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Submission + - Best Matrimonial bureaus Delhi | MatchMe (matchme.co.in)

Submitted by matchmedelhi
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Submission + - Amanda Nunes Moves Back To Bantamweight, Fights Ju (totoyaplay.com)

Submitted by childfish59
childfish59 writes: By Nolan King | April 15, 2021 5:30 pm Julianna Pena called her shot, and pending bout finalization, she?ll get it. The UFC happens to be targeting Pena (10-4 MMA, 6-2 UFC) because the next challenger for Amanda Nunes for an Aug. 7 event, three people who have knowledge of the matchup informed MMA Junkie on Thursday. The fight will undoubtedly be for the UFC women?s bantamweight championship. ESPN was the first ever to report the news. The event is expected to serve as UFC 265 but does not have the official location or venue at the moment. Nunes (21-4 MMA, 14-4 UFC) moves back down to 135 poun

Submission + - CPN NUMBERS RUN AWAY | First Capital Inquiry Removal (firstcapitalinquiryremoval.com)

Submitted by firstcapitalusa
firstcapitalusa writes: Sixteen defendants targeted in a law enforcement crackdown on illegal credit repair services have agreed to settle federal charges that the “file segregation” advice and products violated federal law. The charges were brought by the Federal Trade Commission or the United States Department of Justice at the FTC’s request.

Submission + - United States Patent - grant of rights (4d-ip.com)

Submitted by larkinvelling57
larkinvelling57 writes: A United States Patent is essentially a "grant of rights" for a restricted period. In layman's terms, this is a contract in which the USA government expressly permits a person or company to monopolize a specific concept for a limited time.Typically, our government frowns upon any kind of monopolization in commerce, as a result of belief that monopolization hinders free trade and competition, degrading our economy. A good example may be the forced break-up of Bell Telephone some years back into the many regional phone companies. The federal government, specifically the Justice Department (the g

Submission + - A Kafkaesque story "My quest for fiber provided by AT&T" (henrik.org)

Submitted by Z00L00K
Z00L00K writes: When I moved to a new house about two years ago, I was disappointed to learn that there were no options for fiber-based internet in the area so I would have to take the step down to cable based internet. Fortunately, I was pleasantly surprised in September of 2020 that AT&T Fiber had added support of my area.

First try in September 2020
I ordered it as quickly as I discovered it, even though I was a bit hesitant about having people in my house as COVID cases were on the rise (I have a person in my household who is in a risk group). The person on the phone with AT&T assured me that all AT&T personnel involved with the install would be wearing a mask though, so I proceeded regardless.

The day of the appointment I was excited and had cleared my schedule. The first person to show up was not the technician, but just a salesperson that wanted to make sure I didn't have any trouble creating my AT&T account (Which I had already set up days before as per the instructions in the AT&T communication). This person also assured me that they get in trouble with AT&T if they do not wear a mask which felt reassuring to me.

About an hour later, still during the appointment window the installation technician showed up (Still within the assigned service window). We tried to figure out where the AT&T connection at my house was and eventually found it. Unfortunately, there was no fiber pulled to my house and it needed to be pulled around 100 feet from a neighbor's access point. He tried snaking the existing conduit but failed. He needed to call in a specialist that both had better snaking equipment and if that failed, they might have to do some digging to fix the conduit.

Submission + - Employment Based Green Card VA (sethimaz.com)

Submitted by sethiandmazaheri
sethiandmazaheri writes: Immigration to the United States. Sethi & Mazaheri is a law firm deeply committed to social justice, whether representing an immigrant trying to enter the United States, advocating for an individual wrongfully charged in a criminal proceeding or seeking justice for those whose constitutional rights were violated.

Submission + - Microsoft default font is changing (cnn.com)

Submitted by quonset
quonset writes: It's been almost 15 years since Microsoft changed their default font and they're looking for a new one.

The company has commissioned five new custom typefaces to replace Calibri, a workhorse of a font that has been the default for all your Word docs and Outlook emails since 2007. Calibri replaced Times New Roman (a noble type family but one with decidedly pre-internet aesthetic).

"A default font is often the first impression we make," Microsoft wrote in a blog post announcing the change. "It's the visual identity we present to other people via our resumes, documents, or emails. And just as people and the world around us age and grow, so too should our modes of expression."

You can vote for your choice on Twitter (only).

Submission + - Tesla accused of environmental rule violations in U.S. and Germany (cnbc.com)

Submitted by Rei_is_a_dumbass
Rei_is_a_dumbass writes: The EPA accused Tesla last week of failing to prove it is in compliance with federal emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants.
German authorities also fined Tesla 12 million euros for allegedly failing to fulfill their obligations around taking back old batteries from customers.

Submission + - High-Bandwidth Wireless BCI Demonstrated In Humans For First Time (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Coming on the heels of the Neuralink announcement earlier this month—complete with video showing a monkey playing Pong with its mind, thanks to a wireless brain implant—researchers with the BrainGate Consortium have successfully demonstrated a high-bandwidth wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) in two tetraplegic human subjects. The researchers described their work in a recent paper published in the journal IEEE Transactions in Biomedical Engineering. As for the latest Neuralink breakthrough, Ars Science Editor John Timmer wrote last week that most of the individual pieces of Neuralink's feat have been done before—in some cases, a decade before (BrainGate is among those earlier pioneers). But the company has taken two important steps toward its realization of a commercial BCI: miniaturizing the device and getting it to communicate wirelessly, which is harder than it sounds.

According to [John Simeral of Brown University, a member of the BrainGate consortium and lead author of the new paper], the BrainGate wireless system makes the opposite tradeoff—higher bandwidth and fidelity—because it wants all the finer details of the data for its ongoing research. In that regard, it complements the Utrecht and Neuralink systems in the BCI space. The new BrainGate system is based on the so-called Brown Wireless Device (BWD) designed by Arto Nurmikko, and it replaces the cables with a small transmitter that weighs about 1.5 ounces. The transmitter sits atop the user's head and connects wirelessly to an implant electrode array inside the motor cortex.

There were two participants in the clinical trial—a 35-year-old man and a 65-year-old man—both of whom were paralyzed by spinal cord injuries. They were able to continuously use the BCI for a full 24 hours, even as they slept, yielding continuous data over that time period. (The medical-grade battery lasts for 36 hours.) "We can learn more about the neural signals that way because we can record over long periods of time," said Simeral. "And we can also begin to learn a little bit about how people actually will use the system, given the freedom to do so." His team was encouraged by the fact that one of its study participants often asked if they could leave the wireless transmitters on a little longer. He has a head tracker he can use as a fallback, but several nights a week, he would choose to use the wireless BrainGate system because he liked it.

Submission + - China Orders Companies To Step Up Monitoring of Foreigners In Anti-Spying Campai (theguardian.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Chinese social groups, enterprises and public entities will have increased responsibility to combat foreign espionage under new regulations issued by the country’s ministry of state security. The regulations, which were released and took effect on Monday, come amid deepening hostilities between China and some western governments, including over the detention of foreigners accused of national security crimes. According to state media, state security will work with other government departments to “adjust” the list of groups susceptible to foreign espionage and to develop measures to safeguard against it, including Chinese Communist Party and state organs, social groups, enterprises and public institutions.

Once organisations are designated as having anti-espionage responsibility, state security will provide “guidance, supervision and inspection” of their efforts, including personnel vetting, and strict training, monitoring and debriefing for staff trips overseas. Identified organisations must report suspicions and incidents to authorities. It come amid increasing public campaigns to watch out for foreign spies, which state media has warned could be an “intimate lover” or “an online friend with the same interests."

Submission + - Twitter and Facebook engage in censorship on behalf of Indian Government (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by shaitand
shaitand writes: Twitter and Facebook have taken down about 100 posts in India, some of which were critical of New Delhi’s handling of the coronavirus, to comply with an emergency order from the Indian government at a time when South Asian nation is grappling with a globally unprecedented surge in Covid cases.

New Delhi made an emergency order to Twitter and Facebook to censor over 100 posts in the country. Twitter disclosed the government order on Lumen database, a Harvard University project. The microblogging network and Facebook complied with the request, and withheld those posts from users in India.

Submission + - Signal forced to give up user data which they claim not to have.. (signal.org)

Submitted by John Trumpian
John Trumpian writes: Itâ(TM)s the first half of 2021 â" nearly five years since the âoefirst half of 2016â â" but in many ways not much has changed. The United Kingdom is still trying to figure out Brexit, another Justin Bieber song hit #1 on the charts (is it too late now to say sorry?), and Signal still doesnâ(TM)t really know anything about you.

So when we received this subpoena from the United States Attorneyâ(TM)s Office in the Central District of California, it felt like 2016 all over again. Nostalgia can be great, and just like last time we got in touch with the ACLU to work with them on our response.

Submission + - China to launch Heavenly Harmony space station core module (phys.org)

Submitted by Hmmmmmm
Hmmmmmm writes: The Tianhe, or "Heavenly Harmony" module is set to be hurtled into space aboard a Long March 5B rocket from the Wenchang Launch Center on the southern island of Hainan. The launch could come as early as Thursday night if all goes as planned.

It would be the first of 11 missions to build and supply the space station for a three-person crew.

Another 10 launches will send up two more modules; four cargo supply shipments and four missions with crews. At least 12 astronauts are training to fly to and live in the station, including veterans of previous flights, newcomers and women.

When completed by late 2022, Tianhe is expected to weigh about 66 tons, a fraction the size of the International Space Station, which launched its first module in 1998 and will weigh about 450 tons when completed. Tianhe will have a docking port and will also be able to connect with a powerful Chinese space satellite. Theoretically, it could be expanded with more modules.

Submission + - Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins passed away

Submitted by jfdavis668
jfdavis668 writes: Former NASA astronaut Michael Collins passed away on April 28, 2021.

“Today the nation lost a true pioneer and lifelong advocate for exploration in astronaut Michael Collins," said acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk. "As pilot of the Apollo 11 command module – some called him ‘the loneliest man in history’ – while his colleagues walked on the Moon for the first time, he helped our nation achieve a defining milestone. He also distinguished himself in the Gemini Program and as an Air Force pilot.

Submission + - Apollo 11's "forgotten astronaut" dies (npr.org) 1

Submitted by nickwinlund77
nickwinlund77 writes: Mike Collins has passed away. While he never walked on the moon in July 1969, he piloted the ship orbiting the Moon that Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong eventually returned to.

Submission + - QNAP ransomware Qlocker ONGOING, DON'T SHUTDOWN your NAS and update apps (qnap.com)

Submitted by valinor89
valinor89 writes: Since the 22th Qnap was aware of the hack and issued a statement https://www.qnap.com/en/securi..., but most users remain vulnerable and unaware that if infected the only way to have a hope of restoring the files is to not shut down the NAS and follow instructions.
It has been reported that the hackers have already made hundreds of thousands of $ by abusing unpatched vulnerabilities and 7zip. https://www.bleepingcomputer.c...
A workarround to get the passwords was found but was patched quickly.

Submission + - Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 0.9.1 Is Released (linuxreviews.org)

Submitted by xiando
xiando writes: LKRG is a Linux kernel security module developed by Openwall for security enthusiasts, Internet-facing production servers and hosting providers that provides additional run-time integrity and security checks for the Linux kernel. The latest version adds support for CONFIG_HAVE_STATIC_CALL on Linux 5.10+ and a fix for a false positive bug on machines with SELinux enabled, and make install no longer enables it by default.

Submission + - New Bill Could Mandate Driver-Monitoring Systems In Future Cars (cnet.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The most recent crash involving a Tesla Model S and alleged connections to running driver-assist features without a driver behind the wheel spurred a lot of talk on how to handle advanced technology and its growing impact on drivers. Following Sens. Richard Blumenthal and Ed Markey's calls for enhanced guidelines from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the two introduced new legislation on Monday that aims to tackle the problem.

With Sen. Amy Klobuchar signed on as a sponsor, the Stay Aware for Everyone Act would compel the Department of Transportation to study driver-monitoring systems installed in vehicles. With findings delivered to the appropriate committees within 180 days, the Transportation Secretary would then need to finalize a rule within four years deciding if the systems should become mandatory on all new vehicles. Not just vehicles with any level of driver-assist system, like Tesla's Autopilot, but all new cars sold. Automakers would then have two model years to meet compliance with any new vehicles going on sale.

The language in this bill, however, is interesting since it covers all new vehicles, rather than vehicles equipped with advanced assist systems. Naturally, this opens up privacy concerns, and all the bill says on this front is that the Transportation Secretary would determine "appropriate privacy and data security safeguards." The SAFE Act is one of four new bills the pair of Democratic senators introduced today, proposing potential legislation to speed up recall reporting from automakers, to bolster vehicle seat backs to reduce related fatalities and to set up a system to help automakers report possible vehicle defects earlier for NHTSA to investigate.

Submission + - Long Live Popular Science

Submitted by kackle
kackle writes: I just received an email telling me that "Popular Science" magazine is
no more. That is, it is to be delivered to readers from now on only via ones and zeros. I can't say I had a subscription since it's
beginnings in 1872, but I did learn much from the rag and will sincerely miss it.

Submission + - Ask Slashdot: How Harmful are In-House Phishing Campaigns? 2

Submitted by tiltowait
tiltowait writes: My organization has an acceptable use policy which forbids sending out spam. Every few months, however, the central IT office exempts itself from this rule by delivering deceptive e-mails to all employees as a test of their ability to ignore phishing scams. For those who simply delete the messages, they are a small annoyance, comparable to the overhead of having to regularly change passwords—also done largely unnecessarily, perhaps even to the point of being another bad practice. As someone working in a departmental systems office, I can also attest that these campaigns generate a fair amount of workload from inquiries about their legitimacy. Aside from the "gotcha" angle, which perpetuates some ill will amongst staff, I can't help but think that these exercises are of questionable net value, especially with other countermeasures, such as MFA and Safelinks, already in place. Is it worth spreading misinformation to experiment on your colleagues in such a fashion?

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