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FAA To Eliminate Floppy Disks Used In Air Traffic Control Systems(2025-06-10 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Tom's Hardware: The head of the Federal Aviation Administration just outlined an ambitious goal to upgrade the U.S.'s air traffic control (ATC) system and bring it into the 21st century. According to NPR, most ATC towers and other facilities today feel like t...
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Apple Will End Support For Intel Macs Next Year(2025-06-09 20:00:19)

Apple announced that macOS 26 "Tahoe" will be the final version to support Intel-based Macs, with future macOS releases running exclusively on Apple Silicon devices (that is, 2020 M1 models and newer). They will, however, continue to receive security updates for a few more years. 9to5Mac reports: In...
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YouTube Will 'Protect Free Expression' By Pulling Back On Content Moderation(2025-06-09 15:00:05)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: YouTube videos may be getting a bit more pernicious soon. Google's dominant video platform has spent years removing discriminatory and conspiracy content from its platform in accordance with its usage guidelines, but the site is now reportedly a...
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The Medical Revolutions That Prevented Millions of Cancer Deaths(2025-06-09 10:00:07)

Vox publishes a story about "the quiet revolutions that have prevented millions of cancer deaths.... "The age-adjusted death rate in the US for cancer has declined by about a third since 1991, meaning people of a given age have about a third lower risk of dying from cancer than people of the same ...
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'AI Is Not Intelligent': The Atlantic Criticizes 'Scam' Underlying the AI Industry(2025-06-09 05:00:05)

The Atlantic makes that case that "the foundation of the AI industry is a scam" and that AI "is not what its developers are selling it as: a new class of thinking — and, soon, feeling — machines." [OpenAI CEO Sam] Altman brags about ChatGPT-4.5's improved "emotional intelligence," which...
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