World News nulluser • 1 year ago • 97%

au.news.yahoo.com

> The world has experienced its hottest day on record, according to meteorologists. > The average global temperature reached 17.01C (62.62F) on Monday, according to the US National Centres for Environmental Prediction. > The figure surpasses the previous record of 16.92C (62.46F) - set back in August 2016.

World News nulluser • 1 year ago • 95%

www.reuters.com

> Russia has quashed dissent since invading Ukraine Lawyers for protesters risk wrath of authorities Young attorneys fill gap from those who have fled Tiring, risky work seldom brings acquittals Moscow sees Western conspiracy to destroy Russia July 4 (Reuters) - Sofia Gominova wanted to be a lawyer from age 11. > Born after the fall of the Soviet Union, she grew up in a Russia blighted by organised crime and watched police dramas on TV, wanting to "fight evil like they did." > Now, at 29, Gominova believes she is doing just that. > Among a new cadre of young lawyers outraged by suppression of dissent, she has joined OVD-Info, one of Russia's biggest legal defence groups that supports thousands detained for opposing the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. > "I have always had a keen sense of justice," Gominova told a Reuters reporter based in Poland.

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> WASHINGTON, July 4 (Reuters) - Even as it has ushered in sweeping changes to American law and society - on abortion, gun rights and affirmative action - the U.S. Supreme Court has kept tabs on another issue of keen interest to its conservative majority: keeping federal regulatory power in check. > The issue will figure prominently during the court's next term, which begins in October, as the justices already have agreed to decide several cases that could curtail the authority of U.S. agencies to issue regulations and enforce laws in areas ranging from finance to fisheries. > The cases involve what has come to be known as the "administrative state," the agency bureaucracy that interprets laws, crafts federal rules and implements executive action. The court's conservatives, with a 6-3 majority, in recent years have reined in what they viewed as governmental overreach by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

World News nulluser • 1 year ago • 97%

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> GENEVA, July 4 (Reuters) - Temperatures are expected to soar across large parts of the world after the El Nino weather pattern emerged in the tropical Pacific for the first time in seven years, the World Meteorological Organization said on Tuesday. > El Nino, a warming of water surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific Ocean, is linked to extreme weather conditions from tropical cyclones to heavy rainfall to severe droughts. > The world's hottest year on record, 2016, coincided with a strong El Nino - though experts says climate change has fuelled extreme temperatures even in years without the phenomenon. > Even that record could soon be broken, according to the WMO.

Technology nulluser • 1 year ago • 98%

arstechnica.com

> Researchers say that nearly 336,000 devices exposed to the Internet remain vulnerable to a critical vulnerability in firewalls sold by Fortinet because admins have yet to install patches the company released three weeks ago. > CVE-2023-27997 is a remote code execution in Fortigate VPNs, which are included in the company’s firewalls. The vulnerability, which stems from a heap overflow bug, has a severity rating of 9.8 out of 10. Fortinet released updates silently patching the flaw on June 8 and disclosed it four days later in an advisory that said it may have been exploited in targeted attacks. That same day, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Administration added it to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities and gave federal agencies until Tuesday to patch it. > Despite the severity and the availability of a patch, admins have been slow to fix it, researchers said.

Space nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Stars are thought to form within enormous filaments of molecular gas. Regions where one or more of these filaments meet, known as hubs, are where massive stars form. > These massive stars, located nearby, would have put the early Solar System at risk of a powerful supernova. This risk is more than just hypothetical; a research team at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, led by astrophysicist Doris Arzoumanian, looked at isotopes found in ancient meteorites, finding possible evidence of a massive star’s turbulent death. > So why did the Solar System survive? The gas within the filament seems to be able to protect it from the supernova and its onslaught of radioactive isotopes. “The host filament can shield the young Solar System from stellar feedback, both during the formation and evolution of stars (stellar outflow, wind, and radiation) and at the end of their lives (supernovae),” Arzoumanian and her team said in a study recently published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

www.propublica.org

> HomeVestors of America claims to be the country’s largest cash homebuyer and says it helps homeowners out of jams. But a closer look reveals that the company trains its franchisees to cash in on homeowners’ desperation.

Health - Resources and discussion for everything health-related nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

www.propublica.org

> Millions of Americans have peripheral artery disease, a disorder primarily caused by fatty deposits that can narrow arteries and block blood flow to the legs. Often, the first symptom they feel is leg pain. Experts say that most treatments are safe, but some have expressed a growing sense of alarm that doctors may be doing procedures that patients don’t need, exposing them to unnecessary risks. > ProPublica looked into artery procedures and found that some doctors are making millions of dollars doing a questionable number of treatments. Government insurers pay well for vascular procedures that are done outside of hospitals, and doctors can bill tens of thousands of dollars for treatments done in a single office visit. > One doctor in Maryland made millions of dollars from the federal government for performing thousands of vascular procedures. A state medical board investigation found that his inappropriate treatments put patients at risk of serious harm. One man had to have his leg amputated after invasive treatments for mild pain, according to filings in a settled lawsuit. A grandmother bled out and died shortly after the same doctor cut into her, according to another ongoing lawsuit. The doctor denied the allegations in legal filings, but declined to be interviewed and did not respond to emailed questions.

Technology nulluser • 1 year ago • 97%

www.reuters.com

> July 3 (Reuters) - Elon Musk’s Twitter has put a temporary limit on the number of tweets that users can see each day, a move that has sparked some backlash and could undermine the social network’s efforts to attract advertisers. > The limit, imposed to “address extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation”, is the latest change by Twitter, which was last year acquired by Musk for $44 billion. > What does the latest change mean and what are the alternatives to Twitter? How do the changes impact users? > Users cannot view tweets without logging in to the platform. Verified accounts can now read 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts 600 posts and new un-verified accounts 300 posts. After that, users will get a message that says, “rate limit exceeded”. > …

science nulluser • 1 year ago • 91%

www.nature.com

> A 25-year science wager has come to an end. In 1998, neuroscientist Christof Koch bet philosopher David Chalmers that the mechanism by which the brain’s neurons produce consciousness would be discovered by 2023. Both scientists agreed publicly on 23 June, at the annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) in New York City, that it is still an ongoing quest — and declared Chalmers the winner. > What ultimately helped to settle the bet was a key study testing two leading hypotheses about the neural basis of consciousness, whose findings were unveiled at the conference. > “It was always a relatively good bet for me and a bold bet for Christof,” says Chalmers, who is now co-director of the Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness at New York University. But he also says this isn’t the end of the story, and that an answer will come eventually: “There’s been a lot of progress in the field.”

Technology nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

www.reuters.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/632917 > > June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday plans to lay out how a $42 billion investment in expanding internet access will be divvied up among the nation's 50 states, in an effort to give all Americans access to high-speed broadband by 2030. > > > The move will kick off the second leg of Biden's tour highlighting how legislation passed by Congress during the first half of his term will affect average Americans, as his reelection bid gears up. > > > "We have an historic opportunity here to make a real difference in people's lives and making sure that we deliver on that potential is what we're about every day and to make sure that people feel that at their kitchen table, in their communities, in their backyards,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said. > > > Zients compared the broadband effort to President Franklin Roosevelt's efforts in 1936 to bring electricity to rural America. The administration estimates there are some 8.5 million locations in the U.S. that lack access to broadband connections.

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> June 26 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday plans to lay out how a $42 billion investment in expanding internet access will be divvied up among the nation's 50 states, in an effort to give all Americans access to high-speed broadband by 2030. > The move will kick off the second leg of Biden's tour highlighting how legislation passed by Congress during the first half of his term will affect average Americans, as his reelection bid gears up. > "We have an historic opportunity here to make a real difference in people's lives and making sure that we deliver on that potential is what we're about every day and to make sure that people feel that at their kitchen table, in their communities, in their backyards,” White House chief of staff Jeff Zients said. > Zients compared the broadband effort to President Franklin Roosevelt's efforts in 1936 to bring electricity to rural America. The administration estimates there are some 8.5 million locations in the U.S. that lack access to broadband connections.

science nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

www.sciencealert.com

> You're familiar with the states of matter we encounter daily – such as solid, liquid, and gas – but in more exotic and extreme conditions, new states can appear, and scientists from the US and China just found one. > They're calling it the chiral bose-liquid state, and as with every new arrangement of particles we discover, it can tell us more about the fabric and the mechanisms of the Universe around us – and in particular, at the super-small quantum scale.

You Should Know nulluser • 1 year ago • 93%

arstechnica.com

> Behold the most nauseating and mesmerizing swim advisories floating around.

World News nulluser • 1 year ago • 88%

www.wctv.tv

> It’s well known that global sea levels are rising, but now NASA is showing by just how much. > The National Aeronautics and Space Administration shared an animation that shows how far sea levels have risen between 1993 and 2022. > Over those three decades, sea levels have risen about 3.5 inches. > That may not seem like a lot, but the animation should be used as a visual metaphor. NASA said it’s designed to look like a submerged porthole of a boat as water can be seen lapping outside the window.

Interactive Fiction nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/352729 > > Zork and MUD? Sure. But also Universal Paperclips, AI Dungeon, and Lifeline.

Technology nulluser • 1 year ago • 100%

arstechnica.com

> Zork and MUD? Sure. But also Universal Paperclips, AI Dungeon, and Lifeline.

www.propublica.org

> While launching a statewide program to distribute packets to dissolve opioids, Attorney General Ken Paxton worked to connect its leaders with the state’s comptroller, who oversees the distribution of millions of dollars in opioid settlement money.

I'm trying to spin up an instance on a local VM for my own testing so using the [docker install.](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/install_docker.html) I've reaching the point the instructions that say to run `docker-compose up -d`. When I run that as my normal non-root user, I get a permission denied error. ``` $ docker-compose up -d Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 699, in urlopen httplib_response = self._make_request( File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 394, in _make_request conn.request(method, url, **httplib_request_kw) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1282, in request self._send_request(method, url, body, headers, encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1328, in _send_request self.endheaders(body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1277, in endheaders self._send_output(message_body, encode_chunked=encode_chunked) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 1037, in _send_output self.send(msg) File "/usr/lib/python3.10/http/client.py", line 975, in send self.connect() File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/docker/transport/unixconn.py", line 30, in connect sock.connect(self.unix_socket) PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied ``` The first time I ran it with `sudo`, it downloaded a bunch of stuff (but to where I have no clue), and then gave the following error. Every subsequent run it skips the downloading (presumably because it already has all that), and goes straight to the error. ``` $ sudo docker-compose up -d Creating network "lemmy_lemmyinternal" with driver "bridge" Creating network "lemmy_lemmyexternalproxy" with the default driver Pulling pictrs (asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19)... 0.4.0-beta.19: Pulling from asonix/pictrs ef5531b6e74e: Pull complete 1f0396fae2e3: Pull complete 9115eac87d97: Pull complete e38b3eb392e4: Pull complete 4d5295668c45: Pull complete Digest: sha256:480d36cd97e5e98e7c76c7d226dc009bd5bb9fa065fdc1f4207699f16e8cc61e Status: Downloaded newer image for asonix/pictrs:0.4.0-beta.19 Pulling postgres (postgres:15-alpine)... 15-alpine: Pulling from library/postgres 31e352740f53: Pull complete d7c8ef16402f: Pull complete 36cb57831f52: Pull complete a120e2610875: Pull complete 64f9e9ad23bd: Pull complete dd2a4281faaa: Pull complete daef310ca2c6: Pull complete c47c060e762a: Pull complete Digest: sha256:48d8422c6ae570a5bda52f07548b8e65dd055ac0b661f25b44b20e8cff2f75f0 Status: Downloaded newer image for postgres:15-alpine Building lemmy unable to prepare context: unable to evaluate symlinks in Dockerfile path: lstat /home/ME/docker: no such file or directory ``` It's clearly complaining about a missing file or folder in my home dir, but I have no idea what's supposed to be in that file/folder and it's not mentioned in the instructions. Suggestions? ETA: Just to try *something*, I did a `mkdir ~/docker` and then `touch ~/docker/Dockerfile`, and now I get... ``` $ sudo docker-compose up -d Building lemmy Sending build context to Docker daemon 111.6MB Error response from daemon: the Dockerfile (docker/Dockerfile) cannot be empty ERROR: Service 'lemmy' failed to build : Build failed ``` Again. I have no idea what's supposed to be in that file. It's not mentioned in the instructions.

Technology nulluser • 1 year ago • 85%

arstechnica.com

> US government warns encryption chipmaker Hualan has suspicious ties to China’s military. > From TikTok to Huawei routers to DJI drones, rising tensions between China and the US have made Americans—and the US government—increasingly wary of Chinese-owned technologies. But thanks to the complexity of the hardware supply chain, encryption chips sold by the subsidiary of a company specifically flagged in warnings from the US Department of Commerce for its ties to the Chinese military have found their way into the storage hardware of military and intelligence networks across the West. > In July of 2021, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security added the Hangzhou, China-based encryption chip manufacturer Hualan Microelectronics, also known as Sage Microelectronics, to its so-called “Entity List,” a vaguely named trade restrictions list that highlights companies “acting contrary to the foreign policy interests of the United States.” Specifically, the bureau noted that Hualan had been added to the list for “acquiring and ... attempting to acquire US-origin items in support of military modernization for [China's] People's Liberation Army.”

Lemmy.World Announcements nulluser • 1 year ago • 97%

The side bar for this community explains that this community is for discussions about the lemmy.world Lemmy instance (server downtime, upgrades, bugs, etc). As people (including me) surged over in The Great 2023 Migration, it seems a lot of people are still figuring things out and not sure where they're supposed to post about certain topics (which is completely understandable). For a few days I've seen people from other instances (eg. lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, etc) posting in this community about things that have nothing to do with the lemmy.world instance. Today, I'm seeing people from kbin talking about boosts (which no Lemmy instance has). I love reading about some of these things, and learning about what's going on on other instances and even platforms, but I don't think this community is the place for that. Your posts are drowning out posts from lemmy.world accounts trying to ask other lemmy.world accounts about things specific to the lemmy.world instance. If you're account isn't on the lemmy.world instance (eg. lemmy.ml, beehaw.org, kbin, etc), please consider unsubscribing from this community and making those posts and comments in a more appropriate community (where I absolutely look forward to reading them).