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Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US’ general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications (New York Times)

New York Times: Filing: the DOJ accuses Sam Bankman-Fried of messaging online FTX US’ general counsel, a potential witness, and asks a judge to ban his private communications — The move followed the disgraced cryptocurrency executive’s attempt to contact a potential witness in his criminal case, prosecutors said.

Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations (Mitchell Clark/The Verge)

Mitchell Clark / The Verge: Twitter will take less severe action against rule-breaking accounts, like limiting the reach of tweets; suspensions will be reserved for severe violations — Twitter is promising that it’ll take “less severe actions” when disciplining accounts that break its rules; it’ll only suspend Twitter accounts …

TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators

Microsoft published a beta release of TypeScript 5.0, the company’s strongly typed JavaScript variant, on January 26. The new release aims to modernize decorators for class customization. Decorators, an upcoming ECMAScript feature, allow for customizing classes and their members in a reusable way, Microsoft noted in a blog post announcing the release. Decorators can be

Counterpoint: China’s smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country’s No. 2 brand (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)

Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: Counterpoint: China’s smartphone sales fell 14% YoY in 2022 to reach their lowest level in a decade; iPhone sales fell 3% as it became the country’s No. 2 brand — Apple topped smartphone sales in China in the fourth quarter of 2022, enabling the US tech giant to

Jonathan Majors is a bodybuilder yearning to be truly seen in Magazine Dreams

Jonathan Majors as Killian Maddox in Magazine Dreams. | Tall Street Productions When Jonathan Majors takes to the bodybuilding competition stage in writer / director Elijah Bynum’s arresting new drama Magazine Dreams, it’s impossible not to feel as if the movie’s in direct conversation with the way that its lead star’s fame has become wrapped

FBI says it ‘hacked the hackers’ of a ransomware service, saving victims $130 million

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge The Department of Justice announced this week that FBI agents successfully disrupted Hive, a notorious ransomware group, and prevented $130 million worth of ransom campaigns that targets no longer need to consider paying. While claiming the Hive group has been responsible for targeting over 1,500 victims in

TypeScript 5.0 retools decorators

Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Sources: the Biden administration has secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery to China — President Joe Biden’s administration secured an agreement with the Netherlands and Japan to restrict exports of some advanced chipmaking machinery …

AMD’s Marketing Shows Its Older 6000 Series GPUs Offer the Most Value

(Credit: AMD) AMD has published a new blog post attempting to convince people of its status as a GPU industry leader. Along the way, it seems to have inadvertently admitted its older GPUs are a better value than the newest models. It reminds us of the oft-used online phrase, “An attempt was made.” The gist

Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla’s self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company’s statements about Autopilot (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: Source: the SEC is investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla’s self-driving car claims, as part of a probe into the company’s statements about Autopilot — US regulators are investigating Elon Musk’s role in shaping Tesla Inc.’s self-driving car claims, the latest effort by watchdogs …

Cut Your Own Gears With This DIY Machine

You can buy gears off the shelf, of course, and get accurately machined parts exactly to your chosen specification. However, there’s something rugged and individualist about producing your own rotating components. [Maciej Nowak] demonstrates just how to produce your own gears with a homemade cutting tool. The cutting tool for the job is an M16 machine

Amazon is reportedly making a Tomb Raider TV series written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge

She apparently won’t be the star. | Photo by Dominique Charriau / WireImage Amazon is developing a TV series based on the Tomb Raider video game franchise with scripts written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Details are light on this new Tomb Raider series, but THR says that while Waller-Bridge will serve

OnePlus Teases Its First Android Tablet

OnePlus has been making Android phones for almost a decade, but it has yet to dip its toe in the tablet market. That’s about to change, though. The company, a subsidiary of Chinese mega-firm Oppo, has posted a teaser on its website showing a very green tablet with a prominent rear-facing camera. OnePlus has an

LED Air Vent Gauges are a Tasteful Mod for the Mazda Miata

Anyone in the JDM scene can tell you, round air vents are prime real estate for round analog gauges. If you want a gauge but don’t want to block your vent, you could consider building these LED vent gauges from [ktanner] instead. Tasteful, no? The design is simple. It relies on 3D printing a replacement

Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google researchers detail AI model MusicLM, which can generate high-fidelity music in any genre from text and was trained on a dataset of 280K hours of music — An impressive new AI system from Google can generate music in any genre given a text description. But the company, fearing the risks,

Google 101: how to format text in Google Docs

Samar Haddad / The Verge Google Docs has become a very useful word processing tool — a lot better than it was only a few years ago — but some of its more useful features may not be immediately obvious. For example, you would think that all the ways available to provide specialized text, such

Amazon Fresh is more than quadrupling how much you’ll need to pay to get free grocery delivery

You’re going to have to buy a lot more to get free delivery. | Image: Amazon Starting at the end of February, if you want to get free grocery delivery through Amazon Fresh, you’re going to have to buy a lot more stuff. Currently, for the Amazon Prime subscriber-only service, you’ll get free delivery with

The best deals on TVs for Super Bowl LVII

A deal on a TCL 6-Series TV offers a whole lot of bang for the buck. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge It’s almost time for the Super Bowl, the only game that functions more akin to an annual holiday in the US than a mere sporting event. This means there are bound

Hackaday Podcast 203: Flashlight Fuel Fails, Weird DMA Machines, and a 3D Printed Prosthetic Hand Flex

This week, Editor-in-Chief Elliot Williams and Managing Editor Tom Nardi meet up virtually to talk about all the hacks that are fit to print. This week’s episode starts off with a discussion about the recently unveiled 2023 Hackaday.io Low-Power Challenge, and how hackers more often than not thrive when forced to work within these sort

This Week in Space: a Comet, a Cosmological Wall, and a Very Cold Chamaeleon

This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) features the central region of the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which resides 630 light years away. The cold, wispy cloud material (blue, center) is illuminated in the infrared by the glow of the young, outflowing protostar Ced 110 IRS 4 (orange, upper left).

‘Menswear Guy’ Marks a Shift in Twitter’s Main Characters

It used to be someone who stepped into the fray. Now, it can be anyone.

World Surf League adopts Apple Watch as its ‘official wearable’ for competitions

This is the first time the Apple Watch will be an official wearable of choice in a professional sports league. | Image: World Surf League The Apple Watch will officially be catching waves. The World Surf League announced today that it’s adopting the Apple Watch Series 8 and Ultra as official equipment to keep surfers

Apple Reality Pro AR/VR headset users could build their own apps, no coding necessary

Apple’s rumored Reality Pro headset is said to have a way for people to build their own apps even if they don’t know how to code.

Meet the black bear that took 400 selfies

Image: City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) Brace yourselves, bear lovers. We have a new star. One special black bear recently discovered a wildlife camera set up by City of Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP), managing to take hundreds of selfies with it. “Of the 580 photos captured [on the

HBO’s The Last of Us is getting a second season

There’s more The Last of Us on the way. | Image: HBO The Last of Us will be getting a second season, HBO announced on Friday. There are no details about when we can expect season 2 or how many episodes it might be — HBO only accompanied the announcement with a brief video trailer

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