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- + Amid schedule uncertainty, Boeing will shed workers on SLS rocket program—Enlarge / The SLS rocket is seen on its launch pad at Kennedy Space Ce...
- + Hospital prices for the same emergency care vary up to 16X, study finds—Enlarge / Miami Beach, Fire Rescue ambulance at Mt. Sinai Medical Cent...
- + Renovation relic: Man finds hominin jawbone in parents’ travertine kitchen tile—Enlarge / Reddit user Kidipadeli75 spotted a fossilized hominin jawbon...
- + SpaceX and Northrop are working on a constellation of spy satellites—Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches a Starlink mission in January 202...
- + The largest marine reptile ever could match blue whales in size—Enlarge (credit: Sergey Krasovskiy) Blue whales have been con...
- + The hidden story behind one of SpaceX’s wettest and wildest launches—Enlarge / Is that sooty rocket lifting off with the CRS-3 mission in 2...
- + Life-threatening rat pee infections reach record levels in NYC—Enlarge / A rat looks for food while on a subway platform at the Colum...
- + Bodies found in Neolithic pit were likely victims of ritualistic murder—Enlarge / Three female skeletons found in a Neolithic storage pit in F...
- + Climate damages by 2050 will be 6 times the cost of limiting warming to 2°—Enlarge (credit: Frame Studio) Almost from the start, argumen...
- + A chunk of metal that tore through a Florida home definitely came from the ISS—NASA has confirmed that the object that fell into a Florida home last ...
- + Bogus Botox poisoning outbreak spreads to 9 states, CDC says—A package of counterfeit Botox. (credit: FDA) At least 19 wo...
- + Studies reveal new clues to how tardigrades can survive intense radiation—Enlarge / SEM Micrograph of a tardigrade, more commonly known as a "wa...
- + Second-biggest black hole in the Milky Way found—Enlarge / The star's orbit, shown here in light, is influenced by the ...
- + NASA says it needs better ideas on how to return samples from Mars—Enlarge / NASA's existing plan for Mars Sample Return involves a large...
- + How to keep Earth from being cooked by the ever-hotter Sun—Enlarge I’d wager a guess that we are, as a species, rather ...
- + Song lyrics are getting more repetitive, angrier—Enlarge (credit: Henrik Sorensen) From ‘80s new wave to ‘90s ...
- + Sleeping more flushes junk out of the brain—Enlarge (credit: OsakaWayne Studios) As if we didn’t have eno...
- + Why do some people always get lost?—Enlarge / Scientists are homing in on how navigation skills develop. (...
- + How new tech is making geothermal energy a more versatile power source—Enlarge / The Nesjavellir Geothermal Power Station. Geothermal power h...
- + US drug shortages reach record high with 323 meds now in short supply—Enlarge (credit: Getty | George Frey) Drug shortages in the U...
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- + LLMs keep leaping with Llama 3, Meta’s newest open-weights AI model—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Me...
- + LastPass users targeted in phishing attacks good enough to trick even the savvy—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Password-manager LastPass user...
- + OpenAI winds down AI image generator that blew minds and forged friendships in 2022—Enlarge / An AI-generated image from DALL-E 2 created with the prompt ...
- + Kremlin-backed actors spread disinformation ahead of US elections—Enlarge (credit: da-kuk/Getty) Kremlin-backed actors have ste...
- + Broadcom says “many” VMware perpetual licenses got support extensions—Enlarge (credit: Getty) Broadcom CEO Hock Tan this week publi...
- + Linus Torvalds reiterates his tabs-versus-spaces stance with a kernel trap—Enlarge / Cans of Tab diet soda on display in 2011. Tab was discontinu...
- + Attackers are pummeling networks around the world with millions of login attempts—Enlarge (credit: Matejmo | Getty Images) Cisco’s Talos securi...
- + New UK law targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government ...
- + UK targets “despicable individuals” who create AI sex deepfakes with new law—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) On Tuesday, the UK government ...
- + Why the US government’s overreliance on Microsoft is a big problem—Enlarge (credit: Joan Cros via Getty) When Microsoft revealed...
- + Alleged cryptojacking scheme consumed $3.5M of stolen computing to make just $1M—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Federal prosecutors indicted a...
- + Framework’s software and firmware have been a mess, but it’s working on them—Enlarge / The Framework Laptop 13. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) ...
- + Change Healthcare faces another ransomware threat—and it looks credible—Enlarge (credit: iStock / Getty Images Plus) For months, Chan...
- + “Highly capable” hackers root corporate networks by exploiting firewall 0-day—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Highly capable hackers are roo...
- + Words are flowing out like endless rain: Recapping a busy week of LLM news—Enlarge / An image of a boy amazed by flying letters. (credit: Getty I...
- + Intel’s “Gaudi 3” AI accelerator chip may give Nvidia’s H100 a run for its money—Enlarge / An Intel handout photo of the Gaudi 3 AI accelerator. (credi...
- + Hackable Intel and Lenovo hardware that went undetected for 5 years won’t ever be fixed—Enlarge (credit: Intel) Hardware sold for years by the likes ...
- + AT&T: Data breach affects 73 million or 51 million customers. No, we won’t explain.—Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) AT&T is notifying millions...
- + New AI music generator Udio synthesizes realistic music on demand—Enlarge / A screenshot of AI-generated songs listed on Udio on April 1...
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- + International police operation infiltrates LabHost phishing website used by thousands of criminals
- + Security Think Tank: Approaches to ransomware need a course correction
- + Mandiant formally pins Sandworm cyber attacks on APT44 group
- + US provides assurances over extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange
- + CISOs not yet convinced to invest in AI
- + 2024 election security: Confronting disinformation and deepfakes
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- + Remove Wall Plugs Fast With A Custom Tool—The best thing about buying your own home is that you can hang things ...
- + DIY Quad-Motor Go-Kart is a Thrilling Ride—[Peter Holderith] set out some time ago to build an electric go-kart. ...
- + Early CD Player Teardown—While CD players are nothing new today, they were the height of high-t...
- + LYFT: Standing Up for Better IKEA BEKANT Control—The IKEA BEKANT sit/stand desk is kind of a lifesaver even if you don...
- + MXM: Powerful, Misused, Hackable—Today, well look into yet another standard in the embedded space: MXM....
- + Unraveling The Secrets of Apple’s Mysterious Fisheye Format—Apple has developed a proprietary even mysterious fisheye projection...
- + Hacked Oscilloscope Plays Breakout, Hints at More—You know things are getting real when the Dremel is one of the first t...
- + Raspberry Pi Scanner Digitizes On the Cheap—Its pretty important in 2024 to be able digitize documents quickly and...
- + Source Code to the 1999 FPS Game Descent 3 Released—On April 16th of this year, [Kevin Bentley] released the source code t...
- + FLOSS Weekly Episode 779: Errata Prevention Specialist—This week Jonathan Bennett and Dan Lynch sit down with Andy Stewart to...
- + This Go-Kart Rides on a Pallet—Many beginner woodworkers, looking to offset the introductory costs of...
- + Compiling and Running Turbo Pascal in the Browser—When a friend of [Lawrence Kesteloot] found a stack of 3.5 floppy disk...
- + VCF East 2024 Was Bigger and Better Than Ever—I knew something had changed before I even paid for my ticket to this ...
- + Custom Dog Door Prevents Culinary Atrocities—Riley, an 8 lb pug, has more beauty than brains, and a palate as unref...
- + Human-Interfacing Devices: HID over I2C—In the previous two HID articles, we talked about stealing HID descrip...
- + Getting Started with Radio Astronomy—There are many facets to being a radio hobbyist, but if youve ever had...
- + A ROG Ally Battery Mod You Ought To Try—Todays hack is an unexpected but appreciated contribution from members...
- + Cyberpunk Guitar Strap Lights Up with Repurposed PCBs—Sometimes, whether we like it or not, ordering PCBs results in extra P...
- + Still Up and Coming: Non-Planar FDM 3D Printing With 3 or 6 Axes—Most of the time FDM 3D printing involves laying down layers of thermo...
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- + Palworld Creator Loves That Others Are Trying To Clone The Game—Weve had several posts on the video game sensation that is Palworld in...
- + Sextortion Is A Real & Serious Criminal Issue; Blaming Section 230 For It Is Not—Let’s say I told you a harrowing story about a crime. Criminals from h...
- + Cops Claim Body Cam Footage Of Wrong Address Raid Would Be ‘Dangerous’ To Release To General Public—Cops continue to wonder why people dont trust them. Go figure. At the...
- + Daily Deal: The Complete Cisco Training Bundle—The Complete Cisco Training Bundle has 6 courses to help you get ready...
- + No, TikTok Is Not ‘Programmable Fentanyl.’ Stop It—What do Fentanyl and TikTok have in common? Well, the real answer is a...
- + Biden’s New Net Neutrality Rules Don’t Prevent Anti-Competitive “Fast Lanes”—One of the key reasons the net neutrality fight even became a thing wa...
- + Senate Now Considering Section 702 Re-Up With A Dangerous Amendment Attached To It—For a little while, it looked as though Section 702 surveillance might...
- + Kansas Reflector Mostly Admits That Meta’s Blocking Of Their Site Wasn’t Deliberate—Not every bad mistake is evil. Not every poor decision is deliberate. ...
- + The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get To Decide Who The First Amendment Protects—Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to ...
- + Chemtrail Legislation Is The New Normal In A Severely Abnormal America—Its enough to make you want to shoot yourself in the face in embarrass...
- + Daily Deal: The Complete MATLAB Programming Master Class—MATLAB allows matrix manipulations, plotting of functions and data, im...
- + Will Elon Sue? NBC News Finds, Yet Again, That ExTwitter Has ‘Verified’ Neo-Nazi Accounts, With Ads Appearing Next To Their Content—Elon Musk does not seem to like it much when reports point out that Ex...
- + The GOP Is Blocking A Last Ditch Effort To Bring Cheap Broadband To Poor Americans—The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), part of the 2021 infr...
- + Bell Canada, After Nixxing Most Hardware DVR, Changes Cloud PVR Recording Retention—Weve written about Bell Canada plenty over the years and not typically...
- + Roku Eyes Patent That Would Inject Ads Into… Everything—When last we checked in with our friends at Roku, they had made the un...
- + Techdirt Podcast Episode 387: Abolishing Section 230 Would Abolish Wikipedia—Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee had a hearing all a...
- + Internet Child Safety Laws Will Lead To Helpful Sites Being Blocked; Just Look At Schools—Various states and the federal government are proposing and passing a ...
- + Congress Decides To Give FBI Another Free Pass On Section 702 Abuses—It looks like were headed to several more years of the same old abuse....
- + Daily Deal: The Award-Winning Luminar Neo Bundle—Luminar Neo is an easy-to-use photo editing software that empowers pho...
- + Blame Silly Politicians For Google Starting To Block News Sites In California—That thing is happening again, where politicians are pushing a bad law...
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- + Beatbot AquaSense Pro: Just in Time for Summer, the Ultimate Robot Pool Cleaner—Mark Vena reviews the Beatbot AquaSense Pro, detailing its advanced fe...
- + Pundit Predicts Apple AI Will Be Bound to iPhone, Analysts React—Following a prediction that Apple’s AI features in iOS 18 will be proc...
- + How To Leverage Gen AI Without Losing the Corporate Shirt—As technologies like ChatGPT exemplify, generative AI is rapidly evolv...
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- + Global Connectivity Demands Fuel Rapid Growth of Satellite IoT Market to a US$4 Billion Frontier by 2030
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- + Constellation of Starlink satellites grows with latest SpaceX launch from Florida—SpaceX launched a cluster of 23 satellites into low-Earth orbit Thursd...
- + Plaintiffs sue Montana for barring transgender people from amending birth certificates—Two transgender women on Thursday sued the state of Montana and severa...
- + Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs school chaplain bills, says Satanists not welcome—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a bill allowing religious...
- + Police arrest 100 at Columbia University's pro-Palestinian encampment—Police on Thursday arrested more than 100 protesters at Columbia Unive...
- + All 12 jurors seated for Donald Trump's hush-money trial—All 12 jurors have been seated in former President Donald Trump's New ...
- + In Philadelphia, Kennedy family endorses Biden's re-election campaign—The Kennedy family endorsed President Joe Biden in his 2024 presidenti...
- + Guitarist Dickey Betts, co-founder of Allman Brothers Band, dead at 80—Allman Brothers singer, songwriter and guitarist Dickey Betts has died...
- + Trans-rights advocates decry Scottish clinic's decision to stop puberty blockers for children—Scotland's only gender clinic has paused hormone treatment for patient...
- + New Virginia law allows student athlete compensation deals—A new Virginia law signed by Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Thursday allows un...
- + RFK Jr. qualifies for Michigan presidential ballot—Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has qualified for Michigan's 2024 presidential...
- + 2 jurors excused as Trump hush-money trial jury selection continues—Two of the seven jurors chosen in former President Donald Trump's New ...
