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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:J&J COVID vaccine use paused due to one-in-a-million complication;:

takyon writes:Astrobotic selects Falcon Heavy to launch NASA's VIPER lunar rover

takyon writes:AMD has announced "Cezanne" desktop APUs with Zen 3 cores and Vega integrated graphics:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FCC asks public to help test broadband speeds across the US:

canopic jug writes:MEP Patrick Breyer, representing Germany via the Pirate Party, has written that there is a short time left to provide input to the public consultation on the proposal to eliminate encrypted services in Europe. Thedeadline is April 15. He goes over the key survey questions to pay particular attention to, the gist of the draft legislation is as follows:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:No password required: Mobile carrier exposes data for millions of accounts:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Court rules grocery store's inaccessible website isn't an ADA violation:

Freeman writes:Microsoft acquires Nuance—makers of Dragon speech rec—for $16 billion:

canopic jug writes:Developer Tim Bray, of XML fame, has written an ode to The Sacred "Back" Button.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Chinese government fines Alibaba $3.7 billion for anti-competitive behaviour - ABC News:

takyon writes:Google starts rolling out "Heads Up" in Digital Wellbeing to stop distracted walking

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Critical Zoom Vulnerability Triggers Remote Code Execution Without User Input:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Amazon's Twitch will punish users for certain harmful offline behavior like engaging in deadly violence:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Here's Why Our Brains Solve Problems by Adding Things, Not Removing:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:US colleges will require students to be vaccinated, despite state policies:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Why are CEOs of U.S. firms paid 320 times as much as their workers?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Could Mario Kart Teach Us How to Reduce World Poverty and Improve Sustainability?:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Live Science has an article on large balls of mucus, a subject of much interest to Soylentils:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Vostok 1: 60th anniversary of historic first human spaceflight:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Straight from NASA we have word of a delay in the first flight of Ingenuity on Mars.Mars Helicopter Flight Delayed To No Earlier Than April 14 - Nasa Mars:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Natural brilliant blue food coloring wrung out of red cabbage:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:SpaceX COO says Starlink is just five launches away from "full global connectivity":

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Watch a monkey equipped with Elon Musk’s Neuralink device play Pong with its brain – TechCrunch:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:34% of WFH (work from home) workers say they'd rather quit than return to full-time office work:

DannyB writes:Fun While It Lasted, Falcon 9 Telemetry Now Encrypted

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/04/windows-and-linux-devices-are-under-attack-by-a-new-cryptomining-worm/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/the-amazon-union-drive-in-alabama-appears-headed-for-defeat/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Japanese doctors perform world's first living donor lung transplant to a Covid-19 patient:

Rice, Intel Optimize AI Training for Commodity Hardwarehendrikboom writes:Researchers claim they can get do deep learning faster and cheaper on a commodity CPU than with a GPU.The press release actually contains links to the original papers!

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Water being pumped into Tampa Bay could cause a massive algae bloom:

Eratosthenes writes:Testing Our Fundamental Understanding of the Universe: Muon G-2 Experiment Hints at Mysterious New Physics :

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Google Now Supports Rust For Android Os Development - 9To5Google:

takyon writes:Apple to Pay $3.4 Million USD to Settle Planned Obsolescence Lawsuit

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Decentralized DNS Project Handshake Patches Inflation Bug - CoinDesk:

An Anonymous Coward writes:AMD Zen 3 CPUs vulnerable to Spectre-like attacks via PSF feature

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US and Canada gear up for another Asian 'murder hornet' season:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:SpaceX landed a rocket on a boat five years ago:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for TheMightyBuzzardMore than half of people with strong Covid infection are asymptomatic, new figures show:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Blood Test Developed to Detect Depression and Bipolar Disorder:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:IBM creates a COBOL compiler – for Linux on x86:

Anti-aristarchus writes:NASA reports, via NASA, that OSIRIS-REx is leaving Bennu.

MostCynical writes:Study shows a third of COVID survivors suffer neurological or mental disorders:

Anti-aristarchus writes:Source: Dark Energy Survey physicists open new window into dark energy:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Eye tracking can reveal an unbelievable amount of information about you:

NPC-131072 writes:Cosmic rays causing 30,000 network malfunctions in Japan each year:

NPC-131072 writes:Ars Technica

takyon writes:SpaceX does not plan to add 'tiered pricing' for Starlink satellite internet service, president says

Fnord666 writes:Cruise industry salty over CDC plan to keep travelers safe from COVID at sea:

takyon writes:Pandemic to cost NASA up to $3 billion

takyon writes:Google Posts Initial Code For Lyra Speech Codec