Comment Re: Surprised Firefox is not higher (Score 1) 77
I haven't noticed that it uses more RAM than other browsers and the benefits are great since it's allowing me to run uBlock origin with its full power.
Comment Re:The domination of the personal device (Score 1) 77
Microsoft recommends Edge, then continues to annoy people trying to use it with a horribly long chain of totally stupid and unnecessary questions that nobody wants ending with a horrible MSN page instead of just opening a blank page right away.
Things shall just work, don't be annoying to the users with unnecessary pop-ups trying to inform users about the next flashy feature and so on while they are trying to do real work.
Submission + - Common Pesticide Linked to Widespread Brain Abnormalities in Children (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: Progressively higher prenatal exposure to chlorpyrifos was associated with incrementally greater deviations in brain structure, function, and metabolism in children and teens, the researchers found, along with poorer measures of motor speed and motor programming.
Comment Re: Alternate title (Score 1) 81
Skilled?
Comment Re: Screw CEOs (Score 2) 81
To me it seems like Salesforce is one of the companies just above telemarketer tier that is just a waste of money.
Comment Re: no surprises there. (Score 1) 206
It depends on the amount of tourists, the type and where.
Comment Re:The cloud is a trap (Score 4, Informative) 13
"The first fix is free" comes to mind.
If I buy a computer then I know the expenses and all that remains is cost of electricity and internet access.
Comment Re:Soy and fake meats (Score 2, Interesting) 175
I think that a nation-wide power outage of a week or two could make a difference.
Then we also have cases of women being more picky these days. The search for perfection is one of the problems. Then you have the economic incentive - two working people in a family aren't always able to afford children due to the exaggerated property costs. It doesn't matter if you rent or buy - the cost has to be reclaimed.
Submission + - SPAM: Old KeeLoq vulnerabilities exploited with Flipper Zero to unlock cars
sinij writes:
KeeLoq was developed in the 1980s and used in older access systems like garage doors and early car alarms. Itâ(TM)s whatâ(TM)s called a rolling code or hopping code system. The idea is that every transmission uses a new unique signal, encrypted with a 64-bit manufacturer key. This manufacturer key is the weak spot of KeeLoq. The problem was that carmakers often used the same key across an entire model line. If that key leaked, an attacker could intercept signals from any remote of that brand. The authors of these âoehackerâ firmwares are just redistributing old leaked manufacturer keys from various automakers. None of this is new â" these vulnerabilities were thoroughly documented back in 2006: [spam URL stripped]...
I am not sure if I should be surprised that a modern car would be vulnerable to KeeLoq vulnerabilities.
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Submission + - AI is Killing the Internet. Don't Let It Kill the Classroom Too. (realcleareducation.com)
schwit1 writes: AI isn’t merely churning out fluff. In one striking example, bots fueled a disproportionate share of the online discourse following mass shootings, and AI actively spreads misinformation. Online content is increasingly spun up by algorithms for other algorithms to amplify. This deluge of automated content is drowning humanity on the internet.
Lately, it seems that a similar dynamic is charging into our college classrooms with developers of educational technology at its vanguard. Let’s call it the Dead Education Theory, and it works something like this:
A college professor uses one of many dozens of free commercial AI tools to draft a rubric and an assignment prompt for their class. A student pastes that prompt into another AI app that produces an essay that they submit as their completed assignment. Pressed for time, the professor runs the paper through an AI tool that instantly spits out tidy boilerplate feedback. Off in the background, originality checkers and paraphrasing bots duel in an endless game of evasion and detection. On paper, the learning loop is complete. The essay is written. The grade is given. And the class moves on to its next assignment.
It’s entirely likely that this scenario is playing out thousands of times every day. A 2024 global survey from the Digital Education Council found that 86% of college students use AI in their studies, with more than half (54%) deploying it at least weekly and a quarter using it daily. Faculty are increasingly using AI to create teaching materials, boost student engagement, and generate student feedback, although most report just minimal to moderate AI use.
Lately, it seems that a similar dynamic is charging into our college classrooms with developers of educational technology at its vanguard. Let’s call it the Dead Education Theory, and it works something like this:
A college professor uses one of many dozens of free commercial AI tools to draft a rubric and an assignment prompt for their class. A student pastes that prompt into another AI app that produces an essay that they submit as their completed assignment. Pressed for time, the professor runs the paper through an AI tool that instantly spits out tidy boilerplate feedback. Off in the background, originality checkers and paraphrasing bots duel in an endless game of evasion and detection. On paper, the learning loop is complete. The essay is written. The grade is given. And the class moves on to its next assignment.
It’s entirely likely that this scenario is playing out thousands of times every day. A 2024 global survey from the Digital Education Council found that 86% of college students use AI in their studies, with more than half (54%) deploying it at least weekly and a quarter using it daily. Faculty are increasingly using AI to create teaching materials, boost student engagement, and generate student feedback, although most report just minimal to moderate AI use.
Exit quote: “Banning AI tools isn’t realistic; the genie has escaped that bottle. But instead of allowing AI to drain higher education of its humanity, we must design a future where AI amplifies authentic human thinking. AI will be in the classroom — there’s no question about that. The urgent question is how to keep humanity there as well.”
Submission + - MARATHON experiment offers most precise measurement of nucleon structure yet (phys.org)
Agnapot writes: A few Particle Physicists got to do a once in a lifetime experiment.
Over the past decades, some physicists have been trying to devise new experiments that could help to shed new light on the internal structure of nucleons (Protons and Neutrons). One of these experiments is the so-called MARATHON (MeAsurement of the F/F, d/u Ratio and A=3 EMC Effect in Deep Inelastic Scattering off Tritium and Helium-3 Mirror Nuclei) [In the running for Most Convoluted Acronym Ever!] experiment, carried by the Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration.
Recently, the researchers involved in this experiment published the most precise measurement yet of the ratio of the neutron and proton structure functions (F/F), which essentially describes the share of momentum among quarks inside nucleons. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, opens new possibilities for testing modern models of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and other theoretical predictions.
"This is the second publication of the MARATHON Jefferson Lab experimental project, which was initiated back by Mina Katramatou and Makis Petratos of Kent State University, Javier Gomez of Jefferson Lab and Roy Holt of Argonne National Lab. The experiment had to wait for the 12 GeV energy upgrade of the Lab and a lengthy safety review process as it required the use of a radioactive tritium gas target. It was fully approved in 2011 and took data in 2018—almost 20 years after its inception." Makis Petratos, spokesperson of the JLab MARATHON experiment, told Phys.org.
Over the past decades, some physicists have been trying to devise new experiments that could help to shed new light on the internal structure of nucleons (Protons and Neutrons). One of these experiments is the so-called MARATHON (MeAsurement of the F/F, d/u Ratio and A=3 EMC Effect in Deep Inelastic Scattering off Tritium and Helium-3 Mirror Nuclei) [In the running for Most Convoluted Acronym Ever!] experiment, carried by the Jefferson Lab Hall A Tritium Collaboration.
Recently, the researchers involved in this experiment published the most precise measurement yet of the ratio of the neutron and proton structure functions (F/F), which essentially describes the share of momentum among quarks inside nucleons. Their paper, published in Physical Review Letters, opens new possibilities for testing modern models of quantum chromodynamics (QCD) and other theoretical predictions.
"This is the second publication of the MARATHON Jefferson Lab experimental project, which was initiated back by Mina Katramatou and Makis Petratos of Kent State University, Javier Gomez of Jefferson Lab and Roy Holt of Argonne National Lab. The experiment had to wait for the 12 GeV energy upgrade of the Lab and a lengthy safety review process as it required the use of a radioactive tritium gas target. It was fully approved in 2011 and took data in 2018—almost 20 years after its inception." Makis Petratos, spokesperson of the JLab MARATHON experiment, told Phys.org.
Comment A good reason to avoid Facebook (Score 4, Informative) 105
You can't trust them and don't use them for anything important. Many AIs hallucinate randomly or are trigged by things like mixed language, jargong or false hash positives where a legal and an illegal image can have the same hash.
Comment Re:Nothing to see here, just move along? (Score 1) 28
And still it wastes a lot of energy doing the indexing and the usefulness is marginal for most people. It has never helped me finding my documents but in many cases caused an unwanted result to pop over the wanted result right before I clicked the wanted result.
Comment Re:Nothing to see here, just move along? (Score 1) 28
I wouldn't be surprised if the issue is caused by something like the Windows Search service that runs in the background indexing whatever you have.
Submission + - To defend against Russian tanks, Finland and Poland consider restoring wetlands (france24.com)
alternative_right writes: Finland and Poland are both considering rewetting dried-out peatbogs to form defence barriers against a potential Russian ground invasion. Restoring these natural carbon sinks could also bring significant environmental benefits.
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