The world's largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley (techcrunch.com)
Angry Call of Duty Fans Are Review-Bombing the Wrong Modern Warfare 3 (www.ign.com)
Angry Call of Duty Fans Are Review-Bombing the Wrong Modern Warfare 3::Poor Modern Warfare 3. No, not the new one. The original one, from 2011. It’s getting review-bombed by angry Call of Duty fans who seem a bit confused about which Call of Duty is which.
An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones (www.cbsnews.com)
An emergency FEMA alert test will sound Oct. 4 on all U.S. TVs, radios and cellphones::On Wednesday, Oct. 4, FEMA and the FCC will launch a nationwide test of the emergency alert system.
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientists who laid foundation for messenger RNA vaccines (www.washingtonpost.com)
Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to scientists who laid foundation for messenger RNA vaccines::undefined
New York sues crypto firms for losing over $1 billion (www.theverge.com)
When social media silences sex workers, we all lose. (joanwestenberg.medium.com)
iPhone 15's USB-C Port Remains Limited to Lightning Speeds (www.macrumors.com)
FAA clears UPS delivery drones to fly beyond visual line of sight (www.theverge.com)
Drones to fly without spotters on the ground monitoring route and skies for other aircraft
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates (www.businessinsider.com)
A hidden consequence of the gig economy is that workers keep asking customers for sex or dates::“People have the right to order a pizza … without then being asked for sex or a date.”
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors (www.cityam.com)
Bill Gates-backed nuclear contender Terra Power aims to build dozens of UK reactors::A Bill Gates-backed clean energy player is hoping to build dozens of nuclear reactors in the UK and will compete with global rivals.
Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density (sopuli.xyz)
RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.
Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing 'truth decay' (inqld.com.au)
Defence force top brass shares fears about AI causing ‘truth decay’::Australia’s defence force chief General Angus Campbell has warned artificial intelligence might harm democracies through “truth decay,” as people are unable to distinguish fact from fiction.
India's Chandrayaan 3 makes historic Moon landing (www.bbc.com)
India’s Chandrayaan 3 makes historic Moon landing::The Vikram lander touches down to become the first spacecraft to land near the Moon’s south pole.
'TikTok brain' may be coming for your kid's attention span (theweek.com)
‘TikTok brain’ may be coming for your kid’s attention span::Emerging research suggests that TikTok’s rapid-fire short videos are affecting the attention spans of its younger users, making it harder for them to engage in activities that require more sustained attention.
Biden releases AI executive order directing agencies to develop safety guidelines (www.theverge.com)
The executive order comes after a series of non-binding agreements with AI companies....
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert (www.theguardian.com)
AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses, warns expert::A leading researcher, who will attend this week’s AI safety summit in London, warns of ‘real threat to the public conversation’
Google Flights will now tell you when it's the cheapest time to book | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours (www.thestar.com)
How Canada poached 10,000 tech workers from the U.S. — in just 48 hours::Canadian tech employers want the immigration ministry to extend the program launched last month — and it’s just common sense it should, David Olive writes.
Apple's 'Tetris' movie ripped off tech writer's book, lawsuit says (www.reuters.com)
New Orleans police use of facial recognition nets zero arrests in nine months (lailluminator.com)
New Orleans police use of facial recognition nets zero arrests in nine months::undefined
Does Gmail want to be instant messaging? New UI experiment says “yes” (arstechnica.com)
Angry Birds, Stack: Israeli ads showing Hamas atrocities pop up in children’s video games (www.smh.com.au)
Angry Birds, Stack: Israeli ads showing Hamas atrocities pop up in children’s video games::Maria Assis’ six-year-old was shocked by the ad in his puzzle. Israel has spent $2.3 million on internet ads since Hamas’ October 7 attack.
Amazon trials humanoid robots to 'free up' staff (www.bbc.co.uk)
A union said Amazon had “been treating their workers like robots for years”....
Intel demos 528-thread chip with 1TB/s of optical bandwidth (www.theregister.com)
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans (qz.com)
AI bots are so good at mimicking the human brain and vision that CAPTCHAs are useless - The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans::The bots’ accuracy is up to 15% higher than that of humans
