[14:18] schestowitz[TR2][14:18] schestowitz[TR2]Canonical today announced the general availability of real-time Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Real-time Ubuntu provides a deterministic response to an external event, aiming to minimise the response time guarantee within a specified deadline. The new enterprise-grade real-time kernel is ideal for stringent low-latency requirements. Enterprises in industrial, telecommunications, automotive, aerospace a [14:18] schestowitz[TR2] nd defence, as well as public sector and retail, can now run their most demanding workloads and develop a wide range of time-sensitive applications on the open-source operating system (OS).
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[15:03] schestowitz[TR2][15:03] schestowitz[TR2]In Finland, FGM is currently punishable under the provisions of the Criminal Code on assault, but a more specific ban was considered as a useful tool in prevention work.
[15:03] schestowitz[TR2]A school health survey carried out by public health authority THL in 2019 found that about 80 girls reported having undergone FGM, suggesting the practice is still happening in Finland.
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[15:26] schestowitz[TR2][15:26] schestowitz[TR2]Belarusian authorities are continuing their routine of detaining journalists in total secrecy, without any information made public about their case, said Gulnoza Said, CPJs Europe and Central Asia program coordinator, in New York. Authorities should immediately reveal any charges filed against Vyacheslau Lazarau or free him at once, and ensure that no journalists are jailed for their w [15:26] schestowitz[TR2] ork.
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[15:26] schestowitz[TR2][15:26] schestowitz[TR2]Many thanks to FIREand in particular Darpana Sheth, Daniel Ortner, and Jay Diazas well as local counsel Barry Covert (of Lipsitz Green Scime Cambria LLP) for representing me in this case.
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[15:27] schestowitz[TR2][15:27] schestowitz[TR2]SCOTUS has homed in on a very specific question: Are recommendations of content the same as display of content, the latter of which is widely accepted as being covered by Section 230?
[15:27] schestowitz[TR2]The stakes could not really be higher. As I wrote: [I]f Section 230 is repealed or broadly reinterpreted, these companies may be forced to transform their approach to moderating content and to overhaul their platform architectures in the process.
[15:27] schestowitz[TR2]Without getting into all the legalese here, what is important to understand is that while it might seem plausible to draw a distinction between recommendation algorithms (especially those that aid terrorists) and the display and hosting of content, technically speaking, its a really murky distinction. Algorithms that sort by chronology, geography, or other criteria manage the display of most co [15:27] schestowitz[TR2] ntent in some way, and tech companies and some experts say its not easy to draw a line between this and algorithmic amplification, which deliberately boosts certain content and can have harmful consequences (and some beneficial ones too).
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[15:27] schestowitz[TR2][15:27] schestowitz[TR2]Raiding the BBCs India offices in the wake of a documentary criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi smacks of intimidation, said Beh Lih Yi, CPJs Asia program coordinator. Indian authorities have used tax investigations as a pretext to target critical news outlets before, and must cease harassing BBC employees immediately, in line with the values of freedom that should be espoused [15:27] schestowitz[TR2] in the worlds largest democracy.
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[15:28] schestowitz[TR2][15:28] schestowitz[TR2]Still, critics are concerned that social media companies have put the bottom line above the public good.
[15:28] schestowitz[TR2]Basically, trust and safety was the first thing to go, said Joel Finkelstein co-founder of the Network Contagion Research Institute, which tracks hate and extremism on social media. The veneer of civility is expensive.
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[15:31] schestowitz[TR2][15:31] schestowitz[TR2]The big picture: For a long time, [cryptocurrency] firms debated what the SEC could regulate, centering on which specific tokens were "securities."
[15:31] schestowitz[TR2]What the agency has made clear now through two recent actions is that any agreement made by a company to pay an investor a return to hold their assets, is itself subject to its regulation.
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[15:34] schestowitz[TR2][15:34] schestowitz[TR2]When youve got these mercenary proxies there, then the state can be involved in an armed conflict without being an official party to the conflict, she told the BBC. And then youve got plausible deniability and of course that has huge implications when it comes to responsibility and accountability.
[15:34] schestowitz[TR2]Mutaru Mumuni Muqthar, executive director of the West Africa Center for Counter-Extremism, said concerns about the Wagner Group are valid because of the mercenaries track record of failing to effectively thwart or even slow extremist violence.
We dont think that these Wagner forces have that sense of legitimacy in terms of building structures that are sustainable to deal wit [15:34] schestowitz[TR2] h the threats, he told Voice of America.
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[15:35] schestowitz[TR2][15:35] schestowitz[TR2]Artificial intelligence-generated voices are already being used to harass ordinary people, with online trolls creating the voices and then having them read out victims home addresses and posting the results online, according to four victims Motherboard spoke to. All of the victims of this particular campaign are voice actors who have worked on video games in the past.
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[15:36] schestowitz[TR2][15:36] schestowitz[TR2]The manufacturing industry suffered at least 437 ransomware attacks in 2022, making up more than 70% of these types of costly and disruptive assaults that industrial companies faced last year, according to the cybersecurity firm Dragos.
[15:36] schestowitz[TR2]The number of attacks against manufacturing plants also jumped about 107% compared with the 211 recorded against the sector in 2021, according to data from Dragos, which specializes in cybersecurity for industrial systems. Overall, the firm recorded a total of 605 ransomware attacks affecting the industrial sector last year, a 92% increase over the 315 attacks the firm detected in 2021.
