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Submission + - Nvidia and AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenues to US government (archive.is)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The Financial Times reported on Friday that the commerce department started issuing H20 export licences on Friday, two days after Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang met President Donald Trump. The US official said the administration had also started issuing licences for AMD’s China chip.

The quid pro quo arrangement is unprecedented. According to export control experts, no US company has ever agreed to pay a portion of their revenues to obtain export licences. But the deal fits a pattern in the Trump administration where the president urges companies to take measures, such as domestic investments, for example, to prevent the imposition of tariffs in an effort to bring in jobs and revenue to America.

Submission + - Engineers Determine Why NASA Rovers Keep Getting Stuck (sciencealert.com)

Submitted by fahrbot-bot
fahrbot-bot writes: The first extraterrestrial robotic rover was launched from Earth in 1970. It's only now, more than half a century later, that scientists have figured out why these marvels of ingenuity and engineering keep getting stuck in the soils of alien worlds.

"In retrospect, the idea is simple: We need to consider not only the gravitational pull on the rover but also the effect of gravity on the sand to get a better picture of how the rover will perform on the Moon," explains mechanical engineer Dan Negrut of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

"Our findings underscore the value of using physics-based simulation to analyze rover mobility on granular soil."

Submission + - GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB and then Voted to Gut the Agency (propublica.org)

Submitted by Nicholas Grayhame
Nicholas Grayhame writes: Remember several GOP congressmen taking credit for providing funding for various projects in their districts even though they voted against the bills that authorized such funding? Well, the tradition continues ProPublica reports that "Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards, loans and other products to the agency."

From the article:

"Data obtained by ProPublica through a public records request shows that many of the same Republican members of Congress who have targeted the CFPB for cuts have collectively routed thousands of constituent complaints to the agency.

Rep. Darrell Issa of California and Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia, for example, voted to reduce the CFPB’s budget. Yet each of their offices has referred more than 100 constituents to the CFPB for help, among the most of any House members. The office of Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, who also voted for the CFPB cuts, has routed more than 800 constituent complaints to the agency, the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found. ...Overall, members of Congress have steered nearly 24,000 complaints to the CFPB since it opened its doors in 2011. Roughly 10,000 of those were referred by the offices of current and former Republican lawmakers, ProPublica found."

Submission + - Palantir targeted WikiLeaks

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The WikiLeaks Threat

“An Overview by Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies”
--

Speed is crucial!

– There is no time to develop an infrastructure to support this investigaton

– The threat demands a comprehensive analysis capability now

Combatng this threat requires advanced subject matter expertise in cybersecurity, insider threats, counter cyber-fraud, targeting analysis, social media exploitaton

Palantir Technologies, HBGary Federal, and Berico Technologies represent deep domain knowledge in each of these areas

– They can be deployed tomorrow against this threat as a unified and cohesive investigatve analysis cell

Feed the fuel between the feuding groups. Disinformation. Create messages around actions to sabotage or discredit the opposing organization. Submit fake documents and then call out the error.

Create concern over the security of the infrastructure. Create exposure stories. If the process is believed to not be secure they are done.

Cyber attacks against the infrastructure to get data on document submitters. This would kill the project. Since the servers are now in Sweden and France putting a team together to get access is more straighqorward.

Media campaign to push the radical and reckless nature of wikileaks activities. Sustained pressure. Does nothing for the fanatics, but creates concern and doubt amongst moderates.

Search for leaks. Use social media to profile and identify risky behavior of employees.

Submission + - Could AI's 'usability revolution' kill off small business software?

Submitted by sholto
sholto writes: Coding may be generative AI’s breakout application – just look at billion-dollar startups like Cursor and WindSurf. But what if a bigger killer application is the user interface itself?

Oracle NetSuite’s head of AI, Brian Chess, says we are on the verge of a “usability revolution” that will make enterprise software usable by – well, anyone.

If that’s true, then why do you need to build a dumbed-down version for small business? Oracle NetSuite’s CEO Evan Goldberg is already there.

Scale100: Do you think then we'll have a big consolidation? I mean, you won't need a Xero or QuickBooks if you can just go with –
Goldberg: How cool would that be? “The last ERP system you'll ever have to use.” When that florist goes public, they're still on NetSuite. (Laughs)

Scale100: But why not?
Goldberg: That is definitely a vision that we have.

Scale100: So are you redrawing the TAMs? Is this real?
Goldberg: More to come.

Submission + - Hyundai unveils $21bn US expansion as Trump tariffs loom (bbc.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes:

The plan includes a new $5.8bn steel plant in the southern state of Louisiana.

Hyundai also said it will expand its American vehicle production and invest billions of dollars in new technology including autonomous driving and artificial intelligence (AI).

"This investment is a clear demonstration that tariffs very strongly work," Trump said during the event at the White House on Monday.
He added that more tariffs on vehicle imports are likely to be announced this week.

Hyundai said the new steelmaking facility will produce more than 2.7 million metric tons of steel a year and create more than 1,400 jobs.
It is expected to make steel for Hyundai's plants in Alabama and Georgia.

The announcement also included plans to invest $9bn to boost the firm's production in the US to 1.2 million vehicles a year by 2028.
Hyundai also said it had earmarked $6bn to expand partnerships with US firms to develop technologies including self-driving vehicles, robotics and AI.

On Wednesday, Hyundai Motor is set to hold an opening ceremony for a new $7.59bn car and battery factory in Georgia.

It already has a manufacturing facility in Alabama and its affiliate Kia has a factory in Georgia.

When fully operational, the three plants will have capacity to make a million vehicles a year, the company said.

I had been told tariffs wouldn't work.

Submission + - NASA Has Lost Contact with Ingenuity Helicopter (npr.org) 1

Submitted by Thelasko
Thelasko writes: NASA has lost contact with its beloved helicopter on Mars, Ingenuity.

Communications broke down on Thursday, when the little autonomous rotorcraft was sent on a "quick pop-up vertical flight," to test its systems after an unplanned early landing during its previous flight, the agency said in a status update on Friday night.

The Perseverance rover, which relays data between the helicopter and Earth during the flights, showed that Ingenuity climbed to its assigned maximum altitude of 40 feet, NASA said.

But during its planned descent, the helicopter and rover stopped communicating with each other.

Submission + - RATM Refuses To Play Venues That Use Facial Recognition (futurism.com)

Submitted by SonicSpike
SonicSpike writes: Rock band "Rage Against the Machine" is living up to its name by signing a pledge to boycott venues that use facial recognition technology.

Band cofounders Tom Morello and Zack De La Rocha are, as Rolling Stone reports, among the many signatories of a pledge from the nonprofit Fight for the Future, which seeks, among other things, to get Congress to pass a bill banning facial recognition tech.

"In recent years, a coalition of musicians, fans, and human rights groups successfully got more than 40 of the world’s largest music festivals, including Bonnaroo and Coachella, to say they won’t use facial recognition at events," the pledge reads. "But now this tech is starting to spread — not only as a surveillance tool, but also as a form of 'paperless' ticketing and payment."

Indeed, Rolling Stone revealed last year that New York City's iconic Madison Square Garden arena was caught using the technology to surveil "adversaries" of the venue and remove them — yet another dystopian example of the tech, which has also been used to track the movements of public housing residents and by law enforcement.

"This invasive biometric surveillance isn’t safe," the Fight for the Future pledge continues, "especially for Black and brown people who have been falsely arrested or ejected from public places due to the tech’s baked-in discrimination."

Along with Rage Against the Machine, bands like Anti-Flag, Wheatus, Speedy Ortiz, and more than 100 others have signed the pledge, as well as a wide variety of music venues.

Thus far, the non-profit's track record with anti-biometric campaigning has been pretty successful. Last year, it successfully got Colorado's Red Rocks Amphitheater to abandon plans to use Amazon's palm scanning software after Morello and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna signed another pledge in protest of it.

That artists, venues, and even some elected officials are pushing back against this scary tech is definitely a good thing — but given that big names like Taylor Swift are using it regardless, and that Congress still hasn't passed legislation against the practice, it's only a small step in the right direction.

Submission + - Scientist Finds Rare Jurasic Era Bug in Arkansas, Kills It and Puts It On a Pin (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by theshowmecanuck
theshowmecanuck writes: To be fair, he said he didn't know what it was so just collected it and took it home, and then figured it out later. My thought that I added to the title was because of this quote in the story (and which tickled my cynicism in humanity):

"It could have been 100 years since it was even in this area — and it's been years since it's been spotted anywhere near it..."

Obligatory descriptive quote:

A 2012 trip to a Fayetteville, Arkansas, Walmart to pick up some milk turned out to be one for the history books. A giant bug that stopped a scientist in his tracks as he walked into the store and he ended up taking home turned out to be a rare Jurassic-era flying insect.

Submission + - Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely (techtarget.com)

Submitted by dcblogs
dcblogs writes: Despite the demand of employers like Apple
  Amazon, Microsoft
, AT&T
and others, nearly 40% of software engineers preferred only remote roles, and if their employers mandated a return to the office, 21% indicated they would quit immediately, while another 49% said they would start looking for another job, according to Hired's 2023 State of Software Engineers. This report gathered its data from 68,500 software engineering candidates and a survey of more than 1,300 software engineers and 120 talent professionals. Employers open to remote workers "are able to get better-quality talent that's a better fit for the organization," said Josh Brenner, CEO of Hired, a job-matching platform for technology jobs.

Submission + - Artificial Sweetener Erythritol Linked To Heart Attack and Stroke, Study Finds (cbsnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Erythritol, a zero-calorie sugar substitute used to sweeten low-cal, low-carb and "keto" products, is linked to higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death, according to a new study. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic studied over 4,000 people in the U.S. and Europe and found those with higher blood erythritol levels were at elevated risk of experiencing these major adverse cardiac events. The research, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, also found erythritol made blood platelets easier to form a clot.

"Our study shows that when participants consumed an artificially sweetened beverage with an amount of erythritol found in many processed foods, markedly elevated levels in the blood are observed for days — levels well above those observed to enhance clotting risks," said Dr. Stanley Hazen, senior author of the study and chairman for the department of cardiovascular and metabolic sciences at Cleveland Clinic, in a press release.

While the study doesn't definitively show causation, CBS News medical contributor Dr. David Agus says there's "certainly enough data to make you very worried." "Most artificial sweeteners bind to your sweet receptors but aren't absorbed. Erythritol is absorbed and has significant effects, as we see in the study," Agus explains. Sweeteners like erythritol have "rapidly increased in popularity in recent years," Hazen noted, and the researchers say more in-depth study is needed to understand their long-term health effects. "Cardiovascular disease builds over time, and heart disease is the leading cause of death globally. We need to make sure the foods we eat aren't hidden contributors," he said.

Submission + - New York Now Has More Airbnb Listings Than Apartments for Rent (curbed.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The fever isn’t breaking. There are now bidding wars for one in every five Manhattan rental apartments (and one in three luxury units), according to the most recent Douglas Elliman report. Inventory in all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, and northwest Queens has been hovering well below 10,000 units — as of April, the number was just 7,669. Which is several thousand less than the number of entire-apartment and entire-home Airbnb rentals available in New York City right now: 10,572, according to AirDNA, a third-party site that tracks short-term rentals. Inside Airbnb, another site that scrapes Airbnb for listings data, puts the number even higher, at 20,397.

Ever since Airbnb came on the scene in 2008, there have been concerns that the short-term-rental company would deplete the housing stock by sucking up available rooms, causing prices to rise in cities like New York and San Francisco, where there were already severe housing shortages. The absolute number of available apartments and houses on the site peaked before the pandemic and has since dropped back, according to both Inside Airbnb and AirDNA. But there’s a difference now: There are just so few apartments to be had that Airbnbs make up the majority of the city’s available rentals.

Submission + - Hyundai to build $7B electric vehicle plant near Savannah, Georgia (apnews.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The plant could grow to include 8,500 employees and would be built on a 2,200-acre (890-hectare) site that state and local governments own near the hamlet of Ellabell, Georgia, said two people familiar with Georgia’s talks with Hyundai.

It would be the second massive electric vehicle plant announced in Georgia in less than a year. Rivian Automotive in December announced it would build a $5 billion, 7,500-job electric truck plant about 45 miles (70 kilometers) east of Atlanta.

Submission + - Twitter deal 'on hold' after spam/fake account report (theverge.com)

Submitted by Third Position
Third Position writes: Elon Musk says his deal to buy Twitter is “temporarily on hold” after the social network reported that false or spam accounts comprised less than 5 percent of its 226 million monetizable daily active users. The Tesla CEO, who offered to buy twitter for $44 billion, tweeted a link to a May 2nd Reuters report on Twitter’s filing, saying he wants to see the company’s calculations.

“Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users,” Musk tweeted.

Submission + - San Francisco Police Are Using Driverless Cars as Mobile Surveillance Cameras (vice.com)

Submitted by BeerFartMoron
BeerFartMoron writes: For the last five years, driverless car companies have been testing their vehicles on public roads. These vehicles constantly roam neighborhoods while laden with a variety of sensors including video cameras capturing everything going on around them in order to operate safely and analyze instances where they don't.

While the companies themselves, such as Alphabet’s Waymo and General Motors’ Cruise, tout the potential transportation benefits their services may one day offer, they don’t publicize another use case, one that is far less hypothetical: Mobile surveillance cameras for police departments.

“Autonomous vehicles are recording their surroundings continuously and have the potential to help with investigative leads,” says a San Francisco Police department training document obtained by Motherboard via a public records request. “Investigations has already done this several times.”

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