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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2930 - Supermassive Black Holes, Don't parody the police, Illegal Vaccination, and more Various from Slashdot
Just a bunch of news here from one of my favorite news sites, even though their RSS feed has apparently crapped out. Or rather, my RSS reader can no longer display the results. Luckily, I get daily newsletters.
This one has tons of good stuff.
Two great items on black holes: one about how they along with gravity (because they work together as forces) are responsible for the universe's dark energy and a supermassive black hole hurtling through space billions of years of travel away from us (so we're safe; don't worry).
Milk is milk. You oat milk is milk. It's all milk all the way down.
But if you're in Ohio, it's okay to call your Oat Milk by the name "milk," but do not make a parody Facebook page of your town's police department because you will be arrested, your home and person unlawfully searched, and the Supreme Court will not protect your free speech rights.
Though Moderna promises its Covid vaccines will always be free (the least they can do given their profits like all phrama companies), if you're in Idaho, some crazy state legislators want to make it illegal to get it or give it. And not just the Covid vaccine, ALL mRNA vaccines.
We can help the ocean's indigestion with antacid.
Though Moderna promises its Covid vaccines will always be free (the least they can do given their profits like all phrama companies), if you're in Idaho, some crazy state legislators want to make it illegal to get it or give it. And not just the Covid vaccine, ALL mRNA vaccines.
We can help the ocean's indigestion with antacid.
AI-generated fiction so flooded a SF magazine that it had to shut off submissions for now. You people suck.
I guess we -- and by "we" I mean the World Health Organization -- no longer care how Covid-19 came to be.
Finally, we know why Zebras have stripes!
More ice shelves are going to melt because of global warming. How close is Mar-a-Lago to the ocean??
LOL.
Grocery stores collect and SHARE tons of data about us if we signed up for their rewards programs.
And, the last I will mention among these many, many stories is this one:
New Mechanism Proposed For Why Some Psychedelics Act As Antidepressants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: New data suggests that psychedelics may activate serotonin signaling in a very different way than serotonin itself can, reaching the receptors in parts of the cell that serotonin can't get to. Serot...
And maybe how they are just a powerful tool for human development...
(not maybe, definitely).
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: New data suggests that psychedelics may activate serotonin signaling in a very different way than serotonin itself can, reaching the receptors in parts of the cell that serotonin can't get to. Serot...
And maybe how they are just a powerful tool for human development...
(not maybe, definitely).
Thanks for tuning in.
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/23/02/21/2236253/republican-bill-in-idaho-would-make-mrna-based-vaccination-a-crime
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/1933240/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-giving-the-ocean-an-antacid
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/21/1852211/sci-fi-mag-pauses-submissions-amid-flood-of-ai-generated-short-stories
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/059214/is-windows-11-spyware-microsoft-defends-sending-user-data-to-third-parties
FDA Rules Soy and Nut Milks Can Still Be Called 'Milk'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in the simpler times of 2018 -- before the US Food and Drug Administration had to grapple with emergency authorizations in a deadly pandemic, before it scrambled to address a scandalous baby fo...
We love our OAT MILK!!
Nearly 30 Percent of Work Remains Remote
Nearly 30 percent of all work happened at home in January, six times the rate in 2019, according to WFH Research, a data-collection project. In Washington and other large urban centers, the share of remote work is closer to half. The Hill reports: The ...
AI-Created Images Lose US Copyrights In Test For New Technology
Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. From the report: "Zarya of the Dawn" author K...
Supreme Court Rejects Ohio Man's Bid To Sue Police Over Arrest of Facebook Parody
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an Ohio man's claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested and prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department...
Microsoft Bing AI Ends Chat When Prompted About 'Feelings'
Microsoft appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its "reimagined" Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning "feelings" or "Sydney," the internal alias used by the Bing team...
Netflix Cuts Subscription Prices in Over 30 Countries
Netflix has reduced the cost of its service in more than three dozen countries in recent weeks, as it tries to appeal to customers around the world who have an ever-growing list of streaming options. From a report: The streaming company's recent price c...
Researchers Discover Why Zebras Have Stripes
According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined to thwart horsefly attacks. "These characteristics specifically eliminate the outline of large monochrome dark patches that are attract...
EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs
The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe's telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet's Google, Apple, Meta and Netflix to pay some network costs. From a report: For more than two...
Titanic Mass Grave Site To Be Pillaged For NFTs
RMS Titanic Inc (RMST), which has been collecting artifacts associated with the ship since the 1980s, has hooked up with NFT flinger Artifact Labs and Venture Smart Financial Holdings to "bring the RMS Titanic and its physical artifacts into Web3." The Reg...
Vast Acquires Launcher In Quest To Build Artificial Gravity Space Stations
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Vast Space, a company that emerged from stealth last September with the aim of building artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit, has acquired space tug startup Launcher, TechCrunch has ex...
Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects
An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects An energy company's plans for a solar plant powering 25,000 homes were thwarted after a four-year battle...
The Washington Post Says There's 'No Real Reason' to Use a VPN
Some people try to hide parts of their email address from online scrapers by spelling out "at" and "dot," notes a Washington Post technology newsletter. But unfortunately, "This spam-fighting trick doesn't work. At all." They warn that it's not just a "p...
Ask Slashdot: Should Production Networks Avoid Windows 11?
Slashdot reader John Smith 2294 is an IT consultant and system administrator "who started in the days of DEC VAX/VMS," now maintaining networks for small to medium businesses and non-profits. And they're sharing a concern with Slashdot.
"I objec...
Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language?
Three years after Rails was introduced in 2005, InfoWorld asked whether it might the successor to Java.
That didn't happen. So this week InfoWorld "spoke to current and former Ruby programmers to try to trace the language's rise and fal...
Where More People Will Die -- and Live -- Because of Climate Change
An anonymous reader shares this thought-provoking article by a graphics reporter at The Washington Post who was part of its Pulitzer Prize-winning Explanatory Reporting team: The scientific paper published in the June 2021 issue of the journal Nature C...
No, a Piece of the Sun Didn't Just 'Break Off'
The CBC reports: You may have seen stories over the past week or so with headlines like, "Part of the sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists," or "Unbelievable moment a piece of the sun BREAKS OFF baffles scientists" or even "...
Staring At Screens Could Strain Cervical Spine, Cause 'Tech Neck'
HealthDay reports: If you spend hours a day scrolling on your smartphone or tablet, you might get "tech neck."
"Humans are upright creatures, and our bodies aren't designed to look down for long periods of time, which puts extra pressure on th...
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Hurtling Through Space
"Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope...." writes Hot Hardware. "The light emitting from the trail traveled more than 7.5 billion years to reach Earth and is thought ...
Steep Declines In Data Science Skills Among Fourth- and Eighth-Graders Across America, Study Finds
A new report (PDF) from the Data Science 4 Everyone coalition reveals that data literacy skills among fourth and eighth-grade students have declined significantly over the last decade even as these skills have become increasingly essential in our modern, d...
Zantac's Maker Kept Quiet About Cancer Risks for 40 Years
Glaxo says the heartburn drug doesn't cause tumors. But the company was warned by its own scientists and independent researchers about the potential danger. From a report: The small British company was sometimes called Glaxo University, because it condu...
Viral TikTok Challenge Forces Hyundai and Kia To Update Software On Millions of Vehicles
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Hyundai and Kia are offering free software updates for millions of their cars in response to a rash of car thefts inspired by a viral social media challenge on TikTok. The so-called "Kia Challenge" on ...
Male Birth Control Stopped Sperm In Mice, Study Found
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: A drug aimed at treating eyes immobilized sperm and prevented pregnancy in mice, encouraging researchers that it might work as a contraceptive for men. Injected into male mice, the drug w...
Google CEO's New Memo To Employees: Put Two To Four Hours Into Improving Bard Chatbot
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai sent an internal memo to Googlers on Wednesday asking them to contribute 2-4 hours of their time to helping improve Bard, the company's AI chatbot that it intends to integrate into search. From a report: The email signals how ...
Antarctic Researchers Say a Marine Heatwave Could Threaten Ice Shelves
An anonymous reader shares an article that originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit independent news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. It was republished with permission via Ars Technica. Here's an excerpt: Re...
https://politics.slashdot.org/story/23/02/21/2236253/republican-bill-in-idaho-would-make-mrna-based-vaccination-a-crime
Republican Bill In Idaho Would Make mRNA-Based Vaccination a Crime
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica:Two Republican lawmakers in Idaho have introduced a bill that would make it a misdemeanor for anyone in the state to administer mRNA-based vaccines -- namely the lifesaving and remarkably safe COVID-19 vaccines made by Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna. If passed as written, it would also preemptively ban the use of countless other mRNA vaccines that are now in development, such as shots for RSV, a variety of cancers, HIV, flu, Nipah virus, and cystic fibrosis, among others. The bill is sponsored by Sen. Tammy Nichols of Middleton and Rep. Judy Boyle of Midvale, both staunch conservatives who say they stand for freedom and the right to life. But their bill, HB 154, proposes that "a person may not provide or administer a vaccine developed using messenger ribonucleic acid [mRNA] technology for use in an individual or any other mammal in this state." If passed into law, anyone administering lifesaving mRNA-based vaccines would be guilty of a misdemeanor, which could result in jail time and/or a fine.
While presenting the bill to the House Health & Welfare Committee last week, Nichols said their anti-mRNA stance stems from the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines were initially allowed under emergency use authorizations (EUAs) from the Food and Drug Administration, not the agency's full regulatory approval. "We have issues that this was fast-tracked," she told fellow lawmakers, according to reporting from local news outlet KXLY.com. [...] "They ultimately were approved under the ordinary approval process and did ultimately, you know, survive the scrutiny of being subjected to all the normal tests," Rep. Ilana Rubel, a democrat from Boise, said. Nichols seemed unswayed by the point, however, with KTVB7 reporting that she responded that the FDA's approval "may not have been done like we thought it should've been done."
To date, more than 269 million people in the US have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and over 700 million doses of mRNA-based vaccines have gone into American arms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency keeps close tabs on safety through various national surveillance systems. Although the shots do carry some risk (as is the case for any medical intervention), they have proven remarkably safe amid widespread use of hundreds of millions of doses in the US and worldwide. A study released late last year found that COVID-19 vaccination in the US alone averted more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths from the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.The National Human Genome Research Institute notes that mRNA "is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis. mRNA is made from a DNA template during the process of transcription. The role of mRNA is to carry protein information from the DNA in a cell's nucleus to the cell's cytoplasm (watery interior), where the protein-making machinery reads the mRNA sequence and translates each three-base codon into its corresponding amino acid in a growing protein chain."
mRNA-based vaccines made their public debut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers have been "working toward these vaccines for decades beforehand," adds Ars.
While presenting the bill to the House Health & Welfare Committee last week, Nichols said their anti-mRNA stance stems from the fact that the COVID-19 vaccines were initially allowed under emergency use authorizations (EUAs) from the Food and Drug Administration, not the agency's full regulatory approval. "We have issues that this was fast-tracked," she told fellow lawmakers, according to reporting from local news outlet KXLY.com. [...] "They ultimately were approved under the ordinary approval process and did ultimately, you know, survive the scrutiny of being subjected to all the normal tests," Rep. Ilana Rubel, a democrat from Boise, said. Nichols seemed unswayed by the point, however, with KTVB7 reporting that she responded that the FDA's approval "may not have been done like we thought it should've been done."
To date, more than 269 million people in the US have received at least one COVID-19 vaccine, and over 700 million doses of mRNA-based vaccines have gone into American arms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The agency keeps close tabs on safety through various national surveillance systems. Although the shots do carry some risk (as is the case for any medical intervention), they have proven remarkably safe amid widespread use of hundreds of millions of doses in the US and worldwide. A study released late last year found that COVID-19 vaccination in the US alone averted more than 18 million additional hospitalizations and more than 3 million additional deaths from the pandemic coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2.The National Human Genome Research Institute notes that mRNA "is a type of single-stranded RNA involved in protein synthesis. mRNA is made from a DNA template during the process of transcription. The role of mRNA is to carry protein information from the DNA in a cell's nucleus to the cell's cytoplasm (watery interior), where the protein-making machinery reads the mRNA sequence and translates each three-base codon into its corresponding amino acid in a growing protein chain."
mRNA-based vaccines made their public debut amid the COVID-19 pandemic, but researchers have been "working toward these vaccines for decades beforehand," adds Ars.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/1933240/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-giving-the-ocean-an-antacid
Can We Fight Climate Change By Giving the Ocean an Antacid? (nbcnews.com)
Oceans naturally recycle carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a massive scale, reports NBC News. So a Canadian startup named Planetary Technologies is "attempting to harness and accelerate that potential by adding antacid powder to the ocean."The theory goes that by altering seawater chemistry, the ocean's surface could absorb far more atmospheric carbon than it does naturally. The company is developing an approach that would turn the waste products from shuttered mines into an alkaline powder. They would deliver it into the water via existing pipes from wastewater treatment or energy plants to avoid having to build new infrastructure....
Planetary intends to recycle mine waste from a defunct asbestos mine in Quebec to produce pure magnesium hydroxide, which the company believes would help accelerate the ocean's carbon uptake ability in the areas where it's used. The strategy is inspired by the natural process of chemical rock weathering, where rain — which is slightly acidic — "weathers" or erodes the surface of rocks and minerals, and then transfers that alkalinity to the ocean via runoff.... [T]he company intends to start running small-scale ocean pilots — adding their antacid and measuring the change in carbon absorption — in Canada and the U.K. later this year.
But it's just one of "a growing number of strategies" to "leverage" the ocean in fighting climate change:In 2021, the National Academies of Science published a landmark report advocating further research into ocean-based carbon removal methods, in light of the growing scientific consensus that reducing emissions alone will not be enough to stave off the devastating effects of climate change. The report highlighted everything from large-scale seaweed farming to shooting lasers to electrochemically change the water's chemistry, while acknowledging that research on the viability and potential trade-offs of these strategies is nascent at best.....
One startup intends to spread ground minerals over beaches in Long Island and the Caribbean, in the hope that they will gradually wash away and alkalinize the beaches there. Another method that's gained traction involves using underwater pipes to pump up nutrient rich water from the ocean's depths to promote phytoplankton growth on the surface.
Planetary intends to recycle mine waste from a defunct asbestos mine in Quebec to produce pure magnesium hydroxide, which the company believes would help accelerate the ocean's carbon uptake ability in the areas where it's used. The strategy is inspired by the natural process of chemical rock weathering, where rain — which is slightly acidic — "weathers" or erodes the surface of rocks and minerals, and then transfers that alkalinity to the ocean via runoff.... [T]he company intends to start running small-scale ocean pilots — adding their antacid and measuring the change in carbon absorption — in Canada and the U.K. later this year.
But it's just one of "a growing number of strategies" to "leverage" the ocean in fighting climate change:In 2021, the National Academies of Science published a landmark report advocating further research into ocean-based carbon removal methods, in light of the growing scientific consensus that reducing emissions alone will not be enough to stave off the devastating effects of climate change. The report highlighted everything from large-scale seaweed farming to shooting lasers to electrochemically change the water's chemistry, while acknowledging that research on the viability and potential trade-offs of these strategies is nascent at best.....
One startup intends to spread ground minerals over beaches in Long Island and the Caribbean, in the hope that they will gradually wash away and alkalinize the beaches there. Another method that's gained traction involves using underwater pipes to pump up nutrient rich water from the ocean's depths to promote phytoplankton growth on the surface.
https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/02/21/1852211/sci-fi-mag-pauses-submissions-amid-flood-of-ai-generated-short-stories
Sci-Fi Mag Pauses Submissions Amid Flood of AI-Generated Short Stories (pcmag.com)
The rise of AI-powered chatbots is wreaking havoc on the literary world. Sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine is temporarily suspending short story submissions, citing a surge in people using AI chatbots to "plagiarize" their writing. From a report:The magazine announced the suspension days after Clarkesworld editor Neil Clarke warned about AI-written works posing a threat to the entire short-story ecosystem. At the end of last year, the sci-fi publication encountered a rise in plagiarism as AI-powered chatbots gained the public's attention, Clarke wrote in a blog post. Since then, Clarkesworld has seen a massive spike in short story submissions, but much of the writing appears to come from humans relying on AI tools to pump out the text.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/02/12/059214/is-windows-11-spyware-microsoft-defends-sending-user-data-to-third-parties
Is Windows 11 Spyware? Microsoft Defends Sending User Data to Third Parties (tomshardware.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report from Tom's Hardware:According to the PC Security Channel (via TechSpot), Microsoft's Windows 11 sends data not only to the Redmond, Washington-based software giant, but also to multiple third parties. To analyze DNS traffic generated by a freshly installed copy of Windows 11 on a brand-new notebook, the PC Security Channel used the Wireshark network protocol analyzer that reveals precisely what is happening on a network. The results were astounding enough for the YouTube channel to call Microsoft's Windows 11 "spyware."
As it turned out, an all-new Windows 11 PC that was never used to browse the Internet contacted not only Windows Update, MSN and Bing servers, but also Steam, McAfee, geo.prod.do, and Comscore ScorecardResearch.com. Apparently, the latest operating system from Microsoft collected and sent telemetry data to various market research companies, advertising services, and the like.
When Tom's Hardware contacted Microsoft, their spokesperson argued that flowing data is common in modern operating systems "to help them remain secure, up to date, and keep the system working as anticipated."
"We are committed to transparency and regularly publish information about the data we collect to empower customers to be more informed about their privacy."
As it turned out, an all-new Windows 11 PC that was never used to browse the Internet contacted not only Windows Update, MSN and Bing servers, but also Steam, McAfee, geo.prod.do, and Comscore ScorecardResearch.com. Apparently, the latest operating system from Microsoft collected and sent telemetry data to various market research companies, advertising services, and the like.
When Tom's Hardware contacted Microsoft, their spokesperson argued that flowing data is common in modern operating systems "to help them remain secure, up to date, and keep the system working as anticipated."
"We are committed to transparency and regularly publish information about the data we collect to empower customers to be more informed about their privacy."
FDA Rules Soy and Nut Milks Can Still Be Called 'Milk'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in the simpler times of 2018 -- before the US Food and Drug Administration had to grapple with emergency authorizations in a deadly pandemic, before it scrambled to address a scandalous baby fo...
We love our OAT MILK!!
Nearly 30 Percent of Work Remains Remote
Nearly 30 percent of all work happened at home in January, six times the rate in 2019, according to WFH Research, a data-collection project. In Washington and other large urban centers, the share of remote work is closer to half. The Hill reports: The ...
AI-Created Images Lose US Copyrights In Test For New Technology
Images in a graphic novel that were created using the artificial-intelligence system Midjourney should not have been granted copyright protection, the U.S. Copyright Office said in a letter seen by Reuters. From the report: "Zarya of the Dawn" author K...
Supreme Court Rejects Ohio Man's Bid To Sue Police Over Arrest of Facebook Parody
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News: The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an Ohio man's claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested and prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from NBC News:The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an Ohio man's claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested and prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department on Facebook. The justices' rejection of Anthony Novak's appeal means his civil rights lawsuit against the Parma Police Department cannot move forward. With its decision, the court again declined to consider revisiting "qualified immunity," the contentious legal defense that lets police officers and other government officials off the hook in civil rights cases if constitutional violations have not been "clearly established" when they occur. At issue was whether a lower court correctly granted the police officers qualified immunity under the rationale that previous court precedent had not clearly established that Novak's actions constituted protected speech under the Constitution's First Amendment.
In March 2016, Novak set up a Facebook page that purported to be that of the Parma Police Department. He published six satirical posts in 12 hours, one of which claimed there was a job opening to which minorities were encouraged not to apply and another that warned people not to give food, money or shelter to homeless people. The police department, claiming the posts had disrupted its operations, launched an investigation and ultimately searched Novak's apartment, arrested him and jailed him for four days. Novak was charged under a state law that criminalizes disruption of police operations but acquitted at trial.
The police officers, Kevin Riley and Thomas Connor, say they had probable cause to arrest Novak because they genuinely believed his conduct was disrupting their operations. Novak sued the officers and the police department, saying they had violated his free speech rights, as well as his right to be free of unlawful searches and seizures under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. After lengthy litigation, a federal judge dismissed Novak's claims. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling in April that "the officers reasonably believed they were acting within the law" even if his Facebook page was obviously a parody. That's because there was no court precedent saying it's a violation of the Constitution to be arrested in retaliation for satirical remarks when the officers have probable cause, the court said.Novak's appeal was backed by satirical news sites The Babylon Bee and The Onion, which filed a lighthearted brief saying its writers "have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists."
In March 2016, Novak set up a Facebook page that purported to be that of the Parma Police Department. He published six satirical posts in 12 hours, one of which claimed there was a job opening to which minorities were encouraged not to apply and another that warned people not to give food, money or shelter to homeless people. The police department, claiming the posts had disrupted its operations, launched an investigation and ultimately searched Novak's apartment, arrested him and jailed him for four days. Novak was charged under a state law that criminalizes disruption of police operations but acquitted at trial.
The police officers, Kevin Riley and Thomas Connor, say they had probable cause to arrest Novak because they genuinely believed his conduct was disrupting their operations. Novak sued the officers and the police department, saying they had violated his free speech rights, as well as his right to be free of unlawful searches and seizures under the Constitution's Fourth Amendment. After lengthy litigation, a federal judge dismissed Novak's claims. The Cincinnati-based 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed in a ruling in April that "the officers reasonably believed they were acting within the law" even if his Facebook page was obviously a parody. That's because there was no court precedent saying it's a violation of the Constitution to be arrested in retaliation for satirical remarks when the officers have probable cause, the court said.Novak's appeal was backed by satirical news sites The Babylon Bee and The Onion, which filed a lighthearted brief saying its writers "have a self-serving interest in preventing political authorities from imprisoning humorists."
Microsoft Bing AI Ends Chat When Prompted About 'Feelings'
Microsoft appeared to have implemented new, more severe restrictions on user interactions with its "reimagined" Bing internet search engine, with the system going mum after prompts mentioning "feelings" or "Sydney," the internal alias used by the Bing team...
Netflix Cuts Subscription Prices in Over 30 Countries
Netflix has reduced the cost of its service in more than three dozen countries in recent weeks, as it tries to appeal to customers around the world who have an ever-growing list of streaming options. From a report: The streaming company's recent price c...
Researchers Discover Why Zebras Have Stripes
According to research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology, zebra fur is thinly striped and sharply outlined to thwart horsefly attacks. "These characteristics specifically eliminate the outline of large monochrome dark patches that are attract...
EU Eyes Big Tech as it Seeks Feedback on Who Should Pay Network Costs
The European Commission on Thursday launched a consultation on the future of Europe's telecoms sector, starting a process that could lead to requiring Alphabet's Google, Apple, Meta and Netflix to pay some network costs. From a report: For more than two...
Titanic Mass Grave Site To Be Pillaged For NFTs
RMS Titanic Inc (RMST), which has been collecting artifacts associated with the ship since the 1980s, has hooked up with NFT flinger Artifact Labs and Venture Smart Financial Holdings to "bring the RMS Titanic and its physical artifacts into Web3." The Reg...
Vast Acquires Launcher In Quest To Build Artificial Gravity Space Stations
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Vast Space, a company that emerged from stealth last September with the aim of building artificial gravity space stations in low Earth orbit, has acquired space tug startup Launcher, TechCrunch has ex...
Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects
An activist group is spreading misinformation to stop solar projects in rural America Activist Group Spreads Misinformation to Stop US Solar Projects An energy company's plans for a solar plant powering 25,000 homes were thwarted after a four-year battle...
The Washington Post Says There's 'No Real Reason' to Use a VPN
Some people try to hide parts of their email address from online scrapers by spelling out "at" and "dot," notes a Washington Post technology newsletter. But unfortunately, "This spam-fighting trick doesn't work. At all." They warn that it's not just a "p...
Ask Slashdot: Should Production Networks Avoid Windows 11?
Slashdot reader John Smith 2294 is an IT consultant and system administrator "who started in the days of DEC VAX/VMS," now maintaining networks for small to medium businesses and non-profits. And they're sharing a concern with Slashdot.
"I objec...
Whatever Happened to the Ruby Programming Language?
Three years after Rails was introduced in 2005, InfoWorld asked whether it might the successor to Java.
That didn't happen. So this week InfoWorld "spoke to current and former Ruby programmers to try to trace the language's rise and fal...
Where More People Will Die -- and Live -- Because of Climate Change
An anonymous reader shares this thought-provoking article by a graphics reporter at The Washington Post who was part of its Pulitzer Prize-winning Explanatory Reporting team: The scientific paper published in the June 2021 issue of the journal Nature C...
No, a Piece of the Sun Didn't Just 'Break Off'
The CBC reports: You may have seen stories over the past week or so with headlines like, "Part of the sun breaks free and forms a strange vortex, baffling scientists," or "Unbelievable moment a piece of the sun BREAKS OFF baffles scientists" or even "...
Staring At Screens Could Strain Cervical Spine, Cause 'Tech Neck'
HealthDay reports: If you spend hours a day scrolling on your smartphone or tablet, you might get "tech neck."
"Humans are upright creatures, and our bodies aren't designed to look down for long periods of time, which puts extra pressure on th...
Astronomers Spot a Rogue Supermassive Black Hole Hurtling Through Space
"Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope...." writes Hot Hardware. "The light emitting from the trail traveled more than 7.5 billion years to reach Earth and is thought ...
"Astronomers spotted an unexpected trail in the gas surrounding a dwarf galaxy while using the Hubble Space Telescope...." writes Hot Hardware. "The light emitting from the trail traveled more than 7.5 billion years to reach Earth and is thought to be traveling at a breakneck speed of 1,600km/s (3.5 million mph).
Science Alert says it could be "the smoking gun pointing to a runaway supermassive black hole."
More from Universe Today:Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy's heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing more massive as time passes. But in rare circumstances, an SMBH can be forced out of its position and hurtle through space as a rogue SMBH.
In a new paper, researchers from Canada, Australia, and the USA present evidence of a rogue SMBH that's tearing through space and interacting with the circumgalactic medium (CGM.) Along the way, the giant is creating shock waves and triggering star formation.... The paper hasn't been peer-reviewed yet....
In their paper, the authors explain how an SMBH can be cast out of its host galaxy. It always starts when galaxies merge. That leads to the formation of a binary SMBH at the center of the merger remnant. The binary SMBH can be very long-lived, surviving for as long as one billion years before merging. If during that time, a third SMBH reaches the galactic center, then a three-body interaction can give one of the SMBHs a velocity boost, and it can be driven from the galaxy.
Hot Hardware adds that "This is not the first time a supermassive black hole has been found ejected from the center of its host galaxy. However, this is the first time one has been detected speeding across intergalactic space and believed to be inactive."
And RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) explains that "After the collision and ejection from the galaxy core, the passage of the black hole through the galaxy and it's surrounding material produced a burst of star formation along that line, which we now see as a faint linear streak of light....
"Those who like doom-laden prophecies will be upset to hear that, because we can see this moving across the plane of the sky, it is never going to come any where near us."
Science Alert says it could be "the smoking gun pointing to a runaway supermassive black hole."
More from Universe Today:Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) lurk in the center of large galaxies like ours. From their commanding position in the galaxy's heart, they feed on gas, dust, stars, and anything else that strays too close, growing more massive as time passes. But in rare circumstances, an SMBH can be forced out of its position and hurtle through space as a rogue SMBH.
In a new paper, researchers from Canada, Australia, and the USA present evidence of a rogue SMBH that's tearing through space and interacting with the circumgalactic medium (CGM.) Along the way, the giant is creating shock waves and triggering star formation.... The paper hasn't been peer-reviewed yet....
In their paper, the authors explain how an SMBH can be cast out of its host galaxy. It always starts when galaxies merge. That leads to the formation of a binary SMBH at the center of the merger remnant. The binary SMBH can be very long-lived, surviving for as long as one billion years before merging. If during that time, a third SMBH reaches the galactic center, then a three-body interaction can give one of the SMBHs a velocity boost, and it can be driven from the galaxy.
Hot Hardware adds that "This is not the first time a supermassive black hole has been found ejected from the center of its host galaxy. However, this is the first time one has been detected speeding across intergalactic space and believed to be inactive."
And RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) explains that "After the collision and ejection from the galaxy core, the passage of the black hole through the galaxy and it's surrounding material produced a burst of star formation along that line, which we now see as a faint linear streak of light....
"Those who like doom-laden prophecies will be upset to hear that, because we can see this moving across the plane of the sky, it is never going to come any where near us."
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| https://www.universetoday.com/160072/astronomers-spot-a-rogue-supermassive-black-hole-hurtling-through-space-leaving-star-formation-in-its-wake/ |
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2302.25 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2794 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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Observations of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies point to a likely source of dark energy -- the 'missing' 70% of the universe. Phys.Org reports:The measurements from ancient and dormant galaxies show black holes growing more than expected, aligning with a phenomenon predicted in Einstein's theory of gravity. The result potentially means nothing new has to be added to our picture of the universe to account for dark energy: black holes combined with Einstein's gravity are the source. The conclusion was reached by a team of 17 researchers in nine countries, led by the University of Hawai'i and including Imperial College London and STFC RAL Space physicists. The work is published in two papers in the journals The Astrophysical Journal and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The conclusion was made by studying nine billion years of black hole evolution. [...] The researchers looked at a particular type of galaxy called giant elliptical galaxies, which evolved early in the universe and then became dormant. Dormant galaxies have finished forming stars, leaving little material for the black hole at their center to accrete, meaning any further growth cannot be explained by these normal astrophysical processes. Comparing observations of distant galaxies (when they were young) with local elliptical galaxies (which are old and dead) showed growth much larger than predicted by accretion or mergers: the black holes of today are 7-20 times larger than they were nine billion years ago.
Further measurements with related populations of galaxies at different points in the universe's evolution show good agreement between the size of the universe and the mass of the black holes. These show that the measured amount of dark energy in the universe can be accounted for by black hole vacuum energy. This is the first observational evidence that black holes actually contain vacuum energy and that they are 'coupled' to the expansion of the universe, increasing in mass as the universe expands -- a phenomenon called 'cosmological coupling.' If further observations confirm it, cosmological coupling will redefine our understanding of what a black hole is.
The conclusion was made by studying nine billion years of black hole evolution. [...] The researchers looked at a particular type of galaxy called giant elliptical galaxies, which evolved early in the universe and then became dormant. Dormant galaxies have finished forming stars, leaving little material for the black hole at their center to accrete, meaning any further growth cannot be explained by these normal astrophysical processes. Comparing observations of distant galaxies (when they were young) with local elliptical galaxies (which are old and dead) showed growth much larger than predicted by accretion or mergers: the black holes of today are 7-20 times larger than they were nine billion years ago.
Further measurements with related populations of galaxies at different points in the universe's evolution show good agreement between the size of the universe and the mass of the black holes. These show that the measured amount of dark energy in the universe can be accounted for by black hole vacuum energy. This is the first observational evidence that black holes actually contain vacuum energy and that they are 'coupled' to the expansion of the universe, increasing in mass as the universe expands -- a phenomenon called 'cosmological coupling.' If further observations confirm it, cosmological coupling will redefine our understanding of what a black hole is.
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But then who sel...
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But then who sel...
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"The research, published in the journal BMC Medicine, found that diets higher in free sugars — a category that includes sugar...
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Scientists from China's Hebei University of Science and Technology have developed an ice-melting additive for asphalt that could remain active for years. New Atlas reports: [The researchers started] out by developing a chloride-free acetate-based salt....
New Mechanism Proposed For Why Some Psychedelics Act As Antidepressants
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: New data suggests that psychedelics may activate serotonin signaling in a very different way than serotonin itself can, reaching the receptors in parts of the cell that serotonin can't get to. Serot...
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2302.25 - 10:10
- Days ago = 2794 days ago
- New note - On 1807.06, I ceased daily transmission of my Hey Mom feature after three years of daily conversations. I plan to continue Hey Mom posts at least twice per week but will continue to post the days since ("Days Ago") count on my blog each day. The blog entry numbering in the title has changed to reflect total Sense of Doubt posts since I began the blog on 0705.04, which include Hey Mom posts, Daily Bowie posts, and Sense of Doubt posts. Hey Mom posts will still be numbered sequentially. New Hey Mom posts will use the same format as all the other Hey Mom posts; all other posts will feature this format seen here.
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