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Programming language "advent calendars" offer daily tips about a programming language (if not a Christmas-themed programming puzzle) -- one a day through December 25th. And 2023 finds a wide variety of fun sites to choose from: * li>For example, there's 24 coding challenges at the [41]Advent of JavaScript site (where "each challenge includes all the HTML and CSS you need to get started, allowing you to focus on the JavaScript.") And there's another 24 coding challenges on a related site... [42]Advent of CSS. * The cyber security training platform "TryHackMe.com" even coded up a site they call "[43]Advent of Cyber," daring puzzle-solvers to "kickstart your cyber security career by engaging in a new, beginner-friendly exercise every day leading up to Christmas!" * The programming puzzles at [44]Advent of Code are [45]continuing through the 25th (though so far [46]less than 30,000 people have solved both parts of Saturday's challenge.) * Every year since 2000 there's also been a new edition of the Perl Advent Calendar, and this month [47]Year 23 started off with goodies from Perl's massive module repository, CPAN. (Specifically its [48]elf-themed story references the Music::MelodicDevice::Ornamentation module) -- along with the MIDI::Util library and TiMidity++, a software synthesizer that can play MIDI files without a hardware synthesizer.) * Meanwhile, since 2009 there's also been [49]an advent calendar for Raku (the programming language formerly known as Perl 6), promising an article a day. (Day One's entry was titled "[50]Rocking Raku Meets Stodgy Debian...") * James Bennett, from the Django project's core team, is even attempting a [51]Python/Django Advent calendar. * There's also [52]a JVM advent calendar for the Java Virtual Machine, plus another advent calendar promising [53]daily posts about C#. * The HTMHell site â" which bills itself as "a collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites" -- is celebrating the season with the "[54]HTMHell Advent Calendar," promising daily articles on security, accessibility, UX, and performance. apply tags__________ 172515463 story [55]Facebook [56]Does Meta's New Face Camera Herald a New Age of Surveillance? Or Distraction... [57](seattletimes.com) [58]18 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday December 18, 2023 @04:34AM from the I-spy dept. "For the past two weeks, I've been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants," [59]writes a reporter for the New York Times. They were testing the recently released [60]$300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses — "I promise it was all in the name of journalism" — which also includes microphones (and speakers, for listening to audio). They call the device "part of a broader ambition in Silicon Valley to shift computing away from smartphone and computer screens and toward our faces." Meta, Apple and Magic Leap have all been hyping mixed-reality headsets that use cameras to allow their software to interact with objects in the real world. On Tuesday, Zuckerberg [61]posted a video on Instagram demonstrating how the smart glasses could use AI to scan a shirt and help him pick out a pair of matching pants. Wearable face computers, the companies say, could eventually change the way we live and work... While I was impressed with the comfortable, stylish design of the glasses, I felt bothered by the implications for our privacy... To inform people that they are being photographed, the Ray-Ban Meta glasses include a tiny LED light embedded in the right frame to indicate when the device is recording. When a photo is snapped, it flashes momentarily. When a video is recording, it is continuously illuminated. As I shot 200 photos and videos with the glasses in public, including on BART trains, on hiking trails and in parks, no one looked at the LED light or confronted me about it. And why would they? It would be rude to comment on a stranger's glasses, let alone stare at them... [A] Meta spokesperson, said the company took privacy seriously and designed safety measures, including a tamper-detection technology, to prevent users from covering up the LED light with tape. But another concern was how smart glasses might impact our ability to focus: Even when I wasn't using any of the features, I felt distracted while wearing them... I had problems concentrating while driving a car or riding a scooter. Not only was I constantly bracing myself for opportunities to shoot video, but the reflection from other car headlights emitted a harsh, blue strobe effect through the eyeglass lenses. Meta's [62]safety manual for the Ray-Bans advises people to stay focused while driving, but it doesn't mention the glare from headlights. While doing work on a computer, the glasses felt unnecessary because there was rarely anything worth photographing at my desk, but a part of my mind constantly felt preoccupied by the possibility... Ben Long, a photography teacher in San Francisco, said he was skeptical about the premise of the Meta glasses helping people remain present. "If you've got the camera with you, you're immediately not in the moment," he said. "Now you're wondering, Is this something I can present and record?" The reporter admits they'll fondly cherish its photos of their dog [including in [63]the original article], but "the main problem is that the glasses don't do much we can't already do with phones... while these types of moments are truly precious, that benefit probably won't be enough to convince a vast majority of consumers to buy smart glasses and wear them regularly, given the potential costs of lost privacy and distraction." apply tags__________ 172515613 story [64]Programming [65]Creator of JSON Unveils New Programming Language 'Misty' [66](crockford.com) [67]65 Posted by EditorDavid on Monday December 18, 2023 @01:44AM from the play-Misty-for-me dept. He specified the JSON notation, and developed tools like JSLint and the minifier JSMin. His [68]Wikipedia entry says he was also a senior JavaScript architect at PayPal — but he's probably better known for writing O'Reilly's book JavaScript: the Good Parts. But Doug Crockford has a new challenge. [69]O'Reilly's monthly tech newsletter says Crockford "has [70]created a new programming language called Misty. It is designed to be used both by students and professional programmers." The language's [71]official site calls it "a dynamic, general-purpose, transitional, actor language. It has a gentle syntax that is intended to benefit students, as well as advanced features such as capability security and lambdas with lexical scoping..." The language is quite strict in its use of spaces and indentation. In most programming languages, code spacing and formatting are underspecified, which leads to many incompatible conventions of style, some promoting bug formation, and all promoting time-wasting arguments, incompatibilities, and hurt feelings. Misty instead allows only one convention which is strictly enforced. This liberates programmers to focus their attention on more important matters. Indentation is in increments of 4 spaces. The McKeeman Form is extended by three special rules to make this possible: indentation The spaces required by the current nesting. increase_indentation Append four spaces to the indentation. decrease_indentation Remove four spaces from the indentation. The indentation is the number of spaces required at the beginning of a line as determined by its nesting level. indent increase_indentation linebreak outdent decrease_indentation linebreak The linebreak rule allows the insertion of a comment, ends the line, and checks the indentation of the next line. Multiple comments and blank lines may appear wherever a line can end. apply tags__________ 172515079 story [72]Government [73]ProPublica Argues US Police 'Have Undermined the Promise of Body Cameras' [74](propublica.org) [75]42 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:53PM from the who-watches-the-watchmen dept. A [76]new investigation from ProPublica argues that in the U.S., "Hundreds of millions in taxpayer dollars have been spent on what was sold as a revolution in transparency and accountability. "Instead, police departments routinely refuse to release footage..." The technology represented the largest new investment in policing in a generation. Yet without deeper changes, it was a fix bound to fall far short of those hopes. In every city, the police ostensibly report to mayors and other elected officials. But in practice, they have been given [77]wide latitude to run their departments as they wish and to police — and protect — themselves. And so as policymakers rushed to equip the police with cameras, they often failed to grapple with a fundamental question: Who would control the footage? Instead, they defaulted to leaving police departments, including New York's, with the power to decide what is recorded, who can see it and when. In turn, departments across the country have routinely delayed releasing footage, released only partial or redacted video or refused to release it at all. They have frequently failed to discipline or fire officers when body cameras document abuse and have kept footage from the agencies charged with investigating police misconduct. Even when departments have stated policies of transparency, they don't always follow them. Three years ago, after George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police officers and amid a wave of protests against police violence, the New York Police Department said it would publish footage of so-called critical incidents "within 30 days." There have been 380 such incidents since then. The department has released footage within a month just twice. And the department often does not release video at all. There have been 28 shootings of civilians this year by New York officers (through the first week of December). The department has released footage in just seven of these cases (also through the first week of December) and has not done so in any of the last 16.... For a snapshot of disclosure practices across the country, we conducted a review of civilians killed by police officers in June 2022, roughly a decade after the first body cameras were rolled out. We counted 79 killings in which there was body-worn-camera footage. A year and a half later, the police have released footage in just 33 cases — or about 42%. The reporting reveals that without further intervention from city, state and federal officials and lawmakers, body cameras may do more to serve police interests than those of the public they are sworn to protect... The pattern has become so common across the country — public talk of transparency followed by a deliberate undermining of the stated goal — that the policing-oversight expert Hans Menos, who led Philadelphia's civilian police-oversight board until 2020, coined a term for it: the "body-cam head fake." The article includes examples where when footage was ultimately released, it contradicted initial police accounts. In one instance, past footage of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin "was left in the control of a department where [78]impunity reigned..." the article points out, adding that Minneapolis "fought against releasing the videos, even after Chauvin pleaded guilty in December 2021 to federal civil rights violations." apply tags__________ 172514727 story [79]DRM [80]'Copyright Troll' Porn Company 'Makes Millions By Shaming Porn Consumers' [81](yahoo.com) [82]60 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @09:03PM from the unhappy-endings dept. In 1999 Los Angeles Times reporter Michael Hiltzik co-authored a Pulitzer Prize-winning story. Now a business columnist for the Times, he writes that a Southern California maker of pornographic films named Strike 3 Holdings [83]is also "a copyright troll," according to U.S. Judge Royce C. Lamberth: Lamberth [84]cwrote in 2018, "Armed with hundreds of cut-and-pasted complaints and boilerplate discovery motions, Strike 3 floods this courthouse (and others around the country) with lawsuits smacking of extortion. It treats this Court not as a citadel of justice, but as an ATM." He likened its litigation strategy to a "high-tech shakedown." Lamberth was not speaking off the cuff. Since September 2017, Strike 3 has filed more than 12,440 lawsuits in federal courts alleging that defendants infringed its copyrights by downloading its movies via BitTorrent, an online service on which unauthorized content can be accessed by almost anyone with a computer and internet connection. That includes 3,311 cases the firm filed this year, more than 550 in federal courts in California. On some days, scores of filings reach federal courthouses — on Nov. 17, to select a date at random, the firm filed 60 lawsuits nationwide... Typically, they are settled for what lawyers say are cash payments in the four or five figures or are dismissed outright... It's impossible to pinpoint the profits that can be made from this courthouse strategy. J. Curtis Edmondson, a Portland, Oregon, lawyer who is among the few who pushed back against a Strike 3 case and won, estimates that Strike 3 "pulls in about $15 million to $20 million a year from its lawsuits." That would make the cases "way more profitable than selling their product...." If only one-third of its more than 12,000 lawsuits produced settlements averaging as little as $5,000 each, the yield would come to $20 million... The volume of Strike 3 cases has increased every year — from 1,932 in 2021 to 2,879 last year and 3,311 this year. What's really needed is a change in copyright law to bring the statutory damages down to a level that truly reflects the value of a film lost because of unauthorized downloading — not $750 or $150,000 but perhaps a few hundred dollars. Anone of the lawsuits go to trial. Instead ISPs get a subpoena demanding the real-world address and name behind IP addresses "ostensibly used to download content from BitTorrent..." according to the article. Strike 3 will then "proceed by sending a letter implicitly threatening the subscriber with public exposure as a pornography viewer and explicitly with the statutory penalties for infringement written into federal copyright law — up to $150,000 for each example of willful infringement and from $750 to $30,0000 otherwise." A federal judge in Connecticut wrote last year that "Given the nature of the films at issue, [85]defendants may feel coerced to settle these suits merely to prevent public disclosure of their identifying information, even if they believe they have been misidentified." Thanks to Slashdot reader [86]Beerismydad for sharing the article. apply tags__________ 172514475 story [87]AI [88]How Artists are Sabotaging AI to Take Revenge on Image Generators [89](theconversation.com) [90]20 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:56PM from the scraping-the-bottom-of-the-barrel dept. Some text-to-image generators "have been trained by indiscriminately scraping online images," [91]reports the Conversation, "many of which may be under copyright. "Researchers who want to empower individual artists have recently created a tool named '[92]Nightshade' to fight back against unauthorised image scraping." The tool works by subtly altering an image's pixels in a way that wreaks havoc to computer vision but leaves the image unaltered to a human's eyes.... This can result in the algorithm mistakenly learning to classify an image as something a human would visually know to be untrue. As a result, the generator can start returning unpredictable and unintended results... [A] balloon might become an egg. A request for an image in the style of Monet might instead return an image in the style of Picasso... The models could also introduce other odd and illogical features to images — think six-legged dogs or deformed couches. The higher the number of "poisoned" images in the training data, the greater the disruption. Because of how generative AI works, the damage from "poisoned" images also affects related prompt keywords. For example, if a "poisoned" image of a Ferrari is used in training data, prompt results for other car brands and for other related terms, such as vehicle and automobile, can also be affected. Nightshade's developer hopes the tool will make big tech companies more respectful of copyright, but it's also possible users could abuse the tool and intentionally upload "poisoned" images to generators to try and disrupt their services... [Technological fixes] include the use of "[93]ensemble modeling" where different models are trained on many different subsets of data and compared to locate specific outliers. This approach can be used not only for training but also to detect and discard suspected "poisoned" images. [94]Audits are another option. One audit approach involves developing a "test battery" — a small, highly curated, and well-labelled dataset — using "hold-out" data that are never used for training. This dataset can then be used to examine the model's accuracy. The article adds that the most obvious fix "is paying greater attention to where input data are coming from and how they can be used. "Doing so would result in less indiscriminate data harvesting. This approach does challenge a common belief among computer scientists: that data found online can be used for any purpose they see fit." apply tags__________ 172513653 story [95]Advertising [96]Apple and Amazon Release Warm, Fuzzy Holiday Ads - Both With Beatles-Related Songs [97](youtube.com) [98]22 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @05:34PM from the all-you-need-is-love dept. Long-time Slashdot reader [99]theodp writes: For the soundtracks to their 2023 holiday season ads, both Amazon and Apple turned to music by members of The Beatles. Amazon's [100]Joy Ride, which stars three older women reliving their youthful joy at a sledding hill, is set to a cover of The Beatles' In My Life. Apple's [101]Fuzzy Feelings, which tells the story of a young woman with a grumpy boss, is set to George Harrison's Isn't It a Pity. Product placement is present in both ads — Amazon features [102]padded seat cushions that protect the seniors' tushes and the Amazon app used to order them, while Apple showcases the iPhone 15 Pro Max used to capture the ad's stop-motion animation scenes and the MacBook Air used to edit them. [103]Amazon's 60-second ad has 542K views on YouTube, while [104]Apple's 4-minute ad has 16+ million views. apply tags__________ 172513533 story [105]Power [106]Could Hot Rocks Help Solve the Climate Crisis? [107](cnn.com) [108]79 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:17PM from the rocks-around-the-clock dept. An anonymous reader shared [109]this report from CNN: "(The rocks) in the box right now are about 1,600 degrees Celsius," Andrew Ponec said, standing next to a thermal battery the size of a small building. That is nearly 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, "Hotter than the melting point of steel," he explained. But what makes his box of white-hot rocks so significant is they were not heated by burning [110]tons of coal or gas, but by catching sunlight with the thousands of photovoltaic solar panels that surround his prototype west of Fresno. If successful, Ponec and his start-up Antora Energy could be part of a new, multi-trillion-dollar energy storage sector that simply uses sun or wind to make boxes of rocks hot enough to run the world's biggest factories. "People sometimes feel like they're insulting us by saying, 'Hey, that sounds really simple," Ponec laughed. "And we say, 'No, that's exactly the point'... The problem is you can't shut down your factory when the sun goes behind a cloud or the wind stops blowing, and that's exactly the problem that we focused on." While the word "battery" most likely evokes the chemical kind found in cars and electronics in 2023, hot rocks currently store ten times as much energy as lithium ion around the world, thanks to an invention from the 1800s known as Cowper stoves. Often found in smelting plants, these massive towers of stacked bricks absorb the wasted heat of a blast furnace until it heats to nearly 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit, and then provides over 100 megawatts of heat energy for about 20 minutes. The process can be repeated 24 times a day for 30 years, and Antora is among the startups experimenting with different kinds of rocks in insulated boxes or molten salt in cylinders to find the most efficient combination... Antora has managed to raise $80 million in seed money from investors that include Bill Gates, but their main competitor is another Bay Area startup called Rondo that uses abundant refractory brick, which is cheaper than carbon by weight but not as energy dense. Rondo has attracted even more funding than Antora and its first battery is producing commercial power for an ethanol plant in California... Tesla recently predicted a carbon-free world will need an astonishing 240 terawatt-hours of energy storage — more than 340 times the amount of storage built with lithium-ion batteries in 2022. Rondo CEO John O'Donnell predicts more than half of all that new capacity will come in the form of heat batteries, simply because the raw ingredients are so readily available. By plugging their factories into as many thermal batteries as they need, manufacturers won't have to wait in a years-long line for grid connections and upgrades. Ponec tells CNN that when it comes to de-carbonizing today, "we have the tools we need. We just need to deploy them. "The transition is inevitable. It's going to happen. And if you talk behind closed doors to most of the people in the fossil fuel industry, they'll say the same thing." apply tags__________ 172513399 story [111]AI [112]OpenAI's In-House Initiative Explores Stopping an AI From Going Rogue - With More AI [113](technologyreview.com) [114]27 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:17PM from the what-could-go-wrong dept. MIT Technology Review reports that OpenAI "[115]has announced the first results from its superalignment team, the firm's in-house initiative dedicated to preventing a superintelligence — a hypothetical future computer that can outsmart humans — [116]from going rogue." Unlike many of the company's announcements, this heralds no big breakthrough. In a low-key research paper, the team describes a technique that lets a less powerful large language model supervise a more powerful one — and suggests that this might be a small step toward figuring out how humans might supervise superhuman machines.... Many researchers still question whether machines will ever match human intelligence, let alone outmatch it. OpenAI's team takes machines' eventual superiority as given. "AI progress in the last few years has been just extraordinarily rapid," says Leopold Aschenbrenner, a researcher on the superalignment team. "We've been crushing all the benchmarks, and that progress is continuing unabated." For Aschenbrenner and others at the company, models with human-like abilities are just around the corner. "But it won't stop there," he says. "We're going to have superhuman models, models that are much smarter than us. And that presents fundamental new technical challenges." In July, Sutskever and fellow OpenAI scientist Jan Leike set up the superalignment team to address those challenges. "I'm doing it for my own self-interest," Sutskever [117]told MIT Technology Review in September. "It's obviously important that any superintelligence anyone builds does not go rogue. Obviously...." Instead of looking at how humans could supervise superhuman machines, they looked at how GPT-2, a model that OpenAI released five years ago, could supervise GPT-4, OpenAI's latest and most powerful model. "If you can do that, it might be evidence that you can use similar techniques to have humans supervise superhuman models," says Collin Burns, another researcher on the superalignment team... The results were mixed. The team measured the gap in performance between GPT-4 trained on GPT-2's best guesses and GPT-4 trained on correct answers. They found that GPT-4 trained by GPT-2 performed 20% to 70% better than GPT-2 on the language tasks but did less well on the chess puzzles.... They conclude that the approach is promising but needs more work... Alongside this research update, the company announced a [118]new $10 million money pot that it plans to use to fund people working on superalignment. It will offer grants of up to $2 million to university labs, nonprofits, and individual researchers and one-year fellowships of $150,000 to graduate students. apply tags__________ 172513273 story [119]Space [120]SETI Scientists Report Discovery of More Fast Radio Bursts [121](scitechdaily.com) [122]10 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @02:17PM from the (S)earch-for-(E)xtra-(T)errestrial-(I)ntelligence dept. Using a "recently refurbished" telescope array, SETI scientists performed 541 hours of additional observations — and [123]found 35 new "Fast Radio Bursts" (or FRBs). SciTechDaily reports: All 35 FRBs were found [124]in the lower part of the frequency spectrum, each with its unique energy signature. "This work is exciting because it provides both confirmation of known FRB properties and the discovery of some new ones," said the SETI Institute's Dr. Sofia Sheikh, NSF MPS-Ascend Postdoctoral Fellow and lead author. "We're narrowing down the source of FRBs, for example, to extreme objects such as magnetars, but no existing model can explain all of the properties that have been observed so far. It has been wonderful to be part of the first FRB study done with the Allen Telescope Array — this work proves that new telescopes with unique capabilities, like the Allen Telescope Array, can provide a new angle on outstanding mysteries in FRB science." The detailed findings, recently published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), showcase the intriguing behaviors of FRBs. These mysterious signals exhibit downward frequency drifting, a connection between their bandwidth and center frequency, and changes in burst duration over time. The team also observed something that had never been reported before: there was a noticeable drop in the center frequency of bursts over the two months of observation, revealing an unexpected cosmic slide-whistle... No clear pattern was found, highlighting the unpredictability of these celestial phenomena. SETI says its Allen Telescope Array (or ATA) was [125]custom-built for SETI searches, "thanks to the interest and benevolence of many donors, including technologists Paul Allen (co-founder of Microsoft) and Nathan Myhrvold (former Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft)." The Allen Telescope Array offers SETI scientists access to an instrument seven days a week, and permits the search of several different targets (usually nearby star systems) simultaneously. This can result in a speed-up of SETI searches by a factor of at least 100. apply tags__________ 172511109 story [126]AI [127]Iterate.ai Open Sources a New AI System That Can Recognize Weapons [128](iterate.ai) [129]28 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @12:34PM from the safer-schools dept. [130]davejenkins (Slashdot reader #99,111) has come a long way from his days working at Red Hat. He's now the VP of Digital Technology at Iterate.AI, which makes a low-code platform for building production-ready AI applications. And this week he shared an [131]unusual announcement with Slashdot. "We've developed an AI that [132]uses computer vision to recognize guns, rifles, knives, robber masks and tactical vests. "We want to help the community, so we've made an open-source version of this free (as in beer and speech) for schools and religious organizations. The code [133]is on Github. We welcome deployments, refinements, and feedback!" More [134]details from the company here: Rather than selling the software and the design, Iterate.ai open-sourced its work, giving the technology away for free to non-profit groups and schools. "We believe that school tax dollars should go to buying computers and supplies (items needed every day) rather than paying for threat detection software which is unlikely to be needed — but potentially lifesaving in the event of an armed intruder situation," said Jon Nordmark, CEO, Iterate.ai. The system was built by Iterate.ai's AI team, half of whom were part of Apple's Secret Products Group that invented the first iPhone. The team trained the model on more than 20,000 intrusion and armed robbery videos, and brought in a former DEA agent to assist with live tests. The software runs on NVIDIA GPUs and instantly detects dozens of gun types, Kevlar vests, balaclavas, and knives. The system's automatic detection capabilities prompt an instant reaction, even before a human sees a threat indicator. "The power and potential for AI to improve our world — especially when it comes to lifesaving protections that make schools and other locations safe from physical threats — is too important to restrict within expensive or proprietary confines," said Brian Sathianathan, CTO of Iterate.ai. "We're immensely proud of the weapons detection and threat awareness technology we've created, and to share it as a free and open source technology for schools and nonprofits to achieve greater security and safety." [135]Read more about their tool in USA Today apply tags__________ 172510993 story [136]Mars [137]Secret Lagoon Found Resembling Earth 3.5 BIllion Years Ago and What Life on Mars Would Look Like [138](colorado.edu) [139]26 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:34AM from the living-fossils dept. A system of lagoons has been discovered in Argentina hosting a rare range of microbial communities previously unknown to scientists. The microbial communities form giant mounds of rock as they grow — like corals building a reef millimeter by millimeter. And the University of Colorado points out that "the communities could also provide scientists with an unprecedented look at [140]how life may have arisen on Mars, which resembled Earth billions of years ago." "If life ever evolved on Mars to the level of fossils, it would have been like this," said geologist Brian Hynek, a professor in the department of geological sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, who helped document the ecosystem. "Understanding these modern communities on Earth could inform us about what we should look for as we search for similar features in the Martian rocks." [141]more details from CNN: Stromatolites are [142]layered rocks created by the growth of blue-green algae, or cyanobacteria, through photosynthesis. The structures are considered to be one of the oldest ecosystems on Earth, [143]according to NASA, representing the earliest fossil evidence for life on our planet from at least [144]3.5 billion years ago. "These are certainly akin to some of the earliest macrofossils on our planet, and in really a rare type of environment on modern Earth," said Hynek... While the stromatolites are in an environment containing oxygen, Hynek said he believes the layers farther down in the rock have little to no access to oxygen and are actively formed by microbes using anoxygenic photosynthesis. This would make the structures similar to the ones found on ancient Earth... "We've identified more than 600 [145]ancient lakes on Mars; there may have even been an ocean. So, it was a lot more Earth-like early on," he said. apply tags__________ 172507111 story [146]China [147]Is Huawei Pushing Forward With an Ambitious Plan to Dethrone Android? [148](forbes.com) [149]112 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:34AM from the phoning-it-in dept. Forbes recently published this article by author/speaker Nina Xiang, who reports that Huawei is pushing forward with "[150]an amibitious plan to dethrone Android." Hundreds of technical experts from many of China's biggest state-owned and private companies, including the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC), China Telecom, Meituan, and Baidu, all gathered in Beijing last month. The purpose behind the meeting was for their staff to receive training so they could be certified as developers on Huawei's Harmony Operation System (OS). While most observers were looking the other way, Huawei has been quietly building an independent Chinese operating system that isn't subject to U.S. sanctions. In the four years after the telecom giant was banned from using Google apps, the Shenzhen-based company has been making significant strides toward achieving its long-term goal: To dethrone Android and make its HarmonyOS the default operating system in China. Looking at the data for smartphone sales in China shows that HarmonyOS had [151]the third-largest share with 10% in the second quarter of 2023, thanks to [152]a strong resurgence in sales of Huawei smartphones. Although it's still well below Android's dominant 72%, it's not far from iOS's 17%... Huawei already says more than 700 million devices (including phones, smart devices, computers, and others) were equipped with HarmonyOS as of August this year, with over 2.2 million developers actively building within the ecosystem... A key moment will come next year, when Huawei says HarmonyOS will no longer be compatible with Android apps. apply tags__________ 172510353 story [153]Space [154]Orbit Fab Wants to Create 'Gas Stations' in Space for Satellites [155](cnn.com) [156]49 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @07:34AM from the very-high-gas-prices dept. Of the 15,000 satellites humans have sent into space, "[157]just over half are still functioning," reports CNN. "The rest, after running out of fuel and ending their serviceable life, have either burned up in the atmosphere or are still orbiting the planet as useless hunks of metal" — scattering "an aura of space junk around the planet." "One way to start tackling the problem would be to stop producing more junk — by refueling satellites rather than decommissioning them once they run out of power." "Right now you can't refuel a satellite on orbit," says Daniel Faber, CEO of Orbit Fab. But his Colorado-based company wants to change that... "The lack of fuel creates a whole paradigm where people design their spacecraft missions around moving as little as possible. That means that we can't have tow trucks in orbit to get rid of any debris that happens to be left. We can't have repairs and maintenance, we can't upgrade anything. We can't inspect anything if it breaks. There are so many things we can't do and we operate in a very constrained way. That's the solution we're trying to deliver...." Orbit Fab has no plans to address the existing fleet of satellites. Instead, it wants to focus on those that have yet to launch, and equip them with a standardized port — called [158]RAFTI, for Rapid Attachable Fluid Transfer Interface — which would dramatically simplify the refueling operation, keeping the price tag down. "What we're looking at doing is creating a low-cost architecture," says Faber. "There's no commercially available fuel port for refueling a satellite in orbit yet. For all the big aspirations we have about a bustling space economy, really, what we're working on is the gas cap — we are a gas cap company." Orbit Fab, which advertises itself with the tagline "gas stations in space," is working on a system that includes the fuel port, refueling shuttles — which would deliver the fuel to a satellite in need — and refueling tankers, or orbital gas stations, which the shuttles could pick up the fuel from. It has advertised a price of $20 million for on-orbit delivery of hydrazine, the most common satellite propellant. In 2018, the company launched two [159]testbeds to the International Space Station to test the interfaces, the pumps and the plumbing. In 2021 it launched Tanker-001 Tenzing, a fuel depot demonstrator that informed the design of the current hardware. The next launch is now scheduled for 2024. "We are delivering fuel in geostationary orbit for a mission that is being undertaken by the [160]Air Force Research Lab," says Faber. "At the moment, they're treating it as a demonstration, but it's getting a lot of interest from across the US government, from people that realize the value of refueling." Orbit Fab's first private customer will be [161]Astroscale, a Japanese satellite servicing company that has developed the first satellite designed for refueling. Called LEXI, it will mount RAFTI ports and is currently scheduled to launch in 2026. According to Simone D'Amico, an associate professor of astronautics at Stanford University, who's not affiliated with Orbit Fab, on-orbit servicing is one of the keys to ensuring a safe and sustainable development of space... "The development of space infrastructure and the proliferation of space assets is reaching a critical volume that is not sustainable anymore without a change of paradigm." "In 10 or 15 years, we'd like to be building refineries in orbit," CEO Faber tells CNN, "processing material that is launched from the ground into a range of chemicals that people want to buy: air and water for commercial space stations, 3D printer feedstock minerals to grow plants. We want to be the industrial chemical supplier to the emerging commercial space industry." apply tags__________ 172510807 story [162]Education [163]Elon Musk Is Funding a New School In Austin, Texas [164](cnn.com) [165]139 Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:34AM from the X-marks-the-spot dept. "Associates of Elon Musk are planning to launch a new primary and secondary school," [166]reports CNN, "and ultimately a university, in Austin, Texas, with the help of a nearly $100 million donation from the billionaire, tax documents show..." Members of Musk's inner circle — including [167]Jared Birchall, who runs Musk's family office — are named as leaders of The Foundation, a new school planning to teach "STEM subjects and other topics," in an application to the Internal Revenue Service asking for tax-exempt status last year... The IRS filing, dated October 2022, was obtained and posted publicly by Bloomberg, which [168]first reported plans for the school on Wednesday... "The School is being designed to meet the educational needs of those with proven academic and scientific potential, who will thrive in a rigorous, project based curriculum," the filing posted by Bloomberg states. The school plans to initially enroll about 50 students and grow over time, according to the filing. It expects to be funded through donations and tuition fees, although it notes that the school will offer scholarships to support students who couldn't otherwise afford to attend... "The School intends ultimately to expand its operations to create a university dedicated to education at the highest levels," according to the filing... The Foundation said in its filing said that it had raised around $100 million in contributions since mid-2022 for the new Austin school. The 2022 annual 990 tax filing for the Musk Foundation, also made public by Bloomberg, notes that the Musk charity donated $10 million in cash to the group that year, as well as nearly $90 million worth of Tesla stock. apply tags__________ [169]« Newer [170]Older » Slashdot Top Deals Slashdot Top Deals [171]Slashdot Deals Slashdot Poll Do you have a poll idea? (*) Yes, I will post in the comments ( ) No ( ) Cowboy Neal probably does (BUTTON) vote now [172]Read the 81 comments | 3957 votes Looks like someone has already voted from this IP. If you would like to vote please login and try again. 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