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Plus: Intel’s new app syncs PCs and mobile phones, and Apple slows down iPhone production.

Ryan Gajewski / The Hollywood Reporter: Bruce Willis refutes a report that he sold his digital likeness rights to Deepcake, which confirms and says the company created his “digital twin” for 2021 ads  —  Recent reports claimed that the star had become the first Hollywood figure to sell his rights to a company …

Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Symantec details an ongoing campaign by the Witchetty hacking group, potentially tied to a China-backed threat actor, that hides malware in a Windows logo image  —  Security researchers have discovered a malicious campaign by the ‘Witchetty’ hacking group, which uses steganography to hide a backdoor malware in a Windows logo.

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: Stadia was doomed from the start because Google knows next to nothing about gaming and no one wants to invest in services they don’t trust Google to keep around  —  There’s a lot of chatter right now about the “surprise” shutdown of Stadia, Google’s game-streaming service.

From the Danube to the Loire, these lifelines for the continent’s economy are running low after five months of brutal drought and years of dry weather.

Celebrate your favorite drink with discounts on home barista essentials.

One of the best things about the free chat service is how you can customize it to work for you.

Jennifer A. Kingson / Axios: Surveys of ~16,000 US adults per brand shows that 86% Gen Z adults have a “somewhat” or “very” favorable opinion of YouTube, 73% of Instagram, and 69% of TikTok  —  The youngest generation of adults is so crazy for tech companies that YouTube, Google …

Ellen Barry / New York Times: A look at the research project tracking people at risk for suicide using data from smartphones and wearables to identify periods of high danger and intervene  —  A unique research project is tracking hundreds of people at risk for suicide, using data from smartphones and wearable biosensors …

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Singapore will not permit crypto ads at the track and in local areas at this weekend’s F1 Singapore GP, underscoring a changing regulatory stance toward crypto  —  At Formula One’s Miami Grand Prix in May, the dizzying displays of crypto companies sponsoring the sport were inescapable …

People around the world are rallying to subvert Iran’s internet shutdown, but actually pulling it off is proving difficult and risky.

At the heart of every bot-detection tool is a human’s gut feeling—and all the messiness that comes with it.

These WIRED-tested memory sticks are a virtual filing cabinet in your pocket.

Jessica Hagen / MobiHealthNews: NYC-based Grow Therapy, which offers tools for mental health providers to set up virtual practices, raised a $75M Series B, bringing its total funding to $90M  —  The new allocation will help the company expand its insurance coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid, across the U.S.

Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press: Japan says it will provide Micron a subsidy of up to ~$322M to help the company produce advanced memory chips at a Hiroshima factory  —  Japan is providing a major U.S. chipmaker a subsidy of up to 46.6 billion yen ($322 million) to support its plan to produce advanced memory […]

Reuters: SEC filing: Intel’s self-driving car unit Mobileye files for an IPO and reports a H1 2022 revenue of $854M, up 21% from H1 2021  —  Mobileye, Intel Corp’s (INTC.O) self-driving unit, on Friday filed for an initial public offering in the United States, revealing a 21% jump in revenue for the first half of […]

A prototype computer built using a magnetic material called a skyrmion has been programmed to recognise handwritten digits. The approach could be particularly energy-efficient

Computer simulations found that a material made from three layers of rubber could absorb most frequencies used for sonar, which if affixed to a submarine would make it difficult to detect

Artificial intelligences are increasingly making important decisions that affect our lives, but people consider the calls made to be fairer and more acceptable if a human is in the loop too

Richard “Dick” Eckaus, Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics, emeritus, in the Department of Economics, died on Sept. 11 in Boston. He was 96 years old. Eckaus was born in Kansas City, Missouri on April 30, 1926, the youngest of three children to parents who had emigrated from Lithuania. His father, Julius Eckaus, was a […]

Graduate student Jacob Jaffe wants to improve the administration of American elections. To do that, he is posing “questions in political science that we haven’t been asking enough,” he says, “and solving them with methods we haven’t been using enough.” Considerable research has been devoted to understanding “who votes, and what makes people vote or […]

Allies play a crucial role in mitigating the harm caused by microaggressions.

Surviving, let alone succeeding, requires constant adaptation.

You can grow out of your slump.

Plus: WhatsApp plugs holes that could be used for remote execution attacks, Microsoft patches a zero-day vulnerability, and more.

Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t.

At RE:WIRED Green, scientist Sylvia Earle and climate activist Sophia Kianni discussed ways younger and older generations can work together to face the crisis.

Dan Milmo / The Guardian: In a closely watched case, a UK coroner rules 14-year-old Molly Russell died by suicide after consuming extensive self-harm material on Instagram and Pinterest  —  Inquest told 14-year-old took her own life while suffering from depression and had interacted with harmful social media content

TechCrunch: Amazon rolls out its QVC-style livestream service Amazon Live in India, running ~15 per day hosted by 150+ creators from 10am-1am, covering electronics and more  —  Amazon has launched a QVC-style livestream shopping in India, the company said Friday, broadening its offerings in the key overseas market …

Bloomberg: Bloomberg Intelligence: Apple moving just 10% of its production capacity out of China, where ~98% of iPhones are made, would take around eight years  —  Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks Covid-19’s impact on trade.  Sign up here, and  —  American companies have had a growing list …

The atmosphere of discovery generated by MIT’s research and innovation activities has been described as magic by many. But that magic can sometimes seem obscure or even intimidating to outsiders. Now the MIT Museum, which opens to the public on Oct. 2, is inviting everyone to take part in MIT’s magic with a new 56,000-square-foot […]

In the closing session of Re:WIRED GREEN, the Louisiana lawyer urged the audience to join the front lines of climate activism.

At RE:WIRED Green, actress Regina Hall and Sarah Shanley Hope of The Solutions Project spoke about the work being done by communities hardest hit by crisis.

The RE:WIRED Green speaker explains how smaller, more efficient reactors will be the bedrock of energy independence.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft says the Lazarus group is weaponizing open-source software such as PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, and Sumatra PDF Reader, compromising numerous organizations  —  PuTTY, KiTTY, TightVNC, Sumatra PDF Reader, and muPDF/Subliminal Recording all targeted.  —  Hackers backed by the North Korean government …

Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: How angel investing became a pastime and a way of socializing in Silicon Valley, with investors betting small amounts in friends’ startups  —  Maia Bittner is an angel investor, and she has a lot of friends who’ve founded startups.  Sometimes they ask her if she wants to put money into their […]

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: Court filing: in March, Jack Dorsey told Elon Musk he tried to add Musk to Twitter’s board, but felt the rest of the board was too “risk averse”  —  – Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wanted Elon Musk on the board of the social media company, but felt the rest of […]

Between 2016 and 2021, the carbon emissions associated with mining bitcoin have increased from 0.9 tonnes to 113 tonnes per coin

Lamina1 was contacted for comment.   Neal Stephenson was contacted for comment.   Facebook did not respond to a request for comment on the standards underpinning its own metaverse, and whether it might consider making it interoperable with open source standards.

Payton Dupuis’s interest in biology research began where it does for many future scientists — witnessing a relative struggling with an incurable medical condition. For Dupuis, that family member was her uncle, who suffered from complications from diabetes. Dupuis, a senior at Montana State University, says that diabetes is prominent on the Flathead Reservation in […]

To prepare fields for planting, farmers the world over often burn corn stalks, rice husks, hay, straw, and other waste left behind from the previous harvest. In many places, the practice creates huge seasonal clouds of smog, contributing to air pollution that kills 7 million people globally a year, according to the World Health Organization. […]

Since 2015, the MIT AgeLab has awarded scholarships to high school students who developed intergenerational programs — initiatives that bring together younger and older people for knowledge-sharing and social connection — in their communities. On Sept. 9, five $5,000 OMEGA scholarships were given to high school students across the United States, supported by the sponsorship […]

A series of conversations on influential management ideas from HBR’s first 100 years.

Before playing calendar Tetris, start thinking about when, where, and why you need to come together.

Strong traditions can provide a sense of identity, inspiration, and direction — but they can also hold your company back.

This week, we discuss guided cooking apps, connected appliances, and all things smart (and not so smart) on our countertops.

The company has a dizzying array of streaming sticks, boxes, and soundbars to choose from, but don’t worry—these are the ones to buy.

We made tons of coffee, tea, and ramen to test these gadgets—and boiled it down to these top picks.

Sami Fathi / MacRumors: An Apple support document and compliance page reference an “iPhone 14 Max”, suggesting Apple chose the iPhone 14 Plus name at short notice  —  Newly discovered references to the iPhone 14 Plus as “iPhone 14 Max” on Apple’s website suggest this was the name originally intended …

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail Chaos, a new cross-platform malware that infected a wide range of Linux and Windows devices, including routers, FreeBSD boxes, and servers  —  Small office routers?  FreeBSD machines?  Enterprise servers?  Chaos infects them all.  —  Researchers have revealed a never …