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When it came to picking a major, Skylar Larsen had no doubt in her mind that she wanted to study the stars. “There was never really an ‘aha’ moment,” says Larsen. “I always loved staring up into space.” An opportunity to further explore astronomy came in high school, when Larsen participated in Boyce-Astro, a local […]

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Source: Twitter no longer fulfills obligations for claiming Ireland as its “main establishment” under the EU’s GDPR, after security and privacy executives left  —  Next stop: Regulatory hell?  —  Helmed by erratic new owner Elon Musk, Twitter is no longer fulfilling key obligations required …

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: The Epic Games-Apple antitrust battle resumes in appeals court; the US DOJ and state of California have been granted time to explain antitrust legal frameworks  —  Apple’s antitrust battle against Fortnite maker Epic Games is returning to the courtroom after both sides appealed last year’s ruling …

From the real everyday pan to the best Instant Pot, we have ideas that will keep the curious cook in your life tinkering away.

This at-home diagnostic Covid-19 test kit is ridiculously expensive, but it’s accurate and dead simple to use.

Swoosh members will compete to create digital kicks with the brand’s design staff and bag a royalty cut. But not even Nike knows how it’s going to work.

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google launches Health Connect in beta on the Play Store with partners including Peloton, Oura, Flo, MyFitnessPal, and Samsung, after months in “early access”  —  Google announced Health Connect in May at I/O 2022, and recent months have seen more apps support it.

You might want to be careful about who you’re doing business with, because in the end, your behavior is likely to be influenced by theirs.

Resources for parents, advice for managers, and realities we should all be aware of.

A leader learns how to empower his growing team.

Brian Fung / CNN: Jeff Bezos says he plans to give away the majority of his $124B net worth, but offers few specifics; Bezos has been criticized for not signing the Giving Pledge  —  Exclusive: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says he’ll give away his wealth  —  Twitter users are flocking to Mastodon.  What is it?

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: DeviantArt announces DreamUp, a text-to-image generator based on Stable Diffusion, drawing intense criticism from its artist community  —  Confused artists discover their work will be used for AI training by default.  —  On Friday, the online art community DeviantArt announced DreamUp …

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg: Seeking to diversify its revenue streams, Klarna launches a price comparison tool in the US, UK, and Nordics; Klarna acquired PriceRunner for ~$125M in 2022  —  Klarna has rolled out a search and compare tool in the UK and Nordics as the fintech looks to diversify its revenue away from […]

A new MIT-developed heat treatment transforms the microscopic structure of 3D-printed metals, making the materials stronger and more resilient in extreme thermal environments. The technique could make it possible to 3D print high-performance blades and vanes for power-generating gas turbines and jet engines, which would enable new designs with improved fuel consumption and energy efficiency. […]

We’ve tested dozens of ways to watch stuff on 4K or HD TVs. These are our favorites.

Unravel the tangled world of cords and find the ones you need to charge your gadgets and transfer data.

Mysterious crooks took hundreds of millions of dollars from FTX just as it collapsed. Crypto-tracing blockchain analysis may provide an answer.

Richard Waters / Financial Times: Factors like a fall in demand and an increase in manufacturing capacity have led to a sharp chip cycle downturn, suggesting a bottom in the market may be near  —  Growing number of companies have issued weak sales and profit projections  —  If Wall Street had any doubts about the […]

Casey Newton / @caseynewton: Sources: Twitter has eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract staff, with cuts expected to significantly impact content moderation and the core infrastructure  —  Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core […]

Bloomberg: A profile of Unity CEO John Riccitiello, as he faces criticism for the company’s targeted ads, his metaverse ambitions, years of dating the head of HR, and more  —  John Riccitiello was on top of the metaverse.  Last November the chief executive officer of Unity Software Inc. spilled the news …

You don’t have to say a ghost’s name three times in the mirror. The Haand x Toma Brunch Kit makes bloody brunches easy.

Anker’s iPhone MagSafe accessories may look like power packs, but they are actually little bundles of life-changing joy.

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: The Securities Commission of The Bahamas says it didn’t order FTX to reopen withdrawals for Bahamas-based customers, refuting FTX’s statement  —  FTX said last week it had allowed Bahamas-based customers to withdraw funds at its regulators’ request.  —  Crypto exchange FTX was not required …

Claudia Adrien / Channel Futures: Tampa-based Rewst, a robotic process automation startup serving managed service providers, raised a $21.5M Series A led by OpenView  —  Rewst, a company whose robotic process automation (RPA) platform serves MSPs, has received $21.5 million in funding to advance product development.

