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Cold Case Inquiries Stall After Ancestry.com Revisits Policy For Users(2025-12-09 00:00:04)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Since online genealogy services began operating, millions of people have sent them saliva samples in hopes of learning about their family roots and discovering far-flung relatives. These services also appeal to law enforcement authorities,...
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Taiwan Cries Censorship As Government Bans Rednote(2025-12-08 20:00:16)

Longtime Slashdot reader hackingbear writes: Taiwan's government has ordered a one-year block of a popular, mainland Chinese-owned social media app Xiaohongshu, also known as The Little RedNote, citing its failure to cooperate with authorities over fraud-related concerns. Taiwan's Ministry of the In...
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Denmark Posts Its Last Letters as Hallowed National Mail Ends(2025-12-08 15:00:04)

Denmark's postal service, established by King Christian IV four centuries ago as one of Europe's first modern mail systems, will stop delivering letters on December 30, ending a tradition that once saw riders given a maximum of 45 minutes to cover each 10-kilometer stretch of routes running from Ham...
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Paramount Skydance Launches Hostile Bid For WBD After Netflix Wins Bidding War(2025-12-08 10:00:07)

Paramount Skydance is launching a hostile bid to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after it lost out to Netflix in a months-long bidding war for the legacy assets, the company said Monday. CNBC: Paramount will go straight to WBD shareholders with an all-cash, $30-per-share offer. That's the same bid WBD re...
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Was the Airbus A320 Recall Caused By Cosmic Rays?(2025-12-08 05:00:04)

What triggered that Airbus emergency software recall? The BBC reports that Airbus's initial investigation into an aircraft's sudden drop in altitude linked it "to a malfunction in one of the aircraft's computers that controls moving parts on the aircraft's wings and tail." But that malfunction "seem...
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