- + Bryan Kohberger defense alibi in Idaho student murders: He was nowhere near it—Bryan Kohberger, the defendant in the Idaho student murders case, was ...
- + Prince Harry lists United States as permanent residence in business filing—Britain's Prince Harry officially considers himself a United States re...
- + 911 systems in four states suffered outages overnight—Emergency agencies in Nebraska, Nevada, South Dakota and Texas found t...
- + U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran drone program in response to Israel attack—President Joe Biden Thursday announced new Iran sanctions for the dron...
- + London Met Police infiltrate company that helped phishing cybercriminals—London's Metropolitan Police said on Thursday they have infiltrated a ...
- + Once-in-100 year temperatures in Sahel, West Africa impossible without man-made warming, study finds—A extreme once-in-a-century heatwave in Africa's Sahel and western reg...
- + Qatar is conducting a 'comprehensive evaluation' of its Gaza mediation role—Qatar's Prime Minister said Wednesday he is reassessing his country's ...
- + Google fires 28 workers after protest alleging Israeli cloud deal powers Gaza 'genocide'—Google Wednesday fired 28 workers who belonged to the No Tech for Apar...
- + Germany arrests 2 over spying on U.S. bases for Russia—Two men with dual German-Russian citizenship were arrested this week i...
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- + NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From—Space law just got a little more complicated. [Category: Science, Scie...
- + We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening—After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for ...
- + The Trump Jury Has a Doxing Problem—One juror in former US president Donald Trump’s criminal case in New Y...
- + The 33 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now—From The Sympathizer to Conan O’Brien Must Go, here's everything you n...
- + RFK Jr.’s Very Online, Conspiracy-Filled Campaign—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. launched his campaign one year ago this week. [C...
- + Far-Right Sheriffs Want a Citizen Army to Stop 'Illegal Immigrant' Voters—Speakers at a conference for Constitutional Sheriffs claimed that mili...
- + The 6 Best Handheld Gaming Consoles (2024): Switch, Steam Deck, and More—The second golden age of portable gaming is here! Mostly. These are th...
- + Tesla's Layoffs Won't Solve Its Growing Pains—The car company popularized EVs. Now, facing intense competition from ...
- + Rad Power Bikes Radster Road Review: Safety First—Rad Power Bikes’ new bikes have a renewed focus on safety, with encaps...
- + What If Your AI Girlfriend Hated You?—AngryGF offers a perpetually enraged chatbot intended to teach men bet...
- + 13 Best Coffee Grinders (2024): Conical, Flat Burr, Blade, and Hand Grinders—Get more joy from your java. These conical-burr, flat-burr, and bladed...
- + Milo Action Communicator: Hassle-Free Comms Without Your Smartphone—A super-simple, hands-free action sports device that takes the hassle—...
- + LG MyView Smart Monitor (32SR85U-W) Review: A Fun 2-In-1 Screen—Having a smart TV built into a computer monitor was more convenient—an...
- + GE Café Specialty Drip Coffee Maker Review: Only So-So—GE’s drip coffee maker is expensive, not dishwasher-safe, and makes a ...
- + What It Will Take for Airchat to Take Flight—This week, we talk about the buzzy new social media app where there’s ...
- + Donald Trump Is 'Seriously Considering' Jake Paul's Fight Invite—Influencers like Jake Paul can offer Donald Trump inroads to audiences...
- + The Real-Time Deepfake Romance Scams Have Arrived—Watch how smooth-talking scammers known as “Yahoo Boys” use widely ava...
- + Nothing Ear and Nothing Ear (a) Review: Third Time, Still Charming—The third generation of Nothing’s clear-plastic AirPod clones is here,...
- + The Rise of the Carbon Farmer—Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultura...
- + Google Fires 28 Workers for Protesting Cloud Deal With Israel—The fired workers included nine Google employees who were removed by p...
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- + NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From—Space law just got a little more complicated. [Category: Science, Scie...
- + We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening—After months of secrecy, Neuralink revealed that the partner site for ...
- + The Rise of the Carbon Farmer—Farmers around the world are reigniting the less intensive agricultura...
- + The Atlas Robot Is Dead. Long Live the Atlas Robot—Before the dear old model could even power down, Boston Dynamics unlea...
- + No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused by Cloud Seeding—Heavy rain has triggered flash flooding in Dubai. But those who blame ...
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