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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast extend vow to not cut off service amid COVID-19 crisis:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for TurkeyWaddle:Shade (Troldesh) ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys:

DannyB submitted a story which was the inspiration for:After prolonged service outage, Petnet shuts down, citing coronavirus:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for TurkeyWaddle:Starship chilled. Starship pressurized. And for the first time, it didn't explode:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News:[For those who may be unfamiliar: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly "is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles [...] on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer 'underground.'" --Ed.]

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200420/06583844328/fancy-that-comcasts-network-holding-up-fine-without-usage-caps.shtml

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:On its 15th birthday, the Airbus A380 is facing retirement:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Lenovo is joining Dell in the "OEM Linux Laptop" club:

martyb writes:Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word:One space good, two spaces bad? (This story appears near the end of the article; scroll down to see it.)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Amazon reportedly used merchant data, despite telling Congress it doesn't:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Here's why "baking" damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists unveil how general anesthesia works: A study in mice and rat brains reveals how general anesthesia dampens high frequency brain activity by weakening synapses:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Good news for the wheat-sensitive among us: New research has heralded a promising step for sufferers of wheat sensitivity or allergy.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Researchers develop high-performance ceramic fuel cell that operates on butane gas:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:The COVID-19 shutdown is making weather prediction more difficult:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

An Anonymous Coward writes:UN: Consequences Remain Decades After Chernobyl Disaster:

hubie writes:The 26th of April marks the centenary of the Great Debate regarding the nature of the universe. At the end of the 19th Century, the general consensus was that the Milky Way Galaxy was the extent of the known universe. There were these known fuzzy spiral nebular disks that were not stars or planets, or even anything interesting like a comet, and there was quite a bit of speculation earlier in the century whether they were close objects or very very far away, but by the end of the century all the objects in the sky were thought to belong to a single great system. This opinion was summarized by one of the great science writers of the day, Agnes Clerke, who wrote in 1890

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for GrandFireWizard:Google has reportedly removed more than 100 apps:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs:

takyon writes:Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for The Mighty Buzzard:Wine 5.7 Released With More Progress On D3D Vulkan Backend, USB Device Driver - Phoronix:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Magic Leap's $2.6 billion bait and switch – TechCrunch:

Phoenix666 writes:Dolphins reclaim Bosphorus as virus silences Istanbul:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Instacart has a problem with third-party apps letting shoppers pay for early access to orders – TechCrunch:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fans have only just found out:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Valve confirms code leak for two online games [Updated]:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Bing disables “trending” feature after wildly inappropriate results:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:BCI system gives paralyzed man back his sense of touch with haptic feedback:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:The Hubble Space Telescope launched 30 years ago:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:'Deficiencies' that broke FCC commenting system in net neutrality fight detailed by GAO:

takyon writes:The FCC ratified Wi-Fi 6E this morning (Thursday April 23):

An Anonymous Coward writes:The silence of the owls describes an interesting new look at owl flight, and a recent attempt to figure out why they are so much quieter than other birds, and quieter than just about any other flying thing. Based on this paper, https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010518-040436

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Almost 8,000 could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Nintendo Confirms Breach of 160,000 Accounts:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for SoybullSource: Insects' Extreme Farming Methods Offer us Lessons to Learn and Oddities to Avoid:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Devs might be able to write software on iPad and iPhone with Xcode:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC for Soybull.Source: Musk says SpaceX is 'fixing' brightness from satellites:

takyon writes:TSMC Has Started The Development of The 2nm Lithography Process

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MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for SoybullThe first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found: