Paul 🐧 @Paul_Aguayo@qoto.org

macOS Sequoia, currently available in public beta, won’t flex all of its AI muscles until after its official release, but the early version already offers an excellent iPhone mirroring feature, a capable one-stop password app, and plenty of new convenience features. Here's an overview: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-macos-sequoia

Volkswagen has signed a deal to mass-produce solid-state battery technology for its future lineup of electric vehicles. https://www.pcmag.com/news/volkswagen-inks-deal-to-mass-produce-solid-state-batteries-for-1-million

#Blender 4.2 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics Software Officially Released, Here’s What’s New https://9to5linux.com/blender-4-2-lts-3d-graphics-software-officially-released-heres-whats-new

#Linux #OpenSource

Solus Announces Transition Away From Snap https://www.linuxtoday.com/news/solus-announces-transition-away-from-snap/

55 Years Ago: Apollo 11’s One Small Step, One Giant Leap https://www.nasa.gov/history/55-years-ago-apollo-11s-one-small-step-one-giant-leap/ #NASA #NASAHistory #Apollo11

Prepare for Perseids! https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/night-sky-network/prepare-for-perseids/ #NASA #NightSkyNetwork #Perseids

@thomholwerda Thank you for the tip.

(But it is just incredible that we have to go through all that just to disable something that should at least have been an opt-in, or shouldn’t have happened at all. 😬)

In case you're using Firefox on mobile - so myself and like four others - disabling Firefox' new Facebook data collection feature is quite a bit harder than on desktop, but it can be done:

Go to 'chrome://geckoview/content/config.xhtml'
Use the search field to find the entry for 'about:config' and enable it
Go to 'about:config'
Search for 'dom.private-attribution.submission.enabled' and set it to false

Done.

As alpine glaciers melt, the corpses of long-lost climbers are being discovered in the ice https://phys.org/news/2024-07-alpine-glaciers-corpses-lost-climbers.html #science

ARRL finally confirms ransomware gang stole data in cyberattack https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arrl-finally-confirms-ransomware-gang-stole-data-in-cyberattack/

#ARRL #HamRadio #Security

Scorching storms on distant worlds revealed

An international study reveals the extreme atmospheric conditions on the celestial objects, which are swathed in swirling clouds of hot sand amid temperatures of 950C. Using NASA's powerful James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers set out to capture the weather on a pair of brown dwarfs -- cosmic bodies that are bigger than planets but smaller than stars.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/07/240715135802.htm #science

Never-Before-Seen Method For Making The Color Blue Found in Stingray Spots https://www.sciencealert.com/never-before-seen-method-for-making-the-color-blue-found-in-stingray-spots #science

New Memristor Device Challenges the Von Neumann Bottleneck With Ionic Innovation https://scitechdaily.com/new-memristor-device-challenges-the-von-neumann-bottleneck-with-ionic-innovation/ #science

Linus Torvalds Says RISC-V Will Make the Same Mistakes As ARM and x86 - Jowi Morales reports via Tom's Hardware: There's a vast difference between hardwar... - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/07/12/2012230/linus-torvalds-says-risc-v-will-make-the-same-mistakes-as-arm-and-x86?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed #os

NASA to Commemorate 55th Anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-to-commemorate-55th-anniversary-of-apollo-11-moon-landing/ #NASA #Apollo11 #Artemis

Researchers demonstrate how to build 'time-traveling' quantum sensors https://phys.org/news/2024-07-quantum-sensors.html #science

"SpaceX rocket failure could delay lots of launches" by @cosmiclog / @alanboyle - After 8 years and over 300 launches since the last failure, #SpaceX #Falcon9 is grounded due to 2nd stage failure until FAA signs off investigation. https://cosmiclog.com/2024/07/12/spacex-rocket-failure-could-delay-lots-of-launches/ #NewSpace #business

Amazon's AI Chatbot Rufus Is Now Live For All US Customers https://slashdot.org/story/24/07/12/2022234/amazons-ai-chatbot-rufus-is-now-live-for-all-us-customers?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

On DTNS for Friday July 12, 2024 - Scientists create a real life Dune stillsuit, Amazon launches a new assistant in shopping called Rufus, and Michael Wolf joins us to talk about how chatbots and more are changing the food industry.
https://shows.acast.com/dtns/episodes/making-the-food-business-smarter-dtns-4809

SpaceX Rocket Fails, Breaking Apart in Orbit https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/science/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-fail-starlink-launch.html #science