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On May 11, 2021 at 6:42:33 AM UTC, https://slashdot.org/ was accessible when tested on AS42772 in Belarus.
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Amazon "<a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/amazon-seized-and-destroyed-2-million-counterfeit-products-in-2020/">seized and destroyed" over 2 million counterfeit products</a> that sellers sent to Amazon warehouses in 2020 and "blocked more than 10 billion suspected bad listings before they were published in our store," the company said in its first "<a href="https://assets.aboutamazon.com/96/a0/90f229d54c8cba5072b2c4e021f7/amz-brand-report.pdf?ots=1&slotNum=0&imprToken=54bcac0d-c0bc-fff7-b7d&tag=arstech20-20&linkCode=w50">Brand Protection Report</a>." Ars Technica reports: <i> In 2020, "we seized and destroyed more than 2 million products sent to our fulfillment centers and that we detected as counterfeit before being sent to a customer," Amazon's report said. "In cases where counterfeit products are in our fulfillment centers, we separate the inventory and destroy those products so they are not resold elsewhere in the supply chain," the report also said. Third-party sellers can also ship products directly to consumers instead of using Amazon's shipping system. The 2 million fakes found in Amazon fulfillment centers would only account for counterfeit products from sellers using the "<a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ots=1&slotNum=1&imprToken=54bcac0d-c0bc-fff7-b7d&tag=arstech20-20&linkCode=w50&nodeId=G239KSGYPUFUY8TQ">Fulfilled by Amazon</a>" service.
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The counterfeit problem got worse over the past year. "Throughout the pandemic, we've seen increased attempts by bad actors to commit fraud and offer counterfeit products," Amazon VP Dharmesh Mehta wrote in a <a href="https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/amazon-brand-protection-report?ots=1&slotNum=2&imprToken=54bcac0d-c0bc-fff7-b7d&tag=arstech20-20&linkCode=w50">blog post</a> yesterday. Amazon's new report was meant to reassure legitimate sellers that their products won't be counterfeited. While counterfeits remain a problem for unsuspecting Amazon customers, the e-commerce giant said that "fewer than 0.01 percent of all products sold on Amazon received a counterfeit complaint from customers" in 2020. Of course, people may buy and use counterfeit products without ever realizing they are fake or without reporting it to Amazon, so that percentage may not capture the extent of the problem. </i><br>
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Developers are <a href="https://www.axios.com/salaries-game-developers-break-silence-8f03c4aa-216e-4043-80dc-0376c606b926.html">sharing their salaries on Twitter under the hashtag #GameDevPaidMe</a> to encourage pay transparency in their industry. Axios reports: <i> The hashtag started circulating last year, but has returned periodically as developers fight for better working conditions. Salary sharing is a way to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/02/19/magazine/salary-sharing.html">equalize the field</a>. By removing the secrecy, as well as the stigma, around discussing pay, workers have more power to advocate for themselves when negotiating salaries and raises. In 2020, Blizzard employees shared their salaries anonymously via a spreadsheet to compare compensation. The pay gap between people at the top, and workers on the ground is measurable in hundreds of thousands of dollars -- even when those CEOs take pay cuts.
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<br>A lead designer on "Hearthstone" working for Blizzard Entertainment: "<a href="https://twitter.com/IksarHS/status/1391287902366171137">I started getting paid fairly</a> once I started asking questions. I only started asking questions once I better understood what I was worth. Understanding what your worth can be a difficult question, but this helps."
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A lead designer at Blackbird Interactive: "<a href="https://twitter.com/Gaohmee/status/1390713930608119815">Every single person</a> who plays games should take a good look at #GameDevPaidMe and get a sense for what the people who make your art actually make."
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The Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Pfizer and BioNTech's request to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/10/pfizer-covid-vaccine-fda-clears-use-in-kids-ages-12-to-15.html">allow their Covid-19 vaccine to be given to kids ages 12 to 15 on an emergency use basis</a>, allowing states to get middle school students vaccinated before the fall. The two-dose vaccine is already authorized for use in people 16 and older. CNBC reports: <i> Acting FDA Commissioner Dr. Janet Woodcock said the decision brings "us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic." She assured parents that the agency "undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all available data" before clearing it for use in the teens. The companies said in late March that the vaccine was found to be 100% effective in a clinical trial of more than 2,000 adolescents. They also said the vaccine elicited a "robust" antibody response in the children, exceeding those in an earlier trial of older teens and young adults. Side effects were generally consistent with those seen in adults, they added.
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Vaccinating children is seen as crucial to ending the pandemic. The nation is unlikely to achieve herd immunity -- when enough people in a given community have antibodies against a specific disease -- until children can get vaccinated, health officials and experts say. Children make up around 20% of the total U.S. population, according to government data. Between 70% and 85% of the U.S. population needs to be vaccinated against Covid to achieve herd immunity, experts say, and some adults may refuse to get the shots. Though more experts now say herd immunity is looking increasingly unlikely as variants spread. </i> The report notes that the same two-dose regimen that's use for people 16 years of age and older will also be used for kids ages 12 to 15. FDA approval for kids under age 12 could come in the second half of the year.<br>
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An anonymous reader <a href="https://www.pcgamer.com/amd-is-biting-at-intels-server-market-share-with-its-largest-gains-in-over-a-decade/">shares a report</a>:<i> The first few months of 2021 have been absolutely massive for AMD and Intel. According to the latest report from Mercury Research, the first three months of 2021 saw the largest yearly increase in shipments of CPUs in a quarter of a century, and second only to the final moments of 2020 in terms of raw volume. You'd be perhaps surprised to learn that Intel has gained a touch in overall x86 market share in Q1 2021, whereas AMD reportedly lost out. There's only a percentage point in it: a 1% gain for Intel and a 1% loss for AMD, though. Far from major gains in either direction.<br> <br>
Mercury Research puts that down to an increase in budget chip shipments for Chipzilla, which tallies with other figures out of the tech giant as of late. But where Intel has gained in mobile processor market share, it loses out marginally in desktop. That's where AMD's Ryzen processors are seemingly crushing it, and despite some difficulty sourcing the top-tier chips, such as the Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 9 5900X, AMD is still managing to make gains within the market predisposed to Intel processors for so long. [...] But perhaps the biggest win in AMD's eyes is the 1.8% increase in server market share quarter to quarter, and 3.8 percent year on year. That means its Epyc processors are selling supremely well against Intel's Xeon chips, and the market that AMD will be most determined to get more of a footing in.</i><br>
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In the absence of humans, the region around Chernobyl is <a href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/05/09/the-world-s-most-unlikely-nature-reserve-wildlife-is-thriving-in-chernobyl">being reclaimed by nature</a>. From a report:<i> 35 years ago a total of 350,000 people were evacuated from the territory after one of humanity's worst nuclear disasters. Ukrainian authorities say the area may not be fit for humans for another 24,000 years. Today, however, it serves as Among the Chernobyl exclusion zone, endangered animals thrive, including the stunning Przewalski's horses. For many decades they were considered the last truly wild horse in the world. In the 1970s they were almost rendered extinct in the wild, but a captive breeding program managed to rescue the species from extinction. Today, several hundred live in the wild in the steppes of Asia and in Europe, but there's also a steadily growing population - to the surprise of many - in Chernobyl.</i> <b>Further reading</b>: <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-57011695">Chernobyl alcohol drink seized by authorities</a>.<br>
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Gas flaring worldwide <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/10/climate/gas-flaring.html">decreased by 5 percent in the pandemic year</a>, mostly because of lower demand for oil, according to a recent report from the World Bank. From a report:<i> While the overall drop was expected, the report offered a detailed picture of the flaring activities around the world, with steep declines in some areas, like the United States, and surprising increases in others, notably China. Flaring occurs when the gas that emerges with crude oil is burned off rather than captured. That burning emits carbon dioxide, a gas that is the main contributor to climate change. According to World Bank officials, flaring adds roughly 400 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions to the atmosphere every year. According to the report, Russia was responsible for more flaring overall than any other country in 2020, contributing 15 percent of the global total. But within Russia, there were areas of progress. Burning continued to decrease in the Khanty-Mansi region of Siberia, where flaring volumes have dropped by nearly 80 percent over the previous 15 years.</i><br>
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A fast-spreading strain of Covid-19 first identified in India, the scene of one of the world's most fearsome outbreaks, <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/who-cites-concern-on-variant-from-india-seen-spreading-quickly">will be classified as a variant of concern by the World Health Organization</a>. From a report:<i> The global health group will publish a detailed report Tuesday on the variant, called B.1.617, said Maria van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead officer on Covid-19. "There is some available information to suggest increased transmissibility," she said at a media briefing on Monday. A study of a limited number of patients that has not undergone peer review also suggested that the mutant can evade some key antibodies, she said. "As such, we're classifying this as a variant of concern at the global level." India's health system has been stretched to the breaking point by a virus wave that's proving highly lethal and difficult to control. The country has reported more than 300,000 new virus infections for the past 19 days straight. Fearing an influx of infections and mindful of the new variant, countries including Singapore, the U.K. and Tanzania have curbed travel to and from India.</i><br>
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