Adrienne LaFrance / The Atlantic: Elon Musk is failing to convince people that Twitter is a town square, telling users what they can and can’t say for a laugh and charging $8 for the privilege  —  Recently, comedy clubs have begun doing this thing that seemed, when I first encountered it, both wildly hypocritical and […]

Jack Cook, Matthew Kearney, and Jupneet Singh have been selected for the 2023 cohort of the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship program. They will begin fully funded postgraduate studies at Oxford University in the U.K. next fall. Each year, Rhodes awards 32 scholarships to U.S. citizens plus additional scholarships for citizens from non-U.S. constituencies. The students were […]

Plus: US midterms survive disinformation efforts, the government names the alleged Lockbit ransomware attacker, and the Powerball drawing hits a security snag.

The way you identify yourself on the platform is changing.

Plus: Apple pays for more emergency satellite tech, LG is working on a stretchy screen, and we answer all your burning questions about Mastodon.

Clive Thompson / UX Collective: A look at Mastodon’s “antiviral” design and culture, where users push back at features and behaviors that promote virality, and embrace things that add friction  —  Back in 2017 I wrote a short column for Wired about “antiviral” design.  —  I’d recently been using some fun …

Rest of World: Cambodia’s online gambling and scam industries keep recruiting “cyber slave” workers via trafficking and misleading ads despite police raids and global pressure  —  Casual trafficking, calls to parents, misleading ads: even with global pressure, recruitment is rife.  —  • BAVET, CAMBODIA

Financial Times: FTX balance sheet: $900M in liquid assets the day before bankruptcy, including $470M in Robinhood shares owned by an SBF entity not listed in bankruptcy filings  —  Vast gap highlights the dire state of Sam Bankman-Fried’s exchange before it collapsed into bankruptcy

Even with all the modern advances in winter footwear, I love these 110-year-old L.L. Bean Duck Boots.

We’re hot on the heels of Black Friday, and the discounts are rolling in.

Bloomberg: FTX’s crash highlights flaws like Sequoia’s lack of access to Alameda’s balance sheet despite its due diligence and the investors failing to demand a board seat  —  Among the last people to realize that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX was a financial time bomb were the company’s own investors.

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk: FTX US General Counsel says the exchange has moved remaining funds to cold wallets to “mitigate damage” following a series of “unauthorized transactions”  —  Millions of dollars started to mysteriously move from FTX late Friday U.S. hours.

The big sale isn’t here quite yet, but you can already get killer deals on laptops, streaming sticks, tablets, and even Instant Pots.

Brian Windhorst / ESPN: Miami-Dade County and the Miami Heat are ending their arena naming rights deal with FTX; the county had signed a 19-year, $135M deal for the rights in 2021  —  Miami-Dade County and the Miami Heat are ending their arena naming rights deal with bankrupt cryptocurrency firm FTX.

Grief slows the pace of Ryan Coogler’s sequel but makes it more meaningful in the process.

As Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire crumbles, its customers, and other crypto traders, are paying the price.

Are you tearing your hair out trying to feed a family of picky eaters? Try a subscription service like Blue Apron.

New York Times: An internal Twitter log shows that more than 140,000 accounts had signed up for the new Twitter Blue as of Thursday, November 10  —  The social media service, which is undergoing changes from its new owner Elon Musk, has descended into a messy swirl of spoof messages and parody accounts.

Sage D. Young / CoinDesk: Crypto.com shares its wallet addresses with Nansen to create a dashboard of ~$3B in assets, showing ~20% are in Shiba Inu, more than ETH’s ~17%; ~30% are in BTC  —  As large crypto exchanges push to prepare “proof-of-reserves” audits, an initial effort reveals just how much of Crypto.com’s reserves …

The base of computer chips and batteries tends to be made from unrecyclable plastic, but using skin from a certain species of mushroom instead would reduce electronic waste

Reuters: Meta tells employees it plans to exit its Portal smart display business and wind down smartwatch projects, and that 46% of the 11K jobs cut were in technology  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) told employees on Friday that 54% of the 11,000 jobs it cut earlier this week were business roles and the rest were […]

A German company’s efforts have prevented the use of more than 4.7 million disposable packaging containers.

Six actions for marketing leaders.

A proposed SEC rule would require companies to disclose their cybersecurity governance capabilities.

Jason Del Rey / Vox: How Amazon’s shopping experience, saturated with sponsored products, impacts sellers and consumers, as its ad revenue surpassed revenue from Prime in 2022  —  Inside the under-the-radar business that makes more money than Amazon Prime.  —  Type any random product into Amazon’s search bar and look closely at the results.

Harvests of the fungi are plummeting as Europe gets drier, pushing the prices of some varieties to eye-watering heights.