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Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse
Apollo dev: "I don’t believe Reddit’s leadership... cares about developers anymore."
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Google will no longer back up the Internet: Cached webpages are dead
Google Search will no longer make site backups while crawling the web.
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Our oldest microbial ancestors were way ahead of their time
Specialized internal structures were present over 1.5 billion years ago.
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“Rasti Computer” is a detailed GRiD Compass tribute made from Framework innards
It's a custom keyboard, an artfully dinged-up case, and a wonderful throwback.
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Republicans in Congress try to kill FCC’s broadband discrimination rules
Over 65 Republicans file resolution of disapproval, while lobby groups sue FCC.
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New 6GB version of the RTX 3050 may be Nvidia’s first sub-$200 GPU in over 4 years
Exciting? No. New technology? Also no. But it ought to be better than a 1650.
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A startup allegedly “hacked the world.” Then came the censorship—and now the backlash.
Anti-censorship voices are working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker past.
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Over 2 percent of the US’s electricity generation now goes to bitcoin
US government tracking the energy implications of booming bitcoin mining in US.
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Mathematicians finally solved Feynman’s “reverse sprinkler” problem
We might not need to "unwater" our lawns, but results could help control fluid flows.
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Fans preserve and emulate Sega’s extremely rare ‘80s “AI computer”
Prolog-based Japanese education hardware sported an early touch-panel, speech synthesizer.
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YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers
Ad-free videos and YouTube Music access hits a major milestone.
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Tesla’s week gets worse: Fines, safety investigation, and massive recall
There have been 2,388 complaints about steering failure in the Model 3 and Model Y.
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Daily Telescope: A Wolf-Rayet star puts on a howling light show
I'd like to see it go boom.
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Why interstellar objects like ‘Oumuamua and Borisov may hold clues to exoplanets
Two celestial interlopers in Solar System have scientists eagerly anticipating more.
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Rocket Report: SpaceX at the service of a rival; Endeavour goes vertical
The US military appears interested in owning and operating its own fleet of Starships.
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Convicted console hacker says he paid Nintendo $25 a month from prison
As Gary Bowser rebuilds his life, fellow Team Xecuter indictees have yet to face trial.
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Agencies using vulnerable Ivanti products have until Saturday to disconnect them
Things were already bad with two critical 0-days. Then Ivanti disclosed a new one.
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Cops arrest 17-year-old suspected of hundreds of swattings nationwide
Police traced swatting calls to teen’s home IP addresses.
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FCC to declare AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal under existing law
Robocalls with AI voices to be regulated under Telephone Consumer Protection Act.
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Google’s Pixel storage issue fix requires developer tools and a terminal
Automatic updates broke your phone; the fix is a highly technical manual process.
Paul Sutter walks us through the future of climate change—and things aren’t great
This episode of Edge of Knowledge focuses on our rapidly transforming world.
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Hulu, Disney+ password crackdown kills account sharing on March 14
New subscribers are already banned from sharing logins outside their household.
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Starlab—with half the volume of the ISS—will fit inside Starship’s payload bay
"Building and integrating in space is very expensive."
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Clownfish “count” white stripes to determine if an invader is friend or foe
They attacked similar fish with three stripes more often than those with one or two stripes.
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Palworld’s Pokémon pastiche is Xbox Game Pass’ biggest-ever 3rd-party game launch
To compare, Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have sold over 23 million copies each.
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Elon Musk proposes Tesla move to Texas after Delaware judge voids $56 billion pay
Musk is sick of Delaware judges, says shareholders will vote on move to Texas.
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eBay to pay $59M after DOJ ties pill press sales to fentanyl drug rings
It's DOJ’s first e-commerce settlement under the Controlled Substances Act.
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For the first time NASA has asked industry about private missions to Mars
"I'm curious to see if this request brings many new players to the table."
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The right bacteria turn farms into carbon sinks
A company works with farmers to treat fields with bacteria that sequester carbon.
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Biogen dumps dubious Alzheimer’s drug after profit-killing FDA scandal
The move ends a long saga that "ended up doing a lot of actual damage."
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Should you flush with toilet lid up or down? Study says it doesn’t matter
Pardon us while we go stock up on toilet tank disinfectant dispensers.
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Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands
Routers were being used to conceal attacks on critical infrastructure.
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Apple declares last MacBook Pro with an optical drive obsolete
The laptop hadn't been for sale in more than seven years.
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ChatGPT’s new @-mentions bring multiple personalities into your AI convo
Bring different AI roles into the same chatbot conversation history.
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Cops bogged down by flood of fake AI child sex images, report says
Investigations tied to harmful AI sex images will grow "exponentially," experts say.
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Comcast reluctantly agrees to stop its misleading “10G Network” claims
Comcast said it will drop "Xfinity 10G Network" brand name after losing appeal.
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Google earnings: 100 million Google One subscribers, Google Cloud profits
We highlight the interesting numbers from Google's earnings call.