October 2021 Archive
5761.
The climate disaster is here – this is what the future looks like (theguardian.com)
5762.
As Afghanistan Sinks into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive (wsj.com)
5763.
Russia Is a Rogue, Not a Peer; China Is a Peer, Not a Rogue (rand.org)
5764.
Colin Powell: Former US secretary of state dies of Covid complications (bbc.co.uk)
5765.
mRNA Vaccines: Maybe the Coronavirus Was Lower-Hanging Fruit (theatlantic.com)
5766.
Economics Nobel Prize winners work used to solve tough problems at Twitter (twitter.com)
5767.
Tao: Facebook’s distributed data store for the social graph (micahlerner.com)
5768.
Facial recognition cameras arrive in UK school canteens (ft.com)
5769.
Robots Riding Elevators? (sensethinkact.com)
5770.
Morgan Stanley: Starship may 'transform investor expectations' about space (cnbc.com)
5771.
Donald Trump to launch social media platform called Truth Social (theguardian.com)
5772.
OK Lenovo, we need to talk (haiku-os.org)
5773.
Tech founder considering legal action against Trump social network for IP theft (independent.co.uk)
5774.
GOP’s top FCC official calls for ban on DJI drone sales in US (dronedj.com)
5775.
New FCC rules could force wireless carriers to block spam texts (engadget.com)
5776.
Remote code execution flaw found in old version of WinRAR (theregister.com)
5777.
Science Has Entered a New Era of Alchemy. Good (quantamagazine.org)
5778.
Deepfaking Genitalia into Blurred Porn Leads to Man’s Arrest in Japan (gizmodo.com.au)
5779.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much (theatlantic.com)
5780.
Living organisms can’t survive in their own waste products – Alan Kay [YouTube] (youtube.com)
5781.
Fisher Price's Iconic Toy Telephone Now Makes Phone Calls (gizmodo.com)
5782.
Metaverse Metaverse? Metaverse (ben-evans.com)
5783.
Would Linux have achieved the same success if there had been no GNU? (gnu.org)
5784.
macOS Monterey is now available (apple.com)
5785.
Replit Donates $25,000 to the NixOS Foundation (blog.replit.com)
5786.
macOS 12 Monterey: The Ars Technica review (arstechnica.com)
5787.
Google’s Tensor Chip Is Slower Than Apple’s A12, an SoC That Is 3 Years Old Now (wccftech.com)
5788.
Scientists Built an AI to Give Ethical Advice, but It Turned Out Super Racist (futurism.com)
5789.
Social Media Sites Undoubtedly Have Shared Blacklists, and You May Be on One (cheapskatesguide.org)
5790.
Russia Strengthens Its Internet Censorship Powers (nytimes.com)