Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa had once planned to take eight artists on a flight around the Moon aboard SpaceX’s Starship. But now, with Starship still in development the flight already indefinitely delayed, Maezawa says he has canceled the trip.
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Telegram forgot to check its email and now it’s banned in Brazil
Telegram’s founder and CEO Pavel Durov has simply put out a press release about why Brazil’s Supreme Court docket is now suspending the app, and the reason being unbelievable. Within the assertion, which you’ll learn in full under or on Durov’s Telegram channel, he says it was as a result of his firm was checking the incorrect e-mail deal with.
“Plainly we had a problem with emails going between our telegram.org company addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court docket,” Durov says, happening to elucidate that his firm requested the courtroom to ship future takedown requests “to a devoted e-mail deal with.” However the courtroom didn’t do this, apparently — it stored utilizing “the previous general-purpose e-mail deal with,” and Telegram missed them in some way, and now it’s getting banned, except the courtroom takes pity.
The corporate says it’s now discovered these emails (implying that the previous deal with did no less than work, which makes it much more weird that the emails in some way bought missed), and is making an attempt to treatment the state of affairs with the courtroom. There’s a whole lot of political context surrounding the ban, which stems from accusations that Telegram facilitates the unfold of disinformation, and my colleague Adi Robertson lays it out clearly on this story. However to listen to Telegram inform it, the entire thing boils all the way down to a problem all of us battle with — maintaining observe of emails.
Plainly we had a problem with emails going between our telegram.org company addresses and the Brazilian Supreme Court docket. Because of this miscommunication, the Court docket dominated to ban Telegram for being unresponsive.
On behalf of our staff, I apologize to the Brazilian Supreme Court docket for our negligence. We undoubtedly may have finished a greater job.
We complied with an earlier courtroom resolution in late February and responded with a suggestion to ship future takedown requests to a devoted e-mail deal with. Sadly, our response will need to have been misplaced, as a result of the Court docket used the previous general-purpose e-mail deal with in additional makes an attempt to achieve us. In consequence, we missed its resolution in early March that contained a follow-up takedown request. Fortunately, we’ve got now discovered and processed it, delivering one other report back to the Court docket in the present day.
As a result of tens of tens of millions of Brazilians depend on Telegram to speak with household, mates and colleagues, I ask the Court docket to think about delaying its ruling for a couple of days at its discretion to permit us to treatment the state of affairs by appointing a consultant in Brazil and organising a framework to react to future urgent points like this in an expedited method.
The final 3 weeks have been unprecedented for the world and for Telegram. Our content material moderation staff was flooded with requests from a number of events. Nevertheless, I’m sure that when a dependable channel of communication is established, we’ll be capable of effectively course of takedown requests for public channels which can be unlawful in Brazil.
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Billionaire who booked a SpaceX flight around the Moon cancels after delays
“I can’t plan my future in this situation,” Maezawa added.
He also said he feels “terrible making the crew members wait longer.” Others he’d picked for the flight included DJ Steve Aoki, filmmaker Brendan Hall, musician Choi Seung Hyunm, and YouTuber Tim Dodd.
Other possibilities that Ars notes for the project’s cancellation include SpaceX’s focus on its government contracts, as well as Maezawa’s net worth, which is half what it was in 2018 (though it’s still pegged at over $1 billion). The billionaire has also already been to space once, when he rode a Russian Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station, where he stayed for 12 days in 2021.
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End those annoying Wi-Fi password-sharing popups
It can be very convenient to log into the Wi-Fi network easily via password sharing when visiting a new location or a family or friend’s house. Instead of having to dig around for the password or struggling to share long, alphanumeric passwords with symbols, you can simply use password sharing to “drop” a password to your intended friend or family member.
But what if those notifications asking if you want to share your Wi-Fi password with devices nearby are persistent and annoying?
The good news is that it’s just as easy to stop sharing Wi-Fi password notifications as it was to share them. We’ll show you how to quickly stop Wi-Fi password-sharing popups on your Apple and Android phones.
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How to stop Wi-Fi password sharing popups on iPhone
When the Wi-Fi password-sharing popups become too persistent, here are several options to address this issue:
Option 1: Disabling Wi-Fi Network Suggestions
- On your iPhone’s main page, go to ‘Settings’
- Tap Wi-Fi
- Tap ‘Ask to Join Networks’
Now your iPhone will only automatically join networks it knows. You should stop receiving prompts to share your Wi-Fi password with others.
Option 2: Forgetting and rejoining the Wi-Fi network
Occasionally, it can help to reconfigure the network.
- On your iPhone’s main page, go to ‘Settings’
- Tap ‘Wi-Fi’
- Find your Wi-Fi network and tap the ‘i’ icon next to it
- Tap ‘Forget This Network’
- Tap ‘Forget’ in the popup box to confirm that you want to forget this network
- To rejoin, tap the network you want to join
- Enter your Wi-Fi password and tap ‘Join’
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Option 3: Removing contacts from Wi-Fi password sharing
Under your contact information, you can remove the iCloud email addresses of the people you shared your Wi-Fi password with.
- On your iPhone’s main page, go to ‘Contacts’
- Scroll to the contact you want to edit
- Select the contact
- Scroll down to where it says ‘LINKED CONTACTS,’ and if there is an iCloud email address associated with this contact, you will see it here
- Tap on the ‘iCloud’ option
- Tap ‘Edit’ on the top right corner
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- Scroll down and tap ‘Delete Contact’
- Tap ‘Delete Contact’
These options should minimize the persistent Wi-Fi password-sharing popups. It, however, is part of the iOS feature to help make sharing networks with contacts you know easier. You can also provide Apple with feedback to impact future changes, here.
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How to stop Wi-Fi password sharing popups on Android
When the Wi-Fi password-sharing popups become too persistent, here are steps to address this issue on your Android. Please note that exact steps may vary for specific device models.
- On your phone, open ‘Settings’
- Select ‘Network & Internet’ or ‘Connections’
- Select a listed network, then tap ‘Wi-Fi options’ or ‘Advanced settings’
- Toggle off ‘Wi-Fi sharing’ or ‘QR code’
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Kurt’s key takeaways
While the Wi-Fi password-sharing feature has been created to be more convenient for their users, the persistent notifications to share your password can be annoying and distracting. Luckily, there are multiple options for turning off this feature on both Apple and Android devices.
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Nvidia’s small GPU initiative will keep graphics cards large — but I’m glad it exists
Nvidia just gave the PC gaming industry a reason to shrink its biggest graphics cards and produce smallish cases. It’s not what I expected, but I think it might actually help. Read before you judge, friends — I was definitely ready to call out some Nvidia BS, but I’ve mostly come around.
When leakers revealed last month that Nvidia would help steer its graphics card partners toward smaller gaming PCs, I began to daydream. Might we finally see a genuinely small Nvidia powerhouse like AMD’s old R9 Nano? Could Nvidia at least convince partners to produce two-slot GPUs like many of its own Founders Edition cards?
Unfortunately, no. Nvidia’s just-announced “SFF-Ready Enthusiast GeForce Cards” aren’t actually that small — even a 2.5 slot thick, 304mm long, and 151mm wide RTX 4070 can qualify. That means supposedly “SFF” GPUs will not fit into my SFF case, and I have a hard time calling these “SFF” at all.
But if you, like me, want to help smaller gaming PCs get a larger foothold, this could help — because it’s not just about the cards; it’s about knowing you can fit a certain amount of graphics horsepower in a given case because both the case and the card identify themselves as compatible with one another.
“I’m giving them a guideline to say, hey, leave this much space, and then you’ll be able to fit an enthusiast graphics card in there like a 4080, a 4070. That’s the purpose of this program,” Nvidia senior desktop products director Justin Walker tells me.
Indeed, the list of cards that Nvidia is sharing today only includes RTX 4070 or higher: it’s not promoting a fat 4060, for example.
Today, figuring out if a given card will fit is often a matter of painstakingly trolling manufacturer websites for length, width, and height twice: once for the card and once for the case. Now, you might just be able to look for “SFF-Ready” and move on with your day. You may still have to hit up those manufacturer websites, though, as Walker says there’s not necessarily going to be a Newegg sort filter for “SFF Ready” or a badge on the actual product yet.
He tells me these guidelines should reduce uncertainty for case manufacturers, too: “I’m making a small case, and I want it to fit a high end graphics card… right now I have no idea, there’s so many sizes and shapes. Right now I don’t know how to make a case that fits everything.” Now, there’s a target.
While I personally still wish Nvidia had tried harder to shrink the sizes of partner cards themselves — again, their own Founders Edition cards are generally just two slots thick! — there is some hope for more such GPUs. Walker says it’s no mistake that there’s only a single RTX 4080 on the SFF-Ready list, and he hopes more partners will rise to the challenge.
“It takes a lot of work and a very intentional design to put a 4080 in this form factor,” he says. “I get that it’s not a tiny Mini-ITX thing, but I want to let someone be able to put a 4080 into that case.”
Speaking of which: just a few days ago, hardware leaker kopite7kimi attested that Nvidia’s RTX 5090 Founders Edition card will have a dual-slot cooler.
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