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Ometecuhtli writes:https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-06-01/worlds-largest-plant-seagrass-meadow-shark-bay-giant-clone/101112726"[...] But researchers have today revealed there's a plant about 4,500 years old and measuring 180 kilometres across living right under our noses in Western Australia.Genetic testing has revealed that what was once thought to be part of a giant seagrass meadow in the shallow waters of Shark Bay, near Carnarvon, was actually a single massive clone of Posidonia australis seagrass[...] "We were a bit suspicious because the plants around there don't act like normal seagrass," Dr Breed said. "They don't flower as much, don't seed as much, so these signs of reproductive activity were a little bit unremarkable."But when they took samples from 10 meadows throughout the Shark Bay area, they never expected nine of them to return a genetic match.Instead, they were planning to use their research to inform which plants to use for restoration of the meadows, to help with their resilience against threats like bleaching...[...] Being a clone probably helps to explain why this single plant has been so successful.[...] Polyploidy in this case has occurred because at some stage, a Posidonia plant has hybridised with another related species.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Taiwan Restricts Russia, Belarus to CPUs Under 25 MHz Frequency

upstart writes:Code execution 0-day in Windows has been under active exploit for 7 weeks:

upstart writes:UK, EU Cars (But Not Bikes, Yet) to be Fitted With Speed Limiters:

Freeman writes:Trafficked data could lead to subsequent attacks, agency warns:

upstart writes:Only ambitious climate protection measures can still save a third of the tundra:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Japan has successfully tested a system that could provide a constant, steady form of renewable energy:

hubie writes:The question is more important than you think:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/05/loot-box-laws-block-diablo-immortal-launch-in-some-european-countries/

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/05/gop-senators-want-to-ban-chinas-digital-currency-from-us-apps-and-app-stores/

Phoenix666 writes:SciTechDaily:

takyon writes:SpaceX CEO Elon Musk reveals next-generation Starlink satellite details

upstart writes:Excellent Utilities: Whoogle Search - self-hosted metasearch engine:

DannyB writes:Telescopes reveal why Neptune is more blue than Uranus

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/05/qualcomm-wants-to-buy-a-stake-in-arm-alongside-its-rivals/

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

mrpg writes:Hot-Blooded or Cold-Blooded? Chemical Clues Solve One of the Oldest Mysteries in Paleontology

upstart writes:AI systems can detect patient race, creating new opportunities to perpetuate health disparities:

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hubie writes:Fjords emit as much methane as all the deep oceans globally

upstart writes:Scientists try to bring Australian 'tiger' back from extinction:

upstart writes:Geology from 50 Light-Years: Webb Gets Ready to Study Rocky Worlds:

takyon writes:The Frontier supercomputer at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has exceeded 1.1 exaFLOPS (Rmax), leading the June 2022 TOP500 list as the world's fastest supercomputer and the first truly "exascale" system.Frontier uses 9,408 64-core Epyc 7A53 CPUs and 37,632 AMD Instinct MI250X GPUs. It has 4.6 petabytes each of DDR4 and High Bandwidth Memory.Frontier also reached #2 on the June 2022 Green500 list at 52.227 gigaFLOPS/Watt, behind the smaller Frontier Test & Development System:

upstart writes:CubeSat Set to Demonstrate NASA's Fastest Laser Link from Space:

upstart writes:Gene Editing Can Change The Social Behavior of Animals in Unexpected Ways:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Nokia CEO says 6G will be here by 2030 — but you might not access it via your smartphone

upstart writes:NASA-Supported Solar Sail Could Take Science to New Heights:

canopic jug writes:Digital librarian, Karen Coyle, has written about controlled digital lending (warning for PDF), where an artificial scarcity is applied to digital artifacts to limit concurrent access similar to the limitations that a finite number of objects exhibit in libraries' physical collections. This concept raises a lot of questions about not just copyright and digital versus physical, but also about reading in general. Some authors and publisher associations have already begun to object to controlled digital lending. However, few set aside misinformation and misdirection to allow for a proper, in-depth discussion of the issues.

upstart writes:A giant planet may have "escaped" from our solar system, study finds:

upstart writes:Massive New Mexico Fire Started By U.S. Forest Service, but widely reported elsewhere:

Tech Review is running a piece on a new/recent approach to self driving, https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/05/27/1052826/ai-reinforcement-learning-self-driving-cars-autonomous-vehicles-wayve-waabi-cruise/

takyon writes:Russia says it has test-fired another hypersonic missile

upstart writes:25% of the World's Internet Users Rely on Infrastructure That Is Susceptible to Attacks:

hubie writes:Most doctors still believe in prescribing unnecessary antibiotics to treat asymptomatic infections, study suggests:

upstart writes:Instead of getting exploit PoC, they're getting something a lot more sinister:

upstart writes:An interesting history story about a French embroiderer who helped revolutionize surgery:

hubie writes:High cost of cancer care in the U.S. doesn't reduce mortality rates:

Rich writes:A digital certificate that expired after 10 years is causing a major outage in German retail payment handling. The involved Verifone H5000 card reader was introduced in 2012 but is still widely in use. Acceptance points have been advised to not power off their devices, because on startup, the failing certificate locks out the device even from updates. The vendor is trying to come up with a solution, which will likely involve USB sticks for local updates.Report in English: https://www.stripes.com/theaters/europe/2022-05-27/aaefes-esso-credit-card-outage-6146620.htmlDetails in German (with screenshots): https://www.borncity.com/blog/2022/05/27/strung-der-verifone-h5000-ec-kartenlesegerte-einige-insights-zur-zertifikateproblematik/While in the past, many issues could be fixed by cleverly scraping together remaining data, this is one of the first nationwide occurrences of a new class of security-related bugs that actively lock out any solution attempt. What is your experience in this field?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

hubie writes:Knowledge-Diverse Work Teams Benefit from Fluid Hierarchies:

upstart writes:Climate change reveals unique artifacts in melting ice patches:

hubie writes:Quantum information teleported across a rudimentary quantum network:

AnonTechie writes:https://phys.org/news/2022-05-disinformation-flourished-pandemic.html

upstart writes:Why are male mice afraid of bananas?:

upstart writes:Clearview AI fined in UK for illegally storing facial images:

upstart writes:Broadcom to acquire VMware in massive $61B deal – TechCrunch:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes:World's largest vertical strawberry farm opens in Jersey City:

upstart writes:FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA info for targeted advertising: