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[33]Close binspamdupenotthebestofftopicslownewsdaystalestupid freshfunnyinsightfulinterestingmaybe offtopicflamebaittrollredundantoverrated insightfulinterestinginformativefunnyunderrated descriptive typodupeerror Do you develop on GitHub? You can keep using GitHub but automatically [34]sync your GitHub releases to SourceForge quickly and easily with [35]this tool so your projects have a backup location, and get your project in front of SourceForge's nearly 30 million monthly users. It takes less than a minute. Get new users downloading your project releases today! [36]Sign up for the Slashdot newsletter! or [37]check out the new Slashdot job board to browse remote jobs or jobs in your area [38]× 170738234 story [39]Space [40]Mysterious Dark Matter Mapped In Finest Detail Yet [41](bbc.com) [42]3 Posted by [43]BeauHD on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @06:00AM from the mysterious-matters dept. According to the BBC, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) in Chile has [44]traced the distribution of dark matter "on a quarter of the sky and across almost 14 billion years of time." From the report: In the image [[45]here], the colored areas are the portions of the sky studied by the telescope. Orange regions show where there is more mass, or matter, along the line of sight; purple where there is less. Typical features are hundreds of millions of light-years across. The grey/white areas show where contaminating light from dust in our Milky Way galaxy has obscured a deeper view. The distribution of matter agrees very well with scientific predictions. ACT observations indicate that the "lumpiness" of the Universe and the rate at which it has been expanding after 14 billion years of evolution are just what you'd expect from the standard model of cosmology, which has Einstein's theory of gravity (general relativity) at its foundation. Recent measurements that used an alternative background light, one emitted from stars in galaxies rather than the CMB, had suggested the Universe lacked sufficient lumpiness. Another tension concerns the rate at which the Universe is expanding - a number called the Hubble constant. When [the European Space Agency's Planck observatory] looked at temperature fluctuations across the CMB, it determined the rate to be about 67 kilometres per second per megaparsec (A megaparsec is 3.26 million light-years). Or put another way - the expansion increases by 67km per second for every 3.26 million light-years we look further out into space. A tension arises because measurements of the expansion in the nearby Universe, made using the recession from us of variable stars, clocks in at about 73km/s per megaparsec. It's a difference that can't easily be explained. ACT, employing its lensing technique to nail down the expansion rate, outputs a number similar to Planck's. "It's very close - about 68km/s per megaparsec," said Dr Mathew Madhavacheril from the the University of Pennsylvania. ACT team-member Prof Blake Sherwin from Cambridge University, UK, added: "We and Planck and several other probes are coming in on the lower side. Obviously, you could have a scenario where both the measurements are right and there's some new physics that explains the discrepancy. But we're using independent techniques, and I think we're now starting to close the loophole where we could all be riding this new physics and one of the measurements has to be wrong." Papers describing the new results have been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal and [46]posted on the ACT website. apply tags__________ 170737348 story [47]Earth [48]Apple To Invest Another $200 Million In Carbon Removal Fund [49](reuters.com) [50]17 Posted by [51]BeauHD on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @03:00AM from the more-the-merrier dept. Apple [52]said it will [53]invest up to an additional $200 million in its Restore Fund, which was created in 2021 to remove carbon from the atmosphere. Reuters reports: The additional investment is expected to help the fund start new projects and carry forward its previously stated goal to remove about 1 million metric tons of carbon dioxide per year, the company said. Apple is making efforts to become carbon neutral through its entire supply chain and the life cycle of every product by 2030. The fund, launched with Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N) and nonprofit Conservation International, has invested in forest properties in Brazil and Paraguay in the last two years. The expanded fund will be managed by Climate Asset Management, a joint venture of HSBC Asset Management and Pollination, Apple added. apply tags__________ 170737336 story [54]AI [55]Developer Creates 'Self-Healing' Programs That Fix Themselves Thanks To AI [56]66 Posted by [57]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:30PM from the taste-of-the-future dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Debugging a faulty program can be frustrating, so why not let AI do it for you? That's what a developer that goes by "BioBootloader" did by creating [58]Wolverine, a program that [59]can give Python programs "regenerative healing abilities," reports [60]Hackaday. (Yep, just like the Marvel superhero.) "Run your scripts with it and when they crash, GPT-4 edits them and explains what went wrong," wrote BioBootloader in a tweet that [61]accompanied a demonstration video. "Even if you have many bugs it'll repeatedly rerun until everything is fixed." In the demo video for Wolverine, BioBootloader shows a side-by-side window display, with Python code on the left and Wolverine results on the right in a terminal. He loads a custom