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Submission Summary: 1 pending, 57 declined, 13 accepted (71 total, 18.31% accepted)

Submission + - Android Open Source Is Becoming a Controlled Experiment (reclaimthenet.org)

alternative_right writes: Google’s latest move to withhold crucial components from the Android 16 source release has sent ripples through the privacy and custom ROM communities, reviving fears that the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) is being quietly hollowed out.

While the company insists AOSP isn’t being discontinued, its actions are telling a different story for developers who rely on Pixel devices as their foundation.

Submission + - Strange radio pulses detected coming from ice in Antarctica (phys.org) 1

alternative_right writes: Rather than reflecting off the ice, the signals—a form of radio waves—appeared to be coming from below the horizon, an orientation that cannot be explained by the current understanding of particle physics and may hint at new types of particles or interactions previously unknown to science, the team said.

Submission + - US immigration agency flies drones capable of surveillance over LA protests (theguardian.com)

alternative_right writes: Customs and Border Protection is flying surveillance drones over the Los Angeles protests, the agency confirmed in a statement on Thursday. The drones in question are MQ-9 Predators, some models of which are equipped with technology that would enable high-altitude surveillance.

Submission + - A Mathematician Calculated The Size of a Giant Meatball Made of Every Human (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: "If you blended all 7.88 billion people on Earth into a fine goo (density of a human = 985 kg/m3, average human body mass = 62 kg), you would end up with a sphere of human goo just under 1 km wide," Reddit contributor kiki2703 wrote in a post I've since bookmarked for sharing at the family barbeques I'm no longer allowed to attend.

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Submission + - Caffeine Has a Weird Effect on Your Brain While You're Asleep (sciencealert.com) 1

alternative_right writes: Caffeine was shown to increase brain signal complexity, and shift the brain closer to a state of 'criticality', in tests run by researchers from the University of Montreal in Canada. This criticality refers to the brain being balanced between structure and flexibility, thought to be the most efficient state for processing information, learning, and making decisions.

Submission + - International Day of Slayer XX (June 6, 2025) (nationaldayofslayer.org)

alternative_right writes: On June 6th, Hessians worldwide come together to do something upon which we can all agree — listening to Slayer! Finally, one of the most dismissed cultural groups in the world has a holiday to call its own. Join us in our cause to stand unified in our celebration of metal music and let us prove to the rest of society that we too have a voice.

Submission + - Missions to Mars with the Starship could only take three months (phys.org)

alternative_right writes: Many researchers consider the technology the only means to reduce transit times to the point that a mission will fall within NASA's career radiation limit of ~600 millisieverts (mSv). Kingdon's study challenges this prevailing assumption and advances the theory that a 90-day transfer can be achieved using conventional propulsion.

Submission + - Student discovers long-awaited mystery fungus sought by LSD's inventor (sciencedaily.com) 2

alternative_right writes: Morning glory plants live in symbiosis with fungi that produce the same ergot alkaloids the Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann modified when he invented LSD in the late 1930s.

Hofmann hypothesized that a fungus in morning glories produced alkaloids similar to those in LSD, but the species remained a mystery until Hazel and Panaccione's discovery.

Submission + - The CIA Secretly Ran a Star Wars Fan Site (404media.co)

alternative_right writes: The site looks like an ordinary Star Wars fan website from around 2010. But starwarsweb.net was actually a tool built by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to covertly communicate with its informants in other countries.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.404media.co%2Fthe-ci...

 

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