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Russia has tested a nuclear-powered missile and could revoke a global atomic test ban, Putin says (apnews.com)

Video on subject, by Hindustan Times:...

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret (www.wired.com)

How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret::Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden.

Plex Sued for Copyright Infringement by Press Agency (torrentfreak.com)

Title is somewhat misleading. It’s not for anything video-related. It’s for using a (probably free) photo of actress Cuca Escribano without permission.

Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11 (CVE-2023-38545) · curl/curl · Discussion #12026 (github.com)

cross-posted from: biglemmowski.win/post/224873...

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook (www.wsj.com)

Meta Plans to Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook::European users would have option to pay fee or agree to personalized ads, according to company’s pitch to regulators

WATCH: U.S. announces sweeping action against Chinese fentanyl supply chain producers (www.pbs.org)

In one of the biggest actions the administration has taken against fentanyl trafficking, the U.S. on Tuesday announced a series of indictments and sanctions against 14 people and 14 firms across China and Canada related to the import of the drug to the United States.

Microsoft Defender no longer flags Tor Browser as malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

A Guide to Compiling the Linux Kernel All By Yourself (itsfoss.com)

Publisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To Their Own Repository (www.techdirt.com)

As a Walled Culture explained back in 2021, open access (OA) to published academic research comes in two main varieties. “Gold” open access papers are freely available to the public because the researchers’ institutions pay “article-processing charges” to a publisher. “Green” OA papers are available because the...

Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier ... (news.osu.edu)

Using fMRI scans on 19 lonely fans of “Game of Thrones”, researchers discovered that they processed their favorite characters similarly to real friends in their brains. This suggests that lonelier …::In lonely people, the boundary between real friends and favorite fictional characters gets blurred in the part of the brain...

Steam Deck 2 delay was right choice for Valve as mid-generation refresh would fare better (www.notebookcheck.net)

Mexico's president slams US aid for Ukraine and sanctions on Venezuela and Cuba (apnews.com)

López Obrador said the United States should spend some of the money sent to Ukraine on economic development in Latin America....

Lawmakers say government shutdown appears inevitable (thehill.com)

A government shutdown increasingly looks inevitable as GOP opponents of a stopgap in the Senate seek to drag out the process ahead of a midnight Sunday deadline....

Gilgo Beach killings suspect wants his hundreds of seized guns back so he can sell them | CNN (www.cnn.com)

Tesla trial over Autopilot fatality kicks off in California (www.reuters.com)

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Opening statements are set to begin on Thursday in the first U.S. trial over allegations that Tesla’s (TSLA.O) Autopilot driver assistant feature led to a death, and its results could help shape similar cases across the country....

New rule will cut federal money to college programs that leave grads with high debt, low pay (apnews.com)

Horizon Forbidden West Coming to PC (www.theverge.com)

CAN’T WAIT!

Antenna TV is pretty cool, actually (www.spacebar.news)

It's always "temporary troubleshooting" (looty.buckodr.ink)

Not OC

I can be butterfly? 🥺👉👈 (lemmus.org)

US offers Poland rare loan of $2 billion to modernize its military (apnews.com)

Where to post Academic Articles (libranet.de) en-us

I was recently unable to find a particular journal article I wanted to read that was referenced in something else I was reading. I only could find an abstract on Google Scholar, and nothing at all on Z-lib. I was able to get a full copy by just emailing the author at her university (I guess its true that most of them will give...