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Judge sets SBF’s trial for early October, allows redaction of SBF’s bond signers’ names for now, and amends bail terms to keep SBF from accessing FTX funds (CoinDesk)

CoinDesk: Judge sets SBF’s trial for early October, allows redaction of SBF’s bond signers’ names for now, and amends bail terms to keep SBF from accessing FTX funds  —  The presiding judge in the case set a target date for the trial to begin in early October.  —  Join the most important conversation …

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Nvidia plans to bring its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to Hyundai’s, Polestar’s, and BYD’s infotainment systems, but offers no timeline or eligible cars (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Nvidia plans to bring its GeForce Now cloud gaming service to Hyundai’s, Polestar’s, and BYD’s infotainment systems, but offers no timeline or eligible cars  —  Nvidia is working with automakers to make its cloud gaming service GeForce Now available in cars.

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The Wireless Power Consortium says it is working with Apple on a next-generation “Qi2” wireless charging standard, based on MagSafe, coming later this year (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: The Wireless Power Consortium says it is working with Apple on a next-generation “Qi2” wireless charging standard, based on MagSafe, coming later this year  —  Apple’s Magsafe is a more convenient way to charge the iPhone using accessories based on the Qi standard …

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Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight charges, including defrauding customers and laundering money; if convicted, he faces up to 115 years in prison (Tom Warren/BuzzFeed News)

Tom Warren / BuzzFeed News: Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to all eight charges, including defrauding customers and laundering money; if convicted, he faces up to 115 years in prison  —  If convicted, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX faces 115 years in prison.

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Fool a Drone With a Fixed Battery

Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer rechargeable batteries have given us previously impossible heights of electronics power and miniaturization, but there’s a downside they have brought along with them. When a battery pack has to contain electronics for balancing cells, it’s very easy for a manufacturer to include extra functions such as locking down the battery. Repair a

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The Problem With Passwords

By now it’s probable that most readers will have heard about LastPass’s “Security Incident“, in which users’ password vaults were lifted from their servers. We’re told that the vaults are encrypted such that they’re of little use to anyone without futuristic computing power and a lot of time, but the damage is still done and

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Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap (Patrick McGee/Financial Times)

Patrick McGee / Financial Times: Apple’s market cap sinks below $2T in intraday trading, as its stock continues to slide; a year ago, Apple was the first company to reach a $3T market cap  —  Dramatic fall from $3tn in the past year comes amid investor fears over disruptions to its China-based factories

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Nvidia upgrades its $19.99/month GeForce Now Ultimate plan to support 240 FPS streaming, ultrawide monitors, and more by using RTX 4080-class GPUs (Romain Dillet/TechCrunch)

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: Nvidia upgrades its $19.99/month GeForce Now Ultimate plan to support 240 FPS streaming, ultrawide monitors, and more by using RTX 4080-class GPUs  —  Nvidia announced some new features for its cloud gaming service during its virtual CES press conference.  The company is upgrading …

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