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California settles Activision Blizzard gender discrimination lawsuit for $54 million
A California regulator has settled its blockbuster lawsuit that alleged a culture of sexual harassment at Activision Blizzard. Now under the ownership of Microsoft, the gaming company will pay about $54 million as part of the settlement, according to a press release from California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD). The CRD (formerly known as the Department…
Apple fixed the iPhone’s Flipper Zero problem
Apple has blocked a Bluetooth attack carried out with the Flipper Zero that sent a barrage of pop-ups to iPhones, causing them to lock up and crash. While Apple hasn’t formally announced the change, it appears the company has rolled out a fix in iOS 17.2, according to tests from ZDNET and 9to5Mac. Until now,…
Meme Coin BONK Spikes 40% on Coinbase Listing
Prices reversed nearly all losses from last week following the announcement. BONK traded at $0.000014 on Thursday morning, with a trading volume of over $235 million. Source link
Biophotons: Are lentils sending secret quantum messages?
In the foothills to the south of Rome sits Italy’s premier nuclear physics lab, the National Laboratory of Frascati. It has all the equipment you would expect at a cutting-edge science facility, with huge magnets, powerful particle accelerators and exposed electric cables spilling out everywhere. Many of the researchers here are trying to unpick the…
Adam Mosseri spells out Threads’ plans for the fediverse
On Friday, two days after Threads finally started publicly testing ActivityPub integration, Instagram head Adam Mosseri shared a thread on Threads detailing the company’s plans for its continued integration with the fediverse. Right now, it’s possible to follow a few Threads accounts (including Mosseri’s) from other platforms, but Meta has much bigger plans for Threads…
Bitcoin Cools After 65% Rally; WOO Network Predicts BTC Price to Hit $75K in Early 2024
The largest cryptocurrency by market cap recovered to $43,000 after Monday’s 10% flash crash to $40,000 that flushed overenthusiastic leveraged bets on higher prices. A dovish Federal Reserve projecting rate cuts and the falling U.S. dollar bolstered the recovery, but lost steam by Friday and BTC slipped back to $41,500. Source link
Video inside centrifuge shows we don’t fully understand fluid physics
The first ever camera footage from inside a centrifuge has revealed a new mystery in the physics of fluids. A centrifuge is a standard piece of laboratory equipment that spins fluid samples at high speed to separate out their components. For instance, centrifuging a blood sample will separate the red blood cells from the white…
Researchers say Bing made up facts about European elections
Researchers found Microsoft’s chatbot on Copilot provided false and misleading information about European elections. Human rights organization AlgorithmWatch said in a report that it asked Bing Chat — recently rebranded as Copilot — questions about recent elections held in Switzerland and the German states of Bavaria and Hesse. It found that one-third of its answers…
Polygon Labs Deprecates ‘Polygon Edge,’ Used to Build Dogechain, Which Uses Dogecoin for Gas
It was pitched as a way of adding support for Ethereum-style smart contracts, which in turn could facilitate new DeFi protocols as well as NFTs; the original Dogecoin blockchain lacked smart-contract support, since it was a fork of Litecoin, which in turn was an early clone of Bitcoin, the original blockchain launched in 2009 –…
Astronomers have spotted what may be the smallest stars ever seen
Possibly the smallest stars ever discovered NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Kevin Luhman (PSU), Catarina Alves de Oliveira (ESA) The border between what is a star and what is a planet is blurry, and new findings from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) have made it even less clear. These objects appear to be brown dwarfs,…