takyon writes:Western Digital gets sued for sneaking SMR disks into its NAS channel

martyb writes:One Millionth Comment!On 2020-05-28 the SoylentNews community attained an amazing milestone: the posting of its one millionth comment!First off, please accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to the community for all your contributions to the site to get us to this point. Never did I imagine in those first few days when comment IDs were 3 or 4 digits long that such a milestone was even feasible! I mean the site was crashing several times a day. Not an auspicious start, that's for sure! But we all pulled together, weathered some challenges, and got things pulled together.. and we're still here!So, who was the lucky poster of comment 1,000,000? And who was the runner-up at comment 999,999 (which has a nice palindromic ring to it, wouldn't you agree?The honor of the very first 7-digit comment fittingly goes to story-submitter extraordinaire takyon. Yes, not content to post comment ID 1000000 because that could be just a one-shot lucky break. No, he has posted (as of this writing) 18,731 comments. Oh, and as for submitting stories, he is unfortunately omitted from the "Most Active Authors" list on the SoylentNews Hall of Fame because he is also an editor. So, please join me in thanking takyon for submitting 5,852 stories! Oh! And as an editor, he has also pushed out 1,350 stories! Whenever I see one of his subs in the queue, I know it only needs a quick review before pushing it out to the story queue. He makes my job as an editor much easier and makes SoylentNews look good! Thanks takyon!So who was our runner-up with comment number 999,999? Well, he wasn't just spinning his tires when he posted this comment. None other than our also-prolific Runaway1956! He is no slouch when it comes to posting comments, either, as he has posted 18,483 of them so far. He has taken an active part in comment moderation, too with 2,968 moderations of which 78% were upmods. As if that were not enough, he is also an active contributor to our Folding@Home team, sitting currently at 3rd place and making a hard run for 2nd place! (F@H investigates — via computer modelling — how proteins fold.) The F@H group's efforts have almost exclusively been redirected to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.For those who may be unaware, SoylentNews is purely a volunteer organization. Nobody has ever been paid even one cent for their work. Further, we have never accepted any advertising on SoylentNews; the site is entirely self supporting through the subscriptions of the community. We run a tight ship and expenses run approximately $20 per day for everything.Speaking of volunteers, it brings me great pleasure to call out another major milestone, fnord666 has now edited over 5,000 stories on SoylentNews! (See Most Active Authors.) Thanks so very much, fnord666, for all your hard work and sacrifices to make that happen!Thanks everybody! Here's to many more years!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

martyb writes:One Millionth Comment!On 2020-05-28 the SoylentNews community attained an amazing milestone: the posting of its one millionth comment!First off, please accept my sincere thanks and gratitude to the community for all your contributions to the site to get us to this point. Never did I imagine in those first few days when comment IDs were 3 or 4 digits long that such a milestone was even feasible! I mean the site was crashing several times a day. Not an auspicious start, that's for sure! But we all pulled together, weathered some challenges, and got things pulled together.. and we're still here!So, who was the lucky poster of comment 1,000,000? And who was the runner-up at comment 999,999 (which has a nice palindromic ring to it, wouldn't you agree?The honor of the very first 7-digit comment fittingly goes to story-submitter extraordinaire takyon. Yes, not content to post comment ID 1000000 because that could be just a one-shot lucky break. No, he has posted (as of this writing) 18,731 comments. Oh, and as for submitting stories, he is unfortunately omitted from the "Most Active Authors" list on the SoylentNews Hall of Fame because he is also an editor. So, please join me in thanking takyon for submitting 5,852 stories! Oh! And as an editor, he has also pushd out 1,350 stories! Whenever I see one of his subs in the queue, I know it only needs a quick review before pushing it out to the story queue. He makes my job as an editor mucg easier and makes SoylentNews look good! Thanks takyon!So who was our runner-up with comment number 999,999? Well, he wasn't just spinning his tires when he posted this comment. None other than our also-prolific Runaway1956! He is no slouch when it comes to posting comments, either, as he has posted 18,483 of them so far. He has taken an active part in comment moderation, too with 2,968 moderations of which 78% were upmods. As if that were not enough, he is also an active contributor to out Folding@Home team, sitting currently at 3rd place and making a hard run for 2nd place! (F@H investigates via computer modelling how proteins fold and their efforts have almost exclusively been redirected to understanding the SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes COVID-19 disease.For those who may be unaware, SoylentNews is purely a volunteer organization. Nobody has ever been paid even one cent for their work. Further, we have never accepted any advertising on SoylentNews; the site is entirely self supporting through the subscriptions of the community. We run a tight ship and expenses run approximately $20 per day for everything.Speaking of volunteers, it brings me great pleasure to call out another major milestone, fnord666 has now edited over 5,000 stories on SoylentNews! (See Most Active Authors.) Thanks so very much, fnord666, for all your hard work and sacrifice to make that happen!Thanks everybody! Here's to many more years!Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:World's oldest bug is fossil millipede from Scotland:

Phoenix666 wrote in with a story which inspired:CNet:

Phoenix666 writes:Can interactive technology ease urban traffic jams?:

Phoenix666 writes:Technology uses plant biomass waste for self-powered biomedical devices:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Data Breach at Bank of America:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Leaked draft details Trump's likely attack on technology giants:

takyon writes:The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a new Raspberry Pi 4 model with 8 GB of RAM:

Phoenix666 writes:New Zealand sits on top of the remains of a giant ancient volcanic plume:

Phoenix666 writes:Half the matter in the universe was missing—we found it hiding in the cosmos:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Media Corruption? Car Safety Recalls Reported Less When Manufacturers Advertise More:

Phoenix666 writes:US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough:

martyb writes:cmd.exe is dead, long live PowerShell: Microsoft leads aged command-line interpreter out into 'maintenance mode'

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takyon writes:U.S. Army signs deal with SpaceX to assess Starlink broadband

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

takyon writes:Women with Neandertal gene give birth to more children

takyon writes:GE switches off light bulb business after almost 130 years

takyon writes:Bankrupt OneWeb seeks license for 48,000 satellites, even more than SpaceX

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Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

Phoenix666 writes:Terrestrial bacteria can grow on nutrients from space:

Phoenix666 writes:Melting ice reveals an ancient, once-thriving trade route:

Phoenix666 writes:Scientists develop the most heat-resistant material ever created:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Scientists finally crack nature's most common chemical bond: Carbon-hydrogen bonds in hydrocarbon molecules have resisted functionalization until now:

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martyb writes:NB: Video feed is live right now. Launch is scheduled for 1.5 hours from the time this story goes live, i.e.the launch has an instantaneous launch of 20:43 UTC or 16:43 EDT. See yesterday's stories about this launch and for a timeline and additional background information:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Audi parks driver for using a ringer in charity esports race:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:US lawmakers get a second shot at forcing FBI agents to obtain a warrant before they leaf through web histories:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for GrandFireWizard:eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Twitter adds label to Trump's misleading tweets about mail-in ballots:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:The 'Cow' mystery strikes back: Two more rare, explosive events captured:

New iOS Jailbreak Tool Works on (most) Versions of iOS 11 to iOS 13.5upstart writes in with an IRC submission:New iOS Jailbreak Tool Works on (most) Versions of iOS 11 to iOS 13.5:

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takyon writes:YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China's Communist Party

martyb writes:For background on the launch, please see: Spacex - Crew Dragon Demo 2 Launch - 2020-05-27 20:33 UTC (16:33 EDT)Here is the timeline for the upcoming SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 launch slated for an instantaneous launch window of 2020-05-27 20:33 UTC (16:33 EDT):(Note: all times are approximate)Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

(NB: A timeline of events before and after the launch are at SpaceX Crew Dragon Demo-2 Launch Timeline)takyon writes:Crew Dragon Demo-2

Phoenix666 writes:Phys.org:

takyon writes:Arm's New Cortex-A78 and Cortex-X1 Microarchitectures: An Efficiency and Performance Divergence

upstart writes in with an IRC submission:Intel and AMD shouldn't panic yet, but this Chinese vendor has repacked a Xeon CPU:

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So at it turns out, being cooped up due to COVID-19 causes your local resident NCommander to go on a retro computing spree. Last time, I dug into the nuts and bolts of Hello World for Windows 1.0.. Today, the Delorean is ready to take us to 1993 — the height of the "Network Wars" between Microsoft, Novell Netware, and many other companies competing to control your protocols — to take a closer look at one of Microsoft's offerings: Windows for WorkgroupsAs with the previous article, there's a YouTube video covering most of the content as well as: a live demonstration of Windows for Workgroups in action, my personal experiences, and the best startup chimes of the early 90s.If the summary doesn't make you relive all those General Protection Faults, then slip past the fold to see what all the hubbub was about for Windows for Workgroups compared to its younger brother, Windows 3.1.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

martyb writes:Worth their salt: Researchers report first case of hexagonal NaCl:

Internet Archive Adds "Context" with Warningstakyon writes:The Internet Archive is warning users about debunked 'zombie' coronavirus misinformation

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