Technology Stories for 2024

Europe Plans To Build 100-Qubit Quantum Computer By 2026 11
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 29
GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit 34
Android TVs Can Expose User Email Inboxes 25
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 90
Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America 128
TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery 40
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 49
Net Neutrality is About To Make a Comeback 37
Ford Just Reported a Massive Loss on Every Electric Vehicle It Sold 154
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights 75
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type 77
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 108
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' 145
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 236
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 227
Toyota's Hydrogen Future Is Crumbling As Owners File Lawsuits, Call For Buybacks 157
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' 108
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 25
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 264
Is 8GB of RAM Enough For a Mac? 461
Google Workers Arrested After Nine-Hour Protest In Cloud Chief's Office 308
TikTok Starts Testing Its Instagram Competitor 'TikTok Notes' 10
Telegram Founder Accuses Google and Apple of Censorship Threat 35
Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline 40
Google Workers Protest Cloud Contract With Israel's Government 517
Framework's Software and Firmware Have Been a Mess 18
ISPs Can Charge Extra For Fast Gaming Under FCC's Internet Rules, Critics Say 29
A New Generation Is Uncovering the Tiny Doodles Left By Engineers On Old Microchips 25
Meta To Close Threads In Turkey To Comply With Injunction 7
Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them 117
Telecom Fights Price Caps as US Spends Billions on Internet Access 30
Emissions Dropped 1.8% Every Year in California's Bay Area. Researchers Credit EVs 164
Will the US-China Competition to Field Military Drone Swarms Spark a Global Arms Race? 28
Stop 'Harmful 5G Fast Lanes', Legal Scholar Warns America's FCC 41
Two Boeing Whistleblowers Allege Disregarded Worker Concerns, Pressure For Speed 72
Will America's Next Soldiers Be Machines? 131
Google Finally Launches Android's 'Find My Device' Network 41
Should the US Ban Chinese EVs? 283
96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Info With Meta, Google, Data Brokers 21
Google Threatens To Cut Off News After California Proposes Paying Media Outlets 91
China Tells Telecom Carriers To Phase Out Foreign Chips in Blow To Intel, AMD 45
Epic Games Proposes Google App Store Reforms After Antitrust Win 31
Google Is Killing Its VPN Service 30
New Advances Promise Secure Quantum Computing At Home 27
China Moving At 'Breathtaking Speed' In Final Frontier, Space Force Says 196
Humane AI Pin Review Roundup 41
Android 15's First Beta Release is Out 22
Microsoft Begins Showing Full Screen Windows 11 Ad on Windows 10 PCs as End of Support Date Looms 185
UK Considers Banning Smartphone Sales To Children Under 16 108
Saudi Arabia 'Forced To Scale Back' Plans For Desert Megacity 199
VMS Software Prunes OpenVMS Hobbyist Program 60
Starting Today, ISPs Must Display Labels With Price, Speeds, and Data Caps 15
Google's AI Photo Editing Tools Are Expanding To a Lot More Phones 7
EU's New Tech Laws Are Working; Small Browsers Gain Market Share 36
Consumers Will Finally See FCC-Mandated 'Nutrition Labels' For Most Broadband Plans 56
Waymo Launches Paid Robotaxi Service In Los Angeles 31
Cox Plans To Take Piracy Liability Battle To the Supreme Court 70
AI Hardware Company From Jone Ive, Sam Altman Seeks $1 Billion In Funding 52
Linux Continues To Be Above 4% On the Desktop 149
A Breakthrough Online Privacy Proposal Hits Congress 27
Intel Says New Gaudi 3 AI Chips Top Nvidia H100s in Speed and Cost 32
Fairphone's Fairbuds Are True Wireless Earbuds With Repairable Design, User-Replaceable Batteries 75
The World Doesn't Need More Journal Apps 37
England Could Produce 13 Times More Renewable Energy, Using Less Than 3% of Land 222
Cruise Robotaxis Are Back in Phoenix - But People Are Driving Them 23
Internet Traffic Dipped as Viewers Took in the Eclipse 18
Meta Platforms To Launch Small Versions of Llama 3 Next Week 7
Google's Gemini Pro 1.5 Enters Public Preview on Vertex AI 1
Google Announces Axion, Its First Custom Arm-based Data Center Processor 22
With Vids, Google Thinks It Has the Next Big Productivity Tool For Work 56
The Internet Archive Just Backed Up an Entire Caribbean Island 19
Report: Boeing 'Put Wall Street First, Safety Second', Creating 'Yearslong Decline of Safety Standards' 231
Boeing Engine Cover Rips Apart During Takeoff This Morning 182
Mozilla Asks: Will Google's Privacy Sandbox Protect Advertisers (and Google) More than You? 56
Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Unveil Its Robotaxi on August 8 154
OpenBSD 7.5 Released 62
Meta (Again) Denies Netflix Read Facebook Users' Private Messenger Messages 28
NASA Figured Out Why Its Voyager 1 Probe Has Been Glitching for Months 58
FCC Won't Block California Net Neutrality Law, Says States Can 'Experiment' 25
Android's AirTag Competitor Gears Up For Launch, Thanks To iOS Release 29
Meta Will Require Labels on More AI-Generated Content 4
China Will Use AI To Disrupt Elections in the US, South Korea and India, Microsoft Warns 157
Roku's New HDMI Tech Could Show Ads When You Pause Your Game 119
Google Rolls Out New 'Jpegli' JPEG Coding Library 81
Rickroll Meme Immortalized In Custom ASIC That Includes 164 Hardcoded Programs 9
Developer Hacks Denuvo DRM After Six Months of Detective Work and 2,000 Hooks 37
A 'Law Firm' of AI Generated Lawyers Is Sending Fake Threats As an SEO Scam 12
PCIe 7.0 On Track For a 2025 Release 29
Microsoft Edge Will Let You Control How Much RAM It Uses Soon 62
Google Weighs Offer for $32 Billion Marketing Firm HubSpot 13
Google Considers Charging For AI-Powered Search 46
Feds Finally Decide To Do Something About Years-Old SS7 Spy Holes In Phone Networks 32
Apple Reportedly Exploring Personal Home Robots 71
Google Brings Keyboard Shortcuts, Custom Mouse Buttons To ChromeOS 15
Anthropic Researchers Wear Down AI Ethics With Repeated Questions 42
Cable Lobby Vows 'Years of Litigation' To Avoid Bans on Blocking and Throttling 91
US, EU To Use AI To Seek Alternate Chemicals for Making Chips 17
Microsoft Reveals Subscription Pricing for Using Windows 10 Beyond 2025 121
Users Say Google's VPN App Breaks the Windows DNS Settings 37
Microsoft and Quantinuum Say They've Ushered in the Next Era of Quantum Computing 24
Intel Discloses $7 Billion Operating Loss For Chip-Making Unit 82
President Biden Is Now Posting Into the Fediverse 75
FCC To Vote To Restore Net Neutrality Rules 60
Yahoo Is Buying Artifact, the AI News App From the Instagram Co-Founders 14
White House Makes Last-ditch Push for Internet Subsidy Program 82
Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores 161
Shrinking Arctic Ice Redraws the Map For Internet Cable Connections 14
Amazon Offers Free Credits For Startups To Use AI Models Including Anthropic 9
Researchers Unlock Fiber Optic Connection 1.2 Million Times Faster Than Broadband 49
TikTok Is Bringing Its Dedicated STEM Feed To Europe 13
Google Pledges To Destroy Browsing Data To Settle 'Incognito' Lawsuit 35
For Data-Guzzling AI Companies, the Internet Is Too Small 60
Meta Used Spyware to Access Its Users' Activities on Rival Platforms 32
Will EVs Kill the Stick Shift Car? 370
In Development Since 2019, NetBSD 10.0 Finally Released 37
More AI Safeguards Coming, Including Right to Refuse Face-Recognition Scans at US Airports 23
Are State Governments Slowing the Build-Out of America's EV Charging Stations? 120
Playboy Image From 1972 Gets Ban From IEEE Computer Journals 395
Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles 161
New Pollution Rules Aim To Lift Sales of Electric Trucks 179
Chromebooks Are About To Change 36
LinkedIn Moves In On TikTok's Turf With Short-Form Videos 13
20 Years of Gmail 86
Google Podcasts Service Shuts Down in the US Next Week 6
Half of Russian-Made Chips Are Defective 64
Larry Summers, Now an OpenAI Board Member, Thinks AI Could Replace 'Almost All' Forms of Labor 126
Canonical Now Doing Manual Reviews For New Packages Due To Scam Apps 37
Proxmox Import Wizard Makes for Easy VMware VM Migrations 39
Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads 14
How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them 97
AI Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise 14
New York City Welcomes Robotaxis - But Only With Safety Drivers 34
'Software Vendors Dump Open Source, Go For the Cash Grab' 120
Nigerian Woman Faces Jail Time For Facebook Review of Tomato Sauce 72
TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices 11
SWIFT Planning Launch of New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform in 12-24 Months 59
Microsoft's New Era of AI PCs Will Need a Copilot Key, Says Intel 127
Software Industry Calls for More UK Government Support 47
Boeing Chief Must Have Engineering Background, Emirates Boss Says 81
Canva Acquires Affinity To Fill the Adobe-Sized Holes In Its Design Suite 31
Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event For June 10 24
Florida Braces For Lawsuits Over Law Banning Kids From Social Media 168
Reddit May Need To Ramp Up Spending On Content Moderation, Analysts Say 140
Microsoft Has a New Windows and Surface Chief 16
'Federation Is the Future of Social Media' 51
Stability AI CEO Resigns, Says We Can't Beat Centralized AI With More Centralized AI 10
DeSantis Signs Bill Requiring Parental Consent For Kids Under 16 To Hold Social Media Accounts 151
Landlines Are Dying Out 142
Behind the Plot To Break Nvidia's Grip on AI By Targeting Software 44
Atlas VPN To Shut Down, Transfers Paid Subscribers To NordVPN 39
Microsoft Dev's 30-Year-Old Temporary Code Still Lingers in Windows 11 68
EU Launches Probes Into Apple, Meta, Google Under New Digital Competition Law 20
Google Teams with 'Highlights', Shows How Goofus and Gallant Use the Internet 19
Astronomers Demand Radio Silence at the Moon's Far Side, But Resistance May Be Futile 18
Steve Wozniak Decries Tracking's Effect on Privacy, Calls Out 'Hypocrisy' of Only Banning TikTok 137
New Book Remembers LAN Parties and the 1990s 'Multiplayer Revolution' 74
Air Industry Trends Safer, But 'Flukish' Second Crash Led Boeing to Mishandled Media Storm, WSJ Argues 78
New 'Loop DoS' Attack May Impact Up to 300,000 Online Systems 10
Microsoft Confirms Windows Server Security Update Caused Memory Leak, 'Unscheduled' Reboots 35
Trump's Truth Social Is Going Public 229
Truck-To-Truck Worm Could Infect Entire US Fleet 50
Users Shocked To Find Instagram Limits Political Content By Default 58
General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers 34
Dutch Court Orders ISP To Block 'Anna's Archive' and 'LibGen' 26
Boom's XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator Makes First Flight 23
Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits To Running People-Search Networks 9
Cable ISP Fined $10,000 For Lying To FCC About Where It Offers Broadband 42
Google Testing AI Overviews in Search Results, Even If You Have Not Opted In 12
DOJ Lawsuit Against Apple is Headline Grabber But Poses Limited Near-Term Impact 60
E-Waste Is Growing 5x Faster Than It Can Be Recycled, Says UN 74
Vernor Vinge, Father of the Tech Singularity, Has Died At Age 79 67
Windows 11 Notepad Finally Gets Spellcheck and Autocorrect 100
Threads Opens Beta To 'Fediverse Sharing' 20
Broadcom Is 'Holding the Sector To Ransom' With VMware License Changes, Claims CISPE 110
India 'Screwed Up': How the US Lobbied New Delhi To Reverse Laptop Rules 21
Google is Bringing Satellite Messaging To Android 15 14
Cloud Software Group Snubs GPL Obligations, Say Critics 31
Motorola Spoiled a Good Budget Phone With Bloatware 56
Microsoft Unveils Surface Pro 10 and Surface Laptop 6 for Business, Its First AI PCs 37
GNOME 46 Released 49
Formula 1 Chief Appalled To Find Team Using Excel To Manage 20,000 Car Parts 187
EPA Sets Strict New Limits On Tailpipe Emissions That Could Boost EV Sector 282
macOS Sonoma 14.4 Bug 'Destroys Saved Versions In iCloud Drive' 32
Intel Prepares For $100 Billion Spending Spree Across Four US States 18
Google Reshapes Fitbit In Its Image As Users Allege 'Planned Obsolescence' 32
Researcher Who Oversaw Flock Surveillance Study Now Questions How It Was Done 12
EU's Vestager Warns About Apple, Meta Fees, Disparaging Rival Products 28
Laid-off Techies Face 'Sense of Impending Doom' With Job Cuts at Highest Since Dot-com Crash 124
US Broadband Providers To Begin Providing New Comparison Labels 19
Ethereum Foundation Under Investigation by 'State Authority' 29
Modern Web Bloat Means Some Pages Load 21MB of Data 110
Google DeepMind's New AI Assistant Helps Elite Soccer Coaches Get Even Better 16
Mozilla Firefox 124 Is Now Available for Download 27
Hertz CEO Resigns After Blowing Big Gamble On EVs 214
BitTorrent Is No Longer the 'King' of Upstream Internet Traffic 37
Chinese and Western Scientists Identify 'Red Lines' on AI Risks 28
US Supreme Court Seems Wary of Curbing US Government Contacts With Social Media Platforms 113
Investment Advisors Pay the Price For Selling What Looked a Lot Like AI Fairy Tales 15
Apex Legends Streamers Warned To 'Perform a Clean OS Reinstall as Soon as Possible' After Hacks During NA Finals Match 59
AI-Generated Science 32
Google Researchers Unveil 'VLOGGER', an AI That Can Bring Still Photos To Life 18
Apple Is in Talks To Let Google's Gemini Power iPhone Generative AI Features 52

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