netpipe June 27, 2021

Energy News – France Passes Green Rooftop Law

CBC | Canada News – First phase of vaccine certification going live in July for travellers entering Canada

CBC | Canada News – Police smash couple’s living room window with armoured vehicle in drug raid that finds nothing

CBC | Canada News – Fully vaccinated woman died with COVID-19 at Kitchener, Ont., long-term care home

CBC | Canada News – Canada to announce easing of some travel restrictions after passing vaccination threshold

CBC | Canada News – Out-of-control wildfire west of Edmonton forces evacuation

Slashdot – Microsoft Admits to Mistakenly Signing a Malicious Malware Rootkit

Slashdot – As US Govt Releases UFO Report, ‘X-Files’ Creator Remains Skeptical

Slashdot – Report Finds Phone Network Encryption Was Deliberately Weakened

Slashdot – Earth is Trapping ‘Unprecedented’ Amount of Heat, NASA Says

Slashdot – Scientists Are Teaching Drones To Hunt Down Human Screams

Slashdot – California Offers Digital Record of Coronavirus Vaccination

Slashdot – Oregon Has Legalized Human Composting

Slashdot – Chinese Startup Unitree Begins Selling a Headless Robot Dog for $2,700

Slashdot – mRNA Companies are Now Testing Cancer-Fighting Vaccines

Slashdot – What Happened When an Entire Town Went Full Crypto

Slashdot – A Rural County’s New Universal Basic Income Experiment – and the Case Against It

Slashdot – Microsoft Linux Repos Suffered 22-Hour Outage

Slashdot – How Quantum Computers are Already Untangling Nature’s Mysteries

Slashdot – Microsoft Fights Back Against Windows 11 Leak

Slashdot – Bitcoin Plunges As China’s Sichuan Province Pulls Plug On Crypto Mining

Slashdot – Google Gets a New Rival as Brave Search Opens To the Public

Slashdot – Intel Licenses SiFive’s Portfolio for Intel Foundry Services on 7nm

Slashdot – Microsoft Hits $2 Trillion Market Cap

Slashdot – A CCTV Company Is Paying Remote Workers In India To Yell At Armed Robbers

Slashdot – Growing Food With Air and Solar Power Is More Efficient Than Planting Crops

Slashdot – Kickstarter CEO: Let’s Try a 4-Day Work Week

Slashdot – Ubuntu-maker Canonical Will Support Open Source Blender on Windows, Mac, and Linux

Slashdot – Stress Turns Hair Gray, But It’s Reversible, Study Says

Slashdot – China Plans Its First Crewed Mission To Mars In 2033

New Scientist – – New Scientist – ‘Green’ bitcoin alternative Chia is leading to hard disc shortages

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Why have Elon Musk and Tesla suddenly turned against bitcoin?

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too

New Scientist – – New Scientist – World’s largest iceberg has just broken off an Antarctic ice shelf

New Scientist – – New Scientist – The world has missed its target for protecting oceans to save species

New Scientist – – New Scientist – An AI has disproved five mathematical conjectures with no human help

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Tiny self-propelling submarines could help clean up toxic waste

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Johnson & Johnson one-shot coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Climate change to blame for 37 per cent of world’s heat-related deaths

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Scotland to ease covid-19 lockdown on 5 June, but not for all areas

New Scientist – – New Scientist – The world is struggling to contain the delta variant of coronavirus

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Cattle that spend more time around humans have smaller brains

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Your ears give off alcohol and a test can reveal how much you’ve drunk

New Scientist – – New Scientist – Seagull eggs in the UK have been contaminated with plastic additives

New Scientist – – New Scientist – China has launched the first astronauts to its new space station

Scientific American – News – Why Are People with Obesity More Vulnerable to COVID?

Exploits Database by Offensive Security – [webapps] TP-Link TL-WR841N – Command Injection

Hacker News – Installing Windows 11 on Legacy BIOS Without Secure Boot

Big Think – “Laughing gas” may offer quick, long-lasting relief from depression

Big Think – Stephen Hawking’s black hole theory proved right

Big Think – Finally, a scientific cure for the hiccups

Big Think – Pangolins are being trafficked to extinction in black market

Hack a Day – Tiny Tesla Valves Etched in Glass

Hack a Day – Review: Inkplate 6PLUS

Hack a Day – A Laser Display Board Of Your Very Own

Hack a Day – A Collection of Linux Tools on Steroids

Hack a Day – Active Ball Joint Uses Spherical Gear

Hack a Day – Will We Soon Be Running Linux On SiFive Cores Made By Intel?

Hacker News – Ribosome – A simple generic code generation tool

Hacker News – Gramps – Free Genealogy Software

Hacker News – The Ice-V: a simple, compact RISC-V RV32I implementation in Silice

Hacker News – Japan government backs 4-day workweek

Hacker News – JPEG XL

Hacker News – LibreCellular

Hacker News – NEORV32: A customizable RISC-V SoC

Hacker News – John McAfee found dead in Spanish jail after court approves extradition to US

The Hacker News – NVIDIA Jetson Chipsets Found Vulnerable to High-severity Flaws

ScienceDaily: Latest Science News – New CRISPR 3.0 system for highly efficient gene activation in plants

Slashdot – Massive Human Head In Chinese Well Forces Scientists To Rethink Evolution

MIT News – CSAIL – Robotics – Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) – Robots – Artificial intelligence – There’s a symphony in the antibody protein the body makes to neutralize the coronavirus

INHABITAT – Taste-testing the latest versions of Beyond and Impossible burgers

INHABITAT – Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to fund nuclear reactor in Wyoming

INHABITAT – New plant-derived polymer could replace single-use plastics

INHABITAT – Oyasai Crayons are a plant-based coloring option made from food waste

MIT News – Biology – Genetics – biophysics – Ultrasound has potential to damage coronaviruses, study finds

The Register – openSUSE leaps to 15.3 – now built with ‘same binary packages’ as SUSE Enterprise

The Register – Wine 6.0.1: For that one weird app on that one weird Mac

Home – Toshiba shrinks solid-state lidar for transport infrastructure

Scientific American – News – Adolescents Can Finally Get Vaccinated against COVID

Scientific American – News – Why Deadly ‘Black Fungus’ Is Ravaging COVID Patients in India

Scientific American – News – Stars Made of Antimatter Might Be Lurking in the Universe

Scientific American – News – AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans

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