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Acer confirms data breach after hacker lists trove of stolen material for sale
Earlier this week, a hacker published a classified ad for 160GB of “various confidential stuff” from Acer. The seller claimed the haul consists of 2,869 files across 655 directories and includes a variety of content such as service manuals, ISO files, BIOS and ROM files, confidential slides / presentations and more.
Ian Fleming’s classic Bond novels have been re-worded to remove racist material
IAN Fleming’s James Bond novels have been re-worded to remove racial references.
Every 007 book is to be re-issued this spring to mark 70 years since the spy appeared.
Ian Fleming Publications commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts – pictured Sean Connery[/caption]
But a woke disclaimer will read: “This book was written at a time when terms and attitudes which might be considered offensive by modern readers were commonplace.
“A number of updates have been made in this edition, while keeping as close as possible to the original text and the period in which it is set.”
The changes result in some depictions of black people being reworked or removed.
But dated references to other ethnicities, including Bond’s racial terms for Asian people, remain.
His comments about “blithering women” and homosexuality being a “stubborn disability” are also kept.
Ian Fleming Publications, the firm that owns the literary rights to the author’s work, commissioned a review by sensitivity readers of the classic texts under its control.
The N-word, which Fleming used to refer to black people when he was writing in the 1950s and ’60s, has been almost entirely expunged, the Telegraph reports.
Ian Fleming Publications said: “We encourage people to read the books for themselves when the new paperbacks are published.”
It comes after passages from Roald Dahl’s books were purged by children’s publisher Puffin.
Elon Musk’s Neuralink accused of unsafely transporting infected material
Neuralink is planning to start its first human trails soon, and Elon Musk has said the brain-to-machine interface made by his company will let people stream music directly into their grey matter. meanwhile, Neuralink doesn’t seem capable of even following the most basic guidelines when it comes to treating potentially…
US-Based EV Battery Recycling Company Predicts Material For 1M EVs a Year
The Nevada-based company said it plans to ultimately ramp up to producing 100 gigawatt-hours annually of ultra-thin battery-grade materials from both new and recycled sources in the United States for the first time.” Redwood founder CEO JB Straubel, who previously worked at Tesla, said at an event announcing the loan that he had a “front row seat” while at the Elon Musk-helmed electric vehicle maker to “some of the bigger challenges the the entire industry would face as it scales,” particularly around the battery materials supply chain. “It was somewhat clear even way back then, eight years ago, that this would be a really big bottleneck for the entire industry as it scaled,” Straubel said….
Redwood plans to manufacture battery anodes, containing copper and graphite, and cathodes, containing all the critical metals in a battery — like lithium, nickel, and cobalt — amounting to nearly 80 percent of the materials cost of a lithium-ion battery.
A Detroit newspaper reports Ford will also announce plans Monday to help build a $2.5 billion electric-vehicle battery plant in Michigan.
In fact, this year in America some electric cars could become “as cheap as or cheaper than cars with internal combustion engines,” reports the New York Times — specifically because of “increased competition, government incentives and falling prices for lithium and other battery materials.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Gigantic meteorite with oldest material in the solar system discovered in Antarctica
Social media sites will no longer have to take down ‘legal but harmful’ material in bill amendment
How a handy material could be used to make smart gloves
Dr Rupal Srivastava tells us how she switched into smart wearables and is now working on tech that could be used for industrial IoT and much more.
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