Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com)
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores | Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech. (gizmodo.com)
The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores | Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.::Gizmodo’s tests found the higher-ed gatekeeper shares GPAs, SAT scores, and other data with big tech.
Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds (www.engadget.com)
Scientists strengthen concrete by 30 percent with used coffee grounds::Researchers in Australia have found a new use for old coffee grounds: concrete doping!.
India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent (www.independent.co.uk)
India just landed on the Moon for less than it cost to make Interstellar | The Independent::undefined
The EU’s Digital Services Act goes into effect today: here’s what that means (www.theverge.com)
Social Media Algorithms Warp How People Learn from Each Other (www.scientificamerican.com)
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests (www.businessinsider.com)
The pedestrian detection systems in self-driving cars are less likely to detect children and people of color, study suggests::Researchers say the results stem from biases present in open-source AI, on which self-driving cars rely.
First observations ever of the outskirts of a supermassive black hole's accretion disk (phys.org)
28 years ago, Windows 95 entered general availability (August 24th 1995) (en.wikipedia.org)
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Is an end to using imperiled horseshoe crabs for U.S. drug testing in sight? (www.science.org)
Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses (techxplore.com)
Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses::Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.
IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business (www.cnbc.com)
IBM selling The Weather Channel and the rest of its weather business::IBM will sell The Weather Company to Francisco Partners, a tech-focused private equity firm, for an undisclosed sum, it announced Tuesday.
You can now use Python in Microsoft Excel (www.pcworld.com)
Miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation. (lemmy.world)
I miss the old Twitter when I saw the stupid X animation....
Wind-assisted Cargo Ships (www.reuters.com)
“The five-year old Pyxis Ocean has been retrofitted with WindWings, large wing sails measuring up to 37.5 meters in height fitted to the deck of the cargo ship.”
Congress Is Pushing An Online Safety Bill Supported By Anti-LGBTQ Groups (www.vice.com)
NASA Shares First Images from US Pollution-Monitoring Instrument (www.nasa.gov)
Apple security updates could be banned by British government (9to5mac.com)
Everyone in the tech industry facepalms almost every time legislators try to pontificate on technology, but the British government appears to be trying to set a new record. After putting iMessage and FaceTime at risk, the government is now suggesting that it might ban some Apple security updates.
Apple backs California Right to Repair Act after long fight (www.theregister.com)
Hell freezes over as Apple supports right-to-repair bill (arstechnica.com)
Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI's web crawler GPTBot (www.businessinsider.com)
Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI’s web crawler GPTBot::Companies like Amazon and The New York Times are rushing to prevent ChatGPT from collecting their data.
Microsoft signing keys keep getting hijacked, to the delight of Chinese threat actors (arstechnica.com)
150,000 workers vote to authorize strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford — Workers are fighting for increased pay, retirement pensions, and better benefits (www.investopedia.com)
150,000 workers vote to authorize strikes at Stellantis, GM, and Ford — Workers are fighting for increased pay, retirement pensions, and better benefits::Workers at the automotive Big Three have voted to authorize a strike when contracts expire on Sept. 14, bringing the nation one step closer to a major labor stoppage costing...
Hosting firm says it lost all customer data after ransomware attack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually (techxplore.com)
Steam condenser coating could save 460 million tons of carbon dioxide annually:: If coal and natural gas power generation were 2% more efficient, then every year, there could be 460 million fewer tons of carbon dioxide released and 2 trillion fewer gallons of water used. A recent innovation to the steam cycle used in fossil fuel...
