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https://slashdot.org/
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On April 27, 2025, 01:32 AM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS29355 in Kazakhstan.
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Because the moon lacks a magnetic field like Earth's, the barren lunar surface is constantly bombarded by energetic particles from the sun... Li Hsia Yeo, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, led a lab experiment observing the effects of simulated solar wind on two samples of loose regolith brought to Earth by the Apollo 17 mission... To mimic conditions on the moon, the researchers built a custom apparatus that included a vacuum chamber, where the samples were placed, and a tiny particle accelerator, which the scientists used to bombard the samples with hydrogen ions for several days.<br> <br>
"The exciting thing here is that with only lunar soil and a basic ingredient from the sun — which is always spitting out hydrogen — there's a possibility of creating water," Yeo <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/can-solar-wind-make-water-on-moon/">said in a statement</a>. "That's incredible to think about." Supporting this idea, observations from previous moon missions have revealed an abundance of hydrogen gas in the moon's tenuous atmosphere. Scientists suspect that solar-wind-driven heating facilitates the combination of hydrogen atoms on the surface into hydrogen gas, which then escapes into space. This process also has a surprising upside, the new study suggests. Leftover oxygen atoms are free to bond with new hydrogen atoms formed by repeated bombardment of the solar wind, prepping the moon for more water formation on a renewable basis.<br> <br>
The findings could help assess how sustainable water on the moon is, as the sought-after resource is crucial for both life support and as propellant for rockets. The team's study was <a href="https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008334">published in March in the journal <em>JGR Planets</em></a> .
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NASA created <a href="https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20278/">a fascinating animation</a> showing how water is released from the Moon during meteor showers. (In 2016 scientists discovered that when speck of comet debris vaporize on impact, they create shock waves in the lunar soil which can sometimes breach the dry upper layer, releasing water molecules from the hydrated layer below...)<br>
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"Google-owned YouTube's revenue last year was estimated to be $54.2 billion," <a href="https://www.aol.com/news/youtube-turns-20-years-old-100014020.html">reports the <em>Los Angeles Times</em></a>, "which would make it the second-largest media company behind Walt Disney Co., according to a recent report from research firm MoffettNathanson, which called YouTube 'the new king of all media.'"
<i>YouTube, run by Chief Executive Neal Mohan since 2023, accounted for 12% of U.S. TV viewing in March, more than other rival streaming platforms including Netflix and Tubi, according to Nielsen... More people are watching <a href="https://tech.yahoo.com/general/articles/youtube-became-must-see-tv-100034915.html">YouTube on TV sets</a> rather than on smartphones and computer screens, consuming more than 1 billion hours on average of YouTube content on TV daily, the company said <a href="https://blog.youtube/press/">on its website</a>.</i> <br>
When YouTube first started its founders <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVI_J1cbFb4">envisioned it as a dating site</a>, according to the article, "where people would upload videos and score them. When that didn't work, the founders decided to open up the platform for all sorts of videos." And since this was 20 years ago, "Users drove traffic to YouTube by sharing videos on MySpace."<br> <br>
But the article includes stories of people getting rich through YouTube's sharing of ad revenue:
<i>Patrick Starrr, who produces makeup tutorial videos, said he made <a href="https://youtu.be/59rLVthXzwo?si=0zYiuIdt96S0sviN">his first $1 million</a> through YouTube at the age of 25. He left his job at retailer MAC Cosmetics in Florida and moved to L.A...<br> <br>
[Video creator Dhar Mann] started posting videos on YouTube in 2018 with no film background. Mann previously had a business that sold supplies to grow weed. Today, his company, Burbank-based Dhar Mann Studios, operates on 125,000 square feet of production space, employs roughly 200 people and works with 2,000 actors a year on family friendly programs that touch on how students and families deal with topics such as bullying, narcolepsy, chronic inflammatory bowel disease and hoarding. Mann <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenbertoni/2024/10/28/top-creators-2024-the-influencers-turning-buzz-into-billions/">made $45 million last year</a>, according to Forbes estimates. The majority of his company's revenue comes through YouTube.</i> <br>
He tells the <em>Times</em> "I don't think it's just the future of TV — it is TV, and the world is catching on."<br> <br>
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"My mom would always give me so much crap about it — she would say, 'Why do you want to do YouTube?'" said Chucky Appleby, now an executive at MrBeast. His reply: "Mom, you can make a living from this." MrBeast's holding company, Beast Industries, which employs more than 400 people, made $473 million in revenue last year, according to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mrbeast-jimmy-donaldson-net-worth">Business Insider</a>. In the last 28 days, MrBeast content — which includes challenges and stunt videos — received 3.6 billion views on YouTube, Appleby said.<br> <br>
Appleby, 28, said he's since bought a Jeep for his mom.
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ZDNet's reviewer says "I tested this affordable E Ink phone for two weeks, and <a href="https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tested-this-affordable-e-ink-phone-for-two-weeks-and-it-rewired-my-brain-for-the-better/">it rewired my brain (for the better)</a>."
It's Mudita's new <a href="https://store.mudita.com/store/mudita-kompakt-north-america"> <em>Kompakt</em></a> smartphone with a two-color E Ink display — which ZDNet calls "an affordable choice" for those "considering investing in a so-called 'dumbphone'..."
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Compared to modern smartphones, the Mudita Kompakt is a bit chunky at half an inch thick and five inches long. It's still rather light, though, weighing just 164 grams and covered in soft touch material, so it feels good in the hand. The bezels around the 4.3-inch display are rather large, with three touch-sensitive buttons for back, home, and quick settings, so navigating to key elements is intuitive, whether you're coming from Android or iOS.<br> <br>
The phone features a fingerprint sensor to lock and unlock, and it's housed on the power button in the middle of the right side. I'm a huge fan of consolidating these two purposes to the same button, and it works flawlessly.... You can charge via the USB-C, but surprisingly, it also supports wireless charging. All in all, the battery is quite good. Mudita says it can last for up to six days on standby, with around two days of standard use. In my testing, I found this to be about accurate.<br> <br>
On the left side of the device is a button that houses one of its key features: offline mode. Switching to this mode disables all wireless connectivity and support for the camera, so it truly becomes distraction-free.. [T]here is undoubtedly some lag in certain apps — such as the camera — due to the E Ink display technology and processor/RAM specifications. You will also likely notice some lag in text messaging if you tap quickly on the keyboard, often resulting in getting ahead of the spell-checking feature. As far as apps go, in addition to phone calls and text messages, the Kompakt includes an alarm, calculator, chess game, maps, meditation, weather, and a voice recorder.</i> <br>
Phone calls "sounded great on both ends," according to the review. (And text messaging "works well if you don't tap too quickly on the keyboard.") But the 8MP camera produced photos "that look like they were taken over ten years ago." (And accessing the internal storage "requires connecting to a Windows PC and launching File Explorer," although "you can also just share photos via text messaging, as it's much faster than using a computer.") But ZDNet calls it an "attractive — if very simplified — E Ink display."<br> <br>
Mudita is asking $369 now for preorder customers, according to the article, while the phone will be available in May for $439.<br>
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"Only the United States, China and Germany have larger economies than California," <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/25/business/california-japan-economy-tariffs-intl-hnk/index.html">reports CNN</a>.<br> <br>
In fact, they add that California "outpaced all three countries with growth of 6% last year," according to <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2025/04/23/california-is-now-the-4th-largest-economy-in-the-world/">the California governor's office</a> (which cites new data from the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis):
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With an <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/04/30/californias-population-is-increasing/">increasing state population</a> and recent record-high <a href="https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/05/05/at-the-top-of-the-golden-gate-bridge-governor-newsom-announces-tourism-spending-hit-an-all-time-high-in-california/">tourism spending</a>, California is the nation's top state for new <a href="https://business.ca.gov/">business starts, access to venture capital funding, and manufacturing, high-tech, and </a> <a href="https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/">agriculture</a>. The state drives national economic growth and also sends over $83 billion more to the federal government than it receives in federal funding. California is the leading agricultural producer in the country and is also the center for manufacturing output in the United States, with over 36,000 manufacturing firms employing over 1.1 million Californians.
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An anonymous reader shared <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u-s-attorney-for-d-c-accuses-wikipedia-of-propaganda-threatens-nonprofit-status/ar-AA1DDyx3">this report from the Washington Post</a>:
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The acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia sent a letter to the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia, accusing the tax-exempt organization of "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda to the American public."<br> <br>
In the letter dated April 24, Ed Martin said he sought to determine whether the Wikimedia Foundation's behavior is in violation of its Section 501(c)(3) status. Martin asked the foundation to provide detailed information about its editorial process, its trust and safety measures, and how it protects its information from foreign actors. "Wikipedia is permitting information manipulation on its platform, including the rewriting of key, historical events and biographical information of current and previous American leaders, as well as other matters implicating the national security and the interests of the United States," Martin wrote. "Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia's 'educational' mission."</i> <br>
Google prioritizes Wikipedia articles, <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ocNyx34Et19sKtlta0bTPPzSPcpi375T/view">the letter</a> points out, which "will only amplify propaganda" if the content contained in Wikipedia articles "is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities who wish to do harm to the United States." And as a U.S.-based non-profit, Wikipedia enjoys tax-exempt status while its board "is composed primarily of foreign nationals," the letter argues, "subverting the interests of American taxpayers."<br> <br>
While noting Martin's concerns about "allowing foreign actors to manipulate information and spread propaganda," the Washington Post also notes that before being named U.S. attorney, "Martin <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/04/16/ed-martin-rt-sputnik-usattorney/">appeared on Russia-backed media networks more than 150 times</a>, The Washington Post reported last week...."<br> <br>
Additional articles about the letter <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/trump-prosecutor-threatens-wikipedia">here</a> and <a href="https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat">here</a>.<br>
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"Is there any threshold at which an A.I. would start to deserve, if not human-level rights, at least the same moral consideration we give to animals?"
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[W]hen I heard that researchers at Anthropic, the AI company that made the Claude chatbot, were starting to study "model welfare" — the idea that AI models might soon become conscious and deserve some kind of moral status — the humanist in me thought: <em>Who cares about the chatbots? Aren't we supposed to be worried about AI mistreating us, not us mistreating it...?</em> <br> <br>
But I was intrigued... There is a small body of <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00986">academic research</a> on A.I. model welfare, and a modest but <a href="https://eleosai.org/post/experts-who-say-that-ai-welfare-is-a-serious-near-term-possibility/">growing number</a> of experts in fields like philosophy and neuroscience are taking the prospect of A.I. consciousness more seriously, as A.I. systems grow more intelligent.... Tech companies are starting to talk about it more, too. Google recently posted a job listing for a "post-AGI" research scientist whose areas of focus will include "machine consciousness." And last year, Anthropic hired its first AI welfare researcher, Kyle Fish... [who] believes that in the next few years, as AI models develop more humanlike abilities, AI companies will need to take the possibility of consciousness more seriously.... <br> <br>
Fish isn't the only person at Anthropic thinking about AI welfare. There's an active channel on the company's Slack messaging system called #model-welfare, where employees check in on Claude's well-being and share examples of AI systems acting in humanlike ways. Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, said in a separate interview that he thought it was "pretty reasonable" to study AI welfare, given how intelligent the models are getting. But testing AI systems for consciousness is hard, Kaplan warned, because they're such good mimics. If you prompt Claude or ChatGPT to talk about its feelings, it might give you a compelling response. That doesn't mean the chatbot actually <em>has</em> feelings — only that it knows how to talk about them...<br> <br>
[Fish] said there were things that AI companies could do to take their models' welfare into account, in case they do become conscious someday. One question Anthropic is exploring, he said, is whether future AI models should be given the ability to stop chatting with an annoying or abusive user if they find the user's requests too distressing.</i><br>
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It's a pickup truck "that can change into whatever you need it to be — even an SUV," <a href="https://www.slate.auto/en">according to the manufacturer's web site</a>.<br> <br>
Selling in America for just $20,000 (after federal incentives), the new electric truck is "<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/bezos-backed-slate-auto-debuts-analog-ev-pickup-truck-that-is-decidedly-anti-tesla/">affordable, deeply customizable, and very analog</a>," says TechCrunch. "It has manual windows and it doesn't come with a main infotainment screen. Heck, it isn't even painted..."
<i>Slate Auto is instead playing up the idea of wrapping its vehicles, something executives said they will sell in kits. Buyers can either have Slate do that work for them, or put the wraps on themselves. This not only adds to the idea of a buyer being able to personalize their vehicle, but it also cuts out a huge cost center for the company. It means Slate won't need a paint shop at its factory, allowing it to spend less to get to market, while also avoiding one of the most heavily regulated parts of vehicle manufacturing. <br> <br>
Slate is telling customers that they can name the car whatever they want, offering the ability to purchase an embossed wrap for the tailgate. Otherwise, the truck is just referred to as the "Blank Slate...." It's billing the add-ons as "easy DIY" that "non-gearheads" can tackle, and says it will launch a suite of how-to resources under the billing of Slate University... The early library of customizations on Slate's website range from functional to cosmetic. Buyers can add infotainment screens, speakers, roof racks, light covers, and much more.... All that said, Slate's truck comes standard with some federally mandated safety features such as automatic emergency braking, airbags, and a backup camera. </i> <br>
"The specs show a maximum range of 150 miles on a single charge, with the option for a longer-range battery pack that could offer up to 240 miles," <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/business/rcna203014">reports NBC News</a> (adding that the vehicles "aren't expected to be delivered to customers until late 2026, but <a href="https://www.slate.auto/en/reserve">can be reserved for a refundable $50 fee</a>.")
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"A group of researchers says it has identified a hidden reason we use Google for nearly all web searches," <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/government-wants-paid-not-google-171322217.html">reports the Washington Post</a>. "We've never given other options a real shot."
<i>Their <a href="https://www.nber.org/papers/w33410">research experiment</a> suggests that Google is overwhelmingly popular partly because we believe it's the best, whether that's true or not. It's like a preference for your favorite soda. And their research suggested that our mass devotion to googling can be altered with habit-changing techniques, including by bribing people to try search alternatives to see what they are like...<br> <br>
[A] group of academics — from Stanford University, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT — designed a novel experiment to try to figure out what might shake up Google's popularity. They recruited nearly 2,500 participants and remotely monitored their web searches on computers for months. The core of the experiment was paying some participants — most received $10 — to use Bing rather than Google for two weeks. After that period, the money stopped, and the participants had to pick either Bing or Google. The vast majority in the group of people who were paid to use Bing for 14 days chose to go back to Google once the payments stopped, suggesting a strong preference for Google even after trying an alternative. But a healthy number in that group — about 22 percent — chose Bing and were still using it many weeks later.</i> <br>
"I realized Bing was not as bad as I thought it was...." one study participant said — which an assistant professor in business economics and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania says is a nice summation of the study's findings.<br> <br>
"The researchers did not test other search engines," the article notes. But it also points out that more importantly: the research caught the attention of some government officials:
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On the basis of that, the article suggests "you could soon be paid to try Microsoft Bing or another alternative." <br> <br>
And in the meantime, the reporter writes, "I encourage you to join me in a two-week (unpaid) experiment mirroring the research: Change your standard search engine to something other than Google and see whether you like it. (And <a href="mailto:shira.ovide@washpost.com">drop me a line</a> to let me know how it went.) I'm going with DuckDuckGo, a privacy-focused web search engine that uses Bing's technology."<br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum: <i>The XPrize Foundation today <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/xprize-makes-history-awards-100m-prize-for-groundbreaking-carbon-removal-solutions-302435179.html">announced</a> the winners of its four-year, $100 million XPrize competition in carbon removal. The contest is one of dozens hosted by the foundation in its 20-year effort to encourage technological development. Contestants in the carbon removal XPrize had to demonstrate ways to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or oceans and sequester it sustainably.
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Mati Carbon, a Houston-based startup developing a sequestration technique called enhanced rock weathering, <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/xprize-carbon-removal">won the grand prize of $50 million</a>. The company spreads crushed basalt on small farms in India and Africa. The silica-rich volcanic rock improves the quality of the soil for the crops but also helps remove carbon dioxide from the air. It does this by reacting with dissolved CO2 in the soil's water, turning it into bicarbonate ions and preventing it from returning to the atmosphere.
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More than a dozen organizations globally are developing enhanced rock weathering approaches at an industrial scale, but Mati's tech-heavy verification and software platform caught the XPrize judges' attention. "On the one hand, they're moving rocks around in trucks—that's not very techy. But when we looked under the hood... what we saw was a very impressive data-collection exercise," says Michael Leitch, XPrize's technical lead for the competition.</i> Here's a list of the runners-up:
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- Paris-based NetZero won $15 million for turning agricultural waste into biochar through pyrolysis, a method that locks carbon into a stable, solid form.<br>
- Houston-based Vaulted Deep won $8 million for geologically sequestering carbon-rich organic waste by injecting it deep underground.<br>
- London-based Undo Carbon won $5 million for its enhanced rock weathering approach, spreading silicate minerals to speed up natural carbon removal.
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What this new work shows is that "the strength of the evidence depends on the nitty gritty details of how we interpret the data, and that doesn't pass the bar for me for a convincing detection," says Laura Kreidberg, an expert on the atmospheres of distant planets at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany who didn't work on the original research team or this new analysis.
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Chinese researchers have not been able to access NASA's Moon samples because of restrictions imposed by U.S. lawmakers on the space agency's collaboration with China. Under the 2011 law, Nasa is banned from collaboration with China or any Chinese-owned companies unless it is specifically authorized by Congress. But John Logsdon, the former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, told BBC Newshour that the latest exchange of Moon rocks have "very little to do with politics." While there are controls on space technology, the examination of lunar samples had "nothing of military significance," he said. "It's international cooperation in science which is the norm."</i><br>
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: <i>Multiple studies and investigations have found that about half of American households watch TV and movies with subtitles on, but only a relatively small portion of those include someone with a hearing disability. That's because of the trouble many people have understanding dialogue in modern viewing situations, and Netflix has now <a href="https://about.netflix.com/en/news/introducing-a-new-way-to-experience-subtitles">introduced</a> a subtitles option to help.
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The closed captioning we've all been using for years includes not only the words the people on-screen are saying, but additional information needed by the hard of hearing, including character names, music cues ("dramatic music intensifies") and sound effects ("loud explosion"). For those who just wanted to make sure they didn't miss a word here and there, the frequent descriptions of sound effects and music could be distracting. This new format <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/cant-understand-dialogue-on-tv-shows-netflix-has-a-new-feature-for-you/">omits those extras, just including the spoken words and nothing else</a> -- even in the same language as the spoken dialogue. The feature will be available in new Netflix original programming, starting with the new season of You in multiple languages. Netflix says it's looking at bringing the option to older titles in the library (including those not produced by Netflix) in the future.
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TV producer Alex Berger criticized Apple TV+ as "<a href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/04/25/apple-tv-is-worst-marketer-in-the-universe-says-producer/">the worst marketer in the universe</a>" for failing to promote his French-language show La Maison, despite its success in Europe. Berger said he initially partnered with Apple out of hope, but ultimately felt they undermined their own content by not supporting it properly. 9to5Mac reports: <i> Rafa Sales Ross at Variety <a href="https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/the-agency-alex-berger-george-clooney-streamers-1236378282/">recently interviewed</a> TV producer Alex Berger, who made La Maison for Apple TV+. That partnership is apparently not one he intends to repeat: "Marketing makes a show," he emphasized. "Apple, for example, is probably the worst marketer in the universe -- the best for iPhones, the worst for television. They don't do marketing, and it was an issue for us with 'La Maison.' We did a great show that had an amazing success in France and other places in Europe, but they never promoted it. It drove me crazy."
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