An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Under Acting Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, the Federal Communications Commission is seeking to create new rules targeting spam text messages. Like another recent proposed rulemaking from the agency, …
Recycled Lithium Batteries As Good As Newly Mined, Study Finds
A new study by Wang and a team including researchers from the US Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), and battery company A123 Systems, […] shows that batteries with recycled cathodes can be as good as, or even better than those using new state-of-th…
Before the New Version, Let’s Revisit 1984’s Dune
Thelasko shares a report from Ars Technica, written by Peter Opaskar: Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel Dune gets a new film adaptation — this one helmed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) — later this month. But before Ars Technica rev…
US Surgeons Successfully Test Pig Kidney Transplant In Human Patient
For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient’s immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant…
Boris Johnson Strikes Deal With Bill Gates To Boost Green Technology
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: The UK government has announced plans to launch a $551 million (400 million pounds) package of investment alongside the US billionaire Bill Gates to boost the development of new green technologies….
Netflix Drops Action-Packed Teaser For ‘Cowboy Bebop’ Series
Netflix just released an action-packed teaser for its live-action adaptation of the 1998 Japanese anime series “Cowboy Bebop.” From a report: A 10-episode series — which chronicles a group of cosmos-hopping bounty-hunters and is based on the cartoon o…
Microsoft Officially Deprecates UWP
Microsoft continues to baby-step around the obvious, but it has officially deprecated the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) as it pushes the desktop-focused Windows App SDK (formerly called Project Reunion) and WinUI 3 as the future of Windows applicati…
About 26% of All Malicious JavaScript Threats Are Obfuscated
Akamai researchers have analyzed 10,000 JavaScript samples including malware droppers, phishing pages, scamming tools, Magecart snippets, cryptominers, etc. At least 26% of them use some form of obfuscation to evade detection, indicating an uptick in t…
The New MacBook Pro Seems To Have an HDMI 2.0 Port, Not 2.1
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The newly announced 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models have HDMI ports, but they have a limitation that could be frustrating for many users over the long term, according to Apple’s specs page f…
Tether Fined $41 Million For Lying About Fiat Currency Backing
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Tether will pay $41 million to settle allegations it lied in claiming its digital tokens were fully backed by fiat currencies, putting a major compliance headache behind the world’s biggest issuer of …