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

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

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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

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/10/facebook-reddit-and-others-need-a-deepfakes-plan-now-senators-say/

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Are fitness trackers the future of healthcare?

DannyB writes:From ArsTechnica: Men hack electronic billboard, play porn on it

takyon writes:Microsoft's new custom Surface processors with AMD and Qualcomm: an inside look

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takyon writes:Microsoft Surface Duo Is a Foldable Device That Runs Android Apps and Can Make Calls

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramBrave new world: Simple changes in intensity of weather events 'could be lethal'

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramCould the female orgasm be a happy remnant of evolution?

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramTop web browsers 2019: Microsoft's browser share falls to record low

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramNo need to cut down red and processed meat, study says

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takyon writes:Intel's Cascade Lake-X CPU for High-End Desktops: 18 cores for Under $1000

canopic jug writes:Several researchers working for the International Monetary Fund's Finance and Development section have written about concrete economic benefits provided by whales and their role in sequestration of atmospheric carbon. They advocate mindset recognizing the important function of oceanic ecosystems and marine life from whales and seabirds to phytoplankton. Restoring the whale populations to their pre-industrial numbers would help noticeably in mitigating climate change.

martyb writes:Ransomware Incident to Cost Danish Company a Whopping $95 Million:

c0lo writes:Reuters, BBC report on the resignation of Rep congressman Chris Collins before the enquiry into insiders trading

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramAntibiotic-resistant bacteria spread by washing machine

martyb writes:Linux to get Kernel 'Lockdown' Feature:

DannyB writes:From TechDirt: Top Oracle Lawyer Attempting to Gaslight Entire Software Community: Insists APIs are Executable:

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Meet the makers of modular – TechCrunch

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Police raid "bulletproof" hosting company run out of former NATO bunker

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for FatPhilPlan to Crush Native Mosquito Population With Gene-Edited Strain Fails

AnonTechie writes:EPFL Researchers Invent Low-Cost Alternative to Bitcoin:

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1337Logitech is buying Streamlabs for $89 million

What started it all:On 2019-08-24 13:02:01 UTC an accusation (https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33244&page=1&cid=884682#commentwrap) was made that a journal entry "It would have been posted before 6 hours ago" (i.e. posted at approximately 2019-08-24 07:00:00 UTC) was deleted by a member of the staff at SoylentNews. The circumstances surrounding the making of the Journal Entry are elaborated upon in this comment. (https://soylentnews.org/meta/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=33244&page=1&cid=885191#commentwrap)I have been with this site since before it went live. Its founding principal has been the making available of a forum whereby the community can submit stories — and post comments — to predominantly tech-related items. Further, each logged-in user has been made available the ability to post entries to their Journal.As Editor-in-Chief I took this allegation seriously and performed an independent and in-depth investigation. My findings are presented below.Note: It is not lost on me the futility of trying to prove a negative. It is for good reason that the criminal justice system in the US is founded on the principle of "innocent until proven guilty." It is not up the the accused to vindicate themselves, but for the accuser to bring sufficient evidence to bring about conviction.NB: In the course of writing this, I discovered a bug in how the site displays wide elements contained in an ECODE element. It incorrectly wraps the text onto the next line (leading to a jumbled mess) when it should, instead, provide horizontal scroll bars. Please accept my apologies for its current appearance.Executive Summary:An in-depth investigation making use of: external resources, the UI presented by SoylentNews, and ad-hoc queries of the site database (DB) failed to locate a "smoking gun", i.e. found no clear proof that a Journal Entry was posted to the site and subsequently deleted by anyone other than an author.It is my estimation that the user submitted an entry, but the site failed to receive and save it correctly. In other words, the user tripped over some kind of bug be it in the site's code, communications between the user and the site, or something else.Recommendation: When a user completes making a Journal Entry and submits it to the site, the code should respond by using the newly-created journal parameters in conjunction with the normal journal-loading code to present the journal entry to the user as confirmation that the entry was properly received and saved. That is to say, affirmative feedback of receipt, storage, and accessibility of the entryRead more of this story at SoylentNews.