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1166 An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian:
<i>The gut microbiome is the sum total of all the micro-organisms living in a person's gut, and has been shown to play a huge role in human health. New research has found probiotics -- usually taken as supplements or in foods such as yoghurt, kimchi or kefir --
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"very severe disturbance." "Once the probiotics had colonized the gut, they completely inhibited the return of the indigenous microbiome which was disrupted during antibiotic treatment," said Eran Elinav, an immunologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and lead author on the studies.
1168 The scientists also compared the gut microbiomes of the gut intestinal tract of
25 volunteers with that of their stools. They found that stool bacteria only partially correlated with the microbiomes functioning inside their bodies.
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11 strains of very commonly used probiotics and the other were given a placebo. Of those who were given probiotics, he said,
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5. The information stolen includes customer names, email addresses, home addresses and payment card information -- but not travel or passport details. Sky News reports:
<i> In an email to affected customers, BA said:
"We're deeply sorry, but you may have been affected. We recommend that you contact your bank or credit card provider and follow their recommended advice. We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. Please accept our deepest apologies for the worry and inconvenience that this criminal activity has caused." The breach has been
"resolved" and the website is
"working normally," it said. In a statement, the airline added:
"We have notified the police and relevant authorities... [and] will continue to keep our customers updated with the very latest information. We will be contacting customers and will manage any claims on an individual basis." </i><br>
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1480 Hikers, park rangers, and summer residents of Iceland's northernmost peninsula are
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<i> Despite or because of its remoteness, Iceland ranks first on a U.N. index comparing nations by information technology use, with roughly
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570 square kilometers (
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</i> Northwest Iceland's representative, Halla Signy Kristjansdottir, is in favor of adding cell towers for the safety of sailors and travelers in the area.
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<i>Wednesday, Valve, the company that operates the huge online video game store Steam, shared more details about
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"outright trolling." "It is vague and we'll tell you why," Valve wrote.
"You're a denizen of the internet so you know that trolls come in all forms. On Steam, some are simply trying to rile people up with something we call 'a game shaped object' (ie: a crudely made piece of software that technically and just barely passes our bar as a functioning video game but isn't what 99.9% of folks would say is "good.
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1638 Valve goes on to explain that some trolls are trying to scam folks out of their Steam inventory items (digital items that can be traded for real money), while others are trying to generate a small amount of money through a variety of schemes that have to do with how developers use keys to unlock Steam games, while others are trying to "incite and sow discord.
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1796 "I think if you took a hard look at the acquisition of WhatsApp and Instagram, the argument that the effects of those acquisitions have been anticompetitive would be easy to prove for a number of reasons,
" says Wu. And breaking up the company wouldn't be hard, he says. "What would be the harm? You'll have three competitors. It's not 'Oh my god, if you get rid of WhatsApp and Instagram, well then the whole world's going to fall apart.' It would be like 'Okay, now you have some companies actually trying to offer you an alternative to Facebook.'
" Breaking up Facebook (and other huge tech companies like Google and Amazon) could be simple under the current law, suggests Wu. But it could also lead to a major rethinking of how antitrust law should work in a world where the giant platform companies give their products away for free, and the ability for the government to restrict corporate power seems to be diminishing by the day. And it demands that we all think seriously about the conditions that create innovation. "I think everyone's steering way away from the monopolies, and I think it's hurting innovation in the tech sector,
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" reports Fast Company. "A soft 'skirt' on the device is covered with sensors. As it travels through pipes, propelled by the flowing water, suction tugs at the device when there's a leak, and it records the location, making a map of critical leaks to fix.
" From the report: <i> MIT doctoral student You Wu spent six years developing the design, building on research that earlier students began under a project sponsored by a university in Saudi Arabia, where most drinking water comes from expensive desalination plants and around a third of it is lost to leaks. It took three years before he had a working prototype. Then Wu got inspiration from an unexpected source: At a party with his partner, he accidentally stepped on her dress. She noticed immediately, unsurprisingly, and Wu realized that he could use a similar skirt-like design on a robot so that the robot could detect subtle tugs from the suction at each leak. Wu graduated from MIT in June, and is now launching the technology through a startup called <a href="http://watchtowerrobotics.com/
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2108 The National Academies Press has released a 156-page report, called "<a href=
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" concluding that blockchains are not safe for the U.S. election system. "While the notion of using a blockchain as an immutable ballot box may seem promising, blockchain technology does little to solve the fundamental security issues of elections, and indeed, blockchains introduce additional security vulnerabilities,
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" It continues: "In the particular context of elections, voters need to be authorized as eligible to vote and as not having cast more than one ballot in the particular election. Blockchains do not offer means for providing the necessary authorization. [...] If a blockchain is used, then cast ballots must be encrypted or otherwise anonymized to prevent coercion and vote-selling.
" The New York Times summarizes the findings: <i> The cautiously worded report <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/
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2734 Open .git directories are a bigger cybersecurity problem than many might imagine, at least according to a Czech security researcher who <a href="https://www.scmagazine.com/home/news/
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2890 <a href="/~MAXOMENOS
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