Iran has launched a weapon against Israel
Iran on Thursday said it had launched missiles against targets in Israel. This comes a day after Iran blamed Israel for an airstrike on its consulate in Syria which killed several Iranian military officers. “What took place today is in line with the continuation of victories of the anti-Zionist resistance in different fields,” Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said.
Apple is making it easier to fix your phone
Apple announced that it will no longer allow parts from phones that were reported stolen or lost to be used in a different phone. This comes after Oregon became the first right-to-repair law banning part pairing. Apple said if a supported part is obtained from another device with ‘Lost Mode’ enabled, the calibration capabilities for that part will be restricted.
$9.99 per month is the duckduckgo privacy bundle
DuckDuckGo has added a PrivacyPro browser app, which it claims will be an “improved privacy browser” for users in Europe and the US. The app allows users to avoid tracking from apps, ad trackers and social media platforms. DuckDuckGo claimed its search engine doesn’t even attempt to track users’ search history, and users can choose from whichever location they prefer.
FOXO1 is able to increase CAR T cell stemness
CD3+ cells were isolated using the RosetteSep Human T cell Enrichment Kit, Lymphodensity Prep medium and SepMate-50 tubes. T cells were washed with AIM-V (Gibco) supplemented with 5% FBS, 10 m ILM HEPES, one penicillin–strepomycin–glut and 100 U human human-2. Cells were resuspended in a buffer and stained with an anti-human CD 281 (tNGFR)immunoglobulin.
The House will vote on a bill to give more power to wiretaps
US House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson called for the extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) program that enables the government to target foreigners. The program was extended by four months in December after Johnson missed his first attempt to hold a vote. The Section 702 program was used to target foreigners overseas.
A new bill seeks to reveal what is hidden in the training data
The US Congress on Tuesday introduced a bill to protect copyrighted material used in artificial intelligence (AI) training. The legislation, called the ‘Copyright Correlation Act’, will not be retroactive to existing AI platforms unless changes are made to their training datasets and it will not be retroactive to existing AI platforms unless changes are made to their training datasets after it becomes law.
Beeper was acquired by automattic which has big plans for the future of messaging
Beeper, a messaging app, has been bought by Pebble Technologies in a $125 million all-cash deal. Beeper’s Co-founders will lead the combined messaging team, which will initially use an open-source protocol called Matrix. Beeper has been acquired by Pebble, which is known for its open-source approach to software and e-ink display. Pebble was founded in 2010 and appealed to the nerd crowd.
There are three ways that ChatG pt helps with my academic writing
A recent study by the University of Glasgow showed generativeAI tools can be used in peer-reviewed papers to help organisers and authors organise feedback without uploading the manuscripts’ text. The tool can be used to write detailed summaries of papers on a topic, identify its limitations, and explain significance of each limitation in order of importance.
The skies over the U.S. were darkened by a solar eclipse
The US is set to witness its first total solar eclipse in over a century on Tuesday. The eclipse, which is the result of a rare alignment between Earth and the Sun, is the first time the US has seen a total solar eclipse from coast to coast since 1918. The path of totality in the US ranges from Oregon to South Carolina.
A proposal to regulate online privacy hit the Congress
US House and Senate committee leaders released a new proposal for an American Data Privacy Protection Act (ADRA) bill. The proposal includes a private right of action by individual consumers to bring lawsuits where their privacy rights are violated. It doesn’t require companies to notify state attorneys general before filing suits, a report said.