A Sense of Doubt blog post #3336 - Slashdot Roundup First Week of April - "Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now"
Anti-climactic post for day #3200 since my Mom died.
I am not "actively" grieving. But numbers like this one put the time that has passed in some weird perspective.
Still in low power mode due to various factors such as work and others.
So, it's time for another
SLASHDOT roundup because the news coming through this week was all very interesting, so instead of posting some of this one-by-one, here's a big info dump for scrolling pleasure.
Slashdot's daily newsletter shows top ten items in headline and link form and then repeats those with the beginning of each item to get a better sense of whether one wants to click through.
SLASHDOT is a special kind of news aggregator as it has a special nerdy focus (so lots of news is excluded), and it is curated by users who write summaries of news items that will fit the limited range of nerdy categories and are often behind pay walls allowing those to read about the stories and avoid subscriptions. I have written some in the past, though not lately. I have a slashdot category on the blog because I have shared this content before, in fact, recently:
The first item --
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now' -- caught my attention, and there I felt that there were many more worth sharing, such as users disappointed in smart devices, Rust outperforming C++, Shatner's Antarctica cruise, and the issue with AI data-guzzling. And that's just the first set from Monday. There's more.
That's all today.
As always, my study, my content, not so much my teaching.
Thanks for tuning in.
LOW POWER MODE: I sometimes put the blog in what I call LOW POWER MODE. If you see this note, the blog is operating like a sleeping computer, maintaining static memory, but making no new computations. If I am in low power mode, it's because I do not have time to do much that's inventive, original, or even substantive on the blog. This means I am posting straight shares, limited content posts, reprints, often something qualifying for the THAT ONE THING category and other easy to make posts to keep me daily. That's the deal. Thanks for reading.
APRIL 2nd
'Yes, We're All Trapped in the Matrix Now'
"As you're reading this, you're more likely than not already inside 'The Matrix'," according to a headline on the front page of CNN.com this weekend.
It linked to an opinion piece by Rizwan Virk, founder of MIT's startup incubator/accelerator pro...
'Smart Devices Are Turning Out To Be a Poor Investment'
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Android Police, written by Dhruv Bhutani: As someone who is an early adopter of all things smart and has invested a significant amount of money in building a fancy smart home, it saddens me to say that I feel ch...
Arizona's Governor Signs Bill Making Pluto the Official State Planet
"Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona..." reads the official text of House Bill #2,477. "PLUTO IS THE OFFICIAL STATE PLANET."
An anonymous reader shared this report from Capital Media Services: The governor signed legisla...
Rust Developers at Google Twice as Productive as C++ Teams
An anonymous reader shares a report: Echoing the past two years of Rust evangelism and C/C++ ennui, Google reports that Rust shines in production, to the point that its developers are twice as productive using the language compared to C++. Speaking at t...
Microsoft To Unbundle Office and Teams Following Years-long Criticism
Microsoft will introduce a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription service that excludes Teams, unbundling a suite following scrutiny from the European Union regulator and complaints from rival Slack. From a report: The move follows Mic...
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small
Companies racing to develop more powerful artificial intelligence are rapidly nearing a new problem: The internet might be too small for their plans (non-paywalled link). From a report: Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and...
After Outer Space, 93-Year-Old William Shatner Leads Cruise to Antarctica
"Sail to a continent as mysterious as outer-space itself," the new web site urges.
"William Shatner saw Earth from the highest view," writes Scripps News Service. "Now he's heading to the bottom of it — and inviting you to join him." Th...
ChatGPT No Longer Requires an Account
OpenAI is making its flagship conversational AI accessible to everyone, even people who haven't bothered making an account. From a report: It won't be quite the same experience, however -- and of course all your chats will still go into their training d...
McKinsey is Offering Staff Pay, Career Coaching If They Leave Firm
An anonymous reader shares a report: The management-consulting giant McKinsey is dangling career-coaching services and nine months' worth of pay to staffers keen on leaving the firm, the British newspaper The Times reported on Saturday. The Times report...
YouTube Inspires 'True Crime Junkies' to Buy Sonar-Equipped Boat and Solve Cold-Case Mysteries
Described as a "non profit volunteer search team" on its official site, Sunshine State Sonar "found more than 350 cars in canals, ponds and waterways across Florida" in just the last two years, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
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Top Musicians Among Hundreds Warning Against Replacing Human Artists With AI
More than 200 musical artists -- including Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and Smokey Robinson -- have penned an open letter to AI developers, tech firms and digital platforms to "cease the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to infringe upon and devalue the rig...
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with "Just Walk Out" technology. The company's senior vice president of grocery stores says they're moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving...
Trash From the ISS May Have Hit a House In Florida
A nearly two-pound piece of trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida. Alejandro Otero said it "tore through the roof and both floors of his two-story house in Naples, Florida," reports Ars Technica. "Otero wasn't home at t...
Record Heat in Europe, Asia Closes Another Extremely Warm Month For Planet
Earth has a long-running fever that shows little signs of easing. The planet has set high temperature records in each of the last nine months, and March is poised to become the 10th. From a report: Multiple locations around the world observed unpreceden...
California Introduces 'Right To Disconnect' Bill That Would Allow Employees To Possibly Relax
An anonymous reader shares a report: Burnout, quiet quitting, strikes -- the news (and likely your schedule) is filled with markers that workers are overwhelmed and too much is expected of them. There's little regulation in the United States to prevent ...
White House Makes Last-ditch Push for Internet Subsidy Program
The White House plans to renew a push in April to convince Congress to extend an internet subsidy program used by 23 million American households just weeks before it runs out of money, officials said. From a report: In October, the White House asked for...
President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse
President Joe Biden has become the first sitting U.S. president to post on a decentralized networking protocol. As reported by The Verge, President Biden's Threads account "has begun using Meta's ActivityPub integration," which allows for content, data, an...
India Hydropower Output Records Steepest Fall In Nearly Four Decades
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: India's hydroelectricity output fell at the steepest pace in at least 38 years during the year ended March 31, a Reuters analysis of government data showed, as erratic rainfall forced further dependence ...
PC, Console Growth To Lag Pre-pandemic Levels as Gamers Clock in Fewer Hours
Personal computing and console gaming revenue growth is expected to remain below pre-pandemic levels through 2026 as gamers record fewer hours of playtime, according to research firm Newzoo. From a report: The market is expected to grow 2.7% from 2023-e...
Discord To Start Showing Ads This Week After History of Shunning Them
Starting this week, Discord will show ads on the site from video game companies, some of which will offer users gifts for carrying out in-game tasks. According to the Wall Street Journal, Discord said users will be able to turn off the ads in their setting... |
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APRIL 4th
New 'Matrix' Movie in Works
Deadline: Drew Goddard, the Oscar-nominated screenwriter of The Martian who also directed The Cabin in the Woods, has been set to write and direct a new Matrix movie at Warner Bros. The franchise's original co-scribe and co-director Lana Wachowski is ex...
Tennessee Passes 'Chemtrail' Bill Banning Airborne Chemicals
vik writes: According to this BBC article Tennessee just passed a bill banning the dispersion of chemicals in the air that affect weather and temperature. Sponsored by the chemtrail and anti-geoengineering crowds, if signed into law it seems it would ba...
'Russia Might Have Caused Havana Syndrome'
An anonymous reader quotes an opinion piece from the Washington Post, published by the Editorial Board: A just-published investigation by Russian, American and German journalists has unearthed startling new information about the so-called Havana syndrom...
Microsoft Reveals Subscription Pricing for Using Windows 10 Beyond 2025
Microsoft announced an extended support program for Windows 10 last year that would allow users to pay for continued security updates beyond the October 2025 end of support date. Today, the company has unveiled the pricing structure for that program, which...
Taiwan Quake Puts World's Most Advanced Chips at Risk
Taiwan's biggest earthquake in 25 years has disrupted production at the island's semiconductor companies, raising the possibility of fallout for the technology industry and perhaps the global economy. From a report: The potential repercussions are signi...
Jon Stewart Claims Apple Wouldn't Let Him Interview FTC Chair On His Podcast
Sara Fischer reports via Axios: Jon Stewart on Monday told Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair Lina Khan that Apple wouldn't let him interview her for a podcast. "I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it," "The Daily Show" hos...
Intel Discloses $7 Billion Operating Loss For Chip-Making Unit
Intel on Tuesday disclosed $7 billion in operating losses for its foundry business in 2023, "a steeper loss than the $5.2 billion in operating losses the year before," reports Reuters. "The unit had revenue of $18.9 billion for 2023, down 31% from $27.49 b...
Cable Lobby Vows 'Years of Litigation' To Avoid Bans on Blocking and Throttling
An anonymous reader shares a report: The Federal Communications Commission has scheduled an April 25 vote to restore net neutrality rules similar to the ones introduced during the Obama era and repealed under former President Trump. The text of the pend...
Scathing Federal Report Rips Microsoft For Shoddy Security
quonset shares a report: In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying "a cascade of errors" by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber oper...
NASA To Create Time Standard For the Moon
artmancc writes: The White House has directed NASA and other federal agencies to get to work on a plan to implement precision timekeeping and dissemination on the moon and elsewhere in space. Reuters cited a memo from the head of the White House Office ...
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APRIL 5
Only 57 Companies Produced 80% of Global Carbon Dioxide
Last year was the hottest on record and the Earth is headed towards a global warming of 2.7 degrees, yet top fossil fuel and cement producers show a disregard for climate change and actively make things worse. From a report: A new Carbon Majors Database...
German State Moving Tens of Thousands of PCs To Linux and LibreOffice
The Document Foundation: Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on ...
Traders Are Betting Millions That Trump Media 'Meme Stock' Will Tumble
Many investors are lining up to bet on the collapse of former President Donald J. Trump's social media company, Trump Media & Technology Group Corp., which made its stock market debut last week under the ticker "DJT." The stock has been called the "mot...
Amazon Sellers Plagued by Surge in Scam Returns
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has built one of the world's most efficient delivery systems. Yet people regularly ship junk back to sellers and claim they are returns, often with little to no penalty, merchants say. Amazon has long believed...
Are Your Solar Eclipse Glasses Fake?
SonicSpike shares a report from Scientific American: A day after the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced that there were no signs of unsafe eclipse glasses or other solar viewers on the market in early March, astronomer and science communicat...
Hospital Network Admin Used Fake Identity For 35 Years
An anonymous reader writes: Could you imagine discovering that your identity had been used to take out fraudulent loans and when you tried to resolve the issue by providing your state ID and Social Security card you were instead arrested, charged with m...
New 3D Cosmic Map Raises Questions Over Future of Universe, Scientists Say
The biggest ever 3D map of the universe, featuring more than 6m galaxies, has been revealed by scientists who said it raised questions about the nature of dark energy and the future of the universe. From a report: The map is based on data collected by t...
Microsoft Edge Will Let You Control How Much RAM It Uses Soon
Microsoft is working on a new feature for its Edge browser that will let you limit the amount of RAM it uses. From a report: Leopeva64, who is one of the best at finding new Edge features, has spotted a new settings section in test builds of the browser...
Google Considers Charging For AI-Powered Search
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Google is considering charging for new "premium" features powered by generative artificial intelligence, in what would be the biggest ever shake-up of its search business. The proposed revamp...
Amazon Still Has a Serious Plastic Waste Problem in the US
Despite making pledges to cut down on plastic packaging, a new report from the nonprofit conservation organization Oceana estimates that Amazon's plastic waste has continued to grow in the US. From a report: The company created 208 million pounds of pla... |
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- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 2404.06 - 10:10
- Days ago = 3200 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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