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Starwatch: crescent moon to join Venus in evening twilight

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

After sunset on 20 March, look up to catch the earthshine, when the unlit face of the moon will be faintly visible

Look west after sunset on 20 March and you will find a beautifully slender crescent moon in conjunction with the glorious beacon of Venus, low in the evening twilight.

Venus has been prominent in the dusky skies for several weeks now, outshining every star. On 20 March it will be...

FSF Threatens Anthropic Over Infringed Copyright: Share Your LLMs Freely

Today at 07:43 AM, via Slashdot

In 2024 Anthropic was sued over claims it infringed copyrights when training LLMs. But as they try to settle, they may have a problem. The Free Software Foundation announced Friday that Anthropic’s training data apparently even included the book “Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman’s Crusade for Free Software” — for which the Free Software Foundation holds a copyright.It was published by...

The UK Will Invest Billions to Build a Nuclear Fusion Industry

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

The UK’s science minister is announcing details of a five-year, £2.5 billion investment in nuclear fusion, reports the Times of London, “including building one of the world’s first prototype fusion power plants in Nottinghamshire and developing a UK sector projected to employ 10,000 people by 2030.”Despite the potentially transformative impact of fusion, which in theory could provide limitless...

Little liars: babies younger than one practise deceit, study suggests

Today at 02:01 AM, via The Guardian

Pretending not to hear parents or hiding toys are among children’s early ploys, while by age of three they may be telling lies such as ‘a ghost ate the chocolate’, research finds

They may be yet to take their first step or say their first word, but some babies have already grasped the basics of deception before their first birthday, according to research.

The study, based on interviews with...

2026’s EV Sales Hit 1.1M – But Europe Surges While North America Slides

Today at 00:51 AM, via Slashdot

Europe’s EV sales for January and February spiked 21% from last year, according to new data from Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Electrek reports that just in those two months over 600,000 EVs were sold in Europe. And figures for “rest of world” (which excludes Europe, North America, and China) are up a whopping 84% — with 370,000 EVs sold in January and February. (EVs now represent more than...

Ask Slashdot: What’s the Best All-Purpose RISC-V System on a Chip Family?

Yesterday at 23:51 PM, via Slashdot

Slashdot reader SysEngineer does embedded/IoT work, but “I want to pick a single system-on-a-chip architecture family and commit to it across multiple product lines — sensor nodes up through edge gateways… I’ve been on one platform for years and want to know what embedded engineers are actually running in production before I commit!” And “the family needs to scale — cheap and small at the...

CachyOS Dethrones Arch As ProtonDB’s Top Linux Gamer Desktop Distro

Yesterday at 22:51 PM, via Slashdot

Linux gaming “has gotten to the point where some people claim that Linux runs their games better than Windows does,” according to the Android site XDA Developers. And there’s a new surprise on ProtonDB, an “unofficial” community website with crowdsourced data about videogame compatability with the Linux software/gaming compatability layer Proton:On ProtonDB, one operating system had reigned...

How One Company Finally Exposed North Korea’s Massive Remote Workers Scam

Yesterday at 21:49 PM, via Slashdot

NBC News investigates North Korea’s “wide-ranging effort to place remote workers at U.S. companies in order to funnel money back to its coffers and, in some cases, steal sensitive information.” And working with the FBI, one corporate security/investigations company decided to knowingly hire one of North Korea’s remote workers — then “ship him a laptop and gain as much information as possible”...

Uber Co-founder Travis Kalanick’s Newest Venture? ‘Gainfully Employed Robots’

Yesterday at 19:55 PM, via Slashdot

Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick launched a new venture that “will focus on creating ‘gainfully employed robots’ for the food, mining and transport industries,” Bloomberg reports. “I left Uber in 2017 heartbroken,” writes Kalanick on the new company’s web site. Kalanick resigned under pressure in 2017, and complains he was “torn away from an idea and a movement that I had poured my life into… I...

The Guardian view on weight-loss jabs and addiction: there is too much moralising about these remarkable medicines | Editorial

Yesterday at 19:25 PM, via The Guardian

Evidence is piling up that GLP-1 drugs can treat addiction. We must learn from the way that obesity has been stigmatised

In the years since so-called weight-loss jabs entered widespread use, there have been reports that these drugs may not just reduce food cravings, but in fact cravings and desires full-stop. Earlier this month, a study using large-scale data from US veterans undergoing...

Should Banksy Remain Anonymous?

Yesterday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

He’s “the most famous anonymous man in the world,” suggests Reuters. But investigating Banksy’s artworks in a bombed Ukrainian village (and other clues in the U.K. and Manhattan) have led them to “a hand-written confession by the artist to a long-ago misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct — a document that revealed, beyond dispute, Banksy’s true identity.” But Banksy’s long-time lawyer...

New Documentary Exposes the Truth Behind That 1967 ‘Bigfoot’ Footage

Yesterday at 16:34 PM, via Slashdot

There’s a surprise in a new documentary about that Bigfoot film shot in 1967 by Roger Patterson, reports the Wall Street Journal. Capturing Bigfoot “builds to a big reveal: freshly surfaced film that appears to show a woodsy dress rehearsal for one of the world’s most enduring hoaxes.” In the new footage — from a Kodak reel dating to 1966 — Patterson’s camera tracks a man in costume, his...

Does Canada Need Nationalized, Public AI?

Yesterday at 12:34 PM, via Slashdot

While AI CEOs worry governments might nationalize AI, others are advocating for something similar. Canadian security professional Bruce Schneier and Harvard data scientist Nathan Sanders published this call to action in Canada’s most widely-read newspaper (with a readership over 6 million): “Canada Needs Nationalized, Public AI.”While there are Canadian AI companies, they remain for-profit...

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