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Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

Oldest army ant found in 35-million-year-old Baltic amber

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An unexpected discovery in a piece of amber stored at Harvard University since the...

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A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian permafrost

A 48,500-year-old virus has been revived from Siberian...

Landwebs Nov 23, 2022 0 1

Seven viruses from the Siberian permafrost have been revived and replicated themselves...

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Mass tech layoffs leave hundreds of H-1B visa holders scrambling for new jobs to stay in the US; Amazon, Meta, and others sponsored 45K+ in the last three years (Bloomberg)

Mass tech layoffs leave hundreds of H-1B visa holders scrambling...

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Bloomberg:Mass tech layoffs leave hundreds of H-1B visa holders scrambling for new...

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How centralized crypto exchanges could offer "proof of solvency" while protecting depositors' privacy by using ZK-SNARKs, a type of zero-knowledge proof (Vitalik Buterin's website)

How centralized crypto exchanges could offer "proof of...

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Vitalik Buterin's website:How centralized crypto exchanges could offer “proof of...

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Twitter reinstates the accounts of Ye, Project Veritas, and others, despite Musk's pledge to delay such decisions until forming a content moderation council (Ryan Lovelace/Washington Times)

Twitter reinstates the accounts of Ye, Project Veritas,...

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Ryan Lovelace / Washington Times:Twitter reinstates the accounts of Ye, Project...

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Researchers: Apple analytics data include a unique ID for a user's iCloud account, despite Apple saying usage data does not include personally identifiable info (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

Researchers: Apple analytics data include a unique ID for...

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Thomas Germain / Gizmodo:Researchers: Apple analytics data include a unique ID for...

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Sources: Genesis is struggling to raise funding for its lending unit and warns potential investors that it may need to file for bankruptcy if its efforts fail (Bloomberg)

Sources: Genesis is struggling to raise funding for its...

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Bloomberg:Sources: Genesis is struggling to raise funding for its lending unit and...

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Connecticut-based SponsorUnited, a SaaS database of the brand sponsorship industry, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Equity at a $100M+ valuation (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Connecticut-based SponsorUnited, a SaaS database of the...

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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:Connecticut-based SponsorUnited, a SaaS database of the...

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US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering scheme that allegedly defrauded hundreds of thousands of investors (Cheyenne Ligon/CoinDesk)

US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency...

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Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:US DOJ says two Estonians were arrested for a $575M cryptocurrency...

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Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done with layoffs and actively recruiting for roles in engineering and sales; Twitter has 2,700+ employees (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done...

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Alex Heath / The Verge:Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk said Twitter is done...

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Report: Amazon's hardware group may lose $10B in 2022, as many Echo devices are sold at cost and plans to monetize Alexa have failed (Ron Amadeo/Ars Technica)

Report: Amazon's hardware group may lose $10B in 2022,...

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Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica:Report: Amazon's hardware group may lose $10B in 2022,...

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Elon Musk holds relaunch of Blue Verified until "there is high confidence of stopping impersonations" and floats using different colors for orgs and individuals (Alex Heath/The Verge)

Elon Musk holds relaunch of Blue Verified until "there...

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Alex Heath / The Verge:Elon Musk holds relaunch of Blue Verified until “there is...

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Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers up 14% YoY to ~209.3K, and a FY 2023 revenue guidance below estimates; stock drops 7%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise...

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Jordan Novet / CNBC:Zoom reports Q3 revenue up 5% YoY to $1.1B, Enterprise customers...

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A look at the tech being used at the 2022 FIFA World Cup, including player-tracking tech for offside decisions, algorithms to forecast crowd patterns, and more (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post)

A look at the tech being used at the 2022 FIFA World Cup,...

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Pranshu Verma / Washington Post:A look at the tech being used at the 2022 FIFA World...

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Overview of Xi Jinping's efforts to bolster China's hacking teams, already skilled in espionage, by focusing on cultivating talent and funding security research (Dakota Cary/CyberScoop)

Overview of Xi Jinping's efforts to bolster China's hacking...

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Dakota Cary / CyberScoop:Overview of Xi Jinping's efforts to bolster China's hacking...

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Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized social networking protocol powering Mastodon, Instagram-like Pixelfed, PeerTube, and others (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized...

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Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:Tumblr will add support for ActivityPub, the open and decentralized...