Mass Climate Migration Is Coming
With rising sea levels and extreme weather events, the global north needs to prepare to welcome displaced people.
Read MoreWith rising sea levels and extreme weather events, the global north needs to prepare to welcome displaced people.
Read MoreHere’s how a stock image—that looked like me—made its way to Chinese marketplaces. With each repost and edit, I grew more convinced that it was me.
Read MoreThe delays are over — Intel has unveiled its latest 4th Gen Xeon Scalable Processors, code-named Sapphire Rapids. These chips are all about high-performance computing in servers and data centers, and they have the specs to prove it. The 4th Gen Xeon Scalable CPUs support up to 60 cores per socket and accelerator engines for
Read MoreSaving money is a top priority for many people, and with good reason. It can be challenging to make ends meet, especially if you have a lot of financial obligations or are living on a tight budget. The good news is that there are many different ways to save money, and with a little bit
Read MoreIllustration by Alex Castro / The Verge ChatGPT is a sensation — but one that’s burning a hole in creator OpenAI’s pocket, with the company thought to be paying millions of dollars a month to keep the chatbot free to use. It’s no surprise, then, that as OpenAI seeks billions in funding from close partner
Read MorePhoto by DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images A critical Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) system has suffered a glitch, grounding flights across the US according to media reports. The FAA posted an advisory notice early Wednesday which notes that the United States NOTAM (Notice to Air Mission) system has “failed” and that engineers are working to
Read MoreAngus Loten / Wall Street Journal: Analysts say Salesforce’s customers do not seem to be swayed by Slack; the messaging service’s revenue growth declined from 11.7% in Q1 2022 to 6.9% in Q3 2022 — Carhartt’s CIO says the addition of the messaging app hasn’t made Salesforce’s products more appealing
Read MoreIngrid Lunden / TechCrunch: UK-based Hack the Box, which wants to encourage white hat hackers via gamified training, raised a $55M Series B led by Carlyle and reports having 1.7M users — There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system
Read More(Credit: Ramon Costa/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) AI-focused startups are a dime a dozen right now, but OpenAI is getting a lot of attention from investors following the public release of the DALL-E image generator and ChatGPT chatbot. Microsoft, which is already working with the company, is reportedly planning to invest $10 billion in OpenAI.
Read MoreFlu meds and prescription drugs have been in short supply all winter—but the problem goes back over a decade.
Read MoreAnother CES has come and gone. And after spending a few days reflecting on what I saw at the big trade show, it’s clear that 2023 will be a relatively quiet year for TVs on the whole. There were no major breakthroughs or new standards demonstrated at the show — at least none that will
Read MoreEric Matthes’s Python Crash Course, 3rd Edition takes a well-regarded text for getting started with Python and brings it up to date for 2023. The book not only covers Python’s basics but lets you put them to use in a series of projects involving data analysis, web development, and gaming. Many books offer either Python
Read MoreSoftware is a funny business. For example, you have Account A and Account B. You withdraw from one and add to the other inside of a transaction. Except that’s not how accounting works. You should probably do this in a different way. It is not only possible to write a database application that never issues
Read MoreI’ve been discussing Mastodon UX wish lists with some new acquaintances there. This excerpt from A Bloomberg terminal for Mastodon concludes with part of my own wish list. In a Mastodon timeline, a chatty person can dominate what you see at a glance. When we participate in social media we are always making bids for
Read MoreConan 2.0, a major new version of the open source C/C++ package manager created by JFrog, is due to arrive in February. The upgrade features a cleaner syntax, a new public Python API, new build system integrations, and a new graph model that better represents the relations between packages in C and C++, a JFrog
Read MoreBloomberg: Binance admits flaws in maintaining its Paxos-managed BUSD stablecoin, which should be backed 1:1; ChainArgos: BUSD was undercollateralized by $1B+ in 2020-21 — Binance Holdings Ltd., the biggest cryptocurrency exchange, acknowledged past flaws in the management of its stablecoin’s reserves …
Read MoreWall Street Journal: Sources: Netflix restricts some staff’s ability to see other employees’ salaries, a major shift for a company that has long offered rare pay transparency — Employees at the director level lost ability to view colleagues’ pay data late last year — Employers List Wide Salary Ranges in Ways That Sidestep Pay Transparency
Read MoreHappy Wednesday! I got my biannual haircut this week, and once again the hairdresser scolded me for not cutting it more often. I would have tried to explain my social anxiety, but, you know… Samsung may skip the Galaxy S24 Plus
Read MoreAbhijith Ganapavaram / Reuters: The FAA is “working to restore” its Notice to Air Missions system, which has failed, causing mass disruption; FlightAware shows 400+ flights have been delayed — The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) system that alerts pilots and other flight personnel about hazards …
Read MoreFinancial Times: Court documents: Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20M in Paradigm’s $2.5B Paradigm One fund in late 2021, before the fund then invested in FTX and FTX US — Court documents shed light on Sam Bankman-Fried’s circular transactions — Sam Bankman-Fried invested $20mn in a large venture capital fund …
Read MoreNilay Patel / The Verge: Cory Doctorow and law professor Rebecca Giblin on their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism, and how tech platforms monetize creators via distribution bottlenecks — It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms and how different kinds of distribution and creation tools create chokepoints …
Read MoreUnofficial renders of the Galaxy S23 Ultra. | Image: Onleaks / Smartprix Samsung’s upgrades for this year’s Galaxy S23 lineup include higher-resolution camera sensors and improved low light photography, according to a pair of teaser trailers posted by Samsung China. The new phones are expected to be officially announced in three weeks on February 1st
Read MoreJeremy Hill / Bloomberg: Court documents: New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, NFL star Tom Brady, a Peter Thiel-linked trust, and more own FTX Group stock, now considered worthless — Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and star NFL quarterback Tom Brady are among those sharing in the pain of FTX Group’s sudden implosion.
Read MoreReports indicate Apple could launch new versions of its flagship MacBook Pro very soon, what can we expect?
Read MoreAn unofficial render of Samsung’s Galaxy S23. | Image: OnLeaks / Digit Plus, problems at Parler, and rumors of Apple-designed MicroLED displays. Continue reading…
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