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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:COVID-19 Patient Zero: Data Analysis Identifies the "Mother" of All SARS-CoV-2 Genomes:

takyon writes:A New and Improved Burger Robot's on the Market—and Everyone Wants One

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US Cyber Command exposes new Russian malware:

t-3 writes:https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/united-states-seizes-domain-names-used-iran-s-islamic-revolutionary-guard-corps

canopic jug writes:Let's Encrypt, the non-profit certificate authority which provides X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security encryption at no charge, has an update on the progress towards universal acknowledgement of its root certificate in software and firmware. The cross signature which it has purchased will expire next September, so there is a hard deadline for finalization. There are only a few barriers remaining, one of which is the old versions of Android still in use.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Playing detective on a galactic scale: Huge new dataset will solve multiple Milky Way mysteries:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:GitHub's source code was leaked on GitHub last night... sort of:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

martyb writes:Fox News (among many other outlets[*]) is reporting: Biden wins presidency, Trump denied second term in White House:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Nasty malware attacks iPhones and Android:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

takyon writes:"Project X" - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen

Michigan Votes to Require Warrants for Police to Seize and Search Digital DevicesRunaway1956 writes in with an IRC submission:Michigan votes to require warrants for police to seize and search digital devices:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:Platypuses glow an eerie blue-green under UV light:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US City Fined Over Former Employee's Data Theft:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New technology allows cameras to capture colors invisible to the human eye: Applications in cancer detection, security and even gaming:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow0495.Startling Case Study Finds Asymptomatic COVID-19 Carrier Who Shed Virus For 70 Days:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Dust travelled thousands of miles to enrich Hawaiian soils:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:HKU scientists reveal an antirheumatic metallodrug canresurrect "last-resort" antibiotics to kill multi-drug resistant superbugs:

takyon writes:Record $1 billion worth of bitcoin linked to the Silk Road seized by U.S. government

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The cheap pen that changed writing forever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA Releases Incredible Video of OSIRIS-REx Tagging Asteroid – Mysterious Dark Patches Puzzle Team:

rigrig writes:Researchers have demonstrated they can read what people are typing during video calls by looking at shoulder movements.This horrifying Zoom hack will deter you from ever side-chatting again:

Azuma Hazuki and SoyCow9642 (on IRC) both provide the same story:Trail of bubbles leads scientists to new coronavirus clue:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:An Asteroid Trailing After Mars Could Actually Be The Stolen Twin of Our Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:GrowDiaries Exposes Emails, Passwords of 1.4M Cannabis Growers:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:AMD Is Hitting Market Share It Hasn't Held in a Decade - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for soycow9642:Denmark plans to cull its mink population after coronavirus mutation spreads to humans:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:3-D print experts discover how to make tomorrow's technology using ink-jet printed graphene:

hoeferbe writes:California voters decided on Tuesday to keep Uber, Lyft and other app-based ride-hailing and delivery service drivers classified as independent contractors. Coverage from Associated Press and Forbes.

Phoenix666 writes:A material that 'bruises' like skin:

Phoenix666 writes:Scientists find harmful chemicals in household dust:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:This could be the most expensive data breach ever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956_:See-through soil substitutes help scientists study soil ecology:

mhajicek writes:https://phys.org/news/2020-11-gentoo-penguins-species-scientists.html

takyon writes:Arm Cortex-A78C core supports up to 8 cores per cluster, 8MB L3 cache for always-on laptops

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Snoopy celebrates 20 years of humans on space station on new NASA posters:

aristarchus writes:Ars Technica has word from the most distant human artifact.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1956:Root bacterium to fight Alzheimer's: Rhizolutin dissociates beta and tau aggregates:

NotSanguine writes:Wired has a piece by Tom Simonite that discusses an area of monopoly/monopsony which mostly gets ignored amid the discussions of FAANG's (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) anti-competitive activities.From the article:

c0lo writes:Picked from Google news, TASS writes (TASS - Russian News Agency)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Russian Botnet Operator Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for c0lo:McKesson says potential opioid settlement proposal raised to up to $21 billion:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Modified drones help scientists better predict volcanic eruptions:

Runaway1956 writes:Newly discovered Earth-like rogue planet might be smallest free floating world:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Runaway1957:Pixel 5 teardown shows how a metal phone supports wireless charging:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.The US is one of the world’s biggest sources of plastic pollution: