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Submission + - Declawing cats causes them lifelong pain. It's time to ban the practice, says re (phys.org)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: Our findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, were striking: we discovered that declawing causes long-term nerve damage, increased sensitivity to pain, and exacerbated mobility issues, particularly in heavier cats. These animals' nervous systems are overloaded from an early age and eventually become exhausted, which leads to chronic fatigue, hypersensitivity and decreased well-being.

In other words, declawing cats condemns them to a life of pain.

Declawing does not mean simply cutting the claws. It involves amputating the last phalanx of each toe, usually on the front paws, sometimes on all four paws. The operation is performed using a scalpel blade, a surgical laser, or sterilized claw clippers.

Comment Re:The domination of the personal device (Score 1) 80

by Z00L00K (#65634812) Attached to: Chrome Increases Its Overwhelming Market Share, Now Over 70%

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.

Comment Re:Soy and fake meats (Score 2, Interesting) 175

by Z00L00K (#65630514) Attached to: Americans Are Having Less Sex Than Ever

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

Submitted by sinij
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)

Submitted by schwit1
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.

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)

Submitted by Agnapot
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.

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