Daily Tech News 23 February 2024

• Oops, sorry, did we do that, said AT&T after its cellular network suddenly and unexpectedly turned into a pumpkin. (CNN)
  
  "These things happen", a leading expert explained.
  
  "Because", he added.

• America has landed on the Moon for the first time in fifty years. (Tech Crunch)
  
  As you might guess from the fact that this isn't all over the news, this is a robot lander, and not the manned mission with SpaceX, which is still a couple of years off.
  
  The lander, built and operated by Intelligent Intuitive Machines under contract to NASA, is actually the second such mission this year. Last month Astrobotic Technology launched its own lander, together with a rover created by CMU, but the mission was scrubbed due to a propellant leak that prevented it reaching lunar orbit.
  
  
  
• Vice Media is dead. (The Guardian)
  
  Fortunately there are other sites run by idiots with too much money for me to mock - including The Guardian - but not as many as there used to be.
  
  If your schadenfreude supply is running low here's a Mastodon node full of people so stupid that this actually came as a surprise. (Writing Exchange)
  
  
  
• Bluesky Social is now federated. (Bluesky)
  
  You can download the code, run your own node, and point the existing Bluesky web, Android, or iOS app at it.
  
  While Bluesky is indeed full of left-wing idiots, if you run your own node you can kick them out.
  
  
  
• Yale has reintroduced standardised testing for admissions after noticing that their university was full of idiots. (New York Times)
  
  More so than usual, I mean.
  
  
  
• It's Google that made the deal with Reddit for AI training data. (Reuters)
  
  Truly a match made would you fancy in to a mord of foot-by, or is it a grin to the garn that has we warrow, in you'd catch the stive to scull and birst? Maybe a couple or in a sew, nere of ples and sup, but we've the mull for won, and it's as threwn as the blee, and roun to the yive, e'er indled to the beem, e'er in the dour, it's fit to the nune, of we'd yeed.
  
  On the other hand, I don't think it can make things any worse.

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