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AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications with a drag-and-drop interface (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: AWS launches Application Composer, a low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications with a drag-and-drop interface — At its re:Invent conference today, AWS announced the launch of AWS Application Composer, a new low-code tool for visually designing and building serverless applications.

One of the highest-rated Nintendo Switch games is now free with Apple Arcade

A superb roguelike Metroidvania in the palm of your hand, now free with Apple Arcade.

Spool Tower: Empty Filament Spool Or Base For Miniature Civilizations

While churning through rolls of FDM filament, there are these empty spools that remain at the end. These can be thrown out with the trash, or be used as a standard base for miniatures, for use with Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gaming or similar, or just as a display piece. The latter is what the

Now one swipe is enough to see all your notifications in the latest iOS 16.2 beta

The Lock Screen will still require you to swipe up once more to see older notifications, but now the Notification Center won’t. | Image: Apple Apple released its latest iOS public beta this week, and it has one convenient new feature that could help reduce your scrolling — at least by one swipe. As pointed

Reach Power, which is developing products to wirelessly transmit electricity to power IoT and other devices, raised a $30M Series B led by DCVC (Jane Lanhee Lee/Reuters)

Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: Reach Power, which is developing products to wirelessly transmit electricity to power IoT and other devices, raised a $30M Series B led by DCVC — Reach Power Inc, a Silicon Valley startup that beams electricity wirelessly, said on Friday it had raised $30 million in a funding round that will

This Week in Security: Huawei Gets the Banhammer, Lastpass, and Old Code Breaking

While many of us were enjoying some time off for Thanksgiving, the US government took drastic action against Huawei and four other Chinese companies. The hardest hit are Huawei and ZTE, as the ban prevents any new products from being approved for the US market. The other three companies are Dahua and Hikvision, which make

Filing: US DOJ has requested that an independent examiner be appointed to review “substantial and serious allegations of fraud, dishonesty” in FTX’s bankruptcy (CNBC)

CNBC: Filing: US DOJ has requested that an independent examiner be appointed to review “substantial and serious allegations of fraud, dishonesty” in FTX’s bankruptcy — – FTX’s bankruptcy case demands an independent review, the Department of Justice said, because of allegations of fraud …

Can You Double CPU Performance by Cooling It With a Chip Instead of a Fan?

A four-year-old company is coming to market soon with an unexpected technology to cool CPUs and SoCs. Frore Systems has developed a cooling chip it calls AirJet that sits on top of a heat-generating chip and cools it without the need for mechanical fans. It’s 2.8mm thick and uses pulsating inlets to suck air into

Sources: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, is cutting half of staff, or an estimated 88 employees, its third round of known layoffs since the pandemic began (Natasha Mascarenhas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Mascarenhas / TechCrunch: Sources: BloomTech, previously Lambda School, is cutting half of staff, or an estimated 88 employees, its third round of known layoffs since the pandemic began — A little over a year after buzzy coding bootcamp Lambda School rebranded as Bloom Institute of Technology …

Coros Apex 2 and Apex 2 Pro review: slightly short of great

These are good multisport watches that zero in on the basics but miss some popular features that would make them great. Continue reading…

Alex Jones has filed for bankruptcy

Photo by Joe Buglewicz / Getty Images Infowars founder Alex Jones has filed for personal bankruptcy in the wake of a billion-dollar defamation penalty. As reported by Reuters this morning, Jones filed a petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Houston court this morning. Jones’ company, Free Speech Systems, filed its own bankruptcy petition in

Ye’s Twitter account is suspended after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David; Elon Musk replied, saying he violated Twitter rules (Newley Purnell/Wall Street Journal)

Newley Purnell / Wall Street Journal: Ye’s Twitter account is suspended after he tweeted a picture of a swastika merged with a Star of David; Elon Musk replied, saying he violated Twitter rules — West, who goes by Ye, recently had his account restored after being banned in October — Kanye West Offers to Buy

Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Despite ample reasons to be skeptical of cryptocurrency schemes, the notion of the eccentric genius accomplishing extraordinary things was irresistible.

It’s the End of Trending

Spotify Wrapped memes, Twitter hashtags, YouTube’s best-of list. Do social media trends still have anything vital to say?

AI Reveals the Most Human Parts of Writing

When do writers want help finding inspiration? And when do they want full control? Computers could expose the true future of the medium.

Sources: Alameda sheltered FTX from an up to $1B loss in April 2021 after an FTX trader’s MobileCoin trade went bad, wiping out Alameda’s 2021 profits (Financial Times)

Financial Times: Sources: Alameda sheltered FTX from an up to $1B loss in April 2021 after an FTX trader’s MobileCoin trade went bad, wiping out Alameda’s 2021 profits — Alameda Research sustained up to $1bn loss last year when client’s trade on obscure token went sour — Hedge fund Alameda Research stepped …

ZIP, RAR Have Surpassed Office Files as Most-Used Malware Containers

We all, hopefully, learned long ago not to open suspicious Microsoft Office files, which have long been one of the most common vectors for malware infection. According to a new report, there’s a new public enemy number one when it comes to cybersecurity: ZIP and RAR archives. Data from HP Wolf Security shows that encrypted

Deathloop for PS5 is just $10 at Best Buy

The game features a single-player campaign, as well as a tense, one-versus-one multiplayer mode. | Image: Bethesda You’d think the best gaming deals of the year are behind us now that Black Friday is over and it’s December, but Best Buy appears to have other plans. The retailer surprised us today with a one-day deal

The Verge’s 2022 holiday gift guide for working from home

Photography by Joel Goldberg for The Verge Elevate your workspace aesthetic or just become a more productive human with our work-from-home gift guide. Continue reading…

Ditch Your USB-A Dongle and Embrace the USB-C Life

The old port is dead to me. Connect your peripherals to all your devices with the more universal connector.

8 shows and movies like Wednesday to watch after finishing the Netflix series

Credit: Netflix Wednesday is the latest Netflix original series to become a huge breakout hit. Indeed, the debut week of the horror comedy, starring Jenna Ortega in the title role, has become the most-watched English language show in Netflix’s history, beating out the fourth season of Stranger Things, which also debuted this year. Many fans

A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more (Derek Thompson/The Atlantic)

Derek Thompson / The Atlantic: A look at some implications for generative AI: “answer engines” replacing search engines, AI mastering cognitive tasks by surveilling how experts work, and more — This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America’s biggest problems.

The Callisto Protocol is terrifying sci-fi horror with terrifying difficulty spikes

Lead character Jacob in The Callisto Protocol. | Image: Krafton The game, led by Dead Space creator Glen Schofield, takes an old-school approach to survival horror. And it works… except when it becomes painfully frustrating. Continue reading…

Astronomers Spot Black Hole Devouring Star on the Other Side of the Universe

Astronomers scanning the farthest reaches of space earlier this year spotted something unusual: a powerful signal that lit up in X-ray, optical, and radio bands. The team, from MIT and the University of Birmingham, dubbed the phenomenon AT 2022cmc. They’ve since published a paper showing that AT 2022cmc is a supermassive black hole that has

The trial of three Wirecard executives has begun, seeking to understand how the €24B startup imploded in June 2020, one of the largest frauds in German history (Olaf Storbeck/Financial Times)

Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times: The trial of three Wirecard executives has begun, seeking to understand how the €24B startup imploded in June 2020, one of the largest frauds in German history — A panel of Munich judges will from Thursday begin dissecting one of the biggest frauds in German history

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