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Submission + - US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded Wuhan research that created Covid (thebulletin.org)

Submitted by aberglas
aberglas writes: In https://thebulletin.org/2021/0... Nicholas Wade soberly reviews the research that was conducted by the Wuhan virology institute prior to the outbreak of Covid-19. Much of this is public as it was funded by a US NIH grant and the Wuhan Institute proudly described their research in academic publications. An open attempt to create super viruses so that they could be studied in the lab and so prepare for any possible natural outbreak.

Wade takes care not to draw conclusions, but the conclusion is obvious. They were exactly trying to enhance the spike protein on a SARS virus. They were working at Biosecurity level 2 instead of the much more painful level 4. And if it was natural then there would be animal precursors, yet none have been found.

Wade speculates that the international virologist community does not want their research to be brought into disrepute, and so actively tried to play down any talk of an accident. The NIH and Chinese governments certainly did not want it publicized. And the Trump buffoonery meant that many left leaning publications discounted the theory.

This is important, because it raises the question as to whether such research should be conducted in the first place.

Comment Re:I don't understand (Score 1) 103

Step 2: Realize you cannot beat what is free
Step 3: Try not to be extinguished
Step 4: Adapt or die
I don't know man but look at Windows phone, it's been dead for years. That's my own opinion, but if there wasn't a free Android OS, Windows Phone would still be alive and kicking. Same for BlackBerry.

Submission + - Latest Intel chips will not *only* run on Win 10 but ALSO on older versions (channelregister.co.uk)

Submitted by lord_rob the only on
lord_rob the only on writes: The latest Intel and AMD chipsets are of course also compatible with Linux, BSD and OSX.
Concerning older versions of Windows though, It's easy to misread that Windows versions before Windows 10 won't be compatible with this chipset. Maybe Microsoft made that on purpose.
The thing is: PC with latest Intel chipset must run at least Windows 10 to get support.

Submission + - Researcher determines the security of the 2016 presidential candidates' websites (sdtimes.com)

Submitted by dmleonard618
dmleonard618 writes: National security obviously plays an important role in the race to be the president, but with today becoming more digital, how important is cybersecurity? A researcher decided to take a look at the 2016 presidential candidates' websites to see how seriously they took their software and how much attention they put on security. According to the researcher, Trump ranked as one the most secure with Clinton lagging behind. “There have been previous successful breaches by hackers at Trump businesses throughout the years,” said Alex Heid, chief research officer at SecurityScorecard. “However, it seems the Trump campaign website has not yet been publicly breached.”

Submission + - ITU Give Consent to New 40Gbps Fibre-to-the-Home Broadband Standard

Submitted by Mark.JUK
Mark.JUK writes: The International Telecommunication Union has just granted first-stage approval (“consent“) to two new ultrafast Fibre-to-the-Home (FTTH) optical broadband standards. The first (NG-PON2) will support Internet download speeds of 40Gbps (Gigabits per second) and on top of that the new XGS-PON aims to deliver a symmetric 10Gbps service (same upload and download rate).

By comparison the previous XG-PON standard only ensured an asymmetric speed of 10Gbps download and 2.5Gbps upload. Now all we need is computers, Internet services and WiFi networks that can actually harness such performance in the first places.

Submission + - Release of ReactOS 0.4 brings open source Windows closer to reality (techrepublic.com)

Submitted by jeditobe
jeditobe writes: What's new in ReactOS 0.4?
The release of ReactOS 0.4 brings improved file system support, including native, out-of-the-box support for ext2, ext3, and ext4, as well as read-only support for NTFS.

Additionally, the bundled version of UniATA was updated to add better support for SATA and PATA devices. Support was generally improved for third-party device drivers, making it substantially easier to install and use real hardware, as opposed to just virtual machines like VirtualBox.

The internal WINE library was updated to improve support for Win32 programs. Support for Python 2.7 was added, making it possible to use python scripts in ReactOS. A substantial number of visual changes were added, with a vastly improved shell and file explorer, newer icons throughout ReactOS, improved support for fonts, and customizable visual themes.

Even with these improvements, ReactOS 0.4 is still generally considered alpha-level software, though Alexander Rechitskiy, the innovation manager for ReactOS, notes that 0.4.1 may be almost beta-level software.

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