• More than 80% of NFTs created for free on OpenSea are fraud or spam, according to a scathing review conducted by, uh, OpenSea.  (Motherboard)
  
  Seems low.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, this being a day ending in Y DeFi platform Qubit Finance is begging for thieves to return $80 million.  (ZDNet)
  
  Please, they added.

• Samsung didn't accidentally dump 763,000 gallons of sulfuric acid into an Austin creek killing all wildlife along a mile-long stretch.  (KXAN)
  
  Samsung did however accidentally dump 763,000 gallons of something into an Austin creek killing all wildlife along a mile-long stretch.  Just...  Not sulfuric acid.
  
  
  
• The FCC has banned China Unicom from operating in the United States.  (BBC)
  
  I thought this was a repeat article, but it was China Telecom that was banned back in October.  China Mobile was banned in 2019.
  
  
  
• 34 US states have weighed in on Epic's side in their appeal against Apple in their suit over Apple's bullshit.  (Reuters)
  
  The ruling found that Apple's anti-competitive 30% cut of everything did not violate anti-trust law, though it separately required Apple to allow developers to worm their way around it.
  
  Both parties are appealing the decision, but no-one is on Apple's side.
  
  
  
• SpaceX is expected to make a Moon landing in the next few weeks.  (CBS)
  
  Ish.
  
  The second stage of Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2015 is on a trajectory that will intersect with the far side of the Moon.  It would normally do a burn to return to Earth but in this case ran out of fuel and went up instead of down, putting it on track to reach the Moon on March 4.
  
  Orbital mechanics is odd.  Are odd?  Whatever.  Play Kerbal Space Program.
  
  
  
• Did Nvidia just hand the future of computing to Apple?  (ZDNet)
  
  No.  
  
  Idiot.
  
  
  
• QNAP is force-updating devices after DeadBolt ransomware hit 3600 users.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This is why we can't have nice things.
  
  
  
• Joni Mitchell has threatened to pull her song off Spotify in solidarity with Neil Diamond.  (ABC)
  
  Sorry, what?  No, look at her.  Young is hardly the adj...  Neil who?  Never heard of him.
  
  
  

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