobl, the lead developer of Budgie. Yes, this is a change proposal to make KDE the default desktop environment of Fedora Workstation. The reasoning is that KDE is more approachable for new users than GNOME, it supports standards better, the industry seems to be making moves to KDE (see the Steam Deck), and so on. KDE also has more advanced features people have come to expect from a desktop, like HDR, VRR, and more, and it’s the more advanced Wayland desktop. The important note here is that in the highly unlikely event this proposal would be accepted, it’s not like current Fedora GNOME users will be ‘upgraded’ to KDE when Fedora 42 gets released. The idea is to promote the current Fedora Plasma spin to the main Fedora Workstation release, and demote the Fedora GNOME release to a mere Fedora spin, like KDE is now. While I would personally support this change, it’s pretty much 100% unlikely this change proposal will make it through. Red Hat and Fedora are entirely GNOME-first, and no matter how much I believe that’s misguided when looking at the state of the two primary open source desktops today, that’s not going to change. Still, it’s an interesting discussion point, if only to highlight that the frustrations with GNOME run a lot deeper than people seem to think.
Intel courts devs with open arms and exotic hardware
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Is Developer Cloud enough to steal Nvidia’s thunder?
Interview Intel is attempting to woo developers to its cloud with early access to unreleased hardware and a born-again attitude to open source in a bid to differentiate itself from competitors.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/intel_developer_cloud_interview/
How (and why) I post every day
date: 2024-04-02, from: Robert Reich on Substack
Friends, Several of you have asked me how I manage to produce this Substack every day, seven days a week (and sometimes two times a day). Is there just one of you? you ask. Do you get any sleep? Do you have a life? There’s just one of me (except on Saturdays, when Heather Lofthouse joins me for the Coffee Klatch). I
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-and-why-i-post-so-much
Megan Thee Stallion, Nike host “hottie walk” at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
aNike gave free “Hottie State of Mind” T-shirts and free pairs of its newest walking shoe, the Motiva, to people who participated in the mile and a half-long walk.
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Students celebrate Arab American Heritage Month
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Olympian Yusra Mardini visited campus and spoke about Arab representation.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/02/students-celebrate-arab-american-heritage-month/
Classifieds – April 2, 2024
date: 2024-04-02, 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/2024/04/02/classifieds-april-2-2024/
Apple’s GoFetch silicon security fail was down to an obsession with speed
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Ye cannae change the laws of physics, but you can change your mind
Opinion Apple is good at security. It’s good at processors. Thus GoFetch, a major security flaw in its processor architecture, is a double whammy.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/apple_gofetch_opinion/
2024-03-27 Sick? Or Hayfever?
date: 2024-04-02, 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.
2024-03-28. Ugh. Staying in bed.
2024-03-29. Definitely sick. 🤒
2024-03-30. Still sick, but the fever is gone. Perhaps now it’s just the hayfever?
2024-03-31. Left the house for a walk with Claudia and a friend that lives nearby.
2024-04-01. Actually spent some time at the laptop. I guess turnaround cautiously confirmed?
2024-04-02. Recovery is on track. Falling asleep was hard. Some nose blowing still. Not sure about focus. It’s good enough for an hour or so? Back to bed now. I hope to be back on my feet tomorrow!
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-03-26-sick
Today in SCV History (April 2)
date: 2024-04-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)
1910 – Filming of D.W. Griffith’s “Ramona” with Mary Pickford, first known movie shot in SCV, wraps after two days at Rancho Camulos. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-april-2/
Reflecting on sacrifice and faith this Lent
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
There is so much you can gain by giving something up, regardless of your faith.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/02/reflecting-on-sacrifice-self-and-faith-this-lent/
Diving into women’s club water polo
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The club excels in the pool while creating friendships outside the water.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/02/usc-womens-water-polo/
USG needs to implement a transgender medical fund
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Gender-affirming care is life-saving, and USG can help make it accessible.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/02/usg-needs-to-implement-a-transgender-medical-fund/
‘Tall Tales’ tackles grief in futuristic coming-of-age story
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
SCA alumni bridge the gap between dystopia and reality in their short film.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/02/tall-tales-tackles-grief-in-futuristic-coming-of-age-story/
Season of celebration finishes for women’s basketball in Elite Eight
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Watkins breaks the NCAA Division I freshman scoring record to end her first year.
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VMware by Broadcom plots pair of Cloud Foundation releases that will show off its strategy
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
But unhappy European buyers have called for regulators to step in
Exclusive VMware by Broadcom will deliver a significant update to its flagship Cloud Foundation bundle in the middle of this year and follow it up with a major update early in 2025.…
Huawei’s cloud unit is its current growth vehicle
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Big in China – and a presence elsewhere, but not at a scale to worry global hyperscalers
On Friday, China’s Huawei Technologies released its annual report in which it revealed its cloud computing business was its fastest growing established segment.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/huawei_cloud_unit_growth/
Person is diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows in Texas
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
ATLANTA — A person in Texas has been diagnosed with bird flu, an infection tied to the recent discovery of the virus in dairy cows, health officials said Monday.
The patient was being treated with an antiviral drug and their only reported symptom was eye redness, Texas health officials said. Health officials say the person had been in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and the risk to the public remains low.
It marks the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal, federal health officials said.
However, there’s no evidence of person-to-person spread or that anyone has become infected from milk or meat from livestock, said Dr. Nirav Shah, principal deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Genetic tests don’t suggest that the virus suddenly is spreading more easily or that it is causing more severe illness, Shah said. And current antiviral medications still seem to work, he added.
Last week, dairy cows in Texas and Kansas were reported to be infected with bird flu — and federal agriculture officials later confirmed infections in a Michigan dairy herd that had recently received cows from Texas. None of the hundreds of affected cows have died, Shah said.
Since 2020, a bird flu virus has been spreading among more animal species – including dogs, cats, skunks, bears and even seals and porpoises – in scores of countries.
However, the detection in U.S. livestock is an “unexpected and problematic twist,” said Dr. Ali Khan, a former CDC outbreak investigator who is now dean of the University of Nebraska’s public health college.
This bird flu was first identified as a threat to people during a 1997 outbreak in Hong Kong. More than 460 people have died in the past two decades from bird flu infections, according to the World Health Organization.
Most infected people got it directly from birds, but scientists have been on guard for any sign of spread among people.
Texas officials didn’t identify the newly infected person, nor release any details about what brought them in contact with the cows.
The CDC does not recommend testing for people who have no symptoms. Roughly a dozen people in Texas who did have symptoms were tested in connection with the dairy cow infections, but only the one person came back positive, Shah said.
It’s only the second time a person in the United States has been diagnosed with what’s known as Type A H5N1 virus. In 2022, a prison inmate in a work program picked it up while killing infected birds at a poultry farm in Montrose County, Colorado. His only symptom was fatigue, and he recovered.
April 1, 2024
date: 2024-04-02, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Tuesday, March 26, Judge Juan Merchan, who is presiding over Trump’s election interference case, put Trump under a gag order to stop his attacks on court staff, prosecutors, jurors, and witnesses. On Wednesday, Trump renewed his attacks on the judge and the judge’s daughter. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton took the unusual step of talking publicly about what threats of violence meant to the rule of law. Walton, who was appointed to the federal bench by President George W. Bush, told Kaitlan Collins of CNN that threats, especially threats to a judge’s family, undermine the ability of judges to carry out their duties.
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/april-1-2024
Why dumbing down your house could be a smart move
date: 2024-04-02, from: Tilde.news
Overwhelming majority of Ukraine supplemental funding spent inside US
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
The U.S. Congress left Washington for a break without deciding on a supplemental funding bill to arm Ukraine and other allies. Republicans who oppose the funding say Congress should spend its money on domestic concerns, but as VOA Pentagon correspondent Carla Babb reports, the funding bill hits closer to home than many Americans may realize.
Japan’s moon lander sparks joy by making it through a second lunar night
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Brief awakening brought mixed news and familiar scenery
Japan’s Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) late last week revealed that its Moon lander had – somewhat unexpectedly – mostly survived a second lunar night and was briefly well enough to send home some snaps.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/jaxa_slim_awakens/
Cabo Dhabi
date: 2024-04-02, from: Chris Coyier blog
That was the joke the camel guy made when we went camel riding in Cabo San Lucas on our vacation. The actual camel ride was about 250 seconds long and not something I’d go out of the way to do again, but the dad jokes were impressively thick. Yep — we went to Cabo again! […]
https://chriscoyier.net/2024/04/01/cabo-dhabi/
US, Britain announce partnership on AI safety, testing
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — The United States and Britain on Monday announced a new partnership on the science of artificial intelligence safety, amid growing concerns about upcoming next-generation versions.
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and British Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan signed a memorandum of understanding in Washington to jointly develop advanced AI model testing, following commitments announced at an AI Safety Summit in Bletchley Park in November.
“We all know AI is the defining technology of our generation,” Raimondo said. “This partnership will accelerate both of our institutes work across the full spectrum to address the risks of our national security concerns and the concerns of our broader society.”
Britain and the United States are among countries establishing government-led AI safety institutes.
Britain said in October its institute would examine and test new types of AI, while the United States said in November it was launching its own safety institute to evaluate risks from so-called frontier AI models and is now working with 200 companies and entites.
Under the formal partnership, Britain and the United States plan to perform at least one joint testing exercise on a publicly accessible model and are considering exploring personnel exchanges between the institutes. Both are working to develop similar partnerships with other countries to promote AI safety.
“This is the first agreement of its kind anywhere in the world,” Donelan said. “AI is already an extraordinary force for good in our society and has vast potential to tackle some of the world’s biggest challenges, but only if we are able to grip those risks.”
Generative AI, which can create text, photos and videos in response to open-ended prompts, has spurred excitement as well as fears it could make some jobs obsolete, upend elections and potentially overpower humans and catastrophic effects.
In a joint interview with Reuters Monday, Raimondo and Donelan urgent joint action was needed to address AI risks.
“Time is of the essence because the next set of models are about to be released, which will be much, much more capable,” Donelan said. “We have a focus one the areas that we are dividing and conquering and really specializing.”
Raimondo said she would raise AI issues at a meeting of the U.S.-EU Trade and Technology Council in Belgium Thursday.
The Biden administration plans to soon announce additions to its AI team, Raimondo said. “We are pulling in the full resources of the U.S. government.”
Both countries plan to share key information on capabilities and risks associated with AI models and systems and technical research on AI safety and security.
In October, Biden signed an executive order that aims to reduce the risks of AI. In January, the Commerce Department said it was proposing to require U.S. cloud companies to determine whether foreign entities are accessing U.S. data centers to train AI models.
Britain said in February it would spend more than 100 million pounds ($125.5 million) to launch nine new research hubs and AI train regulators about the technology.
Raimondo said she was especially concerned about the threat of AI applied to bioterrorism or a nuclear war simulation.
“Those are the things where the consequences could be catastrophic and so we really have to have zero tolerance for some of these models being used for that capability,” she said.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-britain-announce-partnership-on-ai-safety-testing/7552925.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-02, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
"Why 1984 won't be like 1984."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
NATO and European security separate Biden, Trump
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
As NATO marks its 75th anniversary this week, the alliance — and America’s role in European security — are issues that separate U.S. presidential candidates Joe Biden and Donald Trump. VOA correspondent Scott Stearns has our story.
https://www.voanews.com/a/nato-and-european-security-separate-biden-trump-/7552914.html
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-02, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Ken Smith summarizes: “Figure out what kinds of events the press likes to cover, then create that kind of event.” That’s right. Let’s not argue about what the press should cover. We can’t change them. Just give them what they need to do the right thing.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a022029
Judge expands gag order after Trump’s social media posts about judge’s daughter
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
NEW YORK — The judge in Donald Trump’s hush-money criminal case expanded the former president’s gag order Monday after the former president assailed the judge’s daughter and made a false claim about her on social media last week.
Judge Juan M. Merchan said his original gag order issued last Tuesday did not include members of his family, but Trump’s subsequent actions warranted including them.
Merchan’s daughter, Loren Merchan, is a Democratic political consultant. Prosecutors had urged Merchan to clarify or expand his gag order after Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform that Loren Merchan “makes money by working to ‘Get Trump,’” and wrongly accused her of posting a social media photo showing him behind bars.
The trial, which involves allegations Trump falsified payment records in a scheme to cover up negative stories during his 2016 presidential campaign, is scheduled to begin April 15. Trump denies wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records.
Trump’s lawyers had fought the gag order and its expansion, arguing that Trump was engaging in protected political campaign speech.
Meet the Sipeed Tang Primer 25K FPGA
date: 2024-04-02, from: Stephen Smith’s blog
Introduction Last year, I got interested in FPGAs and purchased a Digilent Basys3, which was lots of fun to play with, I even got a minimal RISC-V processor programmed. The Basys3 is their lower end board and doesn’t have any RAM, limiting what you can do, since it has to use logic elements such as […]
https://smist08.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/meet-the-sipeed-tang-primer-25k-fpga/
Trump Media Plunges as Truth Social’s $58 Million Loss Reported
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: Daring Fireball
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/01/truth-social-trump-media-results/
In Search of Understanding
date: 2024-04-02, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A stable peace will come only when the players involved (that’s all of us, in a way) are willing to make the monumental effort to understand the narratives of both peoples.
The post In Search of Understanding appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/in-search-of-understanding/
Senior Center preps for Celebrity Waiter fundraiser
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
News release The Santa Clarita Valley Senior Center is preparing for its annual fundraising event, Celebrity Waiter, with the theme “California Dreamin’” on Saturday, April 27, at the Senior Center at Bella Vida. Table sponsorships are still available and the headliner for the event is “Surfin’” – The Beach Boys Tribute Band that has […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/senior-center-preps-for-celebrity-waiter-fundraiser/
Trump posts $175 million bond in civil fraud case, averting asset seizures
date: 2024-04-02, from: VOA News USA
COC to host Michele Jenkins Team Room dedication ceremony
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
News release The College of the Canyons Athletic Department will host a dedication ceremony to unveil the Michele Jenkins Softball Team Room in honor of the longtime board member and ardent softball program supporter’s nearly 40 years of service to the district. The event is scheduled to be held Tuesday, April 16, prior to the […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/coc-to-host-michele-jenkins-team-room-dedication-ceremony/
Daily EV Recap: Tesla’s Model 3 Plaid nears release
date: 2024-04-02, 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/2024/04/01/daily-ev-recap-teslas-model-3-plaid-nears-release/
Six banks share customer info to help Singapore fight money laundering
date: 2024-04-02, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
PLUS: Google Cloud ANZ boss departs; Japan revives airliner ambitions; China-linked attackers target Asian entities
ASIA IN BRIEF Singapore’s Monetary Authority on Monday launched an application, intuitively named “COllaborative Sharing of Money Laundering/TF Information & Cases” (COSMIC for short, obviously) to target money laundering and terrorism financing.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/02/asia_tech_news_roundup/
SCAA to host Debbie Abshear watercolor demo
date: 2024-04-02, from: The Signal
News release The Santa Clarita Artists Association is inviting the community to its monthly meeting on April 15, featuring a free watercolor demo by artist Debbie Abshear. The event is scheduled 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Monday, April 15t, at Barnes and Noble, 23630 Valencia Blvd., Valencia. Abshear specializes in landscapes, seascapes and abstracts. Her chosen medium […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/scaa-to-host-debbie-abshear-watercolor-demo/
People’s CDC COVID-19 Weather Report
date: 2024-04-02, from: Peoples CDC blog
This is the @PeoplesCDC weekly update for April 1, 2024! This Weather Report from the People’s CDC sheds light on the ongoing COVID situation in the US.
https://peoplescdc.org/2024/04/01/peoples-cdc-covid-19-weather-report-70/
Ken Striplin | Unlocking Benefits of Recreation, Outdoor Exploration
date: 2024-04-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Over the past few months, Santa Clarita has received plenty of rain, making our hillsides green and replenishing our groundwater
https://scvnews.com/ken-striplin-unlocking-benefits-of-recreation-outdoor-exploration/
County Public Health Launches Readiness Champions Initiative
date: 2024-04-02, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced Monday it is launching the Community Readiness Champions Initiative, a campaign aimed to train residents and workers in multiple essential lifesaving skills
https://scvnews.com/county-public-health-launches-readiness-champions-initiative/
Heavy Rains Hit Santa Barbara over Easter Weekend
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Highway 101 closed at Montecito when just under 2 inches fell in an hour.
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https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/heavy-rains-hit-santa-barbara-over-easter-weekend/
Man arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Signal
A man was held at gunpoint on Monday afternoon and subsequently arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, according to Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station officials. Deputies with the station responded to a call at the 24000 block of Magic Mountain Parkway for an assault with a deadly weapon at 1:50 p.m., according […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/man-arrested-on-suspicion-of-assault-with-a-deadly-weapon/
April 20: Zonta SCV Free LifeForward Workshop
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Zonta Club of Santa Clarita Valley will host a free workshop Saturday, April 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., designed to help participants navigate difficult situations by learning coping skills and build resilience to successfully navigate life’s challenges
https://scvnews.com/april-20-zonta-scv-free-lifeforward-workshop/
Solomon announces reelection bid for Newhall school board
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Signal
News release Suzan Solomon has announced she is seeking re-election to the Newhall School District board, Trustee Area 5, in the Nov. 5 general election. The Newhall Teachers Association is among the first to endorse Solomon. “Sue Solomon has been a lighthouse in the Newhall School District, guiding us through the storms we have faced […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/solomon-announces-reelection-bid-for-newhall-school-board/
Google will delete data collected from ‘private’ browsing
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Declares victory in settlement of class action lawsuit, but individual claims remain possible
In hopes of settling a lawsuit challenging its data collection practices, Google has agreed to destroy web browsing data it collected from users browsing in Chrome’s private modes – which weren’t as private as you might have thought.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/google_will_delete_data_incognito/
USC women’s basketball vs. UConn — as it happened
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Thomas Johnson and Kasey Kazlienr report live from Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/usc-womens-basketball-vs-uconn-live-updates/
Oh, Honey!
date: 2024-04-01, from: Dan Rather’s Steady
Buzz about a big comeback
https://steady.substack.com/p/oh-honey
Granada Centennial Celebration Kicks Off With Free Documentary Screening on April 3
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
A weekend of festivities in Santa Barbara, spotlighting the past, present and future of the theater coming April 12-14.
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Last survivor of USS Arizona from Pearl Harbor attack, dies at 102
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
honolulu — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102.
Conter passed away Monday at his home in Grass Valley, California, following congestive heart failure, his daughter, Louann Daley said, adding she was beside him along with two of her brothers, James and Jeff.
The Arizona lost 1,177 sailors and Marines in the 1941 attack that launched the United States into World War II. The battleship’s dead account for nearly half of those killed in the attack.
Conter was a quartermaster, standing on the main deck of the Arizona as Japanese planes flew overhead at 7:55 a.m. on December 7 that year. Sailors were just beginning to hoist colors or raise the flag when the assault began.
Conter recalled how one bomb penetrated steel decks 13 minutes into the battle and set off more than 1 million pounds (450,000 kilograms) of gunpowder stored below. The explosion lifted the battleship 30 to 40 feet (9 to 12 meters) out of the water, he said during a 2008 oral history interview stored at the Library of Congress. Everything was on fire from the mainmast forward, he said.
“Guys were running out of the fire and trying to jump over the sides,” Conter said. “Oil all over the sea was burning.”
His autobiography The Lou Conter Story recounts how he joined other survivors tending to the injured, many of them blinded and badly burned. The sailors only abandoned ship when their senior surviving officer was sure they had rescued all those still alive.
The rusting wreckage of the Arizona still lies where it sank. More than 900 sailors and Marines remain entombed inside. Only 335 Arizona crew members survived.
Conter went to flight school after Pearl Harbor, earning his wings to fly PBY patrol bombers, which the Navy used to look for submarines and bomb enemy targets. He flew 200 combat missions in the Pacific with a “Black Cats” squadron, which conducted dive bombing at night in planes painted black.
In 1943, he and his crew were shot down in waters near New Guinea and had to avoid sharks. A sailor expressed doubt they would survive, to which Conter replied, “baloney.”
“Don’t ever panic in any situation. Survive is the first thing you tell them. Don’t panic or you’re dead,” he said. They were quiet and treaded water until another plane came hours later and dropped a lifeboat on them.
In the late 1950s, he was made the Navy’s first SERE officer — an acronym for survival, evasion, resistance and escape. He spent the next decade training Navy pilots and crew on how to survive if they’re shot down in the jungle and captured as a prisoner of war. Some of his pupils used his lessons as POWs in Vietnam.
Conter retired in 1967 after 28 years in the Navy.
Conter was born in Ojibwa, Wisconsin, on Sept. 13, 1921. His family later moved to Colorado. He enlisted in the Navy after he turned 18, getting $17 a month and a hammock for his bunk at boot camp.
With Conter’s death, there are now 19 survivors of the Pearl Harbor attack still living, according to Kathleen Farley, the California state chair of the Sons and Daughters of Pearl Harbor Survivors. About 87,000 military personnel were on Oahu on Dec. 7, according to a rough estimate compiled by military historian J. Michael Wenger.
In his later years, Conter became a fixture at annual remembrance ceremonies in Pearl Harbor that the Navy and the National Park Service jointly hosted on the anniversaries of the 1941 attack. When he lacked the strength to attend in person, he recorded video messages for those who gathered and watched remotely from his home in California.
In 2019, when he was 98, he said he liked going to such events, to remember those who lost their lives.
“It’s always good to come back and pay respect to them and give them the top honors that they deserve,” he said.
L.A. County election results certified
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Signal
News release Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk Dean C. Logan has certified the final results for the March 5 Presidential Primary Election, according to a news release from the Registrar-Recorder’s Office. A total of 1,641,715 ballots were processed and counted with 28.90% of eligible voters casting ballots in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles […]
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https://signalscv.com/2024/04/l-a-county-election-results-certified/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-04-01, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
At the Godot meetup, the speaker is telling us how develops games on his Android phone.
And I am starting to think that maybe I should also target iPhone.
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112198428028351193
Book Review | ‘The Berman Murders: Unraveling the Mojave Desert’s Most Mysterious Unsolved Crime’ by Doug Kari
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
True crime book explores 1986 disappearance of couple whose case remains a mystery.
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Head Coach Andy Enfield leaves USC men’s basketball for SMU
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
After 11 years as USC’s head coach, Enfield will have the same role for the Mustangs.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/andy-enfield-smu/
The Home Page | Some Bunny’s House Hunting
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Hoppy Hunting! Whether you are searching for eggs or houses, I wish you more enjoyment than English bulldog Maisie Rae,
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https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/the-home-page-some-bunnys-house-hunting/
Trump Media shares plummet 21% days after debut
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-media-shares-plummet-21-days-after-debut-/7552491.html
Living History, Skills Tests Coming to Annual Cowboy Festival
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita’s 28th Annual Cowboy Festival, set to return to William S. Hart Park (24151 Newhall Avenue) on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., will bring an exciting lineup for attendees to partake in.
https://scvnews.com/living-history-skills-tests-coming-to-annual-cowboy-festival/
US House of Reps tells staff: No Microsoft Copilot for you!
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
At least not until Redmond’s government edition is ready to roll
Staff working at the US House Of Representatives have been barred from using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot and AI productivity tools, pending the launch of a version tailored to the needs of government users.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/us_house_copilot_ban/
Donald Trump’s Easter Madness
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Daring Fireball
https://politicalwire.com/2024/04/01/donald-trumps-easter-madness/
Swirling Magnetic Fields Visible in New Black Hole Images
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/swirling-magnetic-fields-visible-in-new-black-hole-images
It certainly looks like Tesla is about to unveil the Model 3 Ludicrous
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Photos of an upgraded and rebadged Tesla Model 3 outside a Tesla store have us thinking that an unveiling of the anticipated Ludicrous upgrade to the Model 3 Performance is imminent.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/is-tesla-about-to-unveil-the-model-3-ludicrous-plaid/
June 1: ‘Eat. Drink. Local.’ Festival at Central Park
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Eat. Drink. Local., which was previously known as Veg Fest, announces its 2024 festival will be taking place at Central Park on Saturday, June 1, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
https://scvnews.com/june-1-eat-drink-local-festival-at-central-park/
LiveWire S2 Mulholland test ride: electric cruiser from the future
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Harley-Davidson’s LiveWire company unveiled its third electric motorcycle in March: the S2 Mulholland. At first glance, the electric cruiser closely resembles the existing LiveWire S2 Del Mar. That’s thanks to the shared Arrow platform fulfilling its purpose of spanning multiple electric motorbikes.
Still, there are a number of key differences between the S2 models that make these two distinct bikes. While we’ll have to wait for an extensive review, I recently completed a LiveWire S2 Mulholland test ride and have some initial impressions.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/livewire-s2-mulholland-test-ride/
Big Oil Could Help Shipowner Avoid Liability For Bridge Collapse
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Lever News
The company linked to the Baltimore disaster aims to use a 173-year-old “Titanic Law” to avoid paying big damages — after fossil fuel and other industries lobbied to stop reforms.
https://www.levernews.com/big-oil-could-help-shipowner-avoid-liability-for-bridge-collapse/
Environmental Leadership Incubator Project Launches Shoe Drive at UC Santa Barbara
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
Recycle sneakers and casual street shoes and hikers April 1-12 at the campus’s Recreation Center, Intercollegiate Athletics Gym, and the San Miguel, San Nicholas, and San Rafael residence halls.
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Santa Barbara Police Department Focuses on the Dangers of Distracted Driving
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
SANTA BARBARA, CA – April 1, 2024 April is National Distracted Driving Awareness Month. During the month of April, the
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GCC 10 ported to QNX 6.5 SP1
date: 2024-04-01, from: OS News
Way back in the day, back when I wasn’t even working at OSNews yet, I used to run QNX as my desktop operating system, together with a small number of other enthusiasts. It was a struggle, for sure, but it was fun, exciting, and nobody else was crazy enough to do so. Sadly, the small QNX desktop community wasn’t even remotely interesting to QNX, and later Blackberry when they acquired the company, and eventually the stand-alone Neutrino-powered version of QNX disappeared behind confusing signup screens and other dark patterns. It meant the end of our small little community. Much to my utter surprise and delight, I saw a post by js about how he ported GCC 10 to QNX – in this case, to QNX 6.5 SP1, released in 2012 – and submitted it to pkgsrc. His ultimate goal is to port one of his other projects, ObjFW, to QNX. He makes use of pkgsrc to do this kind of work, which also means he had to make pkgsrc bootstrap and a lot of other software work on QNX. We’re at QNX 8.0 by now, and as much as I bang my head against QNX and BlackBerry’s wall of marketing and corporate speak, I just can’t find out if it’s even still possible to download QNX Neutrino and install it on real generic hardware today.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139111/gcc-10-ported-to-qnx-6-5-sp1/
La Campaña Vamos Verde Goleta Inicia el Mes De la Tierra
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
PRESS RELEASE GOLETA, CA, 1 de Abril, 2024 – Justo a tiempo para el Mes de la Tierra, la ciudad
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https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/la-campana-vamos-verde-goleta-inicia-el-mes-de-la-tierra/
Go Green Goleta Campaign Kicks Off Earth Month
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
GOLETA, CA, April 1, 2024 – Just in time for Earth Month, the City of Goleta is thrilled to unveil its new
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https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/go-green-goleta-campaign-kicks-off-earth-month/
Santa Barbara Trapeze Co partners with Unity Shoppe for a Spring Food Drive
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
(SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA, April 1-27, 2024) The demand for food has never been higher due to the current economic conditions,
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Feynman, bullies, and invisible pink unicorns
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-02, from: Ron Garret
This is the second installment in what I hope will turn out to be a long series about the scientific method. In this segment I want to give three examples of how the scientific method, which I described in the first installment, can be applied to situations that are not usually considered “science-y”. By doing this I hope to show you how the scientific method can be used without any
https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/feynman-bullies-and-invisible-pink.html
Tesla Faces ‘Reputational Downfall’ Thanks To Elon Musk, Analyst Says
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
This reputational downfall hasn’t been reflected in Tesla sales, at least not at the time of writing.
https://insideevs.com/news/714565/tesla-reputational-downfall-due-to-elon-musk/
28th Annual Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival Brings Several Exciting Activities to William S. Hart Park
date: 2024-04-01, from: City of Santa Clarita
28TH ANNUAL SANTA CLARITA COWBOY FESTIVAL BRINGS SEVERAL EXCITING ACTIVITIES TO WILLIAM S. HART PARK Engage In a Number of Western Experiences on April 20-21 The City of Santa Clarita’s 28th Annual Cowboy Festival, set to return to William S. Hart Park (24151 Newhall Avenue) on Saturday, April 20 and Sunday, April 21, from 10:00 […]
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2024-04-01 What’s the plan?
date: 2024-04-01, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
2024-04-01 What’s the plan?
@Shufei asks what we’ll do with all the billionaires if we survive the next decade, the next century. Like I said in that post about Israel and Palestine, it’s worth imagining positive outcomes and then think about the intermediate steps. So, assuming we make it, what happened?
I think the long term change we would need is extremely high taxes as a an explicit redistribution mechanism. We’ll look back and say, “during Late State Capitalism we nearly ended the planet but then we manage to curb inequality and raised inheritance tax to 80%, the max income tax bracket to 90% and the two-digit million wealth tax to 20%.”
The goal would be a society with salaries between 50k and 200k per year and family, and wealth worth one year of salary. Health insurance paid for by taxes. Retirement homes paid for by taxes. Pensions paid for by immediate redistribution (i.e., taxes) instead of investments.
#Economics #Politics #Philosophy
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-04-01-the-plan
Newsom Posthumously Pardons Former CSUN Student Activist
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a posthumous pardon Friday for William “Bill” Burwell, an influential student activist on the California State University, Northridge campus in the 1960s and a founding member of the Black Student Union (BSU) and the Department of Afro-American (now Africana) Studies
https://scvnews.com/newsom-posthumously-pardons-former-csun-student-activist/
What to know about next week’s total solar eclipse in the US, Mexico, Canada
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
libmui: classic Mac OS and GS/OS widget library for Linux
date: 2024-04-01, from: OS News
This is a contender for the World Record for Feature Creep Side Project. It is pretty high in the contender list as it’s a bolt on to another contender for the World Record for Feature Creep Side Project (the MII Apple //e emulator). It is a library that duplicate a lot of a Macintosh Classic “Toolbox” APIs. It is not a complete implementation, but it is enough to make a few simple applications, also, all the bits I needed for the MII emulator. ↫ libmui GitHub page This is absolutely wild.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139108/libmui-classic-mac-os-and-gs-os-widget-library-for-linux/
Malicious xz backdoor reveals fragility of open source
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
This time, we got lucky. It mostly affected bleeding-edge distros. But that’s not a defense strategy
Analysis The discovery last week of a backdoor in a widely used open source compression library called xz could have been a security disaster had it not been caught by luck and atypical curiosity about latency from a Microsoft engineer.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/xz_backdoor_open_source/
Zotac launches ZBOX edge MI652 and MI672 slim mini PCs with Intel Meteor Lake
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
The Zotac ZBOX edge MI652 and MI672 are mini PCs that cram an Intel Meteor Lake H-series processor into a compact chassis with two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB of total RAM, two M.2 slots for storage. For the most part the two computers are pretty similar, but the MI652 is powered by an Intel […]
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MKBHD Lists Tesla Cybertruck’s Overrated And Underrated Features
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
The tech reviewer was impressed by the Cybertruck’s steer-by-wire system but wishes it wasn’t quite so minimalist.
https://insideevs.com/news/714541/mkbhd-tesla-cybtertruck-review-overrated/
US not moved by report blaming Russia for ‘Havana Syndrome’
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
Washington — The United States is backing a year-old intelligence assessment that health problems affecting, and in some cases incapacitating, hundreds of American personnel around the world are not the result of a weapon wielded by a U.S. adversary.
The White House, the Pentagon and the State Department Monday stood by a March 2023 report by the National Intelligence Council that concluded it is “very unlikely” the adverse symptoms known as Havana Syndrome were caused by enemy operatives, despite a new investigation that suggests a notorious Russian intelligence unit may be to blame.
“The intelligence community has not concluded that,” said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, defending the conclusions of the 2023 assessment.
But Jean-Pierre also said the White House has not stopped looking at the issue, which in some cases has forced U.S. personnel to retire.
“We’ve taken this very seriously,” she said. “We are going to do everything that we can … We’re going to continue to do a comprehensive examination of the effects here that we’re seeing and the potential causes.”
A joint investigation unveiled late Sunday by CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Germany’s Der Spiegel and The Insider, found there is reason to believe that the U.S. intelligence assessment came to the wrong conclusion.
Pointing to travel documents, mobile phone records, eyewitness testimony and interviews with multiple U.S. officials and victims, the news organizations concluded there is a high likelihood that Russia is to blame.
Specifically, the investigation tied numerous reports of Havana Syndrome with the presence of members of Unit 29155 of Russia’s military intelligence service, known for its role in sabotage and assassinations.
It also found that many of the symptoms are consistent with the impact of sound or radio-frequency-based directed energy weapons.
Additionally, the investigation found members of GRU Unit 29155 received awards and promotions for their work on such weapons.
At the White House, Jean-Pierre referred additional questions about Havana Syndrome to the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI).
ODNI, the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, or DIA, on Monday all declined to respond to VOA’s request for comment.
But both ODNI and DIA pointed to the Worldwide Threat Assessment issued by U.S. intelligence agencies last month.
“Most IC [intelligence community] agencies have concluded that it is very unlikely a foreign adversary is responsible for the reported AHIs [anomalous health incidents],” the assessment said, using the U.S. government terminology for Havana Syndrome.
“IC agencies have varying confidence levels because we still have gaps given the challenges collecting on foreign adversaries — as we do on many issues involving them,” the assessment added, noting intelligence analysts continue to monitor developments “in areas we have identified as requiring additional research and analysis.”
U.S. officials have recorded about 1,500 cases of Havana Syndrome since staff at the U.S. embassy in Havana, Cuba, first reported unexplained illnesses in 2016. Victims in Cuba, Russia, China, Poland, Austria and even the United States have reported a variety of symptoms, including nausea and dizziness, debilitating headaches and memory problems.
An initial investigation pointed to the possibility that at least some of those suffering symptoms were impacted by some sort of weapon, findings that were supported by a 2022 report by a panel of experts.
“Pulsed electromagnetic energy, particularly in the radiofrequency range, plausibly explains the core characteristics,” the 2022 report said.
But that same year, U.S. intelligence officials began backing off the hypothesis that the mystery ailments were the result of a weapon. The CIA, for example, said it appeared most of the cases could be “reasonably explained” by medical conditions or environmental and technical factors.
Russia on Monday rejected the conclusions of the investigation by CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Germany’s Der Spiegel, and The Insider.
“This is nothing more than a groundless accusation,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted as saying by Russia’s TASS news agency.
“This is not a new subject at all,” Peskov said. “From the very beginning it was somehow tied to accusing the Russian side of it but nobody has ever published or voiced any convincing support to these unfounded accusations.”
Still, there have been reports of new cases.
The Pentagon Monday confirmed one of them, involving a U.S. defense official who was struck with symptoms “similar to those reported in anomalous health incidents” during a NATO summit in Vilnius, Lithuania last July.
Pentagon deputy press secretary Sabrina Singh told reporters the individual was not part of the delegation attending the summit with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.
“I’m not aware that the secretary’s delegation was at risk,” Singh said, adding that Austin “has confidence in the intelligence community.”
As for the possibility that Russian agents, or those working for other U.S. adversaries, may be deploying a directed-energy weapon, “We’d always be concerned,” Singh said.
“We’d always be concerned of any type of impact to our servicemembers, to our civilians that causes health defects, health impacts,” she said in response to a question from VOA.
State Department officials Monday said there would be no repercussions for any employees speaking against the U.S. intelligence findings and noted those affected by Havana Syndrome have been given access to medical care and compensation through the HAVANA ACT, signed into law in 2021.
“The safety and security of our personnel remains the top priority of the secretary and we are doing everything possible to help those affected,” said State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller.
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-not-moved-by-report-blaming-russia-for-havana-syndrome/7552401.html
Carlos Orozco | JCI Santa Clarita’s First Quarter Highlights
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Carlos Orozco, 2024 president of JCI Santa Clarita, reflects on the Jaycees first quarter of the new year. His full message can be found below.
BYD Global Plug-In Car Sales Exceeded 300,000 In March 2024
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
That’s the second-highest monthly result ever.
https://insideevs.com/news/714552/byd-plugin-car-sales-march2024/
Tesla becomes Austin’s largest private employer as Giga Texas headcount surges
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla becomes Austin’s largest private employer as the headcount at Gigafactory Texas surges to a ridiculously high level.
No TidBITS Issue on 8 April 2024 for the Solar Eclipse
date: 2024-04-01, from: TidBITS blog
We’re taking the next email issue of TidBITS off to view the total solar eclipse, although we’ll continue to publish articles on our website. You can look forward to the next email issue on 15 April 2024.
https://tidbits.com/2024/04/01/no-tidbits-issue-on-8-april-2024-for-the-solar-eclipse/
Do You Use It? Versions
date: 2024-04-01, from: TidBITS blog
This week’s Do You Use It? poll asks how often you use the macOS versioning feature, which was in the news recently due to a bug in macOS 14.4 Sonoma.
https://tidbits.com/2024/04/01/do-you-use-it-versions/
An ode to women who walk through cities in films. “She will…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044306-an-ode-to-women-who
Solar Eclipse Resources
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
A spectacular eclipse will sweep across North America on April 8, 2024! Enjoy these free resources from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific!
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/night-sky-network/solar-eclipse-resources/
Beauty and the Milkweed
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Round Up (Peirce College Student Paper)
Pierce College is not a place that only students can explore—now it’s for a variety of insects that can fly around the campus freely. A
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Interview with Alex Borlaff
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
OK, we generally start with your early years, your childhood, where you’re from, and a little bit about your family at the time. Where you grew up, I think it was in Spain? Do you have siblings, what did your parents do, that sort of thing. And how early was it in your life that […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/interview-with-alex-borlaff/
Electric vehicles are upgrading the camping experience as we know it
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Imagine how peaceful camping would be without the loud gas-powered engines running. Electric vehicles are upgrading the camping experience as we know it. Not only are EVs silent, but they also offer unique advantages over gas-powered cars for camping.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/evs-upgrading-camping-experience-unique-advantages/
April 6: American Cancer Society Relay Rally
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
Come out and join the fun at the Relay Rally on Saturday, April 6, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Newhall Crossing, located at the courtyard by Laemmle Theatre, 22500 Lyons Avenue
https://scvnews.com/april-6-american-cancer-society-relay-rally/
Microsoft, OpenAI may be dreaming of $100B 5GW AI ‘Stargate’ supercomputer
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Play it again, Sam
OpenAI is believed to be in talks with Microsoft to construct a massive supercomputer code-named Stargate containing millions of AI accelerators at a cost of up to $100 billion.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/microsoft_openai_5gw_dc/
MINISFORUM HN14X mini PC is made for gaming (Up to Core i9-14900HX and RTX 4070)
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
The upcoming MINISFORUM HN14X is a small desktop computer with the guts of a powerful gaming laptop. Measuring 397 x 236 x 33mm (15.6″ x 9.3″ x 1.3″), it’s smaller than a PlayStation 5 (but bigger than a PS5 Slim), but it’s a full-fledged PC with up to a 14th-gen Intel Core i9 processor, NVIDIA graphics, […]
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This Handheld Device Allows Blind People to Experience the Solar Eclipse With Their Ears
date: 2024-04-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The technology, which translates the intensity of sunlight into a range of sounds, was designed to make eclipses more accessible to visually impaired people
Hyundai takes EV circuits to a new level by unveiling a race-only IONIQ 5 N eN1 Cup Car
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Ahead of its motorsport-centric N Festival in Korea later this month, Hyundai Motor Company has unveiled a new enhanced variant of its IONIQ 5 N performance EV. The IONIQ 5 N eN1 is a new electric race car designed and improved by Hyundai for professional drivers only. Don’t worry; it still has the fighter jet noises like the standard IONIQ 5 N.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/hyundai-ev-racingunveiling-upgraded-ioniq-5-n-en1-cup-car-ev/
Canva Acquires the Affinity Suite of Professional Design Apps
date: 2024-04-01, from: TidBITS blog
Canva specializes in easy-to-use online design tools with collaborative features, whereas the Affinity apps offer a powerful but inexpensive alternative to Adobe’s Creative Cloud. The acquisition could bring more collaborative capabilities to the Affinity suite and give Canva more design power.
https://tidbits.com/2024/04/01/canva-acquires-the-affinity-suite-of-professional-design-apps/
The i4 EV is now the cheapest lease in BMW’s entire lineup
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
The all-electric BMW i4 is currently the most affordable car to lease in the German automaker’s lineup – gas cars included.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/bmw-i4-ev-cheapest-lease/
Tesla Model Y Prices Increase By $1,000
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
The company also applied a price increase in China, while many other manufacturers are cutting prices there.
https://insideevs.com/news/714529/tesla-modely-prices-increased-1000-april1-2024/
How Are California Schools Spending The $1 Billion Voters Approved For Arts Education?
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-02, from: The LAist
Voters approved $1 billion a year in new arts education funding, but there are questions about how districts are spending the money.
https://laist.com/news/education/california-arts-education-funding-prop-28-misspent-2024
Archaeologists Find ‘Remarkable’ Roman Villa Full of Coins, Jewelry and ‘Curse Tablets’
date: 2024-04-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Discovered at a housing development in England, the complex’s buildings may be nearly 2,000 years old
Crash Course Lecture: The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/crash-course-lecture-the-deadliest-infectious-disease-of-all-time
2024-03-31 iPhone and iPad apps I use
date: 2024-04-01, from: Alex Schroeder’s Blog
2024-03-31 iPhone and iPad apps I use
Slowly recovering from the cold, I hope. I feel like I can write again.
I really hate the feeling when I am looking for an app to do something and I can’t find a site that isn’t about the top 10 something or other. And then, by chance, somebody mentions a good app on fedi and it’s great. I guess I want to bring recommendation pages back.
I expect to be adding to this page.
What I won’t be adding: The banking apps, the
Switzerland
Now, there are some apps that are only interesting if you’re in Switzerland:
SBB Mobile is for the train tables and for buying tickets online. Basically a must-have if you don’t have a car.
Swisstopo is for the Swiss maps, my the Swiss Federal Office of Topography. ❤️
SwitzerlandMobility is useful because it has the same official maps plus it interfaces with the Swiss Tourism site so all the big hiking tours have descriptions and pictures.
SWIplus is the alternative to visiting the swissinfo site. No real benefit. News for the Swiss abroad, or conversely, for the foreigners staring back.
SRF News is the alternative to visiting the SRF News site. No real benefit, either. News
Play SRF is the alternative to visiting the national TV or Radio sites. Useful if you want to look up older stuff. Or listen to an episode of Sounds! without subscribing to the podcast.
In the same vein, there’s an app for Swiss Jazz, Swiss Classic and Swiss Pop – digital radio stations that just play music, by SRG SSR. That is to say, sponsored by the state.
CH info is the alternative to visiting the CH Info site. No real benefit, again. Learn the absolute basics about Switzerland’s political system, administration and judicial authorities – i.e., the Federal Administration.
VoteInfo is the alternative to reading all the news about all the elections, votes, referendums and initiatives, all in one place. Pretty interesting every handful of months.
Compendium is the alternative to visiting the Compendium site. No real benefit, I guess. Information about all the medication you can get in Switzerland. I hope you don’t need it.
Travel
OsmAnd Maps Travel & Navigate is the Open Street Map (OSM) app that lets me download maps for offline use. Extremely useful for travelling abroad since Switzerland is not in the European Union and therefore roaming is extremely expensive for us and for foreigners in Switzerland… we need to be part of the European Union roaming regulations. The user interface is complex with different sets of settings depending on what you want to use the app for, and so it can be endlessly confusing at first. My wife hates it. Just be prepared for that.
PeakFinder is an app to identify mountain peaks. The older men here in Switzerland pride themselves in knowing all the peaks and the app is my only way of keeping up.
Audio
iCatcher! is my podcast app. A user interface that’s easy to understand and it removes many ads. Great stuff! ❤️
Doppler MP3 & FLAC Player is a music player for offline use. ❤️
Stylophone is a client for a Music Player Daemon (MPD) server running somewhere on your home network, connected to some speakers. Before this app I used MaximumMPD. ❤️
Animoog is the synthesizer that got me spending a lot of time before going to bed doodling. So entrancing! ❤️
Animoog Z is the follow-up app for the one above, but I haven’t used it as much.
Minimoog Model D Synthesizer is the emulation of a popular synthesizer and it is the one that made me buy actual Moog synthesizer hardware, later. ❤️
All this Moog music app fiddling did pay off for them. I bought a DFAM, Subharmonicon, Matriarch and Theremin from Moog…
Model 15 is the emulation of their modular system, which isn’t Eurorack so I won’t ever buy anything about it. But I did like their tutorial!
Klankwelle is a bare bones looking modular synthesizer. It comes with an online tutorial.
AudioKit Synth One is a synthesizer that doesn’t emulate anything. The people behind this one have a whole range of related apps that I own but don’t actually use that much: Retro Piano, Bass 808, 909 Drums, King of FM, Digital D1, FM Player 2. I think my main issue is that they’re either too simple or too complicated for my use. Also, they make me want to buy a Moog Subsequent 25.
GarageBand is great for the World instruments to doodle before going to bed: Pipa, Erhu, Koto and Guzheng. My favourite is the Erhu. I don’t use any of the gazillion other features.
iVCS3 is an emulator of the VCS3, machine created in 1969 by Peter Zinovieff’s EMS company. Apparently it was the first portable commercially available synthesizer. You can use the original manual to learn how to use it! ❤️
PixiTracker is a tracker that’s intuitive to use: edit patterns, arrange patterns into songs, load different sounds, it all works like a charm, and it looks charming. ❤️
Photos
I used to be all about those weird retro cameras. I should have listened to the few that kept saying that people like me would regret this one day.
These days I just use the regular camera and sometimes I increase exposure or increase contrast and some cropping and that’s it.
Pictures
Procreate seems to be the standard app. Everybody loves it. I don’t know. I never got far with it.
Zen Brush 2 and Zen Brush 3 are the apps that had me spend hours with the Apple pencil, drawing stuff. I love that this app tries really hard to do ink wash paintings or sumi-e and nothing else. ❤️
Art Set was the app that amazed me with the realistic looking oil colours. Amazing! But then I didn’t draw much using the app.
Words
iA Writer is the offline text editor I use when I need one. I rarely do, though.
Japanese
Kanji Teacher is an app to learn Japanese Kanji by a friend of mine. Check out the manual (PDF, EPUB).
Biology
Flora Incognita uses artificial intelligence to identify plants. I love it and take a ton of pictures with it. ❤️
Merlin Bird ID uses artificial intelligence to identify birds by song. I love it and use it a lot when out and about. ❤️
Social Media
Firefox is my browser. ❤️
Firefox Focus is my default browser app so that links from elsewhere always open in there. It also acts as my content blocker for Safari (Settings → Safari → Extensions). ❤️
Gopher is Gopher client. Gopher is the real world wide web precursor. It’s still around, and this is a client for it. I don’t use it often.
Lagrange is a Gemini client. Gemini is a kind of retro alternative to the world wide web. Less features than the web but more features than Gopher. It feels like the very early web. It’s full of nerds and nobody else. I don’t use it often.
Signal is an instant messenger that’s free but tied to your phone number. ❤️
Threema is an instant messenger that isn’t free but gives you random accounts. ❤️
Delta Chat looks like an instant messenger but uses encrypted email in the background. ❤️
Colloquy is an IRC client that I no longer use. These days I have an installation of The Lounge on a server of mine that I use via “Add to Home Screen”. It’s always connected so I never miss a thing.
Toot! is a Mastodon client that works for any fedi server that implements the Mastodon Client Protocol. I use it with my GoToSocial server and it works great. ❤️
Discord is where I find my gaming buddies. I don’t want to like it, but I was unable to find people elsewhere. So Discord it is. I even pay them money.
https://alexschroeder.ch/view/2024-03-31-iphone-apps
Abarth 600e Is A Formula-E Inspired 240 HP Electric Hot Hatch
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
Stellantis says this is the most powerful car to ever wear the Abarth badge.
https://insideevs.com/news/714560/abarth-fiat-600e-formulae-hatch/
Daily Deals (4-01-2024)
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
HP is offering deals on several different versions of the HP Pavilion Plus 14 inch laptop. Prices start at $580 for a model with an Intel Core i5-1355U processor, 16GB of RAM, and a 1080p display. But for just $20 more you can get a model with a 2.5K, 120 Hz screen and a 45-watt […]
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https://liliputing.com/daily-deals-4-01-2024/
XPC Resources
date: 2024-04-01, from: Michael Tsai
Quinn: XPC is the preferred inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism on Apple platforms. XPC has three APIs:The high-level NSXPCConnection API, for Objective-C and SwiftThe low-level Swift API, introduced with macOS 14The low-level C API, which, while callable from all languages, works best with C-based languages A great collection of links.
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/01/xpc-resources/
App Store Subscriptions and Family Sharing
date: 2024-04-01, from: Michael Tsai
Craig Hockenberry: Your code and the App Store don’t agree about when a subscription expired. The cause of this is Apple’s StoreKit sample code. It’s likely that you have some code similar to line 246 of Store.swift:subscriptionGroupStatus = try? await subscriptions.first?.subscription?.status.first?.stateThat code will work fine until you encounter a customer that has Family Sharing enabled, […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/01/app-store-subscriptions-and-family-sharing/
Apple’s Immersive Video Problem
date: 2024-04-01, from: Michael Tsai
Jason Snell: On Thursday Apple debuted its first immersive video since the Vision Pro launched, a five-minute-long compilation of highlights from the MLS Cup playoffs late last year. Without even seeing the video, I had many questions. Why did it take more than three months to produce a highlight package? And why, when it finally […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/01/apples-immersive-video-problem/
xz Backdoor
date: 2024-04-01, from: Michael Tsai
Thomas Claburn: Red Hat on Friday warned that a malicious backdoor found in the widely used data compression software library xz may be present in instances of Fedora Linux 40 and in the Fedora Rawhide developer distribution. The IT giant said the malicious code, which appears to provide remote backdoor access via OpenSSH and systemd […]
https://mjtsai.com/blog/2024/04/01/xz-backdoor/
Archaeologists in Pompeii Find Ancient Construction Site, Undisturbed Since Vesuvius’ Eruption
date: 2024-04-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The discovery is cluing researchers into the techniques used to build Rome’s most remarkable structures
Eight Productions Filming in Santa Clarita
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
The city of Santa Clarita’s Film Office released the list of eight productions currently filming in the Santa Clarita Valley for the week of Monday, April 1 - Sunday, April
https://scvnews.com/eight-productions-filming-in-santa-clarita/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-04-01, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
@federicomena Enjoy: https://github.com/amlweems/xzbot
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112197547372339988
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-04-01, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Thanks to @mattiem for maintaining this invaluable resource on text editing frameworks for Apple platforms:
https://github.com/mattmassicotte/TextEditingReference
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112197537285292266
New ‘Eclipse Watch’ Tool Shows Eclipses from Space Any Time
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
Do you wish you could see a total solar eclipse every day? With a new online tool called Eclipse Watch, you can observe the Sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona, in real time with eclipse-like images from space as we count down to the next total solar eclipse on Earth. The new Helioviewer Eclipse Watch data […]
Officer Screamed ‘Stop Shooting Her’ While Police Killed Unarmed Teen After Car Chase
date: 2024-04-01, from: 404 Media Group
404 Media has obtained newly released video and audio material related to the 2022 killing of Savannah Graziano.
Tesla Full Self-Driving Comes Out Of Beta, But Must Be Supervised
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
It appears that Tesla is officially taking “FSD Beta” out of beta, but only if you pay attention to the road.
https://insideevs.com/news/714524/tesla-fsd-beta-supervised-name/
I actually love this idea: host a PowerPoint Night “where all your…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044305-i-actually-love-this-idea
March 31, 2024
date: 2024-04-01, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2024-4fc
NASA Langley Participates in Drone Responders Conference
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
The National Public Safety Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Conference was held at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Virginia, March 12-13. NASA Langley engineers presented their work at the conference and staffed a NASA information table, promoting the benefits of NASA technologies and research for drone responders. “It’s exciting to see the effect drones have on search […]
Virginia is getting a 764 MW bump in solar power capacity
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Virginia has approved over a dozen new solar projects that will significantly boost Dominion Energy’s clean energy capacity.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/virginia-is-getting-a-764-mw-bump-in-solar-power-capacity/
What’s Up: April 2024 Skywatching Tips from NASA
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
Catch Mars and Saturn rising, and Jupiter hangs out with Comet 12P. Plus NASA has you covered for the total eclipse whether you’re headed to totality or watching from afar.
https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/whats-up-april-2024-skywatching-tips-from-nasa/
Black-Capped Chickadees Are Masters of Memory—and Scientists Are Finding Out Why
date: 2024-04-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
The small birds use brain “barcodes” to remember where they stash food, according to new research
Save $1,667 on the Hover-1 Altai Pro e-bike at $1,333, Anker 192Wh power station returns to $105 low, more
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Kicking off this week’s green deals is the overdue return of the Hover-1 Altai Pro R750 e-bike, dropping down among its lowest prices at $1,333. It is joined by the return of the Anker PowerCore Reserve 192Wh Power Station to the $105 low, as well as a one-day discount on the Greenworks 80V 21-inch Self-Propelled Electric Lawn Mower with a 4.0Ah battery for $399. 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/2024/04/01/hover-1-altai-pro-r750-e-bike-ankers-192wh-power-station-and-more/
Substack is speedrunning the enshittification curve. “This latest intervention is indicative of…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044300-substack-is-speedrunning-
Tested: Stainless Steel Tesla Cybertruck Doesn’t Get Dangerously Hot In The Sun
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
It may be made out of the same material as your favorite omelet skillet, but it’s no better at cooking an egg than a painted car.
https://insideevs.com/news/714520/tesla-cybertruck-hot-stainless-steel/
NIO’s EV sales rebound in March to top 30,000 Q1 delivery target
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Chinese EV maker NIO (NIO) delivered 11,866 vehicles in March, up 14% over last year. The upturn in sales helped NIO top its (revised) Q1 EV sales forecast of around 30,000 units.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/nio-ev-sales-rebound-march-top-30000-q1-delivery-target/
Rickroll meme immortalized in custom ASIC that includes 164 hardcoded programs
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
We’re never going to give you up…
An ASIC designed to display the infamous Rickroll meme is here, alongside 164 other assorted functions.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/rickroll_meme_asic/
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Earns Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security – Regolith Explorer) team received the American Astronomical Society’s Neil Armstrong Space Flight Achievement Award “for exceptional performance and extraordinary perseverance in successfully delivering a sample from asteroid Bennu to Earth.” The award, named after the first person to walk on the Moon, is given annually […]
Scriptnotes, Episode 632: Mystery and Suspense, Transcript
date: 2024-04-01, from: John August blog
The original post for this episode can be found here. John August: Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and this is Episode 632 of Scriptnotes, a podcast about screenwriting and things that are interesting to screenwriters. Today’s episode is about mystery and suspense. It’s also a best of episode. To explain why we’re […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 632: Mystery and Suspense, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-632-mystery-and-suspense-transcript
Scriptnotes, Episode 631: Adapting for Television, Transcript
date: 2024-04-01, from: John August blog
The transcript for this episode can be found here. John August: Hey, this is John. Today’s episode has a few F-bombs, just in the One Cool Thing section. So if you’re listening with your kids in the car, you can skip just that section. Hello and welcome. My name is John August, and you’re listening […] The post Scriptnotes, Episode 631: Adapting for Television, Transcript first appeared on John August.
https://johnaugust.com/2024/scriptnotes-episode-631-adapting-for-television-transcript
America’s Best Idea, Now Accessible by EV
date: 2024-04-01, from: Heatmap News
The closest I came to battery oblivion happened in Bryce Canyon City, Utah.
Up above 7,600 feet, the December evening temperatures dipped to 10 below zero Fahrenheit as I pulled my Tesla Model 3 into Ruby’s Inn. Tesla’s website listed the hotel as a place with destination chargers that could refill the battery overnight. That guarantee did little good, since other EVs had snagged the few working plugs by the time we arrived. My car’s remaining range, suffering in the bitter cold, dropped below 20 miles as I scoured the sprawling hotel campus for other EV hookups the receptionist had marked on a paper map of the premises.
Finally, out in the middle of the snow, I saw the plug that was promised: a post with a single 120-volt outlet meant for the RVs that visit in sunnier months. My extension cord reached, barely. My battery would live through the night.
If you drive an electric vehicle to see the eerie hoodoos of Bryce Canyon National Park next year, you’ll have a far less anxious time than I did. The area recently won a Tesla contest in which drivers could vote for future Supercharger locations. Its prize was a promise that a fast-charging station would come to Bryce Canyon City. Last Sunday, a website that tracks permits and public records to discover the location of future Superchargers indicated one will be built right there at Ruby’s Inn, the site of my struggle.
Bryce isn’t alone. As charging stops fill in the map of the U.S., Tesla is racing to build fast chargers near the remote National Parks of the West. Because just about every automaker is starting to use Tesla’s NACS plug, EVs of all sorts will be able to stop there. It’s about to become realistic to visit some of America’s most jaw-dropping scenery in an electric car.
When I started electric road-tripping in 2019 and 2020, only the superstars of the National Park System were truly accessible. High-speed charging stations existed in the tourist trap towns of Tusayan, Arizona, and West Yellowstone, Montana, giving Tesla drivers access to the Grand Canyon and to Yellowstone with little range anxiety. A site in Fish Camp, California, provided enough electrons to gaze upon El Capitan in Yosemite, while the baby Supercharger in Moab, Utah, powered you toward the Delicate Arch trail. Parks that happened to be located near an Interstate highway, like Petrified Forest and Zion, lay within reach for an EV.
Yet striking out for America’s more isolated wonders was a dicey proposition, one that relied upon hoping the slower chargers at hotels and visitor’s centers would be operational and unoccupied. Let me tell you: This is not a safe assumption.
To reach Crater Lake in 2022, we stayed 55 miles away in Klamath Falls, site of the nearest Supercharger. I pulled into the gift shop near the park’s entrance, hoping to add some safety juice for the day with the available Level 2 destination charger, but it was busted. No matter. Thanks to driving slowly around the lake and minding the speed limit back to Klamath (through a cloud of specific local midges that entirely glazed the front of the car in gelatinous bug guts), I completed the round trip back to the Supercharger station — only to find that the busted charger I tried to tap earlier in the day had bent a prong inside my Tesla port, rendering it unusable. We happened to be in the parking lot of a Fred Meyer home store at the time of this disastrous realization. In the moments before closing, I ran inside and procured the necessary hand tool to bend my metal back into shape. (Note to readers: Do not do this.) The DIY fix worked; the trip was saved.
You won’t need to resort to such extreme measures, however, because reliable and fast chargers are coming. Tesla has a permit to build a Supercharger at a highway junction within 25 miles of Crater Lake, and given the park’s soaring popularity, that surely won’t be the last. Nor will you need to retreat from the heart of Death Valley to recharge in remote Beatty, Nevada because you couldn’t snag a plug at the park’s luxury hotel (though if you do go to Beatty, get the BBQ at Smokin’ J’s.). A Supercharger is coming to the closer town of Pahrump, and surely more are on their way.
Look at the map and you’ll see many more examples. The arid expanses of southeastern New Mexico are charging desert now, but a planned Supercharger in Alamogordo will send EV drivers on their way to White Sands. Terlingua, Texas will provide a way to reach previously unreachable Big Bend along the Rio Grande River. Kalispell, Montana; Ely, Nevada; and Vernal, Utah will help electric drivers reach Glacier National Park, Great Basin National Park, and Dinosaur National Monument, respectively. More sites may come if the third-party charging companies or the automakers building their own chargers expand their offerings beyond the country’s most well-traveled highways.
It is a cruel twist of fate that traveling to some of the planet’s most majestic spots has, for so long, meant spewing carbon dioxide into its atmosphere. National parks, monuments, and forests are, by their very nature, far from population centers, and thus far from where most charging infrastructure grew up in the early years of this EV era. The treasures of the American West, especially, may be hours from the freeway and hundreds of miles from the nearest big city.
At last, the proposition of zero-emissions driving to America’s best idea is about to shift from fraught to ordinary. With longer driving ranges in new EVs and new fast chargers available en route to the parks, you won’t need to sit down with a map and a calculator, meticulously charting a strategy to see Wizard Island without running out of miles. You’ll just pack the car and go.
https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/tesla-national-parks-charging
Using Apple’s iCloud Passwords Outside Safari
date: 2024-04-01, from: TidBITS blog
Password managers like 1Password have long provided a deep set of features for creating, storing, and entering passwords and other confidential information. The iCloud Passwords extension for Chromium browsers makes Apple’s built-in password management features available outside Safari, but how do they compare to independent password managers?
https://tidbits.com/2024/04/01/using-apples-icloud-passwords-outside-safari/
Tyler Cowen Interviewing Marilynne Robinson
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/tyler-cowen-interviewing-marilynne-robinson
Safety First!
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station wear eclipse glasses in this image from March 26, 2024. While millions of people on Earth experience the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, the space station crew will have the opportunity to see it from 250 miles above our planet. Except during the brief period when […]
https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/safety-first/
Convicted killer Alex Murdaugh gets 40 years for financial crimes
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
Washington — Alex Murdaugh, the South Carolina lawyer convicted in a high-profile trial last year of murdering his wife and son, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Monday for financial crimes.
Murdaugh, 55, scion of an elite family of judges and attorneys, is already serving a life sentence for the June 2021 murders of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, 22, at the family hunting estate.
Murdaugh pleaded guilty last year to state charges of stealing millions of dollars from clients of his prominent personal injury firm, and was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
He was back in court on Monday for sentencing on federal charges of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud and money laundering.
District Judge Richard Gergel sentenced Murdaugh to 40 years in prison, to be served concurrently with the 27 years he already received.
Murdaugh pleaded guilty to the federal charges in September, at which time U.S. Attorney Adair Boroughs said the disbarred lawyer’s “financial crimes were extensive, brazen, and callous.”
“He stole indiscriminately from his clients, from his law firm, and from others who trusted him,” Boroughs said.
Murdaugh’s televised three-week murder trial last year captivated viewers nationwide and outside the country.
Evidence from his son’s cellphone indicated Murdaugh was the only person with them at the estate’s dog kennels several minutes before Maggie was killed with an assault rifle and Paul with a shotgun.
Murdaugh denied killing his wife and younger son, but admitted stealing millions of dollars from clients of his law firm to feed an opioid addiction.
Even before the trial finished, Netflix and HBO rushed out docu-dramas on the case.
OpenAI claims its software can clone your voice from 15 seconds of you talking
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Super lab loves to big up things it says it couldn’t possibly let loose on the world for now
OpenAI’s latest trick needs just 15 seconds of audio of someone speaking to clone that person’s voice – but don’t worry, no need to look behind the curtain, the biz wants everyone to know it’s not going to release this Voice Engine until it can be sure the potential for mischief has been managed. …
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/openai_voice_clone/
$25,000 Tesla To Ditch Production Line For Radical New Assembly Technique
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
Tesla’s “unboxed” approach may be the biggest change in car manufacturing techniques in over a century.
https://insideevs.com/news/714515/tesla-unboxed-assembly-method/
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina Actor Chance Perdomo Killed in Motorcycle Accident
date: 2024-04-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
The actor was 27 years old.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714538/chance-perdomo-motorcycle-accident-death/
I missed that Benjamin Labatut (When We Cease to Understand the World,…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044234-i-missed-that-benjamin-la
Plus Post: Quantum Software Systems Ltd’s QNX
date: 2024-04-01, from: Computer ads from the Past
Operating Systems Come in Many Flavors But QNX Can Take the Heat
https://computeradsfromthepast.substack.com/p/plus-post-quantum-software-systems
Cambodian kickboxing champion promotes the sport in US
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
A Cambodian kickboxer in Southern California has inspired generations of fighters with his determination and his drive. Genia Dulot takes us to the gym with Oum Ry.
https://www.voanews.com/a/cambodian-kickboxing-champion-promotes-the-sport-in-us/7551982.html
NASA VIPER Robotic Moon Rover Team Raises Its Mighty Mast
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
NASA’s VIPER – short for the Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover – now stands taller and more capable than ever. And that’s thanks to its mast. VIPER’s mast, and the suite of instruments affixed to it, looks a lot like the rover’s “neck” and “head.” The mast instruments are designed to help the team of rover drivers […]
https://www.nasa.gov/general/nasa-viper-robotic-moon-rover-team-raises-its-mighty-mast/
Ford Mustang Mach-E price cuts are proving affordable EVs are in demand
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Ford is moving inventory after slashing prices by up to $8,100 on its best-selling electric SUV, the Mustang Mach-E, last month. A recent Cloud Theory report reveals that the price cuts are working as buyers look for more affordable EVs.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/ford-mustang-mach-e-price-cuts-reveal-demand-affordable-evs/
Tesla Q1 Sales Draw Grim Predictions From Wall Street Analysts
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
It could be a minor obstacle on a long road ahead, but Tesla shouldn’t take this lightly.
https://insideevs.com/news/714535/tesla-first-quarter-sales-wall-street-analysts/
Dog Poo Golf. A Wii Sports Golf-style browser game (with the music!)…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044297-dog-poo-golf-a-wii
Feast Your Eyes On This Custom Henderson De Luxe Trike
date: 2024-04-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
A masterfully crafted amalgamation of automotive parts.
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714465/custom-henderson-deluxe-trike/
REDMAGIC VC Cooler 5 Pro is a $59 smartphone cooler that snaps to the back of your device
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
Nubia’s REDMAGIC line of smartphones are meant for gaming. But the company has also branched out into PC and mobile accessories, and the REDMAGIC VC Cooler 5 Pro is a gadget that snaps onto the back of a wide range of phones (not just those made by Nubia) to provide extra cooling power. It does that […]
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Archaeologists Uncover Medieval Castle Hidden Beneath a French Hotel
date: 2024-04-01, from: Smithsonian Magazine
Excavations revealed a moat, pipes, jewelry, coins and other artifacts amidst the structure’s ruins
The 10 most spectacular castles around the world include a California treasure
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
The List: Tripadvisor’s recent fairy-tale-inspiring list of castles includes a chateau in France, castles in the United Kingdom and Japan and a California gem.
Channel opened for vessels clearing wreckage at Baltimore bridge collapse site
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
BALTIMORE — The U.S. Coast Guard has opened a temporary, alternate channel for vessels involved in the clearing of debris at the site of the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, part of a phased approach to opening the main channel leading to the vital port, officials said.
Crews are undertaking the complicated work of removing steel and concrete at the site of the bridge’s deadly collapse into the Patapsco River after a container ship lost power and crashed into a supporting column. On Sunday, dive teams surveyed parts of the bridge and checked the ship, and workers in lifts used torches to cut above-water parts of the twisted steel superstructure.
Officials said the temporary channel is open only to vessels that are helping with the cleanup effort. Authorities believe four workers plunged to their deaths in the collapse. Recovery of their bodies is a key part of the ongoing salvage operation.
Officials earlier said the channel would have a controlling depth of 11 feet (over 3 meters), a horizontal clearance of 264 feet (80 meters) and a vertical clearance of 96 feet (29 meters). A video released Sunday showed the Coast Guard dropping buoys in the water.
“This marks an important first step along the road to reopening the port of Baltimore,” Capt. David O’Connell, the federal on-scene coordinator of the response, said in a statement Monday. “By opening this alternate route, we will support the flow of marine traffic into Baltimore.”
On Monday, the Small Business Administration is opening a center in Dundalk, Maryland, to help small businesses get loans to help them with losses caused by the disruption of the bridge collapse.
And President Joe Biden will visit the site of the bridge collapse on Friday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced Monday. He will meet with state and local officials and get an “on-the-ground look” at federal response efforts, Jean-Pierre said.
The bridge fell as the crew of the cargo ship Dali lost power and control on March 26. They called in a mayday, which allowed just enough time for police to stop vehicles from getting on the bridge, but not enough time to get a crew of eight workers off the structure.
Two workers survived, two bodies were found in a submerged pickup, and four more men are presumed dead. Weather conditions and the tangled debris underwater have made it too dangerous for divers to search for their bodies.
The Dali is managed by Synergy Marine Group and owned by Grace Ocean Private Ltd. Danish shipping giant Maersk chartered the Dali, which was on its way out of port when it lost power.
Along with clearing the shipping channel to reopen the port, officials are trying to determine how to rebuild the major bridge, which was completed in 1977. It carried Interstate 695 around southeast Baltimore and became a symbol of the city’s working-class roots and maritime culture.
Congress is expected to consider aid packages to help people who lose jobs or businesses because of the prolonged closure of the Port of Baltimore. The port handles more cars and farm equipment than any other U.S. facility.
TSMC boss says one-trillion transistor GPU is possible by early 2030s
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Timing predictions aside, multi-chip designs with 3D stacking will be the path forward
3D chiplets will be the key to building the world’s first one-trillion transistor GPU, says TSMC chairman Mark Liu and chief scientist H.-S. Philip Wong.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/tsmc_one_trillion_transistor/
Tesla gives rare update on Tesla Semi electric truck program
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
A Tesla engineer has given a rare update on the Tesla Semi electric truck program amid new EPA rules that should give it a boost.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/tesla-semi-rare-update-electric-truck-program/
Pedestrian killed in Oakland hit-and-run involving two cars
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Police are trying to identify a man killed in an Oakland hit-and-run Monday morning.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/01/pedestrian-killed-in-oakland-hit-and-run-involving-two-cars/
Radxa Rock 5C single-board computers with RK358x chips and PCIe 2.1 sell for $30 and up
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
The Radxa ROCK 5C is a credit card-sized single-board computer with a Rockchip RK3588S2 processor, support for up to 32GB of LPDDR4x memory, and plenty of I/O options including a PCIe 2.1 interface, Gigabit Ethernet, and support for WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4. It’s up for pre-order for $50 and up and begins shipping April 10th. […]
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Whether you’re using a fancy camera or a smartphone, here’s how to take great eclipse photos
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
The upcoming April 8 total eclipse will likely be the one of the most photographed events of the year, with almost 32 million people in the United States alone living in the path of totality.
Chevrolet Silverado EV 3WT Driven Until It Died. It Didn’t Meet Its Advertised Range
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
The Silverado EV 3WT has a smaller, 20-module battery pack compared to the 4WT model.
https://insideevs.com/news/714478/chevrolet-silverado-ev-3wt-range-test-70-mph/
Jill On Money: Financial cleanup — What to keep and what to shred
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Some documents can go after a month; others should stay with you forever
Milky Way Embroidery
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/milky-way-embroidery
The Editor’s Note on Kate Middleton Cancer Announcement Video Doesn’t Mean It’s Fake
date: 2024-04-01, from: 404 Media Group
The Getty Images “handout” disclaimer on the video of the Princess of Wales’ video statement about her cancer diagnosis is pretty common, actually—and not proof of a conspiracy.
https://www.404media.co/getty-editors-note-kate-middleton-cancer-diagnosis-video/
Aptera to showcase solar EV tech in the UAE as it preps its first production-intent builds [Video]
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Aptera Motors has just delivered its first solar EV to a customer. April fools! Yes, it is now April, which means we get another video update from Aptera. This month’s progress update recaps a recent visit to France, details an upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates, and talks about the status of Aptera’s first production-intent solar EV builds. Watch the video in full below.
A deep dive into email deliverability in 2024
date: 2024-04-01, from: OS News
On October 3, 2023, Google and Yahoo announced upcoming email security standards to prevent spam, phishing and malware attempts. Outlook.com (formerly Hotmail) is also enforcing these policies. With the big 3 Email Service Providers (ESP) in agreement, expect widespread adoption soon. Today’s threats are more complex than ever and more ESPs will begin tightening the reigns. Failure to comply with these guidelines will result in emails being blocked beginning April 2024. In this article, we’re going to cover these guidelines and explain what senders must do in order to achieve and maintain compliance. ↫ XOMedia Some of these changes – most of them impact bulk senders and spammers – should’ve been implemented ages ago, but seeing them being pushed by the three major email providers, who all happened to be owned, of course, by massive corporations, does raise quite a few red flags. Instinctively, this makes me worried about ulterior motives, especially since running your own email server is already fraught with issues due to the nebulous ways Gmail treats emails coming from small servers. With the rising interest in self-hosting and things like Mastodon, I hope we’re also going to see a resurgence in hosting your own e-mail. I really don’t like that all my email is going through Gmail – it’s what OSNews uses – but I don’t feel like dealing with all the delivery issues people who try self-hosting email lament about. With a possible renewed wave of interest in it, we might be able to make the process easier and more reliable.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139103/a-deep-dive-into-email-deliverability-in-2024/
Nearly 3M people hit in Harvard Pilgrim healthcare data theft
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Also, TheMoon botnet back for EoL SOHO routers, Sellafield to be prosecuted for ‘infosec failures’, plus critical vulns
Infosec in brief Nearly a year on from the discovery of a massive data theft at healthcare biz Harvard Pilgrim, and the number of victims has now risen to nearly 2.9 million people in all US states.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/in_brief_security/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
After a couple of tests, the fix below is implemented here. For some reason I wasn’t subscribed to my own feed, which accounted for the fact that updates from this blog weren’t getting into the blogroll. That troubles me, I have to try to piece together how that happened. In the meantime it’s nice to have the instant updating working again. I didn’t know that I had missed it, but I did.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a144511
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-04-01, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Elixir to help me stitch ideas together:
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112196476841672872
Citizen Scientists Invited to Collect Data for NASA During Eclipse
date: 2024-04-01, from: NASA breaking news
On April 8, 2024, as the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth, thousands of amateur citizen scientists will measure air temperatures and snap pictures of clouds. The data they collect will aid researchers who are investigating how the Sun influences climates in different environments. Among those citizen scientists are the fifth- and sixth-grade students […]
MINISFORUM UM890 WE is a water-cooled mini PC with Ryzen 9 8945HS
date: 2024-04-01, from: Liliputing
Mini PC maker MINISFORUM has unveiled its first water-cooled computer… for some reason. The MINISFORUM AtomMan UM890 WE packs an advanced cooling system that combines a heat sink, 120mm fan, and liquid cooling to keep the hardware running at optimal temperatures. What’s a bit confusing is why you’d need that much cooling power. The system is powered […]
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https://liliputing.com/minisforum-um890-we-is-a-water-cooled-mini-pc-with-ryzen-9-8945hs/
Has legislation to stop surprise medical bills worked?
date: 2024-04-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
We’ve been taking a close look on this program at the burdens of medical debt. Back in 2020, Congress passed the so-called “No Surprises Act” to protect patients from unexpected big bills for out-of-network medical care — and turns out, its wider impact on health care spending has yielded mixed results. But first on the show, California’s new $20-an-hour minimum wage for fast food goes into effect today. We’ll unpack reactions.
Tesla increases Model Y prices, but for how long?
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Tesla has increased Model Y prices on all trims of its best-selling electric SUV. The question is: for how long?
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/tesla-increases-model-y-prices-but-for-how-long/
Son of A’s, SF Giants legend Vida Blue thriving as Bay Area high school softball coach
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
San Francisco Bay Area softball: Derrick Blue, son of Vida Blue, is thriving as an East Bay softball coach
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I
introduced a bug in the blogroll code where it was ignoring instant
updates. Probably the sexiest feature in the whole thing. The bug was
introduced on March 21, so it’s been there a while. You have to
hard-reload the page to get the new version. So, when I post this on
Scripting News, it should move to
the top of the list immediately. So a good use-case is to leave
Scripting News open with the blogroll visible and every once in a while
you may find something interesting to read. I like having it there, but
of course, it’s my baby, so that’s understandable. :-)
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a143025
Sneak preview of GPT-5!
date: 2024-04-01, from: Gary Marcus blog
Mind blown.
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/sneak-preview-of-gpt-5
Magic Security Dust
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Adam Shostack is selling magic security dust.
It’s about time someone is commercializing this essential technology.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/magic-security-dust.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
This might be the first victimless April fool joke I’ve ever seen.
https://twitter.com/LynnBeighley/status/1774770571911290981
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
I tried listening to one of Kara Swisher’s interviews for her new book. The interviewer was someone I respect, Brian Lehrer at WNYC. But he has an old and imho unfair view that CraigsList and Facebook are responsible for the demise of local news. I was surprised when he said as much near the start of the interview. Then Swisher went into an obviously very well rehearsed schpiel that confirmed that he was absolutely right and the tech gods weren’t fooling anyone. OK that was my limit, I switched to another podcast. She’s got a great business model. Tell the press what they want to hear and you will get good press, pretty much guaranteed.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a141219
I’ve been reading about this xz Utils exploit and it sounds absolutely…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044298-ive-been-reading-about-th
Microsoft to separate Teams and Office globally amid antitrust scrutiny
date: 2024-04-01, from: OS News
Microsoft will sell its chat and video app Teams separately from its Office product globally, the U.S. tech giant said on Monday, six months after it unbundled the two products in Europe in a bid to avert a possible EU antitrust fine. The European Commission has been investigating Microsoft’s tying of Office and Teams since a 2020 complaint by Salesforce-owned competing workspace messaging app Slack. ↫ Foo Yun Chee at Reuters I honestly misread this as Microsoft selling Teams off, which would’ve been far bigger news. Unbundling Teams from Office globally is just Microsoft applying its recent European Union policy to the rest of the world. All we need now is Microsoft to stop trying to make Teams for families and friends happen, because nobody will ever want to use Teams for anything, let alone personal use.
The Car Repair Apocalypse Could Soon Be Upon Us
date: 2024-04-01, from: 404 Media Group
The widespread availability of independent car repair needs to be protected from software-based DRM.
https://www.404media.co/the-car-repair-apocalypse-could-soon-be-upon-us/
The hearts of the Super Nintendo
date: 2024-04-01, from: OS News
Every computer has at least one heart which beats the cadence to all the other chips. The CloCK output pin is connected to a copper line which spreads to most components, into their CLK input pin. If you are mostly a software person like me, you may have never noticed it but all kinds of processors have a CLK input pin. From CPUs (Motorola 68000, Intel Pentium, MOS 6502), to custom graphic chips (Midway’s DMA2, Capcom CPS-A/CPS-B, Sega’s Genesis VDP) to audio chips (Yamaha 2151, OKI msm6295), they all have one. ↫ Fabien Sanglard I’ve watched enough Adrian Black that I already knew all of this, and I’m assuming so did many of you. But hey, I’ll never pass up the opportunity to link to the insides of the Super Nintendo.
https://www.osnews.com/story/139099/the-hearts-of-the-super-nintendo/
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
We
need a resistance movement that reporters can report on. A new women’s
march for reproductive health would be a great place to start. I’m not
giving up on journalism yet, just knowing they need to see a resistance
to report on it. That means big marches, streets filled with Americans,
who will sound angry and determined when inteviewed by reporters. And
spokespersons who can be interviewed by Maddow and Blitzer.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a140331
Russian court extends detention of jailed American RFE/RL journalist
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
How Much Does A Rivian Cost? R1T, R1S, R2, R3, R3X
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
Let’s take a look at pricing for each of Rivian’s current and upcoming models.
https://insideevs.com/news/714141/rivian-r1t-r1s-r2-r3-r3x-cost-price/
BYD Q1 EV sales top 300,000, but is it enough to maintain a lead over Tesla ?
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
China’s leading electric car maker, BYD, recorded over 300,000 EV sales in Q1 2024, up 13% over last year. Is it enough to maintain its lead over Tesla?
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/byd-q1-ev-sales-rise-but-enough-keep-lead-over-tesla/
BYD sold over 300,000 EVs in Q1, but is it enough to keep its lead over Tesla? [Update]
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
China’s leading electric car maker, BYD, recorded over 300,000 EV sales in Q1 2024, up 13% over last year. Is it enough to maintain its lead over Tesla?
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/byd-ev-sales-rise-q1-enough-stay-ahead-tesla/
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old Problem
date: 2024-04-01, from: Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers.The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance on Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Disillusioned with life in the US, a California woman moved to Mexico 7 years ago. Here’s how it completely changed her life
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Her love affair with Mexico began at a young age, and Marjorie Skouras’ passion for the country only grew with the passing of time.
Elon Musk, Wokeness, and the Myth of Meritocracy
date: 2024-04-01, from: Literate Machine
Video Version | Audio Version Content Warning: This episode contains discussion of racism and antisemitism. When I was a kid, long before the 2008 film made him a household name, Iron Man was my favorite superhero. I liked him because he didn’t get powers because he was an alien like Superman, wasn’t given them byhttps://literatemachine.com/2024/04/01/elon-musk-wokeness-and-the-myth-of-meritocracy/
In these 22 states, you need a six-figure income to afford a typical home, analysis finds
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
People buying on the West Coast and in the Northeast need the highest household incomes to afford a typical home. The top 5 places are: California (where an income of $197,051 is needed); Hawaii ($185,829); DC ($167,871); Massachusetts ($162,471); and Washington ($156,814).
@Dave Winer’s Scripting News (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s Scripting News)
Started a new outline for the month of April, with March safely archived on GitHub. If you want to read the month in outline form, click this link and it will open read-only in Drummer. That’s a pretty good approximation of how I edit it, except I use the desktop version of Drummer that writes files to the local Mac filesystem as well as to the cloud.
http://scripting.com/2024/04/01.html#a133204
TasteFood: A springtime Meyer lemon salsa gives any dish gourmet glamour
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Add some zest to your meal with this fast and easy recipe for Meyer Lemon Salsa.
Wish You Were Here: A Pleasant Hill couple’s Hadrian’s Wall trek
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
Whatever your mileage on this ancient Roman trek in northern England, add more for exploring the charming villages along the way.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/01/wish-you-were-here-hadrians-wall/
People Hate the Idea of Car-Free Cities — Until They Live in…
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Jason Kittke’s blog
https://kottke.org/24/04/0044232-people-hate-the-idea-of
Quinn’s Lighthouse returns: Oakland’s 40-year institution is now Vietnamese
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
After closing in January, the historic waterfront restaurant is back under new ownership with Vietnamese crepes and banh mi.
Saratoga cat hasn’t been to the vet in 10 years, but is that a good thing?
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
A longtime cat owner wonders why other pet parents take their animals to the vet so often.
Travel Troubleshooter: United Airlines canceled my flight, so why can’t I get a refund?
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
When United Airlines cancels the last leg of Andy Wilson’s flight to Iceland, he must buy a new ticket. The airline blames a “desynchronization,” but will it cover his extra costs?
Ex-White House CIO tells The Reg: TikTok ban may be diplomatic disaster
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Theresa Payton on why US needs a national privacy law
Interview Congress is mulling legislation that will require TikTok’s Chinese parent ByteDance to cut ties with the video-sharing mega-app, or the social network will be banned in the USA.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/tiktok_ban_white_house/
Here’s What We Think About MotoGP’s Merger With F1
date: 2024-04-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
Formula One owner Liberty Media has bought MotoGP from Dorna. But what could that mean for fans?
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714265/motogp-f1-liberty-media-dorna-purchase/
Here Comes the ‘Green Bank’
date: 2024-04-01, from: Heatmap News
Current conditions: April is off to a stormy start across the U.S., with severe weather expected from Texas to Pennsylvania • “Red flag” fire warnings were issued throughout the Great Plains over the weekend • Extreme drought continues to destroy crops in southern Africa.
THE TOP FIVE
- “Green bank” grants are likely coming soon
The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to announce which nonprofit groups will receive $20 billion in grants aimed at spurring private investments in clean technology projects, according to E&E News. The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, a $27 billion program created by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, is intended to function as a “green bank” that provides affordable financing to initiatives addressing climate change. Two to three grants under the program’s $14 billion National Clean Investment Fund will go to clean financing “hubs” that can distribute the money to deserving projects and lenders. Another two to seven grants from the $6 billion Clean Communities Investment Accelerator will direct funding and technical assistance to nonprofits already serving disadvantaged communities.
- Contamination fears in Baltimore
Environmental experts are concerned that the ongoing removal of wreckage from Baltimore’s collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge could cause oil or other hazardous materials to spill into the Patapsco River. Authorities have deployed nearly a mile’s worth of protective and absorbent barriers into the water, the Associated Press reports, though a U.S. Coast Guard spokesperson said Friday that “no immediate threat to the environment” had been identified. The cargo ship that struck the bridge was carrying at least 56 containers with hazardous materials, 14 of which were destroyed. A breach of the ship’s hull at any point during the cleanup process could leak fuel oil into the water, but at present, the hull looks to be intact.
- Vermont could be the first state to pass a climate superfund bill
The Vermont Senate approved amendments on Friday to a bill that would seek compensation from fossil fuel companies for the impacts of climate change, Heatmap’s Emily Pontecorvo reports. Vermont’s climate superfund bill — one of several to have been introduced in state legislatures in recent years — would authorize the state to determine the cost it has borne from the extraction and combustion of fossil fuels over the past three decades and then ask responsible parties to pay up. (Vermont plans to focus its efforts on the world’s biggest emitters.) Modeled after federal Superfund law that keeps companies on the hook for cleaning up contamination, Vermont’s bill and others like it face an uncertain future and inevitable legal challenges.
- Study: Climate change is making heat waves sluggish
Heat waves are moving slower, traveling farther, and lasting longer, a new study found. Scientists have known for a long time that climate change is exacerbating heat waves, but the new study, published Friday in the journal Science Advances, determined that heat waves’ movement has slowed by 20% since 1979 — a decline of about 5 miles per day each decade. They’ve also gotten longer and more frequent. Wei Zhang, a climate scientist at Utah State University and one of the study’s authors, is particularly concerned about the effects of prolonged heat waves on urban areas. “If those heat waves last in the city for much longer than before, that would cause a very dangerous situation,” Zhang told The New York Times.
- Republican attorneys general take aim at Biden’s LNG moratorium
Sixteen Republican-led states asked a federal court late last week to block the Biden administration’s suspension of approvals for new liquefied natural gas export terminals. The U.S. Department of Energy paused its review of new LNG projects in January amid mounting pressure from environmental groups. The motion, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Thursday evening, argues that Louisiana and 15 other states will be harmed by the pause.
THE KICKER
800,000: The number of fish estimated to have been killed when liquid nitrogen fertilizer leaked into Iowa’s East Nishnabotna River in early March.
https://heatmap.news/climate/here-comes-the-green-bank
Solar eclipse: How much will you be able to see in the Bay Area?
date: 2024-04-01, from: San Jose Mercury News
The “Super Bowl of astronomical events” won’t come around again for 20 years in the contiguous U.S.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/04/01/solar-eclipse-how-much-will-you-be-able-to-see-in-california/
Nissan And Mitsubishi Team Up For U.S.-Spec Electric Pickup Truck
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
The deal will also result in a Nissan-badged plug-in hybrid, as well as an all-electric Mitsubishi.
https://insideevs.com/news/714510/nissan-mitsubishi-electric-pickup-phev/
KTM and Husqvarna Will Extend Your Warranty If You Start Going to the Dealership
date: 2024-04-01, from: Ride Apart, Electric Motorcycle News
I hate dealerships, but I do love longer warranties. So…
https://www.rideapart.com/news/714250/ktm-husqvarna-extended-warranty-offer/
At Least It Was Well-Fed
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: One Foot Tsunami
https://onefoottsunami.com/2024/04/01/the-worlds-most-pampered-hat-bobble/
China’s largest carmaker to cut thousands of jobs at its joint ventures with GM and Volkswagen
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Amid an intense price war and lost market share to BYD and Tesla, China’s state-owned automaker SAIC Motor is reportedly making drastic job cuts this year at its joint ventures with General Motors and Volkswagen and at its EV unit – with mass layoffs a rare move for a China-owned company.
AT&T admits massive 70M+ mid-March customer data dump is real though old
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Still claims the personal info wasn’t stolen from its systems
AT&T confirmed over the weekend that more than 73 million records of its current and former customers dumped on the dark web in mid-March do indeed describe its subscribers, though it still denies the data came direct from its systems.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/att_admits_massive_70m_midmarch/
Ukraine, Gaza and trade talks on agenda as Blinken heads to Europe
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
The public school enrollment conundrum
date: 2024-04-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
Funding for public schools partially depends on the number of students enrolled. But some public school districts are considering closing and consolidating schools due to enrollment declines that accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new Cato Institute survey. We hear more. We’ll also learn more about agriculture’s impact on Colorado River basin levels and an anti-redlining law that’s currently on hold.
https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/the-public-school-enrollment-conundrum
One epic giveaway: How 600 free electric bikes changed 600 lives
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
I’ve long championed the amazing benefits of electric bicycles in providing transportation autonomy to those who can’t afford a personal car and the massive expenses that come along with car ownership. A $1,000 e-bike can be the difference between a one-hour walk to work and a seven-minute ride to work. Now leading US e-bike maker Lectric Ebikes and the popular YouTuber Mr. Beast have teamed up to magnify the impact of a free e-bike 600 times.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/one-epic-giveaway-how-600-free-electric-bikes-changed-600-lives/
The chocolate price spike: what’s happening to global cocoa production?
date: 2024-04-01, from: Hannah Richie at Substack
Bad weather and disease outbreaks are hitting cocoa production in West Africa.
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/cocoa-prices
China could be on the road to economic recovery
date: 2024-04-01, from: Marketplace Morning Report
From the BBC World Service: China may be showing signs of an economic recovery, with factory output slightly up for the first time in six months — an indicator that the country’s pandemic-induced slowdown may be starting to ease. Plus, in Germany, people can smoke cannabis in public starting today. Then, Turkey’s main opposition party has claimed big election victories in major cities; high inflation and general economic weakness may partially be behind the wins.
Microsoft consolidates Power BI licenses in line with Fabric platform
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Guess what? Some users should look out for expensive surprises
Microsoft has consolidated its licensing terms for Power BI with its Fabric data platform, leaving some users facing steep price hikes according to one analyst.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/microsoft_power_bi_licenses/
Xiaomi EV buyers will have to wait up to seven months for the SU7
date: 2024-04-01, from: Electrek Feed
Orders for Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi’s brand-new SU7 have been pouring in – with Xiaomi announcing that within 27 minutes of the company accepting orders for the new all-electric sedan, it had already received more than 50,000 orders. Today Xiaomi has alerted potential buyers of a seven-month waiting time before getting the car. Apple, read it and weep.
https://electrek.co/2024/04/01/xiaomi-ev-buyers-will-have-to-wait-up-to-seven-months-for-the-su7/
against the factory of unreason
date: 2024-04-01, from: Ayjay blog
Dear readers, I have returned! — and I say unto you, it might be interesting to read my reflections on my students’ reading ability in conjunction with Emma Green’s report on classical Christian education. The report is a curious one. She clearly strives to be fair, and acknowledges that the supporters of classical education are […]
https://blog.ayjay.org/against-the-factory-of-unreason/
Changes to telephone and broadband services – WROCC meeting, 3rd April
date: 2024-04-01, from: RiscOS Story
The Wakefield RISC OS Computer Club (WROCC) will next meet on Wednesday, 3rd April, and the subject of the meeting – with Chris Hughes taking the podium – are the changes that are coming for the UK’s telephone and broadband services. Taking place online over Zoom, the meeting will commence at 7:45pm, and is free for anyone to join – the only thing you’ll need are the access details, which you should have if you’ve attended other recent meetings, otherwise they are available on request. Although the meeting is open…
https://www.riscository.com/2024/telephone-broadband-changes-wrocc-3rd-april/
The Coal Was Destined for India. Now It’s Polluting the Air in Baltimore.
date: 2024-04-01, from: Heatmap News
For those living near the Port of Baltimore, the transportation and storage of coal on its way from mines in the Appalachian Mountains to far-flung foreign kilns is “a mundane but ever-present imposition,” Chloe Ahmann, a Cornell University anthropologist, told me. Ahmann once worked as an elementary school teacher in Curtis Bay, a residential neighborhood adjacent to the working port, and wrote a book on the area’s post-industrial present.
“There are stories going back generation,” she said. “Coal dust covering
everything in the neighborhood — bicycles, porches, windowsill. People
wipe coal dust off their windows as a daily ritual.”
With the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge and subsequent
shutdown of the port, that coal now has nowhere to go for the
foreseeable future. Baltimoreans don’t want it, but its intended
recipients thousands of miles away in India most certainly
do.
“The top recipient of U.S. steam coal shipped from
Baltimore by far over the past five years has been India, where the
brick manufacturing industry has been a major customer,” the U.S. Energy
Information Administration said in a
report
on the impacts of the bridge disaster. In January alone, the Port of
Baltimore exported almost a million tons of coal to India, up almost
three-fold from January of last year,
according
to Argus, a commodity data provider. In total, 17 million tons of
thermal coal — the type used in power plants and brick kilns — left the
U.S. via Baltimore in 2023, S&P Global
found
by analyzing Census Bureau data.
India is the world’s
second
largest consumer of coal after China, and coal accounts for over 70%
of India’s emissions from burning fuel, according to the International
Energy Agency. (In contrast,
coal
accounts for a fifth of the United States’ emissions from
combustion.) About a quarter of India’s emissions come from
industry, much of which uses coal in its processes, including
steelmaking, and cement and, yes, brick manufacturing.
Brickmaking in India is often done on small scales by local producers, but even so, its energy consumption is “comparable to the organized construction industries such as cement and steel,” according to research published in Nature India. Many of those bricks are used to build homes, part and parcel of the country’s astounding economic growth. Along with its steel and cement industries, brickmaking has transformed India — whose inflation-adjusted per capita GDP of around $1,800 in 1990 would have made it one of the world’s poorest countries today — into the third-largest carbon dioxide emitter in the world.
The same brick industry that produces the literal building blocks of India’s homebuilding sector is also responsible for immensely damaging particulate pollution. The combination of coal and biomass used to fire brick kilns is responsible for around 75 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions — comparable to the total emissions of Washington State, Arizona, or the 2021 California wildfires — and 100,000 tons of black carbon emissions, according to the Climate and Clean Air Coalition.
Air pollution in South Asia is one of the largest public health problems
in the world. India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh all ranked in the
bottom
10 of 180 countries for air quality, according to the Yale
University Environmental Performance Index. In 2019, air pollution was
estimated to account for
around
1.7 million premature deaths in India. “Brick kilns, involving the
burning of low-grade coal, are one of the major sectors that contribute
to air pollution in South Asia,” a
World
Bank report said, with the brick industry making up over 90% of
particulate emissions in some South Asian cities and 15% of the most
dangerous small particulate emissions in Delhi.
In a story that will be familiar to much of industrial and post-industrial America, these industrial processes are both an important economic engine and an obvious detriment to health locally and are contributing to the climatic changes that are already having devastating effects in South Asia. Efforts to regulate the brick industry have already run into complaints that efficiency requirements will be too expensive for cash-strapped businesses and will result in lower employment in the sector.
In the vertiginous world of globalized capitalism, different regions using the same resource — the Appalachian coal mines, the Baltimore port, and the Indian brick manufacturers — can all at the same time be at different stages of industrialization and post-industrialization, with differing attitudes toward the coal that powers and pollutes them. In South Baltimore, the people living with the dust from the coal pier no longer sees any positive relationship between industrial activity and their own well-being, Ahmann told me.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad, which has been part of the rail conglomerate CSX since 1980, began construction in 1827 and has long shipped coal from West Virginia and other Appalachian states to the East Coast. Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood, where Ahmann lived, is adjacent to a coal pier operated by CSX. “It’s an iconic local scene, right by a local playground, stone throw from several elementary schools and homes,” Ahmann said, making the neighborhood both “heavily industrialized and very much a lived-in place.”
While the Maryland government trumpets direct and indirect employment at the port of around 15,000 people, that’s about half the number that worked there in 1970.
“It’s no longer the case that industry is a major employer in South Baltimore,” Ahmann said. “It’s not like it was 40 years ago, when everybody knew somebody whose livelihood was attached to industrial production in this place.” Instead, people in the area “cobble together lives from low-wage service jobs,” she said. Overall, manufacturing employment in Maryland has been roughly cut in half since 1990.
In late 2021, a CSX coal facility in Curtis Bay exploded, damaging nearby homes and spreading tremors for miles. Following the blast, a coalition of community groups and the Maryland Department of the Environment investigated particulate pollution in Curtis Bay and found coal dust “present throughout the community,” with coal dust coming from the terminal itself, as well as train and truck traffic.
“We should not have open air coal piers period, and certainly not in a residential area behind a playground,” Ahmann said.
Among the many fears locals are nursing as the Key Bridge lies in ruins is that the coal will simply pile up at the port as long as it remains blocked. “These piles are going to grow every day,” Ahmann told me, describing it as “stark visual evidence of the untenability of this situation.”
https://heatmap.news/economy/baltimore-bridge-india-coal
White House welcomes thousands for annual Easter egg roll
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
https://www.voanews.com/a/white-house-to-welcome-kids-for-easter-egg-roll/7551528.html
You break it, you … run away and hope somebody else fixes it
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: The Register (UK I.T. News)
Enthusiastic young tech decided to simplify the mainframe, with unexpected results
Who, Me? Well hello again, dear reader, and welcome once more to Who, Me? – in which Register readers unburden themselves with confessions of tech mistakes long past. It’s very cathartic, you know.…
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/01/who_me/
Trump’s 5-Step Fascist Plan
date: 2024-04-01, from: Robert Reich on Substack
He’s already laid each step out
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-5-step-fascist-plan
Making crochet cacti
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Julia Evans
https://jvns.ca/blog/2024/04/01/making-crochet-cacti/
Classifieds – April 1, 2024
date: 2024-04-01, 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/2024/04/01/classifieds-april-1-2024/
Today in SCV History (April 1)
date: 2024-04-01, from: SCV New (TV Station)
2004 – Last day in Sacramento for California State Sen. Pete Knight, who succumbs one month later to a sudden onset of leukemia. [story
https://scvnews.com/today-in-scv-history-april-1/
Ensemble Theatre Co. Announces Upcoming Season
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
“Legends and Legacies” is the theme for Santa Barbara’s professional theater in the heart of the Arts District.
The post Ensemble Theatre Co. Announces Upcoming Season appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
https://www.independent.com/2024/04/01/ensemble-theatre-co-announces-upcoming-season/
‘COWBOY CARTER’ redefines genre
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Beyoncé’s latest album tributes country music and other genres as an avenue to celebrate her accomplishments and those dear to her heart.
The post ‘COWBOY CARTER’ redefines genre appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/cowboy-carter-redefines-what-genre-means/
Moving to the ‘gears’ all night long
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Black Student Assembly hosted 2024 Gearfest.
The post Moving to the ‘gears’ all night long appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/moving-to-the-gears-all-night-long/
USC is not equipped for earthquakes
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Classrooms need safe desks and chairs that will protect students in an earthquake.
The post USC is not equipped for earthquakes appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/usc-is-not-equipped-for-earthquakes/
Women’s basketball survives against Baylor, advances to Elite Eight
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The Sweet 16 thriller went down to the wire at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon.
The post Women’s basketball survives against Baylor, advances to Elite Eight appeared first on Daily Trojan.
Awkward phases are a necessary part of growing up
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Social media is causing tweens to skip their ‘awkward phase,’ and this prevents them from discovering themselves.
The post Awkward phases are a necessary part of growing up appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/awkward-phases-are-a-necessary-part-of-growing-up/
Hugo Miller dances his way into Trojan history
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
The first man on the Trojan Dance Force wants to move others to join the art form.
The post Hugo Miller dances his way into Trojan history appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/hugo-miller-dances-his-way-into-trojan-history/
New bill could impact USC legacy admissions
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC admitted the largest number of legacy and donor-connected students among private California universities in 2022.
The post New bill could impact USC legacy admissions appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/new-bill-could-impact-usc-legacy-admissions/
Women’s basketball to duke out UConn in Elite Eight
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Both teams had narrow wins in their respective Sweet 16 games and will compete for the Final Four in Portland, Oregon.
The post Women’s basketball to duke out UConn in Elite Eight appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/womens-basketball-to-duke-out-uconn-in-elite-eight/
USC’s Nikkei hosts 17th annual culture night
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
“Mangekyō: Kaleidoscope” highlights the diversity of Japanese culture and art.
The post USC’s Nikkei hosts 17th annual culture night appeared first on Daily Trojan.
https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/uscs-nikkei-hosts-17th-annual-culture-night/
Disappointing skid continues for men’s tennis
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
USC was unable to get back into the win column against rival UCLA in home match.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/disappointing-skid-continues-for-mens-tennis/
The global appeal of soccer
date: 2024-04-01, from: The Daily Trojan (USC Student Paper)
Soccer captivates millions with its power to unite across cultures and generations.
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https://dailytrojan.com/2024/04/01/the-global-appeal-of-soccer/
Summary of changes for March 2024
date: 2024-04-01, from: Hundred Rabbits blog
Hey everyone!
This is the list of all the changes we’ve done to our projects during the month of March.
Summary Of Changes
- 100r.co, added chainplates, knots, washing dishes, receiving mail, updated our notes on diy carbonation system, and refrigeration.
- Uxn, added 2 new commands to Varvara’s System/expansion port and rewrote uxnasm.
- Some toys, made a two-player implementation of Pong, and an orca that follows the cursor like that old classic flash web toy.
- Left, improved the object inspector, it’s much prettier now!
- Kokorobot has a new splash page.
News
Pino now has all-new chainplates! We removed the original ones earlier this month to inspect them and found some pit corrosion(as well as a small crack), replacing them was necessary. With the chainplates gone, we removed the entire starboard side cabinet to see what was behind it—it’s always nice to see parts of our boat we’ve never seen. We also replaced 3 old halyards on Pino. Devine earned themself a couple of blisters splicing dyneema onto some of our existing halyards.
Sejo revisited the Uxn tutorial, and appended corrections. The most important change is that the tutorial is now targeting the learn-uxn platform(online) maintained by metasyn. Now, people can jump right in and experiment without having to set up a dev environment. Tsoding, someone who can code in front of the camera in a language they’ve never used or read the docs for, did a pretty funny session in Uxntal, you can watch it here.
There has been too many exciting Uxn projects coming out these past few days, so we’ll just put a link to the hashtag. Someone also created a Discord channel, it’s a good place to learn about other concatenative languages and an alternative for people who have trouble with #uxn, in irc.libera.chat.
Pino book & movie club
This month we are reading The Last Great Sea by Terry Glavin, and we watched the movie Tenet.
https://100r.co/site/log.html#mar2024
Pay per scroll
date: 2024-04-01, from: Manu - I write blog
<p>7.40 am. I’m sitting on a rock. Birds are chirping. Annoying rain coming down the gray sky. The rock I’m sitting on is wet. That’s also annoying. I’m sitting here, watching my dog walking up and down, destroying all the sticks that are lying on the ground. It’s a chilled morning.</p>Anyway, I’m sitting here, typing this on my phone. I have my phone with me. I shouldn’t. I should have a book with me. But it’s raining. And books don’t go along well with rain.
Books are interesting objects. The entire consumption process of a book is interesting, especially when compared to websites. There’s no equivalent of the web for books. There’s no place where an infinite supply of books is available to you at virtually no cost. Reading a book involves some decision-making and, more often than not, some financial investment.
Sure, some of you are probably saying that libraries are the equivalent of the web for books but that’s not the same thing. And don’t get me wrong, libraries are great!
Reflecting on books made me think about what the web would look like if it was some sort of pay-per-scroll platform. Not a place where virtually everything is free but a place where everything has to be purchased in order to be consumed. Which sites would I be willing to pay for? I’m going to ignore the obvious answers because I’m sure almost everyone would have sites like Wikipedia or YouTube. Those are boring answers. Aggregators such as Hacker News or Reddit would also not be something I’d be interested in paying for because the actual content lives somewhere else. So I’d be paying just for the commentary.
In my case, I’d probably pay for two types of websites: either personal sites of people that do things I enjoy or that have interesting takes on the world or sites that collect content coming from a diverse group of people (LessWrong is a good example).
Would I be happy if the web was some sort of à la carte menu rather than a free buffet? I’d say no. Still, thinking about this made me realize—once again—that my media diet is something that I have to always keep in mind. It also reminded me that I’m not reading enough books!
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March 31, 2024
date: 2024-04-01, from: Heather Cox Richardson blog
On Wednesday, President Joe Biden issued an executive order instructing the National Park Service to “highlight important figures and chapters in women’s history.” “Women and girls of all backgrounds have shaped our country’s history, from the ongoing fight for justice and equality to cutting-edge scientific advancements and artistic achievements,” the announcement read. “Yet these contributions have often been overlooked. We must do more to recognize the role of women and girls in America’s story, including through the Federal Government’s recognition and interpretation of historic and cultural sites.”
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-31-2024
After bridge collapse, Maryland governor urges Congress to pass funding for rebuild
date: 2024-04-01, from: VOA News USA
WASHINGTON — With efforts underway to clean up thousands of tons of steel debris from the collapsed bridge in Baltimore’s harbor, Maryland Governor Wes Moore on Sunday urged Republicans to work with Democrats to approve the
federal funding needed for rebuilding the bridge and to get the port economy back on its feet.
Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key bridge collapsed early on Tuesday morning, killing six road workers, when a container ship nearly the size of the Eiffel Tower lost power and crashed into a support pylon. Much of the span crashed into the Patapsco River, blocking the Port of Baltimore’s shipping channel.
The Biden administration released $60 million in initial emergency aid on Thursday to assist in cleaning up the bridge debris and reopening the port, which is the largest in the U.S. for “roll-on, roll-off” vehicle imports and exports of farm and construction equipment. The port has been closed since Tuesday, leaving in limbo the jobs of some 15,000 people who rely on its daily operations.
Federal officials have told Maryland lawmakers the final cost of rebuilding the bridge could soar to at least $2 billion, Roll Call reported, citing a source familiar with the
Discussions.
Democratic President Joe Biden has pledged that the federal government will cover the cost, but that will depend on passage of legislation authorizing the funds by both the Republican-led House of Representatives and Democratic-led Senate. The divided
Congress has been repeatedly riven by partisan battles over funding, with hardline Republicans often at odds even with members of their own party.
Moore, a Democrat, said Republicans should be willing to approve the funding for the sake of not just the city of Baltimore, but for the national economy.
“The reason that we need people to move in a bipartisan basis … is not because we need you to do Maryland a favor,” Moore told CNN on Sunday. “We need to make sure that we’re actually moving quickly to get the American economy going again, because the Port of Baltimore is instrumental in our larger economic growth.”
Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg expressed optimism on Sunday that Congress would approve the funds necessary for the cleanup and rebuild, noting that the divided legislative body had passed Biden’s $1 trillion infrastructure package in 2021.
“If there’s anything left in this country that is more bipartisan than infrastructure, it should be emergency response.
This is both, and I hope that Congress will be willing if and when we turn to them,” Buttigieg told CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
Biden was expected to visit the bridge collapse site this week.
An enormous crane began cutting up portions of the collapsed bridge to prepare them for removal on Saturday, which officials said was the first step of what will be a long and complicated cleanup. A spokesperson for the governor’s office said on Sunday that a 180-metric ton (200-ton) piece of the bridge had been removed and officials were working to determine the best strategy for pulling the ship off the wreckage.
Later Sunday officials said they were preparing to establish an alternate route for “commercially essential vessels,” although few additional details were released and the timing of the alternate route’s opening wasn’t made clear.
In a statement, coordinator Capt. David O’Connell said that the alternate would “support the flow of marine traffic into Baltimore.” Video released by responders showed Coast Guard officials dropping buoys into the water near the site of the collision.
The wreckage and hazardous weather conditions have made it impossible for divers to continue searching for the four remaining bodies of the deceased construction workers in recent days, Moore said.
Moore and other officials have declined to give an estimated timeline for the reopening of the port and the rebuilding of the bridge.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
Nine years ago I pleaded with Facebook to support Markdown.
What the Proposed National Association of REALTORS® Settlement Means For You
date: 2024-04-01, from: Santa Barbara Indenpent News
By Michele Allyn2024 PresidentSanta Barbara Association of Realtors As an experienced real estate agent with decades of service in our
The post What the Proposed National Association of REALTORS® Settlement Means For You appeared first on The Santa Barbara Independent.
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
I still want an EZ-Pass for news.
http://scripting.com/2020/06/23/115824.html
@Dave Winer’s linkblog (date: 2024-04-01, from: Dave Winer’s linkblog)
How the Atlantic Went From Broke to Profitable in Three Years.
Daily EV Recap: Lamborghini’s electric future
date: 2024-04-01, 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/2024/03/31/daily-ev-recap-lamborghinis-electric-future/
Why Corporations Fail to Protect Our Data
date: 2024-04-01, from: Om Malik blog
Almost nine years ago, when both T-Mobile and Experian were hacked, I wrote an article for The New Yorker. I argued that the companies wouldn’t learn anything from the mess created by these data and privacy breaches. As a result, we, the citizens, are now simply Data Piñatas. Consumers have become data piñatas – hacked, tracked and abused by everyone from hackers, governments, and worse of them all, …
https://om.co/2024/03/31/why-corporations-fail-to-protect-our-data/
Volvo EX30 Versus Its $45,000 Competitors: EX30 Exudes Quality Inside And Out
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
The new Volvo EX30 is a great entry into the compact crossover market. But how does it compare with its $45,000 competition?
https://insideevs.com/news/714450/volvo-ex30-crossover-uk-competition/
Expectation Vs Reality: Installing A $3,000 Tesla Cybertruck Basecamp Tent
date: 2024-04-01, from: Inside EVs News
YouTuber Brandon William provides an excellent video on setting up and taking down the Tesla Cybertruck Basecamp accessory.
https://insideevs.com/news/714445/cybertruck-tent-basecamp-3000-dollars/
@Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed (date: 2024-04-01, from: Miguel de Icaza Mastondon feed)
Where are the Palestinian supporting accounts on this server?
https://mastodon.social/@Migueldeicaza/112193106494015567
Ross Anderson
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: Bruce Schneier blog
Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge.
I can’t remember when I first met Ross. Of course it was before 2008, when we created the Security and Human Behavior workshop. It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. (Okay, he created both—I helped.) It was before 1998, when we wrote about the problems with key escrow systems. I was one of the people he brought to the Newton Institute, at Cambridge University, for the six-month cryptography residency program he ran (I mistakenly didn’t stay the whole time)—that was in 1996…
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/ross-anderson.html
Obsessions vs Hobbies
date: 2024-04-01, from: Om Malik blog
hobby: a pursuit outside one’s regular occupation engaged in especially for relaxation obsession: a persistent disturbing preoccupation with an often unreasonable idea or feeling Sunday is my day for hobbies. I am either editing photos and putting together a collection to share, or engaging with another hobby of mine: fountain pens. At the start of …
https://om.co/2024/03/31/obsessions-vs-hobbies/
Apply before June 1st 2024
date: 2024-04-01, updated: 2024-04-01, from: nlnet feed
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20240401-call.html
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
Ora2Pg 24.3 have been released
date: 2024-04-01, from: PostgreSQL News
Bangkok, Thailand - March 29th, 2024
Ora2Pg
Version 24.3 of Ora2Pg, a free and reliable tool used to migrate an Oracle database to PostgreSQL, has been officially released and is publicly available for download.
This release fixes several issues reported since last release and especially a regression in GEOMETRY data export. As usual, it also adds some new features and improvements.
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Add new configuration directive
ORACLE_FDW_PREFETCHto control the “prefetch” used by oracle_fdw COPY/INSERT. Prior to this change Ora2Pg uses the default “prefetch” of oracle_fdw, which at the time of writing is 50. Allowing this to be controlled by an Ora2Pg configuration/option gives the option of increased performance at the cost of some additional memory on the PostgreSQL side. -
Add new configuration directive
PGTT_NOSUPERUSER. By default the pgtt extension is loaded using the superuser privilege whenEXPORT_GTTis activated. Enabled it if you run the SQL scripts generated using a non superuser user. It will use:LOAD ‘$libdir/plugins/pgtt’;instead ofLOAD ‘pgtt’;
Backward compatibility changes:
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Modify the behavior of triggers export with
EXPORT_INVALID. It used to apply toENABLEDorDISABLEDtriggers instead of realVALIDorINVALIDtriggers. Export of invalid triggers will be controlled byEXPORT_INVALIDlike others objects like functions, packages, etc. This mean that disabled triggers that are valid will be exported by default now, this was not the case before.
For a complete list of change see https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog
Links & Credits
I would like to thank all users who submitted patches and users who reported bugs and feature requests, they are all cited the changelog file.
Ora2Pg is an open project. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You just have to send your ideas, features requests or patches using the GitHub tools or directly to ora2pg@darold.net.
Links:
- Website: https://www.ora2pg.com/
- Download1: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/releases
- Development: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg
- ChangeLog: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/changelog
- Documentation: https://github.com/darold/ora2pg/blob/master/README
About Ora2Pg :
Ora2Pg is an easy and reliable tool to migrate from Oracle to PostgreSQL. It is developed since 2001 and can export most of the Oracle objects into PostgreSQL compatible code.
Ora2Pg works on any platform and is available under the GPL v3 licence.
Docs, Download & Support at http://www.ora2pg.com/
https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/ora2pg-243-have-been-released-2832/
pgmoneta 0.10
date: 2024-04-01, from: PostgreSQL News
The pgmoneta community is happy to announce version 0.10.0.
New features
- Introduce worker framework for parallel operations
- Enhance the Write-Ahead Log (WAL) integration, for example better timeline changes
- Add additional Prometheus metrics around backup and WAL
- JSON output for the command line interface
pgmoneta
pgmoneta is a backup / restore solution for PostgreSQL 12+.
Read our getting started guide to setup pgmoneta for your backup needs.
Features
- Full backup
- Restore
- Compression (gzip, zstd, lz4, bzip2)
- AES encryption support
- Symlink support
- WAL shipping support
- Prometheus support
- Remote management
- Offline mode
- Transport Layer Security (TLS) v1.2+ support
- Daemon mode
- User vault
Learn more on our web site or GitHub. Follow on Twitter.
pgmoneta is released under the 3-clause BSD license.