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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:'Double mutant': What are the risks of India's new Covid-19 variant:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Amazon Workers Describe Struggle for Historic Union Vote in Alabama:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:AstraZeneca lowers efficacy claim for COVID-19 vaccine, a bit, after board's rebuke:

aristarchus writes:The Fight Against Fake-Paper Factories That Churn Out Sham Science:

fleg writes:Reproduction without pregnancy: would it really emancipate women?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Optical fiber could boost power of superconducting quantum computers:

Previously thought to be science fiction, a planet in a triple-star system has been discovered:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cern experiment hints at new force of nature:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Firefox 87 Adds Stronger User Privacy Protections:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Radio Shack Once Again Crawls Out of the Grave:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Semiconductor qubits scale in two dimensions:

Freeman writes: Free software advocates seek removal of Richard Stallman and entire FSF board:

canopic jug writes:Programmer Ian Henry has written a blog post about using datalog to optimze home bar ingredients. That is to say, given what is in his bar already which cocktails can he already mix and which one new ingredient would provide the largest possible number of additional recipes?

takyon writes:New York lawmakers reach deal to legalize marijuana

Freeman writes:GameStop (the stock) and GameStop (the retailer) continue to be worlds apart:

datapharmer writes:A 15 year old XML file created a stir in the Ruby on Rails world today as it was discovered that freedesktop.org.xml which is GPL 2 licensed was included improperly in the mimemagic project which was MIT licensed. The author accepted this notification as valid, pulled prior versions, and switched licenses but as this was a dependency of Rails it promptly got the attention of programmers worldwide that rely on the Rails gem for their applications.Since Rails itself is MIT licensed this makes for a difficult day of sorting out licensing options for many people.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Rich writes:Recent reports concerning a paper about lepton universality in beauty-quark decays are coming in. One report rather close to the source can be found at New result from the LHCb experiment challenges leading theory in physicsThe core point of the research is that "beauty quarks", particles that existed around the time of the big bang, should decay evenly into mesons with electrons and mesons with muons, which is implied by the standard model. However, in recent experiments at the Large Hadron Collider, for 100 mesons with electrons, only 85 mesons with muons could be found.This implies that a deviation from the standard model was found in a hands-on (for large values of hands-on) experiment. Further research might yield interesting insights in the mechanisms of the universe.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Melting Glaciers Contribute To Alaska Earthquakes:

takyon writes:Whether Cold Fusion or Low-Energy Nuclear Reactions, U.S. Navy Researchers Reopen Case

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:FCC wants to hear from Americans who've been ignored by broadband industry:

martyb writes:(NB: Follow real-time graphical updates by zooming in at https://www.vesselfinder.com/?imo=9811000Grounded 'Mega Ship' Blocking Suez Canal in Both Directions:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA to offer funding for initial studies of commercial space stations - SpaceNews:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:TikTok wants to keep tracking iPhone users with state-backed workaround:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA lays out plans for its first flights on Mars:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Scientists Detect 55 Chemicals Never Before Reported in People – 42 "Mystery Chemicals" Whose Sources Are Unknown:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Instagram is ‘most invasive app’, new study shows:

takyon writes:Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition: report

DannyB wrote in with a submission which greatly inspired this story.Europe is starting to freak out about the launch dominance of SpaceX:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzard.An Entire Game Inside Of A Font:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard to the Internet:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:After Cracking the "Sum of Cubes" Puzzle for 42, Mathematicians Solve Harder Problem That Has Stumped Experts for Decades:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Judge grants class-action status to MacBook butterfly-keyboard suit:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:$16 attack shows how easy carriers make it to intercept text messages:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Attackers are trying awfully hard to backdoor iOS developers' Macs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia:

AnonTechie writes:New tool can help predict the next financial bubble:

DannyB writes:In 2020, Two Thirds of Google Searches Ended Without a Click

takyon writes:Richard Stallman says he has returned to the Free Software Foundation board of directors and won't be resigning again

Apple Told To Pay $308.5 Million For Infringing DRM Patent - Bloomberg:

Freeman writes:Facebook Finally Explains Its Mysterious Wrist Wearable:

Freeman writes:LOL Garamond sux, say federal judges:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Legal questions linger as governments and companies keep pushing into space:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:New York lawmaker wants to ban police use of armed robots:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:CentOS vs CentOS Stream - LinuxConfig.org:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Chip-starved automakers shudder at Renesas plant's 1-month halt:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:In Case of Nuclear Disaster: Stem Cells Derived From Fat Show Promise as a Treatment for Mass Radiation Exposure:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA has begun a study of the SLS rocket's affordability [Updated]:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Computer giant Acer hit by $50 million ransomware attack:

takyon writes:Water on Mars May Be Trapped in the Planet's Crust, Not Lost to Space