There was a time when Mark Zuckerberg didn’t regard mainstream media as the enemy. He even allowed me, a card-carrying legacy media person, into his home. In April 2018, I ventured there to hear his plans to do the right thing. It was part of my years-long embed into Facebook to write a book. For… Continue reading Mark Zuckerberg Turns His Back on the Media
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Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?
After the first 20 minutes, the water temperature seemed to increase at a fairly constant rate of 0.0006 degrees Celsius per second. This increase in temperature means there is an increase in thermal energy, which we can calculate as: Here m is the mass of the stuff (in this case, water), and C is the… Continue reading Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?
Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
The Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu—better known internationally as RedNote—is scrambling to boost its ability to moderate English-language content after hundreds of thousands of American users suddenly joined the platform in anticipation of TikTok potentially being banned in the United States on Sunday. WIRED identified a handful of job listings posted to recruitment platforms by… Continue reading Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire English-Speaking Content Moderators
They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun
A crypto investor has brought a class action lawsuit against Pump.Fun, a platform for launching and investing in meme-inspired cryptocurrencies, after suffering trading losses. Representing the plaintiffs are Wolf Popper and Burwick Law, the two firms handling a separate class action brought by investors in December over a memecoin launched by web personality Haliey Welch,… Continue reading They Went After the Hawk Tuah Crypto Promoters. Now They’re Suing Pump.Fun
Hackers Likely Stole FBI Call Logs From AT&T That Could Compromise Informants
The United States telecom giant AT&T disclosed a breach in July involving call and text messaging logs from six months in 2022 of “nearly all” its more than 100 million customers. In addition to exposing personal communication details for a slew of individual Americans, though, the FBI has been on alert that its agents’ call… Continue reading Hackers Likely Stole FBI Call Logs From AT&T That Could Compromise Informants
Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury
At 06:59 Central European time time on January 8, the BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its sixth flyby of Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system. This was a “gravity assist maneuver,” a move that used Mercury’s gravitational pull to alter the BepiColombo vehicle’s course, which will bring it into orbit around the planet by… Continue reading Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury
Lovense Osci 3 Review: A Vibrator That Warms Up
Lovense is a brand I stayed away from in my early years of reviewing sex toys. It wasn’t anything personal, but Lovense products always show up to the party with so many bells and whistles that, at least for me, it was overwhelming. I’m naturally overstimulated—my brain is always all over the place—so it didn’t… Continue reading Lovense Osci 3 Review: A Vibrator That Warms Up
The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair
Today, the US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against farming equipment manufacturer Deere & Company—makers of the iconic green John Deere tractors, harvesters, and mowers—citing its longtime reluctance to keep its customers from fixing their own machines. “Farmers rely on their agricultural equipment to earn a living and feed their families,” FTC chair Lina… Continue reading The FTC Suing John Deere Is a Tipping Point for Right-to-Repair
Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All
Whether shifting teams to Texas will be anything more than symbolic is unclear. Common sense suggests if a person in California exhibits some sort of political preference, moving them to Texas isn’t likely to reshape their viewpoints immediately. In the same town hall call, company leadership described the Texas relocation as an attempt to address… Continue reading Not Many Meta Employees Will Have to Move to Texas After All
Microsoft Is Ending Support for Windows 10 Office Apps in October
Unless Microsoft hadn’t already made it very clear that it wants you to upgrade your Windows 10 PC this year, the company has announced it will stop supporting Office apps on the older OS come October. In a blog post, Microsoft confirmed that to continue using the Microsoft 365 suite of apps on your machine,… Continue reading Microsoft Is Ending Support for Windows 10 Office Apps in October