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Sunday January 19, 2025. 04:34 PM
In 2022 Google released a tool to easily scan for vulnerabilities in dependencies named OSV-Scanner. 'Together with the open source community, we've continued to build this tool, adding remediation features,' according to Google's security blog, 'as well as expanding...
Fortune reports 18% of workers have engaged in 'career catfishing' — getting a job offer, but then refusing to show up on the first day of work. And when someone posted Fortune's article to Reddit's antiwork subreddit, it drew 2,100 upvotes -- and another 84 comments. ('I...
CNN has the latest on 'a startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean's seabed, where no light can penetrate. 'Initial research suggested potato-size nodules rich in metals, predominantly found 4,000 meters ...
'The universe is expanding faster than predicted by theoretical models,' writes Phys.org, 'and faster than can be explained by our current understanding of physics.' There's now been new confirmation of this (published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters) by a team led by...
Jersey is an island in the English channel, 'a self-governing British Crown Dependency near the coast of northwest France,' according to Wikipedia — population: 103,267. But now some residents of Jersey 'have been recommended bloodletting to reduce high concentrations of...
Chinese social-networking site RedNote became the #1 most-downloaded app in America, reports the Associated Press, with some new users considering it a way to protest America's possible TikTok ban. So what happened next? They were met with surprise, curiosity and in-jokes on ...
The ratio of vacant U.S. jobs to jobless workers 'has fallen from a record of 2 in 2022 to 1.1 in November,' reports the Wall Street Journal — which adds that 'the balance of power between employers and employees has shifted as the labor market has gone from white-hot to...
Saturday January 18, 2025. 11:18 PM
The BBC brings news from the Baltic Sea. After critical undersea cables were damaged or severed last year, 'NATO has launched a new mission to increase the surveillance of ships...' Undersea infrastructure is essential not only for electricity supply but also because more...
A new law is being considered by New York's state legislature, reports a local news outlet. 'if passed, will require anyone buying a 3D printer to pass a background check. If you can't legally own a firearm, you won't be able to buy one of these printers...' It is illegal to ...
A county transit police detective fed a poor-quality image to an AI-powered facial recognition program, remembers the Washington Post, leading to the arrest of 'Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of...
America's Federal Trade Commission has been 'raising antitrust concerns' about them for years, reports NBC News. The latest? America's three largest drug middlemen 'inflated the costs of numerous life-saving medications by billions of dollars over the past few years, the FTC ...
'The next great space telescope will study distant galaxies and faraway planets from an orbital outpost about a million miles from Earth,' writes the Washington Post. 'But first it has to be put together, piece by piece, in a cavernous chamber at the NASA Goddard Space...
'Scientists have just resurrected 'ELIZA,' the world's first chatbot, from long-lost computer code,' reports LiveScience, 'and it still works extremely well.' (Click in the vintage black-and-green rectangle for a blinking-cursor prompt...) Using dusty printouts from MIT...
From the New York Post: Generation Z's recent foray into the corporate world has been an eye-popping escapade plagued by their 'annoying' workplace habits and helicopter parents accompanying them on interviews. Now, newcomers to the 9-to-5 grind are inflicting a fresh new...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Bumble founder and executive chair Whitney Wolfe Herd, who stepped down as CEO at the beginning of 2024, is returning to the post in mid-March. Former Slack CEO Lidiane Jones, who succeeded Herd, has resigned for 'personal...
Nintendo released Donkey Kong Country Returns HD earlier this week, with fans noticing that the original team members at Retro are not individually credited in the updated version. 'Instead, the credits state that it was 'based on the work' of Retro Studios, while the team...
Smithsonian Magazine reports: A homeowner on Prince Edward Island in Canada has had a very unusual near-death experience: A meteorite landed exactly where he'd been standing roughly two minutes earlier. What's more, his home security camera caught the impact on video --...
OpenAI has developed a language model designed for engineering proteins, capable of converting regular cells into stem cells. It marks the company's first venture into biological data and demonstrates AI's potential for unexpected scientific discoveries. An anonymous reader...
Sales of electric vehicles and hybrids reached 20% of new car sales in the U.S. last year, with Tesla maintaining dominance in the EV market despite a slight decline in market share. CNBC reports: Auto data firm Motor Intelligence reports more than 3.2 million 'electrified'...
'The FDIC sued 17 former executives and directors of Silicon Valley Bank on Thursday, seeking to recover billions of dollars for alleged gross negligence and breaches of fiduciary duty,' reports Reuters. The move comes almost two years after Silicon Valley Bank's March 2023...
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