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How to work with a conflict-avoidant person who’s bad-mouthing you.

Both have risks. Here’s how to strike the right balance.

A small number of people appear naturally immune to the coronavirus. Scientists think they might hold the key to helping protect us all.

Rebecca Jennings / Vox: A look at concerns for women at Launch House, an a16z-backed startup promising “community” to young tech founders, such as sexual assault and a lack of security  —  The people here are young and friendly and full of hope.  And why shouldn’t they be?

Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: Twitter rejects Elon Musk’s claim that a $7.75M severance payment to Peiter Zatko violated the acquisition deal, ahead of a shareholder vote on September 13  —  – Twitter said Monday payments to a whistleblower did not breach any of its obligations under the $44 billion acquisition proposed by Elon Musk …

Safety Check and Lockdown Mode give people in vulnerable situations ways to quarantine themselves from acute risks.

Storing more water to deal with climate change seems like a no-brainer, but such reservoirs are complex undertakings with environmental issues of their own.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: North Carolina-based Diveplane, which helps create synthetic data to train AI systems and find anomalies, raised a $25M Series A led by Shield Capital  —  In 2017, three entrepreneurs — Chris Hazard, Mike Resnick and Mike Capps — came together to launch a platform for building AI …

MIT has placed second in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best colleges and universities, announced today. As in past years, MIT’s engineering program continues to lead the list of undergraduate engineering programs at a doctoral institution. The Institute also placed first in six out of 12 engineering disciplines. In its […]

Never miss a delivery. These WIRED-tested picks will help you keep tabs on your front porch from anywhere.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers discover a strain of Linux malware, Shikitega, that uses polymorphic encoding and abuses legitimate cloud services to infect servers and IoT devices  —  With polymorphic encoding and a multistage infection chain, Shikitega is hard to detect.  —  Researchers this week unveiled …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Report: ransomware gangs are using intermittent encryption, where files are partly encrypted, to evade detection tools looking for intense file I/O operations  —  A growing number of ransomware groups are adopting a new tactic that helps them encrypt their victims’ systems faster while reducing …

Wall Street Journal: A look at the increasing efforts of device manufacturers, telecom companies, and satellite operators to connect smartphones to satellites in remote locations  —  Years of preparation helped tech giant, but other phone makers, wireless carriers and aerospace companies have similar ambitions

Reuters: Sources: Sea, whose market cap has gone from $200B+ to ~$28B since Oct. 2021, shuts some Latin American operations and cuts hundreds of gaming jobs in Shanghai  —  Singapore-based Sea Ltd’s (SE.N) e-commerce arm Shopee will exit Argentina and shut local operations in Chile …

Shopping for a notebook can be exasperating. Here’s how to sift through the acronyms, storage options, and extra features to find the best one for you.

Bob the Mini Dishwasher is a (maybe too) tiny countertop machine made for small families living in small spaces.

The grainy image of a “super Jupiter” is a sign of what’s to come as the telescope’s observations ramp up.

Manya Saini / Reuters: The US SEC will set up the “Office of Crypto Assets” to deal with corporate disclosure filings related to the crypto industry  —  The U.S. securities regulator will set up two new offices to deal with filings related to crypto assets and the life sciences sector, the agency said on Friday.

Biz Carson / Protocol: An overview of trends from YC’s Demo Day for Summer 2022: enterprise made up the bulk at 39% of the 223 startups in the batch, followed by fintech and dev tools  —  Hello, and welcome to Pipeline.  I’m Biz Carson, and I once slept on the street overnight in London to […]

Plus: Brazil and Apple face off, Google expands its eco-friendly Maps directions, and social sites start prepping for the US midterm elections.

Plus: Albania cuts ties with Iran, claims of a TikTok data breach that didn’t happen, and much more.

Hirun Cryer / GamesRadar: Ubisoft says it is developing three mobile games for Netflix, including a new Assassin’s Creed title  —  There’s also a new Valiant Hearts game in the works  —  Ubisoft just announced a partnership with Netflix for three games.  —  Earlier today on September 10 at the Ubisoft Forward showcase …

Advocates want the government to allow more climate-related immigration and to consider those migrants “protected persons.”

Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: Some CSOs say ex-Uber CSO Joe Sullivan did nothing wrong and his trial tests criminal penalties they may face over security lapses or challenges in gray areas  —  Joe Sullivan, a former federal prosecutor, is accused of helping to cover up a security breach, a charge he denies

Ben Munster / Decrypt: A look at the two-day Crypto Policy Symposium, the world’s first conference for crypto skeptics, from policymakers and journalists to disillusioned programmers  —  The Crypto Policy Symposium in London was a historic gathering of crypto skeptics—and nobody tried to sell me anything.

Treat your ears with our favorite picks to make music and listen to music, or just sit outside and enjoy the music of nature.

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: CEO Dave Baszucki says Roblox sees 2M+ daily active users in Russia, while competitors like EA, Nintendo, and Ubisoft have slowed or ceased sales in the country  —  Roblox Corp.’s popularity in Russia is increasing even as almost every other publicly traded gaming company has retreated from the country after its […]

Matthew S. Burriesci / Meta: Meta unveils Pseudonymized Facebook Identifiers, which combine timestamps and Facebook Identifiers, to deter unauthorized data scraping  —  Takeaways  — We changed how we use Facebook Identifiers (FBIDs) after we observed that unauthorized scraping often involves guessing content IDs or using purchased FBIDs.

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg: Pinduoduo’s net income has more than tripled in Q2 2022 and its shares have soared 43% over the past month, as it emerges as a big winner amid China’s lockdowns  —  As Chinese consumers curb their spending in a pandemic-stricken economy, one discount e-commerce firm is emerging as a clear stock-market […]

A pair of tweezers that mimic the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak outperforms traditional tweezers

Vibrating pads placed on people’s arms can make the illusion of weight in virtual reality more convincing by tricking the brain to disregard some input from our senses

In her new book theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues some of her colleagues may have gotten too excited about wild ideas like the multiverse.

Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: Apple’s iOS 16 webpage now lists iCloud Shared Photo library as “coming later this year”; the feature was also removed from the latest iOS 16 betas  —  Apple announced iCloud Shared Photo Library as part of iOS 16, but it appears that the feature won’t arrive in the iOS 16 release […]

Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: Isovalent, the creator of open-source networking and security solution for cloud environments Cilium, has raised a $40M Series B led by Thomvest Ventures  —  There’s no question that Kubernetes has become the new enterprise standard when it comes to building and operating modern applications.

From books to the Museum of Modern Art, gaming is getting new kinds of recognition.

Plus: Reminiscing on Steve Jobs, a question for his loved ones, and a meltdown on the West Coast.

Tweezers have remained largely unchanged for more than 4000 years, but now a more dexterous version has been created by mimicking an even older design – the beak of a crow

A series of experiments found that people prefer technology they think was invented before they were born. The effect seems to hold if the technology isn’t really as old as people think it is

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Sources: Stability AI, the startup behind Stable Diffusion, is in talks to raise $100M; Coatue proposed a $500M valuation and Lightspeed offered a $1B valuation  —  With the image generator Stable Diffusion, you can conjure within seconds a potrait of Beyoncé as if painted by Vincent van Gogh …

Many leaders’ coping mechanisms can seriously backfire.

Many of America’s allies have little faith that huddling under America’s nuclear umbrella will keep them safe. “The conventional wisdom has been that the threat of nuclear retaliation by the U.S. is enough to defend our junior non-nuclear allies,” says Jung Jae Kwon, a political science doctoral student at MIT. “But this threat is not […]

Last spring, MIT Professor Emma Teng and Lead Wellness Instructor Sarah Johnson worked together to teach a joint class: 21G.015 (Introduction to Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Meditation), developed as a companion to PE.0534 (Fitness and Meditation), taught by Johnson. In the “mens et manus” tradition of MIT, the class gave students an opportunity to study and […]

Identify how you feel about the decision — and how you want to feel when it’s made.

Here’s how to leverage it.

The influential astronomer led the hunt for extraterrestrial signals and helped make the field of astrobiology what it is today.

Turns out there’s a neurological reason you can’t stop clicking on YouTube closet purges.

This Wi-Fi 6E router is a speedy and stable dream for gamers—but only if you can stomach or skip the subscriptions.

TechCrunch: India says its central bank will prepare a whitelist of legal loan apps and the IT ministry plans to ensure that only approved apps are hosted on app stores  —  India plans to mandate which loan apps are allowed on app stores in the country, the latest in a series of recent steps …

Wall Street Journal: Robinhood launches Investor Index, updated monthly, to track the performance of the 100 most popular stocks in its app, weighting users’ “conviction” in them  —  Robinhood Markets is launching an index to track the favorite stocks of its millions of predominantly young, social-media-savvy customers.

Jamie Crawley / CoinDesk: FTX Ventures buys 30% of Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital for an undisclosed amount; SkyBridge will use some of the funds to buy $40M in cryptocurrencies  —  SkyBridge will invest some of the funds into crypto assets for its balance sheet.  —  FTX Ventures, the investment arm …