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Submission + - Scientist Just Learned Our Ancestors Ate Toddlers (dnyuz.com) 1

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Roughly 850,000 years ago, someone looked at a toddler and saw dinner. That’s the conclusion researchers have drawn after analyzing a child’s neck bone found in the Gran Dolina cave system in northern Spain. The bone, belonging to a 2- to 5-year-old Homo antecessor, shows precise cut marks—signs of decapitation and defleshing. In other words, this poor kid got butchered and eaten.

Submission + - FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out (wired.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.

Submission + - Barbie launches first doll with type 1 diabetes (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: ‘Representation matters’: Barbie launches first doll with type 1 diabetes

Doll with insulin pump and glucose monitor is latest in range designed ‘to enable more children to see themselves’

Mattel has now launched its first Barbie doll with type 1 diabetes, the latest addition to a range it says has been designed “to enable more children to see themselves reflected and encourage doll play that extends beyond a child’s lived experience”.

Submission + - Nintendo Bans Switch 2 After Owner Installs Used Games On It

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: From LevelUp: "One Reddit user, who goes by dmanthey, found this out the hard way. According to his post, he was banned after playing four used Switch 1 games that he had purchased through Facebook Marketplace. He explained that he simply inserted the cartridges into his Switch 2 and waited while the console installed the required updates. However, when he turned it back on the next day, he was greeted by a message saying his access to Nintendo’s online services had been restricted because his system was now banned. ...

Fortunately for dmanthey, the story did not end there. He reached out to Nintendo’s customer service team, who asked him to find the Facebook listing and provide photos of the cartridges he had purchased. After a few conversations with support, he was able to prove his case and have the ban lifted, regaining access to his console’s full features."

Submission + - Microsoft: You Can't Make an $80B AI Omelet Without Breaking 15K Employee Eggs

Submitted by theodp
theodp writes: "After Microsoft this week unveiled a $4 billion, five-year global initiative to help millions of people adapt to the rise of artificial intelligence," GeekWire reports, "the first question for Brad Smith, the company’s vice chair and president, wasn’t about the new program. It was about the company’s own layoffs. What does he say to laid-off Microsoft employees who blame AI for taking their jobs?"

"Addressing the recent Microsoft cuts, he said, 'The notion that AI productivity boosts have somehow already led to this, I don’t think that’s the story in this instance.' In the follow-up interview, he acknowledged that rising capital spending have created pressure to rein in operating costs, which in the tech sector are 'more about the number of employees than anything else,' he said. Microsoft logged an estimated $80 billion in capital investments in its recently completed fiscal year, a record sum driven by the expansion of its infrastructure for training and running advanced AI models."

"He said the reductions were driven by business needs, not employee performance. 'We want the world to know that,' he said, 'so that when they see somebody from Microsoft applying for a job, they know that in all likelihood, they have the opportunity to hire an extraordinarily talented individual.'"

"What would he say to longtime Microsoft employees who lost their jobs and then saw the company commit billions to broader workforce development? Smith acknowledged the difficult juxtaposition but defended the separate moves as necessary. 'Success in life, whether it’s for an individual or a company or any kind of institution, is always about prioritization, and it’s always about investing in the future,' he said. 'This is something that Microsoft should do for the future.'"

Comment Re:Remember? (Score 1) 23

by fjo3 (#65514532) Attached to: iFixit: the Switch 2 Pro is a 'Piss-Poor Excuse For a Controller'

No, but I remember the N64 controller having the shittiest joystick imaginable.

I remember when Mario Party 64 was released, and Nintendo sent a fingerless glove to everyone who purchased the game to avoid a lawsuit. A friend of mind injured the palm of his hand from a minigame that required rotating the joystick as fast as possible, and he wasn't the only one!

Submission + - Physical therapist burned alive inside hyperbaric oxygen chamber (nypost.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: When the first responders arrived, smoke was already billowing through the building.

They scanned the building and came across the grisly scene in which the hyperbaric chamber was turned into a fiery coffin, with Foxcroft’s scorched body trapped inside, according to officials.

His corpse was recovered from the chamber and he was pronounced dead at the scene. No other injuries were reported, according to the fire department.

Hyperbaric chambers, sealed enclosures where air pressure and oxygen levels inside can be controlled, are used for patients’ physical and mental health — aiding with anything from cognition and dementia to physical aging, according to the Havasu Health and Hyperbarics website.

Comment Love the idea in theory (Score 2) 37

I have some memory issues - especially remembering people's names. I would love glasses that helped me with that. Unfortunately, such a device that is produced by any major tech company today is bound to be nothing but a hive of scum, villainy, and spyware syphoning away the remaining dregs of my privacy.

Submission + - Shortest day in history tomorrow as Earth's rotation unexpectedly speeds up (dailymail.co.uk) 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have warned that Wednesday could be the shortest day of your life as Earth's accelerating rotation is expected to move quicker than ever before.

They found that three days this summer, July 9, July 22, and August 5, are expected to be between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than the standard day.

This is because Earth's rotation has sped up in recent years, with scientists observing the phenomenon on atomic clocks in 2020 and 2022.

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