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Twitter has a new whistleblower, as another former employee has sounded the alarm about security issues, according to The Washington Post. The new complainant, who has spoken with Congress and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), says any Twitter engineer still has access to an internal program — formerly called “GodMode” — that lets them tweet […]

The mummified remains of a teenage boy, stored unexamined at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo for over a century, have been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing an excess of amulets and plants adorned his body.  In a study, published in the journal Frontiers in Medicine on Tuesday, researchers reveal that the unnamed teenager, […]

Robin Frohardt, creator of the Plastic Bag Store, inside the display.Photo: Carlos Osorio (AP) Alarmed by all the plastic packaging you see when you go shopping? You’re not alone. An interactive art exhibit called The Plastic Bag Store showcases what an entire grocery store may look like if everything—including the food itself—was made of plastic. […]

Few people enjoy waiting around for the repairperson and shelling out more money in labor cost than the price of the parts themselves. Yet so many people do, because the idea of home repair seems murky and intimidating. Here’s a trade secret: If you’re reading this, it’s entirely within your abilities to handle many small […]

After 14 seasons, one of CBS’ longest-running shows is coming to an end. The current season will be the last for NCIS: Los Angeles, which is a spinoff of the original NCIS. According to Deadline(Opens in a new window), the cast and crew were informed on Friday about the cancelation. The network crime procedural stars […]

Elon Musk will never stop posting, no matter who tells him to stop. That was one of the takeaways from his brief testimony during his securities fraud trial, which took place in a San Francisco courthouse Friday. Lawyers for the plaintiffs peppered Musk with questions about his tweets as they work up to his infamous […]

Finding a product-market fit isn’t always easy, but when you are the end-user experiencing a real pain point, the solution might be more obvious. That’s the case for newly-funded Share Creators, a platform that helps game developers manage and store large media assets as remote work becomes increasingly common in the industry. Based in the […]

I’ve always been a fan of mini-PCs for the convenience they offer. They’re easy to set up and use, don’t take up a lot of room on the desk, and deliver the same level of performance as full-fledged workstations. I used a dozen mini-PCs over the course of the last decade, starting out with Zotac’s […]

TL;DR The OnePlus 11 might have slower wired charging in the US compared to global models. A leaker claims US models will have 80W charging versus 100W in the rest of the world. OnePlus’ 2022 flagship phones offered different charging speeds globally versus the US, with global models delivering higher wattages than devices in the […]

“When people talk about crypto mining the first thing usually mentioned is the amount of electricity it uses,” writes Slashdot reader quonset. “What few realize is how loud rack after rack of servers and fans for cooling running 24/7 can be. The people of Murphy, North Carolina found out, and are not happy about it.” […]