No more Star Trek? That's what some are saying. Just because the set of the disastrous Starfleet Academy has been destroyed. But I don't think they'll let it die completely. Someone one else will take on the idea and run with it again. Paramount needs to release the intellectual rights and give it to the right people.
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Well I guess there was "someone with a brain" at Microsoft after all. WireGuard's account has been unsuspended and they were able to release a Windows update after all.
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...thanks to legal changes that mean organizations won’t need to secure consent to use some personal informationThe changes only apply to data that poses little risk of infringing individuals’ rights, and when developers use it to compile statistics for research purposes. Even health-related data comes under the amendments, if it can improve public health.
Facial scans are also fair game. The amendments require those who acquire facial images to explain how they handle the data, but offering a chance to opt out won’t be mandatory.
I think this is incredibly short-sighted.
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What’s in a name? Moderna’s “vaccine” vs. “therapy” dilemma. What matters is not the name so much as the technology. Turning cells into antigen factories that the immune system attacks only works if the antigen appears on the cells you want to kill. Not cardiac cells. Not endothelial cells or pulmonary epithelial cells. It's crazy that this was proposed and probably just by sheer luck that it hasn't harmed people even more. CAR-T cell therapy makes a lot more sense and it perhaps why it's able to do so much more. But mRNA vaxxes are Moderna's shtick, and that's what they're going to do.
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Why Phishing Emails Keep Working on Smart People. Phishing emails sometimes intersect with stuff that I'm actually involved with or subscribe to. It's easy to ignore phishing emails if you are a Luddite and having little to no online presence. But for someone who has Amazon accounts or online bank accounts or whose subscriptions may be up for renewal, it's easier to click on something assuming that it's legit. I installed a DKIM checker in Thunderbird. That's how I knew that my Amazon Prime billing problem email came from a server in Pune, India instead from Amazon. I also installed the Stop Phishing Me! add-on which is helpful, although sometimes overly so.
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Physicists resolve a long-standing puzzle over the size of a proton. The proton's been getting a lot of attention recently, especially with the discovery that a proton-like particle can exist with two charm quarks instead two up quarks. It's amazing to me that the size of the proton has been unknown to this day.
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Andrej Karparthy confirms that developers have been experiencing "AI psychosis". Like the author of the article, I'm not experiencing this yet. Also, to me psychosis is a specific term, meaning when someone can't reliably distinguish reality from hallucinated experience. I think that the term is being used sloppily by the lay press to just mean someone who is surprised and impressed by what they experience, which has gone beyond expectation. But not a schizophreniform disorder in the strict sense.
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California Democrat Corey Jackson wants to weaken Proposition 209 so California can discriminate against Asians and Whites again. Jackson wants to change it so instead of applying to public education in general, it only applies to higher public education admissions and enrollment. Just leave it alone, Corey. Corey's other bright ideas were to bring back pensions for career politicians and to allow California to designate funding for "culturally specific programs" (wink-wink) instead of being race-neutral.
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Minnesota fraudster gets away with $11 million in Medicaid fraud and is allowed to flee the country. This is the biggest reason why I opposed Medicare and Medicaid for All (there are other valid reasons). The federal government can't even properly administer Medicaid for Some. Letting this be the insurance plan for everybody just opens up so much fraud to so many people. This country doesn't have enough trustworthy administrators to handle this. Absolutely no way should this be enacted.
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Gov. Kotek signs $311M business tax (SB 1507). It's the law now. Bye-bye Oregon businesses.
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