Evidence that we have been living in an increasingly risk-averse culture (www.writingruxandrabio.com)
HyperVerse hedge fund CEO may not exist — Investigation finds no record of identity after collapse causing an estimated $1.3 billion in customer losses (arstechnica.com)
HyperVerse hedge fund CEO may not exist — Investigation finds no record of identity after collapse causing an estimated $1.3 billion in customer losses::HyperVerse’s collapse caused an estimated $1.3 billion in customer losses.
NYPD faces backlash as it prepares to encrypt radio communications | New York | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk (www.engadget.com)
Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states’ ID requirement would put users’ privacy at risk::Montana and North Carolina are the latest to join the list of states with age verification laws for adult platforms.
11 INTRIGUING ENGINEERING MILESTONES TO LOOK FOR IN 2024 (spectrum.ieee.org)
U.S. intelligence officials determined the Chinese spy balloon used a U.S. internet provider to communicate (www.nbcnews.com)
Meta censors pro-Palestinian views on a global scale, report claims (www.theguardian.com)
This GPT-powered robot chemist designs reactions and makes drugs — on its own (www.nature.com)
A system called Coscientist scours the Internet for instructions, then designs and executes experiments to synthesize molecules.
Google plans to reorganize its ad sales unit, affecting approximately 30,000 employees.
The reorganization aims to consolidate staff and may involve layoffs. Google is increasingly relying on machine-learning techniques for ad sales on its platforms....
The Rings of Uranus Glow in Epic JWST Photo (www.scientificamerican.com)
The Rings of Uranus Glow in Epic JWST Photo::The James Webb Space Telescope caught its second glimpse of the year of Uranus and its bright-shining rings
Construction Technology - Restoring the Leaning Tower of Pisa (www.youtube.com)
Interesting dive into the technology, troubleshooting, and process behind stabilizing the Leaning Tower of Pisa....
IBM demonstrates useful Quantum computing within 133-qubit Heron, announces entry into Quantum-centric supercomputing era (www.tomshardware.com)
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents (www.wired.co.uk)
Scammers Are Tricking Anti-Vaxxers Into Buying Bogus Medical Documents::On Telegram, scammers are impersonating doctors to sell fake Covid-19 vaccination certificates and other products, showing how criminals are taking advantage of conspiracy theories.
Meta’s Threads app launches across EU in blow to competitor X (www.theguardian.com)
Meta’s Threads app launches across EU in blow to competitor X::The tech giant’s app, which launched in July 2023, first needed approval from the European Commission over privacy provisions
Why Google Pays Apple $18 Billion Every Year (open.substack.com)
Nvidia's success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you're sitting on a fortune in stock? (www.techspot.com)
Nvidia’s success is making some now-wealthy employees complacent | Why work hard when you’re sitting on a fortune in stock?::undefined
a16z will give literally any politician money if they help deregulate tech (techcrunch.com)
what is your favorite browser tab?
Yes, im talking the design of the tabs on your browser, mines opera gx, if only it wasn’t spyware (does browsers count as technology?)
Swedish labour union to stop collecting Tesla waste (www.reuters.com)
Swedish labour union to stop collecting Tesla waste::undefined
To catch a catfish (www.newstatesman.com)
As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause (arstechnica.com)
As ChatGPT gets “lazy,” people test “winter break hypothesis” as the cause::Unproven hypothesis seeks to explain ChatGPT’s seemingly new reluctance to do hard work.
why do websites think this fake user agent is blackberry browser
Mozilla, Ant Corp. Parntership/5.0 (Blackberry OS ) Ant Secure HTML/566.77 (Ant secure HTML, Like gecko) Version/4.0 Ant Browser/2.0 Ant/537.366
LogoFAIL - A malicious attack that uses the company branding on boot to run deep code that Secure Boot and Operating Systems can't detect (www.securityweek.com)
Firmware security company Binarly on Wednesday disclosed the details of an attack method that can be used to compromise many consumer and enterprise devices by leveraging malicious UEFI logo images....
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data / Congress must to have an informed public debate about the scope of the NSA's warrantless surveillance of ... (www.theregister.com)
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data / Congress must to have an informed public debate about the scope of the NSA’s warrantless surveillance of …::Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can
Apple M1 Pro beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools (www.gearnews.com)
Apple M1 Pro beats M3 Pro with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools::undefined