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[15:39] schestowitz[TR2][15:39] schestowitz[TR2]Kevin C. Tofel at About Chromebooks first noticed the change, which lets you see a version of the View Keyboard Shortcuts app (though he notes that creating custom shortcuts didn't yet work for him). An extremely early iteration was shown on the YouTube channel Chrome Story, late last year, but now you can try it yourself.
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[15:39] schestowitz[TR2][15:39] schestowitz[TR2]The personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) of more than 3.3 million individuals was stolen in a ransomware attack at California healthcare provider Regal Medical Group.
[15:39] schestowitz[TR2]The incident took place on December 1, 2022, but was discovered only a week later, and impacted the Regal Medical Group and affiliates Lakeside Medical Organization, Affiliated Doctors of Orange County and Greater Covina Medical Group.
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[15:41] schestowitz[TR2][15:41] schestowitz[TR2]Last year, OnePlus parent OPPO announced a proof-of-concept charging standard that gets to an eye-watering 240W. For context, the iPhone 14 Pros top out at 27W and the recently announced Galaxy S23 Ultra only manages 45W.
[15:41] schestowitz[TR2]Its no longer a concept. 240W fast charging is now on a phone thats for sale the Realme GT Neo 5. It is ridiculously fast.
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[15:43] schestowitz[TR2][15:43] schestowitz[TR2]In our last blog post, we announced that were rebuilding the Thunderbird UI from scratch, with the first results coming to Thunderbird 115 Supernova this July. We also explained why its necessary to begin removing some technical and interface debt, and to modernize things in order to sustain the project for decades to come. That post may have caused you to worry that Thunderbird 115 [15:43] schestowitz[TR2] s interface would be radically different and ship with less customization options. Perhaps fearful youd have to relearn how to use the application.
[15:43] schestowitz[TR2]Nothing could be further from the truth! In this post and in future Supernova previews we want to put all those worries to rest by showing you how Thunderbird 115 will be intuitive and welcoming to new users, while remaining familiar and comfortable for veteran users.
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[15:47] schestowitz[TR2][15:47] schestowitz[TR2]I switched away from Vue because of peacenotwar. I don't particularly love having malware included in my npm dependencies.
[15:47] schestowitz[TR2]I switched over to React, and while my initial feeling was that React looked eerily like PHP, I did eventually grow to like it.
Having some code which returns HTML instead of having HTML with some code mebedded inside of it eventually grew on me.
Since it seems that all the cool kids are switching over to Svelte, then I had to try it out.
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[15:47] schestowitz[TR2][15:47] schestowitz[TR2]This is the first post in a two part series on combining static and dynamic analyses for performance optimisation. Ive split them up as otherwise itll be horrifically long, and the second post will be online later this week. This post lays out some high level context, discusses why we should combine analyses, and has a loose framework for thinking about analysis combination. Ill t [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] hen explain a straightforward combination of continuous profiling with pattern matching on library names and versions which has led to 60%+ performance gains per service in real customer infrastructure.
[15:47] schestowitz[TR2]In the follow-up post, Ill discuss experimental work I did last year on using CodeQL to search for performance optimisation opportunities in C/C++ codebases. CodeQL is typically used to find security vulnerabilities, but Ill show how it can also be used to find C++ code patterns that may lead to the compiler producing machine code that is 10x, or more, slower than it could be. Primar [15:47] schestowitz[TR2] ily, these patterns relate to code constructs that prevent the compiler from auto-vectorising loops and where, with some minor type changes or reordering of statements, we can achieve significant performance improvements.
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[15:49] schestowitz[TR2][15:49] schestowitz[TR2]Success is different for everyone, and it changes depends on where you are in life. The very definition of success actually is a favourable or desired outcome which can change very often. Your communication style can also affect your success.
[15:49] schestowitz[TR2]How do you know what your communication style is? You could take one of the many communication style quizs, and after taking a number of them you may realize you are getting different results. Thats because there is no common communication style, or even common quiz that you can take that would give you a result.
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[15:51] schestowitz[TR2][15:51] schestowitz[TR2]The article linked above confirms common rates of academic consulting fees, i.e., anything between US$100 per hour for graduate students and US$350 per hour for faculty. Taking a conservative US$200 as an easy, lower-bound estimate for, say, a post-doc hour seems to cover most cases. Clearly, many academics, especially from high-income countries, will refuse to work for such a low payment. [15:51] schestowitz[TR2] In order to mitigate against potential exploitative developments, US$200 appears more like a bare minimum.
[15:51] schestowitz[TR2]How long does peer-review take? A recent article examined this question in great detail and concluded that one round of peer-review takes an average of about 6h and that an average published article requires about three such reviews, i.e., 18h of peer-review per published article, or an additional cost of US$3600 per published article, if this peer-review were adequately paid.
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[15:54] schestowitz[TR2][15:54] schestowitz[TR2]The discarded doses are valued at a total of 143 million dollars, Bergstrom told the radio station. "They were already purchased, and now they have to be destroyed."
[15:54] schestowitz[TR2]According to statistics from the Swedish Public Health Agency, the discarded doses are equivalent to approximately 20 percent of the vaccine doses that Sweden has purchased.
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