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According to findings by physicists at Goethe University Frankfurt, a gravastar could look like a matryoshka doll. Credit: Daniel Jampolski and Luciano Rezzolla Einstein's inexhaustible field equations just keep on predicting weird stellar objects, and the latest one is a doozy—so strap on your helmet, inside of which is another helmet, encasing still yet another helmet. This headgear is modeled on a weird solution to the field…

An international law firm that works with companies affected by security incidents has experienced its own cyberattack that exposed the sensitive health information of hundreds of thousands of data breach victims. San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe said last week that hackers stole the personal information and sensitive health data of more than 637,000 data breach victims from a file share on its network during an intrusion in March 2023. Orrick works with companies that are hit by security…

Mike Masnick / Techdirt: US v. Google raises the question of how antitrust law handles a company becoming dominant due to offering a far superior product, especially if the DOJ wins — I've noted my skepticism regarding the antitrust attacks on the current Google antitrust trial regarding how it pays to have its search placed … Mike Masnick / Techdirt: US v. Google raises the question of how antitrust law handles a company becoming dominant due to offering a far superior product, especially…

Joe Tries to Shoot an Arrow Into the CyberTruck Tesla chief Elon Musk appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience again on Tuesday. Swapping the weed smoked during a previous Joe Rogan appearance for a cigar and a drink, Musk covered a range of subjects during the 2-hour-40-minute interview. The host kicked off by thanking Musk for showing up in the Cybertruck, which will be delivered for the first time to paying customers on November 30. Referring to its unique design, Musk said the all-electric pickup “looks like computer…

Image via Marvel Studios/Remix via Apeksha Bagchi If you don’t follow the news (which, to be fair, is very justified these days), you may not know Marvel has a problem with its current crop of media projects, aside from VFX issues and waning interest from the general public for much of it. Specifically, Kang the Conqueror star Jonathan Majors is facing assault allegations, and, while not yet convicted of anything, he is headed to court and in the wake of all this many are wondering just how the studio may…

A group of bipartisan senators are said to have asked to explain to prevent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from being shared among networks of pedophiles on the platform. Lawmakers from the Senate Judiciary Committee also want to know how Instagram's algorithms brought users who want to share such content together in the first place, according to . In a letter to the company, 10 senators including committee chair Dick Durbin and Republican ranking member Lindsey Graham reportedly said they were “gravely concerned…

Dating app Tinder on Friday announced changes to its existing Community Guidelines in which it will be removing social handles from public bios. As the company explained, Tinder is not a place to promote businesses to try to make money -- members shouldn't advertise, promote, or share social handles or links to gain followers, sell things, fundraise, or campaign. To help combat this, Tinder said, it will remove social handles from public bios. "The majority of Tinder's members are 18-25, and Tinder is often…

Rules are the tacky glue that holds the popsicle stick planks of any functional society, or elementary school engineering project, together. I’m sure Hobbes or Hegel once said that. Probably, we need laws to keep back the forceful waves of universal chaos. Or at least Tinder thinks so.Twitter Can’t Moderate Gore Any More | Future TechThe dating app is instituting new community guidelines, starting today that bar and restrict behaviors previously allowed (and in some cases ran rampant) on the platform. Social media…

Dating app Tinder has announced changes to its community guidelines and as a part of this change, it will remove social media handles from bios. This change comes as the app aims to “reinforce authenticity, respect, and inclusivity” by updating policies. As the new guidelines come into effect, Tinder users will start receiving notifications on the app and on email. “The majority of Tinder’s members are 18-25, and Tinder is often their first dating experience. To guide these younger daters as they start their dating…

Tinder is for finding love — or at least a temporary connection — but the app’s backers aren’t interested in helping people expand their connections beyond the narrow confines of its own jurisdiction. The company says that it has identified an issue with users turning their profiles into spaces for “making money,” and will scrub social handles from public profiles, as well as tweaking its community guidelines to prohibit the sharing of usernames or references to other outbound links. In a statement rich in euphemism, the…