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hubie writes:Stephen Pyne, expert on the history of fire, published an interesting open access commentary regarding the relationship between humans and fire. He argues that the rise of the command of fire occurred as the Pleistocene (the "ice age") was ending, and the world going back as far as Homo erectus has been fundamentally changed by the human command of fire. He notes that all the defining features of an ice age (ice sheets, pluvial lakes, permafrost, and outwash plains) have been replaced with fire equivalents (fire‐informed biotas, fire‐famished ecosystems, melting permafrost, and megapalls of smoke).

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FBI: Hackers stole source code from US government agencies and private companies:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Researchers light-up mouse brain, revealing previously hidden areas susceptible to opioids:

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hubie writes:From a recent paper in the journal Earth's Future:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Some hospitals are running out of health care workers. Here's what could happen next:

c0lo writes:Australian parliament to probe Rupert Murdoch's media dominance:

takyon writes:Lighting a path to Planet Nine

The Mighty Buzzard writes:Species More Likely To Die Out With Rapid Climate Change:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Microsoft engineer gets nine years for stealing $10M from Microsoft:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story.3D-Printed Weather Stations Could Enable More Science for Less Money:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Ring Recalls Video Doorbells After Several Catch Fire:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/11/arizona-utility-proposes-economic-aid-after-navajo-nation-coal-closures/

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aristarchus writes via IRC:Kids have regressed due to COVID-19 restrictions, with some potty-trained kids going back to diapers, experts say:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US moves to block Visa's acquisition of online payments platform Plaid:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Fujitsu's Fugaku supercomputer helping fight COVID-19 in Japan:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Asteroid Bennu may be hollow according to a new study:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:This hacking group is using previously unknown tools to target defence contractors:Hackers used previously unknown tools in a cyber-espionage campaign targeting defence and aerospace companies in a social engineering and phishing campaign that is more widely targeted than first thought.Researchers at McAfee first detailed Operation North Star earlier this year, but further analysis reveals additional tactics and techniques of the campaign that has almost identical elements to Hidden Cobra – AKA The Lazarus Group – a hacking operation which the US government and others say is working out of North Korea on behalf of the government in Pyongyang.[...] Initial reporting of the campaign detailed attacks against targets in the US, but those weren't the only ones hackers were looking to compromise – analysis of the attacks has revealed that defence and technology contractors in Israel, Russia, India and Australia have also been targeted by this campaign."The actors behind the campaign were more sophisticated than they initially appeared. They are focused and deliberate in what they meant to achieve and more disciplined and patient in executing to achieve their objective," said researchers.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Computer Scientists Achieve 'Crown Jewel' of Cryptography:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:US allows 1st emergency use of a COVID-19 antibody drug:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:The universe is getting hot, hot, hot, a new study suggests:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Scientists Discovered An Ancient Lakebed Under Greenland's Ice:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:US Army readies robot tanks fitted with chainguns, missile launchers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Linux version of RansomEXX ransomware discovered:

c0lo writes:Says Nearly one in five Covid patients later diagnosed with mental illness – study:

c0lo writes:BBC - Covid vaccine: First 'milestone' vaccine offers 90% protection

takyon writes:McDonald's unveils McPlant line, which includes meatless patty co-created by Beyond Meat

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Raspberry Pi 400: Its designer reveals more about the faster Pi 4 in the $70 PC's keyboard:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Exclusive: The former CEO of Google has applied to become a citizen of Cyprus:

takyon writes:NASA chief Jim Bridenstine says it's in the 'best interest of NASA' for him to resign rather than work for the Biden administration

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Second Cable Fails at Arecibo, Causing More Damage to Famed SETI Dish:

takyon writes:Micron Announces 176-layer 3D NAND

An Anonymous Coward writes:Father discovers 11-year-old spent $170K on app purchases:

martyb writes:Studies offer suggestions for combatting conspiracy theories, stereotypes:

DeathMonkey writes:Voters Overwhelmingly Back Community Broadband in Chicago and Denver

martyb writes:Calories by the clock? Squeezing most of your calories in early doesn't impact weight loss:

hubie writes:A Nature Scientific Reports paper looks at the dynamics of illicit web sites and finds that the ecosystem is very resilient. They found that when a web site is shuttered due to law enforcement activity or an exit scam, the closures mainly affected low activity users while high activity users migrate quickly to a new marketplace. The also found that two-thirds of the users who choose to move to a new dark site choose to follow each other to the new site: the marketplace that receives the largest number of migrating users tends to have the largest volume and the most users in common with the closed marketplace.

hubie writes:Money laundering comes in all shapes and sizes. Money can be handled domestically within the country where it was acquired, it can be moved internationally to a location deemed better suited to mask its origin, or a country could be an intermediary where money just flows though from Country A to Country B. These days there are inter-governmental efforts to monitor suspicious financial transactions to curb illicit money laundering, and key to these efforts are attempts to understand how ``dirty'' funds move around the world.Researchers from The Netherlands and Austria developed a model to understand how money moves around. Their model is based upon a gravity model, which is very commonly used in the social sciences for modeling complex flow interactions such as commuter and pedestrian traffic, drug cartel activity, and international trade. These models get their name and inspiration from Newton's Law of Gravity which has that the interaction strength between bodies is dependent upon the sizes of the bodies and inversely with the distance between them.

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US, Brazilian law enforcement seize $24 million in cryptocurrency generated through online fraud:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:American Airlines quietly made a decision that'll disturb everyone:

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takyon writes:NSA: We've learned our lesson after foreign spies used one of our crypto backdoors – but we can't say how exactly

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Alex Trebek, 1940-2020:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:We're not flying to Mars: ASX on using distributed ledger for new CHESS system: