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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:The COVID-19 shutdown is making weather prediction more difficult:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

An Anonymous Coward writes:UN: Consequences Remain Decades After Chernobyl Disaster:

hubie writes:The 26th of April marks the centenary of the Great Debate regarding the nature of the universe. At the end of the 19th Century, the general consensus was that the Milky Way Galaxy was the extent of the known universe. There were these known fuzzy spiral nebular disks that were not stars or planets, or even anything interesting like a comet, and there was quite a bit of speculation earlier in the century whether they were close objects or very very far away, but by the end of the century all the objects in the sky were thought to belong to a single great system. This opinion was summarized by one of the great science writers of the day, Agnes Clerke, who wrote in 1890

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for GrandFireWizard:Google has reportedly removed more than 100 apps:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:AT&T CEO retiring as telco plans for three years of cost cuts and layoffs:

takyon writes:Interstellar asteroids found hiding in plain sight

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for The Mighty Buzzard:Wine 5.7 Released With More Progress On D3D Vulkan Backend, USB Device Driver - Phoronix:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Magic Leap's $2.6 billion bait and switch – TechCrunch:

Phoenix666 writes:Dolphins reclaim Bosphorus as virus silences Istanbul:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Latest Apple Text-Bomb Crashes iPhones via Message Notifications:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Instacart has a problem with third-party apps letting shoppers pay for early access to orders – TechCrunch:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Dolly Parton secretly produced Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and fans have only just found out:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Valve confirms code leak for two online games [Updated]:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Bing disables “trending” feature after wildly inappropriate results:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:BCI system gives paralyzed man back his sense of touch with haptic feedback:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Long-Lost U.S. Military Satellite Found By Amateur Radio Operator:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:The Hubble Space Telescope launched 30 years ago:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:'Deficiencies' that broke FCC commenting system in net neutrality fight detailed by GAO:

takyon writes:The FCC ratified Wi-Fi 6E this morning (Thursday April 23):

An Anonymous Coward writes:The silence of the owls describes an interesting new look at owl flight, and a recent attempt to figure out why they are so much quieter than other birds, and quieter than just about any other flying thing. Based on this paper, https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-fluid-010518-040436

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:USGS releases first-ever comprehensive geologic map of the Moon:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Almost 8,000 could be affected by federal emergency loan data breach:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Nintendo Confirms Breach of 160,000 Accounts:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for SoybullSource: Insects' Extreme Farming Methods Offer us Lessons to Learn and Oddities to Avoid:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Devs might be able to write software on iPad and iPhone with Xcode:

MrPlow writes in with a submission, via IRC for Soybull.Source: Musk says SpaceX is 'fixing' brightness from satellites:

takyon writes:TSMC Has Started The Development of The 2nm Lithography Process

An Anonymous Coward writes:

MrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for SoybullThe first frog fossil from Antarctica has been found:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Apple Pushes Back Against Zero-Day Exploit Claims:

martyb writes:Elon Musk says SpaceX Starlink satellite broadband beta testing starts in a few months:

An Anonymous Coward writes:GCC 10 gets security bug trap. And look what just fell into it: OpenSSL and a prod-of-death flaw in servers and apps

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Phoenix666 writes:Coronavirus: Scientists brand 5G claims 'complete rubbish':

martyb writes:European programmers take an extended lunch break as GitHub goes TITSUP* again:

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:CNet:

Phoenix666 writes:ScienceX:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:A critical iPhone and iPad bug that lurked for 8 years may be under active attack:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:A Jaw-Dropping Demo In Only 256 Bytes:

martyb writes:YouTube turns 15 today. Watch the first video it posted:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:People Are Making Bots to Snatch Whole Foods Delivery Order Time Slots:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:An SSD can resurrect your old Sega Saturn and Dreamcast consoles:

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/: