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DannyB writes:Good News:Linux home directory management is about to undergo major change:

takyon writes:Intel's 10th Gen Comet Lake for Desktops: Skylake-S Hits 10 Cores and 5.3 GHz

martyb writes:'Gargantuan' hail in Argentina may have smashed world record:

martyb writes:Back before computers (and cell phones!) regularly sported multi-GHz processors and GBs of memory, there was the 6502 microprocessor. It was the CPU that powered computers made by Apple, Acorn, Atari, BBC Micro, Commodore, and others. Though the 6502 was introduced in 1975, it is far from being a dead parrot!Classic 8-Bit Computing The Atari Way:

An Anonymous Coward writes:YARA version 4.0.0 has been released.YARA is the name of a tool primarily used in malware research and detection. YARA was originally developed by Victor Alvarez of VirusTotal. The name is either an abbreviation of YARA: Another Recursive Acronym, or Yet Another Ridiculous Acronym. YARA by default comes with modules to process PE, ELF analysis, as well as support for the open-source Cuckoo sandbox. [1]From the YARA github page:

takyon writes:DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.0 Spec Released: Defining Alt Mode for USB4

Phoenix666 writes:Renewable power surges as pandemic scrambles global energy outlook, new report finds:

"exec" writes:Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:Offspring may inherit legacy of their father's Toxoplasma infection

Runaway1956 provide a submission which inspired this story.Possibly paywalled: There's finally a Supreme Court battle coming over the nation's main hacking law (Alternative URL)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink

An Anonymous Coward writes:Ubuntu "mini.iso" Minimal Install .ISO for 20.04 LTS.Compared to the DVD-sized downloads for some distributions, the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS mini.iso is only 74 MB.I prefer using the mini.iso, but they moved it to a legacy directory. You can use the path on their downloads server, which appears to be HTTP only, or you can get an HTTPS connection to download it. Here is an example, from a mirror:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.pcmag.com/news/avoid-the-trash-heap-15-great-uses-for-an-old-pc

c0lo writes:Pentagon Has Finally Declassified Those Grainy UFO Videos From The US Navy:

takyon writes:$50 ODROID-C4 Raspberry Pi 4 Competitor Combines Amlogic S905X3 SoC with 4GB RAM

"exec" writes:Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

takyon writes:GPUs Unleashed: Intel Releases First Unlocked GPU Driver For OEM Systems

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists explore the power of radio waves to help control fusion reactions:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for carny:AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, Comcast extend vow to not cut off service amid COVID-19 crisis:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for TurkeyWaddle:Shade (Troldesh) ransomware shuts down and releases decryption keys:

DannyB submitted a story which was the inspiration for:After prolonged service outage, Petnet shuts down, citing coronavirus:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for TurkeyWaddle:Starship chilled. Starship pressurized. And for the first time, it didn't explode:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News:[For those who may be unfamiliar: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly "is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles [...] on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer 'underground.'" --Ed.]

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200420/06583844328/fancy-that-comcasts-network-holding-up-fine-without-usage-caps.shtml

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:On its 15th birthday, the Airbus A380 is facing retirement:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for nutherguy:Lenovo is joining Dell in the "OEM Linux Laptop" club:

martyb writes:Microsoft decrees that all high-school IT teachers were wrong: Double spaces now flagged as typos in Word:One space good, two spaces bad? (This story appears near the end of the article; scroll down to see it.)

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Amazon reportedly used merchant data, despite telling Congress it doesn't:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AnonymousCoward:Here's why "baking" damaged reel-to-reel tapes renders them playable again:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Scientists unveil how general anesthesia works: A study in mice and rat brains reveals how general anesthesia dampens high frequency brain activity by weakening synapses:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Good news for the wheat-sensitive among us: New research has heralded a promising step for sufferers of wheat sensitivity or allergy.:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:NHS rejects Apple-Google coronavirus app plan:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Researchers develop high-performance ceramic fuel cell that operates on butane gas:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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

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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: