Comment we hate people, and we're proud of it! (Score 0) 47
Texas and Florida prohibit local governments from mandating rest and water breaks.
Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 2) 148
The issue with health concerns like this is that it's not like it explodes and kills you - there's really no way to say, "It was the molecule on March 13, 2026 that started cancer in your body"
You can't even do that with cigarettes - you can only make a conclusion on cause that's well supported by circumstantial evidence.
And I'm not saying you're arguing against it, but just broadly speaking
Submission + - Synthetic magnetic fields steer light on a chip for faster communications (phys.org)
alternative_right writes: The team achieved this by systematically altering the symmetry of tiny repeating units in silicon photonic crystals. Adjusting the degree of local asymmetry at each point allowed them to "design" pseudomagnetic fields with tailored spatial patterns, without breaking fundamental time-reversal symmetry. Both theoretical analysis and experiments confirmed that these engineered fields can guide and manipulate light in versatile ways.
To demonstrate practical applications, the researchers built two devices commonly used in integrated optics. One was a compact S-shaped waveguide bend that transmitted light with less than 1.83 decibels of signal loss. The other was a power splitter that divided light into two equal paths with low excess loss and minimal imbalance.
In a final test, the devices successfully transmitted a high-speed data stream at 140 gigabits per second using a standard telecommunications modulation format, showing that the technique is compatible with existing optical communication systems.
To demonstrate practical applications, the researchers built two devices commonly used in integrated optics. One was a compact S-shaped waveguide bend that transmitted light with less than 1.83 decibels of signal loss. The other was a power splitter that divided light into two equal paths with low excess loss and minimal imbalance.
In a final test, the devices successfully transmitted a high-speed data stream at 140 gigabits per second using a standard telecommunications modulation format, showing that the technique is compatible with existing optical communication systems.
Submission + - Toxic "forever chemicals" found in 95% of beers tested in the U.S. (sciencedaily.com)
alternative_right writes: Forever chemicals known as PFAS have turned up in an unexpected place: beer. Researchers tested 23 different beers from across the U.S. and found that 95% contained PFAS, with the highest concentrations showing up in regions with known water contamination. The findings reveal how pollution in municipal water supplies can infiltrate popular products, raising concerns for both consumers and brewers.
Submission + - VMScape: yet another Spectre variant (comsec.ethz.ch)
alanw writes: The VMScape vulnerability is a Spectre variant that allows a malicious KVM guest to leak sensitive information such as encryption/decryption keys from a userspace hypervisor such as QEMU
https://lwn.net/Articles/10377...
https://www.theregister.com/20...
https://lwn.net/Articles/10377...
https://www.theregister.com/20...
Comment Of course it's "forced" (Score 1) 81
Competent "editors" would never have posted it.
Comment It means what it usually does on /. (Score 1) 81
Usual msmash trash self-evidently intended to prevent Slashdot ever rising to its old importance.
Comment More msmash space filler slop (Score 0) 44
Why is this "news" somehow important enough to post?
Comment School boards are local (Score 1) 215
School boards are local and reflect local voter demands, make of that what you will. The people are getting exactly what they voted for or failed to vote against.
Comment Re:So many things that contribute to this (Score 1) 215
The irony of your sarcasm is it actually *is* horrible.
Water is good - necessary even - but too much water will kill you. Choice is the exact same way - it's entirely possible to have too much of it, as much as that contradicts an ethos buried deeply in the American id.
Comment Re:Developers are efficient (Score 1) 57
Lol, so many of the posts here reek of bitter developers who have clearly never worked in the halls of quality software engineering
Comment Yet more enshittification. (Score 1) 34
My old Microsoft Natural ergo keyboard has worked fine since 1999. Not everything needs batteries (or proprietary Logitech receivers...).
Submission + - Vicious Cycle Revealed: How Alcohol Helps Gut Bacteria Attack Your Liver (sciencealert.com)
alternative_right writes: It's no secret that excessive alcohol consumption damages the liver, but a new study reveals a previously unknown vicious cycle that makes that damage worse. Chronic alcohol use makes it easier for bacteria to leak out of the gut and migrate to the liver, causing further harm.
The new study, led by scientists at the University of California San Diego, examined human liver biopsies as well as mouse models of alcohol-associated liver disease. The team found that chronic alcohol use impaired the production of a cellular signaling protein called mAChR4 in the small intestine.
Lower levels of this protein were found to interfere with the formation of what are called goblet cell-associated antigen passages (GAPs). These specialized structures play a key role in teaching the immune system to respond to microbes, particularly those that escape the gut into other parts of the body, where they don't belong.
The new study, led by scientists at the University of California San Diego, examined human liver biopsies as well as mouse models of alcohol-associated liver disease. The team found that chronic alcohol use impaired the production of a cellular signaling protein called mAChR4 in the small intestine.
Lower levels of this protein were found to interfere with the formation of what are called goblet cell-associated antigen passages (GAPs). These specialized structures play a key role in teaching the immune system to respond to microbes, particularly those that escape the gut into other parts of the body, where they don't belong.
Comment We were told that....by naive fools. (Score 1) 91
War is human nature as with with other species evolved to wage it of necessity. Be ready to kill or prepare to die. Pacifism is surrender.
Fear of AI was fanned by the leftist products of over a century of Russian global subversion intended to weaken secular democracy at which it was often effective.
Killing works. There is nothing wrong with killing Communists and their various hellspawn. Considering them humans capable of redemption is a mistake. They should be othered and erased without pity.
Righteously used, effective violence is not some sad necessity but the ONLY way to deal with savage vermin. That makes killing them virtuous.
Social conditioning otherwise is a direct, deliberate product of the youthful naive 1960s left who should have been pitilessly slaughtered for the good of humanity, along with all who would preserve them no matter their reasoning because necessity knows no law. Vatniks should be viewed as Ilya Ehrenburg viewed Nazis. Anything less or different is a mistake.
Submission + - AI Generated 'Boring History' Videos Are Flooding YouTube (404media.co)
An anonymous reader writes: As I do most nights, I was listening to YouTube videos to fall asleep the other night. Sometime around 3 a.m., I woke up because the video YouTube was autoplaying started going “FEEEEEEEE.” The video was called “Boring History for Sleep | How Medieval PEASANTS Survived the Coldest Nights and more.” It is two hours long, has 2.3 million views, and, an hour and 15 minutes into the video, the AI-generated voice glitched. “In the end, Anne Boleyn won a kind of immortality. Not through her survival, but through her indelible impact on history. FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE,” the narrator says in a fake British accent. “By the early 1770s, the American colonies simmered like a pot left too long over a roaring fire,” it continued. The video was from a channel I hadn’t seen before, called “Sleepless Historian.” I took my headphones out, didn’t think much of it at the time, rolled over, and fell back asleep.
The next night, when I went to pick a new video to fall asleep to, my YouTube homepage was full of videos from Sleepless Historian and several similar-sounding channels like Boring History Bites, History Before Sleep, The Snoozetorian, Historian Sleepy, and Dreamoria. Lots of these videos nominally check the boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to. Almost all of them are more than three hours long, and they are about things I don’t know much about. Some video titles include “Unusual Medieval Cures for Common Illnesses,” “The Entire History of the American Frontier,” “What It Was Like to Visit a BR0THEL in Pompeii,” and “What GETTING WASTED Was Like in Medieval Times.” One of the channels has even been livestreaming this "history" 24/7 for weeks.
In the daytime, when I was not groggy and half asleep, it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated, and that they are part of a sophisticated and growing AI slop content ecosystem that is flooding YouTube, is drowning out human-made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching, fact-checking, scripting, recording, and editing their videos, and are quite literally rewriting history with surface-level, automated drek that the YouTube algorithm delivers to people. YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on “mass produced” videos, but it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the platform, and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change.
The next night, when I went to pick a new video to fall asleep to, my YouTube homepage was full of videos from Sleepless Historian and several similar-sounding channels like Boring History Bites, History Before Sleep, The Snoozetorian, Historian Sleepy, and Dreamoria. Lots of these videos nominally check the boxes for what I want from something to fall asleep to. Almost all of them are more than three hours long, and they are about things I don’t know much about. Some video titles include “Unusual Medieval Cures for Common Illnesses,” “The Entire History of the American Frontier,” “What It Was Like to Visit a BR0THEL in Pompeii,” and “What GETTING WASTED Was Like in Medieval Times.” One of the channels has even been livestreaming this "history" 24/7 for weeks.
In the daytime, when I was not groggy and half asleep, it quickly became obvious to me that all of these videos are AI generated, and that they are part of a sophisticated and growing AI slop content ecosystem that is flooding YouTube, is drowning out human-made content created by real anthropologists and historians who spend weeks or months researching, fact-checking, scripting, recording, and editing their videos, and are quite literally rewriting history with surface-level, automated drek that the YouTube algorithm delivers to people. YouTube has said it will demonetize or otherwise crack down on “mass produced” videos, but it is not clear whether that has had any sort of impact on the proliferation of AI-generated videos on the platform, and none of the people I spoke to for this article have noticed any change.
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