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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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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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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Hospitalizations down once power plants retired coal or installed better emission controls:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:ICANN delays .org sale again after scathing letter from California AG:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Apple Music on the web is no longer in beta -- including on Linux:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Some shirts hide you from cameras:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:In a first, NASA measures wind speed on a brown dwarf:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow1:Study: 'Oumuamua interstellar object might be remnant of a "super-Earth":

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Smart toilet gadget recognises users by their 'anal print' and analyses deposits to detect early warning signs of cancer, heart disease and diabetes

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.coindesk.com/decentralized-protocol-removed-from-eu-contact-tracing-website-with-no-notice:

martyb writes:Intelsat orbital comms satellite is back online after first robo-recovery mounting and tug job gets it back into position:

DannyB writes:NASA sets a date for historic SpaceX launch, the first flight of NASA crews from U.S. in nearly a decade

martyb writes:With all of the Pandemic precautions that have been put into effect, many people are turning to "free" on-line conferencing services. As the saying goes, "If you are not paying for the service, you are the product". And, even if paid for (by yourself or by an employer), that does not mean freedom from having your information mined for advertising or other purposes.I've not used any of the following, so please forgive me if I got the product names incorrect. Here are some of the big "free" services that I've seen mentioned: Zoom (whose security issues have been cited many times on SoylentNews), Apple (Group Facetime), Google (Hangouts), Facebook (Facebook Live) and Microsoft (Teams).I suspect many Soylentils have now acquired some experience with on-line conferencing. I am hoping to draw upon your experience. Better still, I would love to see development and proliferation of alternatives to the "Big Names". Solutions that are self-hosted and as free as reasonably possible from the prying eyes of the big, data-warehousing corporations. Open source — free as in beer and libre — would be good, tooRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

[Ed Note: I debated whether or not to run this submission. This could be perceived as a relatively innocuous change. But what's next? Back in 1982 there was a huge outcry when National Geographic "moved" the Great Pyramids closer together. Back then, technological advances increased the ease by which images couldbe manipulated without detection. Technology has continued marching forward. Now, the same manipulations are starting to appear with video. What's next? What are the limits. Where does it end? I saw an opportunity for discussion and decided to run the story.]An Anonymous Coward writes:With great digital platforms comes great digital enhancements? Following on from changes to Star Wars no one asked for (Who shot first?) comes Disney+ hilariously censors nudity in classic movie Splash:

An Anonymous Coward writes:The question of "how did supermarkets sell out of months worth of toilet paper in days" has been answered in part:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:Amazon fires three workers who criticized warehouse conditions:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Why didn't the universe annihilate itself? Neutrinos may hold the answer:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8192:YouTube borked when users enable Firefox anti-fingerprinting:

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