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The US DOT says it is investigating Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens, after an alert from an animal welfare advocacy group (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

Rachael Levy / Reuters: The US DOT says it is investigating Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens, after an alert from an animal welfare advocacy group — The U.S. Department of Transportation said on Thursday it is investigating Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink …

The US DOT says it is investigating Neuralink over the potentially illegal movement of hazardous pathogens, after an alert from an animal welfare advocacy group (Rachael Levy/Reuters)

The Twitch ‘Seinfeld’ Show Proves AI Shouldn’t Write Comedy

This week, the AI-generated parody “Nothing, Forever” got temporarily banned from the streaming site following some transphobic jokes.

Meta submits data to the EU showing that pop up content warnings stopped Facebook users sharing 25% of flagged posts and 38% on Instagram; TikTok reports 29% (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Meta submits data to the EU showing that pop up content warnings stopped Facebook users sharing 25% of flagged posts and 38% on Instagram; TikTok reports 29% — The warnings that pop up when someone tries to share potentially false or misleading posts on TikTok Inc., Instagram and Facebook are ignored most of the

Decorative Clock Uses LED Strips To Beautiful Effect

Clocks used to be dowdy old things with mechanical hands and sometimes even little cuckoo birds that would pop out to chime the hour. [David] built something altogether more modern that uses shifting colors on LED strips to tell the time. The core of the build is an ESP8266, which queries an NTP time server

50 Best Valentine’s Day Deals: Instant Cameras, Phones, and Weighted Blankets

From discounted sex toys to instant cameras, we’ve got plenty of gift ideas to spread the love.

How to check your CPU temperature on a Windows PC

Do you ever feel like your PC is running hot? Like it might just catch fire and melt into a puddle of plastic and circuits? Before you call the fire department, you might want to check the temperature of your CPU. Just like checking your car’s oil to ensure it’s running smoothly, checking your CPU

Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.2B, a net loss of $588.1M vs. $283.2M YoY, and active riders up 8.7% YoY to 20.4M; stock is down 20%+ on weak guidance (Kathryn Hardison/Wall Street Journal)

Kathryn Hardison / Wall Street Journal: Lyft reports Q4 revenue up 21% YoY to $1.2B, a net loss of $588.1M vs. $283.2M YoY, and active riders up 8.7% YoY to 20.4M; stock is down 20%+ on weak guidance — Ride-hailing company reports highest number of users in nearly three years — Lyft Inc. LYFT -3.16%decrease

PayPal says its CEO and president Dan Schulman will retire and leave the company at the end 2023; he will remain a member of PayPal’s board of directors (CNBC)

CNBC: PayPal says its CEO and president Dan Schulman will retire and leave the company at the end 2023; he will remain a member of PayPal’s board of directors — – Schulman became PayPal CEO after the company’s split from eBay in 2015. — PayPal said on Thursday that CEO and president Dan Schulman …

PayPal reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to $7.38B, vs. $7.39B est., payments volume up 5% YoY to $357.4B, vs. $360.3B est., and net income of $921M (Emily Bary/MarketWatch)

Emily Bary / MarketWatch: PayPal reports Q4 revenue up 7% YoY to $7.38B, vs. $7.39B est., payments volume up 5% YoY to $357.4B, vs. $360.3B est., and net income of $921M — PayPal’s revenue matched expectations for the holiday quarter, and executives’ profit guidance for the new year comes in ahead of Wall Street estimates

Intel’s Arrow Lake Architecture to Have Major IPC Gains Over Alder Lake

Intel’s CPU roadmap is a bit murky. We’ve all seen various forms of it and generally know what to expect. However, in silicon manufacturing, many details are always TBD until the day it launches. For example, we know Meteor Lake will follow Raptor Lake, and Arrow Lake comes after that. The fly in the ointment

Microsoft’s GitHub cuts 10% of its staff, or an estimated 300+; GitLab cuts 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE)

Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Microsoft’s GitHub cuts 10% of its staff, or an estimated 300+; GitLab cuts 7%, or an estimated 114; report: GitHub will close offices and shift to remote work — Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub unit and publicly traded rival GitLab Inc. today both announced layoffs, disclosing plans to let go 10% and 7%

Reverse Engineering British Rail Tickets

There was a time when to take a British rail journey was to receive a ticket barely changed since Victorian times — a small cardboard rectangle printed with the destination through which the inspector on the train would punch a hole. In recent decades these were replaced by credit-card-sized thin card, and now increasingly with

The FCC approves Amazon’s plan to mitigate its Kuiper satellite internet system’s orbital debris; SpaceX asked for stricter conditions on Kuiper’s deployment (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag: The FCC approves Amazon’s plan to mitigate its Kuiper satellite internet system’s orbital debris; SpaceX asked for stricter conditions on Kuiper’s deployment — SpaceX had urged the FCC to impose stricter conditions to prevent Amazon’s satellite internet system Project Kuiper from producing orbital debris.

Microsoft, Adobe Announce Edge Browser Will Soon Use Acrobat to Open PDFs

If you’re using a recent version of Windows, Microsoft’s Edge browser will “helpfully” make itself your default PDF viewer. You might want to change that default depending on how you feel about the latest news. Microsoft and Adobe have announced that Acrobat will soon be integrated with Edge for enhanced PDF support. Microsoft seems aware

Sources: Elon Musk publicly fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting that his engagement numbers are down not because of a bug but because of waning popularity (Platformer)

Platformer: Sources: Elon Musk publicly fired a Twitter engineer for suggesting that his engagement numbers are down not because of a bug but because of waning popularity — Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max — For weeks now, Elon Musk has been preoccupied with worries …

Kraken agrees to pay $30M and discontinue its crypto-asset staking products to settle SEC allegations that its staking services broke US securities rules (Austin Weinstein/Bloomberg)

Austin Weinstein / Bloomberg: Kraken agrees to pay $30M and discontinue its crypto-asset staking products to settle SEC allegations that its staking services broke US securities rules — Kraken will pay $30 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that it broke US securities rules …

Russia’s Ransomware Gangs Are Being Named and Shamed

Members of the Trickbot and Conti cybercrime gangs have been sanctioned in an unprecedented wave of action against the country’s hackers.

Researchers Block Peanut Allergy Reactions in Mice

(Image: Vladislav Nikonov/Unsplash)You probably know someone with a peanut allergy—or maybe you’re allergic. More than one in every 100 people suffer from a severe peanut allergy, requiring that they take great care to avoid what could be a deadly legume. But what if it didn’t have to be that way? What if folks with peanut

The Verge’s 2023 Valentine’s Day gift guide

Image: The Verge A few gift ideas for that special someone in your life that aren’t just candies, chocolates, or cringe. Continue reading…

A Shield of Lunar Dust Could Help Cool Earth From Space

(Image: Patrick Schaudel/Unsplash)Researchers have a lot of ideas about how to cool Earth, but few are quite as eyebrow-raising as this one. Astrophysicists are pondering the pros and cons of launching moon sediment into orbit to create a dusty shield that would reduce Earth’s exposure to the Sun. The idea is courtesy of three researchers

Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic” (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios: Yahoo plans to lay off 20%+ of its workforce and restructure its ad tech unit, impacting 50%+ of the unit, or 1,600+ people; CEO says the cuts are “strategic” — Yahoo plans to lay off more than 20% of its total workforce as part of a major restructuring of its ad

This Fake Skin Fools Mosquitoes—to Fight the Diseases They Spread

Research on new repellents and the viruses these insects carry relies on lab animals and human volunteers. What if there was a better option?

A live-action Spider-Man Noir series is coming from Amazon

Spider-Man Noir holding on to a lit match. | Image: Sony / Marvel Studios Spider-Man Noir might not be returning in Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse sequels, but apparently the hardboiled, black-and-white Marvel hero is about to make his live-action debut in a new Amazon series. Variety reports that Sony and Amazon are developing

Thursday’s top tech news: A prime Nintendo showing

Samus from Metroid Prime Remastered. | Image: Nintendo And a chaotic day for Twitter. Continue reading…

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