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Satellite monitors discovered two vessels with their trackers turned off in the area of the pipeline prior to the suspected sabotage in September.

Tens of thousands of job cuts have rocked the industry, but unemployment among tech workers remains low—and plenty of companies are desperate for talent.

New York Times: Interviews with 36 current and former Twitter employees detail the excruciating chaos during Elon Musk’s first two weeks in charge  —  Mr. Musk ordered immediate layoffs, fired executives by email, laid down product deadlines and has transformed the company.  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk had a demand.

Financial Times: A look at Sam Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall in DC: becoming the face of crypto regulation, proposing bills, and testifying to Congress before FTX collapsed  —  Sam Bankman-Fried sought digital asset legislation and donated heavily to Democrats  —  In less than four years …

The UK’s Home Office will use a key fob-like device to track people who are subject to deportation orders 24 hours a day, meaning at any point they could be required to scan their fingerprints and confirm their location

Sparrow could shift the balance between humans and machines in the company’s warehouses, using machine learning algorithms and a custom gripper.

Questions about the Kremlin’s relationships with these groups remain. But researchers are finally getting some answers.

Bloomberg: Source: Twitter’s head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth and head of ad sales Robin Wheeler resigned on November 10  —  Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility if it doesn’t start generating more cash …

Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg: The Bahamas Securities Commission freezes the assets of FTX Digital Markets and “related parties” and appoints an attorney as a provisional liquidator  —  The Bahamas Securities Commission has frozen the assets of FTX Digital Markets “and related parties.”

A decade ago, she was the target of a harassment campaign for her feminist critiques of video games. With That Time When, she can put it behind her.

Artificial intelligence has helped design an invisibility cloak. The cloak could hide communication devices from detectors that use microwaves or infrared light

Kurt Wagner / @kurtwagner8: Sources: Twitter’s head of Trust & Safety Yoel Roth and head of sales Robin Wheeler resigned today  —  NEW: Hearing that the top execs remaining at Twitter — head of Trust & Safety @yoyoel and head of sales @robinw — both resigned today When you add in that Musk told employees […]

Getting good answers from an artificial intelligence can be a tricky task, and now researchers have found that an AI is better at asking questions of another AI than people are

Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of artificial sleep could help stop this from happening

The political narrative doesn’t stand up to the research.

It’s a dilemma as old as time. Friday night has rolled around, and you’re trying to pick a restaurant for dinner. Should you visit your most beloved watering hole or try a new establishment, in the hopes of discovering something superior? Potentially, but that curiosity comes with a risk: If you explore the new option, […]

One glance at the news lately will reveal countless headlines on the dire state of global water and food security. Pollution, supply chain disruptions, and the war in Ukraine are all threatening water and food systems, compounding climate change impacts from heat waves, drought, floods, and wildfires. Every year, MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and […]

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Politico: Experts and Western officials say the Egyptian government’s Android app for the COP27 climate summit could help spy on emails, messages, and voice conversations  —  Western security advisers are warning delegates at the COP27 climate summit not to download the host Egyptian government’s …

Comic book saviors get resurrected all the time. Chadwick Boseman’s 2020 death made that impossible for Black Panther’s sequel.

One of the world’s biggest crypto groups just voted to back its enigmatic founder. The only problem is, no one understands his plan.

The revolutionary internet is over, and we don’t have much to show for it. A new start is out there, somewhere.

Bloomberg: Foxconn reports Q3 revenue up 24% YoY to ~$54.8B, net income up 5% YoY to ~$1.2B but below estimates, and warns consumer electronics revenue will fall in Q4  —  Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., maker of most of the world’s iPhones, warned consumer electronics revenue will fall this quarter …

Cameron Thompson / CoinDesk: OpenSea plans to continue to enforce NFT royalties on its platform, after X2Y2, Magic Eden, and LooksRare altered their NFT royalty structures  —  “The world is otherwise burning, but we decided this couldn’t wait,” a representative from OpenSea told CoinDesk.

Gillian Tan / Bloomberg: Source: Sam Bankman-Fried told investors that FTX needs a cash injection or the company would need to file for bankruptcy due to a shortfall of up to $8B  —  Sam Bankman-Fried told FTX.com investors on Wednesday that without a cash injection the company would need to file for bankruptcy …

You don’t need a degree in horticulture to help your indoor garden grow, just a few key pieces of gear.

After 30 years of talk about forcing wealthy polluters to compensate those bearing the brunt of climate damage, the COP27 conference seems poised to act.

The collapse of crypto exchange FTX opens opportunities for rival exchange Binance—and raises questions about the sector’s sustainability.

Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: FTX-linked Alameda Research withdrew ~$37M worth of wrapped bitcoin from crypto exchange FTX.US on Wednesday  —  The purpose of the token movements is unclear, and the amount likely a small portion of the overall firm’s holdings, but the observation shows Alameda scrambling to arrange its finances – using the Ethereum blockchain.

Bloomberg: Amazon becomes the world’s first public company to lose $1T in market value, shrinking to ~$879B from $1.88T in July 2021; Microsoft lost $889B since Nov. 2021  —  Amazon.com Inc. is the world’s first public company to lose a trillion dollars in market value as a combination of rising inflation …

IBM’s new quantum computer, Osprey, is more than triple the size of its previous record-breaking Eagle processor

Drawing inspiration from the way ecologists measure biodiversity, a method to score an AI’s diversity could help determine how biased a computer system is

Every summer, hundreds of students come to Lincoln Laboratory to gain hands-on research experience. Historically, the laboratory’s summer research program has primarily served undergraduate and graduate students, with their internships complementing their fields of study. A few local high school students have participated in this program over the years through AFCEA International, a nonprofit providing […]

New regulations are forcing companies to confront the issue.

A faraway island. An evil magician. A prince transformed into a teapot. A princess on a rescue mission. When the first performance of the “Ballet des Porcelaines” was staged at the Chateau de Morville in 1739, the orientalist fairy tale seemed innocent enough. However, when the art historian Meredith Martin encountered the lost libretto in […]

“The past six years have been the warmest on the planet, and our track record on climate change mitigation is drastically short of what it needs to be,” said Robert C. Armstrong, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) director and the Chevron Professor of Chemical Engineering, introducing MITEI’s 15th Annual Research Conference. At the symposium, participants from […]

Five steps to take — before you start looking for a new job.

Risk is often more predictable than you might think.

Hunting down crypto criminals is a dying art as law enforcement officers jump in-house.

Many people haven’t been exposed to common respiratory viruses following the pandemic, meaning they might be more vulnerable to getting ill this year.

The network’s servers are overrun by almost half a million new sign-ups, as Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover has thrust it into the spotlight.

Nilay Patel / The Verge: An interview with CEO Dylan Field on scaling Figma, selling the company to Adobe, retaining autonomy, WebGL, making VR Figma for the metaverse, AGI, and more  —  We also talk about AI and VR — but we know why you’re here. … Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of […]

Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta plans to lay off 13% of its staff, or 11,000+ employees, and will cut discretionary spending and extend its hiring freeze through Q1  —  Mark Zuckerberg just shared the following with Meta employees:  —  Today I’m sharing some of the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s history.

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: Apple is working on a Custom Accessibility Mode for iOS 16.2 beta 2, codenamed Clarity, helping make the iPhone’s and the iPad’s UI more user-friendly  —  Apple on Tuesday released iOS 16.2 beta 2 to developers as the company gets ready to make the update available to the public in December.

To explain why he loves electron microscopy, Associate Professor James LeBeau uses an analogy: He likens the technique, which uses beams of electrons to illuminate materials at a scale thousands of times smaller than conventional microscopes, to the inverse of astronomy. “It’s discovering things that no human has ever seen before that really captures the […]

Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: Coin Metrics: on Tuesday, bitcoin fell 12.6% to $18,203 and briefly hit $17,300.80, its lowest level since November 2020; ether dropped 18.2% to $1,311.50  —  Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT  —  WATCH NOW  —  FTX token plunges as Binance steps in to buy the crypto exchange’s non-U.S. unit: CNBC Crypto […]

Teenagers can be scary, but these adolescent-approved gifts are sweet.

True the Vote’s IV3 app is meant to catch election cheaters. But it has a fundamental flaw.

Nothing beats in-person efforts to boost a campaign. But rising platforms are helping connect politicians with the rest of us.