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Rand under severe pressure

Monday at 10:51 AM, via TechCentral

The rand has tumbled below R16.90/$ as investors dump risk assets amid the unfolding crisis in the Middle East.

EFF, Ubuntu and Other Distros Discuss How to Respond to Age-Verification Laws

Monday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age-verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an “informal” look at other discussions in various Linux communities.Earlier this week, Ubuntu developer Aaron Rainbolt proposed on the Ubuntu mailing list an optional D-Bus interface (org.freedesktop.AgeVerification1) that can be implemented by arbitrary applications as a distro sees fit, but...

A new start after 60: I’d had several careers but no degree – then I became a palaeontologist at 62

Monday at 08:45 AM, via The Guardian

In search of a new adventure, Craig Munns went back to school. Now, at 65, he spends his days examining long-vanished life forms

Craig Munns has a large model of a T rex on his desk. He got it with a magazine subscription two decades ago. One day, a few years ago, he was sitting in his study, which was dense with books and yellow sticky notes and posters charting evolution from single cells...

Starwatch: patience is needed to observe Cancer’s beehive cluster

Monday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Constellation of Cancer is not easy to locate but reward is the star cluster M44 at its centre

The constellation of Cancer, the crab, is now high in the southern sky during the late evening. While not the easiest constellation to locate because it does not contain any truly bright stars, it does offer a reward for patient observation: the star cluster M44, also known as the beehive...

Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions

Monday at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com:Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) in Japan have detected a multitude of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, merging...

Judges Find AI Doesn’t Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Monday at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik:On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention. That left in place a ruling last year by...

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?

Monday at 01:49 AM, via Slashdot

CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes “portable” micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs):Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of...

Recreational drugs can more than double risk of stroke, study suggests

Monday at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Medical data from 100m people shows risk 122% higher for amphetamine users, 96% higher for cocaine and 37% higher for cannabis

Recreational drugs can more than double the risk of stroke, with some of the most concerning impacts seen among younger people, a major review suggests.

Scientists analysed medical data from more than 100 million people and found that the risk of stroke was 122% higher...

A Security Researcher Went ‘Undercover’ on Moltbook – and Found Security Risks

Monday at 00:39 AM, via Slashdot

A long-time information security professional “went undercover” on Moltbook, the Reddit-like social media site for AI agents — and shares the risks they saw while posing as another AI bot:I successfully masqueraded around Moltbook, as the agents didn’t seem to notice a human among them. When I attempted a genuine connection with other bots on submolts (subreddits or forums), I was met with...

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