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Reddit: Technology
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- Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse
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- Vestas’ 15-MW turbine picked for 2.1-GW Empire Wind projects offshore New York
- FBI, CISA, NSA share defense tips for BlackMatter ransomware attacks
- State-backed hackers breach telcos with custom malware
- Netherlands on track to phase out coal power by 2030
- How TikTok Serves Up Sex and Drug Videos to Minors
- Amazon cloud storage challenger Backblaze files to go public
- COSO – The new way of male contraception
- Lawmakers give Amazon ‘final chance’ to clear up testimony
- macOS Monterey Is Finally Rolling Out on Oct. 25
- Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles
- Facebook Announces Its Fake Ad Numbers Are Going to Get Even Faker
- Google deletes 3,000+ articles over bogus DMCA notice
- Autonomous race cars to battle at Indy Speedway
- Taiwan Aims to Develop Its Own Starlinks, Building a Full-Fledged Space Industry
- Suspected Chinese hackers behind attacks on ten Israeli hospitals
- Facebook uses a Seattle storefront loaded with QR codes to drive offline shoppers to online businesses
Tech blogs
Techcrunch
- Watch Apple’s ‘Unleashed’ event live right here
- China Could Be Exploiting Internet Security Process to Steal Data, Cyber Experts Warn
- What Katey Sagal Has Done Since Sons of Anarchy Ended
- How Bulletproof Is Pattinson's Batsuit In The Batman?
- The Flash Trailer Confirms Batman Will Have A Bigger Role Than We Thought
- How Supergirl Revamped Superman IV's Story And Made It Work
- A Sinister Six Movie Should Copy Spider-Man: No Way Home & Bring In Miles
- Sylvester Stallone & Dolph Lundgren Reunite in Expendables 4 Set Photo
- Star Wars: How The Knights of Ren Are Different From The Sith
- The Supergirl "Stunt" That Made Mon-El Actor Dislocate His Jaw
Engadget
- Google's Pixel 6 can translate text as you type
- MLB is in talks to end local blackouts for streaming games
- How to pre-order the Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro
- The Pixel 6 Pro vs. the competition: Telephoto, Tensor and more
- The Pixel 6 vs. the competition: The Tensor chip goes up to bat
- The Pixel 6's camera will feature larger image sensors and smarter photo editing AI
- Real Tone is Google's attempt at a more inclusive Android camera
- Google details the Pixel 6's unique Tensor chip
- Pixel Pass bundles a phone with Google services for $45 per month
- Pixel 6 and 6 Pro hands-on: Google’s return to premium phones
Wired Magazine
- Google's Much-Hyped Pixel 6 Undercuts Its Peers at Just $599
- The 12 Best Features in Android 12—and How to Install It
- Sony's WH-1000XM4 Noise-Canceling Headphones Are $100 Off
- The FAA Weighs the SpaceX Launch Site's Environmental Effects
- With Dune, Frank Herbert Designed the Maxi Pad of the Future
- Games Can Show Us How to Enact Justice in the Metaverse
- The Best Theragun (and Other Great Massage Guns)
- Tabletop RPG Workers Say Their Jobs Are No Fantasy
- Vintage Board Games Are Getting a Modern Revival
- How to Back Up Your Android Phone
Gizmodo
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- The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive—and Problematic
- Physicists Trap Ultracold Neutrons in a Bottle to See How Long They Live
- An Unlikely Adventuring Group Forms in a Look Inside Iron Circus' Next Comic
- Android 12 Is Officially Available: How to Get It (If You Can)
- The Pixel 6 Is the Google Flagship We've Been Waiting For
- Koalas Have a Big Chlamydia Problem—but a New Vaccine Could Save Them
- Take The Batman's New Batmobile for a Ride With This Obscenely Detailed $500 RC Replica
- La Niña Is Here and Could Worsen the West's Drought This Winter
- The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint
The Verge
- Smash Ultimate’s final update is a love story
- Sundar Pichai and Rick Osterloh think the Pixel 6 is Google’s breakout phone
- The Pixel 6 and 6 Pro can make calling customer service less nightmarish
- Google’s new Pixel Stand supports up to 23W wireless charging
- The Pixel 6’s Tensor processor promises to put Google’s machine learning smarts in your pocket
- Android 12 is now available for Pixel phones
- Google’s Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro finally bring new camera hardware in addition to software
- Pixel Pass bundles Google’s phone and services into one monthly subscription
- Google Pixel 6 and 6 Pro have big screens, big ambitions, and small prices
- How to preorder the Pixel 6 and 6 Pro
TNW
- How to say ‘no’ to your customers and still provide great service
- Mac owners, this bundle can help you keep your digital video library under control
- The breakout star of Apple’s MacBook Pro event is a $19 cleaning cloth
- What’s an ETF? And why is it driving Bitcoin back to record high prices?
- Tesla and VW are the EV industry’s hottest frenemies
- NASA’s fancy-pants asteroid missions can save Earth AND reveal its history
- Apple Music’s new Voice plan is the weirdest way to push Siri
- The MacBook Pro notch is real — don’t say I didn’t warn you, Mr. Apple
- PSD2 could revolutionize the EU’s finance sector — if banks and fintechs learn to get along
- WhatsApp’s new button will let you join calls directly from the group
Slashdot
- Hacker Steals Government ID Database for Argentina's Entire Population
- 99.9% of Scientists Agree Climate Emergency Caused by Humans
- MacOS Monterey Will Have the Old Safari Tab Design
- Why a Former Netflix Exec Facing 7 Years in Prison for Bribery is a Cautionary Tale for Startups
- Star's Strange Path Around Black Hole Proves Einstein Right -- Again
- Facebook's Novi Set To Launch Pilot With Paxos's Stablecoin as Uncertainty Hangs Over Diem
- Give Us Your Biometric Data To Get Your Lunch In 5 Seconds, UK Schools Tell Children
- Fisher-Price Launches a Working Chatter Telephone For Adults
- SEC Says GameStop Stock Surge Due To Individual Investors, Doesn't Recommend Policy Change
- Radiant Aims To Replace Diesel Generators With Small Nuclear Reactors
ArsTechnica
- SEC: Short squeeze wasn’t “the main driver” of GameStop’s stock rise
- The Pixel 6 is official—and it’s $300 cheaper than a comparable Samsung phone
- The “Google Silicon” team gives us a tour of the Pixel 6’s Tensor SoC
- COVID vaccines for kids 5-11 up for preorder Wednesday ahead of FDA review
- Coal bucks 15-year decline in US with 22% increase as natural gas prices rise
- New Linux laptop offers RTX 3080 and 144 Hz 17-inch screen
- Supporters and opponents of SpaceX launch site air their concerns
- Myth, busted: Spider silk might not have antibiotic properties after all
- With no new Apple monitors, here are the best high-res screens for your Mac
- Valve’s “Deck Verified” program evaluates which Steam games are Steam Deck-ready
The Register
- Email phishing crapcannon operators TA505 are back from the dead, researchers warn
- JumpCloud hooks investment from Atlassian Ventures and CrowdStrike Falcon Fund for $225m total fu…
- UK competition watchdog unveils principles to make a kinder antivirus business
- HPE's Aruba adopts DPUs, but in a switch, not a server
- Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier.... but slightly worse
- Weeks after Red Bee Media's broadcast centre fell over, Channel 4 is still struggling with subtitles
- WTF? Value of Finnish open-source-as-a-service startup Aiven jumps $1.2bn in 7 months
- UK's competition regulator announces market study into music streaming biz
- Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush O…
- If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002
Medium: Technology
- iPhone 13 Pro Max Specs
- Crypto cards could change the way we view currency — performing exchange rates at the point of sale
- These new features are launching on WhatsApp soon, and they will change the way you chat on the…
- Tom Ford Plastic Innovation Prize Is Now Open For Entries
- Highlights from the Apple event — 18th October 2021
- H5: Recommendations
- The Future Of Permission-Based Advertising And Data Ownership In Today’s Digital Landscape
- European startup with a rent-to-own solar energy business is worth over $1 billion
- Start of the second phase of the project.
- Ethereum Creator Shames Bitcoiners for Uncritical Support of El Salvador’s President
Vox: Recode
- No, the supply chain mess is not a war on Christmas
- Maybe losing the AI race to China isn’t such a bad idea
- Startups are betting on a psychedelic gold rush
- The Atlantic wants to hire newsletter writers — and it wants their subscribers, too
- Supply chain havoc is getting worse — just in time for holiday shopping
- Facebook is having a Big Oil moment
- Self-driving cars: The 21st-century trolley problem
- Facebook’s whistleblower tells Congress how to regulate tech
- Google’s plan to cut pay for remote workers who relocate is a bad idea
- Why this Facebook scandal is different
BleepingComputer
- Acer hacked twice in a week by the same threat actor
- About 26% of all malicious JavaScript threats are obfuscated
- BlackByte ransomware decryptor released to recover files for free
- LightBasin hacking group breaches 13 global telecoms in two years
- China's VPN market now open to foreign investment
- Man gets 7 years in prison for hacking 65K health care employees
- FBI warns of fake govt sites used to steal financial, personal data
- New Karma ransomware group likely a Nemty rebrand
- Microsoft issues advisory for Surface Pro 3 TPM bypass vulnerability
- ACE takes down Electro TV Sat pirate streaming service
Flipboard: Tech
- Tech support scams top list of latest phishing threats
- New High Tech Innovations Could Aid Visually Impaired
- Apple’s Unleashed event: New AirPods, cheaper music and MacBook Pros get top requested features back
- 2 Tech Stocks That Could Easily Double Over the Next 5 Years
- This government is helping big tech to undermine British democracy
- S&P 500 Dominated by Tech, Says Ritholtz
- Walmart expected to create more than 400 job positions in South Carolina in their new high-tech g…
- Israel: Plans to Supply Work Visas to Boost Tech Sector Underway
- Instacart acquires Caper AI, a smart cart and instant checkout startup, for $350M, as it moves de…
- If You'd Invested $1,000 in Microsoft in 2014, This Is How Much You Would Have Today
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- Facebook Settles Claims That It Discriminated Against American Workers
- Lawmakers question whether Amazon executives, including Jeff Bezos, misled Congress.
- YouTube’s stronger election misinformation policies had a spillover effect on Twitter and Faceb…
- Desperate for Workers, Restaurants Turn to Robots
- Treasury Warns That Digital Currencies Could Weaken U.S. Sanctions
- Leader of Apple activism movement says she was fired.
- Instagram Struggles With Fears of Losing Its ‘Pipeline’: Young Users
- ‘Disability Drives Innovation’
- Elizabeth Holmes Trial: Key Moments From Week 6
- LinkedIn to End Service in China, Citing ‘Challenging’ Environment
WSJ: Tech
- Facebook Settles With U.S. Government Over Improperly Reserving Jobs for Immigrants
- Pixel 6 and 6 Pro: Google Says It's Serious About Smartphones. For Real This Time.
- Facebook Portal Go Review: The Best and Worst Video-Chat Box
- Satellites Sweep for World's Biggest Polluters
- Klobuchar, CEOs of Snap, Instacart Headline Second Day
- Lawmakers Step Up Efforts to Adopt Tougher Tech Laws
- App Deal Highlights a Push to Lure Workers Back Into Offices
- Martha Stewart Does NFTs---Jack-o'-Lantern Art and a Seductive Selfie
- SEC's GameStop Report Questions 'Game-Like' Trading Apps
- New MacBook Pro With M1 Pro and M1 Max Chips
Washington Post: Technology
- This has been a big year for laptops. Here’s what to ask before you upgrade.
- Explaining ‘Vivid’ mode on the Switch OLED and the best games for it
- Apple is finally fixing the things people hate most about its laptops
- ‘Elden Ring’ delayed, will now release Feb. 25
- Powering the picket line: Workers are turning to tech in their labor battles
- Massive update and paid DLC coming to ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’
- Would robot umpires have prevented the Wilmer Flores Giants-Dodgers controversy?
- Every movie and TV show could soon be dubbed into any language you want
- Apple fires employee who raised awareness of workplace misconduct allegations at the company
- The truth behind Twitch’s leaked ‘do not ban’ list
Guardian: Tech UK
- Metroid Dread review – Nintendo’s horror-tinged sci-fi feels oddly hollow
- At least 13 phone firms hit by suspected Chinese hackers since 2019, say experts
- Is a ‘negative microwave’ – a device that quickly cools food and drink – possible?
- Tesco takes on Amazon Fresh with launch of ‘just walk out’ store
- Back 4 Blood review – a zombie-shooter tribute act with brains of its own
- Samsung stands by as my TV warranty expires
- Bill Gates reportedly advised to end inappropriate emails with female employee in 2008
- ICO to step in after schools use facial recognition to speed up lunch queue
- Apple launches new AirPods and revamped MacBook Pro laptops
- Will the remastered Grand Theft Autos’ American satire hold up?
BBC: Tech UK
- Google's Pixel 6 processor brings AI photo features
- Discovery Tour Viking Age: Can video games teach history?
- Pornhub owner settles with Girls Do Porn victims over videos
- Schools warned over facial recognition systems
- Apple unveils new computer chips amid shortage
- The battle to make lighter life-saving body armour
- Amazon's Jeff Bezos 'may have lied to Congress'
- Facebook denies weak performance on hateful content
- Can driving data help make our roads safer?
- Apparently, it's the next big thing. What is the metaverse?
Computing UK
- The ripple effect: Netflix counts on scale to push supplier emission cuts
- Couchbase launches Capella Database-as-a-Service
- Apple and Alibaba both unveil new Arm-based chips
- REvil shuts down - again
- SAP: Circular economy needs a level playing field
- Move fast and don't break anything: An interview with Cloud Awards winner CircleCI
- Finalists announced for Security Excellence Awards 2021
- SmarterASP blames power outage for thousands of lost databases
- Amazon accused of misleading US Congress over business practices
- What to make of the new 2021 OWASP Top 10 vulnerability rankings? The industry comments
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