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    Pro-Ukrainian hackers take credit for attack that snarls Russian flight travel

    That first sentence is quite a jumble, and seems to indicate that Russia's biggest airline was the result of a cyberattack :unsure: Perhaps it should read "Russia’s biggest airline cancelled dozens of flights on Monday following a failure of the state-owned company’s IT systems and which...
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    Breached water plant employees used the same TeamViewer password and no firewall

    It's been about five years since I last used TeamViewer, but my password is 36 characters long, and I just logged in with it successfully. It doesn't contain any type of quotes; I don't know if that was by design, or if there happened to be none in the random password generated for that account.
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    Metal detector enthusiasts find 6th-century Anglo-Saxon warrior’s grave

    Who ate the puppy pie under Marlow bridge? That's what I want to know.
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    Feds indict men for disguising pot payments as orders for dog toys and soda

    While someone may have attempted such things, I doubt it was widespread or successful. In particular, it's hard to see what benefit would be gained by the store claiming to be Jewish, as the rule was that Jewish-owned businesses had the option of opening on Sunday and closing on Saturday...
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    2020 looks like the year US renewables first out-produce coal

    Wouldn't that have more to do with the extensive upgrades Texas made to the grid itself as they added more wind power?
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    The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet

    Once upon a time there was a man who inadvertently dropped a freshly buttered slice of toast, and it landed butter-side up. Knowing that such a thing is generally considered impossible, he became obsessed with finding an explanation. He approached the cleverest professors around the world, but...
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    The surprisingly complicated physics of why cats always land on their feet

    Edit: Please ignore. I don't know what happened here. I was trying to reply to the earlier posts, but for some reason the quotes came out in this post and the rest came out as a separate post below.
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    Walrus attacks Russian Navy, sinking inflatable boat

    So, because Russia had French-built and US-built ships in their Navy, it means that Britain and Japan won over French and US as well? (Edit: Above is a quote of SommerAlmostGone's post—Not showing up in my post as a quote.) No, not the same situation at all. At that time Britain was the...
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    A 2,000-year-old stylus makes a point about ancient Roman humor

    One day the Latin teacher gave us the following passages to translate: Civile, es ego, Fortibus es in ero, Gnoses mari, thebe trux, Vatis inem? Causan dux. Caesar adsum iam forte, Brutus aderat, Caesar sic in omnibus, Brutus sic in at. After we'd struggled with these for a bit, he gave us a...
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    Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”

    My guess would be that the 7 terahash value is based on Jeremi Gosney attacking single iteration MD5 hashes. This probably is not representative of a typical hacker's capability. Also, I'm not convinced by their assumption that a 5,000 word wordlist is enough. An attacker using a list of 5,000...
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    Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

    You are most welcome. My introduction to Beowulf was the Donaldson translation, which I think does a good job of staying true to the original text, but I've always enjoyed Heaney's more poetic version. I also love Tennyson's translation of the Battle of Brunanburh. By the way, Project...
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    Tolkien was right: Scholars conclude Beowulf likely the work of single author

    For comparison, here are four translations of one passage: Then a powerful demon, a prowler through the dark, Nursed a hard grievance. It harrowed him To hear the din of the loud banquet Every day in the hall, the harp being struck And the clear song of a skilled poet Telling with mastery of...
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    Good news for the 1,000mph car as Bloodhound gets a new owner

    They haven't actually moved very far. As the crow flies, the new site is about 15 miles from the old. A minute's drive at 1,000 mph.
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    Climate change brings the UK’s hidden past to the surface

    I had the same thought as you when I read the headline, as I was in the UK in 1976 when the country experienced the worst drought in several hundred years. Here's a link to Wikipedia's article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Brit ... _heat_wave. That drought also led to many...
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    AV provider Webroot melts down as update nukes hundreds of legit files

    Some friends of mine insist on using Webroot because the guy in Best Buy told them to. They bought a new laptop to replace one that would BSOD after 10 or 15 minutes of use, and gave me the old one. I checked it with Malwarebytes, which found a couple of viruses, several trojans, and hundreds of...
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    Washington state’s new 8 megawatt-hour flow battery is the largest of its kind

    I don't think the space needed would be that much of an issue. Installed in rows as they are in the picture, with space between the rows for access, you could have more than a hundred containers per acre, for a capacity of 10-12 MW, 40-50 MWh. A 10-12 MW solar farm would probably require about...
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    “Take your sweet time”—how I scammed a tech support scammer for nearly two hours

    You can find the "rambling old man" video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWrkDOt_IfM. I love the bit towards the end when the scammer is yelling "Are you mad? Are you mad?" and telling him to "Shut up!"
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    City ISP makes broadband free because state law prohibits selling access

    I think you are confusing NC with SC. NC stopped flying the Confederate Battle Flag over the Capitol in 1978. The Stars and Bars (not the same as the better-known Battle Flag) is flown over the Capitol on Confederate Veterans Day and during ceremonies marking Robert E. Lee's birthday. It doesn't...
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    Feds strike another multi-national “tech support” scam

    I had this the other day, apparently triggered by a contaminated ad on Spotify (which was the only thing running and which is not shielded by an ad-blocker). I stepped away from the computer, and came back to find a browser with dozens of tabs open and a pop-up telling me my "Windows computer"...
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    Supermarket sues banks over chip card shift, says it lost $10K in 4.5 months

    Apparently their sales across the whole chain average just shy of $2 million per month, so $10,000 of fraud over four months is about 13 cents worth of fraud for every $100 in sales. In fact, if they are charged hefty fees for chargebacks, the actual fraud amounts might be rather less.