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Sunday January 12, 2025. 04:07 AM
'JPMorgan Chase shut down comments on an internal webpage announcing the bank's return-to-office policy,' reports the Wall Street Journal, 'after dozens of them criticized the move and at least one suggested that affected employees should unionize, according to people...
'Nuclear you can trust,' reads the web page promoting 'The Egg, an at home nuclear reactor.' Yes, Enron.com is now announcing 'a micro-nuclear reactor made to power your home.' (A quick reminder from CNN in December. 'A company that makes T-shirts bought the Enron trademark...
Saturday January 11, 2025. 11:47 PM
Richard Stallman founded the Free Software Foundation as a nonprofit in 1985 with four other directors (including MIT computer science professor Gerald Jay Sussman). Sussman remains on the Board of directors, along with EFF co-founder John Gilmore and five others. Friday the ...
WordPress co-creator (and Automattic CEO) Matt Mullenweg 'has deactivated the accounts of several WordPress.org community members,' reports TechCrunch, 'some of whom have been spearheading a push to create a new fork of the open source WordPress project.' Joost de Valk —...
Friday America's consumer watchdog agency 'proposed a rule to give virtual video game currencies protections similar to those of real-world bank accounts...' reports the Washington Post, 'so players can receive refunds or compensation for unauthorized transactions, similar...
As the ecological disaster continues, CNN reports the Palisades Fire near Malibu, California has burned at least 22,660 acres, left 100,000 peope under evacuation orders, left at least 11 people dead and 'destroyed thousands of homes and other structures.' From the last...
While CES wraps up this week, 'Not all innovation is good innovation,' warns Elizabeth Chamberlain, iFixit's Director of Sustainability (heading their Right to Repair advocacy team). So this year the group held its fourth annual 'anti-awards ceremony' to call out CES's...
So far Meta has only abandoned fact-checking in the US. If and when it expands, the move will be a major blow to the Latin American news ecosystem.
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN: New intelligence has led two US intelligence agencies to conclude that it's possible a small number of mysterious health ailments colloquially termed as Havana Syndrome impacting spies, soldiers and diplomats around the world...
'Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit is taking legal action to ensure the safety and integrity of our AI services,' according to a Friday blog post by the unit's assistant general counsel. Microsoft blames 'a foreign-based threat-actor group' for 'tools specifically designed to...
The 1,100-pound mystery object landed in Kenya at the end of December. Experts are still baffled.
'What if they ban TikTok and people keep using it anyway?' asks the New York Times, saying a pending ban in America 'is vague on how it would be enforced' Some experts say that even if TikTok is actually banned this month or soon, there may be so many legal and technical...
Meanwhile, tech titans are falling over themselves to help Trump Opinion We all know the US's incoming president, Donald Trump, has gone off-script in a way that is almost comical. Gulf of America? Make Greenland great again? Taking over the Panama Canal?…
Shure’s new USB gaming mic looks familiar, but it might be too streamlined.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company's e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the culprit was a bot from...
In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.
The arrival of La Niña is starving California of rain, and more high Santa Ana winds could be on the way.
Wikipedia's massive dataset helped researchers identify three styles of curiosity -- 'busybody,' 'hunter,' and 'dancer' -- based on how users navigate its pages (see: wiki rabbit hole). These curiosity styles reflect broader social trends and highlight curiosity's role in...
On January 13, Atlas C/2024 G3 will reach its closest point to the sun.
Even better use for the Technic range than the Mars Rover – with one big caveat The original Apollo Lunar Roving Vehicle had the look of something that had been strung together from an oversized Meccano set. It should, therefore, not come as a surprise to find a LEGO...
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