I wish I didn't have to tell you about this again, but I do. It's not being reported much in the news — and you know why?
Because it's not 'new' (the origin of the word 'news'), it's old. This has been going on for months now, and corporate news outlets are simply tired of reporting it. But it is still happening.
Canada's boreal forests are burning up.
At least 1100 fires are active, more than 700 out of control. Over 13 million hectares have been burned so far, with no end in sight. It's an unprecedented climate and environmental disaster.
#Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency
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A high-severity vulnerability has been fixed in WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows used by millions, that can execute commands on a computer simply by opening an archive.
Technically #Apple does not allow social media (user generated content) apps without blocking function
If Elon continues this way soon it will belong in the bottom part described and not allowed at all, hopefully..
Buyers of Bored Ape NFTs sue after digital apes turn out to be bad investment
Lawsuit: Sotheby's $24M sale to FTX gave Bored Ape NFTs "an air of legitimacy."
Hello. We have a new comet that could reach naked eye visibility over the next few weeks: C/2023 P1 Nishimura, discovered by Hideo Nishimura observing from Kakegawa, Japan on August 11th. Currently at +9th magnitude (with a bullet) in the constellation Gemini, the comet is well-placed in the pre-dawn sky. The comet is expected to brighten to +2 magnitude in early September, when it passes 0.29 AU from the Earth on September 13th, and reaches perihelion 0.22 AU from the Sun on September 18th.
All the cool kids are publishing negative neuroscience results these days, it seems...
🔖 Potential NYT lawsuit could force OpenAI to wipe ChatGPT and start over: OpenAI could be fined up to $150,000 for each piece of infringing content | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/report-potential-nyt-lawsuit-could-force-openai-to-wipe-chatgpt-and-start-over/ #BookmarkShare
Google released first quantum-resilient FIDO2 key implementation https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-released-first-quantum-resilient-fido2-key-implementation/
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"a fascinating way to show users the refresh rate of their screen by spinning a specially designed zoetrope-like disc graphic at speed. As it spins, the numbers representing the viewer’s refresh rate should remain visually stable unlike surrounding numbers."
https://cohost.org/lunasorcery/post/2465593-testing-your-animati
Mars / Moon conjunction coming up Friday evening:
% sl_data -start 16Aug2023 -duration 7d -interval 5m -planets -refraction 37.8 -122.4 | sl_conjunctions
mars (full) and moon (crescent)
start at 18Aug2023 20:25 PDT b: 266.4° e: 9.8° 1.30° apart
minsep at 18Aug2023 20:30 PDT b: 267.2° e: 8.8° 1.22° apart
end at 18Aug2023 21:10 PDT b: 273.2° e: 1.4° 1.26° apart