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Jess Weatherbed

Jess Weatherbed

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    Kentucky hacker receives a six-year prison sentence for trying to fake his own death.

    The Washington Post reports Jesse Kipf pleaded guilty to computer fraud and identity theft charges for using a doctor’s login to falsify a death certificate and attempting to sell access to death registry systems.

    US attorney Carlton S. Shier IV called it “a cynical and destructive effort, based in part on the inexcusable goal of avoiding his child support obligations.”

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Say goodbye to Sound & Vision’s print edition.

    The magazine’s publisher AVTech Media told The Guardian that the forthcoming October/November issue will be its last. Sound & Vision’s website is expected to remain active, however.

    Michael Antonoff, Sound & Vision’s founding technology editor, eulogized the physical publication, saying that “even magazines about technology were not immune from the dramatic shift from print to pixels.”

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Satellite SOS has started rolling out to Pixel 9 users.

    As Google promised last week, some Pixel 9 owners are now seeing the satellite connectivity feature arriving on their devices. Availability is currently limited to the US (with the exception of Hawaii and Alaska) and there’s no word on when the rollout will expand to other regions.

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    Jess Weatherbed
    Neuralink’s second implant recipient is using it to play Counter-Strike 2.

    According to the company’s latest progress update, the patient has used the implant in combination with a specialized Quadstick game controller to play the first-person shooter, in addition to designing his own custom Neuralink charger mount in CAD software.

    This implant has also remained fully attached to the patient’s brain, unlike the recipient of the first procedure.

    This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it?

    Big tech companies are backing the C2PA’s authentication standard, but they’re taking too long to put it to use.

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