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Submission + - Russia arrests former world chess champion Garry Kasparov (mirror.co.uk)

Submitted by ArchieBunker
ArchieBunker writes: Russia has arrested Garry Kasparov and charged him in connection with foreign agent and terrorist charges — much to the former chess champion's amusement.

The city court in Syktyvkar, the largest city in Russia's northwestern Komi region, announced it had arrested the grandmaster in absentia alongside former Russian parliament member Gennady Gudkov, Ivan Tyutrin co-founder of the Free Russia Forum — which has been designated as an 'undesirable organisation in the country — as well as former environmental activist Yevgenia Chirikova.

All were charged with setting up a terrorist society, according to the court's press service. As all were charged in their absence, none were physically held in custody.

"The court has selected a measure of restraint for Garry Kasparov, Gennady Gudkov, Yevgenia Chirikova and Ivan Tyutrin, charged with establishing and heading a terrorist society, funding terrorist activity and justifying it publicly," the court said according to Kremlin-backed outlet TASS. "The court granted the investigative bodies’ motions to remand Kasparov, Gudkov, Chirikova and Tyutrin in custody as a measure of restraint."

Kasparov responded to the court's bizarre arrest statement in an April 24 post shared on X, formerly Twitter. "In absentia is definitely the best way I've ever been arrested," he said. "Good company, as well. I'm sure we're all equally honoured that Putin's terror state is spending time on this that would otherwise go persecuting and murdering."

Submission + - Fake DMCA takedowns blocking journalists' stories (bbc.co.uk) 2

Submitted by Bruce66423
Bruce66423 writes: 'Journalists have been forced to temporarily take down articles critical of powerful oil lobbyists due to the exploitation of US copyright law, according to a new report.

'At least five such articles have been subject to fake copyright claims, including one by the respected South African newspaper Mail & Guardian, according to the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP).

'The claims — which falsely assert ownership of the stories — have been made by mystery individuals under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a law meant to protect copyright holders.'

Time for some intermediary to be required to have skin in the game so that when a takedown is shown to be false, the intermediary gets smacked? Or all DMCA notices to be issued by real people on behalf of organisations whose beneficial ownership is known?

Submission + - SPAM: Webb Telescope captures 5 different, dazzling views of a nearby galaxy

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: It only took 25 years of development, 17 years of construction, eight launch delays, and five months of alignments, but finally, the James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready for prime time. New photos released by the European Space Agency (ESA) — and an accompanying video from NASA — show images of stars taken by a fully aligned space telescope, instruments and all.

The image shows snapshots from each of Webb’s three imaging instruments, plus its spectrograph and guidance sensor. The images show a field of stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a galaxy near the Milky Way about 158,000 light-years away. If it orbits our galaxy, it would be, by far, the largest satellite galaxy. But there’s a chance it’s just passing through or slowly merging with our galaxy.
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Submission + - Anonymous hacks Russian streaming services to broadcast footage of the war (msn.com)

Submitted by sperm
sperm writes: The hacker group Anonymous has hacked Russian news channels and streaming services to broadcast footage of the war.

This latest attack has been described as the ‘biggest Anonymous op ever seen’ after Russian channels Moscow 24 and Russia 24 were made to show footage from the front line of the invasion. #Anonymous hacked into the Russian streaming services Wink and Ivi (like Netflix) and live TV channels Russia 24, Channel One, Moscow 24 to broadcast war footage from Ukraine

Submission + - U.S. Congress grills Zuck over fake accounts inciting Canadian "Freedom Convoy" (www.cbc.ca)

Submitted by Minion of Eris
Minion of Eris writes: From the article:

"The questions include, how many fake accounts Facebook identified related to the "Freedom Convoy"; when it determined they were fake; how many people saw that content; what country it originated from; what countries it was spread in; and how much money Facebook made from associated ads.The letter expressed alarm over reports that Facebook had discovered that some groups promoting the convoys had been created by fake user profiles, which were set up in content farms in Vietnam, Bangladesh and Romania."

Comment Re: Timing (Score 1) 310

by Minion of Eris (#62278445) Attached to: Canada's Major Banks Go Offline in Mysterious Hours-long Outage
THIS IS CANADA you Ass Hat, stop trying to export your history onto us. Didn't work in when you sent up the Fenians or your troops in 1812, won't work now. You realize all of the money you are sending up here is going to be seized and spent on socialized healthcare, don't you? My family left Boston around 1780-82, because we saw your fundamentalist extremism coming. I mean what can one expect from a people who thought Cromwell didn't go far enough?

Submission + - SPAM: Chinese rocket scientist defects to the West

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: He was closely working on China’s advanced hypersonic missile program, where he helped develop a mid-range hypersonic boost-glide vehicle capable of carrying DF-17 missiles to a range of up to 2,000 miles.

Making things worse for China, the defecting scientist was attached to the developmental program of hypersonic missile delivery system that China demonstrated last August for the very first time.

Sources were quoted by Daily Express as saying that the Chinese technician was able to smuggle out crucial technical data related to China’s hypersonic program, along with the intelligence that he carried in his head.
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Submission + - SPAM: New scientific paper claims octopuses are actually aliens from outer space 3

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: Where things start to get really interesting, though, is when the paper starts to discuss the arrival of cephalopods. The paper itself claims that certain cephalopods like octopuses, squid, and others arrived on the planet by falling from space, frozen in a kind of stasis.

“Thus the possibility that cryopreserved squid and/or octopus eggs, arrived in icy bolides several hundred million years ago should not be discounted,” the paper reads. The authors of the paper say that the octopus and other creatures benefit from biological features that appear to have been derived from “some type of pre-existence.”
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Submission + - SPAM: Chinese Satellite Grappled Another And Pulled It Out Of Orbit

Submitted by schwit1
schwit1 writes: “A Chinese satellite was observed grabbing another satellite and pulling it out of its normal geosynchronous orbit and into a “super-graveyard drift orbit.” The maneuver raises questions about the potential applications of these types of satellites designed to maneuver close to other satellites for inspection or manipulation and adds to growing concerns about China’s space program overall.”
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Submission + - Race is on to reach sunken US plane... before China (bbc.com)

Submitted by Thelasko
Thelasko writes: The $100m (£74m) F-35C plane came down in the South China Sea after what the Navy describes as a "mishap" during take-off from the USS Carl Vinson.

The jet is the Navy's newest, and crammed with classified equipment. As it is in international waters, it is technically fair game.

Whoever gets there first, wins.

The prize? All the secrets behind this very expensive, leading-edge fighting force.

"The F-35 is basically like a flying computer. It's designed to link up other assets — what the Air Force calls 'linking sensors to shooters'."
China doesn't have that technology so getting their hands on it would give them a huge leap forward.

Submission + - Covid-19 infection can reactivate the latent retroviruses in human DNA (phys.org)

Submitted by He Who Has No Name
He Who Has No Name writes: In a synopsis posted Monday, John Hewitt at Phys.org points out some fairly unsettling implications of an ugly trick by Covid-19 (more formally, SARS-CoV-2) — it wakes up latent viruses that we are born with in our DNA.

A quick version for those not familiar with virology: retroviruses are a subclass of viruses that leave copies of their RNA in the host cell's DNA as part of their replication process, the reverse of the way most viruses replicate (that's where the 'retro' part comes from). Latent, inactive sequences of retroviral DNA make up more than 1% of the human genome. We're literally born with them in our genes.

Now back to Covid's latest trick. From the article:

"Transposable elements, or jumping genes, are now known to be responsible for many human diseases. Keeping them repressed by methylation, RNA binding, or the attentions of the innate immune system is a full-time jump for cells.

Last week, we reviewed the activation of one particular kind of transposable element, the Line-1 retrotransposons, in an ever-expanding host of neurodegenerative conditions. Retrotransposons derive from human endogenous retrovirus (HERVs) but typically have lost their signature long terminal repeat sequences at the beginning and ends of their genes.

On Tuesday, a real zinger was dropped onto the medRxiv preprint server that could potentially explain many of the commonly observed pathogenic features of SARS-CoV-2. The authors provide solid evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein activates the envelope (ENV) protein encoded by HERV-W in blood cells, which is in turn directly responsible for many pathological features of the disease."

While this is all analysis of preprint research, the evidence and implied results are very much in line with other long-term effects from Covid infection, especially neurocognitive symptoms, known to long haul Covid patients as "brain fog". Given that other research is showing long haul Covid cognitive symptoms are more accurately detected by the cognitive function test specifically used for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorder (HAND) compared to standard function tests, the implication of retroviral elements to the puzzle of PACS (Post-Acute Covid Symptoms, the official term now in use for long haul Covid) is disturbing.

The good news: only about 20-30% of people infected with Covid appear to be susceptible. This is, however, conspicuously in line with other data analysis showing that about 1 in 4 Covid victims has PACS / long haul symptoms after the acute infection stage...

Comment NO! (Score 1) 17

by Minion of Eris (#62207053) Attached to: Is Omicron really just a consent-free vaccine?
If you get a vaccine and boosters (and as a result do not contract CoVid), you do not allow the virus an opportunity to use you as a breeding ground for another variant. I know that community sounds an awful lot like commie to some folks, but for F sake there is such a thing as social responsibility.

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