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Submission + - Lucid Dying: Patients Recall Near-Death Experiences During CPR

Submitted by InfiniteZero
InfiniteZero writes: A new study shows that around one in five people who survive cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) after cardiac arrest describe lucid experiences of death that occurred while they were seemingly unconscious and on the brink of death.

Survivors reported having unique lucid experiences, including a perception of separation from the body and observing events without pain or distress. They also reported a meaningful evaluation of life, including of their actions, intentions, and thoughts toward others. The researchers found these experiences of death to be different from hallucinations, dreams, delusions, illusions, or CPR-induced consciousness.

Tests for hidden brain activity were also included in the research. A key finding was the discovery of spikes of brain activity, including so-called gamma, delta, theta, alpha, and beta waves up to an hour into CPR. Some of these brain waves normally occur when people are conscious and performing higher mental functions, including thinking, memory retrieval, and conscious perception.

Submission + - Twitter Now Asks Some Fired Workers to Please Come Back (bloomberg.com)

Submitted by kimanaw
kimanaw writes: From the "HAHAHAHA OMFG I'll get right on that" department:



Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features Musk envisions, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private information

Submission + - SPAM: Tesla's virtual power plant had its first event helping the grid

Submitted by Klaxton
Klaxton writes: Last year, Tesla launched a VPP pilot program in California, where Powerwall owners would join in voluntarily without compensation to let the VPP pull power from their battery packs when the grid needed it.

Following the pilot program, Tesla and PG&E, the electric utility covering Northern California, launched the first official virtual power plant through the Tesla app in June.

This new version of the Tesla Virtual Power Plant actually compensates Powerwall owners $2 per kWh that they contribute to the grid during emergency load reduction events. Homeowners are expected to get between $10 and $60 per event.

the Tesla VPP had its first emergency response event. Tesla reached out to Powerwall owners who opted in the program through its app yesterday to warn them of the event and give them the option to opt-out if they needed all the power from their Powerwalls today

It looks like 2,342 Powerwall owners participated in the event on the PG&E network and 268 homes on the SCE grid.

For PG&E, Tesla’s VPP was outputting as much as 16 MW of power at one point during the event – acting as a small distributed power plant.
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Submission + - Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety in C + + (googleblog.com) 1

Submitted by Hari Pota
Hari Pota writes: From the Google Online Security Blog.

"Temporal memory safety refers to the problem of guaranteeing that memory is always accessed with the most up to date information of its structure, its type. C++ unfortunately does not provide such guarantees. While there is appetite for different languages than C++ with stronger memory safety guarantees, large codebases such as Chromium will use C++ for the foreseeable future."

Submission + - SPAM: Twitter suspends John Solomon for article about Pfizer's approved vs EUA vaccine 2

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Twitter. The giant censorship machine disguised as a "mere platform" suspended acclaimed journalist John Solomon's account for sharing an article about the legal distinctions between Pfizer's fully approved and emergency use authorization (EUA) COVID-19 vaccines. Even Pfizer did not dispute the accuracy of the article, headlined "Pfizer to continue distributing version of COVID-19 vaccine not fully approved by FDA."

"There is nothing in the story that is not well reported or misleading," Stanford School of Medicine professor Jay Bhattacharya, whose research focuses on the "health and well-being of vulnerable populations," wrote in an email to Just the News. "Twitter’s censorship of COVID information has contributed greatly to the collapse in trust in public health."

Twitter provided no meaningful information about their arbitrary and capricious decision, saying only that "because the tweet violates its policy on "spreading misleading and potentially harmful information" related to COVID."

Our Silicon Valley superiors seem to think that "1984" and Farenheit 451 were instruction manuals.

Submission + - How Did Open Source Get Broken? (dev.to) 3

Submitted by frank_adrian314159
frank_adrian314159 writes: By now, most of the internet knows about the famous Log4Shell exploit, and if you don't, it's easy to get a sense of how disastrous it's been. To drive the point home: the US Department of Homeland Security is warning people about it.

There's been a lot of hand-wringing about how open source software, the lifeblood of many businesses today, is often totally unpaid and unthanked work, with some hot takes like 'Open source needs to grow the hell up.' and 'Open source' is broken.

What I want to touch on is something that's been bothering me for the past few days, and solidified after seeing Bloomberg's piece–the fact that the log4j developers had this massive security issue dumped in their laps, with the expectation that they were supposed to fix it. How did that happen? How did a group of smart, hard-working people get roped into a thankless, high-pressure situation with absolutely no upside for themselves? ...

It is this communal mythology I want to talk about, this great open source brainwashing that makes maintainers feel like they need to go above and beyond publishing source code under an open source license–that they need to manage and grow a community, accept contributions, fix issues, follow vulnerability disclosure best practices, and many other things. ...

In reality what is happening, is that open source maintainers are effectively unpaid outsourcing teams for giant corporations. The [engineer who reported the issue] told the log4j team: 'Please hurry up'

Submission + - EU draft law may force the big IM platforms to interoperate (theregister.com)

Submitted by mu22le
mu22le writes: The European Parliament's new Digital Markets Act, could compel big platforms to make their tech interoperable.

Among other things, this might mean forcing the tech vendors' messaging apps to allow communication with other services.

While the legislation carefully phrases the characteristics that make a company a gatekeeper in terms of its operations inside the EU, the fines are assessed against global revenue.

A potential get-out is that it applies to "number-independent interpersonal communication services" – so services that identify you by your phone number rather than an account, such as Whatsapp, Telegram, Signal, and the like, might be able to dodge the new rules.

The proposal also tires to regulate micro-targeted advertising and put a brake on "killer acquisitions".

Submission + - Darpa Funded Researchers Accidentally Create the World's First Warp Bubble (thedebrief.org)

Submitted by Reeses
Reeses writes: The Debrief just reported that DARPA just "accidentally" created the world's first warp bubble. From the article:

Warp drive pioneer and former NASA warp drive specialist Dr. Harold G “Sonny” White has reported the successful manifestation of an actual, real-world “Warp Bubble.” And, according to White, this first of its kind breakthrough by his Limitless Space Institute (LSI) team sets a new starting point for those trying to manufacture a full-sized, warp-capable spacecraft.

There's also a video of the announcement, The Very First Warp-Bubble Created by DARPA Funded Team.

Submission + - Missouri was to thank "hacker" journalist before Governor accused him of crimes (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by UnknowingFool
UnknowingFool writes: Two days before Missouri governor Michael Parson (R) accused a newspaper reporter, Josh Renaud, of "hacking" for reporting about a fixed flaw in a state website, the state government of Missouri was planning to publicly thank Renaud for alerting them of the flaw, emails show in a public records request. Two days later, however, the Governor publicly accused Renaud of crimes. Also in the request, emails show that a day before the article was published the state's cybersecurity specialist informed other state officials that "[FBI Agent] Kyler [Storm] after reading the emails from the reporter that this incident is not an actual network intrusion".

St Louis Dispatch reporter, Josh Renaud, had discovered that the state's website was exposing the Social Security Numbers of teachers and other school employees in the HTML code of the state's site. He informed the state who fixed the flaw, and he delayed publishing the article until after the flaw was fixed. The article was published on October 14. The same day, Governor Parson accused Renaud of cyber crimes. A week later, Parson doubled down after criticism.

Submission + - AmigaOS4.x beta test

Submitted by Mike Bouma
Mike Bouma writes: AmigaOS4 betatester Roman Kargin (aka kas1e) has posted a youtube video demonstrating the latest betatest AmigaOS4 kernel with the latest RadeonRX driver found in A-Eon's Enhancer Software 2.1. He shows the performance improvements of eight games he has ported to AmigaOS4. For example on his AmigaOne X5000 with Saphire Pulse Radeon RX 560 2Gb he receives ~50 additional FPS in Quake 3 (up from ~80 FPS in total previously).

Regarding AmigaOS 4.1, here and here you find some nice 3 year old videos by OS4 user Plexus2002, demonstrating Candi with compositeeffects and Warp3D Nova (which are also part of the Enhancer Software package).

The ExecSG team is currently working (slides from AmiWest) on multi-core support. Also Trevor Dickinson gives an update on new and cheaper PowerPC hardware that A-EON Technology Ltd and ACube Systems srl are currently developing in the latest issue of Amiga Future.

Submission + - Elon Musk says SpaceX at risk of bankruptcy (cnbc.com)

Submitted by ArmoredDragon
ArmoredDragon writes: Elon Musk has announced to SpaceX employees that a lack of progress on the raptor engine for use in Starship, SpaceX's next generation heavy lift rocket, is putting the company at risk of bankruptcy. SpaceX had recently removed it's Vice President of Propulsion, Will Heltsley, from his position due to a lack of progress on the raptor engine, and in the process found what Musk has termed a "disaster" regarding lack of development. Musk stated that SpaceX will need to launch Starship at least once every two weeks next year to remain solvent, and Starlink will need the lift capability of Starship for its next generation of satellites.

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