'Power, influence, notoriety': The Gen-Z hackers who struck MGM, Caesars (www.reuters.com)
Why Is Computer Security Advice So Confusing? (scitechdaily.com)
The key takeaway here is that the people writing these guidelines try to give as much information as possible,” Reaves says. “That’s great, in theory. But the writers don’t prioritize the advice that’s most important. Or, more specifically, they don’t deprioritize the points that are significantly less important. And...
How TikTok Became a Hotbed of Brand Misinformation (www.newsweek.com)
How TikTok Became a Hotbed of Brand Misinformation::undefined
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator (arstechnica.com)
Arstechnica: “AI took my job, literally”—Gizmodo fires Spanish staff amid switch to AI translator::Meanwhile, readers say that some AI-penned articles switch languages halfway through.
Republican Rep. Says China Hacked His Emails Thanks to Microsoft Bug (gizmodo.com)
World's First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials — 'Every Dentist's Dream' Could Be A Life-Changing Reality (finance.yahoo.com)
World’s First Tooth Regrowth Medicine Enters Clinical Trials — ‘Every Dentist’s Dream’ Could Be A Life-Changing Reality::A pioneering dental medicine project in Japan is making strides toward clinical trials, with the aim of becoming the world’s first tooth-regrowing treatment, according to the country’s national...
A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work (arstechnica.com)
Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Will ultra high-res climate modeling finally convince climate deniers? (youtu.be)
Jensen Huang lays out his plan to create a digital earth model to forecast climate in this press conference. If it’s successful in predicting climate and weather patterns accurately, do you think it’ll be enough evidence to convince climate deniers?
Does Elon Musk (or CEO Linda) know about FedNow? (www.cnbc.com)
The Federal Reserve has already launched a small test of near-instantaneous financial transactions. Every time they talk about payments as a future feature of X/Twitter, I wonder if they know that’s getting Sherlocked.
BlueRock’s neuronal stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is first to show positive results in Phase I clinical study (www.bluerocktx.com)
BlueRock’s neuronal stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s disease is first to show positive results in Phase I clinical study::Investigational Bemdaneprocel (BRT-DA01) was well tolerated with no major safety issues in all 12 patients through one year Assessment of secondary endpoints demonstrates feasibility of transplantation...
CRISPR-edited trees reduce the energy and water required to make paper (phys.org)
What is Google trying to hide in its deal with Spotify? (www.theverge.com)
Google scraps $15 billion deal with lead developer of Silicon Valley campus projects / (www.theverge.com)
Developer Lendlease says it’s ended its agreement with Google to develop four districts across California after the companies decided it’s “no longer mutually beneficial given current market conditions.”
Marines Test Rocket-Carrying 'Robotic Goat' at Twentynine Palms (timesofsandiego.com)
The four-legged robot was armed with an M72 shoulder-fired anti-tank rocket launcher in testing by the Marine Air-Ground Task Force Training Command and scientists with the Office of Naval Research.
Everything I've learned building the fastest Arm desktop - Jeff Geerling (www.jeffgeerling.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ndlug.org/post/330591...
New policy requires Chinese influencers to display their personal information on Weibo (globalvoices.org)
This got deleted from lemmy.ml for fuck all reason so reposting here, I assume the mods here will be more reasonable as this is a completely normal article and good information for any users here that also use Weibo, maybe it’s a sensitive issue but to my knowledge none of the information presented here is false so the...
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.
Volvo’s EX30 with Google built-in passes new EU speed limit warning requirements (www.theverge.com)
X is shutting down Circles (www.theverge.com)
Say your goodbyes to Circles by October 31st.
BLASTPASS: NSO Group iPhone Zero-Click, Zero-Day Exploit Captured in the Wild (citizenlab.ca)
We refer to the exploit chain as BLASTPASS. The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim.
Searching for "notepad" on duckduckgo yield 0 result (duckduckgo.com)
[https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37396511)...
Metamaterial can trap light to become 10 times more magnetic (interestingengineering.com)
Metamaterial can trap light to become 10 times more magnetic::undefined
Chromium Blog: Towards HTTPS by default (blog.chromium.org)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/3301227...