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Sunday January 12, 2025. 01:12 AM
'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...
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...
'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...
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...
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...
SysEngineer shares a report from the Associated Press: A spacecraft has beamed back some of the best close-up photos yet of Mercury's north pole. The European and Japanese robotic explorer swooped as close as 183 miles (295 kilometers) above Mercury's night side before...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Axios: Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, in an appearance on the 'Joe Rogan Experience' podcast, criticized the Biden administration for pushing for censorship around COVID-19 vaccines, the media for hounding Facebook to clamp down on...
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized Apple's innovation record and business practices in a Joe Rogan podcast interview on January 10, claiming the iPhone maker has not 'invented anything great in a while' and is 'just sitting' on its flagship product 20 years after Steve Jobs ...
Amazon said it is halting some of its diversity and inclusion initiatives, joining a growing list of major corporations that have made similar moves in the face of increasing public and legal scrutiny. From a report: In a Dec. 16 internal note to staffers that was obtained...
TechCrunch's Rebecca Szkutak reports: TechCrunch recently surveyed 20 VCs who back startups building for enterprises about what gives an AI startup a moat, or what makes it different compared to its peers. More than half of the respondents said that the thing that will give...
Amazon is shutting down its 'Prime Try Before You Buy' service on January 31, according to a notice on its website. The offering operated similarly to apparel subscription services like Stitch Fix and Rent the Runway, allowing Prime members to try out apparel-related...
Friday January 10, 2025. 11:40 PM
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: A leading education software maker has admitted its IT environment was compromised in a cyberattack, with students and teachers' personal data -- including some Social Security Numbers and medical info -- stolen....
ESPN, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced today that it will not launch the Venu live sports streaming service. 'After careful consideration, we have collectively agreed to discontinue the Venu Sports joint venture and not launch the streaming service,' the companies...
Los Angeles authorities have vowed to prosecute illegal drone operators after a civilian drone collided with a Canadian CL-415 firefighting plane combating the Palisades Fire, causing damage that grounded the aircraft and temporarily halted all aerial firefighting...
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