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    We keep finding the raw material of DNA in asteroids—what’s it telling us?

    It is telling us that analytical techniques are extremely sensitive.
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    How weak passwords and other failings led to catastrophic breach of Ascension

    Edit: I was wrong. Doesn’t NTLM use the LAN Manager hashing algorithm that splits a 14 character password into two half 7 character passwords that are then hashed? And that’s why Medin’s maths is wrong? Possibly leaving a 10 character password as two 5 character ones? I had my 14 random...
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    Hands-on with the iPhone 17 lineup, including the wispy Air and the lumpy Pro

    Hi Ars, Could we have the measurements in metric, please? Maybe as a preference in the user profile? That way US-Imperial enjoyers can be shielded from the decadence of metric.
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    CDC spiraled into chaos this week. Here’s where things stand.

    This! This is the lesson.
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    Trump admin issues stop-work order for offshore wind project

    Without the “people to do the harvesting” bit?
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    Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

    Agreed! Windmills are awesome. The term too. And I am not going to have DJ Trump decide which words I can use. Windmills for the win. (Full disclosure: I have quite a bit of my meager saving placed in windmill manufacture & deployment.)
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    Anti-vaccine RFK Jr. ominously creates panel on childhood vaccines

    Because the vaccine derived polio-myelitis is transmissible, that’s why. So the few cases can become many. Precisely because it is complicated, you will have to look it up yourself but for decades a trivalent oral polio vaccine was used. When one polio type was eradicated, that was taken out...
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    Anti-vaccine RFK Jr. ominously creates panel on childhood vaccines

    I am pro-vaccine but there is a complicated trade-off among polio-vaccines where the live attenuated vaccines are easier to handle and more effective but in a few cases out of a million become transmissible. On the other hand, the recombinant vaccine is a little less effective, needs to be...
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    Anti-vaccine RFK Jr. ominously creates panel on childhood vaccines

    No, it will be the Tech Bro’s bought-and-paid for J. D. Vance. If that doesn’t scare you more, I don’t know what to say.
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    Report: Intel struggles to ramp up production on new 18A manufacturing process

    So the ol’ “Fake it till we make it.” vs. “For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.” Annoyingly, the software industry often gets away with faking it.
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    CDC finally gets a director; FDA’s top vaccine regulator exits under pressure

    It is a conspiracy.
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    RFK Jr. may be about to demolish preventive health panel, health groups fear

    My Trans-pondian brethren! You guys realize that you will need to prepare for large-scale civil resistance? If not, you might lose your democracy: Proselytizing: You need to strengthen your base. Engage those who agree or are on the fence. You need to enlarge your base. Reach out to those...
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    All childhood vaccines in question after first meeting of RFK Jr.‘s vaccine panel

    Lemme guess: Their first time in Ireland but they were “Irish”? A hypothesis for you: In a nation where you can “cosplay” cultures and national identities, do you not think they would “cosplay” science and knowledge?
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    CDC can no longer help prevent lead poisoning in children, state officials say

    So? How is “winning” working out for you guys? Tired yet? For those of you who actually got off your collective couches and went out voting against this shit show in time, you are welcome over here on our side of the Pond. For the rest of you, Transpondians, you were not part of the solution...
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    Phishing attacks that defeat MFA are easier than ever. So what are we to do?

    Can anyone confirm: WebAuthn fundamentally relies on trusting the browser? Now, I use Passkeys/my Yubikeys wherever possible. And I get that at the end of the day, a system has to trust something. Finally, session credentials can be stolen. virve
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    Trump cements control of Federal Trade Commission with 3-0 Republican advantage

    My US American friends, the time for action is now. I cannot tell you how but the time is now. Otherwise, you will only have democracy by name. The time for idle words is over. I am gravely concerned.
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    Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

    I presume it was sarcastic but it is still wrong: rate is (stuff) per (unit time)
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    Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans

    You? Win? Sorry, Hoffman was talking about him winning. What part of that was not clear?
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    CDC rocked by top-level departures, loss of $11.4B in COVID funding

    Just don’t do testing. Easy.
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    Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter

    Whaddy mean? It is a social program. Just not for you. virve