One of the beautiful things about the Spider-Verse movies is they create an open slate for any and everything Spider-Man to happen. And, with the second film in that series opening this week, one of the film’s producers confirmed that soon the real world is about to get very Spider-Versey.
Source: Gizmodo – Miles Morales and Spider-Woman May Be Getting New Spider-Movies
If someone were to study the color palette of my diet, they would find a lot of beige and yellow, and most of the yellow would be from butter and egg yolks. I consume a lot of both, often at the same time, which is why it’s slightly surprising it took me this long to make egg yolk butter or, more specifically,…
Source: LifeHacker – Soy-Cured Egg Yolk Butter Is My New Favorite Spread
Getting an open-source LLM model deployed onto infrastructure has often been a bespoke process of trial and error as developers figure out the right compute resources and configuration parameters. It’s also not easy for developers to simply compare one model with another. These are some of the challenges Anyscale is looking to help solve with Aviary.
Source: LXer – Want to easily deploy an open-source LLM? Anyscale’s Aviary project takes flight
Amazon settled two different privacy cases with the Federal Trade Commission for just under $31 million Wednesday, agreeing to penalties for violating children’s privacy with its Alexa smart speakers and exposing Ring smart doorbell users videos to everyone at the company.
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon Settles Ring and Alexa Privacy Suits for Million With the FTC
Yesterday, Magic: The Gathering revealed the remaining cards of its special Universes Beyond collaboration with Middle-earth Enterprises. The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth is the first crossover collection of its size with Magic: The Gathering, and it is, frankly, the most obvious property to invest in.
Source: Gizmodo – Magic: The Gathering Is Making Racists Mad, and That’s Good
AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver engineers have out a rather significant set of patches this week to their display code “DC” for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver…
Source: Phoronix – AMDGPU Linux Driver Enabling FreeSync Video By Default, Improved Power Savings
Diablo IV, out on June 5 for most major platforms, features an assortment of side quests. The loot-hunting RPG has some 213 optional missions, half of which I haven’t seen during my short time with the game. But of the others I’ve played during the open beta in mid-March and the review build earlier in May, there’s…
Source: Kotaku – Diablo IV Has A Sexy, Gross Side-Quest That Will Haunt You
Enlarge / An image of a ring-shaped supramolecule where only one Fe atom is present in the entire ring. (credit: Saw-Wai Hla)
Atomic-scale imaging emerged in the mid-1950s and has been advancing rapidly ever since—so much so, that back in 2008, physicists successfully used an electron microscope to image a single hydrogen atom. Five years later, scientists were able to peer inside a hydrogen atom using a “quantum microscope,” resulting in the first direct observation of electron orbitals. And now we have the first X-ray taken of a single atom, courtesy of scientists from Ohio University, Argonne National Laboratory, and the University of Illinois-Chicago, according to a new paper published in the journal Nature.
“Atoms can be routinely imaged with scanning probe microscopes, but without X-rays one cannot tell what they are made of,” said co-author Saw-Wai Hla, a physicist at Ohio University and Argonne National Laboratory. “We can now detect exactly the type of a particular atom, one atom at a time, and can simultaneously measure its chemical state. Once we are able to do that, we can trace the materials down to [the] ultimate limit of just one atom. This will have a great impact on environmental and medical sciences.”
When the average non-scientist thinks of an atom, chances are they envision some popularized version of the classic, much-maligned Bohr model of the atom. That’s the one where electrons move about the atomic nucleus in circular orbits, like planets orbiting the Sun in our Solar System. The orbits have set discrete energies, and those energies are related to an orbit’s size: The lowest energy, or “ground state,” is associated with the smallest orbit. Whenever an electron changes speed or direction (according to the Bohr model), it emits radiation in the specific frequencies associated with particular orbitals.
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Source: Ars Technica – This is the first X-ray taken of a single atom
Meta lashed out at its home state on Wednesday, threatening to shut off access to news links on Facebook and Instagram in California if the legislature passed a bill forcing it to pay news publishers for their journalism.
Source: Gizmodo – Facebook Threatens to Nuke News in California if Forced to Pay Publishers
Mozilla: Firefox version 115 will be the last supported Firefox version for users of Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1. If you are using these versions of Windows you will be moved to the Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) channel by an application update. Mozilla will provide security updates for these users until September 2024. No security updates will be provided after that date.
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Source: Slashdot – Firefox Users on Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 Moving To Extended Support Release
Amazon employees staged a walkout on Wednesday, citing a “lack of trust” in leadership for its back-to-office mandate and to rally the tech giant to do more to curb climate change. The walk-out is took place worldwide with 1,900 employees pledged to walk out at 3 p.m. EST, 870 of whom are based in Seattle, however,…
Source: Gizmodo – Amazon Employees Walk Out to Fight Back-to-Office Policy and Climate Change
Canonical now provides optimized Ubuntu 22.04 LTS images for the AMD-Xilinx Versal VCK190 Evaluation Kits (non-ES) models.
The post Ubuntu Now Runs on AMD-Xilinx Versal Adaptive SoC Evaluation Kits appeared first on Linux Today.
Source: Linux Today – Ubuntu Now Runs on AMD-Xilinx Versal Adaptive SoC Evaluation Kits
The Food and Drug Administration is warning people to stay away from suspect sources of semaglutide, the active ingredient in popular weight loss drugs Wegovy and Ozempic. The agency has received reports of adverse effects from people using semaglutide created by compounding pharmacies. Additionally, some of these…
Source: Gizmodo – Ozempic Craze Has Spawned a Sketchy Black Market, FDA Warns
There’s a macabre adage in journalism: If it bleeds, it leads. That means, in essence, that the more violence or conflict a story contains, the more prominent it will appear, whether in print or on television. In the extremely online era, the variety of bad news to which we are regularly exposed—violence and war,…
Source: LifeHacker – Schedule Your News Consumption to Feel Bad When It’s More Convenient
The code-tagging mechanism proposed last
year by Suren Baghdasaryan and Kent Overstreet has been the subject of a
number of (sometimes tense) discussions. That conversation came to the
memory-management track at the 2023 Linux
Storage, Filesystem, Memory-Management and BPF Summit, where its
developers (Baghdasaryan attending in-person and Overstreet remotely) tried
to convince the attendees that its benefits justify its cost.
Source: LWN.net – [$] Code tagging and memory-allocation profiling
Enlarge / The prototype of the Q6 e-tron is the first on the new Premium Platform Electric (PPE) technology architecture. (credit: Audi)
One of the auto industry trends I’m most excited about these days is the move to clean-sheet designs for car platforms and architectures. For decades, features have accumulated like cruft in new vehicles: a box here to control the antilock brakes, a module there to run the cruise control radar, and so on. Now engineers and designers are rationalizing the way they go about building new models, taking advantage of much more powerful hardware to consolidate all those discrete functions into a small number of domain controllers.
The behavior of new cars is increasingly defined by software, too. This is merely the progression of a trend that began at the end of the 1970s with the introduction of the first electronic engine control units; today, code controls a car’s engine and transmission (or its electric motors and battery pack), the steering, brakes, suspension, interior and exterior lighting, and more, depending on how new (and how expensive) it is. And those systems are being leveraged for convenience or safety features like adaptive cruise control, lane keeping, remote parking, and so on.
Of course, this only works if that software is any good. “There is absolutely no question that software has been treated like a stepchild—I always say the fifth wheel in the car. So like a necessity, but not something that has been managed with care,” said Maria Anhalt, CEO of the automotive supplier Elektrobit, which develops digital systems and software for OEMs.
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Source: Ars Technica – Throw out all those black boxes and say hello to the software-defined car
Two employee groups at Amazon have joined together to stage a corporate walk out today, uniting to protest the company’s return-to-office policy and to raise concerns about Amazon’s climate impact.
Amazon Employees are walking out! https://t.co/3kxrYUZAy2
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) May 31, 2023
Standing in front of Amazon’s Seattle Headquarters, the group streamed the event live on Twitter — featuring speakers for both groups advocating for their united cause. Some speakers vented their frustrations with the company’s policy to have workers return to the office for at least three days a week, telling stories about how the remote work kicked off by the COVID pandemic bought them precious hours at home with their family and saved them from hours of daily commute time. Another speaker married this idea to the company’s climate goals, highlighting how remote work allowed more families to become one-car households. This dovetails into some of the groups’ complaints that Amazon is failing to meet its own goals in its climate pledge of reaching zero emissions by 2040.
Despite touting the leadership of @climatepledge, Amazon’s emissions have surged by a staggering 40% since signing on. https://t.co/Wgk3638uad
— Amazon Employees For Climate Justice (@AMZNforClimate) May 23, 2023
According to the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice Twitter page, more than 1900 Amazon employees pledged to participate in the walk out. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/amazon-workers-walk-out-to-protest-return-to-office-mandates-and-the-companys-climate-impact-194937443.html?src=rss
Source: Engadget – Amazon workers walk out to protest return to office mandates and the company’s climate impact
Ahead of the two-year anniversary of Activision Blizzard being on the receiving end of an unprecedented video game industry lawsuit accusing the publisher of widespread sexual harassment and discrimination, CEO Bobby Kotick has appeared on the cover of Variety to loudly proclaim the innocence of both himself and his…
Source: Kotaku – Call Of Duty CEO Says Activision Never Had A ‘Systemic Issue With Harassment’
Popular Reddit app Apollo might not be able to operate as is in the future due to planned API pricing that Reddit is implementing. From a report: Apollo developer Christian Selig was today told that Reddit plans to charge $12,000 for 50 million API requests. Last month, Apollo made seven billion requests, which would mean Selig would need to pay $1.7 million per month or $20 million per year to Reddit to keep the app running. The average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would be priced at $2.50 per month, more than double the current subscription cost, or a sum that Selig is not able to afford. Right now, Apollo Pro is a one-time $4.99 fee that unlocks additional features, and Apollo Ultra is an even more premium tier that costs $12.99 per year.
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Source: Slashdot – Popular Reddit App Apollo Would Need To Pay Million Per Year Under New API Pricing
It’s been six weeks since Europe’s JUICE mission launched towards the Jovian system, and the spacecraft is now all suited-up, with its instruments ready to explore the potential habitability of Jupiter’s mysterious, icy moons.
Source: Gizmodo – JUICE Probe Is Fully Deployed and Ready to Explore Jupiter’s Icy Moons
