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Submission + - Oil surges 35% this week for biggest gain in futures trading history (cnbc.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: President Donald Trump on Friday demanded unconditional surrender from Iran, raising fears of a prolonged war that could wreak havoc on the global oil and gas market. The war has already brought traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, a critical shipping route for energy supplies, to a near standstill.

Qatar’s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, told The Financial Times on Friday that crude prices could reach $150 per barrel in the coming weeks if oil tankers were unable to pass through the Strait.

This could “bring down the economies of the world,” Kaabi said.

Submission + - Thinking Positively About Getting Older May Shape How You Age (studyfinds.com)

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fjo3 writes: Most Americans expect their minds and bodies to slowly fall apart with age. So do most of their doctors. A Yale University study says that expectation is not just wrong for many older adults. It turns out it may be part of what makes it come true.

Researchers found that nearly half of adults 65 and older showed measurable improvement in brain function, physical mobility, or both between their first and final assessments over up to 12 years of follow-up. People who held more positive beliefs about aging were significantly more likely to be in that improving group. That held true even for people who were already healthy and functioning well at the start. A sunnier outlook on getting older turned out to predict genuinely better health down the road.

Submission + - Robotic surgery used to carry out major operation 1,500 miles away (dailystar.co.uk)

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fjo3 writes: The first remote robotic surgery has been hailed as a "milestone" by medics after a surgeon in London operated on a patient with prostate cancer who was some 2,400km away in Gibraltar. The pioneering procedure went "extremely well", with patient Paul Buxton reporting feeling "fantastic" just four days after the surgery.

Submission + - Japan approves stem-cell treatment for Parkinson's in world first (france24.com)

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fjo3 writes: Pharmaceutical company Sumitomo Pharma said it received the green light for the manufacture and sale of Amchepry, its Parkinson's disease treatment that transplants stem cells into a patient's brain.

Japan's health ministry also gave the go-ahead to ReHeart, heart muscle sheets developed by medical startup Cuorips that can help form new blood vessels and restore heart function, media reports said.

The treatments could be on the market and rolled out to patients as early as this summer, reports said, citing the health ministry, becoming the world's first commercially available medical products using (iPS) cells.

Submission + - Computer Scientists Caution Against Internet Age-Verification Mandates (reason.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Effective January 1, 2027, providers of computer operating systems in California will be required to implement age verification. That's just part of a wave of state and national laws attempting to limit children's access to potentially risky content without considering the perils such laws themselves pose. Now, not a moment too soon, over 400 computer scientists have signed an open letter warning that the rush to protect children from online dangers threatens to introduce new risks including censorship, centralized power, and loss of privacy. They caution that age-verification requirements "might cause more harm than good."

Comment War Powers Clause (Score 4, Informative) 197

Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the U.S. Constitution, grants Congress the power to declare war. Not the president. Expecting the Legislative branch to do their job is completely ridiculous at this point, but it's still worth remembering that theoretically, declaring war is not within the Executive branch's powers. Not that it has stopped any president for the last 80+ years - the last time the U.S. Congress formally declared war was during World War II, specifically on June 4, 1942, against Hungary, Bulgaria, and Romania.

Submission + - SPAM: Good night, stars. We are on the cusp of turning darkness into day.

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: This untimely light contributes to the loss of insect and bird populations. It disrupts migration, the seasonal patterns of plants and the circadian rhythms of animals ranging from sea turtles to mountain lions. Humans lose sleep because of artificial light, which potentially contributes to obesity and cancer. Light as faint as a full moon has been shown to alter our sleep patterns. Reflect Orbital aspires to produce for its customers the light of up to 1,000 moons by 2028 and 360,000 moons by 2035.
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Comment Re:Why not adopt? (Score 1) 70

by fjo3 (#66009042) Attached to: First British Baby Born Using Transplanted Womb From Dead Donor

If you really feel you need a child, why not adopt a child instead of this procedure whereby you made yet another human?

A lot of people want children they are genetically related to. They want to pass on their genes. It's the most basic of all animal instincts really - to reproduce, and pass on their genetic heritage to future generations. Logically, there are many good arguments against it. Overpopulation. Children in need of adoption or foster care. I am not here to debate about it, just to state the obvious: people are animals, and animals seek sexual reproduction, just like every other species on this planet.

Submission + - Mysterious spikes in Earth's 'heartbeat' are scrambling human brains with an eer (dailymail.co.uk)

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fjo3 writes: Earth's natural 'humming' vibration has experienced a series of unusual spikes in recent weeks, raising questions about whether the phenomenon could influence mood and cognition.

Known as the Schumann Resonance, this vibration is often described as the Earth's 'heartbeat,' a steady electromagnetic rhythm generated by lightning and trapped between the planet's surface and the ionosphere.

Submission + - Trump family says U.S. dollar needs an upgrade and they are the ones to do it (cnbc.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: The value of USD1, which is marketed as a stablecoin, would track the dollar, much as the dollar when it was created in 1792 was initially pegged to the value of the then-dominant Spanish silver dollar.

The Trumps’ company, World Liberty Financial, touts USD1 as an improvement on official U.S. currency. The firm’s website brands its stablecoin as “The Dollar. Upgraded.” And it calls the coin “still the US dollar, but for a new era.”

Submission + - Malware pre-installed on TV streaming boxes

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An anonymous reader writes: Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

“The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox 2.0, a vast China-based botnet powered by malicious software that comes pre-installed on many Android TV streaming boxes. Both the FBI and Google say they are hunting for the people behind Badbox 2.0, and thanks to bragging by the Kimwolf botmasters we may now have a much clearer idea about that.”

Submission + - Keep Calm and Adapt (quillette.com)

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fjo3 writes: Software can now write software better than even the most advanced human experts. And where software has gone, the other learned professions will follow. That is the gist of a viral essay titled “Something Big Is Happening” posted to X on 9 February by Matt Shumer, who runs an AI start-up. The time for “cocktail party polite” answers to the question “what’s the deal with AI?” is over, he warns, and it is time to confront people with the scary truth: mass technological unemployment is upon us, and devastation of most other kinds of “cognitive work” will soon follow. His argument focusses on software engineering, and on Claude Code Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Codex 5.3 in particular. Both of these models were released on 6 February, and they are now so good that, he tells us, “I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job.”

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