Charlotte Web shares a report from CNN: Apple, along with Amazon and Google, effectively kicked Parler off the internet in the wake of the January 6 US Capitol siege. Despite criticism that Big Tech wields too much power over speech, Apple CEO Tim Cook defended his decision. “We looked at the incitement to violence that was on there,” Apple CEO Tim…
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Scientists zoom in on HIV inside a test tube, find critical steps in infection
The experiments highlight the role of the virus’s cone-shaped shell in infection. Source: https://www.livescience.com/hiv-infection-replication-test-tube.html
Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Shows Promising Result In Animal Tests
Moderna’s vaccine candidate against Covid-19 protected against the virus in a trial that inoculated 16 monkeys, an encouraging step on the path to a defense for humans against the pandemic. Bloomberg reports: Two injections of the vaccine protected against heavy exposure to the virus at two different levels of dosage, Moderna said in findings published Tuesday in the New England Journal…
What Linus Torvalds Gets Wrong About ZFS
Ars Technica recently ran a rebuttal by author, podcaster, coder, and “mercenary sysadmin” Jim Salter to some comments Linus Torvalds made last week about ZFS. While its reasonable for Torvalds to oppose integrating the CDDL-licensed ZFS into the kernel, Salter argues, he believes Torvalds’ characterization of the filesystem was “inaccurate and damaging.” Torvalds dips into his own impressions of ZFS itself,…