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Some workers pooled their money or had meals delivered to their homes.

Hannah Murphy and Stephen Morris, Financial Times – 06:30 | 187


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No cases reported so far, but officials are scrambling to track tainted
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A quirk in the Unicode standard harbors an ideal steganographic code channel.

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No more jumping through endless hoops to cancel subscriptions, FTC rule says.

Ashley Belanger – 16/10/2024 | 107


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What's with the sudden interest in nuclear power among tech titans?

John Timmer – 16/10/2024 | 188


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Winamp wanted to engage coders, but not like this.

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Benj Edwards – 16/10/2024 | 42




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Kyle Orland – 16/10/2024 | 91




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Reality Defender says it has a solution for AI-generated video scams.

Reece Rogers, wired.com – 16/10/2024 | 56




AMAZON REFRESHES ITS MONOCHROME KINDLE LINEUP, INCLUDING A BIGGER PAPERWHITE

Amazon's new monochrome e-readers focus on the usual quality-of-life upgrades.

Andrew Cunningham – 16/10/2024 | 104




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High price, but it's in line with what Amazon has charged for older premium
Kindles.

Andrew Cunningham – 16/10/2024 | 120




WHAT WE CAN LEARN FROM ANIMALS ABOUT DEATH AND MORTALITY

Susana Monsó chats with Ars about her new book, Playing Possum: How Animals
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Jennifer Ouellette – 16/10/2024 | 35




DRUGMAKERS CAN KEEP MAKING OFF-BRAND WEIGHT-LOSS DRUGS AS FDA BACKPEDALS

FDA is reviewing its decision to remove tirzepatide drugs from the shortage
list.

Beth Mole – 15/10/2024 | 86





FCC REPUBLICAN OPPOSES REGULATION OF DATA CAPS WITH ANALOGY TO COFFEE REFILLS

Republican commissioner: You wouldn't require free coffee refills, would you?

Jon Brodkin – 15/10/2024 | 224




NORTH KOREAN HACKERS USE NEWLY DISCOVERED LINUX MALWARE TO RAID ATMS

Once, FASTCash ran only on Unix. Then came Windows. Now it can target Linux,
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Dan Goodin – 15/10/2024 | 36




SUSTAINABLE BUILDING EFFORT REACHES NEW HEIGHTS WITH WOODEN SKYSCRAPERS

Wood offers architects an alternative to carbon-intensive steel and concrete.

Kurt Kleiner, Knowable Magazine – 15/10/2024 | 114




SPACEX TELLS FCC IT HAS A PLAN TO MAKE STARLINK ABOUT 10 TIMES FASTER

SpaceX: "Small-but-meaningful updates" can boost speed from about 100Mbps to
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Jon Brodkin – 15/10/2024 | 233




REPORTS: TESLA’S PROTOTYPE OPTIMUS ROBOTS WERE CONTROLLED BY HUMANS

But the prototypes used "artificial intelligence" to control their walking.

Kyle Orland – 15/10/2024 | 407




SPOTIFY CRITICIZED FOR LETTING FAKE ALBUMS APPEAR ON REAL ARTIST PAGES

Real bands struggle to remove fake albums from their Spotify pages.

Ashley Belanger – 15/10/2024 | 80




GOOGLE AND KAIROS SIGN NUCLEAR REACTOR DEAL WITH AIM TO POWER AI

New Google agreement could boost development of small modular reactors—if they
work.

Benj Edwards – 15/10/2024 | 212





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Dust grains in protoplanetary disks align via the same aerodynamics as the
sport.

Shi En Kim – 15/10/2024 | 9




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Refreshed tablet supports Apple Pencil Pro, starts at $499 for 128GB.

Andrew Cunningham – 15/10/2024 | 162




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NASA LAUNCHES MISSION TO EXPLORE THE FROZEN FRONTIER OF JUPITER’S MOON EUROPA

"We’re interested in whether Europa could support simple life—single-celled
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Stephen Clark – 14/10/2024 | 187




ADOBE UNVEILS AI VIDEO GENERATOR TRAINED ON LICENSED CONTENT

New text-to-video tool focuses on video pros, made with content owner
permission.

Benj Edwards – 14/10/2024 | 86




APPLE STUDY EXPOSES DEEP CRACKS IN LLMS’ “REASONING” CAPABILITIES

Irrelevant red herrings lead to "catastrophic" failure of logical inference.

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