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Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Againupstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Millions of Guests Impacted in Marriott Data Breach, Again:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:Authors fume as online library "lends" unlimited free books:

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upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:SpaceX releases a Payload User's Guide for its Starship rocket:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for Bytram:Bubbles go with the flow:

martyb writes:Ars Technica reports FCC requires anti-robocall tech after "voluntary" plan didn't work out:

martyb writes:T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle:

wirelessduck writes:https://www.barrons.com/articles/xerox-withdraws-hostile-bid-for-hp-citing-impact-of-coronavirus-51585688762Xerox Holdings is withdrawing its hostile bid for HP Inc., the latest example of Covid-19's wide-ranging impact on markets.Xerox (ticker: XRX) said Thursday afternoon that it will pull both its tender offer for HP (HPQ) shares and its proposed slate of directors for the HP board."The current global health crisis and resulting macroeconomic and market turmoil caused by Covid-19 have created an environment that is not conducive to Xerox continuing to pursue an acquisition of HP Inc.," Xerox said in a statement. "Accordingly, we are withdrawing our tender offer to acquire HP and will no longer seek to nominate our slate of highly qualified candidates to HP's Board of Directors."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

NotSanguine writes:Dan Goodin over at Ars Technica is reporting about an OpenWRT vulnerability in its package manager, opkg.From the article:

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for SoyCow8162:As Volvo goes electric, here's how it's making its batteries top-notch:

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:

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

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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