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By 1983 there were a whopping 2,000 pieces of software for Apple's pre-Macintosh computer, the Apple II — more than for any other machine in the world. It turns out this left a trail for one historian to understand The Apple II Age: How the Computer Became Personal. The [43]new book (by New York University academic Laine Nooney) argues that it was the first purchasers of that software who are the true overlooked pioneers during the seven years before the Macintosh. And (as this reviewer explains, with quotes from the book), [44]collectively they form the most compelling story about the history of Apple: It's about all those brave and curious people, the users, who came "Not to hack, but to play... Not to program, but to print..." And you can trace their activities in perfect detail through the decades-old software programs they left behind. It's a fresh and original approach to the history of technology. Yes, the Apple II competed with Commodore's PET 2001 and Tandy's TRS-80... [But] this trove of programs uniquely offers "a glimpse of what users did with their personal computers, or perhaps more tellingly, what users hoped their computers might do." Looking back in time, Nooney calls the period "one of unusually industrious and experimental software production, as mom-and-pop development houses cast about trying to create software that could satisfy the question, 'What is a computer even good for...?'" The book's jacket promises "a constellation of software creation stories," with each chapter revisiting an especially iconic program that also represents an entire category of software... [T]he book ultimately focuses more heavily on the lessons that can be learned from what programmers envisioned for these strange new devices — and how the software-buying public did (or didn't) respond... The earliest emergence of personal computing in America was "a wondrous mangle," Nooney writes, saying it turned into an era where "overnight entrepreneurs hastily constructed a consumer computing supply chain where one had never previously existed." Vice republished an excerpt in May which describes the "[45]roiling debate" that took place over copy protection in 1981. apply tags__________ 171463754 story [46]Earth [47]Lawsuit Says US Environmental Agency Ignores Harm of Biofuel Production [48](theguardian.com) [49]18 Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @05:00AM from the troubling-accusations dept. An anonymous reader writes: The US biofuel program is [50]probably killing endangered species and harming the environment in a way that negates its benefits, but the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is largely ignoring those problems, a new federal lawsuit charges. The suit alleges the EPA failed to consider impacts on endangered species, as is required by law, when it set new rules that will expand biofuel use nationwide during the next three years, said Brett Hartl, government affairs director with the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), which brought the litigation. The agency has twice ignored court orders to study the impacts and is probably dodging the requirements because ethanol production "props up" the corn industry, which has a politically powerful lobby, Hartl added. "The Biden administration failed to even modestly reform this boondoggle and crumbled again in the face of political pressure from powerful special interests," Hartl said. "Our streams and rivers will choke with more pollution and coastal dead zones will continue to expand." The EPA said in a statement that it does not comment on ongoing litigation. About 40% of all corn grown in the US is used for ethanol production, and nearly half is used as animal feed. apply tags__________ 171463722 story [51]Science [52]There is a 'Gravity Hole' in the Indian Ocean. Scientists Now Think They Know Why [53](cnn.com) [54]19 Posted by EditorDavid on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @03:45AM from the mystery-spot dept. CNN reports that "[55]There is a 'gravity hole' in the Indian Ocean — a spot where Earth's gravitational pull is weaker, its mass is lower than normal, and the sea level dips by over 328 feet (100 meters)." This anomaly has puzzled geologists for a long time, but now researchers from the Indian Institute of Science in Bengaluru, India, have found what they believe is a credible explanation for its formation: plumes of magma coming from deep inside the planet, much like those that lead to the creation of volcanoes. To come to this hypothesis, the team used supercomputers to simulate how the area could have formed, going as far back as 140 million years. The findings, [56]detailed in a study published recently in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, center around an ancient ocean that no longer exists. Humans are used to thinking about Earth as a perfect sphere, but that's far from the truth. "The Earth is basically a lumpy potato," said study coauthor Attreyee Ghosh, a geophysicist and associate professor at the Centre for Earth Sciences of the Indian Institute of Science. "So technically it's not a sphere, but what we call an ellipsoid, because as the planet rotates the middle part bulges outward." Our planet is not homogeneous in its density and its properties, with some areas being more dense than others — that affects Earth's surface and its gravity, Ghosh added. "If you pour water on the surface of the Earth, the level that the water takes is called a geoid — and that is controlled by these density differences in the material inside the planet, because they attract the surface in very different ways depending on how much mass there is underneath," she said. The "gravity hole" in the Indian Ocean — officially called the Indian Ocean geoid low — is the lowest point in that geoid and its biggest gravitational anomaly, forming a circular depression that starts just off India's southern tip and covers about 1.2 million square miles (3 million square kilometers). apply tags__________ 171462970 story [57]Bitcoin [58]Binance, Billionaire Zhao To Seek Dismissal of CFTC Lawsuit [59](bloomberg.com) [60]10 Posted by msmash on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @12:14AM from the up-next dept. Binance, its founder Changpeng Zhao and the crypto exchange's former Chief Compliance Officer Samuel Lim plan to [61]seek the dismissal of a Commodity Futures Trading Commission lawsuit. From a report: The response to [62]the CFTC complaint is due July 27 and the defendants intend to submit motions to dismiss, according to a court filing on Monday. They also sought permission to exceed a 15-page limit on supporting briefs, citing the complexity of the case and the number of arguments they anticipate making. The CFTC in March alleged that Binance and CEO Zhao, also known as CZ, routinely broke US derivatives rules as the firm grew to be the world's largest digital-asset trading platform. Binance should have registered with the agency years ago and continues to violate the CFTC's rules, the regulator said at the time. The crypto platform previously described the CFTC lawsuit as "unexpected and disappointing." The US Securities & Exchange Commission last month accused Binance and Zhao of mishandling customer funds, misleading investors and regulators, and breaking securities rules. Binance has said that it intends to defend its platform "vigorously." apply tags__________ 171460974 story [63]Security [64]Researchers Find 'Backdoor' in Encrypted Police and Military Radios [65](vice.com) [66]78 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:42PM from the closer-look dept. A group of cybersecurity researchers has uncovered what they believe is an intentional backdoor in encrypted radios used by police, military, and critical infrastructure entities around the world. The backdoor may have existed for decades, potentially exposing a wealth of sensitive information transmitted across them, according to the researchers. From a report: While the researchers frame their discovery as a backdoor, the organization responsible for maintaining the standard pushes back against that specific term, and says the standard was designed for export controls which determine the strength of encryption. The end result, however, are radios with traffic that can be decrypted using consumer hardware like an ordinary laptop in under a minute. "There's no other way in which this can function than that this is an intentional backdoor," Jos Wetzels, one of the researchers from cybersecurity firm Midnight Blue, told Motherboard in a phone call. The research is the first public and in-depth analysis of the TErrestrial Trunked RAdio (TETRA) standard in the more than 20 years the standard has existed. Not all users of TETRA-powered radios use the specific encryption algorithim called TEA1 which is impacted by the backdoor. TEA1 is part of the TETRA standard approved for export to other countries. But the researchers also found other, multiple vulnerabilities across TETRA that could allow historical decryption of communications and deanonymization. TETRA-radio users in general include national police forces and emergency services in Europe; military organizations in Africa; and train operators in North America and critical infrastructure providers elsewhere. apply tags__________ 171460370 story [67]Google [68]Google Owes $338.7 Million in Chromecast Patent Case, US Jury Says [69](reuters.com) [70]67 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @02:21PM from the how-about-that dept. Alphabet's Google violated a software developer's patent rights with its remote-streaming technology and [71]must pay $338.7 million in damages, a federal jury in Waco, Texas decided on Friday. From a report: The jury found that Google's Chromecast and other devices infringe patents owned by Touchstream Technologies related to streaming videos from one screen to another. Google spokesperson Jose Castaneda said on Monday that the company will appeal the verdict and has "always developed technology independently and competed on the merits of our ideas." Touchstream attorney Ryan Dykal said on Monday that Touchstream was pleased with the verdict. New York-based Touchstream, which also does business as Shodogg, said in its 2021 lawsuit that founder David Strober invented technology in 2010 to "move" videos from a small device like a smartphone to a larger device like a television. apply tags__________ 171458468 story [72]Hardware [73]Flip Phones Are Having a Moment [74](theverge.com) [75]87 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @01:20PM from the times,-they-are-a-flipping dept. What's old is hot again, and flip phones are [76]so very hot right now. From a report: These phones are a far cry from the phone that you mastered T9 texting on in college. Today's flip phones are garden-variety 2023 smartphones that happen to fold in half -- plus a screen on the front cover. They've been making a kind of comeback over the past few years, but until now, they've existed in the shadows of their bigger, pricier fold-style counterparts. That's understandable, considering that their small cover screens haven't been good for much more than checking the weather and pressing pause on a podcast. But that's all changing this year: in a round of updates from Motorola, Oppo, and very likely Samsung next, cover screens are getting much larger and way more useful. And that's a big deal. Samsung will likely announce its fifth-generation Z Fold 5 and Z Flip 5 this week at Unpacked, which has become its annual summer foldable-fest. They'll be thinner and lighter than last year's models -- that's what TM Roh told us, anyway -- and will both likely use new hinges that fold totally flat. The Z Flip 5 is heavily rumored to come with a much bigger cover screen than previous generations. The Z Fold 5? Well, rumors point to a very boring update, frankly. [...] The previous generation of flip-style phones felt like a regular phone with a smartwatch on the front -- good for checking quick information but not a lot more. The new flippable cover screens sit in a more comfortable place between a smartwatch and a full-size phone. They're big enough to provide a lot more information at a glance than a watch, but you can't comfortably do everything you'd do on a normal phone screen. As a result, you get a little bit of your attention back that you would have spent mindlessly scrolling Instagram when all you wanted to do was check the weather. apply tags__________ 171458430 story [77]Businesses [78]Spotify Hikes Prices of Premium Plans [79](hollywoodreporter.com) [80]40 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:40PM from the everything-more-expensive dept. In its latest attempt to boost revenue and cut losses, Spotify unveiled [81]a widely telegraphed move to raise prices for its premium paying subscriber base. From a report: The new monthly cost for U.S. users will be $10.99, the company said. The hike brings Spotify in line with rivals Apple Music ($10.99 a month) and Amazon Music ($10.99, though cheaper for Prime members), which both raised prices last year. Slightly cheaper: YouTube Music ($9.99 a month), which has steadily built a major presence in the space with more than 80 million-plus combined music and premium subscribers. The price of the Premium Duo plan will go up by $2 to $14.99 per month, while the Family plan and Student plans rise by $1 to $16.99 and $5.99, respectively. "The market landscape has continued to evolve since we launched. So that we can keep innovating, we are changing our Premium prices across a number of markets around the world," the company said in a statement. "These updates will help us continue to deliver value to fans and artists on our platform." Spotify had 210 million global paying subscribers (a 15 percent increase year-over-year) and 515 million monthly active users as of March 31. Yet the audio giant has been operating at a loss and has been looking for ways to cut costs amid what CFO Paul Vogel called in late April a "very modest underperformance in advertising" revenue in its first quarter of 2023. apply tags__________ 171458412 story [82]Android [83]Android's Now Better Than iOS, Instagram Boss Says [84](businessinsider.com) [85]102 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:00PM from the how-about-that dept. Which is better: iPhone or Android? Instagram head Adam Mosseri weighed in on the topic earlier this week, reigniting a debate that has waged on since the dawn of smartphones. From a report: "Android's now better than iOS," [86]Mosseri posted in response to tech YouTuber Marques Brownlee, aka MKBHD, who had asked for people's best tech "hot takes." Mosseri didn't get into why he felt Android to be superior, but his use of the words "now better" implies that he may have previously felt Apple's iOS had the edge. apply tags__________ 171458252 story [87]Businesses [88]Sam Altman's Worldcoin Eyeball-Scanning Crypto Project Launches [89](techcrunch.com) [90]28 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @11:20AM from the how-about-that dept. Worldcoin, Sam Altman's audacious eyeball-scanning crypto startup, has [91]started the global rollout of its services to help build a reliable solution for "distinguishing humans from AI online," enable "global democratic processes" and "drastically increase economic opportunity." From a report: The startup, which has raised about $250 million altogether and counts Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures and Reid Hoffman among its backers, said it's rolling out its identity technology as well as the token internationally. Individuals can download World App, the startup's protocol-compatible wallet software, and visit an Orb, the startup's helmet-shaped eyeball-scanning verification device, to receive their World ID. apply tags__________ 171458276 story [92]Businesses [93]Rental Cars Are the New Airbnb [94](wsj.com) [95]72 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:40AM from the closer-look dept. Do-it-yourselfers want a piece of the rental-car market. Small-time entrepreneurs are [96]amassing vehicles to rent out through car-sharing services such as Turo and Getaround, or their own websites. From a report: They aim to take on giants including Hertz and Avis Budget -- assuming they can master the difficult logistics of the business. One owner said he had to retrieve a car that was stolen, driven all the way up the West Coast and abandoned at the Canadian border. Another rented out a car that was involved in a shooting. Still another said a customer totaled a Maserati by driving it into a wall. "It can be tough if you don't know what you're doing," said Jerome Mends-Cole, who rents out more than a dozen Teslas on Turo and his own website in Sacramento, Calif. "People look at it as a get rich quick thing, or a set it and forget it." It usually isn't. The costs of parking, cleaning, insurance and financing can quickly add up. Vehicles need to be picked up, dropped off, maintained and repaired. The expenses can quickly outpace any revenue. Renting cars is the latest iteration of gig work, which has become a robust piece of the American economy. People who started side hustles such as renting out rooms on Airbnb or driving for Uber are now taking on the more elaborate task of maintaining inventories of cars. apply tags__________ 171458344 story [97]Security [98]Norway Government Ministries Hit By Cyber Attack [99](reuters.com) [100]14 Posted by msmash on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:00AM from the security-woes dept. Twelve Norwegian government ministries have been [101]hit by a cyber attack, the Norwegian government said on Monday, the latest attack to hit the public sector of Europe's largest gas supplier and NATO's northernmost member. From a report: "We identified a weakness in the platform of one of our suppliers. That weakness has now been shut," Erik Hope, head of the government agency in charge of providing services to ministries, told a news conference. The attack was identified due to "unusual" traffic on the supplier's platform, Hope said, declining to provide specifics. It was uncovered on July 12 and was being investigated by police. apply tags__________ 171454788 story [102]AI [103]Is AI Training on Libraries of Pirated Books? [104](nytimes.com) [105]79 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:34AM from the treasured-islands dept. The New York Times points out that so-called "[106]shadow libraries," like Library Genesis, Z-Library or Bibliotik, "are obscure repositories storing millions of titles, in many cases without permission — and [107]are often used as A.I. training data." A.I. companies have acknowledged in research papers that they rely on shadow libraries. [108]OpenAI's GPT-1 was trained on BookCorpus, which has over 7,000 unpublished titles scraped from the self-publishing platform Smashwords. To [109]train GPT-3, OpenAI said that about 16 percent of the data it used came from two "internet-based books corpora" that it called "Books1" and "Books2." According to [110]a lawsuit by the comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors against OpenAI, Books2 is most likely a "flagrantly illegal" shadow library. These sites have been under scrutiny for some time. The Authors Guild, which organized the [111]authors' open letter to tech executives, cited [112]studies in 2016 and 2017 that suggested text piracy depressed legitimate book sales by as much as 14 percent. [113]Efforts to shut down these sites have floundered. Last year, the F.B.I., with help from the Authors Guild, charged two people [114]accused of running Z-Library with copyright infringement, fraud and money laundering. But afterward, some of these sites were [115]moved to the dark web and torrent sites, making it harder to trace them. And because many of these sites are run outside the United States and anonymously, actually punishing the operators is a tall task. Tech companies are becoming more tight-lipped about the data used to train their systems. apply tags__________ 171454462 story [116]Power [117]US Pulls Authorization for Lithium Exploration Project in Southern Nevada, Citing Wildlife [118](apnews.com) [119]121 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:34AM from the yours-and-mines dept. Tuesday North America's largest lithium mining operation [120]cleared its last legal hurdle in federal appeals court, giving a green light to the mining of 6,000 acres in an 18,000-acre project site [121]near Nevada's northern border. But [122]meanwhile, in Southern Nevada... Federal land managers have formally withdrawn their authorization of a Canadian mining company's lithium exploration project bordering a national wildlife refuge in southern