Month: January 2023

Kirby Sucks, Literally

What’s common between one of the most legendary video game characters of all time and a fume extractor ? They both suck. [Chris Borge] is not an electronics hobbyist and only does some occasional soldering. This made his regular fume extractor bulky and inconvenient to position where needed. What could serve him better would be

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FTX identifies $5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” that may be tied to a hack of FTX in November 2022 (Rohan Goswami/CNBC)

Rohan Goswami / CNBC: FTX identifies $5.5B in “liquid” assets for recovery, including $415M in “unauthorized third-party transfers” that may be tied to a hack of FTX in November 2022  —  – FTX has identified about $5.5 billion worth of digital assets for recovery, a number that includes $415 million in “hacked crypto.”

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Government documents offer more details about the discussions among FTX and Alameda executives on the exchange’s use of customer funds before FTX’s collapse (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Government documents offer more details about the discussions among FTX and Alameda executives on the exchange’s use of customer funds before FTX’s collapse  —  Documents obtained by The New York Times provide new details about the discussions among FTX’s top leaders before the cryptocurrency exchange collapsed in November.

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Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022, while FY 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to fewer than 1.2B units, the lowest they’ve been since 2013 (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)

Brian Heater / TechCrunch: Canalys: global smartphone shipments fell 17% YoY in Q4 2022, while FY 2022 shipments fell 11% YoY to fewer than 1.2B units, the lowest they’ve been since 2013  —  One of these days I’ll have some positive news to share about the global smartphone market.  Today is not that day.

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Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI (Christopher Cox/New York Times)

Christopher Cox / New York Times: Amid a wave of lawsuits claiming Tesla dangerously overhyped its self-driving software, an overview of Tesla from its erratic CEO to its erratic Autopilot AI  —  A wave of lawsuits argue that Tesla’s self-driving software is dangerously overhyped.  What can its blind spots teach us about the company’s erratic

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Researchers demonstrate how threat actors can abuse GitHub Codespaces’ port forwarding feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Researchers demonstrate how threat actors can abuse GitHub Codespaces’ port forwarding feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts  —  Researchers have demonstrated how threat actors can abuse the GitHub Codespaces’ port forwarding’ feature to host and distribute malware and malicious scripts.

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Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)

Noam Scheiber / New York Times: Apple has agreed to hire a third-party firm to conduct an audit of its US labor practices, according to an investor coalition that has pushed for the assessment  —  The tech giant will assess its compliance with its official human rights policy, according to a federal filing.

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Megahex will Give You Robo-Arachnophobia

Some projects start with a relatively simple idea that quickly turns into a bit of a nightmare when you get to the actual implementation. [Hacksmith Industries] found this to be the case when they decided to build a giant rideable hexapod, Megahex. [YouTube] After seeing a video of a small excavator that could move itself

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Meta’s Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people (Devin Coldewey/TechCrunch)

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Meta’s Oversight Board urges the company to change its nudity policy after overturning its removal of two posts showing topless transgender and nonbinary people  —  Meta’s Oversight Board, which independently evaluates difficult content moderation decisions, has overturned the company’s takedown …

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