As users are desperate to find a new alternative to Twitter, which has been sucked into a morass of endless chaos by its new owner Elon Musk, developers working on Twitter competitors are starting to buckle under the pressure. As TechCrunch reports, Twitter alternative Hive Social has had to pull all of its servers offline… Continue reading Twitter Competitor Shuts Down App When It Turns Out Hackers Can Read Users’ Private Messages
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Defective LED Streetlights Are Turning the Night Purple
It’s kinda cool, though. Mood Lights As cities around the world ditch old school sodium-vapor streetlights, they’re quickly replacing them with modern LEDs. They’re supposed to be cheaper and longer-lasting than their predecessors, but at least one of those claims isn’t exactly panning out as intended. A new story from Insider details how many of… Continue reading Defective LED Streetlights Are Turning the Night Purple
Elon Musk Reportedly Slashed the Team That Fights Child Sexual Abuse on Twitter
Last week, Twitter CEO Elon Musk took to his recently purchased social media platform to declare that “removing child exploitation” from Twitter was the restructuring site’s “priority #1.” That’s a great goal to have — but unfortunately, Musk’s actions reportedly aren’t aligning with his words. Bloomberg reports that Twitter’s formerly 20 person team responsible for… Continue reading Elon Musk Reportedly Slashed the Team That Fights Child Sexual Abuse on Twitter
Student Journalists Expose Claims of Scientific Misconduct Against Stanford’s President
Image by Smith Collection and Gado via Getty / Futurism Stanford University is circling the wagons around its president after student journalists uncovered serious allegations of scientific misconduct in academic papers he’d published. As the young journalists reported in The Stanford Daily, university president Marc Tessier-Levigne is currently under investigation by the school’s board of… Continue reading Student Journalists Expose Claims of Scientific Misconduct Against Stanford’s President
FTX’s Worst Sin: It Owes an Immense Bill to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville
No more cheeseburgers for SBF. Cheeseburgers in Hell There is, as it turns out, a tenth circle of hell, and disgraced ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is in it. Insider reports that, according to new court documents filed in the ongoing FTX bankruptcy coinpocalypse, the SBF-tied hedge fund Alameda Research has one particularly egregious debt: it… Continue reading FTX’s Worst Sin: It Owes an Immense Bill to Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville
Raw Liver Eating Bodybuilder Accused of Injecting Himself With $11,000 Worth of Steroids Every Month
Image by Liver King via YouTube Brian “Liver King” Johnson, a caveman-esque bodybuilder who credits his extremely muscular physique to eating raw animal liver, has been accused by a different bodybuilder influencer of making heavy use of steroids to achieve his extremely muscular physique, Rolling Stone reports. It’s a debate that has been going on… Continue reading Raw Liver Eating Bodybuilder Accused of Injecting Himself With $11,000 Worth of Steroids Every Month
Courtroom Erupts in Cheers After Bitcoin Plant Rejected From Opening in Community
“Bitcoin mining is not welcome in Washington County.” Not in My Backyard A courtroom in Washington County, Tennessee, erupted in applause after county commissioners rejected a proposal to build a Bitcoin mining plant in the area. Bitcoin miner Red Dog Technologies was already operating a 25-megawatt Bitcoin mine in Limestone, Tennessee since late 2020, but the… Continue reading Courtroom Erupts in Cheers After Bitcoin Plant Rejected From Opening in Community
Leaked Messages Show FTX Insiders Begging SBF to Step Down as Crisis Deepened
In the early days of the FTX collapse, wunderkind founder Sam Bankman-Fried was so stuck in the mud about saving the exchange that people near him were spinning their wheels trying to get him to do the right thing and step down as CEO. As the New York Times reports, a trove of leaked internal messages… Continue reading Leaked Messages Show FTX Insiders Begging SBF to Step Down as Crisis Deepened
San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People
“This is opening up a Pandora’s box that could change our society in a significant way.” San Francisco police have been granted permission by city supervisors to kill civilians using robots. Yes, that’s a real thing that just happened — though it sounds like an episode of “Black Mirror,” it’s an actual turn of events… Continue reading San Francisco Cops Now Allowed to Use Robots to Kill People
The World Cup Is So High Tech That They Have to Charge the Balls
Dodgy offside calls will be a thing of the past… as long as someone keeps the balls charged. Serious Balls Officiating World Cup games comes with extraordinary pressure, and over the years FIFA has been introducing new technology like video assisted refereeing (VAR) and goal-line observation tech to give referees a helping hand. Now, the… Continue reading The World Cup Is So High Tech That They Have to Charge the Balls