CBS published a video today with more video from David Pogue’s November 2022 story about the Titan submersible, along with damning expert analysis of the flaws that likely led to the sub’s implosion.
The video shows a stark contrast between that analysis and the apparent overconfidence of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who frequently pushed back on criticism and calls to seek safety certification of the sub.
YouTube creator MrBeast claimed in a tweet today that he was invited to join the Titan trip that disappeared on June 18th and was later determined to have imploded.
Curiously, the included screenshot of the invitation shows what appears to be a blue iMessage bubble. (Sent iMessages show as blue on the sender’s phone, not the receiver’s).
Update June 26, 8:25AM ET: He later tweeted that the screenshot was from the friend who invited him.
Blizzard’s servers were down much of today and possibly late Saturday evening, with the company tweeting at 1:53AM ET that it was investigating login issues and issuing an all-clear at 1:18PM ET (via Engadget).
The Battle.net outage reportedly also EU players. It’s one of several DDoS attacks the company has experienced over the years.
A Friday blog post details the Bluesky team’s moderation proposals for “a shared public commons,” using things like lists, hashtags, and even “per-thread” tools that would give moderation power to each poster.
The latter treats threads like a mini-forum: if you don’t like a reply, you can yeet that skeet (or just hide it). The post acknowledges why this might be problematic:
If a thread contains misinformation, then giving reply controls to the author means they might use it to suppress corrections from other users. Our hypothesis... is that giving users more tools to protect themselves from harassment is worth some downsides like not always having the record corrected in the replies.
Along with algorithms, hands-off moderation fits right into Jack Dorsey’s original concept for decentralized social media.
In October 2021, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson told The Verge in an interview that NASA was “getting ready to fly” the electric X-57. Unfortunately it never will, reports Popular Science:
NASA said today in a conference call with reporters that it would not ever be flying its experimental electric aircraft, the X-57, citing safety concerns that are insurmountable with the time and budget they have for the project. The X-57 program will wind down without the aircraft ever going up into the sky.
NASA said the fix would take too long to implement, but says the project’s game-changing lessons “have contributed to the industry.” The agency is currently working with Boeing on a more fuel-efficient aircraft design.
[Popular Science]
The kid-friendly Star Trek: Prodigy — the first Trek show to feature Kate Mulgrew as Captain Kathryn Janeway since her Star Trek: Nemesis cameo — has been canceled and will be removed from Paramount Plus, says The Hollywood Reporter (via Engadget).
But we may still get to see it. A second season was already greenlit and largely produced; Prodigy will finish post-production and CBS Studios will seek a new home for it.
Testut, who created the Delta emulator and alternative iOS app store Alt Store, posted a tantalizing toot showing what looks like an emulator museum running on the Vision Pro SDK.
“You won’t be able to install emulators on the Vision Pro without jailbreaking the $3,500 headset,” you say.
Yes, I know. Look, just let me have this.
In a Twitter Spaces session with Bloomberg reporter Ashlee Vance, at the 6:20 mark of the recording, Musk, who was at a friend’s birthday party, was asked about his proposed cage match with Zuckerberg (via Insider). Here’s an abridged transcript of the Spaces conversation:
Vance: I would be remiss if I did not ask you about this cage match and how your training is going for that.
Musk: Well, I haven’t started training yet, so... if it does happen, I will train.
Vance: [Zuck] takes this stuff pretty seriously. This could go, this could go badly.
Musk: Yeah that’s possible.
Vance: Alright, we’ll go to space, unless you have other thoughts on the cage match.
Musk: I mean I think it might actually happen.
The roughly minute-long exchange preceded a discussion that touched on topics like SpaceX, Russia, and Starlink.
