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Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law::The law would require a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” on all porn sites.

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried headed for jail after judge revokes bail::Sam Bankman-Fried is heading to jail after a U.S judge on Friday revoked his bail, finding probable cause that the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange tampered with witnesses at least twice.

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This interview is 2 months old, but I haven’t seen it discussed so far and given the news about reddit’s new cryptobeaniebabies, here it goes. This is a critique of the tech hype cycle, LLMs, VR, the metaverse failure, NFTs and cryptocurrencies with a refreshing historical awareness of past attempts that failed, like second...

Scientists at Fermilab close in on fifth force of nature::Physicists believe that an unknown force could be acting on sub-atomic particles known as muons.

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X terms of service has right to take back username. X ported his followers over to new account at least, he said. Vaught is still using X, though he did set up account on Threads and Mastodon.

Car companies like Honda, BMW, and Hyundai are banding together to build an EV-charging network bigger than Tesla’s Supercharger empire::Tesla has been building out its Supercharger network for over a decade. Now legacy car companies are taking a page from Elon Musk’s playbook.

Texas could get a 205-mph bullet train zipping between Houston and Dallas::The proposed electric railway line could travel 240 miles in under 90 minutes for over 6 million passengers per year.

FYI to all the VS Code peeps out there that malicious extensions can gain access to secrets stored by other VS Code extensions as well as the tokens used by VS Code for Microsoft/Github....

What alternative to ‘postman’ do you like the most for simply testing a bunch of REST services?

Lyft wants to kill surge pricing.::The number of Lyft rides that were affected by surge pricing dropped 35% from the first quarter, according to CEO David Risher.

‘A wake up call for opponents of net zero’: Government predicts gas power will be three times more expensive than renewables by 2025::undefined

US eyes Australia as test site for missiles to counter China::undefined

China’s tech titans scramble to buy $5 billion of Nvidia chips as US bans investment in key Chinese sectors, report says::Alibaba, TikTok-owner Bytedance, and other Chinese tech giants have reportedly rushed to order Nvidia chips as US-China trade tensions mount.

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Rogue AI bot is giving recipes for human flesh and chlorine gas::undefined

In a pivotal moment for the autonomous transportation industry, California chose to expand one of the biggest test cases for the technology.

Hackers Rig Casino Card-Shuffling Machines for ‘Full Control’ Cheating::Security researchers accessed an internal camera inside the Deckmate 2 shuffler to learn the exact deck order—and the hand of every player at a poker table.