Musk to cut half of Twitter jobs and end remote work for the rest, report says

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) Elon Musk plans to eliminate half the jobs at Twitter and require remote employees to report to an office, Bloomberg reported. “Elon Musk plans to eliminate about 3,700 jobs at Twitter, or half of the social media company’s workforce,” and “intends to reverse the company’s existing work-from-anywhere policy, asking remaining employees…

Toxic cleanup technique can get more rare earth metals out of ores

Enlarge / About half of the world’s rare earth element supply comes from this single mine. (credit: NASA) A variety of modern technologies, including permanent magnets that have been used in everything from earbuds to wind turbines, rely on rare earth elements. While the metals aren’t actually especially rare, they don’t occur at high concentrations…

It’s your last chance to score 50% off Walmart+ subscriptions, plus more of the best deals of the day

Here are the best deals of the day for Nov. 3, including early Black Friday discounts: BEST SUBSCRIPTION DEAL: One year of Walmart+ membership — $49 $98 (save $49) BEST HOME DEAL: iRobot Roomba i1+ (1552) Wi-Fi Connected Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum — $288 $529.99 (save $241.99) BEST AMAZON DEVICE DEAL: Amazon Fire TV 75-inch Omni…

The US Treasury says it easily stopped an attack by a notorious Russian hacker group

The US Treasury Department was recently targeted by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack launched by Killnet, a known pro-Russian threat actor. Reuters claims Killnet targeted the Treasury sometime between attacking more than a dozen websites belonging to US airports and banking giant JPMorgan Chase early in October 2022. HoweverThe DDoS attacks failed at…

Creative’s new noise-canceling earbuds give you a reason to never take them off

Typically wireless earbuds with noise cancellation want to separate you from the outside world, immersing you in a vivid soundstage that brings audio to life; that’s not quite the case for Creative’s latest pair of buds. The aptly named Sensemore Air true wireless earbuds do still feature active noise cancellation (ANC) that works exactly like…