Tesla’s deliveries increased despite supply shortages and plant closures

Tesla delivered 310,048 vehicles over the first three months of 2022, the automaker announced on Saturday. “This was an exceptionally difficult quarter due to supply chain interruptions and China Zero-Covid policy,” Musk said on Twitter shortly after T…

Apple’s ‘Prehistoric Planet’ is a dinosaur documentary narrated by David Attenborough

If you love dinosaurs (and who doesn’t?), you’ll want to mark May 23rd on your calendar. That’s when Prehistoric Planet, a new five-part documentary series narrated by Sir David Attenborough will debut on Apple TV+. Produced by the BBC’s Natural Histor…

Russia won’t cooperate on the International Space Station until sanctions are lifted

Russia’s Roscosmos will stop working with NASA and other western space agencies on the International Space Station. On early Saturday morning, Roscosmos director Dmitry Rogozin slammed international sanctions against Russia and said normal cooperation …

Bored Ape and other major NFT Discord servers targeted by scammers

The Discord servers of popular NFT projects, including the Bored Ape Yacht Club, were targeted by scammers in the early hours of April Fools’. Some users reported losing money to the bad actors who hacked the projects’ bots to post fake offers with links to their phishing websites, Motherboard reports. One of the phishing posts by a compromised Bored Ape bot read: “Oh no, our dogs are mutating. MAKC can be staked for our $APE token. Holders of MAYC + BAYC will be able to claim exclusive rewards just by simply minting and holding our mutant dogs.”

If a user clicks on the link in the post, they’re taken to a website where they’re tricked into minting a fake NFT in exchange for Ethereum. Other versions trick victims into sending the scammers NFTs by making them think their collectible was going to be wrapped. Two wallet addresses were tied to the hacks, one of which sold a stolen Mutant Ape Yacht Club NFT and then sent the other 19.85 ETH, or around $69,000 based on current exchange rates. The recipient wallet reportedly sent 61 ETH ($213,000) to a mixing service, which can obscure the origin and trail of potentially identifiable crypto coins. 

It’s unclear how many people fell victim to the scams, but the projects’ administrators quickly caught on and posted a warning to their fans. Bored Ape asked users not to mint anything from its Discord and clarified that it wasn’t doing “any April Fools stealth mints.” Nyoki Cub posted a similar warning and admitted that its “server was also compromised… due to a recent large-scale hack.” It said it was able to take control of the situation within 30 minutes.

NFTs are making their way into mainstream popularity, with big-name celebs such as Justin Bieber and Madonna putting the spotlight on the digital collectibles. Schemes such as these are bound to become more as long as people keep pouring money into non-fungible tokens. 

Recommended Reading: Tracking migratory birds

The extraordinary lives of migratory birds

Fresh Air, NPR

In this recommended listening, Author Scott Weidensaul discusses how new tracking tech may help keep migratory birds alive and how one species, bar-tailed godwit, can fly over water for more than a week.

Musicians are begging fans to mask up at concerts. Here’s why.

Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork

SXSW returned earlier this month, two years after being the first big music event to be canceled due to COVID-19. The festival required proof of vaccination or proof of negative test and masks in conference rooms and exhibit halls, but those rules for music venues were left to the owners of those places to decide. A lot of people got COVID just as their touring schedules started to ramp back up and many can’t afford to miss shows after the last two years of missed income. 

Am I being tracked? Anti-stalking tech from Apple, Tile falls short.

Geoffrey A. Fowler, The Washington Post

By now, you’ve likely heard stories of things like Apple’s AirTags being used to stalk people. The Washington Post took a look at the anti-stalking features Apple, Samsung and Tile offer to try to prohibit this only to find those tools still aren’t good enough.