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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:We may have seen two asteroids annihilate each other in another solar system:

martyb writes:"Good Code Documents Itself" and Other Hilarious Jokes You Shouldn't Tell Yourself:I didn't notice this story when it appeared on Hackaday just over a year ago. I'm well aware this has all the hallmarks of devolving into an emacs vs vi battle. Yet, the story does raise some interesting points about the different kinds of comments. That some comments are worse than useless and others can have great value. Without further ado, here's the introduction:

AnonTechie writes:Worst CPUs:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:[Editor's Note: Some links require a log in to a Chinese site www.weibo.com]Huawei caught passing off DSLR photos as being taken with smartphones:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soybull:Toxin-producing bacteria can make this newt deadly:

"Anonymous Cowherd" writes:https://www.siasat.com/irans-guard-says-it-launched-satellite-amid-us-tensions-1877783/:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soybull:Dancing peacock spiders turned an arachnophobe into an arachnologist:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:US govt: Hacker used stolen AD credentials to ransom hospitals:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:The New Yorker adds co-op to its online crossword puzzles:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soybull:FCC blasted for "shameful" ruling against cities and fire department:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Fandango is buying Vudu's video service from Walmart:

[20200422_200816 UTC: Update: Launch was successful. The first-stage booster functioned nominally and successfully landed on a drone ship. The second stage successfully deployed the satellites at an altitude of approximately 250 km. The satellites will use on-board ion thrusters to raise their orbits up to a planned 550 km altitude. No word on this flight's fairing recovery attempt.--martyb]martyb writes:SpaceX returns to the launch pad, and there are a few things to watch for:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soybull:Ancient recipes led scientists to a long-lost natural blue:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:'Right to repair' taken up by the ACCC in farmers' fight to fix their own tractors:

Phoenix666 writes:BBC:

takyon writes:AMD Ryzen 3 3300X and Ryzen 3 3100: New Low Cost Quad-Core Zen 2 Processors From $99

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:New Cloudflare tool can tell you if your ISP has deployed BGP fixes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:This Open-Source Program Deepfakes You During Zoom Meetings, in Real Time:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Senate panel wants stricter oversight of Chinese telecoms:

takyon writes:Supreme Court rules non-unanimous jury verdicts unconstitutional

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Uber accuses Levandowski of fraud, refuses to pay $179M Google judgment:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:AirAsia launches transparent tracking blockchain network 'Freightchain' for air cargo:

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/after-years-on-the-decline-hepatitis-c-is-returning-primarily-among

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-18/denmark-extends-business-aid-to-increase-spending-by-15-billion

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow0570:CHEOPS space telescope ready for scientific operation:

takyon writes:4/20 in the age of coronavirus, explained

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.itwire.com/open-source/jonathan-carter-wins-race-to-lead-debian-for-next-year.html

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for both aristarchus and an AnonymousCoward:Security lapse exposed Clearview AI source code – TechCrunch:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:National security concerns just won out over Twitter's attempt to be transparent about surveillance:

[20200420_144755 UTC: Update: According to this comment to the thread at NASASpaceflight, the RollLift (which would transport SN4 to the pad) has not finished being assembled. Looks like it will still be a while before testing commences. --martyb][20200420_162536 UTC: Corrected timelines and costs; see linked comment. --martyb]martyb writes:NASASpaceflight has continuous updates of activities at the Boca Chica SpaceX site with many pics and videos, too. The last time I checked, SN4 (SpaceX's 4th Starship prototype: Serial Number 4) is nearing completion of construction and is soon to be transported to the testing platform. Historically, next would be pressurization tests, e.g. with liquid nitrogen, to see if the rocket can handle the temperatures and pressures. Prior testing failures have been... impressive. Should all go well with these tests, next up would be testing of SN4 with liquid methane and liquid oxygen. If successful, static fire tests with the rocket tethered and, ultimately, with a powered hop for a very limited duration and distance.SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has set a goal of building a new Starship rocket each week. SN4 has been under construction for less than a month. By comparison, the SLS (Space Launch System) has been under development for many years, has cost billions of dollars per year, and has never (not even once) been launched. (Please see this comment for clarification.)Here are the dates and times of upcoming road and beach closures (and alternates) as announced by Cameron County, Texas coinciding with planned testing by SpaceX:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Do you want your government tracking you by your mobile phone in the fight against COVID-19? In Australia members of Parliament have refused to install the COVID Trace app to track COVID-19 transmission. The code for the app, due to be released in a few weeks, will be open sourced and the government promises to not keep any data longer than required for the current pandemic emergency.After the complete screwup of the last census, the debacle that is eHealth, data leakage from credit card transactions, and dismal state of privacy today how can anyone have any confidence in this type of 'help'?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for chromas:Copyright Holders Have to 'Resend' Millions of Pirate Bay Takedown Notices:

lentilla writes:The Australian federal government has decided to force Internetgiants to pay for content they collect from local publishers.Treasurer Mr Frydenberg says "It's only fair that those that generatecontent get paid for it".According to thisarticle appearing in the Sydney Morning Herald: 'The ACCC[Australian Competition and Consumer Commission] will be asked todraft a new industry approach for consultation in July with adefinition of the "news content" to be covered by the mandatory code,with the expectation the search and social media giants will have topay for content.'Students of history will recall that German publishers triedsomething similar in 2013.Google responded by removing links to these articles rather than paythe publishers for the privilege of linking. The result:"visitors from web search fell 40 percent; from Google News, they fell80 percent". Two weeks laterand the group of publishers decided to give search engines a freelicence to index their content.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Zoom: Every security issue uncovered in the video chat app:

martyb writes:How Our Brain Analyzes Poetry

martyb writes:Bald eagles, eaglets found nesting in arms of Arizona cactus

martyb writes:Subsistence agriculture:

martyb writes:DHS Urges Pulse Secure VPN Users To Update Passwords:

The Mighty Buzzard writes:So, COVID-19 (coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, whatever you call it) sucks a bit for your health but it turns out it sucks a lot for the economy. So we're extending any subscriptions that were going to expire before then out to June first (this may be extended a time or two depending on how well our savings hold up). Yeah, we know we're an extremely small cap entity and that's not going to make a whole lot of difference but it's something we felt we should do anyway for a couple reasons.First, we as a corporation do not have paid employees. The only people we give money to are our hosts, our registrar, our CPA, and the revenooers. Which we're going to have to continue doing regardless and which we can currently afford to do for a month or two without dire risk of having to make infrastructure cutbacks. Putting money into us during this nonsense doesn't help much in directly putting food on someone's table or keeping jobs from going poof, so we'd prefer you guys put anything you were going to send us to work where it will help at least a tiny bit in keeping the businesses that your neighbors work at afloat. Which is to say, spend it locally.Second, we're quite fond of the folks who've chosen to financially support the site and we don't want them to get dinged because of something that wasn't remotely their fault.Now we're not shutting down the site's subscription functionality. If you feel a desire to contribute anyway, we're happy to oblige and we're not going to tell you that you can't. We're not the bosses of your wallets and it would mean extra work for me when I don't really have time to do much of anything code/admin-wise.Also, we're only doing this automatically for current and new subscribers; we don't want to hit people who weren't interested with an unsolicited email about subscription expiration when we have to shut the extensions down. They may have quit subscribing or even frequenting the site and it's annoying as all get out to keep getting emails from sites you stopped doing business with on purpose. We're happy to handle it manually, though, if your subscription ended any time since the first of the year. Just drop a comment to this journal entry (NOT to THIS story!) and I'll take care of it as often as I have time (at least once a day).That's all. We now return you to your regularly scheduled mix of discussion, debate, yelling at each other, and trolling.(Oh, and you can still submit stories, too! Hint hint! --martyb)Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Supply-chain attack hits RubyGems repository with 725 malicious packages:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Fnord666:Understanding RAID: How performance scales from one disk to eight:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:SpaceX Offers NASA A Custom Moon Freighter:

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