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Submission + - SpaceX, Once Again, In Hot Water for Ignoring FAA Safety Requirements (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by LeeLynx
LeeLynx writes: Shockingly, according to Ars, Musk-owned SpaceX may be facing fines over its continued belief that laws are for other people:



Before launching 53 Starlink satellites from Florida last August, it seems that SpaceX failed to submit required data to the US Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). Now, the FAA has proposed a $175,000 fine to SpaceX for not sharing that data within at least seven days of its launch.

According to the FAA, the missing SpaceX data is critical because it’s used to “assess the probability of the launch vehicle colliding with one of the thousands of tracked objects orbiting the Earth.”

Submission + - Sabine Hossenfelder's Scathing Video on the State of Particle Physics (youtube.com)

Submitted by flashflood
flashflood writes: Science educator Sabine Hossenfelder, in her latest YouTube video, expounds upon the sorry state of particle physics, and in the process also has some interesting sidenotes on dark matter.

Hossenfelder criticises what has become the standard operating procedure of particle physicists, whereby they routinely predict the existence of particles that violate the Standard Model. Eventually, the postulated particles are experimentally falsified, at which time physicists move on to even more fanciful predictions.

Hossenfelder is pessimistic about the future of the field if particle physicists continue to behave in the same manner going forward. She notes that in the past 50 years, only a handful of predictions have been validated, and all these were necessary elements of the Standard Model.

Submission + - Carbonyl Lets You Use a Graphical Web Browser in Your Linux Terminal (makeuseof.com)

Submitted by destinyland
destinyland writes: Someone made a Chromium fork... for your terminal. The terminal-based browser Carbonyl "adheres to, and is compatible with modern standards," writes MUO, "meaning that pages behave as they should, and you can even watch streaming video, within the Linux terminal!"

But best of all, "Pages connect and render in an instant—seemingly quicker than a desktop GUI browser, and every page we visited was rendered correctly."

There are a bunch of good reasons to browse the internet from the comfort of your terminal. It could be that eschewing the bloat of X.org and Wayland, a terminal is all you have. Maybe you like SSHing into remote machines and browsing the internet from there.

Perhaps you, like us, just really, really like terminals.

Whatever the reason, your choices of web browsers have, until recently, been limited, and your experience of the world wide web has been a janky, barely-functional one.... We tested Carbonyl in a range of Linux terminals, including the XFCE terminal. GNOME terminal, kitty, and the glorious Cool Retro Terminal. Carbonyl was smooth, fast, and flawless in all of them.

We even connected to our Raspberry Pi via SSH in CRT, and ran Carbonyl remotely, watching Taylor Swift music videos on YouTube. No problem.

Comment Re:What are people dying from? (Score 1) 50

by geckoFeet (#63205386) Attached to: US Cancer Death Rate Falls 33% Since 1991, Report Says

Obviously there's one death per person but, in spite of what you imply, the scientists and doctors are not all idiots. There's a difference between deaths (one per person) and death *rates* (numbers of death per unit time, usually one year but sometimes - as in cancer survival rates - five years or something else). Death *rates* are a proxy for longevity.

In other words, people are living longer. That's not FUD.

Submission + - Twitter engineer shares how twitter will break (technologyreview.com) 1

Submitted by StevenMaurer
StevenMaurer writes: A still-employed engineer at the company has shared how twitter will break. The TLDR is that Musk's team fired upwards of 80% of the DevOps and SREs. (They do nothing, right?) Combined with the need to support huge spikes in traffic as a new topic catches the public's attention, the site has huge complexities to it. The clumsy takeover is already causing cracks to appear. Whether Mastodon will be truly able to become a true competitor to twitter remains an open question, because while Open Source tools are crucial for DevOps in general, Open Source SAAS projects typically lack good performance practices.

Submission + - Unpaid Volunteers at CyanogenMod Successor LineageOS Maintain Builds for Old And (linux-magazine.com)

Submitted by DevNull127
DevNull127 writes: Every mobile device needs its own Android build because of numerous drivers that are not available in the source code. The need to maintain every version of Android for every mobile device means that many manufacturers eventually stop supporting updates. Often, smartphones or tablets that still work perfectly can no longer be used without worry because the manufacturer has simply ceased to offer bug fixes and security updates....

The LineageOS project, the successor to the CyanogenMod project, which was discontinued in 2016, proves that it is not impossible to keep these devices up-to-date. Unpaid volunteers at LineageOS do the work that many manufacturers do not want to do: They combine current Android releases with the required device-specific drivers.

The LineageOS project (Figure 1) provides Android systems with a fresh patch status every month for around 300 devices. The builds are released weekly, unless there is a problem during the build. The Devices page on the LineageOS Wiki provides the details of whether a LineageOS build is available for your smartphone or tablet....

I recommend the LineageOS project as the first port of call for anyone who wants to protect an older smartphone or tablet that is no longer maintained and doesn't receive Google security patches. The LineageOS derivatives LineageOS for MicroG and /e/OS make it even easier to enjoy a Google-free smartphone without too many restrictions.

Submission + - A Quarter of Healthcare Orgs Say Ransomware Attacks Result in Patient Deaths (esecurityplanet.com)

Submitted by storagedude
storagedude writes: Nearly a quarter of healthcare organizations hit by ransomware attacks experienced an increase in patient mortality, according to a new study from Ponemon Institute and Proofpoint.

The report, “Cyber Insecurity in Healthcare: The Cost and Impact on Patient Safety and Care,” surveyed 641 healthcare IT and security practitioners and found that the most common consequences of cyberattacks are delayed procedures and tests, resulting in poor patient outcomes for 57% of the healthcare providers, followed by increased complications from medical procedures. The type of attack most likely to have a negative impact on patient care is ransomware, leading to procedure or test delays in 64% of the organizations and longer patient stays for 59% of them.

The Ponemon report depends on the accuracy of self-reporting and thus doesn't have the weight of, say, an epidemiological study that looks at hospital mortality baseline data before and after an attack, but the data is similar to what Ponemon has found in the past and there have been a number of reports of patient deaths and other complications from ransomware attacks.

The new report found that 89% of the surveyed organizations have experienced an average of 43 attacks in the past year. The most common types of attacks were cloud compromise, ransomware, supply chain, and business email compromise (BEC)/spoofing/phishing.

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a top concern for survey participants. Healthcare organizations have an average of more than 26,000 network-connected devices, yet only 51% of the surveyed organizations include them in their cybersecurity strategy.

Healthcare organizations are better at cloud security, with 63% taking steps to prepare for and respond to cloud compromise attacks, and 62% have taken steps to prevent and respond to ransomware — but that still leaves nearly 40% of healthcare organizations more vulnerable than they should be.

Preparedness is even worse for supply chain attacks and BEC, with only 44% and 48% having a documented response to those attacks, respectively.

The high costs of healthcare cyberattacks — an average of $4.4 million — mean that healthcare cybersecurity tools likely have a high ROI, even though roughly half of the survey respondents say they lack sufficient staffing and in-house expertise.

Submission + - Former Whitehouse photographer threatened with suit over own public domain photo (yahoo.com) 1

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Former Whitehouse photographer, Pete Souza, posted on Instagram on Saturday that a company called Copytrack threatened to sue him on behalf of their client WENN Rights International for a photo he posted on his website unless he paid them licensing fees. The photo in question is from 2009 showing President Obama meeting with Hilary Clinton on Air Force One. The problem that Mr. Souza points out is that he took the photo in his capacity as official Whitehouse photographer. Since he was working for the government, the photo is considered and had been released as public domain yet WENN is trying to license it. “You can’t make this s*** up,” Mr Souza wrote.

Submission + - Giant Deep Ocean Turbine Trial Offers Hope of Endless Green Power (yahoo.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: Power-hungry, fossil-fuel dependent Japan has successfully tested a system that could provide a constant, steady form of renewable energy, regardless of the wind or the sun. For more than a decade, Japanese heavy machinery maker IHI Corp. has been developing a subsea turbine that harnesses the energy in deep ocean currents and converts it into a steady and reliable source of electricity. The giant machine resembles an airplane, with two counter-rotating turbine fans in place of jets, and a central ‘fuselage’ housing a buoyancy adjustment system. Called Kairyu, the 330-ton prototype is designed to be anchored to the sea floor at a depth of 30-50 meters (100-160 feet). The advantage of ocean currents is their stability. They flow with little fluctuation in speed and direction, giving them a capacity factor — a measure of how often the system is generating — of 50-70%, compared with around 29% for onshore wind and 15% for solar.

Submission + - Elon Musk demands all Tesla employees to come back to the office or "quit" (electrek.co)

Submitted by waspleg
waspleg writes: Here are the emails in full:

First email:

        Subject: Remote work is no longer acceptble

        Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart Tesla. This is less than we ask of factory workers.

        If there are particularly exceptional contributors for whom this is impossible, I will review and approve those exceptions directly.

        Moreover, the “office” must be a main Tesla office, not a remote branch office unrelated to the job duties, for example being responsible for Fremont factory human relations, but having your office be in another state.

        Thanks,
        Elon

Second email:

        Subject: To be super clear

        Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week. Moreover, the office must be where your actual colleagues are located, not some remote pseudo office. If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned.

        The more senior you are, the more visible must be your presence. That is why I lived in the factory so much – so that those on the line could see me working alongside them. If I had not done that, Tesla would long ago have gone bankrupt.

        There are of course companies that don’t require this, but when was the last time they shipped a great new product? It’s been a while.

        Tesla has and will create and actually manufacture the most exciting and meaningful products of any company on Earth. This will not happen by phoning it in.

        Thanks,
        Elon

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