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Quickkeen writes:Billionaire industrialist David H. Koch, who with his older brother Charles was both celebrated and demonized for transforming American politics by pouring their riches into conservative causes, died Friday at 79.The cause of death was not disclosed, but Koch Industries said Koch, who lived in New York City, had contended for years with various illnesses, including prostate cancer.https://www.twincities.com/2019/08/23/ap-source-billionaire-david-koch-has-died-at-age-79/

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984Ring asks police not to tell public how its law enforcement backend works

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984Valve says turning away researcher reporting Steam vulnerability was a mistake

Mercedes spies on drivers by secretly installing tracking devices in cars and passing information toMrPlow writes:Submitted via IRC for FatPhil

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196Heat shield just 10 atoms thick to protect electronic devices: Atomically thin heat shields could be up to 50,000 times thinner than current insulating materials in cell phones and laptops

takyon writes:YouTube Disables 210 Channels That Spread Disinformation About Hong Kong Protests

takyon writes:Disney whistleblower told SEC the company inflated revenue for years

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196An AI privacy conundrum? The neural net knows more than it says

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984Da Vinci Hidden Painting | New 'Virgin of the Rocks' Painting

martyb writes:SpaceX is planning to attempt its highest hop ever of its new Starhopper prototype. This rocket is designed to test out certain capabilities and performance characteristics that will inform the development of SpaceX's upcoming Starship rocket (formerly known as BFR — Big 'Falcon' Rocket).

Anonymous Coward writes:I was going to post this to a particular story, but thought this might generate more attention and discussion as a general submission.Seriously, what is going on with all these troll mods? Just because you disagree with someone, thus earning a "disagree" mod, does not mean that person is a "troll." To steal a definition from Urban Dictionary:

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martyb writes:Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency:

FatPhil writes:https://www.fudzilla.com/news/49241-french-solar-road-was-a-failure

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takyon writes:Waymo is making some of its self-driving car data available for free to researchers

takyon writes:Chicago Police Department Piloting Samsung DeX in Vehicle

takyon writes:Space telescope would turn Earth into a giant magnifying lens

takyon writes:One could fly to Mars in this spacious habitat and not go crazy

takyon writes:Chicago Tribune Claims iPhone Radiofrequency Radiation Levels Measured Higher Than Legal Safety Limit in Tests

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196This new YubiKey will offer dual security for Apple users – TechCrunch

martyb writes:I just finished updating the certs for SoylentNews.We get our certs through Let's Encrypt. Yes, we could automate the whole process, but it has been discussed and decided that given our... unique configuration, it is best to have a human in the loop than to let a script somehow run amok and then try to restore things when who-all-knows-what got deployed and things have gone sideways.I have checked our web sites for production, dev, and staff as well as sending and retrieving e-mail; all seemed to be okay.More than anything else, this is a check on us to see if we (well, me, actually) overlooked anything. If you do detect any issues, please post a comment to this story.(Hat tip to The Mighty Buzzard for standing by in case I bollixed up something.)[Update: Unless, of course, you cannot post a comment to this story! Then pop onto the #Soylent channel on our Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server and let us know over there. --martyb]Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow2718Router Network Isolation Broken By Covert Data Exfiltration

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196China Now Has AI-Powered Judges

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196Adwind Spyware-as-a-Service Attacks Utility Grid Operators

takyon writes:Microplastics in water not harmful to humans, says WHO report

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devs

aristarchus has prompted this story:According to BNN, Baltic News Network, quoting Al Jazeera reporting, the Italian government has collapsed.

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196We have spotted 8 more mysterious repeating radio bursts from space

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196What's driving more women to drink?

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upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196iOS 12.4 Jailbreak Released After Apple Unpatches Older Bug

takyon writes:Mission to Jupiter's Icy Moon Confirmed

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for SoyCow3196A cyberattack could wreak destruction comparable to a nuclear weapon

upstart writes:Submitted via IRC for BytramRIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81

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RandomFactor writes:Warner Brothers has just announced plans to make a fourth installment in the iconic world of The Matrix.

takyon writes:Tesla pitches a solar rental program to boost its renewable energy business

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

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takyon writes:The five technical challenges Cerebras overcame in building the first trillion transistor chip

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