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[38]Businesses

[39]Amazon Says Its Prime Deliveries Are Getting Even Faster [40]3

Posted by msmash on Monday April 29, 2024 @11:25AM from the need-for-speed dept.
Amazon says its deliveries are getting even faster, announcing that it
[41]delivered over 2 billion items the same or next day to Prime members during
the first three months of 2024, breaking its record for 2023. From a report: The
company says it delivered almost 60 percent of Prime orders the same or next day
in 60 of the biggest metropolitan areas in the US.

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[42]AI

[43]Austria Calls For Rapid Regulation as It Hosts Meeting on 'Killer Robots'
[44](reuters.com) [45]12

Posted by msmash on Monday April 29, 2024 @10:42AM from the tussle-continues
dept.
Austria called on Monday for fresh efforts to [46]regulate the use of AI in
weapons systems that could create so-called 'killer robots', as it hosted a
conference aimed at reviving largely stalled discussions on the issue. From a
report: With AI technology advancing rapidly, weapons systems that could kill
without human intervention are coming ever closer, posing ethical and legal
challenges that most countries say need addressing soon. "We cannot let this
moment pass without taking action. Now is the time to agree on international
rules and norms to ensure human control," Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander
Schallenberg told the meeting of non-governmental and international organisations
as well as envoys from 143 countries.
"At least let us make sure that the most profound and far-reaching decision, who
lives and who dies, remains in the hands of humans and not of machines," he said
in an opening speech to the conference entitled "Humanity at the Crossroads:
Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Challenge of Regulation". Years of discussions
at the United Nations have produced few tangible results and many participants at
the two-day conference in Vienna said the window for action was closing rapidly.

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[47]United Kingdom

[48]UK Becomes First Country To Ban Default Bad Passwords on IoT Devices [49]18

Posted by msmash on Monday April 29, 2024 @10:02AM from the how-about-that dept.
The United Kingdom has become the first country in the world to [50]ban default
guessable usernames and passwords from these IoT devices. Unique passwords
installed by default are still permitted. From a report: The Product Security and
Telecommunications Infrastructure Act 2022 (PSTI) introduces new minimum-security
standards for manufacturers, and demands that these companies are open with
consumers about how long their products will receive security updates for.
Manufacturing and design practices mean many IoT products introduce additional
risks to the home and business networks they're connected to. In one often-cited
case described by cybersecurity company Darktrace, hackers were allegedly able to
steal data from a casino's otherwise well-protected computer network after
breaking in through an internet-connected temperature sensor in a fish tank.
Under the PSTI, weak or easily guessable default passwords such as "admin" or
"12345" are explicitly banned, and manufacturers are also required to publish
contact details so users can report bugs.

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[51]Earth

[52]America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California [53](msn.com)
[54]63

Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 29, 2024 @07:34AM from the truckin' dept.
Oakland, California is now home to "[55]the first commercial hydrogen fuel
station for big-rig trucks in the United States," according to the Los Angeles
Times -- serving 30 hydrogen fuel-cell trucks.
The newspaper says the facility "could mark the start of a nationwide network for
fuel-cell truck refueling. It could also flop". Hydrogen fuel is [56]expensive --
as much as four times more expensive than gasoline or diesel fuel. The fuel
cells, which drive electric motors to drive the truck, are enormously expensive
as well.... The vehicles themselves are expensive too. Both battery electric and
hydrogen fuel-cell trucks can cost three times as much or more than a $120,000
diesel truck. Those buying the trucks can qualify for state and federal subsidies
to make up most of the upfront costs.
But government regulations may spark some demand: New diesel truck sales will be
[57]outlawed in California by 2036. Only zero-tailpipe-emission new trucks will
be allowed. Already, zero-emission requirements are in place for trucks that
enter ocean ports. And only two technologies are available to achieve that goal:
battery electric trucks and hydrogen fuel-cell trucks. "We believe a good portion
of those will be hydrogen vehicles," said Matt Miyasato, chief of public policy
for hydrogen fuel distributor FirstElement Fuel. FirstElement, through its True
Zero brand fueling stations, is the largest hydrogen vehicle fuel distributor in
the U.S...
Battery electric is gaining a strong foothold in the medium-sized delivery truck
market, but hydrogen could have a leg up for long-haul trucking. While a fuel
cell is comparable in size to a diesel engine, a battery big enough for long-haul
trucks adds weight and size and cuts down on the total freight load the truck can
deliver. And while an electric truck battery can take hours to recharge, the
refill time for hydrogen is more comparable to filling up with diesel fuel.

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[58]Space

[59]The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star [60](cnn.com) [61]17

Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 29, 2024 @03:34AM from the recurring-nova
dept.
[62]RockDoctor (Slashdot reader #15,477) wants to tell you about a "new" star
that will be visible to the naked eye -- without a telescope -- sometime before
September: By "star", I do not mean "comet", "meteorite" or "firefly", but
genuine [star] photons arriving here after about 3000 years in flight, causing
your eyes to see a bright point on the nighttime sky. When it happens, the star
will go from needing-a- telescope-or-good-binoculars-to-see, to being the 50th
(or even 30th) brightest star in the sky.
For a week or so. Of course, it could just go full-on supernova, and be visible
in daylight for a few weeks, and dominate the night sky for months. But that's
unlikely.
Named "[63]T Corona Borealis" (because it's the 20th variable star studied in the
constellation "Corona Borealis") it's now visible all night, all year, for about
60% of the world's population (although normally you need binoculars to see it).
But [64]RockDoctor writes that in 2016, "T CrB" (as it is known) has started
showing "a similar pattern of changes" to what happened in the late 1930s when it
became one of only 10 "recurring nova" known to science: In 2023, the pattern
continued and the match of details got better. The star is expected to undergo
another "eruption" -- becoming one of the brightest few stars in the sky, within
the next couple of months. Maybe the next couple of weeks. Maybe the next couple
of hours....
Last week, astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst posted on the expected event in her
monthly "[65]Night Sky News" video blog. If you prefer your information in text
not video, the AAVSO (variable star observers) posted [66]a news alert for it's
observers a while ago. They also hosted a seminar on the star, and why it's
eruption is expected Real Soon Now, which is [67]also on YouTube. A small
selection of recent papers on the subject are [68]posted here, which also
includes information on how to get the most up-to-date brightness readings
(unless you're a HST / JWST / Palomar / Hawai`i / Chile telescope operator). Yes,
the "big guns" of astronomy have prepared their "TOO -- Target Of Opportunity"
plans, and will be dropping normal observations really quickly when the news
breaks and slewing TOO the target.
You won't need your eclipse glasses for this. (Dr Becky's video covers where you
can send them for re-use.) But you might want to photograph the appropriate part
of the sky so you'll notice when the bomb goes off. Bomb? Did I say that the best
model for what is happening is a thermonuclear explosion like a H-bomb the size
of the Earth detonating? Well, that's the best analogue.
[69]This CNN article includes a nice animation from NASA illustrating the
multi-star interaction that's causing the event: The stars in the orbiting pair
are close enough to each other that they interact violently. The red giant
becomes increasingly unstable over time as it heats up, casting off its outer
layers that land as matter on the white dwarf star. The exchange of matter causes
the atmosphere of the white dwarf to gradually heat until it experiences a
"runaway thermonuclear reaction," resulting in a nova [according to NASA]...
The [70]NASAUniverse account on X, formerly known as Twitter, will provide
updates about the outburst and its appearance.
The BBC [71]reiterates the key data points -- that "The rare cosmic event is
expected to take place sometime before September 2024. When it occurs it will
likely be visible to the naked eye. No expensive telescope will be needed to
witness this cosmic performance, says NASA".

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[72]Idle

[73]Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old
[74](bbc.com) [75]81

Posted by EditorDavid on Monday April 29, 2024 @12:35AM from the flight-risks
dept.
Though it's long past Y2K, another date-related bug is still with us, writes
Slashdot reader [76]Bruce66423, sharing [77]this report from the BBC.
"A 101-year-old woman keeps getting mistaken for a baby, because of an error with
an airline's booking system". The problem occurs because American Airlines'
systems apparently cannot compute that Patricia, who did not want to share her
surname, was born in 1922, rather than 2022.... [O]n one occasion, airport staff
did not have transport ready for her inside the terminal as they were expecting a
baby who could be carried...
[I]t appears the airport computer system is unable to process a birth date so far
in the past -- so it defaulted to one 100 years later instead... But she is
adamant the IT problems will not put her off flying, and says she is looking
forward to her next flight in the autumn. By then she will be 102 -- and perhaps
by then the airline computers will have caught on to her real age.

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[78]Power

[79]A Coal Billionaire is Building the World's Biggest Clean Energy Plant - Five Times
the Size of Paris [80](cnn.com) [81]58

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @09:41PM from the city-of-industry
dept.
An anonymous reader shared [82]this report from CNN: Five times the size of
Paris. Visible from space. The world's biggest energy plant. Enough electricity
to power Switzerland. The scale of the project transforming swathes of barren
salt desert on the edge of western India into one of the most important sources
of clean energy anywhere on the planet is so overwhelming that the man in charge
can't keep up. "I don't even do the math any more," Sagar Adani told CNN in an
interview last week.
Adani is executive director of Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL). He's also the
nephew of Gautam Adani, Asia's second richest man, whose $100 billion fortune
stems from the Adani Group, India's biggest coal importer and a leading miner of
the dirty fuel. Founded in 1988, the conglomerate has businesses in fields
ranging from ports and thermal power plants to media and cements. Its clean
energy unit AGEL is building the sprawling solar and wind power plant in the
western Indian state of Gujarat at a cost of about $20 billion.
It will be the world's biggest renewable park when it is finished in about five
years, and should generate enough clean electricity to power 16 million Indian
homes... [T]he park will cover more than 200 square miles and be the planet's
largest power plant regardless of the energy source, AGEL said.
CNN adds that the company "plans to invest $100 billion into energy transition
over the next decade, with 70% of the investments ear-marked for clean energy".

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[83]China

[84]America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips
[85](reuters.com) [86]101

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @07:19PM from the RISC-y-business
dept.
An anonymous reader shared [87]a report this week from Reuters: The U.S.
Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's
work in open-source RISC-V chip technology, according to a letter sent to U.S.
lawmakers...
The technology is being used by major Chinese tech firms such as Alibaba Group
Holding and has become a new front in the strategic competition over advanced
chip technology between the U.S. and China. In November, 18 U.S. lawmakers from
both houses of Congress pressed the Biden administration for its plans to prevent
China "from achieving dominance in ... RISC-V technology and leveraging that
dominance at the expense of U.S. national and economic security".
In a letter last week to the lawmakers that was seen by Reuters on Tuesday, the
Commerce Department said it is "working to review potential risks and assess
whether there are appropriate actions under Commerce authorities that could
effectively address any potential concerns".
But the Commerce Department also noted that it would need to tread carefully to
avoid harming U.S. companies that are part of international groups working on
RISC-V technology.

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[88]Businesses

[89]Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators
[90](seattletimes.com) [91]81

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @06:19PM from the
cleaning-up-your-messages dept.
Pursuing an unfair business practices case against Amazon, America's Federal
Trade Commission has now "accused" Amazon of using Signal, [92]reports the
Seattle Times:
The newspaper notes that the app "can be set to automatically delete messages, to
hide information related to the FTC's ongoing antitrust investigation into the
company". In a court filing this week, the FTC moved to "compel" Amazon to share
more information about its policies and instructions related to using the Signal
app... The FTC accused Amazon executives of manually turning on the feature to
delete messages in Signal even after the company learned that the FTC was
investigating and had told Amazon to keep documents, emails and other messages.
Many of Amazon's senior leaders used Signal, according to the FTC, including
former CEO and current chair Jeff Bezos, CEO Andy Jassy, and general counsel
David Zapolsky, as well as Jeff Wilke, former head of Amazon's worldwide consumer
business, and Dave Clark, former worldwide operations chief. "Amazon is a company
that tightly controls what its employees put into writing," FTC attorneys said in
a court filing Thursday. "But Amazon's senior leadership also used another
channel for internal communications and avoided the need to talk carefully by
destroying the records of their messages...".
In the court filing Thursday, the FTC asked Amazon to provide two troves of
documents related to its use of Signal: Amazon's document preservation notices
and its instructions about the use of "ephemeral messaging applications,
including Signal". The FTC said Amazon waited for more than a year after it
learned of the investigation to instruct its employees to preserve Signal
messages. "It is highly likely that relevant information has been destroyed as a
result of Amazon's actions and inactions," the FTC wrote in court records.

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[93]Science

[94]How Einstein Lost the Battle To Explain Quantum Reality [95](nature.com) [96]41

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @05:19PM from the
it's-all-relativity dept.
Long-time Slashdot reader [97]lee1 shares "an interesting essay on the history of
orthodoxy in quantum mechanics," [98]published this week in Nature.
Its title? "'Shut up and calculate': how Einstein lost the battle to explain
quantum reality". [T]he views of Danish physicist Niels Bohr came to dominate.
Albert Einstein famously disagreed with him and, in the 1920s and 1930s, the two
locked horns in debate. A persistent myth was created that suggests Bohr won the
argument by browbeating the stubborn and increasingly isolated Einstein into
submission. Acting like some fanatical priesthood, physicists of Bohr's 'church'
sought to shut down further debate. They established the 'Copenhagen
interpretation', named after the location of Bohr's institute, as a dogmatic
orthodoxy.
My latest book [99]Quantum Drama, co-written with science historian John
Heilbron, explores the origins of this myth and its role in motivating the
singular personalities that would go on to challenge it. Their persistence in the
face of widespread indifference paid off, because they helped to lay the
foundations for a quantum-computing industry expected to be worth tens of
billions by 2040...
The Einstein-Bohr dispute raised larger issues, according to the article. "What
is the purpose of physics? Is its main goal to gain ever-more-detailed
descriptions and control of phenomena, regardless of whether physicists can
understand these descriptions? Or, rather, is it a continuing search for deeper
and deeper insights into the nature of physical reality?
"Einstein preferred the second answer," the articcle notes -- and concluded that
quantum mechanics was incomplete: Unlike Bohr, Einstein had established no school
of his own. He had rather retreated into his own mind, in vain pursuit of a
theory that would unify electromagnetism and gravity, and so eliminate the need
for quantum mechanics altogether. He referred to himself as a "lone traveler". In
1948, U.S. theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer remarked to a reporter at
Time magazine that the older Einstein had become "a landmark, but not a beacon".
Subsequent readings of this period in quantum history promoted a persistent and
widespread suggestion that the Copenhagen interpretation had been established as
the orthodox view... When learning quantum mechanics as a graduate student at
Harvard University in the 1950s, US physicist N. David Mermin recalled vivid
memories of the responses that his conceptual enquiries elicited from his
professors, whom he viewed as 'agents of Copenhagen'. "You'll never get a PhD if
you allow yourself to be distracted by such frivolities," they advised him, "so
get back to serious business and produce some results. Shut up, in other words,
and calculate".
The book argues that actually the physics world suffered from "a subtly different
kind of orthodoxy" -- an indifference to "foundational questions" outside the
mainstream -- but that the "myth" motivated projects and experiments.
"Although the wider physics community still considered testing quantum mechanics
to be a fringe science and mostly a waste of time, exposing a hitherto
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[100]Power

[101]Plunge in Storage Battery Costs Will Speed Shift to Renewable Energy, Says IEA
[102](reuters.com) [103]81

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @04:13PM from the charging-ahead
dept.
"In less than 15 years, battery costs have fallen by more than 90%," according to
[104]a new report from the International Energy Agency, "one of the fastest
declines ever seen in clean energy technologies".
And it's expected to get even cheaper, [105]reports Reuters: An expected sharp
fall in battery costs for energy storage in coming years will accelerate the
shift to renewable energy from fossil fuels, the International Energy Agency
(IEA) said on Thursday... The total capital costs of battery storage are due to
tumble by up to 40% by 2030, the Paris-based watchdog said in its Batteries and
Secure Energy Transitions report.
"The combination of solar PV (photovoltaic) and batteries is today competitive
with new coal plants in India," said IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol. "And
just in the next few years, it will be cheaper than new coal in China and
gas-fired power in the United States. Batteries are changing the game before our
eyes". [...] The global market for energy storage doubled last year to over 90
gigawatt-hours (GWh), the report said...
The slide in battery costs will also help provide electricity to millions of
people without access, cutting by nearly half the average electricity costs of
mini-grids with solar PV coupled with batteries by 2030, the IEA said.
The Los Angeles Times notes [106]one place adopting the tech is California:
Standing in the middle of a solar farm in Yolo County, [California governor]
Newsom announced the state now had battery storage systems with the capacity of
more than 10,000 megawatts -- about 20% of the 52,000 megawatts the state says is
needed to meet its climate goals.
Although Newsom acknowledged it isn't yet enough to eliminate blackouts...

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[107]Hardware

[108]Why Are Laptops Moving to Soldered RAM? [109](digitaltrends.com) [110]163

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @03:13PM from the
thanks-for-the-memory dept.
This year Dell moved to soldered RAM for its XPS 14 and 16, writes Digital
Trends, which "[111]makes it impossible to upgrade, or even repair".
"This was a big change from the past, where the XPS 15 and 17 were both
celebrated for their upgradability". Of course, Dell isn't the first to make the
transition. In fact, they're one of the last, which is what makes the decision so
much tougher to swallow. Where soldered RAM was previously limited to just
MacBooks and ultrabooks, it's now affecting most high-performance laptops for
gaming as well. Even the fantastic ROG Zephyrus G14 moved to soldered memory this
year.
After two months of research, the article's author acknowledges "there are
tangible benefits to companies using soldered RAM, and all the people I spoke to
while writing this agree that they outweigh the downsides, but how that applies
to the end-user is a bit more complicated". If there's one thing and one thing
only that soldered RAM is indisputably good for, it's saving space. [Haval
Othman, a senior director of experience engineering at HP] explained the
benefits, saying: "If battery life, mobility, form factor (thin and light), and
power efficiency are my priority among other design choices, then my mind
immediately goes to soldered RAM; because that's where soldered RAM can be
beneficial and power-efficient, which will lead to longer battery life. Plus,
it's going to give me more space on the motherboard, so I can design the product
thinner and lighter. [...] If we want a thin product, the trade-off is soldering
more of the devices onto the board".
This tracks. In a laptop, there's only so much space that can be used for
components, and that free space grows smaller by the year to make ultrabooks
possible. They're an industrywide trend that was first popularized by Apple, and
the rest of the laptop manufacturing world quickly caught on. Each year, laptops
are released thinner and lighter, and that means having to squeeze the components
together in new, innovative ways... Soldering the memory down onto the
motherboard means that it can be attached almost anywhere within the laptop
instead of being slotted into a specific part of it. It effectively makes the
laptop thinner by cutting back on the space that the RAM module takes up. The
space saved by soldering memory can be used for other things, such as a bigger
battery....
All three companies that I spoke to stress the form factor much more than any
tangible cost benefits... Stuart Gill, director of global media relations,
campaigns, and corporate content [said] "Both soldered and socketed RAM designs
are now quite mature. As a result, we see no impact on the manufacturing process
and, therefore, the cost to the consumer".
SO-DIMM chips also have "relatively limited bandwidth," according to HP's Othman,
"while when you solder the memory chips onto the board, you can build it for a
much wider bandwidth".
But the article ends by looking to the future. "The good news is that SO-DIMM
memory might eventually be replaced by the [112]CAMM2 standard". Recently
approved by JEDEC, CAMM2 is said to be significantly thinner, and it'll be
available both in soldered and non-soldered variants. Using CAMM2 will allow
laptops to stack up to 128GB of RAM, and the frequencies are said to be going up,
too. CAMM2 can also activate dual-channel memory with just a single module.

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[113]Space

[114]How Space Telescopes Spotted an Exoplanet With a Possible Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere
[115](nasa.gov) [116]7

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @01:34PM from the eyes-in-the-sky
dept.
In September NASA's James Webb Space Telescope investigated an exoplanet 8.6
times as massive as Earth, and "[117]revealed the presence of carbon-bearing
molecules including methane and carbon dioxide". Webb's discovery adds to recent
studies suggesting that [planet] K2-18 b could be a Hycean exoplanet, one which
has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water ocean-covered
surface... The planet's large size -- with a radius 2.6 times the radius of Earth
-- means that the planet's interior likely contains a large mantle of
high-pressure ice, like Neptune, but with a thinner hydrogen-rich atmosphere and
an ocean surface. Hycean worlds are predicted to have oceans of water. However,
it is also possible that the ocean is too hot to be habitable or be liquid.
NASA's announcement included some additional context: K2-18 b orbits the cool
dwarf star K2-18 in the [118]habitable zone and lies 120 light-years from Earth
in the constellation Leo. Exoplanets such as K2-18 b, which have sizes between
those of Earth and Neptune, are unlike anything in our solar system. This lack of
equivalent nearby planets means that these 'sub-Neptunes' are poorly understood,
and the nature of their atmospheres is a matter of active debate among
astronomers. The suggestion that the sub-Neptune K2-18 b could be a Hycean
exoplanet is intriguing, as some astronomers believe that these worlds are
promising environments to search for evidence for life on exoplanets...
The abundance of methane and carbon dioxide, and shortage of ammonia, support the
hypothesis that there may be a water ocean underneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere
in K2-18 b.
Long-time Slashdot reader [119]Baron_Yam noticed some sites resurfacing the news
from September this week with [120]more spectacular headlines, like "NASA
discovered a planet twice as big as Earth with a gas that is 'only produced by
life'" and "Discovery... [121]sparks huge excitement among astronomers.
NASA's announcement? It's early Webb observations "provided a possible detection
of a molecule called dimethyl sulfide. On Earth, this is only produced by life".
The bulk of the dimethyl sulfide in Earth's atmosphere is emitted from
phytoplankton in marine environments.
The inference of dimethyl sulfide is less robust and requires further validation.
"Upcoming Webb observations should be able to confirm if dimethyl sulfide is
indeed present in the atmosphere of K2-18 b at significant levels," explained
Nikku Madhusudhan, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge and lead author
of the paper announcing these results.
While K2-18 b lies in the habitable zone, and is now known to harbor
carbon-bearing molecules, this does not necessarily mean that the planet can
support life.
But it's all a validation of the new discoveries being made possible by space
telescopes -- new and old. "The first insight into the atmospheric properties of
this habitable-zone exoplanet came from [122]observations with NASA's Hubble
Space Telescope, which prompted further studies..". "This result was only
possible because of the extended wavelength range and unprecedented sensitivity
of Webb, which enabled robust detection of spectral features with just two
transits," said Madhusudhan... "These results are the product of just two
observations of K2-18 b, with many more on the way," explained team member Savvas
Constantinou of the University of Cambridge. "This means our work here is but an
early demonstration of what Webb can observe in habitable-zone exoplanets".
[...] The team now intends to conduct follow-up research with the telescope's
MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) spectrograph that they hope will further validate
their findings and provide new insights into the environmental conditions on
K2-18 b. "Our ultimate goal is the identification of life on a habitable
exoplanet, which would transform our understanding of our place in the universe,"
concluded Madhusudhan. "Our findings are a promising step towards a deeper
understanding of Hycean worlds in this quest".

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[123]Government

[124]Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General
[125](apnews.com) [126]20

Posted by EditorDavid on Sunday April 28, 2024 @12:34PM from the
phone-listens-to-you dept.
An anonymous reader shared [127]this report from the Associated Press: Poland's
prosecutor general told the parliament on Wednesday that [128]powerful Pegasus
spyware was used against hundreds of people during the former government in
Poland, among them elected officials. Adam Bodnar told lawmakers that he found
the scale of the surveillance "shocking and depressing...". The data showed that
Pegasus was used in the cases of 578 people from 2017 to 2022, and that it was
used by three separate government agencies: the Central Anticorruption Bureau,
the Military Counterintelligence Service and the Internal Security Agency. The
data show that it was used against six people in 2017; 100 in 2018; 140 in 2019;
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that the software generated "enormous knowledge" about the "private and
professional lives" of those put under surveillance. He also stressed that the
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future" -- not just a 3D printer, but a manufacturing system. It's the succcessor
to a 3D printer that could create an entire house, cutting construction time and
labor, [133]according to the Associated Press. And this one "may one day create
entire neighborhoods". It has a voracious appetite, consuming as much as 500
pounds (227 kilograms) of material per hour... The university wants to show how
homes can be constructed nearly entirely by a printer with a lower carbon
footprint. The buildings and construction sector accounts for roughly 37% of
global greenhouse gas emissions, largely due to the production and use of
materials such as cement, steel and aluminum that have a significant carbon
footprint, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. Such printed
buildings can be recycled, which is unique compared to current construction. "You
can basically deconstruct it, you can grind it up if you wish, the 3D printed
parts, and reprint with them, do it again," Dagher said before the event...
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used for a range of things, from boats to defense department structures.
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"Maine University says it hopes the printer can be used to make affordable
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