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Uber price problem in South Africa

Saturday at 16:09 PM, via MyBroadband

Uber risks losing out on rides in South Africa as its prices for some routes are substantially higher than those of its rivals.

Court Ends Dragnet Electricity Surveillance Program in Sacramento

Saturday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

A California judge has shut down a decade-long surveillance program in which Sacramento’s utility provider shared granular smart-meter data on 650,000 residents with police to hunt for cannabis grows. The EFF reports: The Sacramento County Superior Court ruled that the surveillance program run by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and police violated a state privacy statute, which...

Ukraine Is Jamming Russia’s ‘Superweapon’ With a Song

Saturday at 12:00 PM, via Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot shares a report from 404 Media: The Ukrainian Army is knocking a once-hyped Russian superweapon out of the sky by jamming it with a song and tricking it into thinking it’s in Lima, Peru. The Kremlin once called its Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missiles “invincible.” Joe Biden said the missile was “almost impossible to stop.” Now Ukrainian electronic warfare...

Magician Forgets Password To His Own Hand After RFID Chip Implant

Saturday at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

A magician who implanted an RFID chip in his hand lost access to it after forgetting the password, leaving him effectively locked out of the tech embedded in his own body. The Register reports: “It turns out,” said [said magician Zi Teng Wang], “that pressing someone else’s phone to my hand repeatedly, trying to figure out where their phone’s RFID reader is, really doesn’t come off super...

Two UK clinical trials to assess impact of puberty blockers in young people

Saturday at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Multi-year studies announced after Cass review found ‘insufficient evidence’ about effects on children with gender dysphoria

Two studies to investigate the impact of puberty blockers in young people with gender incongruence have been announced by researchers in the UK after an expert view said gender medicine was “built on shaky foundations”.

Puberty blockers were originally used to treat early...

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