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upstart writes:Ancient DNA Reveals People Caught Leprosy From Adorable Woodland Critters In Medieval England:

upstart writes:Rare Interviews with Enigma Cryptanalyst Marian Rejewski - Schneier on Security:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/the-basic-programming-language-turns-60/

upstart writes:April updates for Windows 10 and 11 break some VPN software, Microsoft says:

DannyB writes:Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something elseRISC OS Open 5.30 arrives - with Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi support

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/culture/2024/04/forgotten-poem-by-c-s-lewis-published-for-the-first-time/

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taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/materials/vitrimer-recyclable-printed-circuit-board/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/email-microsoft-didnt-want-seen-reveals-rushed-decision-to-invest-in-openai/

taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-04-prehistoric-irish-monuments-pathways-dead.html

einar writes:Existing maps of the moon date back to the 1960s and 1970s. The new "Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe" took a decade in the making and is the work of over a hundred scientists. It depicts the moon in a scale of 1:2'500'000 which is twice as detailed compared to maps from the Apollo era. The maps are supposed to help future space missions. They are available in Chinese and English. A digital version for the scientific community is in the makingnature

upstart writes:A lack of brake lights could put us in danger:

upstart writes:Coca-Cola is largest known contributor of branded plastic waste, global study finds:

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taylorvich writes:https://phys.org/news/2024-04-evolution-optimized-magnetic-sensor-birds.html

upstart writes:Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference:

upstart writes:[Editor's Note: This report is contradicted by other reporting and is unreliable. There might also be a difference in what is displayed depending on from which region you access the report. This is still being investigated. The linked Wikipedia data appears to be accurate. 02/05/2024 11:58 UTC.]First US Nuclear Power Plant in Over 30 Years Goes Fully on Line - Georgia Power:

[Update 1: Added three links that were omitted from the story. --MartyB]------RamiK writes:Author reverse engineers a Kraze HD7K disposable vape (electronic cigarette):

fliptop writes:A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed:

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upstart writes:FCC Fines Major U.S. Wireless Carriers for Selling Customer Location Data:

owl writes:https://www.os2museum.com/wp/how-not-to-release-historic-source-code/

hubie writes:Ability of PlugX worm to live on presents a vexing dilemma: Delete it or leave it be:

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Wet Wipes to be Banned Across the UK Because of Plasticupstart writes:A survey found 20 wet wipes on every 100 metres of UK beach:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/no-surprise-russia-vetoes-un-resolution-reaffirming-ban-on-nukes-in-space/

taylorvich writes:https://newatlas.com/medical/cows-milk-particles-oral-rna-therapy/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/04/can-an-online-library-of-classic-video-games-ever-be-legal/

Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:Pinch of salt warning - These are Seagate's claims not independently verified.

mrpg writes:https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/18/world/pluto-heart-planetary-collision-scn/index.html

hubie writes:If 'you're doing it anyway, you might as well' get paid:

upstart writes:American Airlines keeps mistaking 101-year-old passenger for baby:

upstart writes:Not Boeing again!An emergency slide falls off a Delta Air Lines plane, forcing pilots to return to JFK in New York:

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Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:TSMC Readies Lower-Cost 4nm Manufacturing Tech: Up To 8.5% Cheaper

Frosty Piss writes:https://apnews.com/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-principal-audio-maryland-baltimore-county-pikesville-853ed171369bcbb888eb54f55195cb9cAthletic director used AI to frame principal with racist remarks in fake audio clip, police say

canopic jug writes:Over at his personal blog, Kevin Norman describes how he has modified his motorized standing desk to raise and lower on its own according to a schedule. His post DeskOps: Commanding My Desk with HTTP - How I Brought Hysteresis Problems to the Desk Where I Solve Hysteresis Problems goes into a fair amount of detail about how he went about wiring it up and the problems which arose and how he fixed them. The active part uses an ESP-32 based microcontroller to change the desk's height using the I^2C protocol.

Freeman writes:You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000

Freeman writes:Broadband lobby groups prepare lawsuit, calling rules a "net fatality"

owl writes:https://www.multicians.org/shell.html

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The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024)owl writes:https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/naming-names/#prabhakar-raghavan

hubie writes:https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/24/1091740/chinese-keyboard-app-security-encryption/

fliptop writes:A GitHub flaw, or possibly a design decision, is being abused by threat actors to distribute malware using URLs associated with Microsoft repositories,making the files appear trustworthy:

DannyB writes:FAA to require reentry vehicles licensed before launch

canopic jug writes:Gearnews has an article about use of Raspberry Pi microcomputers in digital signal processing (DSP) systems, observing that digital synthesizers are essentially computers in specialized housings. In addition to the complex software, there is a lot of work in making an enclosure with useful controls and displays. Increasingly manufacturers are building their synthesizers around the Raspberry Pi:

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyonelooorg writes:W11 rolling out ads (or "recommendations") in the start-menu. I guess this explains blocking alternative start menus. Security and Performance reasons standing in the way of the "recommendation-dollars".https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/24/24138949/microsoft-windows-11-start-menu-ads-recommendations-setting-disable

pkrasimirov writes:https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68881369

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