Technology Stories for 2024

Mark Zuckerberg Assembles Team of Tech Execs For AI Advisory Council 1
Leaked Contract Shows Samsung Forces Repair Shop To Snitch On Customers 8
YouTube Rolling Out Its Widely Hated New Web Redesign 18
Google: Stop Trying To Trick Employees With Fake Phishing Emails 45
Google AI Search is Telling Users To Put Glue On Pizza Because It's Trained on Reddit Posts 69
RISC-V Now Supports Rust In the Linux Kernel 28
Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds 143
Microsoft Edge Will Begin Blocking Screenshots On the Job 93
People With Commonly Autocorrected Names Call For Tech Firms To Fix Problem 97
Mozilla Says It's Concerned About Windows Recall 63
Windows XP Can Run On an Intel CPU From 1989 Thanks To Dedicated Modder 57
Amazon Plans To Give Alexa an AI Overhaul - and a Monthly Subscription Price 35
ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 128
Google Brings Back Group Speaker Controls After Sonos Lawsuit Win 16
EVs More Likely To Hit Pedestrians Than Petrol Vehicles, Study Finds 280
DOJ Makes Its First Known Arrest For AI-Generated CSAM 96
Windows Now Has AI-Powered Copy and Paste 58
Microsoft Is Making File Explorer More Powerful With Version Control and 7z Compression 43
Gordon Bell, an Architect of Our Digital Age, Dies At Age 89 6
Google's Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth 25
Match Group, Meta, Coinbase And More Form Anti-Scam Coalition 23
Google Cuts Mystery Check To US In Bid To Sidestep Jury Trial 38
Neuralink To Test Brain Implant On Second Patient 39
HP Resurrects '90s OmniBook Branding, Kills Spectre and Dragonfly 53
Return-To-Office Mandate Is Backfiring On a Key Federal Agency 98
Microsoft Paint Is Getting an AI-Powered Image Generator 39
'Prism' Translation Layer Does For Arm PCs What Rosetta Did For Macs 36
Google Thinks the Public Sector Can Do Better Than Microsoft's 'Security Failures' 27
With Recall, Microsoft is Using AI To Fix Windows' Eternally Broken Search 95
OpenAI Says Sky Voice in ChatGPT Will Be Paused After Concerns It Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson 54
38% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are No Longer Accessible a Decade Later 62
Some People Who Rented a Tesla from Hertz Were Still Charged for Gas 192
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users 76
Linux Foundation Announces Launch of 'High Performance Software Foundation' 4
China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky 127
US Defense Department 'Concerned' About ULA's Slow Progress on Satellite Launches 30
Amazon Defends Its Use of Signal Messages in Court 54
Are Car Companies Sabotaging the Transition to Electric Vehicles? 316
Robot Dogs Armed With AI-aimed Rifles Undergo US Marines Special Ops Evaluation 74
Are AI-Generated Search Results Still Protected by Section 230? 62
How an 'Unprecedented' Google Cloud Event Wiped Out a Major Customer's Account 50
Eight Automakers Grilled by US Lawmakers Over Sharing of Connected Car Data With Police 35
'Google Domains' Starts Migrating to Squarespace 20
Is America's Defense Department 'Rushing to Expand' Its Space War Capabilities? 43
Cruise Reached an $8M+ Settlement With the Person Dragged Under Its Robotaxi 54
'Openwashing' 36
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments 74
Palantir's First-Ever AI Warfare Conference 37
France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia 48
Robert Dennard, Inventor of DRAM, Dies At 91 20
VW and Renault End Talks To Develop Affordable EV 35
OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded 21
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg 16
Archie, the Internet's First Search Engine, Is Rescued and Running 34
NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code 64
Sony Lays Down the Gauntlet on AI 37
Reddit Reintroduces Its Awards System 20
Another Billionaire Pushes a Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It 66
EU Opens Child Safety Probes of Facebook and Instagram, Citing Addictive Design Concerns 48
Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links To Web Pages 32
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers 46
'Microsoft's Quest For Short-Term $$$ is Doing Long-Term Damage To Windows, Surface, Xbox, and Beyond' 66
Airbus Unveils Half-Plane, Half-Copter In Quest For Speed 25
AT&T Goes Up Against T-Mobile, Starlink With AST SpaceMobile Satellite Deal 14
Wallet Recovery Firms Buzz as Locked-out Crypto Investors Panic in Bitcoin Boom 35
Netflix To Take On Google and Amazon By Building Its Own Ad Server 20
UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways 98
Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs 46
Google Opens Up Its Smart Home To Everyone 27
Android 15 Gets 'Private Space,' Theft Detection, and AV1 Support 36
Has Section 230 'Outlived Its Usefulness'? 276
Google Will Use Gemini To Detect Scams During Calls 57
Project Astra Is Google's 'Multimodal' Answer to the New ChatGPT 9
Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model 12
VMware Giving Away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro Free For Personal Use 89
Feds Probe Waymo Driverless Cars Hitting Parked Cars, Drifting Into Traffic 57
Dublin To New York City Portal Temporarily Shut Down Due To Inappropriate Behavior 73
AI in Gmail Will Sift Through Emails, Provide Search Summaries, Send Emails 43
Unity's Marc Whitten Resigns Amid Runtime Fee Controversy 26
Google's Invisible AI Watermark Will Help Identify Generative Text and Video 17
Google Search Will Now Show AI-Generated Answers To Millions By Default 59
Google is Experimenting With Running Chrome OS on Android 23
Meta Will Shut Down Workplace, Its Business Chat Tool 21
Internet Use Is Associated With Greater Wellbeing, Global Study Finds 47
Cruise Is Back Driving Autonomously After Pedestrian-Dragging Incident 52
Intel Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier 28
Apple and Google Introduce Alerts for Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking 39
Meta Explores AI-Assisted Earphones With Cameras 23
Microsoft is Finally Changing Word's Annoying Default Paste Behavior 80
Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season 99
US Kicks Off AI Safety Talks With China 20
Google Bringing Project Starline's 'Magic Window' Experience To Real Video Calls 18
Will Smarter Cars Bring 'Optimized' Traffic Lights? 157
Reddit Grows, Seeks More AI Deals, Plans 'Award' Shops, and Gets Sued 45
Photographer Sets World Record for Fastest Drone Flight at 298 MPH 33
Former Boeing Quality Inspector Turns Whistleblower, Says Plane Parts Had Serious Defects 131
Google Employees Question Execs Over 'Decline in Morale' After Blowout Earnings 96
Lightweight Dillo Browser Resurrected: TLS But No JavaScript 39
Did OpenAI, Google and Meta 'Cut Corners' to Harvest AI Training Data? 58
Bike Brands Start To Adopt C-V2X To Warn Cyclists About Cars 157
'Tungsten Wall' Leads To Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough 45
Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes UniSuper's Online Account Due To 'Unprecedented Misconfiguration' 52
The Automotive Cold War Is Officially Underway 170
CEO of World's Biggest Ad Firm Targeted By Deepfake Scam 11
Will Chatbots Eat India's IT Industry? 61
The Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue 25
Apple Apologizes For Tone-Deaf Ad That Crushed Human Creativity To Make an iPad 243
Chemicals In Car Interiors May Cause Cancer, and They're Required By US Law 60
T-Mobile, Verizon In Talks To Buy Parts of US Cellular 18
Maryland Passes Two Bills Limiting Tech Platforms' Ability To Track Users 19
OpenAI Considers Allowing Users To Create AI-Generated Pornography 108
Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business 57
Google Will Exit Prominent San Francisco Waterfront Office Tower 22
FCC Explicitly Prohibits Fast Lanes, Closing Possible Net Neutrality Loophole 36
Smart Home Startup Brilliant Runs Out of Cash, Which Could Mean Lights Out For Its Light Switches 44
Researchers Warned Against Using AI To Peer Review Academic Papers 17
Google DeepMind's 'Leap Forward' in AI Could Unlock Secrets of Biology 29
Full Repairs To Damaged Red Sea Internet Cables Delayed by Yemen Political Splits 11
Defense Think Tank MITRE To Build AI Supercomputer With Nvidia 44
Minor Car Crashes Mean High Tech Repairs 105
Amazon's Delivery Drones Won't Fly In Arizona's Summer Heat 24
UK Startup 'Wayve' Gets $1 Billion Funding For Self-Driving Car Tech 3
Apple Announces M4 With More CPU Cores and AI Focus 66
Google's Pixel 8A is a Midrange Phone That Might Actually Go the Distance 35
Motional Delays Commercial Robotaxi Plans Amid Restructuring 5
Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service Divorced From the Internet for US Spies 42
Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off 82
Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse 60
Novel Attack Against Virtually All VPN Apps Neuters Their Entire Purpose 114
Google Fit Dev APIs Shutdown Set, Fate of Android and Wear OS Apps Go Unannounced 5
Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky 34
OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT 18
'The Good Enough Trap' 80
Google is Changing How You Set Up 2FA 55
Police Resurrect Lockbit's Site and Troll the Ransomware Gang 15
Microsoft Readies New AI Model To Compete With Google, OpenAI 26
More Than 90% of Stablecoin Transactions Aren't From Real Users, Visa Study Finds 45
Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech's Polarizing Power? 39
AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test 113
Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers? 39
The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029 286
Multinational ISP Offers $206M In Secured Notes Backed By IPv4 Addresses 43
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating In More Than 100 Facebook Groups 204
US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons 85
Humans Now Share the Web Equally With Bots, Report Warns 32
AI Engineers Report Burnout, Rushed Rollouts As 'Rat Race' To Stay Competitive Hits Tech Industry 36
Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years 116
German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center 24
Google Defends App Store, Fighting Epic Games' Bid For Major Reforms 23
Individual Gets 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fake Cisco Gear on Amazon, eBay 73
Hyundai Spending Nearly $1 Billion To Keep Self-Driving Startup 'Motional' Alive 7
Hubble Network Makes Bluetooth Connection With a Satellite For the First Time 83
The Original Smart Thermostat, Unveiled 16 Years Ago, is About To Get Dumb 72
Warrantless FBI Searches of American Communications Drop 50 Percent 33
Google Defends 'Better' Search Product as Antitrust Trial Concludes 31
Microsoft Launches Passkey Support For All Consumer Accounts 28
Google's Payments To Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show 27
Google Phone Starts Rolling Out 'Audio Emoji' 52
A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It 244
AM Radio Law Opposed By Tech and Auto Industries Is Close To Passing 317
Google Lays Off Hundreds of 'Core' Employees, Moves Some Positions To India and Mexico 80
Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts 129
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT 10
Microsoft Says April Windows Updates Break VPN Connections 101
Tens of Millions Secretly Use WhatsApp Despite Bans, Company Says 25
Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Attract More AI Talent 98
Windows 10 Reaches 70% Market Share as Windows 11 Keeps Declining 157
Microsoft Concern Over Google's Lead Drove OpenAI Investment 10
Satellite Operator SES Acquiring Intelsat In $3.1 Billion Deal 13
Is Self Hosting Going Mainstream? 135
Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android Common Kernel, Denies Abandoning Its Efforts 31
Dave & Buster's To Allow Customers To Bet On Arcade Games 23
Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative 320
Apple Confirms iPhone Alarm Failure Reports 42
Apple Targets Google Staff To Build AI Team 5
NASA's Psyche Hits 25 Mbps From 140 Miles Away 62
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original 243
Google Lays Off Staff From Flutter, Dart and Python Teams 28
In Race To Build AI, Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade 25
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 Million For Sharing Customer Data 20
What Happened After India Banned TikTok? 112
Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022 51
Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026 27
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 47
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit 38
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 29
Encrypted Email Service Files DMA Complaint Claiming It Vanished from Google Search 18
Windows 11 Will Display Watermark If Your PC Does Not Support AI Requirements 94
Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America 137
TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery 44
Alphabet Shares Jump 14% On Earnings Beat, First-Ever Dividend 94
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 54
Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback 38
Ford Just Reported a Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold 160
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights 77
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 78
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 123
Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon For AI Servers 30
Google Delays Third-Party Cookie Demise Yet Again 22
Meta Opens Quest Operating System To Third-Party Device Makers 9
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
Adobe's Impressive AI Upscaling Project Makes Blurry Videos Look HD 43
Framework Won't Be Just a Laptop Company Anymore 29
'The Man Who Killed Google Search' 147
Windows 11 Now Comes With Its Own Adware 82
NVIDIA To Acquire Run:ai 5
US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail 242
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
Linux Can Finally Run Your Car's Safety Systems and Driver-Assistance Features 44
Google Fires More Employees Over Protest of Cloud Contract With Israel 228
Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks 159
Apple Acquires Datakalab, a French Startup Behind AI and Computer Vision Tech 1
EU Opens Probe of TikTok Lite, Citing Concerns About Addictive Design 25
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
Amazon Ends California Drone Deliveries 29
Meta Opens Quest OS To Third Parties, Including ASUS and Lenovo 27
Chinese Flying Taxi Sector Claims Global Lead Thanks To Regulatory Support 34
How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems 80
Should Automakers Feel Threatened by China's Exports of Electric Cars? 305
LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 66
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 110
Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles 20
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
British Columbia Bans Level 3 and Above Autonomous Cars 86
openSUSE Factory Achieves Bit-By-Bit Reproducible Builds 22
Two Major ISPs Threaten They'll Stop Complying With US FISA Orders 34
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder 13
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook 18
'Women Who Code' Shuts Down Unexpectedly 107
Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype 42
Meta's Not Telling Where It Got Its AI Training Data 26
Microsoft Does Not Want You To Use iPerf3 To Measure Network Performance on Windows 60
Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace' 260
Samsung Shifts To Emergency Mode With 6-day Work Week for Executives 85
Windows 10 Will Start Pushing Users To Use Microsoft Accounts 162
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Reddit Is Taking Over Google 86
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 63
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack 6
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 19
Meta Is Adding Real-Time AI Image Generation To WhatsApp 12
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 84
Nigeria To Criminalise Fiber Cable Damage Costing Telecoms Billions 19
Meta Releases Llama 3 AI Models, Claiming Top Performance 22
Google is Combining Its Android and Hardware Teams 12
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight 69
Google Terminates 28 Employees For Protest of Israeli Cloud Contract 265
Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac? 465

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