Critical vulnerability affecting most Linux distros allows for bootkits (arstechnica.com)
[On the lighter side] Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved Starship explosion due to venting oxygen. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be (www.theregister.com)
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SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says (www.businessinsider.com)
SpaceX execs are accused of joking about sexual harassment and firing workers for speaking up, report says::Seven former employees say SpaceX execs joked about sexual harassment and fired workers for raising concerns, Bloomberg reported.
Boffins find AI models tend to escalate conflicts to all-out nuclear war (www.theregister.com)
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Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year (qz.com)
Tesla is the worst-performing stock in the S&P 500 this year::Worse than Etsy. Worse than Boeing. Simply the worst
TikTok Is Destroying Itself From the Inside Out (gizmodo.com)
The most obvious example is the TikTok Shop. The company is pushing its eCommerce so hard you hear about it more than any other topic on the app, both in ads and organic videos from creators hoping for a share of the profits. The app is even testing a new feature that uses AI to identify products in the background of regular...
The Icon Factory has a kickstarter fund for an app that would wrangle your feeds on iOS (www.kickstarter.com)
Tapestry would pull your many feeds together and sort them by timeline....
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
WhatsApp will soon make it possible to chat with people who use other messaging apps. It’s revealed some more details on how that will work....
Weaver: New Specialised Writing LLMs Outperform GPT-4 (arxiv.org)
Weaver introduces a new family of specialised large language models tailored for creative and professional writing. Offering models ranging from 1.8B to 34B parameters, said to outperform larger generalist models like GPT-4 by focusing on human-like text production and diverse content creation capabilities.
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer (fortune.com)
Frustrated by the constraints of Earth, a team of California scientists took tumor research to space—and may have discovered a ‘kill switch’ for cancer::With the help of Axiom 3 astronauts on the International Space Station, a cancer “kill switch” drug may make it to clinical trials before year’s end.
WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps (www.wired.com)
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Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI (gizmodo.com)
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Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle (9to5mac.com)
Spotify paid users hit 236M, but losing money, amid Apple battle::Spotify reported a mix of good news and bad in its latest quarterly earnings report. The good news was that…
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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Oh great – now Facebook and Instagram want your private data to train Meta's latest AI pipe dream (www.techradar.com)
Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages (m.economictimes.com)
Boeing reported another problem with fuselages on its 737 jets that might delay deliveries of about 50 aircraft in the latest quality gaff to plague the manufacturer....
🚨SIGNIFICANT, POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT ALERT🚨The European Mathmatical Society working with research libraries have found a way to make ALL of the research journals they publish open access, with no APC (mastodon.world)
The problem with standalone VR and "spatial computing" (www.spacebar.news)
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules (arstechnica.com)
Google and Mozilla don’t like Apple’s new iOS browser rules::Google and Mozilla want iOS’s new EU browser rules to apply worldwide.
Mozilla’s new service tries to wipe your data off the web (www.theverge.com)
Mozilla has launched a paid subscription service called Mozilla Monitor Plus, which monitors and removes personal information from over 190 sites where brokers sell data....
Bluesky is now open for anyone to join | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
After almost a year as an invite-only app, Bluesky is now open to the public. Funded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, Bluesky is one of the more promising micro-blogging platforms that could provide an alternative to Elon Musk’s X....
Introducing Mozilla Monitor Plus, a new tool to automatically remove your personal information from data broker sites | The Mozilla Blog (blog.mozilla.org)
Google’s Once Happy Offices Feel the Chill of Layoffs (www.nytimes.com)
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Smart TVs must showcase Australian free-to-air channels alongside streaming services under proposed legislation (www.theguardian.com)
Bodycam Maker Axon has acquired AI surveillance company Fusus amid a push into retail and healthcare settings (www.vice.com)
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