Leben (Life aka misc) Technology
Zuckerberg Says He Regrets Not Being More Outspoken About ‘Government Pressure’
In a letter to the House Judiciary Committee, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg expressed regret for not being more vocal about “government pressure” to censor COVID-19-related content. He also acknowledged that Meta shouldn’t have demoted a New York Post story about President Biden’s family before the 2020 election. Zuckerberg said senior Read more…
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Far-Right ‘Terrorgram’ Chatrooms Are Fueling a Wave of Power Grid Attacks
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: People in a quiet neighborhood in Carthage, a town in Moore County, North Carolina, heard a series of six loud pops a few minutes before 8:00 p.m. on Dec. 3, 2022. A resident named Michael Campbell said he ducked at the sound. Read more…
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Stem Cell Therapy Frees Woman From Diabetes
Amanda Smith, a 35-year-old nurse from London with Type 1 diabetes, is at the forefront of a medical experiment that seeks to treat the root cause of diabetes by replacing the cells the disease destroys. On Valentine’s Day 2023, doctors transplanted replacement islet cells, grown in a lab from embryonic Read more…
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US Scientists Identify Cause of Massive Crab Die-Off
Recent reports have indicated a near-complete collapse in the population of Snow Crabs in the Bering Sea. Scientists with the US Government’s National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration have concluded that warming in the environment has led to vast numbers of snow crabs starving to death. There has been a lot Read more…