Chemical that shouldn’t be there spotted in Venus’ atmosphere Ars Technica

Sep 152020
 

Enlarge / The spectral signature of phosphine superimposed on an image of Venus. (credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Greaves et al. & JCMT) Today, researchers are announcing that they’ve observed a chemical in the atmosphere of Venus that has no right to be there. The chemical, phosphine (a phosphorus atom hooked up to three hydrogens), would be unstable in the conditions found in Venus’ atmosphere, and there’s no obvious way for the planet’s chemistry to create much…

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ARM co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal TechCrunch

Sep 152020
 

ARM Holdings, the UK semiconductor company, made history for the second time today, becoming the country’s biggest tech exit when Nvidia announced over the weekend that it would buy it from SoftBank for $40 billion in an all-stock deal. (ARM’s first appearance in the record books? When SoftBank announced in 2016 that it would acquire the company for $32 billion.) But before you can say advanced reduced instruction set computing machine, the deal has hit a minor…

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Facebook is cracking down on livestreamed music performances, and hurting musicians in the process Boing Boing

Sep 152020
 

My rock band recently released a new EP. And since we can’t play any concerts because we’re in the middle of a global pandemic that’s been horribly mismanaged by authorities and killed hundreds of thousands of people, we decided to celebrate the album’s release by hosting a Live Listening Party on Instagram, where we’d play the songs, and then talk about the writing/recording process. I included a link there, but I’m not actually sure if…

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Things to Know Before Your Neighborhood Installs an Automated License Plate Reader Deeplinks

Sep 152020
 

Every week EFF receives emails from members of homeowner’s associations wondering if their Homeowner’s Association (HOA) or Neighborhood Association is making a smart choice by installing automated license plate readers (ALPRs). Local groups often turn to license plate readers thinking that they will protect their community from crime. But the truth is, these cameras—which record every license plate coming in and out of the neighborhood—may create more problems than they solve.  The False Promise of…

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OSHA Fines Smithfield Foods For ‘Failing To Protect Employees’ PopularResistance.Org

Sep 142020
 

The Smithfield Foods plant in Sioux Falls, which was the epicenter of one of the nation’s largest coronavirus hotspots in April, has been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration announced Thursday that it was fining the Smithfield Packaged Meats Corporation for $13,494 for “failing to protect employees from exposure to the coronavirus,” a news release states. The fine is the maximum amount allowed by law. At least 1,294 Smithfield employees contracted…

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Operation Legend Is Bringing Surveillance Tech to Cities The Intercept

Sep 142020
 

In August, 40 federal agents arrived in Memphis. Some were already on the ground by the time U.S. Attorney Michael Dunavant announced the onset of Operation Legend and the city became, along with St. Louis, the seventh to be targeted by the Justice Department’s heavy-handed initiative to reduce violent crime. Many of the agents are on temporary assignment, working in collaboration with police; nearly half will relocate by November. But they will leave behind a…

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Release: Hawkins fights for Green Party’s survival Howie Hawkins for President | Angela Walker for Vice President

Sep 132020
 

For Immediate Release September 12, 2020 For more information: Howie Hawkins, howie@howiehawkins.us Hawkins fights for Green Party’s survival Albany, NY – Faced with a tripling of the votes required to keep the Green Party on New York ballots in future elections, Howie Hawkins called upon progressives to vote for the Green presidential ticket in 2020. “Biden has been consistently ahead of Trump by at least 25% in every poll in New York. Trump is toast here.…

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Libtorrent Adds Support for BitTorrent v2, a Potential Game-Changer TorrentFreak

Sep 132020
 

Millions of people use BitTorrent every day but only a few know all the ins-and-outs of how it works. Meanwhile, an even smaller group is actively involved in shaping the future of the file-sharing protocol. BitTorrent was first made public by inventor Bram Cohen nearly two decades ago. While it was swiftly embraced by the masses, the protocol itself was far from perfect. Over the years many new features were added, including DHT, UDP trackers,…

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Why I never play video games any more jwz

Sep 132020
 

tl;dr – because sysadminning a console is the worst game ever. Hear about [REDACTED] being released for PS3. Wonder if I can download that. Turn on PS3 for the first time in… a year? Remember that for some reason it stopped being able to connect to the network. Dick around in settings for 30 minutes. Completely disassemble it. (Wow, those heat sinks are not fucking around!) Detect nothing obviously unseated. Re-assemble. Dick around in settings…

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Populations of vertebrates have dropped since 1970 Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Sep 132020
 

Globally, populations of vertebrates have dropped 2/3 since 1970. Populations of insects have also dropped drastically, but they are not covered by this study. What it adds up to is that we are ruining nature.

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Uber and Lyft put a referendum on the ballot in California Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Sep 132020
 

Uber and Lyft have put a referendum on the ballot in California to define their drivers a new legal status combining the worst aspects of being an employee with the worst aspects of independent contracting. The article also describes other deceptive tricks that they are using. This is in addition to making customers identify themselves and run nonfree software,

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CBP Bought ‘Unlimited’ Use of a Nationwide Tracking Database Motherboard

Sep 102020
 

Customs and Border Protection, the law enforcement agency which recently flew a Predator drone over anti-police brutality protests, has purchased “unlimited” alerts for the location of vehicles, and by extension people, across the country, according to internal CBP documents obtained by Motherboard. The documents, which include a coverage area map, show that the agency can track cars in major cities and populated areas of the country more generally. Many of the places it can track…

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Portland adopts strictest facial recognition ban in nation to date Ars Technica

Sep 102020
 

Enlarge / A helpful neon sign in Portland, Ore. (credit: Seth K. Hughes | Getty Images) City leaders in Portland, Oregon, yesterday adopted the most sweeping ban on facial recognition technology passed anywhere in the United States so far. The Portland City Council voted on two ordinances related to facial recognition: one prohibiting use by public entities, including the police, and the other limiting its use by private entities. Both measures passed unanimously, according to…

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Workers at Minneapolis’s Surly Brewing Company Say the Brewer Is Busting Their Union Jacobin

Sep 102020
 

Two days after Surly’s beer hall workers went public with a union campaign, management announced it would be closing the location indefinitely. The Minneapolis company says the shutdown was in the works for weeks — a claim workers say is absurd. Surly Brewing Company, Minneapolis. (Surly Brewing Co. / Facebook) Minneapolis service workers are in the midst of an organizing wave. Tattersall Distilling, Spyhouse Coffee Roasters, Surly Brewing Company, Lawless Distilling Co., and Stilheart Distillery…

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Philadelphia To Temporarily Block Landlords From Enforcing Evictions PopularResistance.Org

Sep 102020
 

Philadelphia court officials will announce a temporary stay on lockouts related to eviction orders Tuesday, PlanPhilly has learned. The move comes as landlord-tenant proceedings begin to ramp up at city courts after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic and a statewide moratorium on evictions that ended on Aug. 31 despite calls to the Pennsylvania legislature to extend it from Gov. Tom Wolf. But while some restrictions remain in place, the Tuesday reopening of courtrooms means at least…

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Human Rights and TPMs: Lessons from 22 Years of the U.S. DMCA Deeplinks

Sep 102020
 

Introduction In 1998, Bill Clinton signed the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a sweeping overhaul of U.S. copyright law notionally designed to update the system for the digital era. Though the DMCA contains many controversial sections, one of the most pernicious and problematic elements of the law is Section 1201, the “anti-circumvention” rule which prohibits bypassing, removing, or revealing defects in “technical protection measures” (TPMs) that control not just use but also access to copyrighted…

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Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Keeps Howie Hawkins on the Ballot Ballot Access News

Sep 102020
 

On September 9, Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge J. Andrew Crompton issued an opinion in In Re Nomination Paper of Scroggin, 460 M.D. 2020. The opinion rejects the challenge against Howie Hawkins being on the ballot for President. However, it accepts the challenge to his vice-presidential running mate, Angela Walker. The basis for the objection had been that the stand-in presidential and vice-presidential candidates had not submitted proper declarations of candidacy. But it turns out the…

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Amazon Spent $24,000 To Kill Portland’s Facial Recognition Ban Motherboard

Sep 102020
 

On Wednesday, Portland lawmakers will vote on what could be the strongest facial recognition ban in the United States. In November 2019, city officials revealed they were crafting legislation that would ban the use of facial recognition technology by both the public and private sector, prohibiting its use by state agencies but also its use by retailers, employers, and other private businesses—the first proposed ban on private use in the U.S.  After a City Hall…

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