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Sunday March 17, 2024. 05:34 PM
A new EFF web page is urging U.S. readers to 'Tell Congress: Stop the TikTok Ban,' arguing the bill will 'do little for its alleged goal of protecting our private information and the collection of our data by foreign governments.' Tell Congress: Instead of giving the...
A Boeing quality manager for more than 30 years 'learned of and exposed very serious safety problems with the Boeing 787 Dreamliner,' according to his lawyers, 'and was retaliated against and subjected to a hostile work environment.' After retiring in 2017 he'd filed a...
America's National Transportation Safety Board 'is investigating a fatal crash in San Antonio, Texas, involving a Ford electric vehicle that may have been using a partially automated driving system,' reports the Associated Press: The NTSB said that preliminary information...
After the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, barnacles offer 'a potential breakthrough' in the search for its wreckage, reports WION: These barnacles were discovered clinging to the initial piece of debris conclusively linked to MH370 — a flaperon...
'The environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development,' argues Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist and business school ethics professor, saying that since the early 2010s, 'something went suddenly and horribly wrong for adolescents.' The Atlantic...
'Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas,' reports the Hill, 'to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.' Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes...
Pi was calculated to 100 trillion decimal places in 2022 by a Google team lead by cloud developer advocate Emma Haruka Iwao. But 2024's 'pi day' saw a new announcement... After successfully breaking the speed record for calculating pi to 100 trillion digits last year, the...
Saturday March 16, 2024. 11:34 PM
Newsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is 'on the wrong side of fair competition' was flagged by users on X. 'TikTok is banned in the People's Republic of China,' the X community note read. (The BBC reports that 'Instead, Chinese users use a...
Newsweek points out that a Chinese government post arguing the bill is 'on the wrong side of fair competition' was flagged by users on X. 'TikTok is banned in the People's Republic of China,' the X community note read. (The BBC reports that 'Instead, Chinese users use a...
'Multiple users around the world have started to notice new Microsoft Bing pop-up ads that look a lot like malware...' reports Lifehacker, describing the adds as 'very low quality' and 'extremely pixelated...' 'It's just Microsoft doing a bad job of trying to get you to...
'A pet company has twice sent back dog breed results for human swab samples,' reports the Guardian, 'prompting doubts surrounding the accuracy of dog breed tests.' On Wednesday, WBZ News reported its investigations team receiving dog breed results from the company DNA My Dog ...
'Engineers have sent a 'poke' to the Voyager 1 probe,' reports CNN, 'and received a potentially encouraging response...' 'A new signal recently received from the spacecraft suggests that the NASA mission team may be making progress in its quest to understand what Voyager 1...
'Workers at an Amazon air hub in Kentucky celebrated a victory Thursday,' reports the Washington Post, 'after federal labor regulators found that Amazon violated labor law by trying to prevent workers there from unionizing.' The employees have been demanding higher pay, more ...
The Washington Post reports: Nearly a decade ago, Congress passed a law that allows private American space companies the rights to resources they mine on celestial bodies, including the moon. Now, there's a private venture that says it intends to do just that. Founded by a...
A Boeing 737-800 'was discovered to be missing an external panel' on the bottom of its fuselage, reports CNN, 'after it landed in Medford, Oregon, Friday afternoon after taking off from San Francisco.' They stress that it's not a 737 Max, but the previous generation of...
'Until recently, Linux kernel developers have been the ones keeping long-term support (LTS) versions of the Linux kernel patched and up to date,' writes ZDNet. 'Then, because it was too much work with too little support, the Linux kernel developers decided to no longer...
When it comes to TikTok, 'The Chinese government is signaling that it won't allow a forced sale...' reported the Wall Street Journal Friday, 'limiting options for the app's owners as buyers begin lining up to bid for its U.S. operations...' 'They have also sent signals to...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When Romeo Chicco tried to get auto insurance in December, seven different companies rejected him. When he eventually obtained insurance, it was nearly double the rate he was previously paying. According to a...
Emily Dreibelbis reports via PCMag: Etsy's reputation as a haven for small, independent creators has come into question as tools like Midjourney have made it easy to list art without disclosing that it's been AI-generated, and shoppers are not happy. 'The fact that it's AI...
With funding from NASA, researchers from Villanova University have obtained a never-before-seen view of the central engine at the heart of our galaxy. Space.com reports: The new map of this central region of the Milky Way, which took four years to assemble, reveals the...
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