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martyb writes:FCC Sets Date for Major Midband Spectrum Auction for 5G:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/22/blast-from-the-past-vela-satellite-israel-nuclear-double-flash-1979-ptbt-south-atlantic-south-africa/ (may be paywalled; alternate link):

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.anandtech.com/show/14905/globalfoundries-unveils-12lp-technology-massive-performance-power-improvements

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramAbnormal gut bugs tied to worse cognitive performance in vets with PTSD and cirrhosis: Study involved more than 90 combat veterans

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow2718Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following 'Massive' Hack Attack

martyb writes:Match.com? More like Match dot-con, claims watchdog: Cyber-lonely-hearts 'lured into forking out to view bot spam':

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martyb writes:JUUL Labs Names New Leadership, Outlines Changes to Policy and Marketing Efforts – JUUL Newsroom

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow9427Messaging app Kik shuts down as company focuses on Kin, its cryptocurrency – TechCrunch

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for AndyTheAbsurdQuieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow9427Google wins fight to restrict right-to-be-forgotten ruling to EU search engines

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-49810261

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramThere's one crucial way tape still trounces SSDs and hard drives when it comes to storage...

Fnord666 writes:Source: https://www.securityweek.com/flaw-gives-hackers-remote-access-files-stored-d-link-dns-320-devices

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upstart writes in with a story, submitted via IRC, for SoyCow9427 that was the inspiration for:The BBC has posted a story, The mysterious origins of an uncrackable video game, which describes the investigation by two Game Archaeologists into the Atari 2600 game "Entombed".The article is a narration of the story outlined in the abstract: Entombed: An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game (DOI: https://doi.org/10.22152/programming-journal.org/2019/3/4) and full article (pdf):The Atari 2600 was an extremely limited device with 128 bytes of RAM, a scaled down version of the venerable 6502 processor called the 6507 which had only 13 address liness restricting it to 8 kB of addressable memory, no interrupt processing, and it had no frame buffer, so each line of pixels to be displayed had to be calculated in real time — racing the beam — so being limited to exactly 76 machine cycles per line. The paper succinctly puts it: "Given that 6507 instructions all take two or more cycles, there was no room for inefficiency."As if that were not enough of a challenge, there were no libraries in ROM, all code had to be hand-crafted. No programmer documentation meant that to even get started programming, one had to reverse engineer how the 2600 even worked.The word "uncrackable" in the title is not of the crypto flavor one would normally assume, but instead of the "How did they come up with that?" variety. Specifically: create a scrolling maze that had a path through it, all with the aforementioned hardware limitations.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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rob_on_earth writes:Surprising behaviours emerge when Open AI created a Hide and Seek game

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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://news.osu.edu/a-new-way-to-turn-heat-into-energy/An international team of scientists has figured out how to capture heat and turn it into electricity.

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for FatPhilBlack hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be getting hungrier

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramWhy are mountains so high? It doesn't add up

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramNine words to ruin your Monday: Emergency Internet Explorer patch amid in-the-wild attacks

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49800181(Note: emphasis in original.)

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for Fnord666Diamonds are forever: New foundation for nanostructures: Scientists combine glass and synthetic diamond as a basis for tiny structures

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramWestern Digital: We're just about DDN with these data centre systems

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Anonymous Coward writes:Thomas Bushnell, former maintainer of GNU Hurd until his dismissal by Richard Stallman, has opined in a biased blog post that the forced resignation of Stallman from MIT and the Free Software Foundation is deserved.https://medium.com/@thomas.bushnell/a-reflection-on-the-departure-of-rms-18e6a835fd84

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chewbacon writes:Engadget and others are reporting that contrary to the very spirit of the set-top box DVR, TiVo says all subscribers with select devices will see ads prior to playing recorded shows after a software update rolls out. TiVo says subscribers will be able to skip the ads coming in the next 90 days, but did not elaborate on this as a user says they had to fast forward through the ads. Many subscribers are angry and threatening to cancel, calling the ads a feature that devalues the service as they pay for the ability to skip ads altogether.This prompts the question: will cable companies, losing subscribers and looking to replace that revenue, do the same with their DVRs?Original article: https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/21/tivo-pre-roll-dvr-ads-for-all-users/.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramGeorgia's entire voter file potentially compromised after machine thefts

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mechanicjay writes:A developer of some Ruby Gems pulled the code as a statement against certain entities (Department of Homeland Security — DHS) ultimately using the code. Chef gets owned in the process.ZDNet has a good rundown of the incident:https://www.zdnet.com/article/developer-takes-down-ruby-library-after-he-finds-out-ice-was-using-it/It seems that developers at chef may have used an old copy of the dev's code to get things back up and running again, which seems like exactly the wrong approach.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

SemperOSS writes:At the All Systems Go conference in Berlin 20-22 September, Lennart Poettering proposed a new extension to systemd, systemd-homed.service. A video of his session can be downloaded from media.ccc.de with accompanying slides [PDF].In his presentation, Poettering outlines a number of problems he sees with the current system, like /etc needs to be writeable, UIDs need to be consistent across systems, and lack of encryption and resource management.His goals with the proposed solution are migrateable and self-contained, UID-independent home directories with extensible user records that unify the user's password and encryption key; LUKS locking on system suspend; and Yubikey support.He identifies a number of problems this new idea could cause with SSH logins, disk space assignments, UID assignments, and LUKS locking.He plans to introduce JSON user records that can be queried via a Varlink interface and to a certain extent are convertible to and from existing formats. The home directories will be stored as LUKS-encrypted files that will be managed by the proposed new service, systemd-homed.service. The system integration will be supported by pam_systemd and systemd-logind.service.It will be interesting to see how the world responds to this new take on systemd's ever-increasing encroachment of Linux.... and lastly, this story is brought to you from a systemd-free laptop.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.