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22 Unhinged (but Fake) App Features
At the tail end of 2022, screenshots of bizarre app features started going viral on Twitter. They rested just on the line between plausible and absurd. Google isn’t going to add punctuality scores to calendar invites, but it could if it wanted to. Or what if Instagram sent a warning if you accidentally like a…
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A Flight School is Turning a Boeing 727 Into Student Dorms
What was your student dorm like? Mine was a bland, bottom-floor apartment with grey walls, a tiny shared kitchen and a distinct lack of soundproofing. For pupils at a flight school in Alaska, their campus housing is about to get a whole lot more exciting, as the school prepares to convert an old Boeing 727 into…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Companies Bought Nearly $AU597,000 of DoorDash Delivery in Two Months
FTX, the defunct cryptocurrency exchange, is finally being forced to publicly detail its spending habits in the company’s ongoing Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. And the resulting documents are illuminating.
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A Secretive Israeli Company Says It Manipulated More Than 30 Elections Worldwide
A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of more than 30 news organisations reports. The CEO of the company, a former Israeli special forces agent named Tal Hanan, boasted to undercover journalists that his team of psychological warfare operators had been involved in…