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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:Bird deaths down 70 percent after painting wind turbine blades:

Phoenix666 writes:Bacteria could survive travel between Earth and Mars when forming aggregates:

Phoenix666 writes:Good animal welfare helps lab mice overcome bad things in life:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Code-execution bug in Pulse Secure VPN threatens patch laggards everywhere:

Phoenix666 writes:Compound may magnetically outperform neodymium magnets:

Phoenix666 writes:Student debt may hurt chances at full-time employment:

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Phoenix666 writes:Where are stars made? NASA's Spitzer spies a hot spot:

Freeman writes:Your iPhone copy of Fortnite is about to become out of date [Updated]

Phoenix666 writes:Student research team develops hybrid rocket engine:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Military-spec filament produces stronger 3D-printed objects:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Solar Panels Are Starting to Die, Leaving Behind Toxic Trash:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Researchers develop flat lens a thousand times thinner than a human hair:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Transparent near-infrared light-emitting diodes:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/features/2020/08/ars-readers-take-on-the-present-and-future-of-work/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Trump Is Petrified That Pro-Weed Forces Will Roast Him:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Wireless device makes clean fuel from sunlight, CO2 and water:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Soycow_Lover:US Air Force just demoed its first flying car, and it's excessive:

maxwell demon writes:Mozilla seems to be hell-bent on alienating users, as they did it again:

takyon writes:Russia Releases "Tsar Bomba" Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2020/08/judge-issues-restraining-order-protecting-unreal-engine-development-on-ios/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New Attack Lets Hackers Decrypt VoLTE Encryption to Spy on Phone Calls:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Popular iOS SDK Caught Spying on Billions of Users and Committing Ad Fraud:

Booga1 writes:The Hacker News is reporting an exploitable feature of Google Drive could allow an attacker to replace legitimate files with files of their choosing.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 spreads more indoors at low humidity :

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Smartphones May Help Detect Diabetes:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:Pigs Grow New Liver in Lymph Nodes, Study Shows:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/08/china-trade-war-could-push-iphone-contractor-foxconn-to-build-in-mexico/

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:'Electric mud' teems with new, mysterious bacteria:

takyon writes:Microsoft Issues Statement In Support of Epic Games To Remain On Apple Ecosystem

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:The Weather Channel app settles suit over selling location data - 9to5Mac:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Facebook AI produces accurate MRI images 4 times faster than current tech:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Japan: See-through public toilets open in Tokyo parks:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:FBI and CISA warn against surge in voice phishing campaigns:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:New P2P botnet infects SSH servers all over the world:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:A Fleet of Computers Helps Settle a 90-Year-Old Math Problem:

hendrikboom writes:Researchers at the Cornell and the Technische Univerität Berlin and Cornell have studied the problem that more popular items get priority in search results, creating a positive feedback loop that unfairly deprecates other, equally valuable items.

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Microsoft Put Off Fixing Zero Day for 2 Years:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Covid-19 Data Will Once Again Be Collected by CDC, in Policy Reversal :

An Anonymous Coward writes:After Legal Win, What's Next for Magic Mushrooms?:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Japan Animation Leaders Unite for YouTube Initiative:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for RandomFactor:China Is Approaching the Release of Digital Yuan by Expanding its Trials:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:AWS Cryptojacking Worm Spreads Through the Cloud:

takyon writes:TikTok plans to sue Trump administration over US ban

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:AT&T, T-Mobile fight speed tests that could prove their coverage maps wrong;:

An Anonymous Coward writes:http://www.righto.com/2020/08/reverse-engineering-8086s.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:The ‘Batman Effect’: How having an alter ego empowers you:

RandomFactor writes:On August 18th, Florida Keys' officials voted to allow the first test release of genetically modified mosquitoes in the U.S.The target mosquito population (Aedes aegypti) spreads multiple diseases including yellow fever, dengue, zika and chikungunya and is difficult to control with traditional spraying.