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Comment Isn't this the idea? (Score 1) 4

by getuid() (#65788658) Attached to: FFmpeg To Google: Fund Us or Stop Sending Bugs

I'm really torn on this.

Free Software benefits from bug reports - eventually the software gets better. Big corporations don't compensate - which sucks, but is part of the deal when you decide you're writing Free Software. You're not writing to be compensated, you're writing to "scratch an itch".

Can't fix all bugs? Then... Don't. Eventually whoever has most to lose is bound to step up and help. At any rate nobody gets to tell you whether or how fast to fix a big or implement a feature, if you're not on their payroll... that's the flip side that works to the Free Software Dev's advantage.

Bothered by the premature disclosure? Why? A security issue still is a security issue; better to know about it than not, fpr everyone involved.

Comment Re:And the solution as always is very very (Score 1) 40

by DamnOregonian (#65788472) Attached to: AI's $5 Trillion Cost Needs Every Debt Market, JPMorgan Says
US here... It's exactly the same in the US. My condo is valued at ~$1300/ft^2 (~$12k/m^2)

We have plenty of minorities, but they're the kind of minorities that the racists like- the well-off ones.

That being said, every city has some section that's "The Projects". I've been to European cities. They're not inherently different in feel than US cities.
I suspect parent has never been in an actual city.

Submission + - Scientists Discover a Viral Cause of One of The Most Common Cancers (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: The virus, known as beta-HPV, was thought in rare cases to contribute to skin cancer by worsening UV damage, but a recent study suggests it can actually hijack the body's cells to directly drive cancer growth.

A closer genetic analysis revealed something surprising: the beta-HPV had actually integrated itself into the DNA of the woman's tumor, where it was producing viral proteins that helped the cancer thrive.

Before now, beta-HPV had never been found to integrate into cellular DNA, let alone actively maintain a cancer.

Submission + - Thanks to a computer model, five Vietnam War MIAs come home (phys.org)

Submitted by alternative_right
alternative_right writes: In the decades after the war, joint U.S., Laotian and Vietnamese teams mounted several expeditions to search the peak, recovering several of the men lost that day. But the dense vegetation, remote environs and possibility of unexploded munitions at the site, not to mention the sheer size of the mountain, complicated the search for the remaining missing Airmen.

With the expertise of Russell Quick, a Ph.D. graduate in anthropology from UIC and member of the CRIM team, the researchers scanned the mountain with drones to make a digital 3D model of the site. They used a remote sensing technology called LiDAR, which maps the terrain using laser beams aimed at the ground and measuring their reflection back to the aircraft.

The program, trained on images of tropical forests, will ping when it detects an area that looks different from the rest.

"It will not give any alarms to rocks or trees or what you see in a tropical forest. But if you have a belt or something like that, it's an unusual object, and it'll create an alert," said Cetin.

The researchers homed in on several areas of interest and submitted their findings to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

Submission + - Copy-paste now exceeds file transfer as top corporate data exfiltration vector (scworld.com)

Submitted by spatwei
spatwei writes: It is now more common for data to leave companies through copying and paste than through file transfers and uploads, LayerX revealed in its Browser Security Report 2025.

This shift is largely due to generative AI (genAI), with 77% of employees pasting data into AI prompts, and 32% of all copy-pastes from corporate accounts to non-corporate accounts occurring within genAI tools.

“Traditional governance built for email, file-sharing, and sanctioned SaaS didn’t anticipate that copy/paste into a browser prompt would become the dominant leak vector,” LayerX CEO Or Eshed wrote in a blog post summarizing the report.

Submission + - Europe's cookie law messed up the internet. Brussels wants to fix it. (politico.eu)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: In a bid to slash red tape, the European Commission wants to eliminate one of its peskiest laws: a 2009 tech rule that plastered the online world with pop-ups requesting consent to cookies. European rulemakers in 2009 revised a law called the e-Privacy Directive to require websites to get consent from users before loading cookies on their devices, unless the cookies are “strictly necessary” to provide a service. Fast forward to 2025 and the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice.

A note sent to industry and civil society attending a focus group on Sept. 15, seen by POLITICO, showed the Commission is pondering how to tweak the rules to include more exceptions or make sure users can set their preferences on cookies once (for example, in their browser settings) instead of every time they visit a website.

Submission + - Singapore scammers get the canning treatment (mha.gov.sg) 1

Submitted by D,Petkow
D,Petkow writes: Singapore is often hailed as one of the world’s most ultra-modern hubs — a place of gleaming skyscrapers, cutting-edge fintech, and futuristic urban planning. Yet, beneath the polished surface, the city-state still enforces some of the strictest old-school punishments imaginable.

In a move that stunned many outside observers, Parliament recently passed a law mandating at least six strokes of the cane for scammers and money mules. With scams making up nearly 60% of reported crimes and billions lost since 2020, the government argues that harsh deterrence is necessary.

It’s a striking contrast: a nation leading in smart cities and AI governance, while simultaneously wielding rattan canes against fraudsters. This duality — hyper-modern yet deeply traditional — is part of what makes Singapore fascinating, and sometimes bewildering, to the rest of the world.

https://says.com/my/news/singa...
http://metro.co.uk/2025/11/08/...

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