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upstart writes:UK's internet watchdog puts storage and file-sharing services on watch over CSAM:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Published: March 13, 2025 5.53pm CETTobacco's hidden friendly side: how the controversial plant could be used for good of pharmaceutical production on Earth and beyond.

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upstart writes:Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-iguanas-world-colonize-fiji-genetic.html

upstart writes:Amazon is killing a privacy feature to bolster Alexa+, the new subscription assistant:

upstart writes:People are using Google's new AI model to remove watermarks from images:

upstart writes:Michael Faraday's illustrated notes that show how radical scientist began his theories at London's Royal Institution to go online:

Ken_g6 writes:People really are getting dumber. Futurism echoes a paywalled Financial Times report:

liar writes:https://deltiasgaming.com/forget-windows-11-steamos-for-desktops-may-be-released-soon/

JoeMerchant writes:A new concept of quantum gravity arising from entropy may be useful not only in the ever-present need to explain dark energy and dark matter, but might also edge closer to a grand unified theory of everything that we observe, and infer from our observations.

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BenFenner writes:For the third time in recent memory, CloudFlare has blocked large swaths of niche browsers and their users from accessing web sites that CloudFlare gate-keeps. In the past these issues have been resolved quickly (within a week) and apologies issued with promises to do better:

VLM writes:From https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/03/nist-selects-hqc-fifth-algorithm-post-quantum-encryptionNIST has chosen a new algorithm for post-quantum encryption called HQC, which will serve as a backup for ML-KEM, the main algorithm for general encryption.

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Quaise Energy reaches back to push geothermal power forwardtaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/energy/quaise-energy-reaches-back-push-geothermal-power-forward/

upstart writes:Apple's encrypted data case against the UK government has begun in secret at the Royal Courts of Justice:

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SpaceX launches astronauts for long-awaited International Space Station crew swap:

canopic jug writes:Author, sysadmin, and Grumpy BSD Guy, Peter N M Hansteen, has written a post about Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and how they relate to all software, both proprietary and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). Increasingly maintaining a machine-readable inventory of runtime and build dependencies in the form of an SBOM is becoming the cost of doing business, even for FOSS projects.

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-rapidly-population-crocs-impacting-australia.html

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upstart writes:Advanced transmission technologies could sidestep permitting challenges and clear the bottleneck holding up hundreds of gigawatts' worth of renewable-energy projects:

upstart writes:Humans have a third set of teeth: Scientists discover medicine to grow them:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-attention-limitations-idea-thieves-workplaces.html

upstart writes:Exclusive: General Fusion fires up its newest steampunk fusion reactor:

owl writes:https://apnews.com/article/conveyor-dune-oil-sand-texas-hydraulic-fracturing-1e98b8438de8dfa687118599ec2ff7f4

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-03-psychological-booster-shots-resistance-misinformation.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-warns-users-to-update-firefox-before-certificate-expires/

upstart writes:Woolly mice are cute and impressive - but they won't bring back mammoths or save endangered species:

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upstart writes:DOGE axes CISA 'red team' staffers amid ongoing federal cuts:

upstart writes:Where will the 'Blood Moon' total lunar eclipse be visible in March 2025?A total lunar eclipse on March 13-14, 2025, will be visible across Earth's night side:

Fnord666 writes:The Hacker News has an interesting article on a PHP-CGI RCE flaw that is being exploited in the wild.

upstart writes:Disney is reportedly cutting staff across ABC News Group and its entertainment network as media layoffs continue:

upstart writes:Short-cut method pinpoints a galaxy apparently formed from just hydrogen and helium:

canopic jug writes:These days most ISPs allow self-hosting to some extent. Programmer Mira Welner has published a 15-step tutorial to getting a working static web site up and running on a Raspberry Pi:

X Outage: Thousands Report Issues With Elon Musk's Platformupstart writes:X outage: Thousands report issues with Elon Musk's platform:

A Paleoarchaean Impact Crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australiaupstart writes:A Paleoarchaean impact crater in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/infosec_in_brief/

upstart writes:US supreme court weakens rules on discharge of raw sewage into water supplies:

An Anonymous Coward writes:[Ed note: Most of the headlines for this story uses the security vendor's description of this is a "backdoor", which is getting called out as deliberate clickbait and hype given the physical access needed to load malicious code --hubie]Undocumented commands found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices

anubi writes:Just how tiny can something be made...and still have it work?https://www.earth.com/news/unexpected-find-inside-the-eye-of-a-tiny-wasp-megaphragma-viggianii/

fliptop writes:CISA has warned US federal agencies to secure their systems against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Cisco and Windows systems: