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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Judge equates encrypted chats with private thoughts in would-be kidnapping case:

Freeman writes:FDA slams “Real Water” linked to liver failure; water plant manager MIA

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/lineageos-18-1-brings-android-11-to-over-60-smartphones/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:A Scientist Taught AI to Generate Pickup Lines. The Results are Chaotic.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Aussie private school bans mullets:

Anti-aristarchus writes:There is one city famous for building bridges across city streets, so the squirrels do not get run over. But no one took a survey before. Story at Phys.org. (Why, I have no idea. It is figuratively driving me nuts.)

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Four Major Vehicle Manufacturers Agree on Swappable Battery Specification:

Anti-aristarchus writes:According to Space.com, it is true, Uranus is putting out, X-rays. Chandra space telescope involved.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Falling sperm counts 'threaten human survival', expert warns:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Protein Discovery in the Development of New Hearing Hair Cells Could Lead to Treatments for Hearing Loss:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:VW accidentally leaks new name for its U.S. operations: Voltswagen:

DannyB writes:SpaceX is adding a glass dome on Crew Dragon for 360° views of space:

AnonTechie writes:The Radioactive Diamond Battery That Will Run For 28,000 Years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Feared Apophis Impact Ruled Out – Asteroid Will Pass Close Enough to Earth to See With Naked Eye:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:EMPLOYERS CAN MANDATE A COVID-19 VACCINECOVID-19: An Employer's Role in Vaccination:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Samsung's 512GB DDR5 module is a showcase for the future of RAM:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Maybe. Story at "Extreme Tech", which is either extreme, or tech, but not both?

Anti-aristarchus writes:For the photos, take a look at The New York Times article on

AnonTechie writes:Godzilla vs. Kong: A functional morphologist uses science to pick a winner:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Amazon loses effort to install camera to watch counting of ballots in pivotal union vote:

We had a few hours this evening where there were issues we didn't notice with new submissions. We had been mothballing (setting the number of matches necessary beyond what would ever match anything) some spam filters exclusive to submissions and managed to somehow confuse one of the Apache web frontends. The offending filters are now just deleted entirely and incapable of confusing even MS Paint.Please excuse the embuggerance. We now return you to your regularly scheduled arguments.TMBRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

takyon writes:Mafia fugitive caught after posting YouTube cooking video

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzardCryptos Stride Further Into Mainstream As New Paypal Feature Lets Users Pay With Bitcoin, Ethereum & More:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:OpenAI's Text-Generating System Gpt-3 Is Now Spewing Out 4.5 Billion Words A Day:

t-3 writes:https://www.nber.org/papers/w28600

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers discover how animals grow their pointy body parts:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzardBackdoor Disguised as Typo Fix Added to PHP Source Code:

takyon writes:High anxiety over federal weed loophole

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enough/

takyon writes:Consent to being surveilled or risk getting fired, says Amazon

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:As the Arctic warms, lightning strikes are more frequent -- even near the North Pole:

martyb writes:According to real-time updates, the container ship "Ever Given" has now been freed and is under way:You can follow its progress at VesselFinder.com. (The web site seems to be struggling under the load.) At the moment of this writing, it is headingon a Course of 349.2° (nearly due north) at a speed of 2.3 knots.It is headed to Great Bitter Lake. Once there and out of the path of other shipping, it will undergo technical inspections.According to various reports, the Suez Canal carries anywhere from 10-15% of the world's shipping. The effort to dislodge the ship is led by Smit Salvage who is renowned in the ship salvage industry. They successfully took on the task of raising the Russian nuclear submarine Kursk. Powered by two nuclear reactors, it sank August 14, 2000 while a full complement of torpedoes and missiles.What Next?

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:These techniques may help reduce the acrimony in the comments.Bad at public speaking? The trick is to distill your message to these 15 words, says speech trainer:

Anti-aristarchus writes:The people over at Ars Technica have an interesting, in-depth article.Buffer overruns, license violations, and bad code: FreeBSD 13’s close call:

An Anonymous Coward writes:APT Encounters of the Third Kind:

Eratosthenes writes:SciTechDaily reports that there is a moon in the sky, and it is waxing dangerously!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Landmark brain cancer vaccine passes first phase of human trials:

[Ed. note: As much as this goes against the norm here, I strongly encourage folk to read the entire linked article. We continue to witness dramatic advances in computer capabilities. Just consider what we already have today: AMD's Epyc and Threadripper processors, Apple Silicon (of which the M1 processor is only a taste), multi-terabyte DDR6 memories, huge farms of SSD storage all help leverage the tremendous capabilities of the latest ray-tracing video cards. Consider this a PSA (Public Service Announcement): You' ve Been Warned.-martyb)upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:FBI Warns Imminent Deepfake Attacks "Almost Certain" - The Debrief:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Salon has an article on Ingenuity.

Anti-aristarchus writes:NASA's TESS planet hunter spied 2,200 candidate worlds in its first 2 years

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Windows 95 Easter egg discovered after being hidden for 25 years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Sea-level rise is accelerating to its highest levels in at least 2,000 years across the Northeast, including New York City, study says:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:WWII codebreaker Turing honored on UK's new 50-pound note:

takyon writes:Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level crimes

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:"Expert" hackers used 11 0-days to infect Windows, iOS, and Android users:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Event Horizon Telescope captures new view of black hole in polarized light: