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Submission + - Norton Anti-Virus can now hijack your computer for cryptomining (norton.com)

Submitted by JustAnotherOldGuy
JustAnotherOldGuy writes: The popular anti-virus software company Norton recently "added" a new "feature" which will "allow" the company to use your computer to mine for the Ethereum cryptocurrency whenever you're not using it. Yes, that's right: the anti-virus software wants you to let them remotely control your computer. Norton Crypto is included as part of Norton 360 subscriptions. However, there are coin mining fees as well as transaction costs to transfer Ethereum. The coin mining fee is currently 15% of the crypto allocated to the miner. Transfers of cryptocurrencies may result in transaction fees (also known as "gas" fees) paid to the users of the cryptocurrency blockchain network who process the transaction. In addition, if you choose to exchange crypto for another currency, you may be required to pay fees to an exchange facilitating the transaction. Transaction fees fluctuate due to cryptocurrency market conditions and other factors. These fees are not set by Norton.

Submission + - SPAM: Princeton Team Disables Long-Targeted Gene Behind Spread of Major Cancers

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The mysterious ways cancer spreads through the body, a process known as metastasis, is what can make it such a difficult enemy to keep at bay. Researchers at Princeton University working in this area have been tugging at a particular thread for more than 15 years, focusing on a single gene central to the ability of most major cancers to metastasize. They've now discovered what they describe as a "silver bullet" in the form of a compound that can disable this gene in mice and human tissue, with clinical trials possibly not too far away.

This discovery has its roots in 2004 research in which Princeton scientists identified a gene implicated in metastatic breast cancer, called metadherin, or MTDH. A 2009 paper by cancer biologist Yibin Kang then showed the gene was amplified and produced abnormally high levels of MTDH proteins in around a third of breast cancer tumors, and was central to not just the process of metastasis, but also the resistance of those tumors to chemotherapy. Subsequent research continued to shed light on the importance of the MTDH gene, demonstrating how it is critical for cancer to flourish and metastasize. Mice engineered to lack the gene grew normally, and those that did get breast cancer featured far fewer tumors – and those tumors that did form didn't metastasize. This was then found to be true of prostate cancer, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, liver cancer and many other cancers.

The crystal structure of MTDH shows the protein has a pair of protrusions likened to fingers, which interlock with two holes in the surface of another protein called SND1. This is “like two fingers sticking into the holes of a bowling ball,” according to [cancer biologist Yibin Kang], and the scientists suspected if this intimate connection could be broken, it could go a long way to dampening the harmful effects of MTDH. “We knew from the crystal structure what the shape of the keyhole was, so we kept looking until we found the key,” Kang says. The team spent two years screening for the right molecules to fill these holes without any great success, until they landed on what they say is a "silver bullet." The resulting compound plugs these voids and prevents the proteins from interlocking, with profound anti-cancer effects that resemble those seen in the MTDH-deficient mice from their earlier work.
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Submission + - Apple Sues NSO Group over spyware (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Apple Computer is suing Pegasus spyware-maker NSO Group and its parent company for targeting the Apple platform.

"At Apple, we are always working to defend our users against even the most complex cyberattacks," added Ivan Krsti, head of Apple Security Engineering and Architecture.

Submission + - Breakthrough by McMaster PhD student creates Laser in Silicon (mcmaster.ca)

Submitted by thisisnotreal
thisisnotreal writes: Long sought-after, and previously thought impossible — a McMaster University PhD student in Hamilton Canada demonstrates a cost-effective and simple laser in silicon.
This could have dramatic consequences for the SiP (Silicon Photonics) — a hot topic for those working in the field of integrated optics. Integrated optics is a critical technology involved in advanced telecommunications networks, and showing increasing importance in quantum research and devices, such as QKD (Quantum Key Distribution) and in various entanglement type experiments (involved in Quantum Compute)

Submission + - SPAM: New Antibody discovery cuts COVID no SLAC (k?)

Submitted by macker
macker writes: SciTech Dailay reports "COVID-19 Antibody Discovery – Neutralizes All Known SARS-CoV-2 Strains" and described it as “Inescapable”

The high-tech employed in designing this new therapy/potential vaccine included Stanford's Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (SLAC) and the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Berkeley Lab.
from the source:
"crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy findings helped generate detailed structural maps of how these antibodies bind to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, allowing the wider team to select the most promising contenders and advance them to cell culture- and animal-based studies."
Geeky enough fer ya?
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Submission + - SPAM: Physicists Detect Strongest Evidence Yet of Matter Generated by Collisions of Li 1

Submitted by omfglearntoplay
omfglearntoplay writes: According to theory, if you smash two photons together hard enough, you can generate matter: an electron-positron pair, the conversion of light to mass as per Einstein's theory of special relativity.

It's called the Breit-Wheeler process, first laid out by Gregory Breit and John A. Wheeler in 1934, and we have very good reason to believe it would work.

But direct observation of the pure phenomenon involving just two photons has remained elusive, mainly because the photons need to be extremely energetic (i.e. gamma rays) and we don't have the technology yet to build a gamma-ray laser.

Now, physicists at Brookhaven National Laboratory say they've found a way around this stumbling block using the facility's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) — resulting in a direct observation of the Breit-Wheeler process in action.
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Comment Re:Russia can't compete in the Olympics with its f (Score 1) 25

A corrupt tyrant, in charge of a communist country? Find me one that isn't, dumbass. Goes with the territory.

Educate yourself next time. You might look less ignorant.

We really need to stop calling these TOTALITARIAN asshats "Communists". China, Russia (USSR), North Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Cuba etc were NEVER actually Communist. They were/are totalitarian/one party states. As somebody said when the Berlin Wall fell and the Right was all giddy about the "victory of Capitalism" - "Communism has not been tried and failed - Communism has never been tried." ACTUAL communism is an economic theory in which the means of production are eventually owned by the workers as a direct result of increased productivity and the inherent incompatibility of late stage capitalism with reality. (ie: there is no such thing as infinite growth unless you are a cancer.)

Submission + - Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall to leave Doctor Who (doctorwho.tv)

Submitted by Dave Knott
Dave Knott writes: Having been in charge of the TARDIS since filming for the Thirteenth Doctor began in 2017, Showrunner Chris Chibnall and the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, have confirmed they will be moving on from the most famous police box on Earth.

With a six-part Event Serial announced for the autumn, and two Specials already planned for 2022, BBC One has now asked for an additional final feature length adventure for the Thirteenth Doctor, to form a trio of Specials for 2022, before the Doctor regenerates once more.

Submission + - New Spaceport Announced in Nova Scotia - Operational in 2023 (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by boudie2
boudie2 writes: Maritime Launch Services has secured financing it says will
allow it to begin construction on a spaceport facility this
fall and get its first launch off the ground in 2022.
The first Cyclone 4M medium-class launch vehicle would take
off in 2023. The company wants to construct a rocket-launching
site in Canso, Nova Scotia to send satellites into orbit for
use in near-earth imaging, communications and scientific
experiments.

President and CEO Steve Matier stated the company has been
approached by small satellite launchers, and MLS is
considering hosting one of them for a first flight to
orbit from the launch site as the facility scales up
its operations. The company is expecting additional
funding for the project will be secured through equity,
debt and launch contracts.

Submission + - SPAM: Study finds alarming levels of 'forever chemicals' in US mothers' breast milk 2

Submitted by Hmmmmmm
Hmmmmmm writes: A new study that checked American women’s breast milk for PFAS contamination detected the toxic chemical in all 50 samples tested, and at levels nearly 2,000 times higher than the level some public health advocates advise is safe for drinking water.

PFAS, or per and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are a class of about 9,000 compounds that are used to make products like food packaging, clothing and carpeting water and stain resistant. They are called “forever chemicals” because they do not naturally break down and have been found to accumulate in humans.

They are linked to cancer, birth defects, liver disease, thyroid disease, plummeting sperm counts and a range of other serious health problems.

The peer-reviewed study, published on Thursday in the Environmental Science and Technology journal, found PFAS at levels in milk ranging from 50 parts per trillion (ppt) to more than 1,850ppt.

Though researchers are concerned by the findings, newborns are difficult to study so there has not been a thorough analysis of how PFAS affect them, said Sheela Sathyanarayana, a co-author of the study and pediatrician with the University of Washington.

But she added that studies of older children and adults have linked the chemicals to hormonal disruptions and suggests PFAS harm the immune system, which could be especially problematic for infants because breast milk bolsters their immune system.
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Submission + - Facebook Had Much Bigger Part than Parler in Capitol Riot

Submitted by RoccamOccam
RoccamOccam writes: The Department of Justice has now charged 223 people for their participation in the events of Jan. 6. A comprehensive analysis of those charging documents performed by Forbes demonstrate that Parler’s role was minimal, compared to that of Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram.

Of the 223 charging documents, 73 reference posts on Facebook as evidence, 24 reference posts YouTube, 20 single out Instagram posts (owned by Facebook), and only eight highlight posts on Parler.

In the immediate aftermath, Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer, claimed “These events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate and don’t have our standards and don’t have our transparency.”

Submission + - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, supreme court justice, dies aged 87 (theguardian.com)

Submitted by AmiMoJo
AmiMoJo writes: The supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died of pancreatic cancer, the court said Friday. She was 87. Ginsburg was the second woman appointed to the court in history and became a liberal icon for her sharp questioning of witnesses and intellectually rigorous defenses of civil liberties, reproductive rights, first amendment rights and equal protections under the law. In a statement, the court said Ginsburg, who served more than 27 years on the bench, “died this evening surrounded by her family at her home in Washington DC, due to complications of metastatic pancreas cancer”. The chief justice, John Roberts, said that the nation “has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the supreme court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her – a tireless and resolute champion of justice.” Her death thrust an immediate spotlight on who might fill the vacancy on the court, with just over six weeks before the election.

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