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   SHIELDS UP: NEW IDEAS MIGHT MAKE ACTIVE SHIELDING VIABLE
   
   Active shielding was first proposed in the '60s. We’re finally close to
   making it work.
   
   Jacek Krywko – 3/11/2024, 11:00 AM
   
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 * CHICAGO BATTLES MEASLES WITH CALLS FOR VACCINATION—IN CONTRAST WITH FLORIDA
   
   US faces threat of measles resurgence amid global rise and declining
   vaccination.
   
   Beth Mole – 3/12/2024, 10:49 PM
   
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 * IRS HAS LAUNCHED ITS FREE TAX FILING SERVICE, DIRECT FILE, IN 12 STATES
   
   Direct File has many limits, but nearly 19M people in 12 states may be
   eligible.
   
   Jon Brodkin – 3/12/2024, 9:46 PM
   
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 * ABYSMAL REVENUE STATS OF 30K MOBILE APPS SHOW WHY DEVS KEEP PUSHING FOR SUBS
   
   New apps reportedly make median monthly revenue of less than $50.
   
   Scharon Harding – 3/12/2024, 9:28 PM
   
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 * THE 2024 MOTO G POWER PACKS WIRELESS CHARGING, 8GB RAM IN A $300 PHONE
   
   The 2024 Moto G starts arriving at the end of March at most budget carriers.
   
   Ron Amadeo – 3/12/2024, 8:40 PM
   
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 * NEW IPADS MAY BE COMING SOON, BUT THEY WON’T CHANGE THE AWKWARD SPOT THE IPAD
   IS IN
   
   Op-ed: The iPad needs more than a simple hardware refresh to fix what ails
   it.
   
   Andrew Cunningham – 3/12/2024, 8:29 PM
   
   142


 * APPLE TO ALLOW IOS APP INSTALLS FROM WEBSITES, BUT SMALL DEVS DON’T QUALIFY
   
   To qualify, devs need an app installed by 1 million users in EU the prior
   year.
   
   Jon Brodkin – 3/12/2024, 7:49 PM
   
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 * STUDY: CICADAS PEE IN JETS, NOT DROPLETS. HERE’S WHY THAT’S KINDA WEIRD.
   
   Come for the cicada video, stay for the scaling graphic of urination across
   animal kingdom.
   
   Jennifer Ouellette – 3/12/2024, 7:36 PM
   
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 1. NYT TO OPENAI: NO HACKING HERE, JUST CHATGPT BYPASSING PAYWALLS
    
    OpenAI’s claim that NYT “hacked” ChatGPT is “irrelevant” and “false,” NYT
    says.
    
    Ashley Belanger – 3/12/2024, 7:05 PM
    
    93


 2. APPLE’S AIRPODS PRO COULD BE GETTING A “HEARING AID MODE” LATER THIS YEAR
    
    In development for some time, AirPods could finally get the FDA label this
    fall.
    
    Kevin Purdy – 3/12/2024, 6:42 PM
    
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 3. LOST, CIRCA-2008 TIMESPLITTERS 4 PROTOTYPE DISCOVERED ON PS3 DEV KIT
    
    Redditor paid a reported $670 to rescue the unit and archive the game for
    posterity.
    
    Kyle Orland – 3/12/2024, 5:31 PM
    
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 1. SOME STATES ARE NOW TRYING TO BAN LAB-GROWN MEAT
    
    Spurious "war on ranching" cited as reason for legislation.
    
    Wyatt Myskow and Lee Hedgepeth, Inside Climate News – 3/12/2024, 2:30 PM
    
    362


 2. DAILY TELESCOPE: GIGANTIC NEW STARS STIR UP A NEBULA
    
    Astronomers know of no other region so packed with large stars as this
    nebula.
    
    Eric Berger – 3/12/2024, 1:00 PM
    
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 3. AN EV THAT CHARGES 30% FASTER? VOLVO AND BREATHE THINK THEIR TECH CAN DO IT
    
    Real-time battery-management algorithms on an embedded processor? Yes,
    please.
    
    Jonathan M. Gitlin – 3/12/2024, 9:00 AM
    
    189


 4. NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN LINUX MALWARE GETS INSTALLED USING 1-DAY EXPLOITS
    
    Discovery means that NerbianRAT is cross-platform used by for-profit threat
    group.
    
    Dan Goodin – 3/12/2024, 1:33 AM
    
    43


 5. STUDY: CONFLICTING VALUES FOR HUBBLE CONSTANT NOT DUE TO MEASUREMENT ERROR
    
    Something else is influencing the expansion rate of the Universe.
    
    Jennifer Ouellette – 3/11/2024, 11:51 PM
    
    141


 6. NASA GRAPPLES WITH BUDGET CUTS AS IT UNDERTAKES AMBITIOUS PROGRAMS
    
    "Naturally, we have to make hard choices."
    
    Eric Berger – 3/11/2024, 11:32 PM
    
    89


 7. 50 INJURED ON BOEING 787 AS “STRONG SHAKE” REPORTEDLY SENT HEADS INTO
    CEILING
    
    LATAM Airlines said "technical event" in mid-flight "caused a strong
    movement."
    
    Jon Brodkin – 3/11/2024, 10:49 PM
    
    263


 8. IMAGE-SCRAPING MIDJOURNEY BANS RIVAL AI FIRM FOR SCRAPING IMAGES
    
    Midjourney pins blame for 24-hour outage on "bot-net like" activity from
    Stability AI employee.
    
    Benj Edwards – 3/11/2024, 10:42 PM
    
    63


 9. AIRBNB BANS CREEPY SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS INSIDE RENTALS STARTING APRIL 30
    
    Indoor cameras had been permitted in "common areas."
    
    Scharon Harding – 3/11/2024, 9:43 PM
    
    103


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 1. RESEARCHERS RESURRECT LONG-EXTINCT FOSSIL CREATURE AS A ROBOT
    
    Robot designed to mimic enigmatic sea creature can help us understand how it
    moved.
    
    Rupendra Brahambhatt – 3/11/2024, 7:41 PM
    
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 2. TEXAS CAN REQUIRE AGE-VERIFICATION ON PORN SITES, 5TH CIRCUIT JUDGES RULE
    
    One judge dissents, saying Texas law "limits adults' access to protected
    speech."
    
    Jon Brodkin – 3/11/2024, 6:56 PM
    
    198


 3. GOOGLE’S SELF-DESIGNED OFFICE SWALLOWS WI-FI “LIKE THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE”
    
    Bad radio propagation means Googlers are making do with Ethernet cables,
    phone hotspots.
    
    Ron Amadeo – 3/11/2024, 5:50 PM
    
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 1. NVIDIA SUED OVER AI TRAINING DATA AS COPYRIGHT CLASHES CONTINUE
    
    Copyright suits over AI training data reportedly decreasing AI transparency.
    
    Ashley Belanger – 3/11/2024, 5:35 PM
    
    80


 2. HERE’S HOW THE MAKERS OF THE “SUYU” SWITCH EMULATOR PLAN TO AVOID GETTING
    SUED
    
    Dev says project is "in a legal gray area we are trying to work our way out
    of..."
    
    Kyle Orland – 3/11/2024, 5:22 PM
    
    117


 3. M3 MACBOOK AIR REFRESH BOOSTS STORAGE SPEEDS FOR 256GB MODELS
    
    For the M2 Air, getting better storage speeds required a 512GB (or larger)
    SSD.
    
    Andrew Cunningham – 3/11/2024, 5:00 PM
    
    135


 4. AFTER COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD, THE WORLD’S LARGEST AIRCRAFT JUST FLEW A
    REAL PAYLOAD
    
    Falling just short of hypersonic velocity.
    
    Eric Berger – 3/11/2024, 4:27 PM
    
    95


 5. OPENAI CEO ALTMAN WASN’T FIRED BECAUSE OF SCARY NEW TECH, JUST INTERNAL
    POLITICS
    
    As Altman cements power, OpenAI announces three new board members—and a
    returning one.
    
    Benj Edwards – 3/11/2024, 4:04 PM
    
    126


 6. APPLE AND TESLA FEEL THE PAIN AS CHINA OPTS FOR HOMEGROWN PRODUCTS
    
    Local competition, surge of BEVs, and security-related restrictions lead to
    changes.
    
    Ryan McMorrow, Nian Liu, Gloria Li, and Michael Acton, FT – 3/11/2024, 3:00
    PM
    
    253


 1. HERE’S PORSCHE’S NEWEST EV, THE 1,000-HORSEPOWER TAYCAN TURBO GT
    
    The new EV has set lap records at Laguna Seca and the Nürburgring.
    
    Jonathan M. Gitlin – 3/11/2024, 2:30 PM
    
    143


 2. OP-ED: CHARGES AGAINST JOURNALIST TIM BURKE ARE A HACK JOB
    
    Burke was indicted after sharing outtakes of a Fox News interview.
    
    Caitlin Vogus and Jennifer Stisa Granick – 3/11/2024, 11:30 AM
    
    228


 3. SIXTY FOUR IS A BEAUTIFUL SYSTEM DESIGN TOY THAT REVEALS SOMETHING RATHER
    DARK
    
    Please do not load up this game if you have real tasks to accomplish, I beg
    you.
    
    Kevin Purdy – 3/10/2024, 12:21 PM
    
    170


 4. THESE SCIENTISTS BUILT THEIR OWN STONE AGE TOOLS TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY WERE
    USED
    
    Telltale fractures and microscopic wear marks should be applicable to real
    artifacts.
    
    Jennifer Ouellette – 3/9/2024, 8:50 PM
    
    69


 5. FLORIDA MIDDLE-SCHOOLERS CHARGED WITH MAKING DEEPFAKE NUDES OF CLASSMATES
    
    AI tool was used to create nudes of 12- to 13-year-old classmates.
    
    Caroline Haskins, wired.com – 3/9/2024, 6:35 PM
    
    432


 6. A HUNK OF JUNK FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION HURTLES BACK TO EARTH
    
    Three tons of trash from the space station fell to Earth in an unguided
    reentry.
    
    Stephen Clark – 3/9/2024, 1:10 AM
    
    112


 7. STUDY FINDS THAT WE COULD LOSE SCIENCE IF PUBLISHERS GO BANKRUPT
    
    A scan of archives shows that lots of scientific papers aren't backed up.
    
    John Timmer – 3/8/2024, 11:25 PM
    
    124


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