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upstart writes:The Moon still has much to tell us about the early solar system:

Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023upstart writes:Netflix Will Block Password Sharing Before July 2023:

upstart writes:A European Chips Act to play catch-up with the US and Asia:

throckmorten writes:GS1, the global standards organisation for barcodes, has started to advertise their Sunrise 2027 program for adding 2D barcodes to products.

upstart writes:Whisper Aero wants to make aviation, and the rest of the world, quieter:

upstart writes:Researchers are warning about a dangerous wave of unwiped, secondhand core-routers:

upstart writes:An old NASA spacecraft will crash to Earth on Wednesday:

Woodherd writes:So it says at The Register.

upstart writes:A new report sees threat actors swarming to digital bazaars to collaborate, buy and sell malware and credentials:

upstart writes:New CFO sees interesting in-tray at 20 percent year-on-year growth database company:

upstart writes:SpaceX Starship launch countdown: all of the news on its first test flight:

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: