News Stories for 2024

NewsBreak, Most Downloaded US News App, Caught Sharing 'Entirely False' AI-Generated Stories 25
A Billionaire-Backed Texas Stock Exchange Is In The Works 39
Nvidia Hits $3 Trillion Market Cap On Back of AI Boom 26
UN Secretary-General Calls For 'Windfall' Tax on Profits of Fossil Fuel Companies 149
US Lawmakers Accuse Nigeria of Taking Binance Executive Hostage 40
Yellen To Warn of 'Significant Risks' From Use of AI in Finance 15
A New Google Maps Layer Shows Public Restrooms In NYC 43
Online Streaming Services In Canada Must Hand Over 5% of Domestic Revenues 92
World Will Miss Target of Tripling Renewable Electricity Generation By 2030, IEA Says 65
E-Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform 55
Monthly Drop Hints That China's CO2 Emissions May Have Peaked in 2023 123
Law Student Claims Unfair Discipline After He Reported a Data Breach 73
College-Level Minecraft-Based CS Courses Approved for US High School Students 54
A Simple Fix Could Double the Size of the U.S. Electricity Grid 201
There's a Program to Cancel Some Private US Student Loans. Most Don't Know About It. 50
How Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used In London By Shops - and Police 81
How Misinformation Spreads? It's Funded By 'The Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising' 66
Electric Car Sales Keep Increasing in California, Despite 'Negative Hype' 206
Journalists 'Deeply Troubled' By OpenAI's Content Deals With Vox, The Atlantic 100
London's Evening Standard To End Daily Newspaper After Almost 200 Years 58
Battery-Powered California Faces Lower Blackout Risk This Summer 79
FCC Ends Affordable Internet Program Due To Lack of Funds 67
Vermont Becomes 1st State To Enact Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay For Damage From Climate Change 130
Vista Equity Writes Off IT Education Platform PluralSight Value, After $3.5 Billion Buyout 9
Best Buy Set For Tenth Straight Quarter of Sales Drop 42
Apple News+ Subscription Growth Blows Away Major Media Sites 47
Cut In Ship Pollution Sparked Global Heating Spurt 121
TikTok Preparing a US Copy of the App's Core Algorithm 57
IRS Opening Free Online Tax Filing Program To All States 58
Spotify Says It Will Refund Car Thing Purchases 27
New York Governor To Launch Bill Banning Smartphones in Schools 113
Corporations Invested in Carbon Offsets That Were 'Likely Junk', Analysis Says 48
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges 107
Wind and Solar Saved the US $250 Billion Over 4 Years, Report Finds 165
AST SpaceMobile Stock Surges 69% After Verizon Satellite Internet Deal 2
'Ottawa Wants the Power To Create Secret Backdoors In Our Networks' 38
Blacklisted Chinese Companies Rebrand as American To Dodge Crackdown 46
Saudi Arabia Eyes a Future Beyond Oil 58
Health Officials Tried To Evade Public Records Laws, Lawmakers Say 184
Colorado Enacts Right-to-Repair Law for Electronics 62
Earthcare Cloud Mission Launches To Resolve Climate Unknowns 25
Ubuntu Linux 24.04 Now Optimized For Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer 35
Carbon Offsets, a Much-Criticized Climate Tool, Get Federal Guidelines 37
T-Mobile To Acquire Most of US Cellular in $4.4 Billion Deal 45
YouTube Begins Skipping Videos for Ad-Blocker Users 193
Ditch Brightly Colored Plastic, Anti-Waste Researchers Tell Firms 82
Millions in US Face Extreme-Heat Threat 153
North Korea Says Its Attempt To Put Another Spy Satellite Into Orbit Has Failed 20
Pew Research Finds 64% of Americans Live Within Two Miles of a Public EV Charger 196
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Runs on the Nintendo Switch (Unofficially) 6
How A US Hospital is Using AI to Analyze X-Rays - With Help From Red Hat 19
Proposed Zero-Carbon Cement Solution Called 'Absolute Miracle' 79
Britain Covered Up Tainted Blood Scandal That Killed Thousands, Report Finds 78
Eagles Changed Migration Route To Avoid Ukraine War 28
Best Buy and Geek Squad Were Most Impersonated Orgs By Scammers In 2023 20
Google Threatens To Pause Google News Initiative Funding In US 20
UK Law Will Let Regulators Fine Big Tech Without Court Approval 34
Countries Fail To Agree on Treaty To Prepare the World for the Next Pandemic 112
Another US State Repeals Law That Protected ISPs From Municipal Competition 34
Environment Agency Chief Admits Regulator Buries Freedom of Information Requests 39
California Advances Bill For Porn Site Age Verification 165
SpaceX Launches First Satellites For New US Spy Constellation 36
IRS Extends Free File Tax Program Through 2029 21
YouTube Rolling Out Its Widely Hated New Web Redesign 61
US Sues To Break Up Ticketmaster Owner, Live Nation 60
T-Mobile Is Raising Prices On Some of Its Older Plans 68
US Lawmakers Advance Bill To Make It Easier To Curb Exports of AI Models 30
CFPB Says Buy Now, Pay Later Firms Must Comply With US Credit Card Laws 14
'Never-Ending' UK Rain Made 10 Times More Likely By Climate Crisis, Study Says 154
Russia Likely Launched Counter Space Weapon Into Low Earth Orbit Last Week, Pentagon Says 70
US Securities Regulator Urges Against Crypto Bill Adoption 39
California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 45 Days 155
Apple Says US Antitrust Lawsuit Should Be Dismissed 64
US Government Urges Federal Contractors To Strengthen Encryption 20
Top Oil Firms' Climate Pledges Failing on Almost Every Metric, Report Finds 124
Microsoft Launches Free AI Assistant For All Educators in US in Deal With Khan Academy 35
EPA Says It Will Step Up Enforcement To Address 'Critical' Vulnerabilities Within Water Sector 64
Warm Water Melts 'Doomsday Glacier' Half a Mile Each Year, Finds Study 90
JPMorgan, Mastercard Embrace Biometric Payment Options 27
Another Online Pharmacy Bypasses the FDA To Offer Cut-Rate Weight Loss Drugs 124
Julian Assange Wins High Court Victory in Case Against Extradition To US 111
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users 76
US Defense Department 'Concerned' About ULA's Slow Progress on Satellite Launches 33
Are Car Companies Sabotaging the Transition to Electric Vehicles? 320
America Takes Its Biggest Step Yet to End Coal Mining 162
Why a 'Frozen' Distribution Linux Kernel Isn't the Safest Choice for Security 104
Eight Automakers Grilled by US Lawmakers Over Sharing of Connected Car Data With Police 35
Is America's Defense Department 'Rushing to Expand' Its Space War Capabilities? 46
'Openwashing' 40
Palantir's First-Ever AI Warfare Conference 37
Canada Security Intelligence Chief Warns China Can Use TikTok To Spy on Users 40
Robert Dennard, Inventor of DRAM, Dies At 91 20
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg 16
In a Milestone, the US Exceeds 5 Million Solar Installations 159
Winamp Is 'Opening Up' Its Source Code 85
Russia Directing Hackers To Attack UK and West, Says Director of GCHQ 47
US House of Representatives Passes TICKET Act To Create Transparency in Pricing 76
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers 46
Bay Area City Orders Scientists To Stop Controversial Cloud Brightening Experiment 93
US Regulators Approve Rule That Could Speed Renewables 23
Walmart's Reign as America's Biggest Retailer Is Under Threat 48
Senators Urge $32 Billion in Emergency Spending on AI After Finishing Yearlong Review 110
Boeing May Face Criminal Prosecution Over 737 Max Crashes, US Says 62
2023 Temperatures Were Warmest We've Seen For At Least 2,000 Years 200
Internet Use Is Associated With Greater Wellbeing, Global Study Finds 47
IBM Open-Sources Its Granite AI Models 10
Melinda Gates To Resign From Gates Foundation 42
How Microsoft Employees Pressured the Company Over Its Oil Industry Ties 144
Australia Criticized For Ramping Up Gas Extraction Through '2050 and Beyond' 132
The World's Largest Vaccuum to Suck Climate Pollution From the Air Just Began Operating 134
Red Hat (and CIQ) Offer Extend Support for RHEL 7 (and CentOS 7) 20
RHEL (and Rocky and Alma Linux) 9.4 Released - Plus AI Offerings 19
Lightweight Dillo Browser Resurrected: TLS But No JavaScript 39
Did OpenAI, Google and Meta 'Cut Corners' to Harvest AI Training Data? 58
The Earth's CO2 Levels Are Increasing Faster Than Ever 168
G5 Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Issued For First Time Since 2003 32
The Automotive Cold War Is Officially Underway 170
Canadian Petition That Games Must Remain Functional At EOL 64
Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying To Figure Out Why. 73
UK Economy Emerges From Recession 29
Chemicals In Car Interiors May Cause Cancer, and They're Required By US Law 60
Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold On Tight Supply 127
World is On Edge of Climate Abyss, UN Warns 268
Record-Breaking Increase in CO2 Levels in World's Atmosphere 89
North Yorkshire Council To Ban Apostrophes On Street Signs To Avoid Database Problems 100
81% of Young People Say a 4-Day Workweek Would Boost Productivity, Survey Finds 206
US Libraries Are Battling High Prices For Better E-Book Access 39
US Eyes Curbs on China's Access To AI Software Behind Apps Like ChatGPT 27
US Revokes Intel, Qualcomm Licenses To Sell Chips To Huawei 241
Venture Firms Double, Then Halve, In Stunning Reversal 34
Heat Waves In North Pacific May Be Due To China Reducing Aerosols 54
Renewable Energy Passes 30% of World's Electricity Supply 153
FTX Customers Poised to Recover All Funds Lost in Collapse 44
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
Boeing Says Workers Skipped Required Tests on 787 But Recorded Work as Completed 127
TikTok Sues US Government Over Law Forcing Sale or Ban 169
US, UK Police Identify and Charge Russian Leader of LockBit Ransomware Gang 6
Stockholm Exergi Lands World's Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft 39
Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits 81
North Yorkshire Apostrophe Fans Demand Road Signs With Nowt Taken Out 86
Poorer Nations Must Be Transparent Over Climate Spending, Says Cop29 Leader 49
Police Resurrect Lockbit's Site and Troll the Ransomware Gang 15
More Than 90% of Stablecoin Transactions Aren't From Real Users, Visa Study Finds 45
In Argentina, Facing Surging Inflation, 500K Accept Worldcoin's Offer of $50 for Iris-Scanning 67
America's Federal Regulators Are Preparing More Lawsuits Against Crypto Companies 23
AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test 113
Will Calls to Scrutinize Digital-Currency Purchases of Oil Bring New Regulations For Crypto? 16
The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029 286
Ubuntu Criticized For Bug Blocking Installation of .Deb Packages 118
Finding Land for US Wind Farms Might Be Easier Than We Thought 81
When a Politician Sues a Blog to Unmask Its Anonymous Commenter 79
Lithium-Free Sodium Batteries Exit the Lab, Enter US Production 138
Methane Emissions From Gas Flaring Being Hidden From Satellite Monitors 51
US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons 85
Apple Announces Largest-Ever $110 Billion Share Buyback As iPhone Sales Drop 39
Florida Bans Lab-Grown Meat 191
Britain's Climate Action Plan Unlawful, High Court Rules 25
Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years 116
Pet Parrots Prefer Live Video-Calls Over Watching Pre-Recorded Videos 73
Spotify Hides Song Lyrics Behind Paywall 43
Sony, Apollo Offers To Buy Paramount For $26 Billion 22
Warrantless FBI Searches of American Communications Drop 50 Percent 33
Huawei Secretly Backs US Research, Awarding Millions in Prizes 41
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing Supplier Spirit AeroSystems Has Died 174
Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts 129
Roblox Players To Start Seeing Video Ads In Its Virtual Realms 12
UnitedHealthCare CEO Says 'Maybe a Third' of US Citizens Were Affected By Recent Hack 34
Global Debt Hasn't Been This Bad Since the Napoleonic Wars, Says WEF President 264
Satellite Operator SES Acquiring Intelsat In $3.1 Billion Deal 13
America's Wind Power Production Drops For the First Time In 25 Years 110
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
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 145
Biden Administration Moves To Speed Up Permits for Clean Energy 19
Russia Clones Wikipedia, Censors It, Bans Original 243
G7 Reaches Deal To Exit From Coal By 2035 148
T2 Linux 24.5 Released 22
WeWork Rejects Adam Neumann's Acquisition Bid, Unveils Restructuring 7
FCC Fines Wireless Carriers $200 Million For Sharing Customer Data 20
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
UK Becomes First Country To Ban Default Bad Passwords on IoT Devices 39
America's First Big-Rig Hydrogen Fuel Station Opens in California 131
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
The 'Ceph' Community Now Stores 1,000 Petabytes in Its Open Source Storage Solution 25
Court Upholds New York Law That Says ISPs Must Offer $15 Broadband 47
IRS Free Tax Filing Pilot Saved Consumers $5.6 Million In Prep Fees 37
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
Chinese Drone Maker DJI Might Get Banned Next in the US 107
Europeans 'Less Hard-Working' Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss 223
Open Sourcing DOS 4 82
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip 124
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
New Rule Compels US Coal-Fired Power Plants To Capture Emissions - or Shut Down 93
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
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users 123
Updating California's Grid For EVs May Cost Up To $20 Billion 116
Biden Signs TikTok 'Divest or Ban' Bill Into Law 122
US Bans Noncompete Agreements For Nearly All Jobs 113
Oracle Is Moving Its World Headquarters To Nashville 67
FTC To Vote On Noncompete Ban 96
No One Buys Books Any More 165
California Is Grappling With a Growing Problem: Too Much Solar 338
Home Assistant Has a New Foundation, Goal To Become a Consumer Brand 33
Europe Baked in 'Extreme Heat Stress' Pushing Temperatures To Record Highs 117
Study: Alphabetical Order of Surnames May Affect Grading 72
Biden Marks Earth Day by Announcing $7 Billion in Solar Power Grants 106
Russian Court Sentences Meta Spokesperson To Six Years in Absentia, Calls Meta 'Extremist Organisation' 115
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
Is Rivos Building an RISC-V AI Chip? 10
LXQt 2.0 Released: Lightweight Desktop is Almost Wayland Compatible 66
How a Renewable Energy-Powered Bitcoin Startup Helps Electrify Rural Africa 66
Insufficient Redundancy? Light-Pole Installation Cut Fiber Line, Triggered Three-State 911 Outage 90
Could the Earth's Record Hot Streak Signal a New Climate Era? 170
US Passes Bill Reauthorizing 'FISA' Surveillance for Two More Years 45
Sell or Be Banned: Anti-TikTok Bill Passed by US Representatives 96
Data Centers Are Turning to an Old Source of Power: Coal 58
Ocean Spray Emits More PFAS Than Industrial Polluters, Study Finds 75
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
Firefox Nightly Expands To Linux On ARM64 4
EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two 'Forever Chemicals' 39
FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure 116
Northrop Grumman Working With SpaceX On US Spy Satellite System 10
Ubuntu 24.04 Yields a 20% Performance Advantage Over Windows 11 On Ryzen 7 Framework Laptop 63
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules 146
Software Glitch Saw Aussie Casino Give Away Millions In Cash 19
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students 39
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme 9
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 84
Canadian Science Gets Biggest Boost To PhD and Postdoc Pay in 20 Years 23
Odds of US TikTok Ban Increase After House Fast-Tracks Revised Bill, Picking Up Key Senate Support 63
US Air Force Confirms First Successful AI Dogfight 69
Sweden Becomes 38th Country To Sign NASA's Artemis Accords For Moon Exploration 14
House Passes Bill Requiring Warrant To Purchase Data From Third Parties 54

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