upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:In Earth’s largest extinction, land die-offs began long before ocean turnover:

In the beginning there was Project MAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Computer_Science_and_Artificial_Intelligence_Laboratory#Project_MAC

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Neural implants plus AI turns sentence-length thoughts to text:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Saudi Arabia may be spying on its citizens via US mobile networks:

DannyB writes:Court: Violating a site's terms of service isn't criminal hacking

DannyB writes:The Eclipse Foundation Releases Eclipse Theia 1.0, a True Open Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code

DannyB writes:Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Coronavirus bound? A perfect at-home project: Backup your data

The Mighty Buzzard writes:The 4/1 joke this year is on me. Working from home apparently doesn't get you out of working on your home, or in this case a church destined to shortly be my home. Which is what kept me from having time to annoy you lot with a terrible/goofy/whatever theme or some other silliness this year. Enjoy your lazy Wednesday and feel free to have a chuckle at my expense.Side note: there are only sixty-one four-digit uids left at the time of this writing (the morning of 3/31) . Any of you long time ACs who think you might want to register before we hit five digits need to do it soon.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Runaway1956 writes:https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/03/28/bored-kids-are-going-on-a-bear-hunt-and-its-adorable/:

DannyB writes:NASA reveals what the final X-57 all-electric X-plane will look like

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Steam limits game auto-updates to manage peak demand:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Air pollution linked to dementia and cardiovascular disease:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:2019 saw over 60 gigawatts of wind power installed:

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evilcam writes:Forbes are reporting on a recent Microsoft Blog post, claiming a 775% increase in Cloud Services uptake from regions that are enforcing social distancing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.In addition, there's been a 3x surge in Remote Desktop use and the Number of Teams users has more than doubled to 44 Million since November 2019.How has your use of on-line meetings changed since the pandemic hit?takyon: Apparently Microsoft's Claim of 775 Percent Surge in Cloud Services Wasn't Really Accurate

DannyB writes:Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers

martyb writes:Professional Ventilator Design Open Sourced Today By Medtronic

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takyon writes:Neanderthals ate sharks and dolphins

This story is a merge of 30 story submissions. Given that it was well over 17,000 words of original source material (excluding HTML markup!), a great deal of pruning was performed to get it to a manageable size. I strongly encourage folks to read the linked articles for more information.For latest statistics, and finer granularity, see https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/.As of 20200330_151936 UTC, it reported these world-wide totals:

canopic jug writes:WordPress, the most common content management system (CMS) on the Web, has about 60% market share. It is even found on nearly a third of all web sites, not just those running a CMS. Given this enormous presence,WordPress has changed the Web quite a bit through its existence. Here are seventeen trivia about WordPress.

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fliptop writes:From the IEEE, an algorithm that creates "background noise" during data transmission that alerts officials to hacking:

Bob Cringely is running a new prediction at https://www.cringely.com/2020/03/25/2020-brings-the-death-of-it/

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requerdanos writes:From The Register:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:'A game changer': FDA authorizes Abbott Labs' portable, 5-minute coronavirus test the size of a toaster:

[20200330_130145 UTC: It appears the author's native language is not English; any mistakes seen here were in the original.--martyb]fliptop writes:Will Low-Code and No-Code merge into a single market segment for both enterprise-class and user-friendly developers?

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An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.fastcompany.com/90125752/the-ingenious-way-tv-logos-were-made-before-computers

takyon writes:US poised to restrict TSMC's chip sales to China's Huawei

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients:

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Rich26189 writes:About a year ago, Zachary McCoy took a bike ride around his neighborhood in Gainesville, Florida. It may have been forgettable to him, but not to history. Because McCoy used an app to track his mileage, the route was forever etched in the Google-verse and attached to his name.On the day of this ill-fated bike ride, McCoy passed a certain neighbor's house three times. While this normally wouldn't raise alarm, the neighbor happened to be the victim of a burglary that day, and had thousands of dollars worth of jewelry stolen. The Gainesville police had zero leads after a four-day investigation, so they went to the county to get a geofence warrant. Thanks to all the location data McCoy had willingly generated, he became the prime suspect.From hackaday:

takyon writes:Internet Archive offers 1.4 million copyrighted books for free online

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:HBO's 'Kill Chain' doc highlights the flaws in US election machines:

martyb writes:Announcing The Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Now that everyone's using Zoom, here are some privacy risks you need to watch out for:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Cyber insurer Chubb had data stolen in Maze ransomware attack – TechCrunch:

DannyB writes:Seven Stages of Open Software

DannyB writes:Plasma Bigscreen Is A New Smart TV Experience Powered By Raspberry Pi 4 And KDE

DannyB writes:SpaceX has won a big NASA contract to fly cargo to the Moon