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Submission + - UAE to leave OPEC amid Hormuz oil crisis (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: The United Arab Emirates announced Tuesday that it would exit the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, along with the wider group of partners known as OPEC+, effective May 1, in what could be a blow to control over prices by the group, long led in practice by Saudi Arabia.

The move “reflects the UAE’s long-term strategic and economic vision and evolving energy profile” read an official statement carried by a UAE state news agency, as disruptions “in the Strait of Hormuz continues to affect supply dynamics.”

Comment Re:only possible explanation (Score 0) 318

by fjo3 (#66115112) Attached to: California's Billionaire Tax Has the Signatures to Make the Ballot

Wow, looking over these responses, and I had no idea how many billionaires post on Slashdot!

You don't have to be a billionaire to study recent history, in which you can easily find many, many examples, both in the USA and the EU, where countries/states have increased taxes on the richest citizens. Consistently, they leave, and revenues go down, not up. I am not here for the moral argument for special taxes on the elites, just the economic one. It's a failing strategy - just like rent control. Yet people continue to push the same, failed ideas.

Submission + - No sex please, we're on Mars! Inside the simulated red planet mission (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: No sex, no alcohol, no daylight, no fruit or vegetables, and no eye contact with your captors for 100 days.

It might sound like a hellish prison sentence, but these are the conditions for the European Space Agency’s (ESA) latest experiment to learn how humans cope in social isolation, before a mission to Mars.

On Thursday, six participants entered a sealed, simulated space station in Cologne, Germany, and will not be allowed out until August – unless something goes seriously wrong.

The trial – named Solis100 – is hoping to answer the question: What happens to a small team of humans who spend months isolated in a confined environment, without friends or family, under strict rules, cut off from the outside world?

Submission + - Ultra-Processed Foods Can Wreak Havoc On Your Attention Span (studyfinds.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: For every 10% increase in the share of calories coming from ultra-processed sources, attention scores dropped by a small but measurable amount (about 0.05 points on the study’s scale), and a score used to estimate future dementia risk ticked upward. Both associations held up even after accounting for how closely participants followed a Mediterranean-style diet, widely considered the gold standard for brain-healthy eating. That detail matters because it suggests something about the processing itself may be driving the effect, not simply the absence of better food choices.

Published in Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Diagnosis, Assessment & Disease Monitoring, the study doesn’t prove that ultra-processed foods directly cause cognitive problems. It captured a single snapshot in time rather than tracking people over years.

Submission + - Is the World Ready for a Car Without a Rear Window? (wsj.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: In most of the English-speaking world, a vehicle’s front glass panel is called a windscreen. Americans call it a windshield. What we refer to as a rear window is more widely known as a “backlight.” This archaism, from the era of horse-drawn carriages, gives you some idea of how long rear windows have been around.

But our test car—the fresh-faced, frighteningly fast 2026 Polestar 4—doesn’t have one. Foiling the visual expectations of a lifetime, the four-door’s glass roof joins the car’s sloping rear deck just over the rear axle, omitting a transparent panel of any kind.

Submission + - Rectal cancer deaths rising rapidly among millennials (nbcnews.com) 2

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: “The rate of rectal cancer seems to be increasing more than two to three times compared to colon cancer,” said Mythili Menon Pathiyil, lead author of a new study and a gastroenterology fellow at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York.

If the trend continues, rectal cancer deaths will exceed the number of colon cancer deaths — already the nation’s No. 1 cause of cancer death in people under age 50 — by 2035.

Comment Re:The grift must go on! (Score 1) 83

by fjo3 (#66107108) Attached to: Pentagon Wants $54 Billion For Drones

Don Jr. and Eric are heavily invested in drone companies. They need their grift money too.

This is true, but it is also true that the US military pivoting towards drones is a necessary step for maintaining effective military forces. The world is not a peaceful place, and a lot of that is because of the United States - but not all of it.

Submission + - Sun sets on Japanese pacifism with lifting of military trade ban (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Japan has lifted a post-war ban on weapons exports as it moves away from a pacifist stance that has defined its defence policy since the end of the Second World War.

Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s prime minister, announced the plans after a cabinet meeting on Tuesday, writing on X that the change was necessary given the “increasingly challenging security environment”.

Submission + - California 'Lost' $425 BILLION, and the Audit Starts... Never

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: While California lawmakers were busy pushing a totally unconstitutional "Stop Nick Shirley Act" to make his style of investigative journalism punishable by big fines and even jail time, you might have missed out on the story about the state's missing $425 billion that nobody will bother auditing.

Or as Barth's report put it: "Obando conceded that required audits are falling by the wayside because 'instead of funding us they cut us they keep cutting our auditing teams.' He added that agencies 'none of them want us to go in there.' When pressed on the Controller’s Office’s ability to perform its core oversight function, Obando stated plainly: 'We just can’t conduct the audits.'"

Watching where the money goes is literally Controller Cohen's only job. If she isn't allowed to do it, that means that the system is performing as designed. If she isn't screaming to high heaven about it, that means she's in on it. No other conclusion fits — particularly when the state's real concern seems to be stopping independent reporters like Nick Shirley from doing even part of Cohen's job for her.

Here's the unconstututional "Stop Nick Shirley Act" that Victoria Taft reported on last week:

California Attorney General Rob Bonta's wife, Mia, a leftist state assembly member, has introduced AB 2624. The bill would fulfill a need that no one needs or asked for except for the professional grifters receiving big dollars from their buddies in government who want to hide it from the media. They want to hide the identities of the people running the programs under the guise of protecting illegal immigrants.

Under the bill, the press would be prevented from any meaningful reporting on the grift through fines, jail time, and orders to remove the content from media outlets.

"It sounds like the actions of tyrants," Victoria added — or like thieves covering their tracks.

Submission + - As measles takes toll on kids, anti-vaxxers have change of heart (msn.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Katie Jennings was scrolling on her phone last April when a headline stopped her cold. A second unvaccinated child had died of measles in her home state of Texas.

It was a tipping point for the 40-year-old stay-at-home mom who had grown up in a staunchly anti-vaccine, fundamentalist Christian community. “What are we doing? Why are we doing this?” she remembers thinking. “I wanted to protect my kids.”

She took all six of them to get the measles, mumps and rubella shot. Then she posted an emotional TikTok aimed at the anti-vax crowd she used to be a part of: “You can change your mind,” she said in the video that’s been watched more than 422,000 times.

Submission + - There Are Signs of a Massive AI Backlash (futurism.com)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: The public outrage over the tech industry’s obsession with AI is starting to boil over — and the pitchforks are coming out.

Most recently, a man allegedly lobbed a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house. Days earlier, a councilman in Indianapolis said that somebody had fired a dozen bullets at his house, with a handwritten note reading “No Data Centers” left on his doorstep.

A similar story is playing out across swathes of rural America, with small towns continuing a years-long effort to keep environmentally damaging data centers that put a huge strain on water availability and the power grid out of their communities.

Earlier this week, voters in a small town in Missouri led a revolt, firing half of their city council over a recently-approved $6 billion data center deal.

Submission + - Xi Says World Order 'Crumbling Into Disarray' as War Takes Toll (archive.is)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Chinese President Xi Jinping lamented a world in “disarray,” using some of his strongest language yet to describe a collapse of the Western-led international order as he vowed to play a constructive role in the Middle East.

“The international order is crumbling into disarray,” Xi told Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Tuesday in Beijing, using a Chinese phrase indicating not only chaos but also moral decay.

The comments, part of Xi’s first public statements on the Iran war since the conflict began more than a month ago, followed a flurry of visits by world leaders to Beijing and fresh economic data on Tuesday showing the war took a sharp toll on Chinese exports in March. Xi has framed his country as a stabilizing force in a world thrown into turmoil by Donald Trump’s erratic approach to trade and foreign policy.

Submission + - AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases (archive.is)

Submitted by fjo3
fjo3 writes: Consumer AI chatbots falter when used to make medical diagnoses, particularly when faced with incomplete information, according to new research highlighting the risks of relying on them as digital doctors.

The study finds that leading large language models struggle to suggest a range of possible diagnoses when patient data is limited, frequently narrowing too quickly to a single answer.

The results point to a broader limitation in AI: while chatbots can identify likely conditions once a case is fully specified, they are less reliable at the earlier, more uncertain stages of clinical reasoning.

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