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This featherweight tent cuts down the weight so you have room for what really matters in the backcountry: great food.

It’s dangerous to go alone! Take these headsets, keyboards, and mice.

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: A look at the Rust programming language after 12 years, evolving from side project to robust ecosystem, as developers praise its security, ease, and performance  —  Rust makes it impossible to introduce some of the most common security vulnerabilities.  And its adoption can’t come soon enough.

Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: El Salvador’s Bitcoin “revolution” is failing miserably and behind the debacle are crypto evangelists from wealthier countries who cheered on President Bukele  —  On an estuary along the coast of El Salvador, a few miles west of the Conchagua volcano, about 70 families live in a settlement called Flor de Mangle.

Jordan Pearson / VICE: As chess explodes on Twitch, a look at Chess.com’s Global Championship, its first in-person event since 2018, and “fair play” measures amid a cheating scandal  —  Cheating allegations have changed how chess is played, just as the game is shifting into looking a lot more like esports.

Going all-in with the services bundle could be a smart move, especially for families. We break down what’s included and how much it costs.

The state is home to an unusually high concentration of science fiction writers and a strong mix of science and superstition.

As part of a wave of layoffs, the new CEO disbanded a group working to make Twitter’s algorithms more transparent and fair.

Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is building a live TV ad network and talking to ad partners as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games starting in February 2023  —  Apple Inc. is building an advertising network for live television as part of its deal to stream Major League Soccer games next year …

Jason Guerrasio / Insider: The US DOJ charges two former MoviePass executives in a securities fraud case for allegedly trying to artificially inflate parent company HMNY’s stock price  —  – Lowe and Farnsworth have been charged in a securities fraud case by the Department of Justice.

Jay Peters / The Verge: Filing: Apple settles lawsuit against an ex-employee accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them with the media; he will pay an undisclosed sum to Apple  —  Apple has settled its lawsuit against Simon Lancaster, a former design architect, who the company accused of stealing trade secrets and sharing them […]

Robert Laidlow’s new composition, Silicon, uses Artificial intelligence to create new works for the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Terahertz radiation, whose wavelengths lie between those of microwaves and visible light, can penetrate many nonmetallic materials and detect signatures of certain molecules. These handy qualities could lend themselves to a wide array of applications, including airport security scanning, industrial quality control, astrophysical observations, nondestructive characterization of materials, and wireless communications with higher bandwidth than […]

Louis Braida, the Henry Ellis Warren (1894) Professor Emeritus in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), died Sept. 2. He was 79. Braida was a principal researcher in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and a faculty member in the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology (HST), which is housed in […]

Among the Pulitzer Prizes awarded in 2021 was a citation for a teenager who changed history with her cell phone. The Pulitzer committee acknowledged Darnella Frazier “for courageously recording the murder of George Floyd, a video that spurred protests against police brutality around the world, highlighting the crucial role of citizens in journalists’ quest for […]

Selling these assets allows someone else to operate them — exactly the opposite of what’s intended.

Findings from an analysis of 48 companies across 16 industries.

Turn a low-trust relationship into a high-performing partnership.

With the station’s completion, the country now has a long-term platform in orbit.

Jay Peters / The Verge: Hands-on with Netflix’s Basic with Ads: while most shows have pre-roll ads, mid-roll ads are more unpredictable; many popular shows are locked to higher tiers  —  Clicking into something on Netflix’s new ads tier is a roll of the dice: you never know how many ads you might have to […]

Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: PitchBook: VCs raised $151B across Q1, Q2, and Q3 2022, exceeding any prior full-year cycle, concentrated among large funds at Sequoia, Lightspeed, and others  —  Limited partners who back venture funds still seek access to startups, which have outperformed other asset classes during recessions

The comedian talked to WIRED about how he raided his address book to cast his biopic parody Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Kremlin-backed media is spreading rumors of a Ukrainian “dirty bomb” attack to rouse support for extreme retaliation.

A device that uses a piece of glass with little bumps on it can distinguish objects based on how they scatter light, removing the need for a camera or a computer

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Lookout: almost 50% of Android phones used by US state and local government staff run outdated versions of the OS, exposing them to hundreds of vulnerabilities  —  According to a new report, almost half of Android-based mobile phones used by U.S. state and local government employees …

Let’s acknowledge it: Life is tough. Most people struggle to make a secure living, stay healthy, and care for family members. On a larger scale, climate change keeps unfolding, Ukraine is under attack, authoritarianism is gaining ground around the world, and a pandemic has disrupted society. How are we supposed to feel good amid all […]

For the last few decades, battery research has largely focused on rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, which are used in everything from electric cars to portable electronics and have improved dramatically in terms of affordability and capacity. But nonrechargeable batteries have seen little improvement during that time, despite their crucial role in many important uses such as […]

As a tenth grader, David Spicer organized a student petition to create more Advanced Placement classes at his high school. He knew another high school in the area offered a dozen more, and he couldn’t see a reason for the disparity. After collecting 250 signatures from fellow students, he presented it to his school’s principal, […]

Wall Street Journal: General Mills and Audi paused Twitter ads, and sources say Pfizer and Mondelez have as well, as concern over content moderation grows  —  Advertisers are concerned about a flurry of executive departures at Twitter and new owner Elon Musk’s plans for content moderation

Elon Musk’s plan to make users pay for verification won’t turn it into a status symbol. It’ll just ruin the blue check’s appeal.

The Atlanta rapper intended the song to be a troll. Then it exploded—and reached the ears of actual Polish artists.

As psychedelic therapy trials get bigger and the drugs become more accessible, researchers need to start talking about their potential adverse effects.

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Twilio reports Q3 revenue up 33% YoY to $983M, vs. $972.2M est., 280K+ active customer accounts, and Q4 revenue guidance below estimates; the stock drops 15%+  —  – Twilio’s quarterly revenue projection was softer than analysts had been looking for.  — The company added about 5,000 active customer accounts in the […]

Casey Newton / Platformer: Sources: Twitter’s newsletter platform Revue, acquired in early 2021, is scheduled to close by the end of the year, and its Notes product has been paused  —  A new Vine camera is in.  Notes and Revue are out  —  With massive layoffs expected to hit Twitter tomorrow, on Thursday employees once […]

The accelerometers in our smartphones collect information as we travel over bridges, and this can reveal if the structure is weakening and help us know when to fix it to extend its life

One of the smallest and mightiest organisms on the planet is a plant-like bacterium known to marine biologists as Prochlorococcus. The green-tinted microbe measures less than a micron across, and its populations suffuse through the upper layers of the ocean, where a single teaspoon of seawater can hold millions of the tiny organisms. Prochlorococcus grows […]

The US military has spent billions of dollars on spy satellites and supersonic surveillance aircraft, but now it seems to be focusing on slow, lightweight solar-powered planes to do the same job

Academic digital credentials — the cryptographically verifiable assertion that an individual holds a degree, certificate, or other credential — have been available for the better part of a decade. Yet despite the potential value of these data-rich, transportable credentials to graduates, employers, and academic institutions, digital credentials have by no means become the standard in […]

Want to know if the Golden Gate Bridge is holding up well? There could be an app for that. A new study involving MIT researchers shows that mobile phones placed in vehicles, equipped with special software, can collect useful structural integrity data while crossing bridges. In so doing, they could become a less expensive alternative […]

People prefer a personalized message — but are also skeptical of how companies use their data. Here’s how to thread the needle.

Whether you dropped the ball on a project or got a bad performance review, these five psychology-backed strategies can help you move forward.

The connection between purpose and performance is real. And it starts at the top.

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: Sources: the EU plans light-touch rules for Airbnb and other rental companies, including providing data on usership, in a bid to unify laws across the bloc  —  Airbnb (ABNB.O) and other short-term home rental companies will have to provide data on numbers using their services and how many nights …

Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools.

This week, we discuss possible consequences of Elon Musk’s shakeup at the social media platform he now owns.

The US and Europe can learn a lot from startups that are nimbler, more digitized, and potentially better at serving underserved people.

A chemical gel can reveal a secret sequence of numbers if given the right “password” – a combination of heat, light and water. The technology could be used to prevent counterfeiting or in smart labels

Josh Ye / Reuters: Lenovo reports Q2 revenue down 4% YoY to $17.09B, above estimates, the first decline in 10 quarters as pandemic-fueled global PC demand weakens  —  China’s Lenovo Group (0992.HK) reported its first revenue decline in 10 quarters as a pandemic-fuelled computer sales boom comes to an end …

Chloe Chaplain / The i Paper: Source: the UK plans to remove the Online Safety Bill’s controversial “legal but harmful” content rules, leaving them only for material targeted at children  —  EXCLUSIVEThe Bill is due to be brought back to Parliament later this month after it was delayed over the summer

Teaching a machine to recognize human actions has many potential applications, such as automatically detecting workers who fall at a construction site or enabling a smart home robot to interpret a user’s gestures. To do this, researchers train machine-learning models using vast datasets of video clips that show humans performing actions. However, not only is […]