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upstart writes:More people are poisoning themselves with horse-deworming drug to thwart COVID:

takyon writes:Imagination Technologies to design RISC-V cores:

upstart writes:The Science of Underground Kingdoms:

upstart writes:Science Shows Attractiveness Pays Off at Work – But There's a Trick To Level the Playing Field:

owl writes:WaPo link (may be paywalled): https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/07/30/oak-mites-bite-cicadas-dc/Archive.is link (no paywall): https://archive.is/AEi6a

TheMightyChickadee writes:The day that seemed like it would never come, is closer. NASA's next-gen James Webb Space Telescope completes testing, is ready to pack up and ship out to launch:

DannyB writes:SpaceX paused Starlink launches to give its internet satellites lasers

JoeMerchant writes:Dan Ariely Retracts Honesty Study Based On Fake Data:

upstart writes:Fukushima nuclear water to be released via undersea tunnel - SRN News:

upstart writes:Silent changes to Western Digital's budget SSD may lower speeds by up to 50%:

upstart writes:FAA to review Boeing employee reports of pressure over safety issues:

upstart writes:US government agencies plan to increase their use of facial recognition technology:

canopic jug writes:Consultant and author Peter N M Hansteen has written up an overview of recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too). He covers a few decades of developments that he has found particularly useful and explains why. He covers greylisting, spam filters, OpenSSH, and of course PF.

DannyB writes:Blue Origin Employees Are Jumping Ship

upstart writes:Seawater could provide nearly unlimited amounts of critical battery material:

upstart writes:Countering climate change with cool pavements:

upstart writes:Mental Phenomena Don’t Map Into the Brain as Expected:

takyon writes:Newly Discovered Space Rock Loops The Sun Quicker Than Any Known Asteroid

owl writes:https://orangebeanindiana.com/2021/04/09/once-upon-a-time-america-had-an-atomic-mecha-warrior-robot/

LabRat writes:Hubble Captures a Stunning 'Einstein Ring' Magnifying The Depths of The Universe:

owl writes:https://www.newscientist.com/article/2287862-ants-use-soil-physics-to-excavate-metre-long-tunnels-that-last-decades/

upstart writes:Scientists are mining metals from an unusual source -- Plants:

upstart writes:How a simple crystal could help pave the way to full-scale quantum computing:

upstart writes:World’s Fastest-Accelerating Coaster Suspended Because Riders Keep Breaking Their Bones:

owl writes:https://www.pcmag.com/news/samsung-can-remotely-disable-any-of-its-tvs-worldwide:

owl writes:AMD Unveils New Ryzen V-Cache Details at HotChips 33:

owl writes:https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold-3-unlock-bootloader-broken-camera/

owl writes: Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts dies aged 80:

chromas writes:The 'Joker' Virus Has Returned to Android: Empty Your Bank Accounts Without You Noticing It and It is Hidden in These Apps on the Google Play Store:

upstart writes:The author of this piece has an obvious bias (Geoff Cooper is the president and CEO of Renewable Fuels Association), but does he also have a valid point?Let's prioritize American renewable fuels over foreign oil and minerals:

fliptop writes:Upguard Research disclosed multiple data leaks exposing 38 million data records via Microsoft Power Apps portals configured to allow public access. From ZDNet:

owl writes:https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/08/covid-19-vaccine-cards-why-so-big/619707/

upstart writes:Molecular Farming Means the Next Vaccine Could Be Edible and Grown in a Plant:

upstart writes:Elon Musk Says There Needs to Be Universal Basic Income:

upstart writes:Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine wins full approval from the FDA:

owl writes:https://therecord.media/firefox-follows-chrome-and-prepares-to-block-insecure-downloads/

upstart writes:GM to spend $1 billion to expand Chevy Bolt EV recall due to fires:

owl writes:https://wccftech.com/ibm-z-next-gen-processor-detailed-telum-chip-7nm-process-22-5-billion-transistors-8-cores-beyond-5-ghz-clocks/

upstart writes:Under the northern lights: Mesospheric ozone layer depletion explained:

Stradivari and Guarneri Treated Soundboards With Various Chemicals, Study Showsupstart writes:Stradivari and Guarneri Treated Soundboards with Various Chemicals, Study Shows:

SpaceX Now Claims They Might Return Humans to the Moon Even Before 2024upstart writes:SpaceX Now Claims They Might Return Humans to The Moon Even Before 2024:

upstart writes:At least 22 dead after 17 inches of rain in Tennessee:

upstart writes:Best Way to Make Tea - Kettle or Microwave?:

upstart writes:Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse:

upstart writes:National Ignition Facility Breakthrough: Experiment Puts Researchers at Threshold of Fusion Ignition:

upstart writes:Cancer patients' own cells used in 3D printed tumours to test treatments:

[Update #2; 2021-08-23 02:35:27 UTC]So, mechanicjay responded to the bat signal, and "did a kill on every process that referenced slashd and started the service."We think that should do the trick; please reply here or in the #soylent channel on IRC.Again, many MANY thanks for your patience and understanding![Update #1; 2021-08-23 01:41:16 UTC]"Constants aren't; variables won't." So goes an old adage. Seems to be the case for us, as well. My efforts to get comment counts to update and to get get mod points to be distributed have been fruitless. I've reached out to mechanicjay to see if he is available to take a look and lend a hand. So far, it appears that mod points were not distributed at 00:10 UTC this [Monday] morning.I apologize for the disruption. --martybOriginal story follows below the fold.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Tesla unveils chip to train A.I. models inside its data centers:

Common Joe writes:I'd like some feedback from those on Soylent News about a personal project of mine -- a "unique" Git glossary. (After looking at a few terms, it should be clear what makes it unique from other Git glossaries.)For those who use Git, it's pretty well known that Git documentation is... how shall I put this nicely? Git documentation is "difficult to understand" at times.I never learned Git from more experienced people at the places I worked, because the groups in which I worked never used Git. That means I started learning Git on my own at home. This turned into a confusing and frustrating experience because as I tried to learn Git from different online sources and even a couple of books, I noticed a lot of conflicting information. No one seemed to be able to agree what terms to use or what certain terms meant. Turning to more official sources, it didn't get any better. Actually, sometimes it was worse.I decided to figure out what exact Git terminology is and where things went wrong -- my glossary was born. My glossary is not meant to replace the Git documentation in any way, but to supplement it.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.