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martyb writes:Extreme Solar Storms may be More Frequent than Previously Thought:

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upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow1337.PayPal withdraws support for Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency

RandomFactor writes:According Gizmodo, the control room of the badly damaged (and entombed) Reactor 4 at Chernobyl is now open for tourists. This comes

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RandomFactor writes:China's Lander Successfully Grew Some Cotton Plants on the Moon. Fruit Flies and Potatoes Didn't Fare So Well"

upstart writes in with a submission via IRC, for SoyCow1337Single reaction mixture can produce all four RNA bases

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martyb writes:We have just learned that Linode, the provider of SoylentNews' server infrastructure, is planning a number of reboots.[TMB Note]: This shouldn't mean any downtime for anything user-facing except IRC. There will be a few minutes where the comment counts won't update on the front page but those aren't realtime anyway and a few minutes where subscription updates will be delayed until the server that processes them comes back up.

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for SoyCow1337LAX bans Uber and Lyft from picking up passengers at the terminal

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for pinchyStones Gambling Hall pulls plug on livestreamed poker games after cheating allegations against regular player

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337New gel lets us spread flame retardant before wildfires start

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takyon writes:The broken record: Why Barr's call against end-to-end encryption is nuts

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RandomFactor writes:Researchers in Oxfordshire are working to 'virtually unroll' several scrolls from the library of Herculaneum.The scrolls were buried by Mt. Vesuvius which erupted in 79AD and are far to fragile to unroll physically (it has been tried with a few scrolls from this library with "largely disastrous results")Unlike other ancient scrolls, these have resisted previous efforts to scan and read them due to their use of carbon based ink.

takyon writes:Software fix planned to restore DSCOVR

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow90882,000 "Schrodinger's Cats" break record for large-scale quantum superposition

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://gizmodo.com/nearly-25-percent-of-your-cable-bill-is-bullshit-fees-1838787373

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow9088Cyber Threats to Medical Imaging Systems and How to Address Them

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for chromasOceanography satellite ends 11-year mission – Spaceflight Now

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow9088Discovery of Geost Botnet Made Possible by Attacker OpSec Fails

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martyb writes:Surprise! Copying Crummy Code from Stack Overflow Leads to Vulnerable GitHub Jobs:

JoeMerchant writes:The greatest evil visited on every complex project I have ever been under schedule pressure to ship is the: sleep X, while we wait for something else to finish. It's infinitely easier than actual signaling for readiness, and it _usually_ works fine... I guess Linux kernel devs do the same, nice that it's open source so that people with less schedule pressure are free to critique and improve it.

An Anonymous Coward writes:US Customs Officer Harasses Defense One Journalist at Dulles Airport

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ikanreed writes:Fifteen years ago this month, Professor Sir Andre Geim and Professor Sir Kostya Novoselov performed the first successful attempts at creating a synthetic monolayer of carbon atoms, a feat that would earn them a nobel prize 6 years later.The European Union graphene flagship project has put out a release celebrating progress in the field. Which includes a list of products already on the market using grapheneIt also makes some bold claims about the future of the tech

takyon writes:NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine issued a statement seen as chiding SpaceX prior to the company's Starship update presentation:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sabre-toothed-cat-1.5305505

martyb writes:Kaspersky Warns of Encryption-Busting Reductor Malware:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://abcnews.go.com/US/fbi-monitor-violent-online-threats-light-joker-premiere/story?id=66031356

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.marketwatch.com/story/hp-to-slash-7000-to-9000-jobs-over-three-years-as-part-of-major-restructuring-2019-10-03

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramHeader aches in Firefox, Tor, Brave and Chrome as HTTP opens new security holes

martyb writes:The Largest Unofficial Dice Roll In History: 216,000 Dice Spill from a Truck:

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Fnord666 writes:American Express Customer Info Accessed by Employee for Possible Fraud

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Fnord666 writes:Zendesk Security Breach May Impact Orgs Like Uber, Slack, and FCC

Fnord666 writes:WordPress Sites Hacked Through Defunct Rich Reviews Plugin

RandomFactor writes:Researchers from Japan's National Defense Medical College report they have developed an artificial blood substitute that shows comparable efficacy to normal blood in saving exsanguinated rabbits.

RandomFactor writes:For those who have followed the American Megabot's saga - Eagle 1, the giant Mecha that fought it out with the smaller and more agile Kuratas robot from Japan, is up for auction on Ebay.The auction ends at Oct 03, 2019 18:30:00 PDT, current bid is over $170k

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Urgent/11 Flaws Impact More RTOS Used by Medical, Industrial Devices

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martyb writes:U.S. to Collect DNA of All Undocumented Migrants:

upstart writes in with a submission, via IRC, for Runaway1956.States can set own net neutrality rules, court says