What’s Happening In The Matrix
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Is Still AmazingSteven Spielberg's classic 1977 alien contact film remains awe-inspiring.... Read more » - ●We Met in Virtual Reality Is the Best Film From the MetaverseDirector Joe Hunting’s documentary, shot entirely in VRChat, could also be the metaverse’s swan song.... Read more »
Close Encounters of the Third Kind Is Still Amazing
- ●The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely (Niraj Chokshi/New York Times)Niraj Chokshi / New York Times: The FAA says it has reached a deal with Verizon and AT&T to let them expand their networks near airports while allowing aircraft to land safely — The federal agency said an agreement with Verizon and AT&T would enable the wireless providers to expand... Read more »
- ●OpenSea says over 80% of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses decision to limit free NFT creation (Jordan Pearson/VICE)Jordan Pearson / VICE: OpenSea says over 80% of NFTs minted for free on its service are plagiarized works, fake collections, and spam, but reverses decision to limit free NFT creation — After reversing course on a limit to the amount of free NFTs a user can create, OpenSea said... Read more »
- ●Waymo sues California DMV to keep secret safety details, including descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret (Russ Mitchell/Los Angeles Times)Russ Mitchell / Los Angeles Times: Waymo sues California DMV to keep secret safety details, including descriptions of driverless car crashes, and says the data should be designated a trade secret — Waymo, the driverless car company operating an autonomous taxi fleet in San Francisco, is suing the California Department... Read more »
- ●Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020 (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors)Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: Apple deprecates Python 2.7 in macOS 12.3 and points developers to alternative languages like Python 3; Python ended support for version 2 on January 1, 2020 — Apple will no longer bundle Python 2.7 with macOS 12.3, according to developer release notes for the upcoming software... Read more »
- ●A for-profit spinoff of Crisis Text Line uses anonymized data collected by the AI-driven suicide chat service to create and market customer service software (Alexandra S. Levine/Politico)Alexandra S. Levine / Politico: A for-profit spinoff of Crisis Text Line uses anonymized data collected by the AI-driven suicide chat service to create and market customer service software — Crisis Text Line is one of the world's most prominent mental health support lines, a tech-driven nonprofit that uses big... Read more »
- ●Qubit Finance, a DeFi service that lets users lend and borrow cryptocurrencies, says hackers stole around $80M in cryptocurrency on January 27 (Catalin Cimpanu/The Record)Catalin Cimpanu / The Record: Qubit Finance, a DeFi service that lets users lend and borrow cryptocurrencies, says hackers stole around $80M in cryptocurrency on January 27 — A threat actor has used an exploit to steal approximately $80 million from Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform that allows... Read more »
- ●CausaLens, which is developing a no-code tool for data scientists to introduce causal inference into AI models, raises $45M, sources say at a ~$250M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: CausaLens, which is developing a no-code tool for data scientists to introduce causal inference into AI models, raises $45M, sources say at a ~$250M valuation — One of the most popular applications of artificial intelligence to date has been to use it to predict things …... Read more »
- ●Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer in Asia in Nov. 2021; DDoS attacks in India rose from 2% of all attacks in H1 2021 to 23% in H2 (Microsoft Azure Blog)Microsoft Azure Blog: Microsoft mitigated a 3.47 Tbps DDoS attack on an Azure customer in Asia in Nov. 2021; DDoS attacks in India rose from 2% of all attacks in H1 2021 to 23% in H2 — This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed... Read more »
- ●Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS (Alex Heath/The Verge)Alex Heath / The Verge: Will Cathcart says WhatsApp has no plans to support RCS, as Meta launches its first marketing push for WhatsApp in the US, touting its privacy compared to SMS — The Meta-owned messaging app wants to be as popular in the US as it is everywhere... Read more »
- ●After customer backlash, Google says users of legacy free G Suite accounts will be able to migrate data to free, consumer accounts (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: After customer backlash, Google says users of legacy free G Suite accounts will be able to migrate data to free, consumer accounts — Last week, Google essentially told free G Suite users “pay up or lose your account.” — There is hope for users of... Read more »
Surface Duo 2 review: Microsoft’s dual-screen Android needs work- mp3Interview 1691 – New World Next Week with James Evan PilatoThis week on the New World Next Week: OSHA withdraws the (temporary) big biz vaxx mandates; the Freedom Convoy prepares to roll into Ottawa; and the BBC license fee system is set to come to an end in 2027.... Read more »
- mp3How to Eat a Pine Tree - #SolutionsWatchMichael Hoffman of Food Forest Montana joins us today to introduce us to the concept of food forests by teaching us . . . how to eat a pine tree? Learn about the abundance growing right under your nose in this edition of #SolutionsWatch.... Read more »
- mp3Interview 1690 - Jason Bermas on NASA's Bio/Nano/Meta Road MapJames joins Jason Bermas for a livestream on how the COVID-1984 scamdemic is leading us through the bio/nano revolution into a world of genomic manipulation, metaverse creation and, ultimately, the end of humanity. Happy listening!... Read more »
- VideoAnnouncing the 5th Annual Fake News AwardsYou've been waiting for it all year and now it's finally here! The Dinos are back as The Corbett Report prepares the 5th Annual Fake News Awards for January 28th, 2022. Do you have a fake news story, a fake video, a fake photo, a fake fact check or a... Read more »