This Week In Techdirt History: November 8th – 14th
This Week in 2016 What The Election Means For Stuff Techdirt Cares About? If You’re Blaming Facebook For The Election Results, You’re An Idiot In Wake Of Trump Win, ISPs…
Attackers Exploit UnrealIRCd Flaw That Enables Server-Level Command Injection
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity security flaw impacting UnrealIRCd, an open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…
Winemakers are learning that conservation can be good for business
More than 500 vineyards are scattered across the slopes and valleys of South Africa’s Western Cape, one of the world’s most biologically diverse landscapes. The region produces about 90 percent…
James Webb telescope finds ice older than the star it orbits
Beta Pictoris is a young star, roughly 20 million years old, and located about 64 light-years away from Earth. It is surrounded by a vast disk of dust and rubble…
DLSS 5 Got Faster, Leaner, & More Subtle For ‘Hogwarts Legacy’
Earlier this year, NVIDIA released a demo video of it’s new DLSS 5 AI neural rendering technology and it caused an uproar. The complaints about the video were varied. There…
Starship flight 15 powers to orbit—setting up a possible catch on Saturday
STARBASE, Texas—Starship lifted off right on schedule Friday from South Texas, making its 15th test flight in more than three years. The largely successful launch took place in the early…
FAA orders third nationwide ground stop in its history
On Friday afternoon, days after expanding use of an AI tool, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a nationwide ground stop, halting departures from all US airports. Secretary of Transportation Sean…
U.S. Supreme Court Deals Final Blow To Corporate Human Rights Accountability
For the past two decades, the U.S. Supreme Court has been slowly weakening the Alien Tort Statute (ATS), a key human rights law that allows foreign nationals to sue persons…
FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace
The US government has expanded the use of an AI tool for advising air traffic controllers to assist in managing air traffic across the entire national airspace system. Airline executives…
Millions in US use unapproved GLP-1s—and use them in unapproved ways
GLP-1 medications are everywhere these days. The peptide-based drugs are both highly effective and wildly popular for diabetes, weight loss and a growing range of connected chronic health conditions, including…