calculator script in which he adds a few bugs on purpose, then executes it. "It runs it, it sees the crash, but then it goes and talks to GPT-4 to try to figure out how to fix it," he says. GPT-4 returns an explanation for the program's errors, shows the changes that it tries to make, then re-runs the program. Upon seeing new errors, GPT-4 fixes the code again, and then it runs correctly. In the end, the original Python file contains the changes added by GPT-4. apply tags__________ 170737312 story [62]Earth [63]Shutting Down Nuclear Power Could Increase Air Pollution, Finds MIT Study [64]73 Posted by [65]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @10:02PM from the cause-and-effect dept. If reactors are retired, polluting energy sources that fill the gap [66]could cause more than 5,000 premature deaths, researchers estimate. The findings [67]appear in the journal Nature Energy. MIT News reports: They lay out a scenario in which every nuclear power plant in the country has shut down, and consider how other sources such as coal, natural gas, and renewable energy would fill the resulting energy needs throughout an entire year. Their analysis reveals that indeed, air pollution would increase, as coal, gas, and oil sources ramp up to compensate for nuclear power's absence. This in itself may not be surprising, but the team has put numbers to the prediction, estimating that the increase in air pollution would have serious health effects, resulting in an additional 5,200 pollution-related deaths over a single year. If, however, more renewable energy sources become available to supply the energy grid, as they are expected to by the year 2030, air pollution would be curtailed, though not entirely. The team found that even under this heartier renewable scenario, there is still a slight increase in air pollution in some parts of the country, resulting in a total of 260 pollution-related deaths over one year. When they looked at the populations directly affected by the increased pollution, they found that Black or African American communities -- a disproportionate number of whom live near fossil-fuel plants -- experienced the greatest exposure. "They also calculated that more people are also likely to die prematurely due to climate impacts from the increase in carbon dioxide emissions, as the grid compensates for nuclear power's absence," adds the report. "The climate-related effects from this additional influx of carbon dioxide could lead to 160,000 additional deaths over the next century." Lead author Lyssa Freese, a graduate student in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), said: "We need to be thoughtful about how we're retiring nuclear power plants if we are trying to think about them as part of an energy system. Shutting down something that doesn't have direct emissions itself can still lead to increases in emissions, because the grid system will respond." apply tags__________ 170737280 story [68]Government [69]Colorado Approves First-Ever Agricultural Right to Repair Bill [70](ifixit.com) [71]11 Posted by [72]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @09:25PM from the raise-your-wrenches dept. Denver legislators have just [73]passed the first-ever agricultural Right to Repair bill. Today's landslide [74]44-16 vote in the House follows a successful vote in the Senate last month. iFixit reports: Once the Agricultural Right to Repair bill passes, manufacturers will be required to share all the parts, embedded software, firmware, tools, and documentation necessary for repair. One critical step remains: a signature by Governor Polis, who has signaled that he supports the legislation. To support Right to Repair legislation near you, [75]find your state on Repair.org -- or, if you're outside the US, look for your country's advocacy network [76]here. The summary of HB23-1011 reads: "Starting January 1, 2024, the bill requires a manufacturer to provide parts, embedded software, firmware, tools, or documentation, such as diagnostic, maintenance, or repair manuals, diagrams, or similar information (resources), to independent repair providers and owners of the manufacturer's agricultural equipment to allow an independent repair provider or owner to conduct diagnostic, maintenance, or repair services on the owner's agricultural equipment. The bill folds agricultural equipment into the existing consumer right-to-repair statutes, which statutes provide the following: - A manufacturer's failure to comply with the requirement to provide resources is a deceptive trade practice; - In complying with the requirement to provide resources, a manufacturer need not divulge any trade secrets to independent repair providers and owners; and - Any new contractual provision or other arrangement that a manufacturer enters into that would remove or limit the manufacturer's obligation to provide resources to independent repair providers and owners is void and unenforceable; and - An independent repair provider or owner is not authorized to make modifications to agricultural equipment that permanently deactivate any safety notification system or bring the equipment out of compliance with safety or emissions laws or to engage in any conduct that would evade emissions, copyright, trademark, or patent laws." apply tags__________ 170737256 story [77]Math [78]NYT Debuts Digits, the Math Version of Wordle [79](gamespot.com) [80]12 Posted by [81]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:45PM from the number-crunching dept. The New York Times [82]added a new daily puzzle game to its library in the form of [83]Digits. GameSpot reports: This collection of math conundrums tasks you with reaching a designated number by using six numbers