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Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0000
The southern pine beetle has decimated forests in its native range. Now, warmer temperatures are ushering it into vast new territories.
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Credit to Author: Jacob Dubé| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 15:00:00 +0000
My God, it’s full of magnets.
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Credit to Author: Jordan Pearson| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:00:00 +0000
A story about normalizing technology.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 05:57:00 -0700
Two weeks ago, I talked about a bug in Windows 7’s August Monthly patch rollup KB 4034664 that left many people who have two monitors reeling. After installing the security patch, the first monitor would work properly, but the second monitor could have all sorts of rendering problems.
Günter Born had a full writeup about the problem, and Christian Schwarz not only nailed the problem, but he wrote a “proof of concept” program demonstrating what was happening and when.
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Credit to Author: Becky Ferriera| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 13:00:00 +0000
The pregnant ocean predator from the Jurassic is the largest of her kind.
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Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 12:00:00 +0000
“If you’re allowed to send me an email, I’m allowed to send you an email.”
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Credit to Author: Paul Tadich| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 10:00:00 +0000
A group of architects and engineers in Ottawa are building a tiny, totally self-sufficient house that people might actually want to live in.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 03:00:00 -0700
This medical practice rolls out a new system, and when it’s done everyone has the same randomly generated temporary password, reports a pilot fish on the scene.
“I sent an email to all staff, reminding them to change their password from the temporary one that was assigned by the vendor,” fish says. “I included simple, step-by-step instructions — and I ended my email with ‘Do it now, before you forget.’
“Knowing that some wouldn’t do it, I sent a follow-up a few days later, with the following modifications:
Subject: Change Your Password — YES, this means you
If you have already changed your password, thank you. You may close this now.
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