Nevada after conservationists sought a court order to block it. The Center for Biological Diversity and the Amargosa Conservancy said in a lawsuit filed July 7 that the project on the edge of the Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge outside Las Vegas posed an illegal risk to a dozen fish, snail and plant species currently protected under the Endangered Species Act. They filed an additional motion this week in federal court seeking a temporary injunction prohibiting Rover Metals from initiating the drilling of 30 bore sites in search of the highly sought-after metal used to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles. But before a judge in Las Vegas could rule on the request, the Bureau of Land Management notified Rover Metals on Wednesday that its earlier acceptance of the company's notice of its intent to proceed "was in error... The agency has concluded that proposed operations are likely to result in disturbance to localized groundwaters that supply the connected surface waters associated with Threatened and Endangered species in local springs," said Angelita Bulletts, district manager of the bureau's southern Nevada district... Conservationists said the reversal provides at least a temporary reprieve for the lush oasis in the Mojave Desert that is home to 25 species of fish, plants, insects and snails that are found nowhere else on Earth — one of the highest concentrations of endemic species in North America at one of the hottest, driest places on the planet. The article ends with this quote from a director at the Center for Biological Diversity and the Amargosa Conservancy. "We need lithium for our renewable energy transition, but this episode sends a message loud and clear that some places are just too special to drill." apply tags__________ 171454910 story [123]AI [124]AI Watches Millions of Cars and Tells Cops if You Might Be a Criminal [125](forbes.com) [126]134 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:54AM from the when-they-come-for-you dept. Forbes' senior writer on cybersecurity writes on [127]the "warrantless monitoring of citizens en masse" in the United States. Here's how county police armed with a "powerful new AI tool" identified the suspicious driving pattern of a grey Chevy owned by David Zayas: Searching through a database of 1.6 billion license plate records collected over the last two years from locations across New York State, the AI determined that Zayas' car was on a journey typical of a drug trafficker. According to a Department of Justice prosecutor filing, it made nine trips from Massachusetts to different parts of New York between October 2020 and August 2021 following routes known to be used by narcotics pushers and for conspicuously short stays. So on March 10 last year, Westchester PD pulled him over and searched his car, finding 112 grams of crack cocaine, a semiautomatic pistol and $34,000 in cash inside, according to court documents. A year later, Zayas pleaded guilty to a drug trafficking charge. The previously unreported case is a window into the evolution of AI-powered policing, and a harbinger of the constitutional issues that will inevitably accompany it... Westchester PD's license plate surveillance system was built by Rekor, a $125 million market cap AI company trading on the NASDAQ. Local reporting and public government data reviewed by Forbes show Rekor has sold its ALPR tech to at least 23 police departments and local governments across America, from Lauderhill, Florida to San Diego, California. That's not including more than 40 police departments across New York state who can avail themselves of Westchester County PD's system, which runs out of its Real-Time Crime Center... It also runs the Rekor Public Safety Network, an opt-in project that has been aggregating vehicle location data from customers for the last three years, since it launched with information from 30 states that, at the time, were reading 150 million plates per month. That kind of centralized database with cross-state data sharing, has troubled civil rights activists, especially in light of recent revelations that Sacramento County Sheriff's Office was [128]sharing license plate reader data with states that have banned abortion... The ALPR market is growing thanks to a glut of Rekor rivals, including Flock, Motorola, Genetec, Jenoptik and many others who have contracts across federal and state governments. They're each trying to grab a slice of a market [129]estimated to be worth at least $2.5 billion... In pursuit of that elusive profit, the market is looking beyond law enforcement to retail and fast food. Corporate giants have toyed with the idea of tying license plates to customer identities. McDonalds and White Castle have already begun using ALPR to tailor drive-through experiences, detecting returning customers and using past orders to guide them through the ordering process or offer individualized promotion offers. The latter restaurant chain uses Rekor tech to do that via a partnership with Mastercard. A senior staff attorney at the ACLU tells Forbes that "The scale of this kind of surveillance is just incredibly massive." 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