Morse code hasn’t been in wide use for decades, but like so much outmoded tech, it still has its practitioners.
This quick read from The Atlantic’s upcoming April issue covers one group, the “radio squirrels,” who get together in two buildings north of San Francisco every Saturday to tap messages out to a permanently-parked WWII warship called the SS Jeremiah O’Brien.
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Reddit users spotted a new “Unknown App” on SteamDB. They largely supposed it’s the Creations update that brings stuff like mod tools.
That seems likelier than the mystery app being the Shattered Space DLC, given the developer’s December blog post saying Creations is coming “early next year,” while only giving Shattered a broader “next year” timeframe.
And, I suppose, without all the body horror.
Chicken Nugget’s trailer introduces the story of a woman stepping into a techno-locker that turns her into a crispy ball of breaded chicken, and now her dad and a guy who has a crush on her. It starts streaming on March 15th.
Apple is preparing to release iOS 17.4 soon with many changes, including those meant to comply, to some degree at least, with Europe’s Digital Markets Act.
According to Bloomberg today, the company has told support staff not to engage with customers about whether or not the iPhone will get changes like third-party app stores outside of the EU.
Nothing is real until it ships.
Chief strategy officer Jason Kwon said in a staff memo regarding Elon Musk’s lawsuit that Musk has “regrets about not being involved with the company today,” according to several reports.
Axios detailed claims that Kwon refuted, including whether GPT-4 represents artificial general intelligence that benefits humanity. In court, Musk would also need to prove a very wobbly claim that OpenAI was contractually bound to do so.
Patently Apple spotted some interesting changes to one of Apple’s wilder patents — a foldable display (possibly an iMac) housed within a single piece of glass.
Part of the update describes a display on the back. What it could be for is a mystery, but I’m going with very fancy sessions of the board game Battleship.
The Android beta (version 2.24.6.2) for WhatsApp includes a way to manage third-party chat app interoperability, which is coming soon as Meta works to comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act next week.
That’s according to WABetaInfo, which reported that users will be able to approve specific apps for the integration (or turn it off entirely).
