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upstart writes:Explained: Why a new lawsuit targeting Google & YouTube can potentially change the internet forever- Technology News, Firstpost;:

upstart writes:Microsoft's HoloLens headsets are giving US Army testers nausea:

NotSanguine writes:In a blog post today (12 October 2022), the Signal team announced that they will be removing SMS/MMS send/receive functionality from the Signal Android app.

upstart writes:Taiwan says destroying TSMC in the event of a Chinese invasion is unnecessary:

upstart writes:Delta invests in air taxi startup Joby to enable home-to-airport flights:

upstart writes:A compound that both inhibits the MRSA superbug in lab experiments and renders it more vulnerable to antibiotics has been discovered by scientists at Bath:

upstart writes:Data from DappRadar suggests metaverse platforms Decentraland and The Sandbox each have fewer than 1,000 "daily active" users, despite $1 billion valuations:

upstart writes:Peer-to-peer file sharing would make the Internet far more efficient:

upstart writes:ASUS, Acer and Lenovo built Chromebooks optimized to run services like GeForce Now:

upstart writes:"We can't force the timeline. It will happen when it happens":

hubie writes:UC Riverside physicist and colleague invoke the cosmological collider to explain why matter, and not antimatter, dominates the universe:

upstart writes:Analysts estimate SSD prices will drop 50 percent by mid-2023:

upstart writes:Metalenz ships millions of its tiny cameras and powers up with $30M B round:

upstart writes:It has a planned capacity of 40 GWh/year of lithium ion cells by end of 2025:

upstart writes:EU-US data sharing agreement: Is it a done deal?:

upstart writes:You can build a smaller PC yourself, though the NUC will take out the guesswork:

upstart writes:The orbital change was even bigger than scientists expected:

upstart writes:Soylent Advice for those on the wrong side of 50.New study questions the effectiveness of colonoscopies:

upstart writes:They will expand their coverage over the next five years:

upstart writes:Linux creator Linus Torvalds can't merge kernel code fast enough because of a particular hardware problem:

upstart writes:China semiconductor production experienced its largest-ever decline in August:

upstart writes:Prices of PCs have been trending upwards recently; that could be changing:

looorg writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/this-thermal-attack-can-read-your-password-from-the-heat-your-fingertips-leave-behind/Thermal keyboard attackWhile an interesting idea I wonder, like with a lot of these "attacks" how useful in practice they really are.The heat doesn't last very long, so you have to be there basically as you type or within seconds. After just 20 seconds the heat is dropping fast and after a minute you are basically guessing.Still 4 digit ATM pins could be in deep trouble. But then after you entered the 4 digit pin you usually push a few more numbers to get your money and make various choices at the machine. So it might be a difference between real live usage and laboratory usage.The heat or colour will then tell the order in what was used last to the keys that are fading was the once used earliest.But still unless it can tell a few keys appear that might be very similar in heat you end up with options. But then getting or guessing a password from a limited pool of characters is better or faster then guessing one from a larger pool.So the new security feature or recommendation will be to before you leave the ATM press ALL the keys or after you get your money just stand there for a minute or so and put the money into your wallet so you let the machine or the keypad cool down.How will the camera note if you use the same keys over again (AxxxxAxxxxxA)? Will it know if you hit the A key then multiple times?Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:UK govt launches procurement for tax agency systems:

canopic jug writes:Chemistry World has an article about how the best-selling organic chemistry textbook has become open access. The 10 edition of John McMurry's textbook, Organic Chemistry, will be available free-of-charge. It appears likely that it will be under one of the Creative Commons Attribution licenses.

upstart writes:DeepMind unveils first AI to discover faster matrix multiplication algorithms:

Judge delays Musk/Twitter trial, gives them three weeks to complete merger [Updated]Freeman and upstart write:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/10/musk-asks-judge-to-cancel-trial-claims-twitter-wont-take-yes-for-an-answer/

upstart writes:World's largest crypto exchange targeted in security breach:

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Dutch Court Rules that Being Forced to Keep a Webcam on While Working is Illegalupstart writes:A US company was fined $50,000 and ordered to pay the employee's wages and vacation days:

upstart writes:Stadia Developers Blindsided By Shutdown:

upstart writes:TSMC Q3 2022 Revenue Hits All-Time High Despite Slowing Demand:

upstart writes:Samsung warns of 32% hit to profits on chip slump:

upstart writes:Roller coasters are triggering iPhone 14's Crash Detection feature:

upstart writes:Tesla Removes Ultrasonic Sensors from Vehicles, Temporarily Disables Autopilot Features - ExtremeTech:

upstart writes:Apple's manufacturing moves away from China are a drop in the ocean:

upstart writes:Volocopter completes crewed eVTOL test flight out of Rome vertiport:

upstart writes:The Rust team is putting more resources into helping developers write code faster:

upstart writes:This is how we can get a high-resolution image of an exoplanet:

upstart writes:In sudden reversal, Valve will let a cult classic visual novel onto Steam:

hubie writes:Researchers at Baylor and Campbell universities found that smartphone users seeking meaning and purpose through their devices and social media could experience the opposite:

upstart writes:Bridge connecting Russia and Crimea collapses after explosion and fire - ABC News:

upstart writes:A cold winter is awaiting mobile networks and phones in Europe:

upstart writes:New Study Shows That High R&D Costs Don't Explain High Drug Prices:

canopic jug writes:Volume 189 of The PCLinuxOS Magazine has an article on Bill Gates' evil prophecy from 40 years ago where he aims for ending general-purpose computing. He achieves that goal a step at a time over the decades, with the help of many a mole and quisling. Lately, the Pluton chip and Restricted Boot play both play key roles towards ending this era of general-purpose computing. The Pluton chip is an extension of the Trusted Platform Module (TPM) used by Vista10 and required by Vista11. Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu, and even its upstream source, Debian, folded years ago in regards to secure boot by using Microsoft's signing key, possibly cementing that as the norm. The article covers that and many other incidents leading up to the current situation.There is an ever-decreasing amount of time left to keep general-purpose computing alive and the author signs off with how to approach the political maneuvers going on:

hubie writes:Researchers have measured how uncomfortable and 'creeped out' using apps can make us feel:

upstart writes:'The Onion' filed a real brief with the Supreme Court supporting man jailed for making fun of cops:

upstart writes:The Pi Shortage Pricing Changes the Equation:

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Snotnose and an AC write:Adafruit's Cheekmate gets to the bottom (ahem) of chess cheating controversy: