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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Twitter suspends hundreds over #DCBlackout hoax:

Phoenix666 writes:Could corporations control territory in space? Under new US rules, it might be possible:

takyon writes:Publishers Sue the Internet Archive Over its Open Library, Declare it a Pirate Site

martyb writes:Two lefties make a right—if you are a one-in-a-million garden snail:

Phoenix666 writes:Mass production of individualized products:

Phoenix666 writes:Astronomers capture a pulsar 'Powering Up':

Common Joe writes:Taking a brief step back from the usual politics and hard tech...

takyon writes:Atom-Thin Switches Could Route 5G and 6G Radio Signals

Phoenix666 writes:'Plastic-free' fashion is not as clean or green as it seems:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Phoenix666 writes:Colorado State University:

martyb writes:African-American George Floyd's death has led to marches, demonstrations, acts of violence, and looting across the USA and in other parts of the world. Emotions are running high. We will not attempt to accuse or defend anyone here. Just attempt to lay out the information we have and offer it up for the community to discuss. Many comments about this incident have been posted to unrelated stories on this site. This is, therefore, an attempt to provide one place on SoylentNews where people are encouraged to discuss it. So as to not derail other stories on the site, I kindly ask you focus those comments here.Wikipedia has a page about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_George_Floyd (permanent link to the page as it appeared at the time of writing):

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Orbital Use Fees Proposed As the Most Effective Way to Solve the Space Junk Problem:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Third European Service Module for Artemis Mission to Land Astronauts on the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:Dangerous SHA-1 crypto function will die in SSH linking millions of computers:

martyb writes:A new theorem predicts that stationary black holes must have at least one light ring:

SomeGuy writes:Wired is reporting that Walmart employees have serious concerns about the effectiveness of the company's anti-shoplifting "AI" technology (reprint), including unnecessarily breaking COVID-19 related social distancing guidelines.

Phoenix666 writes:New stretchable, self-healing and illuminating electronic material for wearables and soft robots:

takyon writes:Russia's Elbrus 8CB Microarchitecture: 8-core VLIW on TSMC 28nm

Phoenix666 writes:Google Docs vs. Microsoft Word: Which works better for business?:

Phoenix666 writes:Plum pickings: ancient fruit ripe for modern plates:

Phoenix666 writes:Christo, the artist who wrapped the world, dies at 84:

Phoenix666 writes:Researchers control cattle microbiomes to reduce methane and greenhouse gases:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Tiny Three-Dimensional Chessboards Could Lead to "Paper Electronics":

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Antarctic ice sheets capable of retreating up to 50 meters per day:

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On what is becoming a running theme here on SoylentNews, we're reliving the early 90s, and picking up right where I left off from Windows for Workgroups, it was time to look at the 800-pound gorilla: Novell NetWare.Unlike early Mac, UNIX and Windows, I didn't actually have any personal experience with NetWare back in the day. Instead, my hands were first guided on a stream of my weekly show, HACK-ALT-NCOMMANDER, hosted as part of DEFCON 201, combined with a binge reading marathon of some very hefty manuals. In that vein, this is more of my impressions of what NetWare user and administration is like, especially compared to the tools of the day.Ultimately, I found NetWare a very strange experience, and there were a lot of pluses and minuses to cover, so as usual, here's the tl;dr video summary, followed by more in-depth write-up.If you haven't ABENDed your copy of server.exe, click below the fold to learn what all the hubbub was about!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Check Point Unmasks Hacktivist Who Defaced Nearly 5000 Sites:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New York Teen Masterminds $23.8m Crypto Heist:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US court grants permission to recover Marconi telegraph from Titanic wreckage:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for FatPhilCessna eCaravan becomes largest electric aircraft to fly:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

RandomFactor writes:Cornell professor of food science engineering Syed Rizvi and Michael E. Wagner, Ph.D. have received a patent on a process for producing Ice Cream instantly (within 3 seconds).

takyon writes:Waymo's robot minivans are ready to roll in the Bay Area for the first time since COVID-19 outbreak

takyon writes:135-year-long streak is over: US renewable sources topped coal in 2019

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA Supercomputers Power COVID-19 Research:

takyon writes:Microsoft 'to replace journalists with robots'

martyb writes:Astronomers detect biggest explosion in the history of the Universe - ICRAR

takyon writes:Border Patrol flies anti-terrorism drone over Minneapolis protestors

Phoenix666 writes:Al Jazeera:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Cisco security breach hits corporate servers that ran unpatched software:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Don't Update Your TI-83 or TI-84 Calculator's Firmware:

[20200530_203823 UTC: UPDATE: Launch was successful, all systems nominal, first stage successfully landed on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You", and Ben and Doug are on their 19-hour flight to the ISS (International Space Station). Live coverage continues all the way through docking.]martyb writes:Today's the day— weather permitting, America is returning to space:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:It's not every day the NSA publicly warns of attacks by Kremlin hackers – so take this critical Exim flaw seriously:

takyon writes:Western Digital gets sued for sneaking SMR disks into its NAS channel

martyb writes:One Millionth Comment!On 2020-05-28 the SoylentNews community attained an amazing milestone: the posting of its one millionth comment!First off, please accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to the community for all your contributions to the site to get us to this point. Never did I imagine in those first few days when comment IDs were 3 or 4 digits long that such a milestone was even feasible! I mean the site was crashing several times a day. Not an auspicious start, that's for sure! But we all pulled together, weathered some challenges, and got things pulled together.. and we're still here!So, who was the lucky poster of comment 1,000,000? And who was the runner-up at comment 999,999 (which has a nice palindromic ring to it, wouldn't you agree?The honor of the very first 7-digit comment fittingly goes to story-submitter extraordinaire takyon. Yes, not content to post comment ID 1000000 because that could be just a one-shot lucky break. No, he has posted (as of this writing) 18,731 comments. Oh, and as for submitting stories, he is unfortunately omitted from the "Most Active Authors" list on the SoylentNews Hall of Fame because he is also an editor. So, please join me in thanking takyon for submitting 5,852 stories! Oh! And as an editor, he has also pushed out 1,350 stories! Whenever I see one of his subs in the queue, I know it only needs a quick review before pushing it out to the story queue. He makes my job as an editor much easier and makes SoylentNews look good! Thanks takyon!So who was our runner-up with comment number 999,999? Well, he wasn't just spinning his tires when he posted this comment. None other than our also-prolific Runaway1956! He is no slouch when it comes to posting comments, either, as he has posted 18,483 of them so far. He has taken an active part in comment moderation, too with 2,968 moderations of which 78% were upmods. As if that were not enough, he is also an active contributor to our Folding@Home team, sitting currently at 3rd place and making a hard run for 2nd place! (F@H investigates — via computer modelling — how proteins fold.) The F@H group's efforts have almost exclusively been redirected to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.For those who may be unaware, SoylentNews is purely a volunteer organization. Nobody has ever been paid even one cent for their work. Further, we have never accepted any advertising on SoylentNews; the site is entirely self supporting through the subscriptions of the community. We run a tight ship and expenses run approximately $20 per day for everything.Speaking of volunteers, it brings me great pleasure to call out another major milestone, fnord666 has now edited over 5,000 stories on SoylentNews! (See Most Active Authors.) Thanks so very much, fnord666, for all your hard work and sacrifices to make that happen!Thanks everybody! Here's to many more years!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

martyb writes:One Millionth Comment!On 2020-05-28 the SoylentNews community attained an amazing milestone: the posting of its one millionth comment!First off, please accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to the community for all your contributions to the site to get us to this point. Never did I imagine in those first few days when comment IDs were 3 or 4 digits long that such a milestone was even feasible! I mean the site was crashing several times a day. Not an auspicious start, that's for sure! But we all pulled together, weathered some challenges, and got things pulled together.. and we're still here!So, who was the lucky poster of comment 1,000,000? And who was the runner-up at comment 999,999 (which has a nice palindromic ring to it, wouldn't you agree?The honor of the very first 7-digit comment fittingly goes to story-submitter extraordinaire takyon. Yes, not content to post comment ID 1000000 because that could be just a one-shot lucky break. No, he has posted (as of this writing) 18,731 comments. Oh, and as for submitting stories, he is unfortunately omitted from the "Most Active Authors" list on the SoylentNews Hall of Fame because he is also an editor. So, please join me in thanking takyon for submitting 5,852 stories! Oh! And as an editor, he has also pushd out 1,350 stories! Whenever I see one of his subs in the queue, I know it only needs a quick review before pushing it out to the story queue. He makes my job as an editor mucg easier and makes SoylentNews look good! Thanks takyon!So who was our runner-up with comment number 999,999? Well, he wasn't just spinning his tires when he posted this comment. None other than our also-prolific Runaway1956! He is no slouch when it comes to posting comments, either, as he has posted 18,483 of them so far. He has taken an active part in comment moderation, too with 2,968 moderations of which 78% were upmods. As if that were not enough, he is also an active contributor to out Folding@Home team, sitting currently at 3rd place and making a hard run for 2nd place! (F@H investigates via computer modelling how proteins fold and their efforts have almost exclusively been redirected to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.For those who may be unaware, SoylentNews is purely a volunteer organization. Nobody has ever been paid even one cent for their work. Further, we have never accepted any advertising on SoylentNews; the site is entirely self supporting through the subscriptions of the community. We run a tight ship and expenses run approximately $20 per day for everything.Speaking of volunteers, it brings me great pleasure to call out another major milestone, fnord666 has now edited over 5,000 stories on SoylentNews! (See Most Active Authors.) Thanks so very much, fnord666, for all your hard work and sacrifice to make that happen!Thanks everybody! Here's to many more years!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org: