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upstart writes:You can build a smaller PC yourself, though the NUC will take out the guesswork:

upstart writes:The orbital change was even bigger than scientists expected:

upstart writes:Soylent Advice for those on the wrong side of 50.New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies:

upstart writes:They will expand their coverage over the next five years:

upstart writes:Linux creator Linus Torvalds can't merge kernel code fast enough because of a particular hardware problem:

upstart writes:China semiconductor production experienced its largest-ever decline in August:

upstart writes:Prices of PCs have been trending upwards recently; that could be changing:

looorg writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-thermal-attack-can-read-your-password-from-the-heat-your-fingertips-leave-behind/Thermal keyboard attackWhile an interesting idea I wonder, like with a lot of these "attacks" how useful in practice they really are.The heat doesn't last very long, so you have to be there basically as you type or within seconds. After just 20 seconds the heat is dropping fast and after a minute you are basically guessing.Still 4 digit ATM pins could be in deep trouble. But then after you entered the 4 digit pin you usually push a few more numbers to get your money and make various choices at the machine. So it might be a difference between real live usage and laboratory usage.The heat or colour will then tell the order in what was used last to the keys that are fading was the once used earliest.But still unless it can tell a few keys appear that might be very similar in heat you end up with options. But then getting or guessing a password from a limited pool of characters is better or faster then guessing one from a larger pool.So the new security feature or recommendation will be to before you leave the ATM press ALL the keys or after you get your money just stand there for a minute or so and put the money into your wallet so you let the machine or the keypad cool down.How will the camera note if you use the same keys over again (AxxxxAxxxxxA)? Will it know if you hit the A key then multiple times?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:UK govt launches procurement for tax agency systems:

canopic jug writes:Chemistry World has an article about how the best-selling organic chemistry textbook has become open access. The 10 edition of John McMurry's textbook, Organic Chemistry, will be available free-of-charge. It appears likely that it will be under one of the Creative Commons Attribution licenses.

upstart writes:DeepMind unveils first AI to discover faster matrix multiplication algorithms:

Judge delays Musk/Twitter trial, gives them three weeks to complete merger [Updated]Freeman and upstart write:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/musk-asks-judge-to-cancel-trial-claims-twitter-wont-take-yes-for-an-answer/

upstart writes:World's largest crypto exchange targeted in security breach:

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Dutch Court Rules that Being Forced to Keep a Webcam on While Working is Illegalupstart writes:A US company was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay the employee's wages and vacation days:

upstart writes:Stadia Developers Blindsided By Shutdown:

upstart writes:TSMC Q3 2022 Revenue Hits All-Time High Despite Slowing Demand:

upstart writes:Samsung warns of 32% hit to profits on chip slump:

upstart writes:Roller coasters are triggering iPhone 14's Crash Detection feature:

upstart writes:Tesla Removes Ultrasonic Sensors from Vehicles, Temporarily Disables Autopilot Features - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Apple's manufacturing moves away from China are a drop in the ocean:

upstart writes:Volocopter completes crewed eVTOL test flight out of Rome vertiport:

upstart writes:The Rust team is putting more resources into helping developers write code faster:

upstart writes:This is how we can get a high-resolution image of an exoplanet:

upstart writes:In sudden reversal, Valve will let a cult classic visual novel onto Steam:

hubie writes:Researchers at Baylor and Campbell universities found that smartphone users seeking meaning and purpose through their devices and social media could experience the opposite:

upstart writes:Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea collapses after explosion and fire - ABC News:

upstart writes:A cold winter is awaiting mobile networks and phones in Europe:

upstart writes:New Study Shows That High R&D Costs Don't Explain High Drug Prices:

canopic jug writes:Volume 189 of The PCLinuxOS Magazine has an article on Bill Gates' evil prophecy from 40 years ago where he aims for ending general-purpose computing. He achieves that goal a step at a time over the decades, with the help of many a mole and quisling. Lately, the Pluton chip and Restricted Boot play both play key roles towards ending this era of general-purpose computing. The Pluton chip is an extension of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) used by Vista10 and required by Vista11. Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, and even its upstream source, Debian, folded years ago in regards to secure boot by using Microsoft's signing key, possibly cementing that as the norm. The article covers that and many other incidents leading up to the current situation.There is an ever-decreasing amount of time left to keep general-purpose computing alive and the author signs off with how to approach the political maneuvers going on:

hubie writes:Researchers have measured how uncomfortable and 'creeped out' using apps can make us feel:

upstart writes:'The Onion' filed a real brief with the Supreme Court supporting man jailed for making fun of cops:

upstart writes:The Pi Shortage Pricing Changes the Equation:

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Snotnose and an AC write:Adafruit's Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy:

upstart writes:NASA Wants To Mine The Moon, But Law Experts Say It's Not That Simple:

hubie writes:Drinking two to three cups of coffee a day is linked with a longer lifespan and lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared with avoiding coffee:

upstart writes:Taken as a share of the market price, the climate change impacts of mining the digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin is more comparable to the impacts of extracting and refining crude oil than mining gold:

upstart writes:The countries say the pact will help combat serious crimes, but privacy advocates have raised concerns:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Exoplanet hunters should check for NO:

owl writes:http://www.os2museum.com/wp/pc-mos386-source-code/

upstart writes:NASA's DART asteroid impact test left a trail over 6,000 miles long:

hubie writes:Biomarkers used to track benefits of anti-ageing therapies can be misleading:

canopic jug writes:The New Yorker has a non-technical article, The Thorny Problem of Keeping the Internet's Time, about the Network Time Protocol (NTP) from both the software and protocol perspectives. It gives a surprisingly good summary of the background of both as well as the current situation and the issues holding back the next steps. If you have networked computers, especially servers, in any capacity then you are certainly familiar with the NTP or at least its supporting utilities. NTP was developed by David Mills, who by the late 1970s, after a *little*-bit-of-improvementer his PhD, eventually ended up at COMSAT where he started working on it for ARPANET. He still works on it despite failed eyesight.

upstart writes:Uber's Former Security Chief Convicted of Covering Up 2016 Data Breach:

takyon writes:Samsung announces 36 Gbps GDDR7 memory standard, aims to release V-NAND storage solutions with 1000 layers by 2030

upstart writes:The first step will be figuring out the extent of the damage and then the difficulties really begin:

upstart writes:The American chess grandmaster at the centre of the sport's biggest scandal has been accused of cheating more than 100 times on a major online platform:

upstart writes:A patch is already available:

upstart writes:Most developers aren't particularly good at building authorization into their applications, but would they trust a third-party provider like Oso?: