The final image taken by the LightSail 2 spacecraft on October 24, 2022. The Planetary Society After more than three years orbiting the planet, the LightSail 2 has made its descent back into Earth’s atmosphere, burning up in a fiery finale at some point yesterday. “LightSail 2 is gone after more than three glorious years…
Outlets report Twitter’s offices are closed until Monday morning. JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Image Twitter’s basic functionalities may not last through the end of the month due to unaddressed glitches, disorganization, and an overall devastating attrition of employees, according to sources familiar with the matter. Experts and former employees warn that Twitter may become unrecognizable…
FTX is a cryptocurrency exchange based in the Bahamas founded by Sam Bankman-Fried (known as SBF). Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images It’s been a heck of a few months for cryptocurrencies. Back in May, so-called stablecoin UST, or Terra, collapsed, crashing both Bitcoin and Ethereum to the point that almost half of all…
This time last year, we were optimistic. It seemed like the tide was turning on ransomware after the U.S. government scored a handful of wins against the cybercriminals carrying out these increasingly damaging attacks: the Justice Department successfully seized $2.3 million in bitcoin that Colonial Pipeline paid to the DarkSide ransomware gang to reclaim its…
Nuro, the autonomous vehicle delivery startup backed by Softbank, Google and Tiger Global Management, is laying off about 300 people, or 20% of its workforce in an effort to preserve cash amid a stormy economic outlook, according to an email sent to employees this morning. Several Nuro employees also posted on Twitter and LinkedIn this…
India’s leading central securities depository, Central Depository Services Limited, or CDSL, says its systems have been compromised by malware. On Friday, the securities depository said in a filing with India’s National Stock Exchange that it detected malware affecting “a few of its internal machines.” “As a matter of abundant caution, the company immediately isolated the…
I spied a tweet the other day that journalists would suffer if Twitter ever shut down because they would lose a driver of traffic. While there is some truth to that — Twitter does help expose your writing to a larger audience — it’s also true that Twitter has value beyond that for journalists and…
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Save $50: The Apple Watch Series 8 (45mm) is down to $379 from its regular listing price of $429 at Walmart and Amazon through Nov. 18. That’s a discount of nearly 12% Apple offers regular deals on its pricey smartwatches to keep up in the smartwatch race with competitors such as Garmin and Fitbit. If…
UPDATE: Nov. 4, 2022, 12:00 p.m. EDT This story has been updated to include the best of the best early Black Friday deals for the 2022 shopping season. It’s Black Friday shopping season, which means it’s the perfect time to finally make those big tech purchases through Cyber Monday (and let’s face it, all the…