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Critical vulnerability in Atlassian Confluence server is under “mass exploitation”
Atlassian's senior management is all but begging customers to take immediate action.
Supermassive black hole found only half a billion years after Big Bang
There just isn't time for something that big to grow from a supernova remnant.
Toxic toddler fruit pouches: “Extremely high” lead levels sicken 7 in 5 states
Three brands of apple cinnamon fruit pouches have now been recalled.
OpenAI introduces GPT-4 Turbo: Larger memory, lower cost, new knowledge
Novel-sized context window, DALL-E 3 API, more announced on OpenAI DevDay 2023.
Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients
Web Integrity pivots to Android, could permanently kill YouTube Vanced-style apps.
100+ researchers say they stopped studying X, fearing Elon Musk might sue them
Affected studies were tracking hate speech, child safety, and misinformation.
Google ends deal to build 15,000 Bay Area homes due to “market conditions”
15,000-home plan in limbo as Google ends contract with builder after four years.
Good news for clumsy divers: Physics holds the key to less-painful belly-flops
Insights could help improve future designs of naval ships, seaplanes, or projectiles.
OpenAI introduces custom AI assistants called “GPTs” that play different roles
Users can build and share custom-defined roles-from math mentor to sticker designer.
Why today’s Epic v. Google trial is (and isn’t) a repeat of Epic v. Apple
Epic says Google puts up "myriad contractual and technical barriers" for sideloading.
The brutality of this EV crash test was shocking, but both cars passed
Counting our blessings after a crash course in vehicle safety.
Dealmaster: Herman Miller deals, Lenovo laptop sales, and more
A rare sale that takes up to 25 percent off the price of Herman Miller chairs.
Apple says it has no plans to update the 27-inch iMac with Apple Silicon chips
The 27-inch model used to be Apple's best consumer desktop, but no longer.
Elon Musk’s new AI model doesn’t shy from questions about cocaine and orgies
xAI positions sarcastic AI assistant to counterbalance buttoned-up ChatGPT.
Ariane 6 cost and delays bring European launch industry to a breaking point
"I certainly expect a paradigm shift on the launcher sector."
Review: Apple’s 16-inch M3 Max MacBook Pro crams Ultra-level speed into a laptop
A solid generational upgrade for a laptop that wouldn't be possible with Intel.
Daily Telescope: The sword of Orion contains a brilliant reflection nebula
This image was captured in California, near Oakland.
Driving the Volvo EX30, a $36K EV that prioritizes sustainability
Volvo says the EX30's carbon footprint is 25 percent smaller than the C40 or XC40.
Most monstrous marsquake ever reveals where it came from
A seismic event that looked like an impact, but no craters to be seen.
When the natural gas industry used the playbook from Big Tobacco
As early as the 1970s, research showed that gas stoves produced indoor air pollution.
Hitting the trails with a low-priced e-mountain bike
SWFT takes its price- and corner-cutting to a bike format that skews high-end.
No, Okta, senior management, not an errant employee, caused you to get hacked
If a transgression by a single employee breaches your network, you're doing it wrong.
A historic Falcon 9 made a little more history Friday night
SpaceX didn't stop at 10 or 15 flights per booster, and probably won't stop at 20.
It’s almost showtime for SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket
SpaceX will again target a morning liftoff for the rocket.
Diablo IV will get its first expansion and WoW Classic will revisit Cataclysm
Blizzard also announced three (yes, three) World of Warcraft expansions.
Soda additive linked to thyroid toxicity may finally get banned by FDA
BVO has largely been phased out of big-name sodas and was recently banned in CA.
What do we know about the Switch 2’s hardware power?
Digital Foundry reads the tea leaves for a deep dive full of informed speculation.
How long will Jeff Bezos continue to subsidize his New Shepard rocket?
"It's definitely a money loser. Always has been."
Perfect Dark finally gets the full-featured PC port it deserves
Decompilation project adds mouse-and-keyboard controls, upscaled graphics and more.
Intel’s failed 64-bit Itanium CPUs die another death as Linux support ends
Intel stopped selling the last Itanium processors in 2021.
The UAW beat the big three; Elon Musk’s Tesla is among its next targets
Toyota has already given its workers a pay raise in response to the UAW contract.
AI helps 3D printers “write” with coiling fluid ropes like Jackson Pollock
Reinforcement learning lets 3D printers exploit, not suppress, coiling instabilities.
Former head of NASA’s climate group issues dire warning on warming
Conclusion that decrease in aerosol pollution will drive temps higher sparks backlash.
Daily Telescope: Lucy finds not one but two diamonds in the sky
"The fact that it is two makes it even more exciting."
Why OLED monitor burn-in isn’t a huge problem anymore
Burn-in likelihood has to do with the user and OEM, not just OLED materials.
Teen boys use AI to make fake nudes of classmates, sparking police probe
Parents told the high school "believed" the deepfake nudes were deleted.
Apple slides from 2013 skewer Android as “a massive tracking device”
But Apple also wanted to know what results users clicked on Google from iPhones.
Tenn. vaccine chief, fired after promoting COVID shots, gets $150K settlement
Dr. Michelle Fiscus was fired after sending a memo on vaccination rights of minors.
12 V battery problem forces Toyota to recall 1.8 million SUVs
Owners should hear about a fix by late December.
Google is moving Shopping List and other notes into one app to worry about, Keep
It's technically a reversal of a bizarre, annoying move they made in 2017.
AMD starts bringing its own tiny CPU cores to new Ryzen 7040 laptop chips
AMD has already announced some of these chips without mentioning Zen 4c cores.
Disney to buy out Hulu from Comcast for about $8.61 billion
The companies still have to settle on Hulu's worth.
Firefox lost users during “failed” Yahoo search deal, says Mozilla CEO
Mozilla could be biggest loser" if DOJ wins Google trial, ex-Google exec says.
Apple’s cheaper Pencil is available to buy now, but it has some limitations
$79 Pencil lowers the barrier to entry for drawing on an iPad.
Dealmaster: Big early Black Friday display sale, Apple deals, and more
Hot TV deals, laptops galore, Apple gear, and more ahead of Black Friday.
Why Capcom thinks PC game modding is akin to “cheating”
Japanese publisher cites reputational damage, support costs of "unauthorized" mods.
Despite spooky Consumer Reports’ testing, metals in chocolates aren’t scary
Chocolate is just not a big source of either lead or cadmium in diets.
Amid price hikes, ads, & crackdowns, Netflix finally cuts subscribers a break
Ad-tier improvement is rare good news for streaming subscribers.
Remains of planet that formed the Moon may be hiding near Earth’s core
High-density material in the mantle may be remains of a Mars-sized planet.
Once valued at $47 billion, coworking-space provider WeWork nears bankruptcy
WeWork bankruptcy filing may happen next week as market cap falls to $60 million.
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