Today's Technology News - October 6, 2023
Vaccine may save endangered California condors from succumbing to bird flu
Early March last year, an endangered California condor—one of less than 350 of its kind surviving in the wild—perched on an Arizona cliff face staring into space for days. It's probably sick from lead poisoning, thought Tim Hauck, the condor program director with The Peregrine Fund, a nonprofit conservation group helping to reintroduce condors to the skies above Grand Canyon and Zion.
His team of eight wildlife biologists stationed at Arizona's scenic Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, 150 miles north of Flagstaff, hoped the ailing condor would glide down off its 1,000-foot sandstone ledge to visit their feeding station, where they could trap it to do a health examination. The Peregrine Fund provides supplemental food for the condors—most of which were raised in captivity and released into the wild—in part so the biologists can easily catch them for regular checkups, provide therapy for lead poisoning, vaccinate against West Nile virus, and update equipment used to track the condors' whereabouts.
FTX founder accused of fraud: witnesses testify during trial
Gary Wang, one of the key witnesses, stated during the trial that Sam Bankman-Fried, the onetime crypto mogul and FTX founder, steered the misuse of funds. The trial is focused on fraud charges against Mr. Bankman-Fried.
What are those circles on my Chrome tabs?
You may have noticed recently that some of the tabs on your Chrome browser have circles around the tab's icon and that the icon itself is smaller and slightly faded. This is due to Chrome's recent Memory Saver feature that automatically frees up memory from tabs you haven't used in a while. The circled tab icons indicate which tabs are currently inactive.
THORSwap decentralized exchange enters maintenance mode due to illicit activity
The decentralized exchange THORSwap, based on THORChain technology, is temporarily transitioning into maintenance mode after criminals associated with the FTX hack in 2022 used the exchange to convert $38M worth of ether to bitcoin.
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