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The encrypted messaging app is a haven for politically motivated vitriol, but users are increasingly bringing threats to targets’ doorsteps.

Jorge Jimenez / PC Gamer: Nvidia unveils RTX Remix, a free AI-assisted modding tool built on Omniverse that enables modders to quickly create RTX mods for classic games  —  RTX Remix just made modding a whole lot easier.  —  Audio player loading…  Hear that?  That’s the sound of modders applauding in unison because their jobs […]

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Twitch plans to prohibit streaming unlicensed gambling sites with slots, roulette, or dice games on October 18, amid the fallout from a streamer’s gambling scam  —  As the conversation concerning Twitch and the platform’s allowance of gambling streams continues to swirl, the platform has struck its first blow.

Chris Matthews / MarketWatch: Lina Khan says she’s “extremely disturbed” by, and looking closely at, Mudge’s claim that Twitter misled the FTC about its compliance with a 2011 consent decree  —  FTC is ‘looking at this closely,’ Khan said  —  Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Lina Khan said Tuesday she was …

A survey of artificial intelligence researchers found that 36 per cent believe AIs could cause a catastrophe on the scale of nuclear war

The Merge, a long-awaited update which promised to slash Ethereum’s vast energy consumption, has instead pushed miners towards other cryptocurrencies

When Mohammad Javad Khojasteh arrived at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) in 2020 to begin his postdoc appointment, he was introduced to an entirely new universe. The domain he knew best could be explained by “classical” physics that predicts the behavior of ordinary objects with near-perfect accuracy (think Newton’s three laws of […]

Universities like MIT have produced a number of innovative products for people in low-resource communities around the world. But in order for those products to make an impact, they have to be manufactured at scale, get through local supply chains, and, most importantly, make enough of an impression that people actually want to buy them. […]

As the world gets warmer, the use of power-hungry air conditioning systems is projected to increase significantly, putting a strain on existing power grids and bypassing many locations with little or no reliable electric power. Now, an innovative system developed at MIT offers a way to use passive cooling to preserve food crops and supplement […]

The global workforce is transforming. Family firms are uniquely positioned to beat out the competition.

Common misconceptions might be costing you deals.

A conversation with Harvard’s Heidi Gardner about incentivizing collaboration and long-term customer value.

Being a Black gamer, developer, or even fan comes with challenges few others truly understand, but everyone can appreciate.

We tested MagSafe compatibility on everything from cases to wireless chargers.

What do puzzles, video games, and conspiracy theories have in common?

Frank Chaparro / The Block: Sources: Nasdaq is exploring an institutional crypto custody service, pending regulatory approval, and a crypto-focused division called Nasdaq Digital Assets  —  – Nasdaq has been plotting a move into crypto custody, according to several sources.  — The move is in line with its broader mission …

Financial Times: The SEC fines Morgan Stanley $35M for an “astonishing” failure that exposed 15M customers’ data over five years by auctioning off machines containing the data  —  Regulator fines lender’s wealth management business $35mn for failing to protect customer data

Wall Street Journal: East Coast supermarket chain Wegmans plans to temporarily stop using its Scan self-checkout app, introduced during the pandemic, due to theft and losses  —  Many grocery stores started using self-checkout technology during the pandemic.  Experts say the technology makes it easier for shoplifters to sneak by.

Machine learning software can identify individual pigs based on their facial features with high accuracy, which could help farmers give animals individualised food and veterinary care

Snag a pair of zero-drop, minimalist shoes and rediscover the ground beneath your feet.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI starts letting DALL-E 2 customers upload and edit people’s faces, after initially banning the uploading of photos that may depict real people  —  After initially disabling the capability, OpenAI today announced that customers with access to DALL-E 2 can upload people’s faces to edit …

Ashley Gold / Axios: Google is launching a pilot program this week to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders, following pressure from politicians  —  Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, the company told Axios.

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: Apple says a software update is coming next week to fix the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max camera shake issue in third-party apps  —  Apple will be releasing a software update to fix the camera shake issue affecting iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max models.

A prototype N95 face mask with a sensor built into the breath valve appears to be highly sensitive to virus proteins in early-stage tests

On Saturday night, MIT came out to party. An all-Institute dance party, organized by L. Rafael Reif as a thank you to the community as he approaches the conclusion of his tenure as MIT’s 17th president, was attended by thousands of students, staff, faculty, and their guests. The festivities opened with a community café dinner, […]

Companies that have diversity of thought are higher performing — and more resilient.

How to work with someone who’s moving their career forward at the expense of yours.

Kaizen, the Japanese management practice of continuous innovation, can be applied to knowledge work.

You won’t need all the pixels, but Samsung’s 8K flagship TV will be the prettiest screen in your neighborhood.

Neurons get a lot of attention—but researchers think this star-shaped brain cell type could hold the key to treating some disorders.

Despite having one of the strongest data-protection policies in Africa, the country’s enforcement and disclosure practices remain dangerously broken.

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Instacart plans to mostly sell employees’ stock during its IPO to help staff cash out, issuing a small number of shares and limiting the amount raised  —  Most shares listed will come from employees, in a move that could help the delivery company retain and recruit talent

Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: Sources: the Pentagon plans to audit how it conducts online clandestine information warfare after Meta, Twitter, and others removed pro-US operations  —  Complaints about the U.S. military’s influence operations using Facebook and Twitter have raised concern in the White House and federal agencies.

Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: A profile of China-born, US-educated academic Li Zexiang, an angel investor in 60+ Chinese tech startups collectively worth almost $12B, including DJI  —  Li Zexiang grew up in rural China during the Cultural Revolution, when capitalists were the enemy.  Now the 61-year-old academic …

Design decisions often treat people unequally. Take a bicycle, for instance. Bicycles offer a relatively inexpensive, healthy, and environmentally friendly mode of transportation for billions of people around the world. Yet each bicycle that hits the market automatically excludes those living with certain disabilities. “Even with the most benevolent technology, no matter how well-intentioned we […]

Load up your iPhone 14, iPhone 13, or iPhone 12 with a magnetic bike mount, tripod, wallet, or power bank.

These are our favorite gender-inclusive vibrators, wand massagers, and sleeves to give you and your partner(s) a helping hand.

Ellen Barry / New York Times: How Russia’s IRA troll factories tweeted a torrent of fabricated narratives against the US Women’s March and its leaders for 18 months, fracturing the movement  —  As American feminists came together in 2017 to protest Donald Trump, Russia’s disinformation machine set about deepening the divides among them.

Tom Warren / The Verge: A GTAForums user uploads 90 gameplay videos of Rockstar’s upcoming GTA VI, claiming they were behind last week’s Uber hack and may leak GTA V and VI source code  —  Footage of Grand Theft Auto VI, Rockstar’s next entry in its open-world franchise, appears to have leaked online.

Bloomberg: A look at the mounting challenges for Lingang, a Shanghai suburb meant to be China’s next Silicon Valley, amid an economic slowdown and geopolitical tensions  —  This article is the fourth in an occasional series about the New Geography of Technology.  You can read the first installment on Milan here …

Tired of advertisers spying on your private communications? This beta promises to kick tracking technology to the curb.

A statistical analysis of chemical tags on DNA may help unify disparate theories of aging.

Snipers on buildings. Drone no-fly zones. Temporary CCTV. The security plan is even more complex than it was for the London 2012 Olympics.

David Streitfeld / New York Times: An in-depth look at a 2019 cyberstalking campaign by eBay employees against two critics who are now suing the company, its former CEO, and others for harassment  —  The victims of a bizarre cyberstalking operation are trying to hold the chief executive and the culture of the company responsible.

Qianer Liu / Financial Times: Despite a talent shortage, startups in the Chinese chip sector are cutting back on hiring plans due to the deteriorating macro environment and a funding crunch  —  Despite a talent shortage, cash-crimped companies are having to cut back hiring plans  —  Fresh from six months of training courses …

Matthew Gault / VICE: The DHS has awarded a ~$700K grant to researchers to develop best practices and resources for monitoring and evaluating extremist activities in game communities  —  Several groups are coming together to study the little understood phenomenon.  —  Matthew Gault

The world is facing a maternal health crisis. According to the World Health Organization, approximately 810 women die each day due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. Two-thirds of these deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa. In Rwanda, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality is infected Cesarean section wounds. An interdisciplinary team […]

How much speed do you need? And what’s a MU-MIMO? We decipher the jargon and explain what to look for.

The pioneering FX comedy helmed by Donald Glover is coming to an end—but its cultural impact will live on.

Plus: Alexa will soon give branded answers, ByteDance has its own VR headset in the works, and TikTok pushes a new BeReal knockoff.