The world's richest man fakes his skills at a computer game

Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide users’ encrypted backups

What all this says is that simple decisions are best made by careful conscious thought. But for complicated decisions, the best choices may result from “deliberation without paying attention,” that is letting the thinking be done by the unconscious mind

Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers’ platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed

One Ethereum wallet spent 500 ETH to spread a sinister message through Etherscan. The message, alleging mind control and malicious actions, burned around $1.38M to a dead-end address to spread the allegations about a firm named Kuande Investments

crypto media firm Decrypt reached out to a spokesperson for the Las Vegas Sphere and discovered that no such deal had been reached

‘The camera is more impactful than a rifle’: the married Ukrainian artists who filmed the war – and are now up for an Oscar

everything you need know about the wild world of meme coins

Is Software Abstraction Killing Civilization?

Or: Jonathan Blow is wrong but also right and we still need to prevent the collapse of civilization

Which Country has 18 out of 25 of the world's top landowners? When so much land and resources is owned by so few, what are the ramifications?

"...our analysis suggests that the corresponding resource-limited production peak will occur soon, between perhaps 2022 to 2025. If then we add tar sands and Orinoco oil, the expected resource-limited total peak occurs around 2030, although there is a major question over whether significantly increased production rates of the latter two classes of oil is possible. Finally, the resource-limited production peak of global ‘all-liquids’ is expected about 2040 or a bit after if the latter liquids are also produced at the maximal rate"

Lung cancer diagnoses on the rise among never-smokers worldwide

Research shows need for further studies into air pollution and other causal factors, expert says

ChatGPT jailbreak flaw, dubbed "Time Bandit," allows you to bypass OpenAI's safety guidelines when asking for detailed instructions on sensitive topics, including the creation of weapons, information on nuclear topics, and malware creation

The Luka Dončić-Anthony Davis trade is shocking, franchise-altering and bizarre

largest study yet into the effects of cannabis on the brains of 18- to 36-year-olds has found that the drug can reduce brain function during cognitive tests

A former safety researcher at OpenAI says he is “pretty terrified” about the pace of development in artificial intelligence, warning the industry is taking a “very risky gamble” on the technology

Trump lost. That is, if all legal voters were allowed to vote, if all legal ballots were counted, Trump would have lost the states of Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Georgia. Vice-President Kamala Harris would have won the Presidency with 286 electoral votes

"I’m going to build something about inequality, taxing the rich, and I’m going to build it on YouTube"

Hacking Subaru: Tracking and Controlling Cars via the STARLINK Admin Panel

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