upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Apple's iOS 14 beta added a feature that reveals each time an application copies text from the clipboard. A recent article in Ars Technica brought renewed focus to an issue we previously reported in February. This story includes a list of apps from the researcher's blog post.TikTok and 53 other iOS apps still snoop your sensitive clipboard data:
RandomFactor writes:Researchers have developed a transgenic rice strain which lowers blood pressure in laboratory rats. Genes from unrelated organisms were artificially introduced into the rice to cause production of ten different blood pressure affecting peptides.
NotSanguine writes:John Brodkin over at Ars Technica is reporting on a House bill which would allocate USD$100 billion for high speed (100mb/sec or higher) fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure.The bill also addresses state laws blocking municipal and public/private broadband.From the article:
RandomFactor writes:Australia's Science Agency "The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation" (CSIRO) is working on cotton plants that grow with an array of natural colors rather than the usual plain white, which requires environmentally problematic dying.
Graham, Cotton Introduce Yet Another Attempt to Torpedo Encryptionupstart writes in with an IRC submission:Graham, Cotton introduce yet another attempt to torpedo encryption:
martyb writes:At approximately 1200 UTC we experience a problem and the site was unavailable for about an hour. As I understand it, we had some connectivity issues. We are now in the process of investigating. Kudos to TheMightyBuzzard for his way-too-early-in-the-morning work to get us back up!Registered users will probably have to log back in again.Here's hoping this is the worst problem you have today!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.
takyon writes:AMD claims to have improved performance by about 5x while cutting power use to about 1/6th, when comparing 2014 "Kaveri" mobile APUs to 2020 "Renoir" mobile APUs. This exceeds a goal of improving efficiency by 25x by 2020: