SpaceX has been developing Starship, its next-generation spacecraft, at its site in Boca Chica, Texas. The company has built a number of different Starship prototypes to date, include one prior version called the Starhopper that was essentially just the bottom portion of the rocket. Today, […]
Month: August 2020
Linux 5.8 released, features Thunderbolt 4.0 support and improved security null
Linux’s creator Linus Torvalds has released a new version of the Linux kernel following seven release candidates. While he did consider creating an eighth release candidate for Linux 5.8 last week, on Sunday Torvalds decided “it’s not just worth waiting another week when there aren’t […]
Brooklyn Nets Score Biggest NBA Betting Upset In 25 Years
It was a once-in-a-generation win for the Brooklyn Nets. Playing without its top three players who are in the Orlando bubble for the NBA restart, Caris …
Missouri Man Pleads Guilty to Trying to Buy Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin
Jason William Siesser admitted in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri that he attempted to pay $52 in bitcoin per vial of an unnamed … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in prison, as new $4B lawsuit against Uber is filed
Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer and serial entrepreneur who was at the center of a lawsuit between Uber and Waymo, has been sentenced to 18 months on one count of stealing trade secrets. Judge Alsup said that home confinement would “[give] a green light […]
‘Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout’ Is a Freewheeling Breath of Fresh Air
Like elementary-school field day or neighborhood capture-the-flag, the new multiplayer knock-out game Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is a lip-biting mixture of fun and mayhem. Everybody gets a participation trophy but the real winners, sucking on popsicles, feel like low-stakes gods. Out today on Steam and […]
I ritratti «All My People, All Mankind»
Ritratti di persone, via webcam, durante l’emergenza coronavirus. La fotografa Oriana Spadaro, ha realizzato un progetto di grande effetto: «All My People / All Mankind». Si tratta di una serie di ritratti scattati ad amici durante la quarantena. Tutti i protagonisti sono stati ritratti nei […]
Trump’s naked megalomania continues a bipartisan trend
After Donald Trump floated the idea of delaying the presidential election last week, the most striking response came from Federalist Society co-founder …
Una piccola area giochi in via Tito Livio: donata dalla coop “L’Ala”
Il Sindaco Maria Carone, l'Assessore ai Servizi Sociali e Famiglia Delli Santi Cosimo e l'Amministrazione Comunale tutta sono lieti di informare le … machine learning experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Google flags several major zero-day security threats null
New research from Google’s Project Zero security team has revealed that 11 zero-day vulnerabilities have been actively exploited in the wild during the first half of this year. The search giant’s security researchers began tracking zero-day vulnerabilities in an internal spreadsheet beginning in 2014. However, […]