Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data (www.theverge.com)
Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord as commercial real estate softens (www.cnbc.com)
Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord as commercial real estate softens::San Francisco is seeing its highest office vacancy rate since at least 2007 as Dropbox and other companies allow employees to work from home
Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation (scrippsnews.com)
Supreme Court allows White House to fight social media misinformation::Justices said the Biden Administration could continue to pressure social media firms over misleading content while a lawsuit progresses.
Space is starting to look like the better mining operation (arstechnica.com)
‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies (www.theverge.com)
‘Nothing is changing’ — Reddit is denying a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content if it can’t reach deals with AI companies::Reddit initially denied a report from The Washington Post that it might force users to log in to see content. However, the Post says it may still block...
Artificial Photosynthesis Advances: Turning Sunlight Into Fuel — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
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23AndMe Hacker Leaks New Tranche of Stolen Data (www.darkreading.com)
More Okta Customers Hacked (www.darkreading.com)
Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon (arstechnica.com)
Cisco Finds New Zero Day Bug, Pledges Patches in Days (www.darkreading.com)
The Problem with Jon Stewart cancellation highlights a problem for Apple’s content (arstechnica.com)
Feel-good story of the week: 2 ransomware gangs meet their demise (arstechnica.com)
Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon's buying and selling safeguards. (arstechnica.com)
Amazon drivers’ urine packaged as energy drink, sold on Amazon - A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.::A documentary shows how easy it is to bypass Amazon’s buying and selling safeguards.
Scientists Glimpse Parallel Realm Through The Quantum Looking Glass (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
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Google Pixel’s face-altering photo tool sparks AI manipulation debate (www.bbc.co.uk)
Intellexa: Irish-linked spyware used in 'brazen attacks' - report - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)
A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far (www.ctvnews.ca)
A month after a pig heart transplant, man works to regain strength with no rejection so far::It’s been a month since a Maryland man became the second person to receive a transplanted heart from a pig — and hospital video released Friday shows he’s working hard to recover.
EU reopens probe into Adobe's $20 billion acquisition of Figma (www.gizchina.com)
IBM's NorthPole chip runs AI-based image recognition 22 times faster than current chips (techxplore.com)
So long, small phones (www.theverge.com)
Green Light: Using Google AI to reduce traffic emissions (sites.research.google)
Green Light optimizes traffic lights to reduce vehicle emissions in cities, helping mitigate climate change and improving urban mobility
Reddit is killing blockchain-based Community Points (techcrunch.com)
Reddit is killing blockchain-based Community Points::Citing scaling issues, Reddit is shutting down its blockchain-based Community Points in favor of prioritizing other rewards programs.
AI Is Becoming a Band-Aid over Bad, Broken Tech Industry Design Choices (www.scientificamerican.com)
After decades of messy, thoughtless design choices, corporations are using artificial intelligence to sell basic usability back to consumers
Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1 (www.theregister.com)
Microsoft CEO Nadella’s compensation drops… to $48M — CEO to employee pay ratio hits 250 to 1::Try to hold back your tears as CEO to employee pay ratio hits: 250 to 1