Monthly Archives: July 2022

Matt Gaetz ridiculed an abortion rights activist online. He inadvertently helped her raise over $115k to help women get abortions.

Houston activist for Gen-Z for change Olivia Julianna and Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz Courtesy of Olivia Julianna // Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A Houston-based activist says Rep. Matt Gaetz helped her secure abortion funds after a back-and-forth on Twitter.  Olivia Julianna responded to Gaetz after he said abortion rights activists looked like “a thumb.”  Julianna also…

Pentagon chief approves plan to treat wounded Ukrainian soldiers at US military hospital in Germany

Ukrainian soldiers pose for a photo at the Zaporizhzhia Military Hospital in southeastern Ukraine. Dmytro Smolyenko/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has approved treating Ukrainian troops at a US military hospital. Up to 18 soldiers may be attended to at a time at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. This is the…

Is this the first glimpse of new Intel Sapphire Rapids workstations?

In a spot of good news for the video editors among us, the specifications for Intel’s latest line of high performance workstation-focused processors have apparently leaked online. The Sapphire Rapids-WS processors aren’t set to compete with AMD’s data center-focused EPYC 7003 (Milan) processors, but rather AMD’s Threadripper PRO line of processors. Videocardz speculated that the new…

TikTok owner ByteDance reportedly pushed pro-China messages in defunct news app

ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company based in China, used its now-defunct news app called TopBuzz to spread pro-China messages, according to BuzzFeed News. Former employees who worked at the English-language news aggregator told the publication that ByteDance ordered staff members to “pin” content that showed China in a positive light or content that promoted the country…

Newly found Lightning Framework offers a plethora of Linux hacking capabilities

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) The software framework has become essential to developing almost all complex software these days. The Django Web framework, for instance, bundles all the libraries, image files, and other components needed to quickly build and deploy web apps, making it a mainstay at companies like Google, Spotify, and Pinterest. Frameworks provide a…

Indonesia’s IDEAL takes the pain out of applying for mortgages

Applying for mortgages is often a time-consuming and disorganized process, with reams of manual paperwork required. Based in Jakarta, IDEAL simplifies the process with a platform that lets users compare mortgage products and apply for them from multiple banks at the same time. The startup announced today it has raised $3.8 million in pre-seed funding…