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Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data 125
Tech Layoffs Highest Since Dot-Com Crash 98
FTC Launches Inquiry Into Reddit's AI Deals, Ahead of IPO 2
Lyft and Uber To Cease Operations In Minneapolis After New Minimum Wage Law 130
FTC Goes Undercover Against Fake Antivirus Companies 5
Supreme Court Tosses Rulings on Public Officials' Social Media Blockings 58
Cable And Satellite Providers Required To Disclose 'All In' Pricing Under Newly Passed FCC Rules 67
Microsoft Singles Out Google's Competitive Edge in Generative AI 16
India Cuts Import Taxes on EVs in Boost For Tesla's Entry Plans 41
FCC Scraps Old Speed Benchmark, Says Broadband Should Be at Least 100Mbps 103
Refund Fraud Schemes Promoted Online Are Costing Amazon and Other Retailers Billions 52
Google's Safe Browsing Protection in Chrome Goes Real-Time 49
Undersea Cable Damage Causes Internet Outages Across Africa 28
Cognition Emerges From Stealth To Launch AI Software Engineer 'Devin' 95
Trying Out Microsoft's Pre-Release OS/2 2.0 98
Modern Workplace Tech Linked To Lower Employee Well-Being, Study Finds 39
Ageism Haunts Some Tech Workers In the Race To Get Hired 67
Waymo To Launch Commercial Robotaxi Service in Austin By End of the Year 17
Ethereum Network Completes Cost-Cutting 'Dencun' Software Upgrade 15
Google DeepMind's Latest AI Agent Learned To Play Goat Simulator 3 13
SpaceX Gets E-Band Radio Waves To Boost Starlink Broadband 26
Google Paid $10 Million In Bug Bounty Rewards Last Year 17
Apple Developed Chip Equivalent To Four M2 Ultras For Apple Car Project 61
China Puts Trust in AI To Maintain Largest High-Speed Rail Network on Earth 17
Google Restricts AI Chatbot Gemini From Answering Queries on Global Elections 53
Speedometer 3.0: A Shared Browser Benchmark for Web Application Responsiveness 15
World Wide Web Inventor's Top Predictions as It Turns 35 23
The IRS Launches Direct File, a Pilot Program For Free Online Tax Filing Available in 12 States 56
World's Largest Aircraft Goes Supersonic In First Powered Flight 32
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 229
YouTube Stops Recommending Videos When Signed Out of Google 90
Automakers Are Sharing Consumers' Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies 117
Boeing's Woes Continue as 50 Injured on Australia-New Zealand Flight 112
France Says Several Agencies Hit by 'Intense' Cyberattacks 17
Jensen Huang Says Even Free AI Chips From Competitors Can't Beat Nvidia's GPUs 50
Canada's 'Online Harms' Bill Would Be an Assault On Free Speech, Civil Liberties Groups Say 200
Does Reddit Represent the Return of the Junk Stock IPO? 74
America's Justice Department Opens Criminal Investigation Into Boeing's Window Blowout Incident 64
To Replace HexChat, Linux Mint is Building a New Desktop Chat App Called 'Jargonaut' 40
Amazon-Backed Rivian Surges 13% After Announcing Cheaper New SUV 62
Chrome 124 Lets You Turn Any Website Into an App 113
Palantir Wins US Army Contract For Battlefield AI 32
Google's Newest Office Has AI Designers Toiling In a Wi-Fi Desert 85
Gemini Nano Won't Come To Pixel 8 Due To Hardware Limitations 7
Dozens of Top Scientists Sign Effort To Prevent AI Bioweapons 53
China Readies $27 Billion Chip Fund To Counter Growing US Curbs 13
Apple Releases visionOS 1.1 With Improvements To Persona, EyeSight, Virtual Keyboard and More 26
Reddit Will Now Use an AI Model To Fight Harassment 75
Fedora Workstation 41 To No Longer Install GNOME X.Org Session By Default 75
US Lost Record $12.5 Billion To Online Crime In 2023, Says FBI 33
China Intensifies Push To 'Delete America' From Its Technology 160
Samsung Making It Harder To Know What Type of OLED TV You're Getting 47
Apple is Working To Make It Easier To Switch From iPhone To Android Because of the EU 40
Bipartisan Bill Could Force ByteDance To Divest TikTok 49
Former Google Engineer Indicted For Stealing AI Secrets To Aid Chinese Companies 28
Google Adds New Developer Fees As Part of Play Store's DMA Compliance Plan 22
Public Trust In AI Is Sinking Across the Board 105
Waymo Launches Driverless Rides For Employees In Austin 14
Meta Abandons Hacking Victims, Draining Law Enforcement Resources, Officials Say 58
Spain Tells Sam Altman, Worldcoin To Shut Down Its Eyeball-Scanning Orbs 19
Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing In Popularity 188
Copilot Pane As Annoying As Clippy May Pop Up In Windows 11 43
Microsoft To End Its Android Apps on Windows 11 Subsystem in 2025 45
Google is Starting To Squash More Spam and AI in Search Results 49
Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, and Threads Are All Down 97
Hackers Exploited Windows 0-day for 6 Months After Microsoft Knew of It 46
New Proposal Could Ban Landlords From Charging for Cable and Internet in Bulk 64
Carmakers Must Bring Back Physical Buttons, Says Europe 177
In Indonesia, Women Pirate More Music and Movies Than Men 36
Linux Passes 4% Desktop Market Share 199
America's Last Morse-Code Station 113
India Reverses AI Stance, Requires Government Approval For Model Launches 19
Homeless Man Tries to Steal Waymo Robotaxi in Los Angeles 93
New Ratings for the 'Greenest' Car in America Might Surprise You 199
How Will Reddit's IPO Change the Service? 86
Road-Embedded Sensors to Find Street Parking Tested in Taiwanese City 17
Boeing Now Also Ordered to Fix Anti-Ice System on 737 Max, 787 Jets 47
Microsoft Begins Adding 'Copilot' Icon to Windows 11 Taskbars 81
Watch the Moment 43 Unionized YouTube Contractors Were All Laid Off 178
Threads' API Is Coming in June 17
Copilot For OneDrive Will Fetch Your Files and Summarize Them 39
Meta Says It's Deleting All Oculus Accounts At the End of the Month 26
California Approves Waymo Robotaxi Services In LA, SF Neighboring Cities 12
Rogue Editors Started a Competing Wikipedia That's Only About Roads 57
Google is Blocking RCS on Rooted Android Devices 105
Google Pulls Popular Indian Apps From Store Over Fees Violation 21
Court Orders Maker of Pegasus Spyware To Hand Over Code To WhatsApp 53
Self-Pay Gas Station Pumps Break Across NZ As Software Can't Handle Leap Day 92
Ford EV Owners Can Now Charge On Tesla's Network 65
Google is Making Search Suggestions in Chrome More Helpful 25
'Anyone Rooting Against Self-driving Cars is Cheering For Tens of Thousands of Deaths, Year After Year' 365
'Paying People To Work on Open Source is Good Actually' 40
US Will Investigate National Security Risks Posed By Chinese-made 'Smart Cars' 68
Adobe's New Prototype Generative AI Tool Is the 'Photoshop' of Music-Making and Editing 51
'Mathematically Perfect' Star System Being Investigated For Potential Alien Tech 71
Cloudflare Makes Pingora Rust Framework Open-Source 5
KDE Plasma 6 Released 35
Meta Wants Llama 3 To Handle Contentious Questions as Google Grapples With Gemini Backlash 22
Google CEO Calls AI Tool's Controversial Responses 'Completely Unacceptable' 151
Windows Security Updates Could Come With Fewer Reboots Beginning Later This Year 72
Apple Cancels Work on Electric Car 244
OpenAI Says New York Times 'Hacked' ChatGPT To Build Copyright Lawsuit 32
Underwater Cables in Red Sea Damaged Months After Houthis Threatened To Do Just That 131
6G Principles Endorsed By US and International Partners 19
Nevada Sues To Deny Kids Access To Meta's Messenger Encryption 79
Google Steps Up Microsoft Criticism, Warns of Rival's Monopoly in Cloud 110
Canada To Compel Digital Platforms To Remove Harmful Content 81
Hacker Uses Raspberry Pi and AI To Block Noisy Neighbor's Music 93
'Every PC Is Going To Be an AI PC' 102
Google Says Microsoft Offered To Sell Bing To Apple in 2018, But Search-quality Issues Got in the Way 21
Supreme Court Hears Landmark Cases That Could Upend What We See on Social Media 282
Lenovo's Laptop Concept is Fully Transparent, But the Point Isn't Entirely Clear 25
Waymo's Self-Driving Cars Keep Hitting Things: A Cyclist, a Gate, and a Pickup Truck 127
$500 Drone Calculates Its GPS Coordinates Offline from Downloaded Google Maps and a Camera 59
Remembering How Plan 9 Evolved at Bell Labs 36
How 'Smart Keys' Have Fueled a New Wave of Car Thefts 177
Boeing Removes Head of Its 737 Max Program After January's 'Door Bolts' Incident 52
Florida Lawmakers Pass Ban On Social Media For Kids 114
Google Is Sunsetting the Google Pay App 14
Reddit Warns That r/WallStreetBets Could Wreak Havoc on Its Stock Price 28
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control 163
Google Tests Removing the News Tab From Search Results 37
Humane's AI Pin is Slightly Delayed 8
Mercedes-Benz Backs Off Plan To Only Sell EVs By 2030 203
Reddit Files To Go Public 98
Bluesky Now Open To Federation 26
AT&T Restores Service After Massive, Nationwide Outage 55
GPay App and P2P Payments Will Stop Working in the US This June 4
Reddit in AI Content Licensing Deal With Google 25
Instacart's AI Recipes Look Literally Impossible 36
Windows 11 Users Herded Toward 23H2 Via Automatic Upgrade 87
US Health Tech Giant Change Healthcare Hit by Cyberattack 17
Google Pauses AI Image-generation of People After Diversity Backlash 198
Google Admits Gemini Is 'Missing the Mark' With Image Generation of Historical People 67
Waymo's Application To Expand California Robotaxi Operations Paused By Regulators 15
Reddit To Offer Shares In IPO To 75,000 of Its Most Active Users 38
Firefly Software Snafu Sends Lockheed Satellite on Short-Lived Space Safari 25
Google Launches Two New Open LLMs 15
Google DeepMind Alumni Unveil Bioptimus: Aiming To Build First Universal Biology AI Model 5
EU Opens Formal Investigation Into TikTok Over Possible Online Content Breaches 18
Microsoft Develops AI Server Gear To Lessen Reliance on Nvidia 3
This Tiny Website Is Google's First Line of Defense in the Patent Wars 45
International Nest Aware Subscriptions Jump in Price, as Much As 100% 43
Adobe Acrobat Adds Generative AI To 'Easily Chat With Documents' 31
Biden Administration Is Said To Slow Early Stage of Shift To Electric Cars 343
Why Are California's EV Sales Dropping? 315
Can Robots.txt Files Really Stop AI Crawlers? 97
Reddit Has Reportedly Signed Over Its Content to Train AI Models 78
New Bill Would Let Defendants Inspect Algorithms Used Against Them In Court 47
EU Expands Digital Crackdown on Toxic Content, Dodgy Goods To All Online Platforms 53
Google 'Talk To a Live Rep' Brings Pixel's Hold for Me To All Search Users 14
VMware Admits Sweeping Broadcom Changes Are Worrying Customers 79
Google Enables OS Upgrades For Older PCs Post-Windows 10 Support Cutoff 73
Google Rolls Out Updated AI Model Capable of Handling Longer Text, Video 11
OpenAI Develops Web Search Product in Challenge To Google 15
Lyft's CEO Says 'My Bad' on Margin Error, 'It Was One Zero' 22
The US Military is Embedded in the Gaming World. Its Target: Teen Recruits 109
DuckDuckGo's Browser Adds Encrypted, Privacy-Minded Syncing and Backup 12
Apple Researchers Unveil Keyframer, an AI Tool That Animates Still Images Using LLMs 31
Google Joins Satellite Mission To Scan Globe for Methane Leaks 26
Y Combinator Seeks Startups in Robotics, Space and Defense 11
After Trying the Vision Pro, Mark Zuckerberg Says Quest 3 'is the Better Product, Period' 109
Wi-Fi Jamming To Knock Out Cameras Suspected In Nine Minnesota Burglaries 174
Chrome Engine Devs Experiment With Automatic Browser Micropayments 146
Firefox Maker Mozilla Is Cutting 60 Jobs After Naming New CEO 106
Waymo Recalls and Updates Robotaxi Software After Two Cars Crashed 41
Estate Agents Embrace AI To Stage Rental Listings 17
Superlist is the New Wunderlist, After Microsoft Killed the Original 18
Investors in Airbnb Arbitrage Business Allege They Were Defrauded 11
Nvidia's Chat With RTX is a AI Chatbot That Runs Locally On Your PC 43
FCC Commissioner Wants To Investigate Apple Over Beeper Mini Shutdown 63
France Uncovers a Vast Russian Disinformation Campaign In Europe 304
Threads Starts Testing Trending Topics Section 5
WhatsApp Image Sender Becomes First Convicted Cyber-Flasher 24
The US Government Makes a $42 Million Bet On Open Cell Networks 26
Google Scholar is Manipulatable 16
Microsoft Working On Its Own DLSS-like Upscaler for Windows 11 42
Broadcom Ends Support For Free ESXi Vmware Hypervisor 105
Every Country Needs Sovereign AI, Nvidia CEO Says 69
The Unsettling Scourge of Obituary Spam 39
Google Shareholders to Receive $350 Million in Lawsuit Settlement 39
San Francisco Mob Lights Driverless Waymo Car on Fire 141
Mozilla's Abandoned Web Engine 'Servo' is Rebooting in 2024 56
Clean Jet Fuel Startup Fires Up New Carbon Converter 41
Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Fueling Stations 172
Oversight of Boeing 'is Not Delivering Safe Aircraft', Says America's Top Aviation Regulator 99
To Help Rust/C++ Interoperability, Google Gives Rust Foundation $1M 61
Instagram and Threads Will Stop Recommending Political Content 19
Canada Moves To Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears 63
Apple Is Lobbying Against Right To Repair Six Months After Supporting Right To Repair 27
US To Launch $5 Billion Research Hub To Stay Ahead in Chip Race 45
Sam Altman Seeks Trillions of Dollars To Reshape Business of Chips and AI 54
John Walker, Founder of Autodesk, Dies At 74 19
Apple Officially Splits iTunes For Windows Into Apple Music, TV, and Devices Apps 31
Uber Records First Annual Profit 33
Pakistan Cuts Off Phone and Internet Services On Election Day 36
Thieves Steal 200ft Tower From Alabama Radio Station 142
In Its Tantrum With Europe, Apple Broke Web Apps in iOS 17 Beta 66
FCC Votes To Outlaw Scam Robocalls That Use AI-Generated Voices 61
AI PCs To Account for Nearly 60% of All PC Shipments by 2027, IDC Says 70
Mozilla Names New CEO as It Pivots To Data Privacy 57
Google Rebrands Bard as Gemini, Rolls Out $20 Paid Subscription 26
OpenAI Developing Software That Operates Devices, Automates Tasks 27
Massachusetts Legislature Moving To Ban Wearing VR Headsets While Driving 203
Waymo Driverless Car Strikes Bicyclist In San Francisco, Causes Minor Injuries 115
Judge Rules Against Users Suing Google and Apple Over 'Annoying' Search Results 22
Chinese Hackers Embedded in US Networks For at Least Five Years 15
Apple Releases MGIE, an AI Model for Instruction-Based Image Editing 21
Apple Develops a Foldable Clamshell iPhone 65
Microsoft CEO Nadella Taunts AI Rivals: Even With All the Hoopla, GPT-4 Remains the Best 59
Bluesky Opens To the Public 62
Report Reveals Decline In Quality of USB Sticks, MicroSD Cards 71
Boston Dynamics' Atlas Tries Out Inventory Work, Gets Better At Lifting 16
Meta Will Start Labeling AI-Generated Images On Facebook, Instagram and Threads 15
Microsoft Revives Aggressive Windows 11 Upgrade Campaign With Intrusive Popups 118
Google and Mozilla Don't Like Apple's New iOS Browser Rules 89
Did You Use ChatGPT On Your School Applications? These Words May Tip Off Admissions 107
DocuSign To Lay Off 6% of Workforce, or About 440 Jobs 30
Mozilla Monitor Plus Scrubs Your Leaked Personal Information From the Web, For a Fee 26
Meta Cuts Off Third-Party Access To Facebook Groups 25
Yandex Owner To Exit Russia In $5.2 Billion Deal 68
World's Longest Serving Central Bank Chief Targeted by Deepfake 6
Parisians Vote For Rise in Parking Fees for SUVs 301
Inside the Underground Site Where 'Neural Networks' Churn Out Fake IDs 28
Taylor Swift Deepfakes Originated From AI Challenge, Report Says 62
'There is No Such Thing as a Real Picture,' Says Samsung Exec 158
Is the US Space Force Researching Space-Based Solar Power? 38
GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids 179
Will Microsoft Bring the Linux 'Sudo' Command to Windows Server? 100
Will Silicon Valley's Next House Member Rewrite a Key Internet Law? 133
The Atlantic Warns of a Rising 'Authoritarian Technocracy' 70
Is AI Hastening the Demise of Quora? 57
Threads is Now 'Booming', With 130 Million Active Users 52
Inert Nuclear Missile Found in US Man's Garage 59
Ask Slashdot: Can You Roll Your Own Home Router? 150
Amazon Confirms Fire TV Is Dropping Android 43
Meta's $200 Billion Surge Is Biggest In Stock-Market History 37
Mentions of Job Cuts in Earnings Calls Hit Pandemic-Time Peak 58
Apple Says It'll Show Its GenAI Efforts 'Later This Year' 16
Apple's Vision Pro Goes on Sale 57
Microsoft Deploys 'Harmful Design' Tricks To Push Edge, Say Mozilla Researchers 64
Google Search's Cache Links Are Officially Being Retired 32
Panasonic Sells Off Its VR Subsidiary 19
Mark Zuckerberg Explains Why Meta Open-Sources Its AI 36
Avatar VFX Workers Vote To Unionize 28
Apple Vision Pro To Launch With Over 600 Apps and Games 83
Snap Is Recalling and Refunding Every Drone It Ever Sold 39
Google Maps is Getting 'Supercharged' With Generative AI 96
Microsoft Seeks Rust Developers To Rewrite Core C# Code 77
Bard Generates Photos Now, Finally 26

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