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    • Japan is encouraging its citizens to adopt a 4-day workweek to address labor shortages.
    • Only about 8% of companies in Japan currently allow employees to take three or more days off per week.
    • The government has launched a 'work style reform' campaign to promote shorter hours and flexible arrangements.
    • Proponents of the 4-day workweek argue that it can benefit individuals balancing work and personal life.
    • Some Japanese companies, including Fast Retailing Co. and Hitachi, have already implemented a 4-day workweek.
    • Critics argue that employees on a 4-day workweek may end up working just as hard for less pay.
    • A Gallup survey found that only 6% of Japanese workers described themselves as engaged at work.
    • Equatic's ocean-based CDR plant can remove CO2 at a rate 99,000 times faster than the natural oceans
    • Equatic uses seawater electrolysis to capture CO2, extracting hydrogen and oxygen
    • The captured hydrogen can be converted into clean fuel and sold to companies like Boeing and Stripe
    • Equatic plans to launch a commercial-scale CDR plant in partnership with Deep Sky in 2026 or 2027
    • The cost of removing one ton of CO2 could range from $230 to $540 by 2050, but Equatic aims to reduce it below $100 by 2030
    • Environmental concerns about potential disruption to marine life with ocean-based CDR operations
    • CDR technology is seen as a promising step in combatting climate change, but it is not a complete solution and should be balanced with emission reduction efforts
    • Title: Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes by Ella Cheever Thayer
    • Author: Ella Cheever Thayer, 1849-1925
    • Language: English
    • Subjects: Love stories, Telegraphers -- Fiction
    • Available formats: EPUB3, EPUB, Kindle, Plain Text UTF-8, Download HTML (zip)
    • Release Date: Jan 18, 2008
    • Copyright Status: Public domain in the USA
    • Downloads: 281 in the last 30 days
    • Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free
    • Nvidia's second-quarter revenue more than doubled, boosted by a few key customers in the data center industry.
    • Four anonymous customers collectively accounted for 46% of Nvidia's $30 billion in sales, notably in the AI chip market.
    • Nvidia's profits have soared, with significant income coming from just a handful of major customers like hyperscalers.
    • The company's heavy dependence on a small number of buyers raises concerns about the sustainability of its growth.
    • Nvidia's financial success has attracted investor skepticism, reflecting industry volatility and market risks.
    • The company's profitability and revenue growth are crucial factors for its future performance and investment outlook.
    • File transfer performance is impacted by various factors including interface, device, filesystem, and software performance
    • Difference between Gb/s and GB/s affects the marketing representation of speed
    • Copying smaller files involves more filesystem transactions, leading to lower throughput
    • Black Magic Speed Test is relevant for testing storage performance with large files for media content producers
    • Faster backup disks can significantly reduce restore time, especially for large files
    • Over 2,000 web links to suspected child sexual abuse imagery were removed from the LAION research dataset used by AI image-generator tools
    • Stanford Internet Observatory found sexually explicit images of children in the dataset, making it easier for some AI tools to create deepfakes of children
    • LAION worked with Stanford University and anti-abuse organizations to release a cleaned-up dataset for future AI research
    • Efforts are being made to withdraw 'tainted models' that can still produce child abuse imagery, with Runway ML removing one of the identified tools from its repository
    • Governments worldwide are scrutinizing the use of tech tools in making or distributing illegal images of children, with instances like a San Francisco lawsuit against websites creating AI-generated nudes and French authorities pressing charges against Telegram's founder
    • Durov's arrest marks a shift towards holding tech platform founders accountable for illegal content on their platforms
    • ChatGPT tends to overuse certain words like 'delve'
    • Mention of 'delve' in scientific papers has greatly increased since 2023
    • The use of 'delve' jumped noticeably in 2023 and has continued to increase in 2024
    • Authors using ChatGPT to assist in writing should acknowledge its use in their papers
    • The rising mention of 'delve' in papers may indicate increased usage of ChatGPT for writing
    • The rapid increase in 'delve' mentions in papers since 2023 is significant
    • There are tools available to identify and avoid common ChatGPT-generated terms in scientific writing
    • SB-1047 requires AI model creators to implement a 'kill switch' for novel threats to public safety
    • Supporters include AI industry luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio
    • Bengio sees the bill as a bare minimum for regulating frontier AI models
    • Fei-Fei Li believes the bill will have unintended consequences by limiting open-source sharing of AI models
    • California business leaders urge Newsom to veto the bill citing regulatory ambiguity and compliance costs
    • Newsom must decide by September 30 whether to sign the bill into law or veto it
    • Newsom is concerned about over-regulating AI but also acknowledges calls for regulation from industry leaders
    • Researchers developed a novel ratchet mechanism using a gear shaped like a six-pointed star
    • The gear rectifies disordered energy of its environment into one-way motion
    • Surface treatments on the gear's teeth create an asymmetry that turns agitation into a ratcheting action
    • The mechanism is known as an active Brownian ratchet
    • The gear's surface wettability helps convert chaotic agitation into a one-way spin
    • The design doesn't depend on asymmetrical geometry but on asymmetry in surface treatments
    • The gear could potentially act as energy-harvesting micromotors
    • Various methods can modify an object's surface wettability to achieve similar effects
    • It's different from Maxwell's Demon as it extracts energy from Brownian motion without reducing entropy
    • The mechanism could cool down the surrounding medium and potentially harvest the temperature differential for energy
    • Lucee is a light-weight dynamic CFML scripting language with a solid foundation
    • Join the Lucee community via mailing list, slack channel, and language development forum
    • Support the Lucee project by becoming a supporter to help it grow and prosper
    • Contribute to Lucee by working on source code, writing articles, helping with documentation, and answering questions on the support forum
    • Submit bugs and feature requests via the online ticket system
    • Stay updated on Lucee news, events, and blogs
    • Benefits of being a member of the Lucee Association Switzerland
    • The paper 'Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn't want or need' is available in SIGBOVIK 2022
    • YouTube channel called Suckerpinch contains irksome videos
    • An app for exploring the IPv4 address space used in a video is available as a torrent file 'harder-drive-internet-map.torrent'
    • Ringtone audio from the video is available at Tom 7 Entertainment System
    • Impenetrable source code for 'Harder Drive' is challenging to use
    • Contact @tom7 on Twitter or leave a comment on the blog for feedback
    • Tom 7 thingos available at tom7.org
    • Trials by combat, known as judicial duels, were used in the Middle Ages to resolve rape and sexual assault charges.
    • Rape was considered a serious crime in the medieval world, with immediate death sentences for rapists.
    • Judicial duels between men and women in cases of notnunft helped decide unwitnessed sexual crimes against women.
    • In cases of unwitnessed rape, women could accept the accused's oath or choose to fight the accused in a judicial duel.
    • The threat of duels often pushed parties to negotiate non-violent settlements.
    • Despite their rarity, judicial duels were intended to discourage women from bringing unwitnessed rape accusations to court.
    • The only known example of a successful judicial duel to settle a rape accusation in medieval Europe took place in Bern in 1288.
    • Images of judicial duels, like those drawn by Hans Talhoffer, were detailed fight sequences inspired by staged reenactments.
    • Modern legal struggles around prosecuting rape cases echo the challenges faced in the medieval judicial duels.
    • Understanding the history of women's experiences is crucial in addressing modern social struggles like racism, rape, and misogyny.
    • Arithmetic billiards use reflections inside a rectangle to determine the least common multiple and greatest common divisor of two natural numbers.
    • This method is used in trajectory analysis of dynamical billiards.
    • Arithmetic billiards have been discussed as mathematical puzzles by Hugo Steinhaus and Martin Gardner.
    • Arithmetic billiard path involves starting in a corner and moving at a 45° angle, reflecting at the sides
    • The path's features include self-intersections and zigzag segments if one side length divides the other
    • The least common multiple is the number of unit squares crossed, while the greatest common divisor is related to the first self-intersection
    • Certain properties of the path depend on the divisibility and symmetry of the side lengths
    • The path's contacts with the rectangle perimeter and its specific coordinates have arithmetical significance
    • The proof of the arithmetic billiard method involves reflection, rescaling, and reversibility of the motion
    • A generalization allows periodic paths if the rectangle sides are not coprime
    • California Supreme Court needs to reverse the appellate opinion in Snap v. The Superior Court of San Diego County
    • Stored Communications Act (SCA) prevents certain communications providers from disclosing communications without a warrant
    • EFF and the Center for Democracy & Technology submitted an amicus letter to the court
    • Lower court ruled that modern services like Snapchat and Facebook do not have to comply with the 1986 law
    • Opinion gives too much weight to companies' terms of service, which bury their right to access communications
    • Companies should be restricted in accessing and using data, but stronger laws are needed
    • If not addressed, Meta, Snap, and other providers could freely disclose users' communications to various parties
    • Keith McMillen was a pioneering force in audio and music technology who passed away this week.
    • He dedicated his life to revolutionizing live interactive music and had a profound impact on the music industry.
    • Keith McMillen founded companies like Zeta Music, Keith McMillen Instruments, and BeBop Sensors, introducing innovative music technology products.
    • His work included developing MAPPS, ZIPI, Smart Fabric sensors, and pioneering the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol.
    • Keith's vision and innovations left a lasting impact on the music industry, pushing boundaries with products like K-Bow, QuNeo, and virtual reality gloves.
    • He focused on the intersection of technology and music, exploring how computer intelligence and user interface can enhance musical performance.
    • Keith McMillen's legacy will continue to inspire and shape the future of music and technology.
    • Indeed calculates the index change in seasonally-adjusted job postings since February 1, 2020.
    • Job postings data is adjusted based on historical patterns from 2017, 2018, and 2019.
    • Historical numbers have been revised due to a new methodology applied by Indeed since December 2022.
    • End Users are excluded from any warranty and liability for the accuracy of the data.
    • End Users must credit Indeed as the source when sharing the data with third parties.
    • blocks.md is a JavaScript library that turns Markdown files into forms and web pages
    • The software can be integrated into a product, requiring an Enterprise license for user interaction
    • For non-integrated use like running surveys, a Standard or Multisite license is sufficient
    • Logic jumps and page progress can be implemented in forms
    • Partial submissions and data bindings are supported
    • Settings customization includes colors, branding, and page layout changes
    • Data can be set locally or fetched from a URL for reactive blog posts
    • Blocks.md offers various features like date time input, file/image upload, and payments
    • The software can be used for free locally, but a license is needed for production websites
    • Sisk is a lightweight web framework designed for fast and robust development
    • It allows full control over project development
    • Robustness hidden in simplicity, enabling quick or large projects with minimal code
    • Support for creating applications with various design patterns like MVC, MVVC, SOLID
    • Features include lightweight size under 500kb, open-source with MIT License, and sustainable community-driven development
    • Timelines visually represent durations in time as segments in space distributed along the horizontal axis
    • Video editing timelines consist of tracks with audio and video layers, and individual clips that can be rearranged and trimmed
    • Timeline interactions include scrolling left and right, adjusting clip duration with handles, pinch-to-zoom, and snapping to specific points
    • Design considerations for video timeline UI include clip size for touch interaction, adaptive height, density of toolbar for feature accessibility, and numeric scale for time representation
    • Feedback mechanisms such as haptic feedback, trim preview, and grooves on clip handles enhance the user experience
    • Encryption is essential for securing information and data
    • Encryption ensures confidentiality, access control, data integrity, and identification
    • Cryptography was initially used by governments and intelligence agencies
    • EU regulates encryption through export controls for dual-use goods
    • France has additional national controls on encryption beyond EU regulations
    • French law requires declaration or authorization for import, export, and intra-EU transfer of cryptology means
    • Exports to ally countries have general authorization, while exports to third countries require specific authorization
    • Non-compliance with French encryption regulations can lead to fines, confiscation of products, and legal consequences