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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:100Mbps uploads and downloads should be US broadband standard, senators say:

[Note: all footnotes refer to the original journal article in Nature.--Ed]DannyB writes:Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation from naturalistic facial images:

An Anonymous Coward writes:"User Engagement" Is Code for "Addiction"

DannyB writes:Wait, What? MIPS Becomes RISC-V

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Remembering Allan McDonald: He Refused To Approve Challenger Launch, Exposed Cover-Up:

canopic jug writes:Developer Gavin L Rebeiro has posted a five-part article series at Techrights on how to deal with the ongoing Raspberry Pi fiasco by salvaging existing hardware with a replacement operating system.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Saudi Arabia takes steps to lead the $700B global hydrogen market:

takyon writes:SK Hynix Commences Mass Production of 18GB LPDDR5 RAM Chips for Smartphones With 6,400Mbps Speeds

aristarchus writes:Some misconceptions in this article, but it does explain "alewives", so there is that. From The Conversation.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A quantum computer just solved a decades-old problem three million times faster than a classical computer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:China's Tianwen-1 zooms in on Mars surface on cusp of new tech era:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Exclusive: Flaws in Zoom's Keybase App Kept Chat Images From Being Deleted:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Asteroid Itokawa contains water and organic matter:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Rather than using tools like YUMI and many others to create a multidistro boot usb stick, with Ventoy you can copy over .ISO files and boot from them on a multidistro USB!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Comcast hides upload speeds deep inside its infuriating ordering system:

Eratosthenes writes:As reported by APNews,

Eratosthenes writes:So I have always enjoyed Etruscan art, even back in the day when it was fresh, as in fresh frescos. Unfortunately, the remnants now are mostly in tombs, and in bad shape. But it seems technology is coming to the rescue? News from Live Science, on the use of

takyon writes:Intel's next-generation "Rocket Lake" CPUs will be some of Intel's last desktop models on a "14nm" node, and include "backported" Willow Cove cores (referred to as "Cypress Cove") from "10nm" Tiger Lake mobile CPUs, with improved instructions per clock. Notably, the lineup only goes up to 8 cores, instead of 10 cores for the previous Core i9. The review embargo ends on the launch date, March 30th, but some retailers have been selling the CPUs early. AnandTech obtained an 8-core i7-11700K and wrote a review of it. The results were not great.Power consumption of the 125 W TDP chip peaked at 224.56 W when running an AVX2 workload, compared to 204.79 W for its i7-10700K "Comet Lake" predecessor and 141.45 W for AMD's Ryzen 7 5800X. The i7-11700K reached 291.68 W with an AVX-512 workload.The i7-11700K not only failed to beat the 5800X in many benchmarks, but trailed the previous-gen i7-10700K in some cases. The major exception is performance in AVX-512 workloads. Gaming performance of the i7-11700K was particularly bad, in part due to an increase in L3 cache and core-to-core latency.It's possible that there will be some improvements from a final microcode update before launch. There's also models like the Core i9-11900K, which have the same 8 cores but can clock up to 300 MHz higher.See also: Intel Core i7-11700K 8 Core Rocket Lake CPU Review Published By Anandtech – Very Hot, Consumes More Power Than Core i9-10900K & Slower Than AMD In Core-To-Core TestsRelated: Linus Torvalds: Don't Hide Rust in Linux Kernel; Death to AVX-512

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Samsung Electronics, Mastercard and Samsung Card develop fingerprint biometric payment card - Help Net Security:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The 40-Year-Old Version: ZX81's sleek plastic case shows no sign of middle-aged spread:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FCC approves $50 monthly internet subsidies for low-income households during pandemic:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Torvalds warns the world: Don't use the Linux 5.12-rc1 kernel:

canopic jug writes:Klara Systems has an article with a deep dive into the origins of FreeBSD jails. These ideas have been around for many decades and taken form in several stages and finally became part of FreeBSD over 20 years ago. FreeBSD jails share the main system's kernel and are therefore a relatively light weight means for userspace isolation, compared to "containers". Within the jail, the environment appears as a normal system and processes within the jail can not see upward into the host or laterally into other jails.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Someone Is Hacking the Hackers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:AdGuard names 6,000+ web trackers that use CNAME chicanery: Feel free to feed them into your browser's filter:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Google-free /e/ OS is now selling preloaded phones in the US, starting at $380:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.historytoday.com/archive/natural-histories/black-death-new-culprit

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-makes-anal-swab-covid-tests-compulsory-for-foreign-arrivals-mvthjq8c7

martyb writes:Background:

AnonTechie writes:SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN:

aristarchus writes:Source of hazardous high-energy particles located in the Sun:

takyon writes:Alphabet's moonshot lab is working on a device to give people superhuman hearing

AnonTechie writes:Book Announcement:

slinches writes:SpaceX Mars prototype rocket nails landing for the first time, but explodes on pad:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Most brain activity is "background noise" — and that's upending our understanding of consciousness:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956 and for Teckla:Cuttlefish show self-control, pass 'marshmallow test':

Booga1 writes:Cybernews is reporting a trove of data for millions of VPN users being offered for sale.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:'Deep Nostalgia' Can Turn Old Photos of Your Relatives Into Moving Videos:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:How battery swapping could reduce EV charge time to just 10 minutes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Google claims it will stop tracking individual users for ads:

Eratosthenes writes:From How This Ancient, Defleshed Human Skull Ended Up in Such a Strange Spot?

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Japanese billionaire seeks 8 crewmembers for moon-bound mission on SpaceX's Starship:

DannyB writes:In Colorado:

takyon writes:AMD Announces Radeon RX 6700 XT: RDNA2 For 1440p, Coming March 18th For $479

takyon writes:Texas court orders Intel to pay $2.18 billion for two patent infringements

Halibut writes:Last November, class action lawsuits were filed against multiple websites employing activity loggers: Nike (and FullStory), Lululemon (and Quantum Metric), and WebMD (and Mouseflow). The WebMD story mentions some others at the end.According to these lawsuits, the companies running the websites, and the companies providing the logging software, are intercepting and/or recording personally identifiable information without the knowledge or consent of the viewers of the site. The lawsuits, which are filed in the state of California, allege this constitutes an illegal wiretap in violation of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA). The CIPA is an anti-wiretapping law that imposes civil and criminal penalties for recording confidential conversations, with fairly broad definitions for confidential conversations and consent.Despite being a few months old, I had not heard about these lawsuits. Website replay logging software scripts have been around for years (here is a story from 2017). These replay loggers can record everything from where your cursor goes to what links you click on to what keys you press on the website. According to the stories, both the company hosting the website and the company who operates the logger can get enough information to fully replay a user's interaction with the website. This would be particularly violating where the user is entering a password or, as in the WebMD case above, personal information including medical information. Even if the user intended to send that information to the website in question, most users are probably not aware that it is also being sent to a third party.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Watch out, PayPal. Square just launched its own bank:

[2021-03-03 22:13:57 UTC; UPDATE #2]:Ars Technica posted an update to their earlier story:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Cord cutting was so bad last year that pay-TV penetration is down to 1994 levels

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyGuest93544:Glow-in-the-dark sharks found off New Zealand coast: