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BenjaminHCCarr

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#Ecology & #Ocean #Scientist now doing Scientific #HPC, #SRE, #DevOps, #PlatformEngineering, and #Supercomputing

I also talk about #climate #climatechange #climatecrisis #Linux #PhDLife

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BenjaminHCCarr , to Random stuff
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rising: A visual guide to ’s rare dual appearance
The cicadas are coming. This year is unique, because there are two that are arriving at the same time in the midwestern and southeastern . Usually it’s just one at a time. CNN has a visual guide for where the cicadas will be and why they’re here now. Basically, one brood emerges every 13 years and the other every 17, and there’s overlap.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2024/04/us/periodical-cicada-2024-visual-guide-scn-dg/

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says 's hackers preparing to attack infrastructure
Chinese government-linked hackers have burrowed into US and are waiting "for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow," FBI Director Christopher Wray said. An ongoing Chinese hacking campaign known as has successfully gained access to numerous companies in telecommunications, energy, water and other critical sectors, with 23 pipeline operators targeted
https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/fbi-says-chinese-hackers-preparing-attack-us-infrastructure-2024-04-18/

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Life boomed on half a billion years ago. You can thank .
The near collapse of ’s coincided with a spike in levels and a boom in , according to a new study.
Gift Article: https://wapo.st/3UN6LrH

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Storing energy with is about to have its moment of truth
Toronto-based Inc. is one of the businesses developing long-duration energy storage that has moved beyond lab scale and is now focusing on building big things. The company makes systems that store energy in the form of compressed air, which can be released to produce electricity for eight hours or longer.
Technology will be used to store wind and energy for use later.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/storing-energy-with-compressed-air-is-about-to-have-its-moment-of-truth/

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I’ve Covered Violent Crackdowns on for 15 Years. This Overreaction Was Unhinged.
When police attacked student , a lone trash can was the only damaged property I saw around City College of New York.
Between and , over 200 protesters — almost all — were arrested before the night was out.
Brutal policing and groundless excuses are nothing new, nor is bipartisan support for the crackdowns.
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

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Sue for and 'Fake News' Hallucinations
Eight newspapers, including the New York Daily News, and the , accuse the companies of training models on their content without permission or compensation. In addition, ChatGPT allegedly harms the plaintiffs' reputations by linking them to .
https://torrentfreak.com/newspapers-sue-openai-for-copyright-infringement-and-fake-news-240501/

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Academics probe 's settings and get lost and confused
Researchers note many studies examinedprivacy issues with 3rd-party apps for Apple devices, little literature investigates first-party apps – like Safari and Siri. Just disabling requires visits to five submenus.
They also criticize data collection by Apple apps like Safari and Siri, where data is sent, how users can (and can't) disable data tracking, and how Apple presents privacy options to users
https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/apple_apps_privacy_study/

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Vast tree of life for revealed by global science team using 1.8 billion letters of code
Scientists used 1.8B letters of genetic code from more than 9,500 covering almost 8,000 known flowering plant genera to create most up-to-date understanding of flowering plant tree of life. Looking ahead, authors believe this will aid future attempts to identify new species, refine plant classification, uncover new medicinal compounds, and conserve plants
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-vast-dna-tree-life-revealed.html

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The Meridional Overturning Circulation () is weakening in the deep sea of the North , study finds
Analysis of mooring observations and hydrographic data suggest Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation deep water limb in the has weakened, contributing to in the region. Two decades of continual observations provide a greater understanding of the ’s regulating system.
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-weakening-in-the-deep-sea-of-north-atlantic/

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Won’t Say Anything About Israel Using Its Software to Create Gaza “Hit List”
Google prohibits using its tech for “immediate harm,” but is harnessing its to set up a dragnet of Palestinians. https://theintercept.com/2024/04/05/google-photos-israel-gaza-facial-recognition/

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a ? You’ll Face Removal From Office
Reform-minded like ’s are facing backlash for prosecuting shootings and misconduct.
Four of called for an investigation into the Attorney Mary Moriarty. Only a few days earlier, Minnesota Republican state lawmakers called on to resign and drop charges against the in the case. https://theintercept.com/2024/03/22/mary-moriarty-minnesota-reform-police-union-removal/

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missions delayed by shortcomings
NASA's old are causing mission delays — NASA's supercomputers still rely primarily on , and one of its flagship supercomputers uses 18,000 CPUs and 48 . NASA's Office of Inspector General report suggests that transitioning to GPUs and modernization is essential for meeting NASA's current and future needs.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/15/nasa_oig_supercomputing_audit

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vendors dump , go for cash grab
First, build programs with open source. Then build business with open source. Then abandon it and cash out. For those of you who aren't open-source experts, this means can no longer use, in the most recent major case, ' code. Sure, as "," they can look at it, but they can't export, borrow from, or touch it https://www.computerworld.com/article/3714821/software-vendors-dump-open-source-go-for-the-cash-grab.html
Look at all the forks, and what is happening to them

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It’s a few years late, but a prototype has taken flight
Getting Boom’s Supersonic Test Jet airborne is an important moment for Boom in its efforts to develop economical supersonic travel.
"This milestone will be invaluable to Boom’s revival of supersonic travel." https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/03/its-a-few-years-late-but-a-prototype-supersonic-airplane-has-taken-flight/

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French Court Issues Damages Award for Violation of
On February 14, 2024, the Court of Appeal of Paris issued an order stating that Orange, a major French telecom provider, had infringed the of Entr'Ouvert's Lasso software and violated the GPL.
They ordered Orange to pay €500,000 in compensatory damages and €150,000 for moral damages.
https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/

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launches a billion-dollar science mission Trump tried to cancel
“It has been a long, strange trip," says the top scientist on , which stands for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem. This mission will study , microscopic fundamental to marine , and tiny particles called that play key role in cloud formation. Scientists say PACE will try to fill in some gaps in their understanding of . https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/trump-tried-to-kill-it-but-nasas-new-climate-satellite-is-finally-in-orbit/

BenjaminHCCarr , to Privacy
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A typo cast a location spanning two miles over
advocates have long argued that "geofence" search are for their ability to ensnare entirely innocent people who were nearby at the time a was committed. But errors in the geofence warrant applications that go before a judge can violate the of vastly more people -- in one case almost two miles away.
https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/11/geofence-warrant-dragnet-error/

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's Sued Its Over . A Judge Just Threw the Case Out.
Trader Joe's was an "obvious" ploy to gain an edge over the union, , the judge from the California Central said in their decision to dismiss. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjyq4/trader-joes-sued-its-union-over-tote-bags-a-judge-just-threw-the-case-out

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Rescue Was Floating For Downed
These floating hotels would serve as temporary safe houses for any unlucky enough to find themselves in the drink, but lucky enough to find themselves near one such bouy in . Warm, clean clothes, bunks, and even booze and board games were all available to the who managed to scramble up bobbing yellow rescue bouys. Each bouy was made to accommodate four men, and size and shape varied. https://jalopnik.com/wwii-rescue-buoy-was-a-floating-hotel-for-downed-pilots-1851112752

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Scientists Solved the Mystery of Strange 'Signal' from 's Core
Scientists report they've confirmed a link between 8.5yr signal and "wobble" in Earth's core. Concluding core must be tilted at around 17* relative to Earth’s mantle, or crust. This goes against current thinking that tilt is much greater and that the spin of core matches up with that of mantle. It also implies core isn’t a perfect sphere but rather is egg-shaped and denser in the northwestern portion. https://www.vice.com/en/article/bvjb75/scientists-have-solved-the-mystery-of-a-strange-signal-from-earths-core-study-reports

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Runs Coverage Past Team Operating Under Shadow of
Whether reporting from the Middle East, the United States, or anywhere else across the globe, every CNN covering Israel and Palestine must submit their work for review by the news organization’s bureau in Jerusalem prior to publication, under a long-standing CNN policy. https://theintercept.com/2024/01/04/cnn-israel-gaza-idf-reporting/

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The quest to turn dust into a viable solution
The rock is chock full of nutrients, captured as its crystal structure forms from cooling , and makes soil less acidic similar to , which f#armers often use to improve their .But basalt also comes with an important side benefit: It can naturally captures from the . Sprinkling rock dust on to soak up atmospheric carbon will be tested at large scale. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/the-quest-to-turn-basalt-dust-into-a-viable-climate-solution/

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Make no mistake— is owned by
If we’re not careful, , , and other large companies will leverage their position to set the policy agenda for AI, as they have in many other sectors. With vanishingly few exceptions, every , new entrant, and even AI research lab is dependent on computing infrastructure of Microsoft, Amazon, and to train their systems, and on those same firms’ vast consumer market reach to deploy and sell their AI. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084393/make-no-mistake-ai-is-owned-by-big-tech/

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-: Groundbreaking Encounter with Reveals Potential for Non-Human Intelligence Communication
The researchers from the SETI Institute, UC Davis, and the Alaska Whale Foundation report on the project in the science journal PeerJ: "Interactive playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: "conversing" with an Alaskan "
https://www.seti.org/press-release/whale-seti-groundbreaking-encounter-humpback-whales-reveals-potential-non-human-intelligence

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A With Six That Orbit Perfectly in Sync
One hundred light years away, a handful of planets are circling a star in the same configuration as when they formed. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/science/star-six-planets-orbit-sync.html
UnPayWalled: https://archive.ph/DMVu7

BenjaminHCCarr , to China
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“Mystery” in is mix of common respiratory germs, says
Reports caused alarm, but experts say it looks like a post- germ comeback, with , and surging. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/11/chinas-mystery-outbreak-likely-a-post-covid-surge-of-common-winter-germs/

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After months of wrangling, the Commission says it has decided to renew the license for the compound , approving its use in countries for ten more years

allows use of controversial weedkiller glyphosate for 10 more years
In the wake of a stalemate among member states, the has decided to approve the ’s continued use. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03589-z

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to : Protects People from Being Forced to Enter or Hand Over Passcodes to the
At stake is the fundamental principle that the government can’t force people to testify against themselves, including by revealing or using their passcodes.
Federal and state are split on whether prohibits police from compelling individuals to unlock their cell phones so prosecutors can look for incriminating evidence. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-supreme-court-fifth-amendment-protects-people-being-forced-enter-or-hand-over

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2023 paints grim picture while offering hope
It's not too late to act, but transition to needs to happen much faster.
“The effects of human-caused are already far-reaching and worsening across every region of the ,” the report says. But it adds each increment of warming avoided through cutting will reduce the risks and harmful impacts.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/11/2023-national-climate-assessment-paints-grim-picture-while-offering-hope/
Great read on coming current

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commissions three wind-powered to sail the
The plane-maker revealed it has “commissioned shipowner Louis Dreyfus Armateurs to build, own and operate these new, highly efficient vessels that will enter into service from 2026.” The ships feature half a dozen Flettner rotors, rotating cylinders that produce the Magnus effect – a phenomenon that produces lift thanks to pressure differences on either side of a rotating object.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/27/airbus_ships/

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Unveiling the Mysteries: New Insights on Why Marine Predators Dive Into the Dark, Deep Sea
New research using electronic tags and sonar data shows that large predators like and often dive into deep zone, interacting with its dense layer of organisms for feeding and possibly other purposes. This zone is crucial for both ecological balance and commercial fishing, requiring careful study and conservation to prevent irreversible damage https://scitechdaily.com/unveiling-the-mysteries-new-insights-on-why-marine-predators-dive-into-the-dark-deep-sea/

BenjaminHCCarr , to Privacy
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It’s shockingly easy to buy sensitive data about US personnel
A new report exposes the and concerns created by . US tell MIT Technology Review the industry needs to be regulated. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/11/06/1083002/sensitive-data-about-us-military-personnel-data-brokers/

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Zombie Are Waking Up After 50,000 Years as Planet Warms
Bloomberg looks at "zombie viruses" — long-dormant which they call "yet another risk that poses to " as ground that's been frozen for "milleniums" suddenly starts thawing — for example, in the , which is warming "faster than any other area on ."
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/scientist-sounded-alarm-50-000-080005420.html

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Scientists at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution () have made a fascinating discovery in the Arctic. They have found that ancient from in 's Archipelago have highest ratios of -3 () to helium-4 (). This suggests extremely high levels of 3He in these lavas might come from 's core. This groundbreaking finding could potentially rewrite our understanding of history of ancient elements in center of our planet. https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kgwd/earths-core-appears-to-be-leaking-in-the-arctic-and-scientists-dont-know-why

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Hydro are struggling to handle the world’s intensifying
is robbing some dams of while oversupplying others.
Like most of the world’s 58,700 large dams, those in California were built for yesterday’s more stable patterns. But climate change taxes the world’s water systems—affecting rainfall, snowmelt, and evaporation—it’s getting tough to predict how much water gets to a dam, and when—risking flooding downstream
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/10/hydro-dams-are-struggling-to-handle-the-worlds-intensifying-weather/

BenjaminHCCarr , to Android
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for hacking are now worth millions of dollars

seller offers $20M for hacking and
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/27/russian-zero-day-seller-offers-20m-for-hacking-android-and-iphones/

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If Bore the True Cost of Their , They’d Owe Trillions
And that doesn’t even include “downstream” spewing.
The true cost of ? 44% of corporate profits.
Yet governments are still pouring $7 trillion into subsidies for . https://grist.org/economics/true-cost-carbon-pollution-half-of-corporate-profits-climate/

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Popular Science describes how 's Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover (VIPER) will use a pair of ramps to become the first rover to explore the 's south pole when it arrives in late 2024
https://www.popsci.com/science/nasa-viper-moon-rover-test/

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Coastal Will Be More Extensive Sooner than Scientists Thought
Updated, more accurate data gives a new look at the effects of . https://hakaimagazine.com/news/coastal-flooding-will-be-more-extensive-sooner-than-scientists-thought/

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