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AnonTechie writes:An interesting piece of computing history which may be familiar to many here ... Here is the inside story of personal computing at the legendary research lab

upstart writes:The US needs to figure out what to do about its radioactive garbage:

upstart writes in with two related stories:Elon Musk's back-to-office edict reignites debate on remote work:

upstart writes:Volcano Watch: Over 9000 earthquakes and ground uplift were detected at Mt Thorbjorn, Iceland in the past month, with more Volcanoes now on alert:

upstart writes:When AI is the inventor who gets the patent?:

upstart writes:Meeting Owl videoconference device used by govs is a security disaster:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://tails.boum.org/news/version_5.1/index.en.html

upstart writes:China launches third crewed mission to new space station:

upstart writes:New York state passes first electronics right-to-repair bill:

upstart writes:Microsoft promises 'open and constructive' approach to employee labor unions:

Phoenix666 writes:SpaceNews:

hubie writes:Hennepin Healthcare investigators study game to help people quit smoking:

upstart writes:Who may benefit from climate change? Rattlesnakes, study suggests:

upstart writes:Scientists made a Möbius strip out of a tiny carbon nanobelt:

fliptop writes:Last week, Google Street View turned 15:

An Anonymous Coward writes:

upstart writes:Why the search for a privacy-preserving data sharing mechanism is failing:

DannyB writes:Phys.org

owl brings us an interesting bit of space history for your weekend enjoyment:https://www.wearethemighty.com/mighty-history/us-military-launched-needles-space/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/05/the-mystery-of-chinas-sudden-warnings-about-us-hackers/

DannyB writes:SpaceNews.com: NASA selects Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace for spacesuit contracts

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

DannyB writes:From Tom's Hardware:

hubie writes:What's in a name?

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:

pkrasimirov writes:

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: