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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Video game revenues in 2020 set to top sports, movie industries:

fliptop writes:After spending years working behind the scenes to persuade regulators and law enforcement agencies in Washington DC, 30 states, and at least a dozen other countries, Oracle's efforts to rein in Google's search-and-advertising business are paying off:

AnonTechie writes:DeepMind's New AI Masters Games Without Even Being Taught the Rules: (Javascript required)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Sex at Christmas tends to be off menu until fireworks at new year – study:

MostCynical writes:Boating Magazine has a story about the new Volvo Penta self-docking boat.

hendrikboom writes:Veracode has compared programming languages for incidence of vulnerabilities by collecting statistics on 130,000 applications they have scanned.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:YouTube's Copyright Filter Is Crushing Video Critique:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Let's Encrypt comes up with workaround for abandonware Android devices:

c0lo writes:Long Covid alarm as 21% report symptoms after five weeks

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Over-Engineered Bottle Opener Takes The Drudgery Out Of Drinking:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Firefox continues cracking down on tracking with cache partitioning:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:NASA says it will fly a Canadian to the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Linux 5.11 Drops AMD Zen Voltage/Current Reporting Over Lack Of Documentation - Phoronix:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Scientists say there was a huge, mysterious object in the early solar system:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Army long-range cannon gets direct hit on target 43 miles away:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:New Blue Whales Discovered After Scientists Hear Unknown Song:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The COVID-19 Stimulus Bill Would Make Illegal Streaming a Felony:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Free news sites step up pleas for consumers to disable adblocking software:

takyon writes:Russia's space chief is hopping mad over most recent US restrictions

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Major Computing Breakthrough: Copenhagen Researchers Can Now Achieve “Quantum Advantage”:

martyb writes:Diamonds are not just for jewelry anymore:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New SUPERNOVA backdoor found in SolarWinds cyberattack analysis:

An anonymous user writes:Exploring the potential of near-sensor and in-sensor computing systems:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:1 in 5 prisoners in the US has had COVID-19, 1,700 have died:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Ötzi the Iceman may have scaled ice-free Alps:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:State of Software Security v11:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A Microsoft executive accidentally exposed one of the ugly truths of tech:

rigrig made a submission which was the genesis for this story.The Citizen Lab found that the iPhones of dozens of journalists were hacked using an invisible zero-day zero-click exploit in iMessage.The Great iPwn -- Journalists Hacked with Suspected NSO Group iMessage 'Zero-Click' Exploit:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Google's antitrust case won't go to trial until Sept. 2023:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:What's the biggest group of animals ever recorded on Earth?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Swiss say Uber Eats must register as postal service provider:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Lockheed Martin to acquire Aerojet Rocketdyne for $4.4 billion - SpaceNews:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:GitHub removes its annoying cookie banners:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:New catalytic process turns plastic bags into adhesives:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:U.S. investigating 5 allergic reactions to Pfizer coronavirus vaccine - National:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Wearing someone else's face: Hyper-realistic masks to go on sale in Japan:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Plants can be larks or night owls just like us:

Snotnose writes:After giving a gentle introduction to how computers work at the hardware level, this article gives an interesting thought on the future of computing and how RISC-V fits into it.

takyon writes:Alien Hunters Discover Mysterious Signal from Proxima Centauri

acid andy writes:Human Made Materials Now Outweigh Earth's Entire Biomass

cosurgi writes: CERN announces new open data policy in support of open science:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Deadly centipede 'king' rules over a poison hellscape cave:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Water futures set to join likes of gold and oil and trade on Wall Street for first time ever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Tech Hidden In Plain Sight: The Ballpoint Pen:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:An AI Co-Pilot Called 'ARTUµ' Just Took Command of A U-2's Sensor Systems On A Recon Mission:

Freeman writes:Battery prices have fallen 88 percent over the last decade:

coolgopher writes:China recovers Chang'e-5 moon samples after complex 23-day mission:

c0lo writes:States say federal government cutting COVID-19 vaccine allocations"

The year is winding to a close so I thought it would be a good opportunity to catch up on a few things: