“San Francisco became the the first major US city to mandate proof of full vaccinations for certain indoor activities Thursday,” reports CNN. Earlier this month, New York City announced a similar requirement, but it’s only requiring workers and patrons…
Mozilla Tests If ‘Firefox/100.0’ User Agent Breaks Websites
Mozilla has launched an experiment where they change the Firefox browser user agent to a three-digit “Firefox/100.0” version to see if it will break websites. Bleeping Computer reports: A user agent is a string used by a web browser that includes infor…
WHO Expert ‘Had Concerns’ About Lab Close To 1st COVID Cases
When a World Health Organization-led team traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, a top official said he was worried about safety standards at a laboratory close to the seafood market where the first hum…
Gig Economy Companies Are Having To Spend More Than Ever To Find Hosts and Drivers
“The combination of a massive labor shortage in the U.S. coming out of the pandemic and an increasingly crowded market of app-based share-everything companies is raising the prices for freelance and contract work,” writes CNBC’s Ari Levy. “Companies ha…
Reddit Is Quietly Rolling Out a TikTok-Like Video Feed Button On iOS
Reddit is the latest social media platform to roll out a TikTok-like video feed. According to TechCrunch, the discussion-based forum is “making short-form video more pronounced on its iOS app.” From the report: According to Reddit, most iOS users shoul…
Cryptomining Botnet Alters CPU Settings To Boost Mining Performance
Uptycs Threat Research Team has discovered malware that not only hijacks vulnerable *nix-based servers and uses them to mine cryptocurrency but actually modifies their CPU configurations in a bid to increase mining performance at the cost of performanc…
Samsung’s Leader Is Out of Jail, Allowing US Factory Plans To Move Forward
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Samsung Group’s leader, Jay Y. Lee, is out of jail on parole today. Lee was serving a 30-month sentence for his role in “Choi-gate,” a major 2016 South Korean political scandal that brought down So…
Activist Raided By London Police After Downloading Docs Found On Google Search
A man who viewed documents online for a controversial London property development and shared them on social media was raided by police after developers claimed there had been a break-in to their systems. The Register reports: The raid by four Metropoli…
Google Launches Interactive 3D Periodic Table To Teach Chemistry
Google has launched an interactive and 3D periodic table of chemical elements to help students learn chemistry. Somag News reports: The new functionality is being integrated into the Google Nest Hub device to encourage chemistry students, but it can no…
Black Hole ‘Burps’ May Help Determine Their Size
According to a new study published in the journal Science, feeding supermassive black holes emit a noticeable flickering light that is directly related to their mass. “The researchers describe the flickering as the black hole equivalent of a burp,” rep…