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canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are reporting that Teitoevry, based in Finland, has been breached by the Akira ransomware crew. The compromise affects electronic health records, movie ticket sales, some universities and colleges, and some regional authorities and municipal councils among their Swedish customers:Officials in Uppsala County, located on the east-central coast of Sweden, launched crisis management plans after the region's patient medical record system went offline and some financial systems became unavailable, warning that the situation could deteriorate unless the systems are restored quickly.BankInfoSecurity: Ransomware Hit on Tietoevry Causes IT Outages Across Sweden

fliptop writes:Although X owner Elon Musk suggested that forcing users to pay for verification would help to weed out the bots (aka automated accounts) on the platform, that does not appear to be the case:

taylorvich writes:https://techxplore.com/news/2024-01-mini-robots-insects-smallest-lightest.html

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fliptop writes:From the Abstract:

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taylorvich writes:https://spectrum.ieee.org/nuclear-powered-cargo-ship

fliptop writes:There's an old saying about the news business: If you want to make a small fortune, start with a large one:

canopic jug writes:Forty years ago in January of 1984 was the launch of Apple's then new, graphical PC, the MacIntosh. Many sites are covering the milestone. What are Soylentils' thoughts on the different stages of MacIntosh hardware and software over time? Its old operating system, its current Mach microkernel plus Darwin-based operating system, and choice of CPUs have been quite defining. Has it lived up to the ambition of becoming a tool to amplify human intellectual capacity, a bicycle for the mind, of sorts? Have people learned how use computers or do the computers now use them?

SomeGuy writes:Write the amount you wish to pay someone on a piece of paper, and mail it in. Simple. No expensive computing device needed, no browser dependencies, no compatibility headaches, and no web site to get hacked.But getting your check to where it needs to go has become a lot more difficult lately.This last year has seen a huge increase in mail drop box break ins. The once familiar blue drop boxes around the country are either being covered up or removed. Even the post office is warning, don't send checks through the mail. The attacks on the postal service have continued.CBS News reported that Pittsburgh-area post office collection boxes were broken into. Boston.com reports on a string of mail collection box thefts at post offices and strip malls. In Tampa Bay, ABC Action News reports of brazen thieves stealing checks from mail as postal workers pick it up. But now even taking your check directly in to a post office is not a guarantee. WSBTV in Atlanta reports a postal employee was fired for stealing thousands of checks.Paying most bills with cash has already been not an option for a long time. New, more secure mail pickup boxes are on the way. A spokesperson for the Postal Inspection Service emphasizes "There is no plan to stop until the mail is secure,"But, will the problems be solved before digitally enamored begin to look down on and ignore checks like they do landline telephones? Will rampant crime leave us with no other alternative than electronic payments?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:Understanding the Implications of CentOS Stream 8 End-of-Life on Enterprise E...:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-wooly-mammoth-movements-earliest-alaska.html

JoeMerchant writes:Paper mills are bribing editors at scholarly journals, Science investigation finds | Science | AAAS

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/01/game-developer-survey-50-work-at-a-studio-already-using-generative-ai-tools/

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taylorvich writes:https://www.construction-physics.com/p/what-happened-to-the-us-machine-tool

upstart writes:Japan makes history with tense, successful moon landing:

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/isolder-tissue-soldering-wounds/

upstart writes:Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers:

fliptop writes:The future of Sports Illustrated looked dire Friday after the publisher of the diminished outlet announced mass layoffs because its license to use the iconic brand's name in print and digital was revoked:

canopic jug writes:Software engineer and security researcher, Adnan Khan, has found and published a supply chain attack carried out via Microsoft GitHub's runner images. The project used in the proof of concept is PyTorch.

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taylorvich writes:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2024/01/240116131836.htm

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owl writes:https://blog.tidelift.com/will-the-new-judicial-ruling-in-the-vizio-lawsuit-strengthen-the-gpl

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AnonTechie writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/inventor-of-ntp-protocol-that-keeps-time-on-billions-of-devices-dies-at-age-85/

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Massive Data Dump Containing Millions Of Passwords Sparks Security AlertArthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-insect-populations-flourish-habitats-solar.html

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canopic jug writes:Multiple sites are covering a PNAS article on the prodigious quantities of nanoplastics in bottled water.

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-audible-human-species-convey-important.html

JoeMerchant writes:The Isotope Effect: Bigger Than Science Ever Imagined

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-amazing-incredible-superb-effect-high.html

upstart writes:Zero-Click Bluetooth Attacks Pose Serious Threat Across Major OSes:

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/energy/dirt-powered-fuel-cell/

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-01-rice-lines-africa-virus.html

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JoeMerchant writes:Scientists swapped out carbon for perovskite semiconductors to demonstrate the power of a future PeLED technology.

hubie writes:Unstaffed tills were supposed to revolutionise shopping. Now, both retailers and customers are bagging many self-checkout kiosks.

Apple AirDrop Leaks User Data Like a Sieve. Chinese Authorities Say They're Scooping It Up.upstart writes:Chinese authorities are exploiting a weakness Apple has allowed to go unfixed for 5 years:

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NYT reports that USA greenhouse gas emissions reduced last year. They open with a graph of U.S. electricity generation by source from 2005-2023 showing natural gas, nuclear, coal and renewable power generation. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/climate/us-carbon-emissions-2023-climate.html or https://archive.is/wNgDx

upstart writes:The Saudi-backed builder of high-end EVs is not having an easy time: