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Reddit: Technology
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- Game over: Steam won’t run on Windows 7 or 8 after January 1, 2024.
- Exclusive: Google says Microsoft cloud practices are anti-competitive
- Microsoft still doesn't know what to do with its messaging apps. Just look at Skype and Teams.
- Alibaba Is Laying the Ground for a Breakup. Amazon and Alphabet Should Do the Same.
- Germany sours on Microsoft again, launches antitrust review
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- Buttons are back at Porsche as we see the 2024 Cayenne interior | After the all-touchscreen Tayca…
- Amazon has just opened up its Sidewalk network to give any gadget free low speed data
- EA is laying off 6 percent of its workers
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- Kia's EV9 electric SUV will offer Level 3 autonomy and a 336-mile range
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- MS-DOS ChatGPT Client Arrives for 1984 IBM PC
- Steam Is Ditching Support for Older Operating Systems in 2024
- ‘Microsoft has a very anti-competitive posture in cloud,’ accuses Google
- Swiss solar tech can be rolled out on railway tracks ‘like a carpet’
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Tech blogs
Techcrunch
- Green Labs secures $38.4M in debt financing about a month after conducting layoff
- Roku announces a second set of layoffs impacting 200 employees, or 6% of its workforce
- Crypto wallet company Ledger raises another $108 million
- P97 fills up its tank with $40M to fuel its gas station mobile commerce services
- DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M
- Web3 protocol Polytrade raises $3.8M to improve global trade
- How to build a sales development representative strategy that will fill your B2B pipeline
- Qualcomm-backed Aravita wants to help Brazilian supermarkets control food waste
- Uber expands Comfort Electric to 14 new US, Canadian markets
- Parloa raises $21M to add a little automation to contact centers
Engadget
- Apple’s 'Tetris' movie trades real-life drama for spy fantasies
- Faraday Future finally starts FF 91 production after repeated delays
- The Morning After: Will we see Apple's mixed-reality headset at WWDC 2023?
- Nintendo extends deadline to redeem 3DS and Wii U eShop codes until April 3rd
- Uber adds 14 new cities to its EV rideshare service
- EA is cutting around 800 jobs in company restructuring
- Reddit says it's banning more people than ever in big transparency push
- Netflix is testing TV games that can use phones as controllers
- Microsoft reveals how it's putting ads in Bing's AI chatbot
- Twitter announces new API pricing, including a limited free tier for bots
ZDNet
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- Apple sets June date for its biggest conference of 2023, with headset launch expected
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- The best smart rings of 2023: Oura and alternatives
- Microsoft increases Bing chat limit -- again
- What is Lemon8 and why is everyone talking about it on TikTok?
Wired Magazine
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- Review: We Put ChatGPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard to the Test
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- The Unbelievable Zombie Comeback of Analog Computing
- These Angry Dutch Farmers Really Hate Microsoft
VentureBeat
- Xsolla announces its new telecommunications initiative plus a new cloud solution at GDC
- DataDome raises $42M to leverage machine learning for confronting bot attacks
- Rogue Games will launch Hello Kitty dance game for Switch on April 13
- Skillprint launches science-backed platform to match players with the right skill-based games
- Securing cloud tech stacks with zero trust will drive growth of confidential computing
- MariaDB debuts new SkySQL features to help teams manage cloud costs
- Sky Mavis brings 4 new blockchain games to its Ronin network
- Keywords acquires Digital Media Management to move into social and online marketing
- EA will lay off 6% of its staff to drive greater focus in uncertain economy
- Mobile game market stabilizes above pre-pandemic levels | Data AI
Gizmodo
- Is AI Moving Too Fast? | Future Tech
- Mike Flanagan Wants to Direct a Standalone Batman Villain Film
- Airplanes Face a Growing Risk of Being Hit by Uncontrolled Incoming Rockets
- 1,000 Years of Tree Rings Show Just How Hardcore the 2021 Pacific Northwest Heat Wave Was
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- Boeing Sets Date for First Crewed Starliner Launch, but Parachute Tests Remain
- Reddit Has Leaned Harder on its Banhammer Over Non-Consensual and Hate Content
- Google Play Store Wriggles Way Out of Housing Third-Party App Stores in Android's Biggest Market
- Ex-Tesla Factory Worker Takes the Stand in Racial Discrimination Trial
Techmeme
- Microsoft is exploring expanding ads in Bing Chat and sharing the ad revenue with partners whose …
- Apple schedules WWDC 2023 for June 5 to June 9 as a virtual event with a June 5 keynote, where iO…
- Researchers say hackers have compromised the 3CX VoIP IPBX desktop app, used by 600K+ companies a…
- Sources: Google Brain and DeepMind have been forced to work together on a project known as Gemini…
- Sources: to comply with EU privacy rulings, Meta will let users opt out of some highly personaliz…
- Google's Threat Analysis Group details two limited but highly targeted spyware campaigns using se…
- Twitter details new API access tiers: Free with 1.5K tweets/month at app level, Basic for $100/mo…
- An AI-focused tech ethics group asks the FTC to investigate OpenAI, saying the rollout of its AI …
- As his companies lag OpenAI in the AI race, Musk launders his “concerns” about AI thr…
- EA plans to lay off ~6% of its workforce and cut its office space, incurring $170M to $200M in re…
The Verge
- FTC should stop OpenAI from launching new GPT models, says AI policy group
- Roku is laying off another 6 percent of its workforce
- Twitter announces new API pricing, posing a challenge for small developers
- Marshall, the iconic amp manufacturer, is being acquired by Marshall speaker maker Zound
- Elon Musk is now the most-followed person on Twitter
- Google denies Bard was trained with ChatGPT data
- Netflix might let you use an iPhone to control games on your TV
- Microsoft’s Bing chatbot is getting more ads
- Fortnite now shows how many people are playing Battle Royale — and every other island
- iPhone users on Google Fi can finally use 5G
TNW
- Stockholm is a world-class tech hub: 6 startups and scaleups to watch
- Opinion: The AI pope coat is the shape of hyperreality to come
- Why third-party app stores are good for Apple’s users — and the company
- Award-winning economist has tapped AI to close the gender equity gap
- 3 things you can do to stand out in a job interview
- Swedish startup takes commuting by boat to new heights — literally
- How an outsider’s freedom can make a successful startup founder
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- Deliveroo’s Dutch Supreme Court ruling provides little clarity for the sector
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Slashdot
- Russia Arrests Wall Street Journal Reporter on Spying Charge
- Microsoft Slips Ads Into AI-Powered Bing Chat
- Mark Hamill Voices Air Raid Warnings In Ukraine As Luke Skywalker
- Sugar-Powered Implant Successfully Manages Type 1 Diabetes
- A Group of College Students Are Sending a Rover To the Moon
- 'Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need To Shut It All Down'
- Google Launches Ads Transparency Center As a Searchable Database
- Binance Concealed Ties To China For Years, Even After 2017 Crypto Crackdown, Report Finds
- ByteDance-Owned Instagram Rival Lemon8 Hits the US App Store's Top 10
- EA Is Cutting About 800 Jobs, or 6% of Workforce, and Reducing Office Space
ArsTechnica
- Pro-Russian hackers target elected US officials supporting Ukraine
- My quest to re-create Street Fighter’s long-lost pneumatic controls
- Buttons are back at Porsche as we see the 2024 Cayenne interior
- NASA delays flight of Boeing’s Starliner again, this time for parachutes
- Lenovo gives up on its dream of Android gaming phones
- After two years, Autodesk Maya and AutoCAD become Apple Silicon-native
- Fearing “loss of control,” AI critics call for 6-month pause in AI development
- Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court
- Apple’s WWDC 2023 keynote will take place on June 5
- Reddit cracked down on revenge porn, creepshots with twofold spike in permabans
The Register
- Cloud Security Alliance VP: Database security boils down to these three things
- Euro cloud providers react to MS potentially cutting deal on antitrust
- It's official: Ubuntu Cinnamon remix has been voted in
- TikTok: Is this really a national security scare or is something else going on?
- Airbus pulls up hard, no longer buying 29.9% stake in Atos-owned Evidian
- Google Cloud pitches 'Gen Apps' – low-code AI-based tools, not post-millennial kids
- Warning: Your wireless networks may leak data thanks to Wi-Fi spec ambiguity
- Google (sort of) loses in Indian antitrust appeal
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- Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China
Medium: Technology
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Vox: Recode
- 9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered
- Maybe AI can finally kill the cover letter
- Musk’s Twitter is getting worse
- Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?
- A new era of technology coverage on Vox
- The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained
- TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app
- Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained
- Social media used to be free. Not anymore.
- Stop using your phone number to log in
ReadWrite
- How Emerging Technology Is Helping Teams Save on Development Costs
- 5 Essential Benefits of Choosing an Efficient ERP System
- Eco-Friendly Fleet Maintenance Trends and Strategies
- Choosing A Bank For Your Startup: Here’s Some Things To Consider
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- Secure and Transform Your Organization’s Data Through Data Masking
- The Impact of Traveling on Business
- From Internet of Things to Internet of Threats
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Quartz: Tech
- Meta, Microsoft, and Disney are reversing their bets on the metaverse
- 4 ways leaders can model a culture of feedback
- A royal clause is allowing Disney’s magic kingdom to circumvent DeSantis’ board for decades to come
- Microsoft is bringing ads to its AI-powered Bing search
- Disney laid off the Marvel veteran who backed a Bob Iger critic
- Google must pay $162 million as a penalty in an Indian antitrust case
- American women could be one Texas ruling away from losing access to mifepristone
- Bolsonaro is headed back to Brazil to energize the far right
- Schultz doubled down on Starbucks' anti-union talking points in his Senate hearing
- The WHO will consider adding obesity drugs to the list of essential medicines
MIT Technology Review
- The Download: sleeping in VR, and promising clean energy projects
- Inside the conference where researchers are solving the clean-energy puzzle
- Inside the cozy but creepy world of VR sleep rooms
- Evolutionary organizations reimagine the future
- The Download: China’s retro AI photos, and experts’ AI fears
- Chinese creators use Midjourney’s AI to generate retro urban “photography”
- The emergent industrial metaverse
- Delivering insights at scale by modernizing data
- Technology and industry convergence: A historic opportunity
- The Download: the threat of microplastics, and mitigating AI bias
BleepingComputer
- New AlienFox toolkit steals credentials for 18 cloud services
- Hackers compromise 3CX desktop app in a supply chain attack
- Steam will drop support for Windows 7 and 8 in January 2024
- SafeMoon ‘burn’ bug abused to drain $8.9 million from liquidity pool
- QNAP warns customers to patch Linux Sudo flaw in NAS devices
- Microsoft Defender mistakenly tagging URLs as malicious
- Experts call for pause on AI training citing risks to humanity
- Google finds more Android, iOS zero-days used to install spyware
- Trojanized Tor browsers target Russians with crypto-stealing malware
- Windows 11 KB5023774 update causes Red Dead Redemption 2 launch issues
BGR
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- iOS 17: Release date, features, iPhone compatibility, more
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- Apple AR headset delayed again, WWDC 2023 debut uncertain
- Facebook and Instagram users can now opt out of tracking, but only in Europe
- This leaked iPhone 15 Pro feature boggles my mind
- Roku Streaming Stick 4K deal saves you 20%
- iPhone 15 Pro Max’s exclusive periscope lens detailed in new report
- Bing Chat ads will start the ChatGPT privacy discussion we desperately need
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Flipboard: Tech
- Groundbreaking "origin-of-life" molecule can kill cancer cells
- Samsung Galaxy A54 vs. Galaxy S22: This year's midrange or last year's flagship?
- A VoIP service used by some of the world's biggest firms has been hacked
- TikTok propaganda labels fall flat in 'huge win' for Russia
- Uber adds 14 new cities to its EV rideshare service
- A drummer has recorded 75 new versions of the Amen break for you to use in your music
- Machine learning algorithm sets Bitcoin price for April 30, 2023
- Tesla poaches battery expert to fix its dry electrode issue
- You can now talk to video game NPCs, and frankly it's incredible
- Stella McCartney releases jumpsuit made with iridescent Biosequins
Mainstream media
NYTimes: Tech
- TikTok’s Owner ByteDance Pushes a Lemon8 App in U.S.
- An Unopened 2007 iPhone Can Be Yours (for $32,000 or More)
- What Makes Chatbots ‘Hallucinate’ or Say the Wrong Thing?
- Quiz: What Makes A.I. Chatbots Go Wrong?
- How Chatbots and Large Language Models, or LLMs, Actually Work
- What’s Hot on TikTok? Defending Its C.E.O.
- A Campaign Aide Didn’t Write That Email. A.I. Did.
- Quiz: How Does ChatGPT Really Work?
- Tinkering With ChatGPT, Workers Wonder: Will This Take My Job?
- Lyft Co-Founders to Resign; David Risher Is Named CEO
WSJ: Tech
- Musk's Move to Monetize Twitter's Blue Check Mark Irks Celebrities
- The Metaverse Is Quickly Turning Into the Meh-taverse
- Microsoft Patched Bing Vulnerability That Allowed Snooping on Email
- Electronic Arts Says It Is Laying Off 6% of Workforce
- AI Experts Call for Pause in Technology's Development
- How to Block People on Venmo and Other Payment Apps
- Apple Rolls Out Buy Now, Pay Later Plan
- Why Are Flip-Up Sunglasses Suddenly Everywhere?
- Meta Plans Lower Bonus Payouts for Some Staff
- Why People Are Getting More Disruptive at Concerts
Guardian: Tech UK
- ‘Why am I crying over this?’: how corecore TikTok videos caught the mood of Gen Z
- Meta reportedly considering Europe political ads ban
- Best podcasts of the week: The hidden history of the American right’s anti-trans agenda
- A US ban on TikTok could damage the idea of the global internet | Kenneth Rogoff
- AI chatbots making it harder to spot phishing emails, say experts
- Elon Musk joins call for pause in creation of giant AI ‘digital minds’
- Twitter to no longer only promote paid-for accounts after backlash
- WeWork mugs for $500: 10 of the strangest merch items from companies that crashed
- ‘Luigi has sweet notes of apple’: testing out Lush’s unlikely Super Mario soaps
- Sonos Era 100 review: the latest best-sounding smart speaker
BBC: Tech UK
- NHS Highland reprimand for HIV patient email data breach
- Google: India tribunal upholds $160m fine on company
- Elon Musk among experts urging a halt to AI training
- Alibaba: China tech giant shares jump after breakup plan announced
- UK rules out new AI regulator
- AI could replace equivalent of 300 million jobs - report
- Elon Musk: Twitter boss announces blue tick shake-up
- The tech helping driverless cars see round corners
- Clearview AI used nearly 1m times by US police, it tells the BBC
- Binance accused of breaking US financial laws
Computing UK
- Amazon lobbying against datacentre clean energy bill, report
- 'AI doom' letter sparks a backlash
- Breaking the mould at Bloomberg: An interview with software engineer, Lisanne de Groot
- Google to offer AI-driven alternative to GitHub Copilot
- Interview: Neil Peacock, NGS UK, Security Excellence Awards finalist
- Google: Spyware campaigns exploiting security holes in Android, iOS
- Google accused of wilfully destroying evidence - again
- UK aims for 'agile' AI regulation
- 1000 researchers, CEOs: 'pause development of AI models bigger than GPT-4'
- Alibaba to split into six units
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