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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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Colorado Denied Its Citizens the Right-to-Repair After Riveting Testimony:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Android sends 20x more data to Google than iOS sends to Apple, study says:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Most loved programming language Rust sparks privacy concerns

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/04/uk-report-recommends-regulating-all-loot-boxes-as-gambling/

takyon writes:Dragon Resilience performs port relocation to clear way for future vehicles

mrpg writes:LG TO CLOSE MOBILE PHONE BUSINESS WORLDWIDE:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Justice Clarence Thomas suggests US should regulate Twitter and Facebook:

From Russia with Ringslooorg writes:Soviet nostalgia. Their own version of Lord of the Rings from 1991 has been found in an old TV-archive, digitized and uploaded to YouTube. It looks just like what one could expect from a eastern European puppet show from decades ago -- even if it's live action. It only aired once before the collapse of the Soviet Union, not that they are related events. While it doesn't have the production value of the Jackson version, it does have things he chose to cut from the books.Khraniteli: The Soviet take on Lord of the Rings

An Anonymous Coward writes:A Developer's Inside Look At Where Slack Started -- And Where It's Headed:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil:Unopened Super Mario Bros. game from 1986 sells for $660,000:

An Anonymous Coward writes:According to a headline on the answers.yahoo.com web page, Yahoo Answers is shutting down.

Eratosthenes writes:Of all the stellar events in the universe, supernovae are the crucibles of the heavier elements, the ones on which life as we know it depends. They also leave stunningly beautiful remnants, like the Veil Nebula, of which there is a recently-enhanced image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Pic and story at C|Net.

Anti-aristarchus writes:News at CNN:

An Anonymous Coward writes:IBM Bets Homomorphic Encryption Is Ready To Deliver Stronger Data Security For Early Adopters | Venturebeat:

Fnord666 writes:The UK Is Trying to Stop Facebook's End-to-End Encryption

Fnord666 writes:Feds say hackers are likely exploiting critical Fortinet VPN vulnerabilities

Anti-aristarchus writes:On the ground! The Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, has been dropped from Perseverance onto the Martian surface.

Fnord666 writes:New Play Store rules block most apps from scanning your entire app list:Google is finally taking steps to limit what applications can scan the application list on your device.

Fnord666 writes:GitHub Actions being actively abused to mine cryptocurrency on GitHub servers

We had two Soylentils write in with this breaking news. See other reports at Ars Technica, BBC, and c|net.Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with OracleDannyB writes:Supreme Court rules in Google's favor in copyright dispute with Oracle over Android software:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:An Exploding Star 65 Light-Years Away From Earth May Have Triggered a Mass Extinction:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Evidence of Antarctic glacier's tipping point confirmed for first time:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Interstellar visitor Borisov could be 1st truly pristine comet yet seen: