Even Nobel Prize-winning boffins need to take the edge off sometimes For a country of habitual boozers where alcohol sales have leapt recently, Brits won’t be surprised to hear that Australian immunologist and Nobel laureate Professor Peter Doherty was sitting at his computer yesterday when he felt the urge for a stiff drink.… …read more…

A pesky polar vortex messed with the ozone layer over the Arctic. …read more Source:: CNet

An employee of controversial surveillance vendor NSO Group abused access to the company’s powerful hacking technology to target a love interest, Motherboard reported Tuesday. From the report: The previously unreported news is a serious abuse of NSO’s products, which are typically used by law enforcement and intelligence agencies. The episode also highlights that potent surveillance…

The number of reported symptoms is now up to nine, including muscle pain and a sore throat. …read more Source:: CNet

The new visual flags potential disinformation and offers legitimate news sources. …read more Source:: CNet

Today, Fedora 32 becomes available for download. From a report: It comes with GNOME 3.36 which you can read more about here. If you don’t like GNOME, it isn’t the end of the world — you can instead choose KDE Plasma, Cinnamon, MATE, and more. There is even a special ARM variant of Fedora 32…

Wireality makes virtual reality a lot more physical. Can we build a Star Trek holodeck now, please? …read more Source:: CNet

The cloud-streaming service gets a much-needed boost in game titles. …read more Source:: CNet

Matt Stroud, reporting for OneZero: In magazine profiles and on conference stages, Damien Patton, the 47-year-old co-founder and CEO of the surveillance startup Banjo, often recounts a colorful autobiography. He describes how he ran away from a broken home near Los Angeles around age 15 and joined the U.S. Navy before working as a NASCAR…

Agent Francis York Morgan is back. …read more Source:: CNet