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In a huge change from the past two years, prices are low and high-end PC graphics boards are readily available.

In the Delaware River and other waterways across the US, conservationists are restoring aquatic vegetation and beds of bivalves to fight pollution.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Shuffles, Pinterest’s invite-only collage-making iOS app that launched in late July, is going viral on TikTok; Sensor Tower estimates the app has ~338K installs  —  Collage-style video “mood boards” are going viral on TikTok — and so is the app making them possible.

Daniel Alvarenga / Rolling Stone: El Salvador appears to be heading deeper into an economic crisis with funding sources drying up, one year after it adopted bitcoin as legal tender  —  It’s been a year since El Salvador adopted bitcoin as currency — things are not going well  —  SIX DAYS BEFORE El Salvador’s Bitcoin […]

Reuters: Facebook agrees in principle to settle a lawsuit alleging it violated consumer privacy laws by sharing user data with 3rd parties, including Cambridge Analytica  —  Meta Platforms Inc’s Facebook has in-principle agreed to settle a lawsuit in the San Francisco federal court seeking damages …

Plus: Decades-old security flaws, a wave of startup layoffs, and multiple “thousand-year” rainfalls.

Want the image quality of a DSLR without the bulk? These WIRED picks do more with less.

The phishing attack on the SMS giant exposes the dangers of B2B companies to the entire tech ecosystem.

Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: Meta’s VP of Horizon, Vivek Sharma, is leaving the company after six years; the Horizon team will report directly to Meta’s VP of Metaverse, Vishal Shah  —  – Vivek Sharma has been with Meta for six years and was most recently its VP of Horizon.  — Sharma’s team will now report […]

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: Sources: Netflix plans to charge $7-$9/month for its ad-supported tier in the US, with ~4 minutes of ads/hour, and may launch it in 2022 in a half dozen markets  —  Netflix Inc. is considering pricing its new advertising-supported tier at $7 to $9 a month, half as much as its current […]

A start-up has developed data centre pods that can be submerged in the ocean to let the water naturally keep them cool. Cooling is normally very energy-intensive

Grass lawns and hiking trails are no problem for this robot, which learned to walk on them on the fly thanks to a machine learning algorithm

A recent survey found that employees’ sense of community declined 37% during the pandemic. Here’s how to rebuild it.

Three ways to navigate an awkward situation.

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Sources: India’s Enforcement Directorate conducted searches at CoinSwitch Kuber for allegedly acquiring shares of $200M+ in violation of forex laws  —  India’s financial crime-fighting agency conducted searches at multiple premises of the Bengaluru-headquartered CoinSwitch Kuber on Thursday …

What was once a hobbyist toy is now a more accessible home-improvement and productivity machine.

An attack on Russian mercenaries shows how militaries are increasingly using open source data—with sometimes deadly consequences.

The ‘Mad Max’ director spoke with WIRED about the allegorical grace of his new movie, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing.’

Bloomberg: Meituan reports Q2 revenue up 16% YoY to ~$7.4B and a ~$163.5M net loss, as its “core local commerce” business, including food delivery, rose 9.2% YoY  —  Chinese food delivery titan Meituan reported a better-than-expected 16% increase in quarterly revenue, after appetite …

Derek Decloet / Bloomberg: Open Text plans to buy UK-based enterprise software company Micro Focus for ~$6B including debt, a 99% premium on Thursday’s close; Micro Focus stock jumps 90%+  —  Canada’s Open Text Corp. struck a deal to buy UK software firm Micro Focus International Plc for about $6 billion including debt …

An Ohio judge ruled that such surveillance to prevent cheating could form a slippery slope to more illegal searches.

Images have identified 21 facilities that are forcibly detaining thousands of Ukrainians, as well as possible mass grave sites.

Queenie Wong / CNET: Meta made 68 “newsworthiness allowances” from June 2021 to June 2022 for content that may have violated Facebook or Instagram rules, letting the pieces stay up  —  Queenie Wong  —  Queenie Wong is a senior writer for CNET News, who focuses on social media companies including …

Benjamin Pimentel / Protocol: Affirm reports Q4 revenue up 39% YoY to $364.1M, vs. $354.8M est., but a Q1 2023 revenue outlook of $345M to $365M, vs. $386M est.; stock falls 13%+ after hours  —  Shares of Affirm tumbled Thursday after the “buy now, pay later” company reported a weaker-than-expected outlook that underlined an “uncertain […]

Brandy Betz / CoinDesk: FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried denies a Bloomberg report that FTX Ventures is merging with Alameda Research’s VC operations  —  Bloomberg had reported that the two operations would merge their venture capital businesses.  —  Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX Ventures denied a Bloomberg report Thursday …

Social media accounts featuring kids are more popular than ever. But labor and privacy laws haven’t been updated to safeguard the young stars.

Hacking concerns continue to dog the online Conservative party vote, which will decide next UK prime minister – should online voting even be used in such situations?

A maze of mirrors and lenses turns any material into a highly efficient light absorber and could be used for detection of faint light or charging distant devices with light

Devices called spaceplates, which promise to squash the empty space out of cameras, theoretically work in full colour even if no one yet knows how to build one

The Middle East is a region that is facing complicated challenges. MIT programs have been committed to building scalable methodologies through which students and the broader MIT community can learn and make an impact. These processes ensure programs work alongside others across cultures to support change aligned with their needs. Through MIT International Science and […]

Many feel a lift when the sun comes out, but most won’t break out in song and dance — unless, of course, they’re on MIT’s Solar Electric Vehicle Team.  The team relied on 100 percent solar energy to power their hand-built car, Nimbus, for 1,940 miles, taking first place at the American Solar Challenge for […]

Whether it’s clients, colleagues, or family, your work likely makes more of an impact than you realize.

Wastewater monitoring emerged amid the Covid-19 pandemic as an effective and noninvasive way to track a viral outbreak, and advances in the technology have enabled researchers to not only identify but also quantify the presence of particular variants of concern (VOCs) in wastewater samples. Last year, researchers with the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) […]

How leaders can enhance integrity, innovation, and inclusion.

A three-step approach.

Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal: Atlanta-based Bitcoin Depot, which operates over 7,000 bitcoin ATMs across North America, plans to go public via SPAC at a ~$885M valuation  —  Investor appetite for bitcoin ATMs to be tested as the cryptocurrency and SPAC markets slump  —  Here’s Why Crypto Might Not Be Dead  —  Created with […]

Reuters: Baidu reveals its first quantum computer, Qianshi, which has a 10-qubit processor, and says it is developing a 36-qubit system  —  Chinese search engine giant Baidu Inc revealed its first quantum computer on Thursday and is ready to make it available to external users, joining the global race to apply the technology to practical […]

Standardized time is broadcast by satellite networks around the world, but their signals are vulnerable to interference—so the UK is building a more resilient system.

WeWork’s controversial cofounder Adam Neumann is not the only entrepreneur to see opportunity in the generation of Americans unable to buy homes.

These discounts on phones, tablets, and smartwatches will sweeten up the end of your summer.

Computers could transmit highly confidential data even without internet, Wi-Fi or Bluetooth by using their speakers to transmit ultrasonic noise that vibrates nearby smartphones

Kari McMahon / The Block: Thailand’s Siam Commercial Bank abandons its $500M acquisition of Thai crypto exchange Bitkub, announced in 2021, saying Bitkub needs to fix regulatory issues  —  – Thailand’s oldest bank SCB is abandoning its $500 million deal to acquire crypto exchange Bitkub.

CNN: At an all-hands, Twitter’s executives pushed back against Peiter Zatko’s complaint, with CEO Parag Agrawal saying a “false narrative” has been created  —  Twitter whistleblower alleges the company has reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies that pose a national security risk

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Snowflake reports Q2 revenue of $497M vs. $467M est., up 83% YoY, and anticipates product revenue to be between $500M and $505M in Q3; stock up 17%+ after hours  —  – Shares of the cloud data platform provider Snowflake popped more than 17% in extended trading on Wednesday.

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Ireland’s DPC and France’s CNIL are investigating Peiter Zatko’s allegations about Twitter, following his complaint that referenced EU regulators  —  The explosive Twitter whistleblower complaint that was made public yesterday — detailing a raft of damning allegations across security …

Having short pre-video animations on YouTube about the tactics used to spread misinformation could help stop the proliferation of conspiracy theories

Water laced with nanocrystals containing small pores can carry 100 times more oxygen than normal, which could help it act as an oxygen source to preserve organs and tissues

A computer made using blocks of rubber with streaks of a rubber-silver compound performs simple calculations when squished

How to reset the conversation and start getting things done.

When the MIT Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center (LLSC) unveiled its TX-GAIA supercomputer in 2019, it provided the MIT community a powerful new resource for applying artificial intelligence to their research. Anyone at MIT can submit a job to the system, which churns through trillions of operations per second to train models for diverse applications, such as spotting tumors in […]