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upstart writes:mjg59 | PSA: upgrade your LUKS key derivation function:Many Linux users rely on LUKS for their disk encryption but perhaps they need to pay a bit more attention to it. If the disk was encrypted more than a few years ago (LUKS Version 1) it appears that it might not be secure enough to withstand a concerted attack. It is time to check whether you are using Version 2, and if not the fix takes a few minutes. [JR]

upstart writes:The proposed legislation also poses 'an unnecessary economic and technological risk to the EU':

upstart writes:Parler's new owner immediately took the social network offline:

upstart writes:The Great Salt Lake is shrinking. What can we do to stop it?:

owl writes:https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-t-90-tank-from-ukraine-mysteriously-appears-at-u-s-truck-stop

upstart writes:The AI Doomers' Playbook:

hubie writes:Stopping Storms from Creating Dangerous Urban Geysers:

upstart writes:Shooting all-important bytes to a machine 254 million kms away from Earth:

upstart writes:German artist refuses award after his AI image wins prestigious photography prize:

upstart writes:Offensive cyber company QuaDream shutting down amidst spyware accusations:

hubie writes:Researchers at ETH Zurich have developed a model that detects workplace stress just by how people type and move their computer mouse:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Yes. Your new car is probably spying on you.

upstart writes:Chipzilla reportedly wants more cash. Germany wants a bigger facility. And the EU is lurking with a bigger offer:

Looking ahead to exploring inside some of the other planets and satellites in the solar system, here is a proposal for a multi-jointed snake robot https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65245054 with a video animation available from the BBC, https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-65245054Here's a snip,

upstart writes:Million-year-old viruses help fight cancer, say scientists:

upstart writes:MEPs raise concerns over draft EU-US data transfer deal:

takyon writes:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_orbital_test_flight

upstart writes:When admitting to an error isn't seen as a failure, improvement easy to achieve:

upstart writes:But first it'll have to prove its business model:

upstart writes:John Deere warns about the "unintended consequences" stemming from the new legislation:

upstart writes:Let's go through all the proposed problematic powers, starting with surveillance and censorship:

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2023/01/the-8086-processors-microcode-pipeline.html

fliptop writes:Torswats uses synthesized voices to pressure law enforcement to specific locations:

upstart writes:Machine learning has boosted the resolution of an image produced by Event Horizon Telescope data captured six years ago:

upstart writes:Writers and publishers face an existential threat from AI: time to embrace the true fans model:

upstart writes:You don't need alien asteroids, you just need a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and liquid hot magma:

upstart writes:Kernel 6.2 ditched a useful defense against ghostly chip design flaw:

canopic jug writes:MEP Patrick Breyer (Germany, Pirate Party), one of the few representatives fighting for preserving rights online rather than against them, has posted a summary about the EU Parliament's assessment of the proposed "Chat Control" legislation. In short, the "Chat Control" proposal violates basic human rights:

NotSanguine writes:[Editor's Note: This is not connected to the Kodi Linux Operating System. JR]Bleeping Computer reports that Kodi has revealed (on 8 April 2023) that their forum [N.B. the forum itself is now gone and replaced with a blog post about the breach] database was breached and is for sale online.From the Bleeping Computer article:

upstart writes:There's confusion over which companies will be affected:

upstart writes:The "pancosmorio theory" says that for humans to survive in space, missions must duplicate ecological conditions found back home, including Earth's gravity:

upstart writes:Employers participating in the proposed two-year pilot program would transition some or all of their workers to a shortened workweek without any loss of pay or benefits:

hubie writes:Researchers compare multiple categories of shoppers and find the linchpin:

upstart writes:Elon Musk admits he only bought Twitter because he thought he'd be forced to:

upstart writes:French Court Smacks Remote Learning Software Company For Pervasive Surveillance Of Students In Their Own Homes:

NotSanguine writes:As the title suggests, they weren't all that impressed.From the article:

upstart writes:The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago:

upstart writes:In California, the bodies of four furry swimmers tested positive for a strain of toxoplasmosis first seen in mountain lions:

upstart writes:"Wolverine" experiment can fix Python bugs at runtime and re-run the code:

upstart writes:An unprecedented space event, and it's happening soon:

DadaDoofy writes:Many people believe that any and all opposition to the Covid vaccine comes from "far-right" Republican conspiracy theorists in the flyover states. I guess the Swiss government will now be branded with those labels as their Federal Office of Public Health is now recommending that a Covid vaccination is not needed, even for people at especially high risk. They list pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems as an exception. They further state that those who wish to receive a Covid vaccine must pay for it out of their own pockets.https://www.bag.admin.ch/bag/en/home/krankheiten/ausbrueche-epidemien-pandemien/aktuelle-ausbrueche-epidemien/novel-cov/impfen.html

fliptop writes:The reports suggest ransomware may have been involved:

hubie writes:What once appeared as a fossil of the primitive animal Dickinsonia turned out to be nothing more than a decaying beehive:

upstart writes:Intel Foundry Services partners with Arm to manufacture next-generation mobile chips:

upstart writes:Bad news: copyright industry attacks on the Internet's plumbing are increasing – and succeeding:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/03/3cx-knew-its-app-was-flagged-as-malicious-but-took-no-action-for-7-days/

upstart writes:This once secretive scientific field is embracing openness in a big way:

upstart writes:Heat batteries could help cut emissions by providing new routes to use solar and wind power:

fliptop writes:Thanks to large language models, a single scammer can run hundreds or thousands of cons in parallel, night and day, in every language under the sun:

upstart writes:The stream could keep the galaxy supplied with star-forming fuel for a billion years: