Danish cloud host says customers 'lost all data' after ransomware attack | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Both CloudNordic and Azero said that they were working to rebuild customers’ web and email systems from scratch, albeit without their data....
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te... (newrepublic.com)
Big Tech’s Waste “Solutions” Are a Scam | Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and inefficient cleanup promises from the te…::Rather than face hard truths about reorganizing our system to stop waste, the world is falling victim to empty and...
The best decision YouTube ever did. (lemm.ee)
‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say (www.vice.com)
Texas Revamps Houston Schools, Closing Libraries and Angering Parents (www.nytimes.com)
As part of a state takeover plan, libraries in underperforming schools are becoming spaces for disruptive students to watch lessons on computers.
San Francisco's North Beach streets clogged as long line of Cruise robotaxis come to a standstill (finance.yahoo.com)
Just one day after state officials approved massive robotaxi expansion in San Francisco, a long line of the driverless cars come to a standstill and clog traffic in North Beach neighborhood.
CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking (www.theverge.com)
You can play Starfield on PC and Xbox even if you only buy it once (www.pcgamesn.com)
Over 20,000 Wagner troops killed, 40,000 wounded in Ukraine: Prigozhin-linked channel (www.politico.eu)
In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack (arstechnica.com)
Family shares updates on Bruce Willis's dementia (news.sky.com)
Bruce Willis’s daughter Tallulah has spoken about her father’s “really aggressive” dementia and why it is so important for her family to be open about it....
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images (www.computerworld.com)
Artists lose first copyright battle in the fight against AI-generated images::But the fight may not be lost as the court allowed the artists to claim copyright infringement against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DevianArt, on workpieces that the artists had filed a copyright for.
British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million. (www.engadget.com)
British Museum is digitizing its entire collection in response to recent thefts | All of that scanning will cost over $12 million.::The British Museum is digitizing its entire collection of more than eight million pieces, at a total cost of over $12 million. This move was announced after the museum experienced a theft back in...
Amazon Let Its Drivers’ Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink (www.wired.com)
College athletes are fighting to get a cut from the billions they generate in media rights deals (apnews.com)
At a reception attended by several university presidents in Manhattan, Arizona State President Michael Crowe was asked to ponder a not-too-distant future where Sun Devils football and basketball players get a cut from the billions of dollars their sports generate in media rights deals....
Benjamin Netanyahu shouldn't lead Israel in the long run after country's 'most severe blow', ex-PM says (news.sky.com)
UN Calls Israel Order to Evacuate 1.1 Million in Gaza Impossible (www.bloomberg.com)
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Finding a Tech Job Is Still a Nightmare (www.wired.com)
Video Reveals Crucial Details of LAPD Ignoring Robbery to Catch Togetic in Pokémon Go (www.404media.co)
'The guys are going to be so jealous': Video reveals cops ignored robbery, blew a stop sign, sped over speed bumps on residential streets, and pulled an illegal u-turn, but were able to capture two very powerful Pokémon.
Thousands of WordPress sites have been hacked through tagDiv plugin vulnerability (arstechnica.com)
‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: scientists stunned by planet’s record September heat (www.theguardian.com)
The carbon emissions driving the climate crisis and rapid arrival of an El Niño event are to blame, researchers say...
Chicago woman, 104, skydives from plane, aiming for record as the world's oldest skydiver (apnews.com)
X (formerly Twitter) is worst for disinformation, per EU analysis | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
X (formerly Twitter) has been called out in the European Union for having the worst ratio of disinformation/misinformation to posts not spreading falsehoods among mainstream social networks....
Trump Suggests Feeding Migrants to Alligators at Overrun Border in Apparent Joke: ‘New Border Security, Will Work for Food’ (www.msn.com)
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they "didn't reduce carbon emissions" (www.cbsnews.com)
Lego drops prototype blocks made of recycled plastic bottles as they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions”::Danish toy giant Lego said 2 years of experimentation with blocks made from recycled plastic bottles showed they “didn’t reduce carbon emissions.”