that you're free to multiply, divide, subtract, or add up to reach the final result, so long as your process doesn't create any fractions or negative numbers. Currently in beta and only available for this week, there'll be five of these math puzzles to solve every day. These aren't one-and-done puzzles like Wordle, and depending on the path you choose to solve one of these math mysteries, you'll be awarded 1-3 star ratings. If Digits proves to be popular with its readers, the New York Times will then start work on the further development of the game. apply tags__________ 170736770 story [84]Democrats [85]Ukrainian Hackers Compromised Russian Spy Who Hacked Democrats In 2016 [86](reuters.com) [87]36 Posted by [88]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @08:02PM from the two-can-play-that-game dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Ukrainian hackers [89]claim to have broken into the emails of a senior Russian military spy wanted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for hacking the Hillary Clinton campaign and other senior U.S. Democrats ahead of Donald Trump's election to the presidency [90]in 2016. In a message posted to Telegram on Monday, a group calling itself Cyber Resistance said it had stolen correspondence from Lt. Col. Sergey Morgachev, who was charged in 2018 with helping organize the hack and leak of emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the Clinton campaign. InformNapalm said in [91]an article about the breach that it had confirmed Morgachev's identity by poring through personnel files and a curriculum vitae stolen by the hackers, including one document that identified him as a department head in Unit 26165 -- the same position which the FBI accused him of holding in 2018. [...] It wasn't immediately clear what information the hackers had managed to steal or how significant it was. Morgachev's inbox could potentially hold insight into Russia's hacking operations, including the operation against Clinton and the Democrats. In its indictment, the FBI described him as an officer in the Russia's military spy agency, still known by its old acronym, GRU. It said his department was "dedicated to developing and managing malware," including the "X-Agent" spy software used to hack the DNC. In its message announcing the theft, the group said of Morgachev: "A very cool and clever hacker, but ... We hacked him." apply tags__________ 170736678 story [92]News [93]Substack Launches Notes [94](theverge.com) [95]15 Posted by [96]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @07:20PM from the good-artists-copy-great-artists-steal dept. Substack's Twitter-like feature for shorter posts, called [97]Notes, is [98]launching for everyone on Tuesday. The Verge reports: Substack's Notes will appear in their own separate tab, meaning they'll be separate from the full newsletters you can read in the Inbox tab or the threads you can read in [99]the Chat tab, where you can read newsletters. In a blog post, Substack suggests using Notes to share things like "posts, quotes, comments, images, and links," and there is no character limit, Substack spokesperson Helen Tobin tells The Verge. Each post can include up to six photos or GIFs, but video isn't supported. Notes you share won't go to subscriber inboxes; they'll just live on the Substack website and app. And you can interact with other Notes with like, reply, and "restack" (retweet) buttons. Within the Notes tab, you can look through two different feeds: "Home" and "Subscribed." "Home" shows notes from writers you subscribe to and "writers they recommend," meaning you'll see notes from people you may not already be familiar with. "Subscribed" only shows notes from people you subscribe to. apply tags__________ 170736648 story [100]Transportation [101]Ford To Spend $1.3 Billion To Transform Canada Factory Into EV Manufacturing Hub [102](techcrunch.com) [103]28 Posted by [104]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:40PM from the new-and-improved dept. Ford said Tuesday it [105]will spend $1.34 billion (C$1.8B) to turn its 70-year-old Oakville facility in Canada into an assembly plant for its next-generation of electric vehicles. TechCrunch reports: The campus, which first opened in 1953, will be renamed Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex. The company said Tuesday it will begin modernizing the 487-acre site in the second quarter of 2024. The upgrade includes completely retooling the facility that currently produces the internal combustion engine-powered Ford Edge and Lincoln Nautilus to own that only produces EVs. This is the first time that Ford has completely retooled an existing plant for EVs in North America. Ford also plans to add a 407,000-square-foot battery plant that will use cells and arrays from its BlueOval SK Battery Park in Kentucky. Workers will assemble the components into battery packs and then install them into EVs produced at the plant. "I'm most excited for the world to see the incredible next-generation electric and fully digitally connected vehicles produced in Oakville," CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. apply tags__________ 170736628 story [106]Role Playing (Games) [107]Leaked Classified Documents Also Include Roleplaying Game Character Stats [108](vice.com) [109]34 Posted by [110]BeauHD on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @06:02PM from the mysteries-remain dept. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Over the past month, classified Pentagon documents have [111]circulated on 4chan, Telegram, and various Discord servers. The documents contain daily intelligence briefings, sensitive information about Ukrainian military positions, and a handwritten character sheet for a table-top roleplaying game. No one knows who leaked the Pentagon documents or how. They appeared online as photographs of printed pages, implying someone printed them out and removed them from a secure location, similar to how NSA translator Reality Winner [112]leaked documents. The earliest documents Motherboard has seen are dated February 23, though the [113]New York Times and [114]Bellingcat reported that some are dated as early as January. According to Bellingcat, the earliest known instances of the leaks appearing online can be traced back to a Discord server. At some point, a Discord user uploaded a zip file of 32 images from the leak onto a Minecraft Discord server. Included in this pack alongside highly sensitive, Top Secret and other classified documents about the Pentagon's strategy and assessment of the war in Ukraine, was a handwritten piece of paper that [115]appeared to be a character sheet for a roleplaying game. It's written on a standard piece of notebook paper, three holes punched out on the side, blue lines crisscrossing the page. The character's name is Doctor "Izmer Trotzky," his character class is "Professor Scientist." They've got a strength of 5, a charisma of 4, and 19 rubles to their name. Doctor Trotzky has 10 points in first aid and occult skills, and 24 in spot hidden. He's carrying a magnifying glass, a fountain pen, a sword cane, and a deringer. [...] But what game is it from? Motherboard reached out to game designer Jacqueline Bryk to find out. Bryk is an [116]award-winning designer of roleplaying games who has worked on Kult: Divinity Lost, Changeling: the Lost, Fading Suns: Pax Alexius, and Vampire: the Masquerade. "I strongly suspect this is Call Of Cthulhu," Bryk said when first looking at the sheet. Call of Cthulhu (COC) is an RPG based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft where players attempt to stave off madness while investigating eldritch horrors. "This is a pretty classic Professor build. The sword cane really clinches it for me. I notice he's currently carrying a derringer and a dagger but took no points in firearms or fighting. I'm not sure which edition this is but it seems like the most he could do with his weapons is throw them." "After some research, Bryk concluded that the game is a homebrewed combination of COC and the Fallout tabletop game based on the popular video game franchise," adds Motherboard. "My best guest here is Fallout: Cthulhu the Homebrew," Bryk said, giving the home designed game a name. apply tags__________ 170735368 story [117]Microsoft [118]Microsoft Set To Change Print Screen Button So It Opens Snipping Tool in Windows 11 [119](techspot.com) [120]54 Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @05:23PM from the how-about-that dept. An anonymous reader writes: Windows users don't like it when Microsoft changes long-used and familiar functions in its OS, so altering something that's been the same for 28 years is always going to bring controversy. Nevertheless, it seems that the Redmond firm is planning on changing the Print Screen button into a key that [121]opens the Windows 11 Snipping Tool. The Print Screen button has performed the same function in the Windows operating system since Windows 95: taking a screenshot of the current screen and copying it to the clipboard, usually so it can be edited in another program. But Windows Latest discovered that Microsoft is changing the default function of the Print Screen key in Windows 11. In the Windows 11 Beta preview builds 22621.1546 and 22624.1546, hitting the key will open the Windows Snipping Tool, Windows' built-in screenshotting tool that's currently accessed by pressing the Windows logo Key + Shift + S. apply tags__________ 170734940 story [122]Earth [123]Europe is Bracing For (Another) Devastating Drought [124](wired.co.uk) [125]51 Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:41PM from the closer-look dept. After unusually low amounts of rain and snow this winter, the [126]continent faces a severe water shortage. From a report: What happens during the next few months will really matter. Abundant rainfall could ease the situation and stave off the worst-case scenario. But Europe needs a lot. "We're talking about a sea, a sea's worth of water," says Hannah Cloke at the University of Reading in the UK. In terms of volume, hundreds of millions of cubic liters of rain would have to fall across the continent to fill the deficit, she estimates. It would have to amount to higher-than-average rainfall for France and certain other places, including parts of the UK. The chances of that are, unfortunately, not high. The UK's weather agency, the Met Office, estimates there's a 10 percent chance of a wetter-than-average March, April, and May. Conversely, there's a 30 percent chance that this period will be drier than average -- and that is 1.5 times the normal chance at this time of year. The Met Office stresses that this is a "broad outlook," and there might still be patches of very wet weather even if it remains dry overall. Any rain that does fall also has to fall in the right way and in the right places. "There's always this chance that if we do get it all in two days, we see some very serious floods," says Cloke. "What we want is to see sustained, reasonably gentle rain over the next few months." Another important factor is how hot it gets this summer, says Cammalleri. Heat waves push up water consumption and increase evaporation rates. He indicates that European forecasts do not suggest that temperatures will be quite as blisteringly hot as last year -- though there is some uncertainty there too. apply tags__________ 170735232 story [127]Apple [128]France Eyeing Antitrust Action Against Apple [129](axios.com) [130]20 Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @04:01PM from the shape-of-things-to-come dept. The French Competition Authority is likely to move forward soon [131]with an antitrust investigation into Apple over complaints tied to 2021 changes to its app tracking policies, Axios reported, citing sources. From the report: A formal investigation would mark the first major government move taken globally against Apple related to privacy rule changes that upended the digital advertising world. French regulators are favoring issuing a formal "Statement of Objections" to parties involved in the matter in coming weeks, sources told Axios. That step would signal to groups that issued initial complaints about Apple's actions and Apple that the authority found evidence of illegal anticompetitive behavior in its initial review of the complaints it received. The 2020 complaint argues that Apple's app tracking changes did not adequately adhere to European Union privacy rules and that Apple failed to hold itself to the same ad targeting standards that it forced on its competitors because it targeted iOS users with ads from app tracking data. The complaint was filed jointly by four French advertising trade groups -- IAB France, Mobile Marketing Association (MMA), SRI and UDECAM. apply tags__________ 170735104 story [132]Firefox [133]Windows Defender Finally Squashes Firefox Bug That Ate CPUs For 5 Years [134](pcworld.com) [135]73 Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @03:21PM from the better-late-than-never dept. An anonymous reader shares a report: Firefox has a reputation of being something of a resource hog, even among modern browsers. But it might not be entirely earned, because it looks like a CPU bug affecting Firefox users on Windows was actually the fault of Windows Defender. The [136]latest update to the ubiquitous security tool addresses the issue, and should result in measurably lower CPU usage for the Windows version of Firefox. According to Mozilla senior software engineer Yannis Juglaret, the culprit was MsMpEng.exe, which you might recognize from your Task Manager. It handles the Real-Time protection feature that monitors web activity for malicious threats. The bug was causing Firefox to call on the service much more frequently than comparable browsers like Chrome or Edge, resulting in notable CPU spikes. Said CPU spikes could reduce performance in other applications or affect a laptop's battery life. The issue was first reported on Mozilla's bug tracker system way back in 2018 and quickly assigned to the MsMpEng service, but some more recent and diligent documentation on the part of Juglaret resulted in more swift action from Microsoft's developers. apply tags__________ 170735048 story [137]Movies [138]Why Are Movies So Dark These Days? [139](polygon.com) [140]95 Posted by msmash on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @02:42PM from the important-matters dept. A filmmaker walks us through the reasons behind the [141]'dark cinematography' that's causing so many complaints. From a report: Take, for instance, Wes Craven's 1996 horror classic Scream -- a film often remarked on for just how lit everything in it is at all times. An early scene depicts protagonist Sidney Prescott embracing her boyfriend Billy Loomis in the wake of a terrifying home invasion and her near-death at the hands of a masked killer. After Sidney throws her arms around Billy, Craven cuts to a tight close-up on Billy's face, which is illuminated by a harsh, ominous, icy-cool light that telegraphs his sinister intentions. But where is that light coming from? The bedroom they're in has no lamps switched on. Could it be the moon? Hard to justify, as the only windows in the space are behind Billy, and the light we're staring at is so much brighter and closer than the moon could ever be. So what on Earth is that light? The answer is, simply enough, nothing. Craven often didn't feel any real need to rationalize why a bright light would suddenly appear one second before disappearing again in the following shot. It's a purely stylistic choice, employed for that one moment to cast doubt on Billy's trustworthiness in the audience's mind. Itâ(TM)s an extremely stagey choice that fits neatly within the larger series' heightened, melodramatic style. Scream wouldn't really be Scream without it. The hyper-lit style was a staple of cinematography in American films during the '90s, and like all trends, it eventually fell out of fashion -- in this case, a few years after Scream hit theaters. The 2000s saw filmmakers embracing more directional, shadowy lighting styles, evoking a grittier, more "grounded" aesthetic while retaining a sense of classic Hollywood polish. The 2010s featured another huge shift in style, this time toward hyper-naturalism. Even broad, big-budget blockbusters like Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows -- Part 1 embraced a look torn straight from indie cinema. Not only are the lights in that film always motivated, they're realistic. Where earlier films might have used the presence of the moon or a table lamp to justify much brighter lighting, movies like Deathly Hallows, Interstellar, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes let the light of a lamp simply look like a lamp. apply tags__________ [142]« Newer [143]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [144]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Recently, an open letter signed by tech leaders, researchers proposes delaying AI development. Do you agree that AI development should be temporarily halted? 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