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canopic jug writes:There are still a few months to fix this, but for now the US Patent and Trademark Office's (USPTO) Acting Commissioner for Patents, Andrew Faile, and Chief Information Officer, Jamie Holcombe, have announced that starting January 1, 2022, the USPTO will institute a surcharge for applicants that are not locked into Microsoft products via the proprietary DOCX format. From that date onwards, the USPTO will move away from PDF and require all filers to use that proprietary format or face an arbitrary surcharge when filing.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Toyota gives hydrogen car successful debut in Fuji 24 Hours:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for raxas:Deadly Parasite Discovered in Chinese Family Shows You Should Never Eat Raw Centipedes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Introducing Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug:

takyon writes:Google is officially releasing its Fuchsia OS, starting w/ first-gen Nest Hub

takyon writes:Arm Announces Mobile Armv9 CPU Microarchitectures: Cortex-X2, Cortex-A710 & Cortex-A510

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo_:Yuan Longping, Plant Scientist Who Helped Curb Famine, Dies at 90:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RunawayXXXX:How to see the 'Super Flower Blood Moon,' 1st lunar eclipse of this decade:

mrpg writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2021-05-compound-commonly-candles-grid-scale-energy.html

Freeman writes:China will likely ban all bitcoin mining soon

takyon writes:Libreboot Sees First New Release In Nearly 5 Years, Supports More Old Motherboards

canopic jug writes:Ken Shirriff has carefully disassembled an ATX PC power supply and blogged about his findings.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:Tesla is found guilty of throttling charging speed, asked to pay $16,000 to thousands of owners - Electrek:

Freeman writes:Crypto payments above $10,000 would be reported to IRS under Treasury plan

Freeman writes:A zombie-fire outbreak may be growing in the north:

takyon writes:Announcing the Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT

takyon writes:Huawei confirms a June 2, 2021 launch for HarmonyOS

takyon writes:Potential organic salt detection from Curiosity yields further evidence for past organics on Mars

martyb writes:Incredible Microscope Sees Atoms at Record Resolution:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Washington State Removes All Barriers to Municipal Broadband:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for mrpg:The glow of fireflies is helping scientists find treatments for cancer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Coherent Storage of Light Over One-Hour Achieved – Great Stride Towards the Application of Quantum Memories:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:Global Cactus Traffickers Are Cleaning Out the Deserts:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Vulnerabilities in billions of Wi-Fi devices let hackers bypass firewalls:

martyb writes:This is a follow-up to our site crash.If you are just tuning in, SoylentNews experienced a database crash on 2021-05-20. We tried to restore from recent backups, but found they were corrupted and unusable. Thanks to heroic work by @mechanicjay: the site is back up and running!Many thanks to mechanicjay for his 16-hour(!) day on Thursday to get us back up and then move us to a single back-end configuration. He didn't stop there, but has continued on gathering information and guiding work to get us to a more stable foundation. We'll keep you posted as to our progress.Read on if interested... otherwise, another story will be along presently.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:SpaceShipTwo makes first flight to space from New Mexico - SpaceNews:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Facebook faces prospect of 'devastating' data transfer ban after Irish ruling:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:4 vulnerabilities under attack give hackers full control of Android devices:

takyon writes:Startup Unisantis Proposes DRAM Alternative

mrpg writes:Tardigrades Shot Out of a Gun to Test Origin-of-Life Theory:

takyon writes:Opera GX, the "gaming browser", is coming to smartphones

takyon writes:Scientists Bring The Sense Of Touch To A Robotic Arm

takyon writes:SpaceX set to launch six commercial Moon landers after latest win

mrpg writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/05/210514134222.htm

takyon writes:Apple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair LawApple, Google & Microsoft Have Teamed up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law:

takyon writes:TSMC and Partners Develop Key Feature for Sub 1nm Process Technology

mrpg writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2021-05-solid-state-batteries-line.html

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As many of you noticed, we had a site crash today. From around 1300 until 2200 UTC (2021-05-20).A HUGE thank you goes to @mechanicjay: who spent the whole time trying to get our ndb (cluster) working again. It's an uncommon configuration, which made recovery especially challenging... there's just not a lot of documentation about it on the web.I reached out and got hold of @The Mighty Buzzard: on the phone. Then put him in touch with mechanicjay who got us back up and running using backups.Unfortunately, we had to go way back until April 14 to get a working backup. (I don't know all the details, but it appears something went sideways on neon).We're all wiped out right now. When we have rested and had a chance to discuss things, we'll post an update.In the meantime, please join me in thanking mechanicjay and TMB for all they did to get us up and running again!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Chinese Mars rover beams back first photos:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/chip-supply-lead-times-stretch-to-a-record-17-weeks/

DannyB writes:I'm sure you will all be as saddened as I was by this news . . .The future of Internet Explorer on Windows 10 is in Microsoft Edge

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Anti-aristarchus writes:Interstellar Comet Borisov Was Leaking Metal When It Zipped Past Us in 2020:

martyb writes:Recent Windows 10 Update Blocks Microsoft Teams, Outlook Logins:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/cryptocurrency-bubble-is-bursting-wiping-out-600-billion/

takyon writes:Ampere will switch from using Arm's "Neoverse" cores to custom ARM cores developed in-house: