~hackernews | Bookmarks (136)
-
AstraZeneca withdrawing Covid vaccine, months after admitting rare side effect
Lawyers for claimants in the High Court case argue that the drug caused vaccine-induced immune thrombocytopenia...
-
N. Korean missile that landed in Ukraine used 'fake' Japan part
A bearing marked with “JAPAN” is found on debris from a North Korean short-range ballistic missile...
-
Nintendo blitzes GitHub with over 8k emulator-related DMCA takedowns
Nintendo sent a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) notice for over 8,000 GitHub repositories hosting code...
-
An Engineer Says He's Found a Way to Overcome Earth's Gravity
dani3315//Getty ImagesDiscovering a machine that could somehow produce thrust without releasing propellant would be a game-changer...
-
Qantas app data breach allows customers to access strangers' booking details
Qantas customers have reported a data breach with the national carrier’s app that allows travellers to...
-
A New AI Has Supposedly Achieved Sentience
Devrimb//Getty ImagesIn March of 2024, U.S.-based AI company Anthropic released Claude 3, an update to its...
-
Crows Are Self-Aware Just Like Humans, and They May Be as Smart as Gorillas
Andreas Saatze-Stein / 500px//Getty ImagesIn a 2020 study, crows performed a complex task that involved hundreds...
-
A Paradigm Shift in RAM
Andriy Onufriyenko//Getty ImagesEvery computer needs Random Access Memory (or RAM) for an operating system’s temporary storage,...
-
Florida inmates charged for prison cells long after incarceration
CITRUS COUNTY, Fla. — It's a common saying: You do the crime, you do the time....
-
Apple will reportedly unveil a genre-defining calculator app at WWDC 2024
Nathan Ingraham for EngadgetApple's calculator for Mac computers serves its purpose just fine, but it's reportedly...
-
How A Hater Accelerated [Mentava]'s Timeline by a Year, Overnight
A few weeks ago, hardly anyone had heard of Mentava, an education technology startup I founded...