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owl writes:https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/10/fcc-proposal-targets-sim-swapping-port-out-fraud/

upstart writes:Spain: Roman Gold Coins Found by Amateur Divers Clearing Trash:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/understanding-neuromorphic-computing-and-why-intels-excited-about-it/

upstart writes:Louisiana's missing moon rock found in Florida thanks to broken gun:

upstart writes:Norwegian reservoirs power homes in Great Britain via 724km (450 mile) cable:

DannyB writes:CNN shut down its Facebook page in Australia after court liability ruling:

Freeman writes:Liquid metal encased in hydrogel makes a promising energy-harvesting device:

upstart writes:Phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline:

An Anonymous Coward writes:KDE's Telemetry: The Tip Of The Iceberg?:

NPC-131072 writes:Smartphone Sensor Data Has Potential to Detect Cannabis Intoxication:

upstart writes:Mozilla Says Chrome’s Latest Feature Enables Surveillance:

AnonTechie writes:Why OpenAI’s Codex Won’t Replace Coders:

upstart writes:Apple Pay with VISA lets hackers force payments on locked iPhones:

martyb writes:Clover growth in Mars-like soils boosted by bacterial symbiosis:

takyon writes:AMD wants to make its chips 30 times more energy-efficient by 2025

DannyB writes:Researchers use Starlink satellites to pinpoint location, similar to GPS:

Freeman writes:Russia arrests cybersecurity expert on treason charge:

upstart writes:Physicists may have cracked the case of “Zen” stones balanced on ice pedestals:

Freeman writes:Amazon’s indoor camera drone is ready to fly around your house

AnonTechie writes:From: Techdirt

upstart writes:Great ape's consonant and vowel-like sounds travel over distance without losing meaning:

upstart writes:Quantum computing hits the desktop, no cryo-cooling required:

upstart writes:70% of Millennials Are Living Paycheck to Paycheck: Survey:

upstart writes:Amazon’s Astro robot is straight out of The Jetsons:

upstart writes:We’re about to run out of Atlantic hurricane names:

takyon writes:CIA developed plans to kidnap Julian Assange, per report

upstart writes:'Chilling': Facial recognition firm Clearview AI hits watchdog groups with subpoenas:

upstart writes:Hubble telescope helps find six 'dead' galaxies from the early universe:

upstart writes:Tesla owners can now request ‘Full Self-Driving’, prompting criticism from regulators and safety advocates:

DannyB writes:A pill to treat Covid-19: 'We're talking about a return to, maybe, normal life'

canopic jug writes:OpenSSH 8.8 has been released and with it comes a heads up that there will be major changes to how the scp utility operates, starting in one of the next releases. Specifically, scp has been retooled to use the SFTP protocol under the hood. This will leave most behavior unchanged and most times there will be no perceived difference. However, some scripts which make use of globbing might need minor adjustment to work properly in the future:

DannyB writes:‘Babylon 5’ Reboot in the Works at The CW

upstart writes:Blazing fast PCIe 5.0 SSD prototype hits sequential read speeds of 14,000 MB/s:

upstart writes:AIMS plays frying bacon sounds to fish in bid to save Australia's coral reefs - ABC News:

owl writes:How I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

mcgrew writes:Captain Kir... ahem, William Shatner is riding the next Blue Origin trip to space. The Guardian says.William Shatner will boldly go into space with Bezos’s Blue Origin – report:

upstart writes:Monday launch from California begins countdown to Atlas 5 retirement – Spaceflight Now:

upstart writes:British petrol stations run out of fuel as motorists panic buy amid truck-driver shortage - ABC News:

upstart writes:Calls for cull as scavenging wild boars trot across Italy and into Rome - ABC News:

Anonymous Coward writes:Chatham House's Climate Change Risk Asessment 2021:

takyon writes:Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story.

upstart writes:Three iOS 0-days revealed by researcher frustrated with Apple's bug bounty:

upstart writes:Mathematician Answers Chess Problem About Attacking Queens:

upstart writes:New report suggests Texas' grid was 5 minutes from catastrophic failure:

upstart writes:Delta Air Lines calls for carriers to share names of unruly passengers:

"Marckalada" mentioned by 14th century Italian monktakyon writes:Genoan friar knew about America 150 years before Christopher Columbus

upstart writes:Why EFF Flew a Plane Over Apple's Headquarters:

upstart writes:Fossilized footprints show humans made it to North America much earlier than first thought:

upstart writes:Mapping words to colors:

upstart writes:Tech giants quietly buy up dozens of companies a year. Regulators are finally noticing.: