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upstart writes:The James Webb Space Telescope Is in Position. Now It's Booting Up:

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upstart writes:The metaverse is a new word for an old idea:

upstart writes:New evidence for the importance of educational attainment in brain health:

upstart writes:After lying low, SSH botnet mushrooms and is harder than ever to take down:

canopic jug writes:A blogger with the handle "Soatok" has written about considerations in safely using RSA. His first recommendation is not to use RSA at all any more. Failing that, if you must use RSA, he has various recommendations to mitigate the problems that using RSA entails.

upstart writes:UK second in money laundering hall of shame:

upstart writes:The Lord of the Rings and Hobbit movie and video game rights are being sold off, report says:

Our servers are back up!Earlier today (about 12 hours before this story), our site had a server crash. Early attempts to restart things (bouncing fluorine and hydrogen) were unsuccessful. (Thanks chromas and janrinok for your efforts!)Fortunately, the system is usually lightly-loaded at this time, so relatively few people were affected.Then mechanicjay came on the scene and was able to restart helium and neon. Then the rest of the servers for the site successfully came on-line.Through it all, we retained access to IRC (thanks Deucalion!) and e-mail (thanks audioguy!).There may be some lingering hiccups as slashd (which handles scheduled tasks -- think cron) plods through those tasks in due time.We thank you for your patience during this time and send our thanks to all who notified us (politely!) about the outage on IRC and through e-mails.Please join me in thanking all those who lent a hand through this period! You ROCK! =)We return you to your regularly-scheduled stories.

owl writes:https://www.righto.com/2022/02/a-look-inside-chips-that-powered.html

upstart writes:European cloud companies want more protection from the EU:

upstart writes:Replacing Huawei gear across the US could be much higher than expected:

upstart writes:Toshiba: 26TB HDDs Due Within a Year, 40TB HDDs in Five Years:

upstart writes:Tech bug keeps Mazda radios locked in to NPR:

coolgopher writes:https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/09/nuclear-fusion-heat-record-a-huge-step-in-quest-for-new-energy-source

upstart writes:Factory contamination affects "at least" 7 billion gigabytes of flash memory:

upstart writes:Early Humans Placed the Hearth at the Optimal Location in Their Cave 170,000 Years Ago:

takyon writes:Earth-like planet spotted orbiting Sun's closest star

upstart writes:'Astronomically' high demand leads to surging Super Bowl ticket prices:

upstart writes:Female-led data hackathon runs for second year:

upstart writes:Cost to rebuild US semiconductor manufacturing will keep growing:

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upstart writes:New Antimicrobial, Anti-Odor Coating for Clothing and Textiles:

owl writes:http://www.its.caltech.edu/~atomic/snowcrystals/icespikes/icespikes.htm:

upstart writes:US government seizes $3.6 billion in bitcoin tied to 2016 hack of crypto exchange Bitfinex:

upstart writes:Introducing a Personal Boundary for Horizon Worlds and Venues:

upstart writes:DeepMind says its new AI coding engine is as good as an average human programmer:

AnonTechie writes:A New Proposed Law Could Actually Hold Big Tech Accountable for Its Algorithms:

upstart writes:The quantum 'boomerang' effect has been seen for the first time:

upstart writes:Making installed train windows permeable to mobile-phone signals:

upstart writes:Move over JavaScript: Back-end languages are coming to the front-end:

upstart writes:EU joins chips race with 42 bn euro bid to rival Asia:

upstart writes:SpaceX Starlink satellites doomed after geomagnetic storm hits Earth:

upstart writes:Speeding Through Semiconductor Nanowires: New Basis for Ultrafast Transistors:

upstart writes:North Korea: Missile programme funded through stolen crypto, UN report says:

upstart writes:IRS abandons facial recognition plan after firestorm of criticism:

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upstart writes:$66 billion deal for Nvidia to purchase Arm collapses:

upstart writes:Large Hadron Collider Experiments Step Up the Data Processing Game With GPUs:

upstart writes:Toshiba set to split into two companies:

upstart writes:Widespread Megaripple Activity Detected Across the North Polar Region of Mars:

upstart writes:DuckDuckGo founder says privacy needs to be as simple as a single button press:

upstart writes:Human Spinal Cord Implants: Breakthrough May Enable People With Paralysis To Walk Again:

upstart writes:Facebook loses users for the first time in its history:

upstart writes:NSO Group: Israel launches inquiry into police hacking claims:

upstart writes:The Battle for the World's Most Powerful Cyberweapon [Ed's Comment: If paywalled try https://archive.fo/cbnUR]

owl writes:Barbed Wire Fences Were An Early DIY Telephone Network:

takyon writes:New artificial enamel is harder and more durable than the real thing

takyon writes:India goes RISC-V with VEGA processors

upstart writes:Controversy erupts over Aussie museum's identification of HMS Endeavour wreck: