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10.13.23
RING OF FIRE | 3-MINUTE READ
How to Watch Saturday's Solar Eclipse
BY RAMIN SKIBBA
On the morning of October 14, an annular solar eclipse will be visible to people in the Americas, creating a fiery halo of light around a darkened sun.
I, PATCH | 3-MINUTE READ
A New Protocol Vulnerability Will Haunt the Web for Years
BY LILY HAY NEWMAN
Dubbed "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset," the flaw requires issuing patches to virtually every web server around the world before the problem can be eradicated.
SCREEN TIME | 9-MINUTE READ
US House Republicans Had Their Phones Confiscated to Stop Leaks
BY MATT LASLO
In an attempt to wrest control from raucous far-right hardliners amid the fight for a new House speaker, Republican Party leaders are instituting phone bans to keep backroom deals secret.
TOXIC STEW | 3-MINUTE READ
Rumors of a 'Global Day of Jihad' Have Unleashed a Dangerous Wave of Disinformation
BY DAVID GILBERT
The rapid spread of violent videos and photos, combined with a toxic stew of mis- and disinformation, now threatens to spill over into real-world violence.
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Artificial Intelligence Is Seeping Into All of Your Gadgets
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BLACKOUT | 4-MINUTE READ
The Annular Solar Eclipse Will Decimate US Solar Energy Output
BY GREGORY BARBER
The annular solar eclipse will render more than a third of US solar energy capacity unavailable at some point tomorrow—enough to power about 20 million homes. Grid operators have backup plans.
BEAM ME UP | 4-MINUTE READ
NASA's Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications)
The Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home.
PRODUCT REVIEW | 6-MINUTE READ
The Pixel Watch 2 Is What Google Should Have Delivered Last Year
BY JULIAN CHOKKATTU
It might not be repairable, but this beautiful smartwatch does pretty much everything I want, and does it well.
ACCESS TO TOOLS | 5-MINUTE READ
The Whole of the Whole Earth Catalog Is Now Online
BY BOONE ASHWORTH
The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.
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