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Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Financial data was sent to Meta by TaxAct, H&R Block, and TaxSlayer:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:The state's Railroad Commission is investigating whether the 5.4-magnitude quake last week was a natural event:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.zdnet.com/article/artemis-mission-orion-spaceship-completes-lunar-flyby/

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/21/eu_reaches_agreement_on_satellite_iris/

hubie writes:The study found that robots aren't replacing humans at the rate most people think, but people are prone to exaggerate the rate of robot takeover:

Runaway1956 writes:https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/effs-atlas-surveillance-database-now-documents-10000-police-tech-programs

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/21/technology/microsoft-activision-deal.html

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/341033-eu-mulls-putting-data-centers-in-space

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/340973-new-archer-midnight-evtol-air-taxi-promises-quick-trips-to-the-airport

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://www.wired.com/story/genetically-engineered-mosquitoes-population/

looorg writes:https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/63694132So according to NASA humans could be living on the moon, for long periods of time, before the end of the decade. So from more or less nothing to (pre-) colonization in about seven (or eight) years then. At least the moon is closer then Mars, but you are probably still borked if something goes wrong.

Linode have made a further announcement:We will be performing an emergency service-affecting network maintenance in our US-Central (Dallas) data center from 00:00 (CST) until 04:00 (CST) [(06:00 until 10:00 UTC)] on Wednesday, November 23rd. This maintenance is to address issues identified from the incident that occurred earlier today at our US-Central (Dallas) Data Center. At this time, we believe the root cause is isolated to a single redundant switch pair. During this service-affecting maintenance, customers may see an increased chance of increased latency or packet loss.Linode is experiencing problems in its Dallas Servers. This is having a knock on effect on our availability so you may experience some site issues. We are aware of the problems but there is nothing we can do.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-use-a-laser-to-kick-an-electron-out-of-a-molecule/

Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/21/23470759/leap-second-scrapped-2035-time-computer-chaos

takyon writes:Lab-Grown Meat Moves One Step Closer to Reality With FDA Green Light

hubie writes:NRL Engineers Ready Innovative Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites (RSGS) Payload for Launch:

fab23 writes:The publication of Top Zeus Botnet Suspect "Tank" Arrested in Geneva from Brian Krebs as usual gives some insight of the inner working of such "organizations":

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/17/uk_forces_newport_fab_sale/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.sciencenews.org/article/meteorite-uk-winchcombe-earth-water-asteroids

fab23 writes:Last week Bruce Schneier published An Untrustworthy TLS Certificate in Browsers and now Ian Carroll has published Security concerns with the e-Tugra certificate authority.Ian is best known for the death of the EV (Extended Validation) certificates. He legally registered a colliding entity name and then got an EV certificate for his site stripe.ian.sh. As this site is not online any more, a good write up of this is Extended Validation Certificates are (Really, Really) Dead by Troy Hunt.Troy Hunt is also known for his website ';--have i been pwned?.Schneier suggests that it might be time to disable / remove trust for the following Certificate Authorities (CAs):

An Anonymous Coward writes:There's a change in behavior when the plasma starts burning, and nobody knows why:

takyon writes:India follows EU's example in requiring USB-C charging for smart devices

So, to say the last week has been a dumpster fire is drastically underselling what I've been through. This, combined with having to put things in place to migrate off Twitter, and otherwise deal with all the fallout of that hot mess has, to put it frankly, put free time at something of a premium, hence why this post took so long. For those who missed it, I did fairly long overhaul of our backend, upgrading boxes from Ubuntu 14.04, and rebuilding and replacing others.At the moment, the site is mostly working, with two exceptions, site search is still down, and IRC is still down. Deucalion has taken up the task of rebuilding the IRCd on modern server software, so it's time to lay down the road going forward past this point.Read past the fold for more information ...Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/apple-emergency-sos-via-satellite-hands-on/

hubie writes:American beaver populations are booming and their prolific dam building benefits river water quality so much, it outweighs the damaging influence of climate-driven droughts:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/internet/340982-first-ever-isp-study-reveals-arbitrary-costs-fluctuating-speeds-lack-of-options

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/340991-researchers-grew-bigger-vegetables-using-exhaled-co2-as-fertilizer

An Anonymous Coward writes:Morning light helps keep our internal clocks on track. Daylight saving time throws that off:

Freeman writes:Scheduling the daily five-letter puzzle is more demanding than you might think

liar writes:Earth now weighs six ronnagrams:

We all know that when somebody gets unauthorised access to your computer hardware that security is out of the window! But what if you have to leave your hardware unattended but ostensibly in a 'secure' location - your hotel room or somebody else's home? fab23 has submitted this article on what you can do if that is the case:fab23 writes:The SANS Internet Storm Center published the guest diary Evil Maid Attacks - Remediation for the Cheap:

hubie writes:'Protein hunger' drives overeating, large-scale population study shows:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.howtogeek.com/848711/waymos-self-driving-taxis-are-becoming-meteorologists/

Runaway1956 writes:The easy to use App Track Protection feature will block third party companies snooping in your apps:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/17/1063352/new-tick-borne-disease-killing-cattle-in-us/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/the-6-billion-dollar-shot-at-making-new-antibiotics-before-the-old-ones-fail/

Freeman writes:Cable company's accidental email to rival discusses plan to block competition

Runaway1956 writes:https://phys.org/news/2022-11-earth-temperature-millennia.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:Cascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected:

Fnord666 writes:This would increase the odds of finding another prehistoric human body in melting ice:

fab23 writes:Again a publication from Brian Krebs with a lot of insight and technical details (with screenshots as well):

An Anonymous Coward writes:Employee expenses were approved by posting emoji in Slack channels, DMs:

Runaway1956 writes:"You'll get to know the difference when you either die or you pass through":

Fnord666 writes:Active in dozens of advanced hacks since 2009, Billbug is still going strong:

mrpg writes:Conservation efforts and fishery management have allowed tuna and billfish to recover:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-hack-theft-crypto-tracing/

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/15/amazon-antitrust-german-fco-special-abuse-controls/

Runaway1956 writes:

fliptop writes:The tiny animated duck is a replica of a toy created by the company's founders:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.infoworld.com/article/3678178/beyond-c-the-promise-of-rust-carbon-and-cppfront.html#tk.rss_all