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Mikhail Gorbachev, Who Ended the Cold War, Dies Aged 91 -Agenciesupstart writes:Mikhail Gorbachev, who ended the Cold War, dies aged 91 -agencies:

upstart writes:Microsoft finalises cloud licensing changes in response to EU complaints:

upstart writes:No drinking water "indefinitely" in Jackson, Mississippi:

owl writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/smartdrys-useful-laundry-sensor-to-be-cloud-bricked-next-month/

upstart writes:Mushrooms serve as 'main character' in most ecosystems:

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upstart writes:The party is over for Nvidia as crypto and gaming GPU demand is down:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/scientists-create-synthetic-embryo-from-stem-cells

upstart writes:LastPass confirms attackers stole some source code:

hubie writes:People with an obsessive urge to constantly check the news are more likely to suffer from stress, anxiety, as well as physical ill health:

takyon writes:StarFive recently announced an SBC using the StarFive JH7110 quad-core 64-bit RISC-V SoC. Now Pine64 is announcing their own version, the Star64:

canopic jug writes:FOSS developer Michael Stapelberg has started a four part blog post on Rsync and how it works. He wrote the i3 tiling window manager, among other projects, and is a former Debian developer. Now he has written about three scenarios for which he has come to appreciate Rsync, specifically in DokuWiki transfers, software deployment, and backups. Then he looks at at integrating it into various work flows, and then at what the software and protocol actually do. The fourth section is to be announced.

upstart writes:Linux 6.1 Will Make It A Bit Easier To Help Spot Faulty CPUs:

upstart writes:Facebook agrees to settle Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging millions of users' data exposed:

hubie writes:Hiding chocolate stashes or Amazon purchases from a partner? 'Guilty' purchases may have benefits:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://torrentfreak.com/denuvo-promises-to-kill-switch-emulator-piracy-with-new-protection-220824/

hubie writes:Global hunt for dark matter arrives in Australia with completion of Stage 1 of Stawell Underground Physics Laboratory:

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Four hours until liftoff!? NASA is scheduled to launch its first heavy-lift rocket since retiring the space shuttle in 2011.

upstart writes:PFAS are everywhere and have been linked to negative health effects:

An Anonymous Coward writes:A new study finds that most "silent" mutations are harmful rather than neutral:

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upstart writes:Norway reportedly wants to fine Meta for illegal data transfers:

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hubie writes:An experiment prepared by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) will launch as part of NASA's scheduled Artemis I mission to orbit the moon Aug. 29:

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upstart writes:Nato investigates hacker sale of missile firm data:

upstart writes:DuckDuckGo now offers anti-tracking email service to everyone:

upstart writes:The GPU shortage is over. The GPU surplus has arrived!:

upstart writes:Power shortages in Ireland threaten to scupper plans by cloud giants AWS, Equinix and Microsoft to expand their data center footprints:

upstart writes:James Webb Space Telescope makes first unequivocal detection of carbon dioxide in an exoplanet atmosphere:

takyon writes:Intel Kicks Off Fab Co-Investment Program with Brookfield: New Fabs to be Jointly Owned

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upstart writes:Former UK Supreme Court Judge Calls Out Online Safety Bill As Harmful By Itself:

upstart writes:Top Programming Languages 2022:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2335230-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill-linked-to-changes-in-dolphin-gene-activity

hubie writes:A team of Université de Montréal astronomers have discovered an exoplanet that could be completely covered in water:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/twitter-whistleblower-claims-musk-was-right-about-bots-ftc-reviewing-report/

upstart writes:Waste from vegetable oil manufacturing could cheaply and effectively remove toxic heavy metals from contaminated water:

upstart writes:Neolithic people sprinkled the crystals over burials:

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upstart writes:The big catch is that it has to be at roughly the boiling point of water to work:

upstart writes:Leaked TSMC Slide Shows N3E Yields Progressing Ahead of Plan:

upstart writes:Microsoft details critical vulnerability in ChromeOS:

upstart writes:Victory! Federal Court Upholds First Amendment Protections for Student's Off-Campus Social Media Post:

upstart writes:VW strikes a deal with Canada to build EV batteries in North America:

upstart writes:And why engineers say the moon-bound Alexa can't become 2001's HAL:

An Anonymous Coward writes:When it comes to health issues, not all forms of being sedentary are equal:

upstart writes:3 reasons cloud computing doesn't save money: