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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Plants can be larks or night owls just like us:

Snotnose writes:After giving a gentle introduction to how computers work at the hardware level, this article gives an interesting thought on the future of computing and how RISC-V fits into it.

takyon writes:Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

acid andy writes:Human Made Materials Now Outweigh Earth's Entire Biomass

cosurgi writes: CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Deadly centipede 'king' rules over a poison hellscape cave:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Water futures set to join likes of gold and oil and trade on Wall Street for first time ever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Tech Hidden In Plain Sight: The Ballpoint Pen:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:An AI Co-Pilot Called 'ARTUµ' Just Took Command of A U-2's Sensor Systems On A Recon Mission:

Freeman writes:Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade:

coolgopher writes:China recovers Chang'e-5 moon samples after complex 23-day mission:

c0lo writes:States say federal government cutting COVID-19 vaccine allocations"

The year is winding to a close so I thought it would be a good opportunity to catch up on a few things:

hendrikboom writes:It seems that the language processing areas of the brain aren't much involved in reading computer code:

c0lo writes:Google staff demand exec step aside after ethicist's firing:

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org Yegor Bugayenko reviews how companies benefit from open source:

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fliptop writes:Scientists demonstrate an innovative e-skin with touch and proximity-sensing capabilities without using dedicated touch sensors:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:Google reportedly could be hit with second antitrust lawsuit this week:

fliptop writes:In a press release, security firm Avast has said around 3 million people are affected worldwide:

fliptop writes:Raspberry Pi has launched a program for approved design partners to help businesses integrate Raspberry Pi into new products:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Antikythera Mechanism : British Horological Institute:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Qualcomm promises three years of Android updates for its entire SoC lineup:

takyon writes:Ampere Altra Performance Shows It Can Compete With - Or Even Outperform - AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon

takyon writes:Revealed: China suspected of spying on Americans via Caribbean phone networks

takyon writes:GTK 4.0 Toolkit Officially Released

Fnord666 writes:SpaceX Won "rural" FCC Funding in Surprising Places, Like Major Airports

Fnord666 writes:Senator Tries to Block Frontier's FCC Funding, Citing ISP's Various Failures

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FTC Orders Amazon, YouTube, Discord, and 6 More to Explain What the Hell They're Doing With Your Data:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Sentencing Nears for Gamer Who DDoS'd PlayStation Network as a Minor:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Trucks with first COVID-19 vaccine in US get ready to roll:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cyberpunk 2077 has involved months of crunch, despite past promises:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Academics turn RAM into Wi-Fi cards to steal data from air-gapped systems:

An Anonymous Coward writes:FSB Team of Chemical Weapon Experts Implicated in Alexey Navalny Novichok Poisoning:

An Anonymous Coward writes:NASA just opened "Astromaterials 3D" to let anyone see and study lunar rock samples and Antarctic meteorites. From a release:

t-3 writes:https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-12-03/coho-salmon-tire-chemical

DannyB writes:Microsoft Software Class Action SettlementFantastic News if...

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for requerdanos:Drug reverses age-related cognitive decline within days:

canopic jug writes:OpenBSD user Lari Huttunen has a blog post in which he dives into using OpenBSD's rdomain(4) feature to sort work VPNs into separate kernel-level routing tables. This segregates the network traffic in such a way as to prevent traffic in separate routing tables from interacting. With many working from home, insecure work networks have begun to intrude into the home LANs via work-related VPNs. By adding the home network to a work VPN, the LAN becomes merged with work's internal network, usually quite insecure at that. His goal is to keep his personal home devices, especially the IoT items, separate from the now mandatory work-related VPNs on his small-office / home-office network. That way, the work networks can no longer access his appliances.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Gut bacteria linked to endocannabinoid levels and depression:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Rewiring stroke survivors brains could alleviate depression:

canopic jug writes:Atlas Obscura has a deep dive into the history and socio-economic factors behind the world's second most expensive spice, vanilla. Vanilla originates from and is still produced in Mexico. The plant, Vanilla Planiflora, is an orchid which grows in the wild in southeastern Mexico. The vines are easily grown, but only very rarely produce fruit outside their native range. Cultivating vanilla worldwide was only possible once it was known how to manually pollinate the flowers. The flowers last only for a matter of hours and although self-fertile, cannot self-pollinate without mechanical intervention. In regions like Madagascar, the pollination is done by hand. Madagascar has been the world's largest vanilla producer for a very long time for a wide range of reasons which the article explains.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Hidden symmetry could be key to more robust quantum systems, researchers find:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Original Jailbreak App Store Cydia Sues Apple for its Monopoly:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:France fines Google $120M and Amazon $42M for dropping tracking cookies without consent – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Boeing Ups 787 Delivery Checks Due To Manufacturing Issue - News AKMI:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:John le Carré: Espionage writer dies aged 89:

takyon writes:Amazon's Zoox unveils electric robotaxi that can travel up to 75 mph

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Linux 5.10 Didn't Even Last 24 Hours... Linux 5.10.1 Released Due To Bugs - Phoronix: