U.S. intelligence says Ukraine will fail to meet offensive’s key goal (www.washingtonpost.com)
An invasive hornet that hunts honeybees is spotted in the U.S. for the first time (www.npr.org)
Agriculture officials are raising the alarm after an invasive yellow-legged hornet was seen near Savannah, Ga. The insects are devastatingly effective at preying on honeybees and other pollinators....
Astronomer Claims 'Direct Evidence' of Gravity Breaking Down (www.vice.com)
What’s that saying again? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence? I don’t think we’re quite there yet, but for all of you MOdified Newtonian Dynamics fans (and Dark Matter haters) out there here’s a bit of good news.
Republican Rep. Says China Hacked His Emails Thanks to Microsoft Bug (gizmodo.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is One Of 2023's Best Games, Don't Turn It Into A Weapon (kotaku.com)
The success of the Dungeons & Dragons RPG has kicked off a fiery debate about game development, AAA costs, and players’ expectations
Opinion | AI Causes Real Harm. Let's Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype (www.scientificamerican.com)
Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky sentenced (in absence) to 8 years in prison for criticizing Russia's invasion of Ukraine (www.pcgamer.com)
Fortunately for Glukhovsky, he is not actually in Russia, and was sentenced in absentia. His current whereabouts are unknown.
Research shows snoops can decipher keystrokes during Zoom calls (techxplore.com)
Z-Library Rolls Out Browser Extensions in Anticipation of Domain Name Troubles (torrentfreak.com)
World's First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials — 'Every Dentist's Dream' Could Be A Life-Changing Reality (finance.yahoo.com)
World’s First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials — ‘Every Dentist’s Dream’ Could Be A Life-Changing Reality::A pioneering dental medicine project in Japan is making strides toward clinical trials, with the aim of becoming the world’s first tooth-regrowing treatment, according to the country’s national...
Winning (preview.redd.it)
BBC News - Henrietta Lacks: Family of black woman whose cells were taken settle case (www.bbc.co.uk)
Digging Into the Odd History of Blade Runner’s Title (www.vulture.com)
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
On the future of free long term support for Linux distributions (utcc.utoronto.ca)
The reality is that reliable backports of security fixes is expensive (partly because backports are hard in general). The older a distribution version is, generally the more work is required. To generalize somewhat, this work does not get done for free; someone has to pay for it....
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Scientists vacuumed animal DNA from the air in a forest and the results are amazing (www.earth.com)
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (www.eff.org)
Road maze stumps drivers in French village (www.euronews.com)
The NES at 40: Seven ways it changed the gaming world forever (www.engadget.com)
US Capitol rioter who beat officer with flagpole sentenced (www.bbc.co.uk)
Does Elon Musk (or CEO Linda) know about FedNow? (www.cnbc.com)
The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.