We briefly focus on some hopeful technology breakthrough news, before returning to our bread & butter; we have achieved fusion, kind of; wind from another planet; AI revolution, Kurzweil & baby steps; Dramatron; social media for strangers; Meta's Hasher-Matcher-Actioner; Twitter's do what I say not what I do; Tesla's failure is not fraud; Sam Bankman-Fried & continued crypto arrests & lawsuits; Lord of the Rings marathon feast; Wednesday; The Peripheral; the White Lotus; Slow Horses; Drumpf NFT; too many tabs; Apple to allow outside app stores, dropping Webkit requirement; password managers; Twitter suspensions; the Marshall amp.
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IN THE NEWS
Scientists achieve fusion ignition, a major milestone in clean energy production
Audio from a Martian dust devil captured for the first time
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence
DeepMind created an AI tool that can help generate rough film and stage scripts
Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology
Social Media Is for Strangers Now
Meta releases an open-source tool that can scan for terrorist content
A New Lawsuit Accuses Meta of Inflaming Civil War in Ethiopia
Twitter disbands its Trust and Safety Council of external advisors
Elon Musk’s new Twitter Blue logo is perfectly awful
Twitter Suspends the Accounts Tracking Musk’s Jet and The Man Behind It
Elon Jet, the Twitter account tracking Elon Musk’s flights, was permanently suspended
Tesla: Our ‘failure’ to make actual self-driving cars ‘is not fraud’
Tesla’s latest update adds Steam games and Apple Music
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested by Royal Bahamas Police Force
Sam Bankman-Fried: FTX founder charged with defrauding investors
Celebrity Promoters Sued Over Bored Ape NFT Endorsements
Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors
DOJ and SEC charge social media influencers in alleged $100 million stock pump-and-dump scheme
MEDIA CANDY
The Lord of the Rings Marathon Feast
APPS & DOODADS
Donald Trump Digital Trading Cards (NFTs)
FTX-hosted NFTs break after website is redirected to a restructuring page
Chrome Gets Memory and Energy Saver Modes
Apple to Allow Outside App Stores in Overhaul Spurred by EU Laws
Apple Considering Dropping Requirement for iPhone Web Browsers to Use WebKit
Apple’s new whiteboard app gives you and up to 99 friends an ‘infinite canvas’
SECURITY HAH!
Twitter has suspended the Helicopters of DC account.
FBI’s Vetted Info Sharing Network ‘InfraGard’ Hacked
The Story of the Marshall amp. from the BBC
CLOSING SHOUT-OUTS
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