- arstechnica.com Apple Intelligence and other features won’t launch in the EU this year
iPhone Mirroring and SharePlay screen sharing will also skip the EU for now.
- web.archive.org Global beef production to contract
Rabobank’s latest beef report projects cattle prices to maintain at current levels.
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Chat control vote postponed
www.patrick-breyer.de Chat control vote postponed: Huge success in defense of digital privacy of correspondence!Today EU governments will not adopt their position on the EU regulation on “combating child sexual abuse”, the so-called chat control regulation, as planned, which would have heralded the end of private messages and secure encryption. The Belgian Council presidency postponed the vote at short notice
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European privacy group nyob ("none of your business") has filed a GDPR complaint against OpenAI about ChatGPT
noyb.eu ChatGPT provides false information about people, and OpenAI can’t correct itnoyb today filed a complaint against the ChatGPT maker OpenAI with the Austrian DPA
- arstechnica.com Tesla recalls all 3,878 Cybertrucks over faulty accelerator pedal cover
This time there's no over-the-air software patch.
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The Apple Vision Pro is the best consumer headset anyone’s ever made — and that’s the problem.
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screenshot of this paragraph of text: > That’s good! There are a lot of ideas in the Vision Pro, and they’re all executed with the kind of thoughtful intention that few other companies can ever deliver at all, let alone on the first iteration. But the shocking thing is that Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream. This is the best video passthrough headset ever made, and that might mean camera-based mixed reality passthrough could just be a road to nowhere. This is the best hand- and eye-tracking ever, and it feels like the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen are going to remain undefeated for years to come. There is so much technology in this thing that feels like magic when it works and frustrates you completely when it doesn’t.
with "Apple may have inadvertently revealed that some of these core ideas are actually dead ends — that they can’t ever be executed well enough to become mainstream" highlighted.
https://www.theverge.com/24054862/apple-vision-pro-review-vr-ar-headset-features-price
- thehill.com Trust in AI companies drops to 35 percent in new study
Trust in artificial intelligence (AI) companies has dipped to 35 percent over a five-year period in the U.S., according to new data. The data, released Tuesday by public relations firm Edelman, fou…
the actual report is probably not worth reading (it's the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer (9.5MB pdf) produced by this PR firm), but, headlines like this one being derived from it at various publications makes it good news :)
- arstechnica.com Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says
Cops have alternative means to access encrypted messages, court says.
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hello again!
phys.org NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on MarsNASA has re-established contact with its tiny helicopter on Mars, the US space agency said Saturday, after an unexpected outage prompted fears that the hard-working craft had finally met its end.
cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/634524
> NASA regains contact with mini-helicopter on Mars > > There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.
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Engineers at MIT and in China develop desalination system which could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water
news.mit.edu Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap waterA new solar desalination system takes in saltwater and heats it with natural sunlight. The system flushes out accumulated salt, so replacement parts aren’t needed often, meaning the system could potentially produce drinking water that is cheaper than tap water.
It looks like the paper is paywalled and not yet on scihub but i did find 38 pages of supplemental information with more details than the article.
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Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
techcrunch.com Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy | TechCrunchBird has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, capping off a turbulent year for the electric scooter company after it was delisted from the NYSE.
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the US military fell short of their 2023 recruiting goals by about 41,000 recruits. cited causes include "more options for young people" and that Gen Z "generally has a low trust in institutions"
www.defense.gov DOD Addresses Recruiting Shortfall ChallengesShortfalls in some of the military services' recruiting goals for fiscal year 2023 demonstrate the challenges that lie ahead for the all-volunteer force, the Defense Department's acting undersecretary
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The FCC’s final denial today of Starlink's bid to receive $886 million in rural broadband subsidies says it hasn’t proven it can “deliver the promised service” of rural broadband.
www.theverge.com Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidiesThe FCC decided it wouldn’t be the “best” use of limited funds.
- www.theguardian.com Mexico supreme court decriminalizes abortion across country
Decision to remove abortion from federal penal code comes amid trend in Latin America of loosening restrictions on procedure
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Teen Girl’s Secret Message Left in a Wall 48 Years Ago is Found Tucked in Bottle
PEORIA — Imagine if the walls could talk in a house built in 1872. In a way, they did for a home located in the heart of tiny Green Valley, a village located 30 miles south of Peoria. A 14-year-old girl's message, written 48 years ago and hidden in a bottle behind a wall in an ancient house in Tazewell County, was discovered this month by a carpenter, sparked a mystery, and led to a viral video on an online social media site and tales on a Facebook page. Sunnyland resident Dakota Mohn was working on the house as part of restoration from a fire. When he pulled apart the living room wall, the framework had a message scrawled on it: "Note 9/29/1975" and arrows pointing to a notch in the wood. Behind that notch was a compartment as a resting place for a bottle holding a two-page note signed by Stephanie Herron. "My crew was in there demolishing the front living room of the house," said Mohn, an Illini Bluffs graduate who is a third-generation carpenter. "I was cleaning up debris and I looked up and saw lettering on the wall said 'Note.' I stuck my cell phone in there and took a picture and saw it in this bottle. Took it out and read the note. "It was like this 14-year-old girl was standing there talking to us, took us back almost half a century right there."
Stephanie Herron grew up one of five girls, living with her parents at the old house in Green Valley from 1968 until she headed off to college at Western Illinois University. Her parents continued living there until 2002. Today, she is Stephanie Poit, she is 61, and she's lived a lifetime in New York, married and with five kids. "I was shocked, absolutely shocked, when I heard about the note," she said. "Honestly, I forgot all about it. Life goes on, years go by … I can't believe how much this has struck people. I've gotten notes from people who remember me as a kid growing up in Green Valley. It was a good place to grow up. "And I'm getting notes from people I don't know, teachers a lot of them, who are inspired to have their students do the same thing now. Hey, I guess I'm a Facebook sensation. The whole thing is amazing." She's a TikTok sensation, too, with a video about her hidden message approaching 1 million views this weekend. The house in Green Valley had a railroad track running next to the property, and she and her siblings would watch the trains every day. Her father was a lineman for the Chicago & North Western Railway. The old house was initially a two-level structure, but the family kept adding additions, closing in a front porch to create a living room, kitchen and bathroom. During one such renovation in 1975, Stephanie Poit wrote a two-page letter, rolled it up into a small bottle, and put it behind the frame, where it remained hidden behind the wall for nearly 50 years. "Do you remember why you did something at age 14?" Poit said, laughing. "We were moving into the bicentennial, and everyone was doing time capsules, it was a thing all over the place in 1975. So I did one. Then I went off to college, and moved to New York City and forgot all about it."
Poit's hand-written note included her parents' occupations, her sibling's name, the name of the current President, the railroad near their yard and special wishes for those who might one day live in the house. To whoever finds this: Today is Sept. 29, 1975. My name is Stephanie Herron. I live here with my mother, father (Earnest), Becky and Valerie. Gerald Ford is president. Mrs. Lay is our neighbor. Mom is pregnant and the baby is due any day now. As far as we know, this house was made in 1872. We are remodeling the house. The Illinois Central Railroad is on the west side of the house. We have lived here for 8 years. My dad works the Chicago Northwestern Railroad. Green Valley has about 650 people. I am 14, Val is 16 and Becky is 12. I hope you have lots of happiness in this house. Steph PS: My mother's name is Rose Herron. She is a registered nurse. She works at Hopedale Nursing home. She was born in Nebraska. She is a very good mother. Her youngest sister, by the way, was born the very next day. Life after Green Valley The Herron family lived in the Green Valley house until 2002, although Stephanie was off to college and New York well before that. Her father died in 1998, and her mother died in 2002. She has a sister residing in Hopedale and another in Decatur. She hasn't seen the house in Green Valley in decades. "I went to New York after college because I wanted to work with inner-city kids, and I did that for a lot of years," Poit said. "I lived in the Bronx for a while. Now I live in Brooklyn. I worked for a boys club program that put children and animals together. I'm working now in a chiropractic office, and I teach children through my church. Teaching is where my heart is. The Lord opened some doors for me." And fortunately, closed up some walls, too, or we wouldn't have this mystery and walk back through time.
There was more than Poit's note found at the house in Green Valley. Poit hid some coins in another location, and those have turned up. Mohn also found a toy car. "That's a mystery, I didn't have any brothers and my sisters and I didn't have any toy cars," Poit said. "I have no idea who put that there." Mohn said the house is owned now by Dylan Alig. He says their plan is to build a shadow box into the wall, displaying the message on the wood. "And both of us are going to leave a note in the wall for someone else to find in the future," Mohn said. And Mohn says there is another mystery in Green Valley. He says Poit recalls a time capsule being buried somewhere in the town over 50 years ago. It's been forgotten to time, and he says it's never been found. As for Stephanie Poit's letter, what is to become of it? "I think they should just put it back," Poit said. "Let it stay in that wall, be a mystery for someone else to find later."
Dave Eminian is the Journal Star sports columnist, and covers Bradley men's basketball, the Rivermen and Chiefs. He writes the Cleve In The Eve sports column for pjstar.com. He can be reached at 686-3206 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @icetimecleve.
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It looks like a DDoS but Its not #HugOfDeath
Thanks to the #RedditMigration and #redditBlackOut the "flagship" instances of #lemmy and #kbin have been experiencign the "hug of death" #DdOS If you have the ability to spin up an instance to help out, please do. Alternatively get folks to register for smaller instances like lemmy.ca fedi.io feddit.de and even ones that ar e primarily in languages other than your own fedia.io/
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‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at Elsevier over unethical fees
www.theguardian.com ‘Too greedy’: mass walkout at global science journal over ‘unethical’ feesEntire board resigns over actions of academic publisher whose profit margins outstrip even Google and Amazon
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The war in Yemen is ending
badnews.substack.com BREAKING: The war in Yemen is endingThe war in Yemen looks like it’s coming to an end. U.S. media reported yesterday that a cease fire extending through 2023 had been agreed to, but those reports also included Houthi denials. But today Al Mayadeen, a generally pro-Houthi Lebanese news outlet, is reporting optimism from the Houthi side...
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FCC denies SpaceX bid for nearly $1 billion in rural broadband subsidies for Starlink (August 2022)
www.cnbc.com FCC denies SpaceX bid for nearly $1 billion in rural broadband subsidies for StarlinkThe FCC said Starlink "failed to demonstrate that the providers could deliver the promised service" needed to receive the subsidies.
- www.theverge.com Disney reportedly eliminates metaverse division in first round of layoffs
Part of job cuts planned for 7,000 Disney employees.
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Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect Amazon
www.reuters.com Exclusive: Brazil launches first anti-deforestation raids under Lula bid to protect AmazonAn area larger than Denmark was deforested during the tenure of former President Bolsonaro.
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Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub
techcrunch.com Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps | TechCrunchTumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open, decentralized social networking protocol that today is powering social networking software like Twitter alternative Mastodon, the Instagram-like Pixelfed, video streaming service PeerTube, and others.
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Meta (Facebook) has lost US$650 billion in market value in the last year
globalnews.ca Since becoming Meta, Facebook’s parent company has lost US$650 billion in market value - National | Globalnews.caIt has been exactly one year to the day since Facebook's parent company rebranded as Meta, and in that time the company has entered financial free-fall.
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WhatsApp goes down for users globally
www.theguardian.com WhatsApp messaging platform back online after global outagesPlatform apologises after users across the world report issues sending messages
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Cuba's new Family Code is the result of a participatory process that produced 20 drafts following nearly 80,000 neighbourhood meetings and almost 500,000 public proposals.
nitter.it Progressive International (@ProgIntl)The new Family Code took shape through a participatory process that involved 6,481,200 people, or around 75% of the Cuban electorate. Over 20 new drafts of the law were produced following nearly 80,000 neighbourhood meetings and almost 500,000 public proposals.
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Heroku to stop offering free plans
sdtimes.com Heroku to stop offering free plans - SD TimesHeroku stated that it will stop offering free product plans on November 28th and that it is planning to shut down free dynos and data services.
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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
blog.zulip.com Why Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodusOn July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past 90 days of message history and...