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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Shock-dissipating fractal cubes could forge high-tech armor:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:15 Billion Credentials Currently Up for Grabs on Hacker Forums:

martyb writes:Free Tool Enables Recovery of Files Encrypted by ThiefQuest Mac Malware:

Phoenix666 writes:IT pros indicted after arranging credit card payments for weed startup:

Phoenix666 writes:Spider silk made by photosynthetic bacteria:

takyon writes:Qualcomm Announces Snapdragon 865+: Breaking the 3GHz Threshold

Freeman writes:City builds open-access broadband network with Google Fiber as its first ISP:

Freeman writes:FBI nabs Nigerian business scammer who allegedly cost victims millions:

Booga1 writes:USA Today reports Trump has Officially Begun to Withdraw the US From the World Health Organization as Pandemic Spikes:

[20200708_160227 UTC: Update --martyb] https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1280891612088823808:

takyon writes:Independent reviewers offer 80 suggestions to make Starliner safer

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Shopped recently in a small online store? Check this list to see if it was one of 570 websites infected with card-skimming Magecart:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Trump official: Unclear if RNC can be safely held in Florida:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/toxic-hand-sanitizers-have-blinded-and-killed-adults-and-children-fda-warns/

chromas writes:Targeted deep brain stimulation may improve treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder

chromas writes:You may be distracted by the pandemic but FYI: US Senate panel OK's backdoors-by-the-backdoor EARN IT Act

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Reddit and LinkedIn stop copying iPhone clipboards:

chromas writes:Astronomers See Through the Milky Way's Dust to Track Where Radiation is Coming From at the Center of the Galaxy - Universe Today

martyb writes:I rolled out an improvement to the site's message processing template. =)tl;dr:(1) Based on a user preference, the site can send a message to inform you someone had replied to a comment you had posted. The message *now* contains links that take you directly to the *comment* instead of to the *story*. The message appears at https://soylentnews.org/my/inbox(2) I made a mistake rolling out the change which will show up as extra text (__seclev__ 500 __version__ $Id$) below the text of the message. That was live for about an hour and is now fixed. I apologize for my error.(3) Enjoy the added convenience![TMB note]:

chromas writes:Millions Of Home Wi-Fi Routers Are Likely Vulnerable To Unpatched Linux Security Exploits

takyon writes:DNA Databases in the U.S. and China Are Tools of Racial Oppression

chromas writes:Divers uncover mysteries of earliest inhabitants of Americas deep inside Yucatan caves

chromas writes:A 'Viral' New Bird Song in Canada Is Causing Sparrows to Change Their Tune

takyon writes:Robotic scientists will 'speed up discovery'

takyon writes:Building a Harder Diamond (SD)

takyon writes:H.266/VVC Standard Finalized With ~50% Lower Size Compared To H.265

looorg writes:Google is offering to produce free chips for you. They have to be open source, they are using 20 year old technology and you'll get 100 of them. Could someone reverse engineer a SID-chip and have Goggle start to crank those suckers out?https://www.theregister.com/2020/07/03/open_chip_hardware/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Stingers Have Achieved Optimal Pointiness, Physicists Show:

inertnet writes:Brain-eating amoeba: Warning issued in Florida after rare infection case:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:The bat-virus détente:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Math Genius Has Come Up With a Wildly Simple New Way to Solve Quadratic Equations:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA's most iconic building is 55 years old and just getting started:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Crunch, crunch: Africa's locust outbreak is far from over:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NY partygoers get subpoenas after stonewalling COVID-19 contact tracers:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Fixers Know What 'Repairable' Means—Now There's A Standard For It - Ifixit:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:There's Now an Artificial Cartilage Gel Strong Enough to Work in Knees:

takyon writes:SMIC – China's Largest Semiconductor Foundry – to Raise Around $6.55 Billion in Fresh Funding as the Company Leverages Its Enhanced Importance

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyGuest271828 and RandomFactor:New Mac Ransomware Is Even More Sinister Than It Appears:

US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivirupstart writes in with an IRC submission:US Secures World Stock of Key Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir:

chromas writes:London hospital starts virtual ward rounds for medical students

chromas writes:YouTube Hit With Class Action Lawsuit Over Copyright Enforcement, Repeat Infringer Policy * TorrentFreak

chromas writes:How Infrared Images Could Be Part of Your Daily Life:

Rocket Lab’s 13th Launch Fails to Reach Orbit After Unknown Problemchromas writes:‘We Lost The Flight’ - Rocket Lab’s 13th Launch Fails To Reach Orbit After Unknown Problem:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Exotic never before seen particle discovered at CERN:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The explosive physics of pooping penguins: they can shoot poo over four feet:

Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans `The_Donald' Subredditcaptain normal writes:Reddit has banned 2000 subreddits, including "The Donald" for hate speech.Reddit, Acting Against Hate Speech, Bans ‘The_Donald’ Subreddit

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Uncovered: 1,000 phrases that incorrectly trigger Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant:

Anonymous Cow Herd writes:If you fancy yourself as a systems administrator, perhaps you have had the opportunity to administer multiple machines, simultaneously. Perhaps you've had experience with interactions between multiple operating systems, or with struggles to keep multiple machines synchronized.Cluster administration is a special discipline. When administering a cluster, it is best to keep Sun Microsystem's motto, "The network is the computer", foremost in mind — a cluster IS a computer; it is a computer that is running a task that involves such complex and demanding processing tasks that the different processes that form this 'machine' run on separate-but-connected computers. Clusters are often distinguished by some sort of interconnection — networked file systems, shared memory and machine-spanning inter-process communications.Throughout this work one encounters issues related to parallelization, as some tasks can be done in parallel, and some cannot. The entire purpose of a cluster is to enable an otherwise sequential task to be worked on, where possible, in parallel, and it frequently involves additional programming and architectural design to allow this to happen in as close to real time as is possible.This brings us to robots. A robot is a cluster! When I grasped that, I fell in love with robots and I started looking for jobs involving robotics. The processing requirements involved in movement exceed the computing capacity of a single computer, and for this reason, it is common to have one computer dedicated to moving each appendage, dedicated computers for complex tasks like parsing visual input or controlling 'hands', and often yet another computer acting as the master kinesthetic controller over the entire 'infrastructure', in something approaching real time.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs: