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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:World's first dinosaur preserved sitting on nest of eggs with fossilized babies:

looorg writes:Cleaning up space junk with magnets in space!Prototype mission. It might run into a bit of an issue since a lot of satellites (if not all) tend to be made of things that are not magnetic -- future solution is apparently to attach a magnetic plate to your satellites so this janitor (or recycling-) satellite can attract them and clean them up.They really missed out tho -- they should just have named it Roger WilcoSatellite that can clean up space junk with a magnet about to launch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:One company wants to sell the feds location data from every car on Earth:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Victoria University of Wellington accidentally nukes files on all desktop PCs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Unicode: On Building The One Character Set To Rule Them All:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Over-valued fossil fuel assets creating trillion-dollar bubble about to burst:

AnonTechie writes:IBM Built an AI Capable of Holding Its Own Against Humans in a Debate:

AnonTechie writes:Researchers Have Figured Out a Way to Stop People From Sharing Misinformation:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cricut Backs Down, Will Now Give Existing Registered Users Unlimited Use of Their Cutting Machines:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Photographer Spends 12 Years, 1250 Hours, Exposing Photo of Milky Way:

aristarchus writes:Seems Google is going to start mass-producing Googlers, but not in the traditional fashion.Inside Google's $240 Plan to Disrupt the College Degree:

canopic jug writes:Back in November 2020, the NATO Stratgic Communications Center of Excellence in Riga, Latvia published an analysis of the coordinated online harassment of Finnish government ministers. The conclusion is that the attacks and astroturfing are largely free from automated activity, aka bots. The report includes statistics, lots of analysis, and several illustrative graphs. The main topics triggering the online abuse were the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, immigration, EU relations, and social policies. Finland is not a NATO member but the lessons learned from studying the coordinated harrassment can be generalized to the alliance.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Elon Musk wants to send a Starship to orbit as soon as July:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The bald truth: Altered cell divisions cause hair thinning:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Energy companies have left Colorado with billions of dollars in oil and gas cleanup:

DannyB writes:Facebook shows off mind-reading technology it hopes to use one day with smart glasses:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Five Reasons Why COVID Herd Immunity is Probably Impossible:

takyon writes:Micron Abandons 3D XPoint Memory Technology

takyon writes:Google to Face $5B Lawsuit Over Tracking Users in Incognito Mode

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Lightning strikes played vital role in origins of life on Earth:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Europol 'unlocks' encrypted Sky ECC chat service to make arrests:

martyb writes:NASA’s Massive Artemis Moon Rocket Set for Second Hot Fire Test – Watch Live Coverage Today:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Microsoft fixes Office issue causing memory, disk space errors:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Gig economy: Europe tells companies to negotiate with workers or face new laws:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:A Hacker Just Stole $5.7 Million From Social Token Startup Roll:

Eratosthenes writes:Latest on ʻOumuamua at CNN:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/amd-radeon-rx-6700-review-if-another-sold-out-gpu-falls-in-the-forest/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Texas energy company that charged huge electric bills during storm files for bankruptcy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Sacramento Might be Undergoing a Broadband Policy Reboot:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Who is Camille Noûs, the fictitious French researcher with nearly 200 papers?:

aristarchus writes:Aurorae on Jupiter. Very interesting.NASA's Juno reveals dark origins of one of Jupiter's grand light shows:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Spain to launch trial of four-day working week:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:For the first time in years, someone is building a web browser from scratch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:California universities and Elsevier make up, ink big open-access deal:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Adobe Goes After 27-Year Old 'Pirated' Copy of Acrobat Reader 1.0 for MS-DOS * TorrentFreak:

Microsoft exchange servers have been under attack in the past few days by a number of groups, including several known "state-sponsored and cyber-criminal hacking groups". They are targeting several zero-day vulnerabilities that have come to light. What I find interesting is the number of groups that all began exploiting these vulnerabilities at the same time. Additional groups have joined in on the hacking attempts, especially after Microsoft issued patches for the vulnerabilities, including ransomware organizations.Below "the fold" is a roundup of the stories that have been submitted so far.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

AnonTechie writes:Encrypted Messaging App Signal Goes Down in China:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2021/03/11/pandemic-drives-phone-computer-right-to-repair-bills

Rich writes:This is a special submission because it does not point to a story, but points out that there is no story.On nearly every mainstream website, we are now presented with a screen for privacy settings. A list of data collecting vendors is shown, with a switch next to them, and there is a master switch "Disable All". Often, the master switch is not needed, because all the vendors in the list are already disabled. Once clicking "Save & Exit", we can proceed to the page. However, there is also, in very small text, a link to "Legitimate Interest", which takes us to a second list of data collecting vendors. This list is longer, the switches are all enabled, and there is no master switch. There may even be a mention that our data is going to be processed outside of regulations.Aside from the time lost by clicking through the pop-up screens instead of respecting the browser do-not-track settings, this dark-pattern cheating should be of concern to any privacy advocate. Yet there is no sign of any awareness. Searching for the term "Legitimate Interest" comes up with only small snippets which seem to be mostly geared to advertisers. An occasional story (like https://www.huntonprivacyblog.com/2020/12/01/dutch-court-overturns-dpa-fine-on-legitimate-interest-legal-basis/) may point to legal details.With the scope of the issue, one would expect privacy advocates, or even journalists worth their job title, to be up in arms about it. But nothing can be seen anywhere.Fellow Soylentils, why is it so?[Ed note: Is this common? I do not recall ever seeing this. Then again, I generally run my browser with Javascript disabled. Would that explain it? --martyb]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:IBM develops AI to invent new antibiotics – and it's made two already:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:SEAKR wins $60 million DARPA contract to demonstrate autonomous satellite operations - SpaceNews:

AnonTechie writes:There Should be About 7 Interstellar Objects Passing Through the Inner Solar System Every Year:

Freeman writes:“Shocking” genetic data suggest Ebola lurked in survivor for 5-6 years:

takyon writes:Chip shortage and high prices threaten supplies of SBCs and other electronics products

AnonTechie writes:US claims seller of encrypted phones violated racketeering and drug laws:

AnonTechie writes:A concept from physics called negentropy could help your life run smoother

takyon writes:AMD Unveils EPYC 'Milan' 7003 CPUs, Zen 3 Comes to 64-Core Server Chips