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An Anonymous Coward writes:One of the Windows updates in the current cycle is for KB5034441, which addresses CVE-2024-20666. From what I can tell, exploiting this vulnerability requires physical access, so there's no risk of this being used in remote attacks. The actual risk to most users is probably very low. Still, it allows security features to be bypassed, so it should be fixed.The problem is that this update is failing for many users with error code 0x80070643. Microsoft claims that this is due to the recovery partition not being large enough on some systems, though the error code is cryptic and unhelpful. Here's what Microsoft said about that:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-eco-friendly-fungicide-alternative.html

As reported in USA Today https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2024/01/08/audacy-radio-bankruptcy/72147915007/ and many outlets:

owl writes:https://www.techdirt.com/2024/01/10/piracy-is-surging-again-because-streaming-execs-ignored-the-lessons-of-the-past/

upstart writes:NASA expected to announce 'months-long delay' for crewed Artemis moon mission:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/rac2-protein-macrophages-cannibalize-t-cells-cancer-immunotherapy/

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mrpg writes:Here are a few stories to launch into the new year:

upstart writes:Canada adds that importing its drugs will not solve America's drug pricing problems:

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canopic jug writes:The American Dialect Society has chosen the neologism "enshittification" as its 2023 word of the year:

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upstart writes:Being fully anonymous is next to impossible-but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules:

upstart writes:FDA finds chromium, a second metal contaminant, in applesauce pouches:

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upstart writes:Wickr is DeadThe app was a privacy-championing startup, before becoming an app of choice for drug traffickers and being acquired by Amazon Web Services:

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mrpg writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-method-straighten-space.html

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upstart writes:It's one of the many new connected bathroom fixtures the company is debuting at CES 2024:

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mrpg writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-transistors-based-monolayer-black-phosphorus.html

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-ancient-roman-wine-production-clues.html

upstart writes:The 200-foot Vulcan Centaur, in development since 2014, is set for its first flight and poised to make a big impact in the industry:

canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting on 13-year-old Tetris player, Willis Gibson, also known as Blue Scuti, who played until the NES version gave out. New play methods, such as rolling and hypertapping, were needed to reach a skill level where one can play as long as endurance and the software hold out. In his case it took over half an hour on the NES using rolling:

upstart writes:SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Elon Musk, US Labor Agency Says:

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upstart writes:'Giant' predator worms more than half a billion years old discovered in North Greenland:

fliptop writes:Facing more than 30 lawsuits from victims of its massive data breach, 23andMe is now deflecting the blame to the victims themselves in an attempt to absolve itself from any responsibility, according to a letter sent to a group of victims seen by TechCrunch:

Frosty Piss writes:https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/03/gentoo_starts_offering_binaries/I'm not one of these Nancy-Boys who just downloads some binaries and call it an operating system. I compiled my Gentoo, right here on my own computer, but now that's history.In what many thought might be a prank, The geeks at Gentoo announced they will now offers 20-plus gigabytes of pre-compiled binaries, from desktops to office suites, to speed up installations and updates.Although this is exactly how basically all other current Linux distributions work, it is a significant departure for Gentoo, which previously was an almost entirely source-based distro. With Gentoo, the install disk that gets you started must by definition be pre-compiled, up to now, when you install Gentoo, it fetches the source code and compiles it on your machine for your machine, specifically optimized for your computer's specific CPU and the individual functionality and configuration you chose.For now, the full range of pre-compiled binary packages will focus on x86-64 and Arm64.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/regenerate-pancreatic-beta-cells-insulin-type-1-diabetes/

takyon writes:Microsoft adding new PC button in its first significant keyboard change in decades

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/spacex-launches-first-starlink-satellites-that-will-work-with-t-mobile-phones/

fliptop writes:Over at ACM.org, Herbert Bruderer posits:

New antibiotic family kills superbugs in a way they can't resisttaylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/antibiotic-polymer-family-kills-superbugs-resistance/

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canopic jug writes:System administrator and prolific blogger, Chris Siebenmann, has a brief note that e-mail addresses are not good 'permanent' identifiers for accounts.

owl writes:https://lists.inf.ethz.ch/pipermail/oberon/2024/016856.html

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2023-12-fog-mountainous-areas.html

canopic jug writes:Daniel Stenberg of cURL fame has written about the impact of fake, LLM-generated bug reports has on his project, cURL. The main problem with LLM-generated bug reports is that they tend to be bunk while at the same time looking close enough to a real bug report as to end up wasting a lot of developer time which could have been used triaging and addressing real bugs.

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upstart writes:Some excerpts from an Ars Technica interview with historian Rebecca Simon on the real-life buccaneer bylaws that shaped every aspect of a pirate's life:

canopic jug writes:Bryan Lunduke has gone over the 2023 Linux Foundation report. He has observed that the foundation spends even less on the kernel than ever, both in absolute dollars and in percentage of the budget. It spends around 2% on Linux and 98% on everything else.

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upstart writes:Google settles $5bn lawsuit for 'private mode' tracking: