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Microsoft announces an in-person press event at its Redmond HQ on February 7 at 10am PT, expected to focus mainly on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft announces an in-person press event at its Redmond HQ on February 7 at 10am PT, expected to focus mainly on its OpenAI partnership and ChatGPT for Bing  —  Microsoft is holding a major news event tomorrow on February 7th.  The software giant first mailed out invites to an in-person

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The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked (Apurva Venkat/CSO)

Apurva Venkat / CSO: The US, France, Italy, and others warn about a ransomware attack on VMware ESXi servers, despite a February 2021 patch; Censys: 3,200+ servers have been hacked  —  A global ransomware attack has targeted thousands of servers running the VMware ESxi hypervisor, with many more servers expected to be affected …

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Pakistan unblocks Wikipedia after three days; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: the ban’s unintended consequences over objectionable content outweigh its benefits (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Pakistan unblocks Wikipedia after three days; Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif: the ban’s unintended consequences over objectionable content outweigh its benefits  —  Pakistan has unblocked Wikipedia in the South Asian market, three days after the online encyclopedia was censored in the nation …

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Antarctica EV Helps Researchers Navigate Icy Terrain

(Image: Venturi)Fancy as it might be, your electric vehicle probably isn’t equipped to navigate deep snow and slick ice while hauling multi-ton implements. For the average person, this isn’t a problem—but for scientists up in Antarctica, a lack of appropriate land transportation equals a research road bump. Those studying meteorites, melting ice shelves, atmospheric changes,

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Virginia-based ShiftMed, a labor marketplace for flexible nursing jobs, raised $200M led by Panoramic Ventures and says 350K+ nurses and aides use its app (Christine Hall/TechCrunch)

Christine Hall / TechCrunch: Virginia-based ShiftMed, a labor marketplace for flexible nursing jobs, raised $200M led by Panoramic Ventures and says 350K+ nurses and aides use its app  —  ShiftMed, a Virginia-based W-2 healthcare workforce management marketplace that focuses on nurses and aides, closed on $200 million in new funding.

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Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Getty Images sues Stability AI in the US for allegedly copying 12M+ images without permission or compensation for training data used to create Stable Diffusion  —  Getty Images has filed a lawsuit in the US against Stability AI, creators of open-source AI art generator Stable Diffusion, escalating its legal battle

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Binance is “temporarily suspending US dollar bank transfers” on February 8 and says 0.01% of its monthly active users use USD bank transfers (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

Helene Braun / CoinDesk: Binance is “temporarily suspending US dollar bank transfers” on February 8 and says 0.01% of its monthly active users use USD bank transfers  —  USD bank transfers comprise only a tiny bit of monthly active users, the exchange said.  —  Join the most important conversation …

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How to stream the Super Bowl in 2023

On February 12, the 2022-2023 football season comes to a close as the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles for Super Bowl LVII. If you want to watch the game live in Glendale, Arizona, tickets are likely to set you back thousands. You’re probably better off watching it on TV, but if

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Scientists Simulate the Human GI Tract in Mice

(Image: Julien Tromeur/Unsplash)A team of biologists and pathologists in Ohio has successfully modeled the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract in rodents. By planting tiny balls of human intestinal tissue into the abdomens of mice and allowing those tissues to take root, the scientists have created a working environment in which they can study GI physiology and

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Create Your RTL Simulations With KiCAD

[Bob Alexander] is in the process of designing a homebrew discrete TTL CPU, and wanted a way to enter schematics for digital simulations via a Verilog RTL flow. Since KiCAD is pretty good at handling hierarchical schematics, why not use that? [Bob] created a KiCAD plugin, KiCadVerilog allowing one to instantiate and wire up the

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