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upstart writes:After We Found Biden's Account, Venmo Will Let You Make Your Friend List Private:

upstart writes:EU fines VW and BMW £750m for colluding with Daimler on fumes:

upstart writes:Supreme Court Overturns Overbroad Interpretation of CFAA, Protecting Security Researchers and Everyday Users:

Eratosthenes writes:Story at Ars Technica

Freeman writes:New fabric passively cools whatever it's covering—including you

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/all-fans-banned-from-tokyo-olympics-as-covid-cases-rise-delta-spreads/

upstart writes:500-year-old skulls with facial modification unearthed in Gabon:

upstart writes:Early Earth was bombarded by series of city-sized asteroids:

DannyB writes:GitHub’s automatic coding tool rests on untested legal ground:

DannyB writes:Community Broadband Dominates List Of Fastest US ISPs

upstart writes:Charlotte flight to Bahamas canceled when Boston-area high schoolers refuse to wear masks:

upstart writes:A giant 3D cat has taken over one of Tokyo's biggest billboards:

upstart writes:China bans construction of tallest skyscrapers following concerns about safety:

upstart writes:Instant water cleaning method ‘millions of times’ better than commercial approach:

upstart writes:“Broadcom is a monopolist”: FTC orders chipmaker to stop illegal tactics:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Posted on NASA Spaceflight, James Webb Space Telescope one step closer to launch.

upstart writes:Early humans were sheltered from worst effects of volcanic supereruption:

TheMightyChickadee writes:From the Weather section of WOWK TV,

upstart writes:‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west:

upstart writes:Manchester University sparks backlash with plan to keep lectures online:

upstart writes:Iceland's four-day working week trials an 'overwhelming success', report finds - ABC News:

upstart writes:Chinese-owned firm acquires UK's largest semiconductor manufacturer:

upstart writes:Kepler telescope glimpses a free-floating planet population:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/up-to-1500-businesses-infected-in-one-of-the-worst-ransomware-attacks-ever/

upstart writes:Belgian-Dutch prodigy obtains bachelors degree at the age of 11:

TheMightyChickadee writes:NASA’s helicopter on Mars just keeps flying and flying:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/spiders-eating-snakes-oh-my-here-are-the-photographs-to-prove-it/

takyon writes:Linux Foundation Launches Open 3D Foundation, Amazon Lumberyard Spun As Open 3D Engine

takyon writes:Audacity facing scrutiny after new privacy policy allows data collection, makes app 13+

takyon writes:Pentagon cancels $10 billion JEDI cloud contract that Amazon and Microsoft were fighting over

upstart writes:Potential Path Discovered to a Broadly Protective COVID-19 Vaccine Using T Cells:

upstart writes:Bursting the Hubble Bubble: Powerful Ground-Based Telescope Will See Further and Clearer Than Hubble Space Telescope:

upstart writes:A Black Hole's Core Could be a Strange "Planck Star":

upstart writes:Humble Bundle stops purchasers from giving full payment to charity:

TheMightyChickadee writes:Why does Mercury have such a big iron core? Magnetism!

upstart writes:In fossilized dinosaur poop, scientists find hidden treasure:

upstart writes:Radio telescope faces "extremely concerning" threat from satellite constellations - SpaceNews:

upstart writes:$12 Billion Government Contractor Booz Allen Facilitates Ransomware Payments:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Seems problems at Boeing are not limited to the 737 Max and the Dreamliner.Story in the Local Paper:

martyb writes:Milestone:

NPC-131072 writes:From Machine Learning @ Berkeley Blog

canopic jug writes:TorrentFreak has a short retrospective on two decades of the bitTorrent protocol, which was first launched July 2, 2001. At its peak, about one third of all Internet traffic was BitTorrent. Currently, many GNU/Linux distributions and various data sets (including for games) are distributed officially via BitTorrent due to it being an inexpensive and efficient means of transfer of large volumes of data.

upstart writes:US plans to make airlines refund fees if bags are delayed:

upstart writes:New, deadly bacteria may be lurking in US; CDC warns of three puzzling cases:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2021/07/01/hhs-announces-rule-to-protect-consumers-from-surprise-medical-bills.html

upstart writes:NSA discloses hacking methods it says are used by Russia:

upstart writes:Tesla has great quarter, delivers more than 200,000 EVs:

upstart writes:NASA's NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope Gets Two-Year Mission Extension:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The Verge:

upstart writes:Watchdog: 10 Government Agencies Deployed Clearview AI Facial Recognition Tech: