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Business
2:20AM Adam Frucci | Apple is known for being secretive to the extreme, but did you know some of their employees look like they’re dressed up for Dungeons & Dragons LARPing while at work? More »
Apple’s Internal Secrecy Protocol Is Ridiculous
2:20AM Adam Frucci | Apple is known for being secretive to the extreme, but did you know some of their employees look like they’re dressed up for Dungeons & Dragons LARPing while at work? More » 
Peripherals
New Warning Label: Lithium-Ion Batteries May Explode
7:00PM Wilson Rothman | Apparently some lawyers heard that lithium-ion batteries explode, and are now making companies ship gear with these stickers. But what’s with the wine glass? Literally: Drinking with mismatched batteries may lead to consumption by fire. More »
Random Stuff
Best Warning Sign Ever Doesn’t Mess With Idle ‘High Voltage’ Threats
2:00AM Kit Eaton | High voltage electrics plus risk of sparky, smoky death plus humorous engineer equals excellent warning sign. I’d keep well away, after reading that. Though I do remember an old girlfriend’s dad once pinned a freakishly similar note (substituting the odd “I will” into the text) to his daughter’s bedroom door, and pointedly drew my attention to it. [Voltagecreative via Neatorama] More »
Science
Mobile Phone Use While Pregnant Causes Kids To Go Haywire, Study Says
5:30AM Gizmodo US Edition | Pregnant women should probably add mobile phones to the list of things they need to avoid, along with alcohol, sushi and cat poo. A giant study that surveyed over 13,000 children found that women who used mobile phones when pregnant were more likely to give birth to kids with behavioral problems. More »
Hardware
Seagate 2.5-inch Hard Drive Flaw Affecting MacBooks?
6:40AM Jason Chen | Retrodata, a data-recovery company, has just issued a warning for Apple MacBook owners with Seagate hard drives that were manufactured in China and have a firmware version of 7.01. Apparently these have a fatal flow that cause their read/write heads to fail mechanically, scratching up the hard drive surface as pictured and making data unrecoverable (even by professionals such as themselves). If you’ve got a MacBook, you should check to see if your internal drive is a Seagate and back up your data accordingly. There’s no official word yet from Apple on whether or not this actually a problem, but better safe than crying over lost nudie photos. [Retrodata - Thanks Eric!] More »
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