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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]× 171244244 story [39]NASA [40]NASA Opposes Lithium Mining at Nevada Desert Site Used to Calibrate Satellites [41](apnews.com) [42]13 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 26, 2023 @07:34AM from the yours-and-mines dept. An ancient Nevada lakebed could become a vast source of the lithium used in electric car batteries, reports the Associated Press. But "NASA says the same site — flat as a tabletop and undisturbed like none other in the Western Hemisphere — [43]is indispensable for calibrating the razor-sharp measurements of hundreds of satellites orbiting overhead." At the space agency's request, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management has agreed to withdraw 36 square miles (92 square kilometers) of the eastern Nevada terrain from its inventory of federal lands open to potential mineral exploration and mining. NASA says the long, flat piece of land above the untapped lithium deposit in Nevada's Railroad Valley has been used for nearly three decades to get measurements just right to keep satellites and their applications functioning properly. "No other location in the United States is suitable for this purpose," the Bureau of Land Management concluded in April after receiving NASA's input on the tract 250 miles (400 kilometers) northeast of Las Vegas... In Railroad Valley, satellite calculations are critical to gathering information beamed from space with widespread applications from weather forecasting to national security, agricultural outlooks and natural disasters, according to NASA, which said the satellites "provide vital and often time-critical information touching every aspect of life on Earth." That increasingly includes certifying measurements related to climate change. Thus the Nevada desert paradox, critics say. Although lithium is the main ingredient in batteries for electric vehicles key to reducing greenhouse gases, in this case the metal is buried beneath land NASA says must remain undisturbed to certify the accuracy of satellites monitoring Earth's warming atmosphere... The area's unchanged nature has allowed NASA to establish a long record of images of the undisturbed topography to assist precise measurement of distances using the travel time of radio signals and assure "absolute radiometric calibration" of sensors on board satellites. "Activities that stand to disrupt the surface integrity of Railroad Valley would risk making the site unusable," Jeremy Eggers, a spokesman for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told The Associated Press. One company with most of the mining rights says the tract's withdrawal will put more than half the site's value out of reach, according to the article. But the Associated Press got a supportive quote for the move from the satellite imaging company Planet Labs, which has relied on NASA's site to calibrate more than 250 of its satellites since 2016. "As our nation becomes ever more impacted by an evolving and changing environment, it is critical to have reliable and accurate data and imagery of our planet." apply tags__________ 171244012 story [44]Transportation [45]Paris Plans Electric Air Taxis Next Summer, More eVTOLs Predicted by 2028 [46](msn.com) [47]31 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 26, 2023 @03:34AM from the flying-fares dept. The Associated Press [48]reports from the Paris Air Show, where developers of electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft (or eVTOLs) demonstrated their surprisingly quiet electrically-powered craft. And in one year the Paris region "is planning for a small fleet of electric flying taxis to operate on multiple routes when it hosts the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games next summer." Unless aviation regulators in China beat Paris to the punch by green-lighting a pilotless taxi for two passengers under development there, the French capital's prospective operator — Volocopter of Germany — could be the first to fly taxis commercially if European regulators give their OK... The limited power of battery technology restricts the range and number of paying passengers they can carry, so eVTOL hops are likely to be short and not cheap at the outset. And while the vision of simply beating city traffic by zooming over it is enticing, it also is dependent on advances in airspace management. Manufacturers of eVTOLs aim in the coming decade to unfurl fleets in cities and on more niche routes for luxury passengers, including the French Riveria. But they need technological leaps so flying taxis don't crash into each other and all the other things already congesting the skies or expected to take to them in very large numbers — including millions of drones. Starting first on existing helicopter routes, "we'll continue to scale up using AI, using machine-learning to make sure that our airspace can handle it," said Billy Nolen of Archer Aviation Inc. It aims to start flying between downtown Manhattan and Newark's Liberty Airport in 2025. That's normally a 1-hour train or old-fashioned taxi ride that Archer says its sleek, electric 4-passenger prototype could cover in under 10 minutes. Nolen was formerly acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. regulator that during his time at the agency was already working with NASA on technology to safely separate flying taxis. Just as Paris is using its Olympic Games to test flying taxis, Nolen said the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics offer another target for the industry to aim for and show that it can fly passengers in growing numbers safely, cleanly and affordably. "We'll have hundreds, if not thousands, of eVTOLs by the time you get to 2028," he said in an interview with The Associated Press at the Paris show. The "very small" hoped-for experiment with Volocopter for the Paris Games is "great stuff. We take our hats off to them," he added. "But by the time we get to 2028 and beyond ... you will see full-scale deployment across major cities throughout the world." The article includes a skeptical quote from Richard Aboulafia of aerospace consultancy AeroDynamic Advisory. "You and I can take air taxis right now. It's called a helicopter." apply tags__________ 171243924 story [49]Space [50]New Video Shows a Flyby of the Planet Mercury - with AI-Assisted Music [51](phys.org) [52]11 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday June 26, 2023 @12:34AM from the needing-some-space dept. The "BepiColombo" mission, a joint European-Japanese effort, "has recently completed its third of six planned flybys of Mercury, capturing dozens of images in the process," reports [53]the Byte: At its closest, the spacecraft soared within just 150 miles of Mercury. This occurred on the night side of the planet, however, too dark for optimal imaging. Instead, the first and nearest image was taken 12 minutes after the closest approach, at the still impressive proximity of some 1,100 miles above the surface. Now the ESA has spliced together 217 images from that flyby [54]into a short video, which culminates with a zoomed-in closeup of Mercury's cratered surface. And the music in that video had a little help from AI, [55]reports Phys.org: Music was composed for the sequence by [56]ILÄ (formerly known as Anil Sebastian), with the assistance of AI tools developed by the Machine Intelligence for Musical Audio group, University of Sheffield. Music from the previous two flyby movies — composed by Maison Mercury Jones' creative director ILÄ and Ingmar Kamalagharan — was given to the AI tool to suggest seeds for the new composition, which ILÄ then chose from to edit and weave together with other elements into the new piece. The team at the University of Sheffield has developed an Artificial Musical Intelligence (AMI), a large-scale general-purpose deep neural network that can be personalized to individual musicians and use cases. The project with the University of Sheffield is aimed at exploring the boundaries of the ethics of AI creativity, while also emphasizing the essential contributions of the (human) composer. From [57]the ESA's announcement: BepiColombo's next Mercury flyby will take place on 5 September 2024, but there is plenty of work to occupy the teams in the meantime... BepiColombo's Mercury Transfer Module will complete over 15 000 hours of solar electric propulsion operations over its lifetime, which together with nine planetary flybys in total — one at Earth, two at Venus, and six at Mercury — will guide the spacecraft towards Mercury orbit. The ESA-led Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the JAXA-led Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter modules will separate into complementary orbits around the planet, and their main science mission will begin in early 2026. One [58]spaceflight blog notes the propulsive energy required for an eventual entry into the orbit of Mercury "is greater than that of a mission to fly by Pluto. "Only one other spacecraft has orbited Mercury, and that was NASA's MESSENGER probe, which orbited the planet from 2011 to 2015." apply tags__________ 171243722 story [59]Open Source [60]Linux Foundation Celebrates Zephyr Project's Small Real-Time Operating System [61](linuxfoundation.org) [62]9 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:37PM from the system-updates dept. This week the Linux Foundation [63]shared an update on the [64]Zephyr Project, a small real-time operating system for connected, resource-constrained and embedded devices: The project recently achieved several milestones including surpassing 80,000 commits since it was released in open source in 2015. This is an average of almost 2 commits per hour, which was made recently by 490 individuals, including 166 first-timers, who contributed to the [65]3.4 release. Zephyr RTOS supports over [66]450 boards running embedded microcontrollers from Arm and RISC-V to Tensilica, NIOS, ARC and x86 as single and multicore systems... Zephyr RTOS has a growing set of software libraries that can be used across various applications and industry sectors such as Industrial IoT, wearables, machine learning and more. It is built with an emphasis on broad chipset support, security, dependability, long-term support releases and a growing open source ecosystem... The Zephyr community will be at the [67]Zephyr Developer Summit, which takes place on June 27-30 in Prague, Czech Republic, and virtually as part of the first-ever [68]Embedded Open Source Summit. [Register [69]here for virtual attendance.] Arduino will be joining Zephyr's Technical Steering Committee, along with Technology Innovation Institute and the American multinational semiconductor company Analog Devices (or ADI, who will also be joining its governing board). Arduino's CEO said "We believe that Zephyr OS is a truly special project that will play a significant role in the Arduino ecosystem and will be a big priority for us." As a "Platinum"-level sponsor, ADI joins Antmicro, Baumer, Google, Intel, Meta, Nordic Semiconductor, NXP, Oticon, Qualcomm Innovation Center and T-Mobile. apply tags__________ 171243314 story [70]Programming [71]34% of AP CS Students Couldn't Solve This Java-Based 2D Array Question [72]104 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @09:13PM from the school-dazed dept. 96,000 American students took this year's [Java-based] [73]AP Computer Science A test. And more than a third — a full 34% — missed question #4. It asks test-takers to write two methods for the class BoxOfCandy — one that moves a Candy object to the first row (of a column), and one that finds and returns a Candy object of a specfic flavor, removing it from the box. Long-time Slashdot reader [74]theodp shares some thoughts: - "If 34% of students are not getting any points, it's a test question problem, not a student one," [75]argued one commenter on Twitter. [Question 4 is 5-pages long.] - Here's a stab at an [76]Excel VBA solution to Question 4 for comparison-to-Java purposes. It's a little bit clunkier due to [77]how VBA functions return results compared to Java, but it's still pretty concise and allows code to be easily tested and results to be easily visualized using the 2D Excel worksheet grid. - AI-powered Bing refuses to provide the answer to the question that completely eluded 32,000+ AP CS A exam takers ("I'm sorry but I cannot provide you with the answer to that question. It is not ethical to share the answers to an exam question". [But] it does tip one off to a suggested Java solution for Q4 that can be found in [78]A+ Computer Science's 2023 AP CS A Exam Review. apply tags__________ 171242784 story [79]GNU is Not Unix [80]GCC Steering Committee Announces a Code of Conduct [81](gnu.org) [82]122 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @06:59PM from the GCC-CoC dept. GCC is the GNU project's free and open-source cross-platform compiler collection. Now an anonymous reader shared this [83]announcement from the mailing list for GCC: The GCC Steering Committee has decided to adopt a [84]Code of Conduct for interactions in GCC project spaces, including mailing lists, bugzilla, and IRC. The vast majority of the time, the GCC community is a very civil, cooperative space. On the rare occasions that it isn't, it's helpful to have something to point to to remind people of our expectations. It's also good for newcomers to have something to refer to, for both how they are expected to conduct themselves and how they can expect to be treated... At this time the CoC is preliminary: the code itself should be considered active, but the CoC committee (and so the reporting and response procedures) are not yet in place. There's also [85]an official FAQ, and GCC's [86]Code of Conduct begins with this introduction. "Like the free software community as a whole, the GCC community is made up of a mixture of professionals and volunteers from all over the world, working on every aspect of the project — including mentorship, teaching, and connecting people." Where this leads to issues and unhappiness, "we have a few ground rules that we ask people to adhere to... [T]ake it in the spirit in which it's intended — a guide to make it easier to enrich all of us, the project, and the broader communities in which we participate." apply tags__________ 171242384 story [87]Power [88]Can EV Battery Swaps Be as Fast as Filling Up a Gas Tank? [89](cnet.com) [90]206 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @05:19PM from the dropping-the-charges dept. "One of the biggest pain points that comes with driving an electric vehicle is the time it takes to charge the battery," writes CNET. "Startup Ample's new technology can [91]give drivers a full charge in about the same time it takes to fill a gas tank." Ample's model runs on the idea that the fastest charge is the one you never have to do. Its next-generation battery-swapping station can replace the battery on an electric vehicle in about five minutes... Ample currently operates 12 first-generation swapping stations in the San Francisco Bay Area, mainly serving Uber delivery vehicles. The company expects to launch its next-generation station in the US, as well as Japan and Spain, later this year. Their drive-through stations work with "just about any" kind of electric vehicle (including larger delivery vehicles), according to CNET's video report. Basically the company uses an "interface tray" that locks under the car (where the battery would go) containing its own charged battery cells. When a car drives in, a robotic system simply removes that tray and replaces it with another with fully-charged battery cells. The company's co-founder argues this makes charging stations more like gas stations which service every kind of car — and adds that it's incredibly easy to deploy. "There's no construction involved... It comes in pre-built parts. You go through, connect them, test them — and you're up and running." They've already got a deal with American EV automaker Fisker. apply tags__________ 171242106 story [92]Math [93]Here's How We Could Begin Decoding an Alien Message Using Math [94](sciencenews.org) [95]51 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @04:05PM from the tales-from-decrypt dept. Slashdot reader [96]silverjacket writes: Researchers at Oxford and elsewhere developed a method that figures out the most likely number and size of dimension in which to format a string of bits, with [97]applications to interpreting messages from extraterrestrial intelligence (METI), if we were to receive them. The new method "looks at every possible combination of dimension number and size," according to Science News: The researchers also measure each possible configuration's global order by seeing how much an image compression algorithm can shrink it without losing information — mathematically, randomness is less compressible than regular patterns... Hector Zeni [one of the creators of this method] "notes that in Carl Saganâ(TM)s sci-fi novel Contact, the characters spend a lot of time figuring out that a message received from aliens is in three dimensions (specifically a video). âoeIf you have our tools, you would solve that problem in seconds and with no human intervention.â An algorithm that pieces together smaller algorithmic components in order to explain or predict data — this new method is just one way to do it — may also help us one day achieve artificial general intelligence, Zenil says. Such automated approaches don't depend on human assumptions about the signal. That opens the door to discovering forms of intelligence that might think differently from our own. apply tags__________ 171241396 story [98]Science [99]Particle Accelerator Reveals A New Type of Atomic Nucleus [100](scitechdaily.com) [101]13 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @02:45PM from the isolating-isotopes dept. Finland's University of Jyväskylä has an announcement: an experiment performed in its accelerator lab "[102]has succeeded in producing a previously unknown atomic nucleus." Dubbed "190-Astatine," it's made from 85 protons and 105 neutrons.. The nucleus is the lightest isotope of astatine discovered to date. Astatine is a fast-decaying, and therefore rare element. It has been estimated that in the Earth's crust, there is no more than one tablespoon of astatine... The new isotope was produced in the fusion of 84Sr beam particles and silver target atoms. The isotope was detected among the products by using the detectors of RITU recoil separator... "The studies of new nuclei are important for understanding the structure of atomic nuclei and the limits of known matter," says Doctoral Researcher Henna Kokkonen from the Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä. apply tags__________ 171241488 story [103]Games [104]After Hours-Long DDoS Attack, Blizzard Restores Access to 'Diablo IV', 'World of Warcraft' [105](engadget.com) [106]41 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @01:45PM from the return-from-darkness dept. Blizzard's Battle.net online service was the target of an apparent DDoS attack, "since at least the early hours of Sunday morning," [107]reports Engadget, "making it difficult, if not impossible, to play Diablo IV, World of Warcraft and other Blizzard titles." It was just 20 minutes ago that they tweeted that the DDOS attacks "[108]have ended." Engadget notes Blizzard's customer support account had [109]tweeted at 10:24AM EST, "We continue to actively monitor an ongoing DDoS attack which is affecting latency/connections to our games." When players launched Battle.net on PC, a notification warned "We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack, which may result in high latency and disconnections for some players..." [110]On Reddit, some players reported they hadn't been able to play Blizzard's latest game for at least 10 to 12 hours. Engadget predicts, "At the very least, you can bet this incident will likely renew calls for Blizzard to add an offline mode to Diablo IV." apply tags__________ 171233476 story [111]Red Hat Software [112]EOL For Red Hat 7 and CentOS 7 In 1 Year and a Week [113](redhat.com) [114]37 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @12:34PM from the final-countdown dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [115]internet-redstar writes: In little longer than 1 year, RHEL7 and CentOS 7 will go EOL. Large enterprises with thousands of these servers are struggling to meet that deadline. Now they also have the option to use [116]Project78 from [117]Linux Belgium which offers a Cloud and OnPrem version to aid in the transition to RHEL 8 or Rocky Linux 8. It promises a 100% success rate for in-place OS upgrading and a 95% success rate for application migrations in a Upgrade-as-a-Service package. In April [118]Red Hat's senior technical marketing manager shared their thoughts about next year's end of life for CentOS Linux and the End-of-Maintenance for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (along with some tips): The good news is that these events won't require a complete infrastructure overhaul. Tools are available to move from your current configuration to a place where you'll have years of support. While June of '24 may sound a ways off, do not delay. It will be here faster than you think. Start planning now. Start moving soon. Give yourself plenty of runway, and don't forget that we aren't just your software vendor at Red Hat. We are your partners and are here to help you with these transitions. apply tags__________ 171238306 story [119]Medicine [120]Reducing Cholesterol Lowers Risk of Heart Attack, Stroke, and Death, Study Finds [121](usatoday.com) [122]53 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @11:34AM from the keeps-the-doctor-away dept. An anonymous reader shared [123]this report from USA Today: A new study reinforces the importance of lowering cholesterol in people at risk for, but who haven't had a heart attack or stroke. The study looked at a statin alternative, called bempedoic acid, and found that as it reduced levels of LDL cholesterol, it also lowered the risk for heart attack, stroke and death. Researchers are quick to say bempedoic acid shouldn't be used instead of statins. It's far more expensive and doesn't have the decades-long track record of safety and effectiveness. But for people who can't tolerate statins or a high enough dose to bring their cholesterol levels down adequately, the new study suggests it's important to find alternatives, and that bempedoic acid can be at least part of the solution. apply tags__________ 171237382 story [124]Power [125]China's Experimental Molten Salt Reactor Receives Operating Licence [126](scmp.com) [127]88 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @10:34AM from the getting-a-reaction dept. [128]Interesting Engineering reports: Chinese authorities have officially given the green light to commission a working thorium-based molten salt nuclear reactor. Currently under construction since 2018, the reactor in question, "[129]Thorium Molten Salt Reactor — Liquid Fuel 1" (TMSR-LF1), is being built at the Hongshagang Industrial Cluster, Wuwei City, Gansu Province. If successful, the [130]TMSR-LF1 has the potential to open doors for developing and constructing a more extensive demonstration facility by 2030. Additionally, it could lead to constructing a TMSR fuel salt batch pyro-process demonstration facility, which would enable the utilization of the thorium-uranium cycle by the early 2040s... It runs on a combination of thorium and uranium-235, enriched at 19.75 percent by weight, and can operate at a maximum temperature of 650C for up to 10 years. The liquid fuel design is based on the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the 1960s... China intends to construct a reactor with a capacity of 373 MWt by 2030 if the TMSR-LF1 succeeds. Thorium is more abundant than uranium, [131]notes the South China Morning Post — and China is thought to have one of the world's largest thorium reserves. But a thorium reactor should also produce less waste, and using molten salts as both a fuel and a coolant "potentially eliminates the need for large quantities of water, which is a significant advantage in areas where water resources are limited." India has also been pursuing thorium-based nuclear technologies, including MSRs. The Indian Molten Salt Breeder Reactor project, initiated in the 1980s, aimed to develop a thorium-based breeder reactor. However, the project has faced challenges related to materials compatibility, fuel reprocessing and overall system complexity and has not progressed to commercial-scale use... China reportedly plans to sell small thorium reactors to other countries as part of the [132]Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing's global infrastructure plan. Thanks to Slashdot reader [133]sonlas for sharing the news. apply tags__________ 171238078 story [134]Social Networks [135]Thousands of Subreddits Remain Dark as Reddit Protests Approach Third Week [136](theguardian.com) [137]103 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @07:34AM from the in-all-things-moderators dept. "User protests against Reddit's plan to charge new fees to access its content are about to enter their third week," [138]writes Axios. [139]2,503 subreddits remain dark, including at least three with more than 20 million subscribers apiece, [140]the Guardian points out, arguing that CEO Steve Huffman "may win, but the short history of the web is littered with the corpses of predecessors who alienated their fanbases." The New York Times adds that in an interview Wednesday, "Mr. Huffman said [141]his goal had been to make Reddit better for newcomers and veteran users and to build a lasting business. "He said he regretted that developers were surprised by the company's pricing changes and wished he had been more upfront about how the changes would affect them..." Reddit is now further away from a public offering than it was last year, Mr. Huffman said, but will continue building its business. He added that the community revolt was a part of what made Reddit Reddit and said he and his team planned to continue engaging with top moderators who were upset with the changes. "For better or for worse, this is a very uniquely Reddit moment," he said. "This could only happen on Reddit." The Times also spoke to a man who moderates 80 different forums on Reddit — and has been volunteering to moderate Reddit forums for 11 years. He calls Huffman's API move "really demoralizing... I take all this abuse for you, and keep your website clean, and this is how you repay us?'" He's now active in Reddit's "[142]Save3rdPartyApps" subreddit, "which was formed to organize protests on the site that are allowed under Reddit's rules." apply tags__________ 171238212 story [143]The Almighty Buck [144]The IMF is Working on a Global Central Bank Digital Currency Platform [145](yahoo.com) [146]83 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday June 25, 2023 @03:34AM from the investigating-interoperability dept. Reuters reports: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is [147]working on a platform for central bank digital currencies (CDBCs) to enable transactions between countries, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said on Monday. "CBDCs should not be fragmented national propositions... To have more efficient and fairer transactions we need systems that connect countries: we need interoperability," Georgieva told a conference attended by African central banks in Rabat, Morocco. "For this reason at the IMF, we are working on the concept of a global CBDC platform," she said. The IMF wants central banks to agree on a common regulatory framework for digital currencies that will allow global interoperability. Failure to agree on a common platform would create a vacuum that would likely be filled by cryptocurrencies, she said... Already 114 central banks are at some stage of CBDC exploration, "with about 10 already crossing the finish line", she said. 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