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canopic jug writes:The Mozilla Corporation is known for among other things the Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird e-mail client, and its current CEO has written an open letter to the European Commission on the upcoming Digital Services Act (DSA) (warning for PDF). In it she vaguely addresses transparency, accountability, online advertising, and digital markets for a European internet, without addressing The Internet itself. The DSA appears to include proposals to split off a European internet from The Internet at large and model it after the great firewall of China in regards to control and isolation.In the document, New Developments in Digital Services: Short-(2021), medium-(2025) and long-term (2030) perspectives and the implications for theDigital Services Act, the great firewall of China gets praised repeatedly as something to emulate should the EU split of an internet from The Internet:

takyon writes:Western Digital is trying to redefine the word "RPM"

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Camcopter S-100 helicopter drone makes world-first oil rig delivery:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:NASA Discovered a Faster, Cheaper Way of Getting to The Moon... And Patented It:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:To make a better sensor, just add noise:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Amazon's top UK reviewers appear to profit from fake 5-star posts:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Unraveling the secrets of Tennessee whiskey:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Amazon deletes job listings detailing effort to monitor 'labor organizing threats':

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:SpaceX seeks FCC broadband funds, must prove it can deliver sub-100ms latency:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Phones for low-income users hacked before they're turned on, research finds:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:FCC estimates it'll cost carriers $1.8 billion to replace Huawei, ZTE hardware:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Numerica telescope tracks satellites in broad daylight:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:How dangerous are burning electric cars?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for FatPhil and others:Amazon drivers hang phones in trees to compete for new orders - Business Insider:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:A single text is all it took to unleash code-execution worm in Cisco Jabber:

takyon writes:Facebook wants its AR glasses to unlock 'perceptual superpowers'

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The Winamp Skin Museum is a beautiful homage to an iconic piece of software:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Facebook to blab bugs it finds if it thinks code owners aren't fixing fast enough:

mrpg writes:From https://micronews.debian.org/:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Can diamonds burn?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:[Ed note: Sometimes stories come in where it is hard to tell whether they should be accepted and put before the community. This story is one of those. It certainly seems interesting, but I quite frankly can't tell whether this is the very start of something big, or a bunch of marketing hype. If it is as capable as claimed, I would expect reference implementations should be readily available for a PC — where are they? So, feel free to tear this to shreds or sing its praises in the comments. --martyb]TinyML is breathing life into billions of devices:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Attackers are trying to exploit a high-severity zeroday in Cisco gear:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Could a tree help find a decaying corpse nearby?:

An Anonymous Coward writes:As reported by https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/36016/the-potentially-revolutionary-celera-500l-officially-breaks-cover a possible competitor for the private business jet is now being test flown. It's a pusher-prop plane, but it looks strange due to laminar flow fuselage and very high-aspect-ratio (long, skinny) wings. A high efficiency turbo-diesel engine gives claimed cruise speed of 450 miles/hour (700+kph) at 18-25 miles per US gallon, compare to 2-3 mpg for typical business jets. With this high fuel efficiency, range is 4500 miles and operating costs are projected to be less than 20% of typical small jet. The prototype seats six, similar to other small business aircraft.Company site at https://www.ottoaviation.com/ says:

RandomFactor writes:Under a veil of secrecy, China launched an experimental space plane believed to be an analog to the U.S. X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on Thursday.The launch was

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Metasurface materials put true holographic movie within grasp:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Scientist Reveals Possible Reason Behind Mysterious Fall of Indus Valley Civilisation:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nothernotherguy:Three stars, warped rings may show how planets end up moving backward:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Lessons for the Navy's New Frigate From the Littoral Combat Ship - War on the Rocks:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Stanford scientists track tiny atmospheric ripples using data from internet-beaming balloons:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:Sorry, Amazon, Microsoft wins JEDI contract again upon re-evaluation:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Supercomputer crunches data on COVID-19:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for aristarchus:Key coronavirus forecast predicts over 410,000 total U.S. deaths by Jan. 1: 'The worst is yet to come':

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Teen arrested for 8 DDoS attacks that disrupted school's online classes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Battery-free Game Boy runs forever:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Pentagon takes first step toward building supersonic Air Force One:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Source of International Space Station leak still not found, NASA says - Business Insider:Officials first noticed a leak last September, but they didn't do anything about it for nearly a year, since the leak wasn't major. Plus, station operations like space walks and crew exchanges kept crew members too busy to collect enough data about the issue.Recently, however, technicians detected an increase to the already elevated leak rate. So NASA announced on August 20 that the three men aboard the station — NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Vagner — would begin a hunt for the source.That search is "taking longer than expected," NASA spokesman Daniel Huot told Business Insider last week.Indeed, Huot said on Tuesday that technical teams were still reviewing the data collected by the crew. They've now ruled out most of the station's modules, Huot added, and should complete their review "in the coming days."If specialists still can't pinpoint the leak after that, he said, they'll need a new action plan.[...] In the event of an emergency on the space station, the crew members could return to Earth via the Soyuz MS-16 spaceship that's docked there. In a less extreme scenario, the crew could also cut off the leaking module and isolate it.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Mass Firing at Lab Zero Leaves Company with No Employees:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Facebook could be hit with a massive brand new tax if it moves forward with its threat to block all Australian users from sharing news on its platform. In response, Facebook threatened to ban the sharing of news which then resulted in a threat to tax Facebook for news or rather "digital transactions". The Australian government appears to have predicted Facebook's response and had draft legislation drawn up ready to respond.

An Anonymous Coward writes:A Speaker for the Dead is a person who attends a funeral or similar convention to speak on behalf of the deceased as described in the second Ender novel. A funeral director has taken up the path of being a Speaker delivering messages to those who have come to grieve, clearing out parts of the lives for people unable to do so, and arranging mementos for the living.It's good to see science fiction continue to inspire us.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:The Moon Is Rusting, and Researchers Want to Know Why:

Several people have submitted leads to stories about how Ring Smart Doorbells might also alert people to the approach of law enforcement.FBI: Ring Smart Doorbells Could Sabotage CopsAn Anonymous Coward writes:Ring is the gift that keeps on giving...From https://threatpost.com/fbi-ring-smart-doorbells-sabotage-cops/158837/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Amazon's Prime Air drone delivery fleet gains FAA approval for trial commercial flights – TechCrunch:

'Just Passed a Guy in a Jetpack': Sightings at Los Angeles Airport Fuel Concernupstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow96:'Just passed a guy in a jetpack': sightings at Los Angeles airport fuel concern:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Rocket Lab secretly launched its own company-made satellite on latest flight:

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RandomFactor writes:For the first time, U.S. officials have approved a small nuclear power plant design.

Freeman writes:Facebook complains, Apple responds: iOS 14's big privacy change gets postponed:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Noble metals dissolved without aqua regia[*]: