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Comment Sugar, or calories? (Score 1) 77

Sugar's a great source of empty calories, and the summary reads a lot like they've tracked the overall "free sugar" intake, but haven't bothered to compare it with overall calorie consumption. So, sure, eating lots of empty calories is bad (duh), but I'm not sure if that demonstrates that sugar, per se, is bad, or 'free sugar' is just the quickest trip to being a diabetic lardass.

Submission + - Microsoft: SolarWinds Hackers have struck again at the US and others

ytene writes: According to a report filed by CNN, the attackers behind one of the worst data breaches of all time have launched a new global attack on more than 150 government agencies, think tanks and other organizations.

This iteration of the attack was initiated when more than 3,000 email accounts were targeted, through what seems to be a compromise of a "Constant Contact email marketing account used by the US Agency for International Development".

James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, theorizes that this new assault is part of a Russian campaign plan for massive cyber attacks against the US and is part of a process of testing the new administration.

What do you think President Biden should do with respect to raising these attacks with foreign counter-parts in countries like Russia, China and North Korea? But what do you think will actually happen?
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Submission + - US Not Getting Money's Worth from ISS

greysky writes: "On the 45th anniversary of his first trip into space, astronaut John Glenn says the U.S. is not getting it's money's worth out of the International Space Station. From the article: "Diverting money from the orbiting research outpost to President Bush's goal of sending astronauts back to the moon and eventually on to Mars is preventing some scientific experiments on the space station"."

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