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A lot of Twitter-related stories recently submitted, so here's a rollup to put them all in one place for your convenience, or so that you can easily bypass it.Twitter Will Require Phone Number Verification to Purchase a Twitter Blue Subscriptionupstart writes:Twitter will require phone number verification to purchase a Twitter Blue subscription:

liar writes:https://boingboing.net/2022/12/15/star-15-light-years-away-has-two-earth-like-planets.html

upstart writes:Phosphorus, though rare on Earth's surface, may be abundant on other worlds:

upstart writes:Researchers smell a cryptomining Chaos RAT targeting Linux:

owl writes:https://imihajlov.tk/blog/posts/eth-to-spi/

upstart writes:China officially files a trade dispute claim with the WTO against the US for export curbs on semiconductors- Technology News, Firstpost:

hubie writes:Dinosaurs dominated the world right up until a deadly asteroid hit the earth, leading to their mass extinction, some 66 million years ago:

upstart writes:NIST calls time on SHA-1, sets 2030 deadline:

fliptop writes:Techno-optimist and a free-speech advocate Daniel Lemire asks:

Many of you are frustrated, as am I, by the bugs that are currently present in the system and wondering why they are not being fixed. I am now in a position to perhaps shed a little bit of light onto the reasons we are where we are...Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:You can still call a phone number and be told the time by the U.S. Naval Observatory:

upstart writes:Germany wants countries to regulate the crypto industry after the FTX and Bankman-Fried debacle- Technology News, Firstpost:

Tesla Holiday Update Brings Steam Games to Model S and X EVsfliptop writes:Tesla's AMD RDNA 2 GPU will be put to use by Steam games:

Soyuz capsule hit by micrometeorite, leaks ammoniac0lo writes:Soyuz coolant leak likely caused by micrometeorite strike on space capsule at International Space Station

upstart writes:A giant aquarium containing a million litres of water in the lobby of the Radisson Blu in Berlin has burst, flooding the hotel and nearby streets:

fliptop writes:The companies include Meta, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and TomTom, which together could facilitate a new wave of geolocation apps:

RamiK writes:From Reuters' coverage of NRC Handelsblad's interview with ASML's CEO Peter Wennink regarding U.S. export restrictions on China:

fliptop writes:One moderate vulnerability that's already exploited impacts the Windows SmartScreen Security Feature:

owl writes:https://medium.com/@bobbyrsec/operation-charlie-hacking-the-mbta-charliecard-from-2008-to-present-24ea9f0aaa38Archive link: https://archive.vn/Pfc6QThe CharlieCard is a contactless smart card used for transportation fare payment in the Boston area. It is the primary payment method for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (aka MBTA or the T) and several regional public transport systems in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Nearly 15 years after a group of MIT students first publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities in the CharlieCard, I am publicly disclosing that it is possible using only an Android phone to:

fliptop writes:Space companies want to remove their junk from orbit - but that's easier said than done:

Freeman writes:Lawmakers liken TikTok's widening influence in the US to "digital fentanyl":

upstart writes:Manifest V3 transition is delayed again to the relief of Chrome users everywhere:

fliptop writes:Apple is expanding its iCloud security features and introducing support for security keys for two-factor authentication:

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Bertrand Meyer has a bone to pick regarding the use of 'statement' instead of 'instruction' when it comes to code:

upstart writes:EU confirms draft decision on replacement US data transfer pact:

progo writes:In June 2022, Microsoft's GitHub announced that they will be cancelling the Atom text editor later this year. (Initially November 16, but that got pushed to December 15.)

fliptop writes:A well done and mostly non-technical look at the idea of Threat Intelligence, that defines the term, who can benefit, the cycle describing how it's produced via planning and direction through processing and analysis:

canopic jug writes:IEEE Spectrum has an article about the USB thumb drive and its inventor, Trek's CEO, Henn Tann in Singapore. The market for USB thumb drives has passed $7 billion as of last year and is expected to surpass $10 billion by 2028.

upstart writes:The latest idea in the long gestation of the online harms legislation:

canopic jug writes:Marketplace has an observation that the fundamental technological element of digital computers, the transistor, has turned 75 years old this month.

upstart writes:Wiper malware from no fewer than 9 families has appeared this year. Now there are 2 more.

upstart writes:The United Arab Emirates is a founding member of the Artemis Accords:

upstart writes:A third of UK workers to stay online over holidays, following global trend:

fliptop writes:Putting spinning rust in liquid might seem risky, but sealed helium drives were used:

Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in Bahamas, charged with "massive" crypto fraud in USFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/sam-bankman-fried-arrested-in-bahamas-charged-with-massive-crypto-fraud-in-us/

Freeman writes:Senators Warren and Welch urged Pfizer to back down from "unseemly profiteering":

fliptop writes:Loongson processors may get their own export restrictions:

upstart writes:Chinese Rocket Stage Now a Cloud of Orbital Debris After Disintegrating in Space:

Booga1 writes:Autoevolution covers a truck driver Tomasz Orynski's scathing review of the Tesla Semi, calling it "a completely stupid vehicle."

liar writes:That fusion announcement is worth getting hyped about, but practical fusion is still a long way off:

upstart writes:Analysis reignites debate over existence of 3rd-century CE emperor named Sponsian:

fliptop writes:MIT presents the "Wearable Reasoner," a proof-of-concept wearable system capable of analyzing if an argument is stated with supporting evidence or not to prompt people to question and reflect on the justification of their own beliefs and the arguments of others:

hubie writes:The age claim of the preserved footprints found in New Mexico's Lake Otero Basin are brought into question:

fliptop writes:The Q&A site has been flooded with ChatGPT coding answers that look correct but often aren't, with moderators calling for a halt:

upstart writes:TSMC will be tripling their planned investment at the Arizona plant and open up a second fabrication unit by 2026:

upstart writes:Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-pandemic Levels in 2023:

upstart writes:A prototype heat pump that uses water and sound to cool is three times as efficient as previous comparable designs:

fliptop writes:Biden faces a renewed push, domestically and internationally, to drop charges against Assange, who is languishing in a UK jail:

upstart writes:If you are concerned about browsing discreetly, this makes it easier:

upstart writes:The galaxy formed within about 325 million years of the big bang: