Index Stories for 2024

Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years 10
Microsoft Overhaul Treats Security as 'Top Priority' After a Series of Failures 22
German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center 8
An Open Database Leaked Submissions To Utah's 'Bathroom Bill' Snitch Form 95
Google Defends App Store, Fighting Epic Games' Bid For Major Reforms 11
Individual Gets 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fake Cisco Gear on Amazon, eBay 57
Hyundai Spending Nearly $1 Billion To Keep Self-Driving Startup 'Motional' Alive 6
Back From the Dead: Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released 42
Hubble Network Makes Bluetooth Connection With a Satellite For the First Time 77
FDA Qualifies Apple Watch's AFib History For Use In Clinical Studies 13
Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos 60
Spotify Hides Song Lyrics Behind Paywall 37
Nurses Say Hospital Adoption of Half-Cooked 'AI' Is Reckless 90
Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion 22
Maximum-Severity GitLab Flaw Allowing Account Hijacking Under Active Exploitation 17
Microsoft Bans US Police Departments From Using Enterprise AI Tool 45
The Original Smart Thermostat, Unveiled 16 Years Ago, is About To Get Dumb 70
The Last Thing the iPad Needs Is a Spec Bump 112
Warrantless FBI Searches of American Communications Drop 50 Percent 31
Google Defends 'Better' Search Product as Antitrust Trial Concludes 31
Apple Adds More Carve-outs To Its EU Core Tech Fee After Criticism From Devs 13
Microsoft Launches Passkey Support For All Consumer Accounts 24
Google's Payments To Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show 24
Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes 39
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Has Died 156
Microsoft To Invest $2.2 Billion In Cloud and AI Services In Malaysia 8
Google Phone Starts Rolling Out 'Audio Emoji' 52
A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It 195
AM Radio Law Opposed By Tech and Auto Industries Is Close To Passing 303
PFAS Increase Likelihood of Death By Cardiovascular Disease, Study Shows 31
Google Lays Off Hundreds of 'Core' Employees, Moves Some Positions To India and Mexico 79
Unity Appoints Ex-Zynga Exec Matthew Bromberg As CEO 12
Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts 121
Anthropic Brings Claude AI To the iPhone and iPad 16
Roblox Players To Start Seeing Video Ads In Its Virtual Realms 12
Dropbox Says Hackers Breached Digital-Signature Product 12
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT 10
Microsoft Says April Windows Updates Break VPN Connections 98
UnitedHealthCare CEO Says 'Maybe a Third' of US Citizens Were Affected By Recent Hack 33
Tens of Millions Secretly Use WhatsApp Despite Bans, Company Says 25
The BASIC Programming Language Turns 60 104
Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Attract More AI Talent 98
Windows 10 Reaches 70% Market Share as Windows 11 Keeps Declining 150
LastPass Separates From GoTo 43
Microsoft Concern Over Google's Lead Drove OpenAI Investment 10
Global Debt Hasn't Been This Bad Since the Napoleonic Wars, Says WEF President 222
LinkedIn Now Has Wordle-style Games You Can Play Every Day 16
Star Scientist's Claim of 'Reverse Aging' Draws Hail of Criticism 88
Mysterious 'gpt2-chatbot' AI Model Appears Suddenly, Confuses Experts 12
China Launches World's Largest Electric Container Ship 93
Satellite Operator SES Acquiring Intelsat In $3.1 Billion Deal 13
America's Wind Power Production Drops For the First Time In 25 Years 92
Is Self Hosting Going Mainstream? 133
13.4 Million Kaiser Insurance Members Affected by Data Leak to Online Advertisers 10
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 22
Systemd Announces 'run0' Sudo Alternative 313
Binance Founder Changpeng Zhao Sentenced To 4 Months In Prison 9
Bruce Perens Emits Draft Post-Open Zero Cost License 73
Change Healthcare Hackers Broke In Using Stolen Credentials, No MFA 24
Extreme Heat Continues To Scorch Large Parts of Asia 37
Supreme Court Declines To Block Texas Porn Restriction 141
How an Empty S3 Bucket Can Make Your AWS Bill Explode 70
Biden Administration Moves To Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy 18
Even Walmart Thinks American Healthcare Is Too Expensive 236
Cyber Criminal Jailed For Blackmailing Therapy Patients 16
Bill Gates Is Still Pulling the Strings At Microsoft 46
Major US Newspapers Sue OpenAI, Microsoft For Copyright Infringement 74
Apple Confirms iPhone Alarm Failure Reports 42
Apple Targets Google Staff To Build AI Team 4
Copilot Workspace Is GitHub's Take On AI-Powered Software Engineering 12
NASA's Psyche Hits 25 Mbps From 140 Miles Away 61
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original 232
G7 Reaches Deal To Exit From Coal By 2035 147
Tether Buys $200 Million Majority Stake In Brain-Computer Interface Company 14
T2 Linux 24.5 Released 22
The EU Will Force Apple To Open Up iPadOS 132
WeWork Rejects Adam Neumann's Acquisition Bid, Unveils Restructuring 7
Russia Issues Arrest Warrant For Ex-Chess Champion Garry Kasparov 79
Google Lays Off Staff From Flutter, Dart and Python Teams 28
Roku Wants To Use Home Screen For New Types of Ads 60
In Race To Build AI, Tech Plans a Big Plumbing Upgrade 25
Canceling Your Credit Card May Not Stop Netflix's Recurring Charges 88
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 Million For Sharing Customer Data 20
Sales of Samsung's Foldable Phones Have Nosedived in China 44
Walmart and Roblox Are Teaming Up To Make Virtual E-commerce a Reality 28
'The Apple Vision Pro's eBay Prices Are Making Me Sad' 148
Motherboard Makers Apparently To Blame For High-end Intel Core i9 CPU Failures 57
Razer Made a Million Dollars Selling a Mask With RGB, And the FTC is Not Pleased 74
Countries Consider Pact To Reduce Plastic Production By 40% in 15 Years 43
Amazon Says Its Prime Deliveries Are Getting Even Faster 64
Austria Calls For Rapid Regulation as It Hosts Meeting on 'Killer Robots' 37
UK Becomes First Country To Ban Default Bad Passwords on IoT Devices 39
America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California 130
The Naked-Eye Sky Will (Briefly) Host a New Star 41
Airline Ticketing System Keeps Mistaking a 101-Year-Old Woman for a 1-Year-Old 121
A Coal Billionaire is Building the World's Biggest Clean Energy Plant - Five Times the Size of Paris 79
America's Commerce Department is Reviewing China's Use of RISC-V Chips 130
Bezos, Other Amazon Execs Used Signal - a Problem for FTC Investigators 93
How Einstein Lost the Battle To Explain Quantum Reality 54
Plunge in Storage Battery Costs Will Speed Shift to Renewable Energy, Says IEA 100
Why Are Laptops Moving to Soldered RAM? 217
How Space Telescopes Spotted an Exoplanet With a Possible Hydrogen-Rich Atmosphere 9
Pegasus Spyware Used on Hundreds of People, Says Poland's Prosecutor General 22
Behold the World's Largest 3D Printer 30
Why is South Korea's Military Set To Ban iPhones Over 'Security' Concerns? 47
How Good is the Rabbit R1 Handheld AI Assistant? 34
Japan's Moon Lander Made It Through Another Lunar Night 10
What Happened After India Banned TikTok? 112
Cisco Joins Microsoft, IBM in Vatican Pledge For Ethical AI Use and Development 47
Apple ID Lock-Out Affects Macs, iPhones, iPads, and iCloud Services 41
Russia Vetoes U.N. Resolution On Nuclear Weapons In Space 162
A School Principal Was Framed With an AI-Generated Rant 26
Boeing Accused of Retaliating Against Two Engineers in 2022 51
$5.6 Million in Refunds Sent to Ring Customers, Settling Unauthorized Access and Privacy Violations 10
The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 25
Two Lifeforms Merge Into One Organism For First Time In a Billion Years 75
Intel's Stock Drops 9%. Are They Struggling to Remain Relevant? 76
A Windows Vulnerability Reported by the NSA Was Exploited To Install Russian Malware 17
EyeEm Will License Users' Photos To Train AI If They Don't Delete Them 27
China Reveals Most Detailed Geological Map of the Moon Ever Created 61
Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026 27
Ring Customers Get $5.6 Million In Refunds In Privacy Settlement 9
Xbox Console Sales Are Tanking As Microsoft Brings Games To PS5 24
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 47
Fake Job Interviews Target Developers With New Python Backdoor 15
IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees 37
45 Drives Adds Linux-Powered Mini PCs, Workstations To Growing Compute Lineup 5
Thoma Bravo To Take UK Cybersecurity Company Darktrace Private In $5 Billion Deal 6
Judge Dismisses Superconductivity Physicist's Lawsuit Against University 21
British Intelligence Moves To Protect Research Universities From Espionage 8
Noise From Traffic Stunts Growth of Baby Birds, Study Finds 24
Millions of IPs Remain Infected By USB Worm Years After Its Creators Left It For Dead 25
Captchas Are Getting Harder 88
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit 38
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US 107
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 29
Europeans 'Less Hard-Working' Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss 221
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
Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps From App Store 40
OpenAI's Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders To Serve on AI Safety Board 32
Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America 136
TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery 44
Alphabet Shares Jump 14% On Earnings Beat, First-Ever Dividend 94
Seagate Joins the HDD Price Hike Party, Blames AI for Spike in Demand 37
Open Sourcing DOS 4 82
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 124
Garry's Mod Is Taking Down Decades of Nintendo-Related Add-Ons 32
US 'Know Your Customer' Proposal Will Put an End To Anonymous Cloud Users 44
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released 34
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' 30
Stripe To Start Taking Crypto Payments, Starting With USDC Stablecoin 9
FCC Votes To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 54
ByteDance Prefers TikTok Shutdown in US if Legal Options Fail, Report Says 211
New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down 91
iPhone Activation Market Share Hits New Low as Android Dominates 59
Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback 37
Ford Just Reported a Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold 158
Spotify Says Apple Has Rejected Its App Update With Price Information for EU Users 48
AI Could Kill Off Most Call Centres, Says TCS Head 104
US Fertility Rate Falls To Lowest In a Century 281
Vast DNA Tree of Life For Plants Revealed By Global Science Team 11
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
'ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks 22
Taser Company Axon Is Selling AI That Turns Body Cam Audio Into Police Reports 53
Meta Opens Quest Operating System To Third-Party Device Makers 9
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop 20
HashiCorp Reportedly Being Acquired By IBM [UPDATE] 36
Adobe's Impressive AI Upscaling Project Makes Blurry Videos Look HD 43
Google-Backed Glance Pilots Android Lockscreen Platform in US 18
Steam Closes Early Access Playtime Loophole 26
Apple Releases OpenELM: Small, Open Source AI Models Designed To Run On-device 15
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
Diamond Market Shows Serious Cracks From Man-Made Stones 112
Biden Signs TikTok 'Divest or Ban' Bill Into Law 122
Qualcomm Is Cheating On Their Snapdragon X Elite/Pro Benchmarks 44
NVIDIA To Acquire Run:ai 5
Veteran PC Game 'Sopwith' Celebrates 40th Anniversary 42
Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000 115
US Breaks Ground On Its First-Ever High-Speed Rail 242
US Bans Noncompete Agreements For Nearly All Jobs 113
Generative AI Arrives In the Gene Editing World of CRISPR 22
Try Something New To Stop the Days Whizzing Past, Researchers Suggest 38
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers 29
What Comes After OLED? Meet QDEL 49
The Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Have Multimodel AI Now 26
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI 29
Linux Can Finally Run Your Car's Safety Systems and Driver-Assistance Features 44
iPhone Sales Drop 19% in China 67
AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO' 66
How GM Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On 58
Apple Cuts Vision Pro Shipments As Demand Falls 'Sharply Beyond Expectations' 133
FTC To Vote On Noncompete Ban 96
No One Buys Books Any More 165
Fedora Linux 40 Officially Released 55
China's Ageing Tech Workers Hit By 'Curse of 35' 149
Microsoft Launches Phi-3 Mini, a 3.8B-Parameter Model Rivaling GPT-3.5 Capabilities 16
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
NASA Officially Greenlights $3.35 Billion Mission To Saturn's Moon Titan 70
Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Updates To Earth 54
California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar 337
Pareto's Economic Theories Used To Find the Best Mario Kart 8 Racer 12
Apple Acquires Datakalab, a French Startup Behind AI and Computer Vision Tech 1
Huawei Wants To Take Homegrown HarmonyOS Phone Platform Worldwide 41
Gaming Giant Embracer Group Is Splitting Into Three Companies 14
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
Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs 113
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
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
Europol Becomes Latest Law Enforcement Group To Plead With Big Tech To Ditch E2EE 148
Apple Reportedly Stops Production of FineWoven Accessories 39
Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants 106
AI Needs So Much Electricity That Tech Companies Are Getting Into Energy Business 50
Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation' 115
Marketing Cancer Drugs To Physicians Increases Prescribing Without Improving Mortality 33
North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say 32
How CP/M Launched the Next 50 Years of Operating Systems 80
What Happened After Amazon Electrified Its Delivery Fleet? 204
Ex-White House Cyber Policy Director: Microsoft is a National Security Risk 124
Startup is Building the World's Largest Ocean-Based Carbon Plant - and It's Scalable 57
The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Just Sent Its Last Message Home 27
GPT-4 Can Exploit Real Vulnerabilities By Reading Security Advisories 74
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
Lying to Investors? Co-Founder of Startup 'HeadSpin' Gets 18-Month Prison Sentence for Fraud 28
Should Automakers Feel Threatened by China's Exports of Electric Cars? 305
LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 66
How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa 66
EU: Meta Cannot Rely On 'Pay Or Okay' 108
Ziplines Drones Complete Their 1 Millionth Delivery, Flying Over 70 Million Miles 20
Some Astronomers Will Re-Examine a 102-Year-Old Theory About the Universe's Expansion 77
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
Volla Successfully Crowdfunds a Privacy-Focused Tablet on Kickstarter 35
Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? 170
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
JWST Gets an IMAX Documentary: 'Deep Sky' 16
The Legendary Zilog Z80 CPU Is Being Discontinued After Nearly 50 Years 80
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96

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