Index Stories for 2024

World's Largest Solar Farm Goes Online In China 4
Nvidia Takes 88% of the GPU Market Share 14
Boeing Passenger Jet Nearly Crashes Due To Software Glitch 23
Tokyo's Government Is Building Its Own Dating App To Combat Falling Birthrates 46
Samsung Electronics Workers Strike For the First Time Ever 1
United Airlines Starts Serving Passengers Personalized Ads On Seat-Back Screens 47
VMware Customers May Stay, But Broadcom Could Face Backlash 'For Years To Come' 19
Ashton Kutcher: Entire Movies Can Be Made on OpenAI's Sora Someday 36
Some Cheap Wired Headphones Are Actually Using Bluetooth 23
Yelp Can Sue Reputation Company For Promising To Suppress Bad Reviews 8
Canonical Launches Ubuntu Core 24 5
A 27-Year Old Tamagotchi Mystery Has Been Solved 10
Retailers Can't Keep Scammers Away From Their Favorite Payment Form: Gift Cards 81
Windows Won't Take Screenshots of Everything You Do After All 71
It's Not AI, It's 'Apple Intelligence' 25
California AI Bill Sparks Backlash from Silicon Valley Giants 57
Bangladeshi Police Agents Accused of Selling Citizens' Personal Information on Telegram 4
Apple To Launch 'Passwords' App, Intensifying Competition With 1Password, LastPass 71
Earth Broke Heat Records 12 Months Straight 156
Radio Signal From Space Repeats Every Hour, Defying Explanation 70
Boeing Starliner Docks With ISS 28
Costco Plans To Stop Selling Books Year-Round 58
eBay To Drop American Express Over Fees 74
UK Imposes Mysterious Ban On Quantum Computer Exports 19
GOG Will Start Deleting Cloud Saves This Summer 32
Artists Are Deleting Instagram For New App Cara In Protest of Meta AI Scraping 20
Adobe Responds To Vocal Uproar Over New Terms of Service Language 33
Google Is Working On a Recall-Like Feature For Chromebooks, Too 48
FBI Recovers 7,000 LockBit Keys, Urges Ransomware Victims To Reach Out 2
Apple Commits To At Least Five Years of iPhone Security Updates 37
Sony Removes 8K Claim From PlayStation 5 Boxes 37
DuckDuckGo Offers 'Anonymous' Access To AI Chatbots Through New Service 7
Google To Start Permanently Deleting Users' Location History 49
Humane Said To Be Seeking a $1 Billion Buyout After Only 10,000 Orders of Its AI Pin 35
Intel Ditches Hyperthreading For Lunar Lake CPUs 52
'Microsoft Has Lost Trust With Its Users and Windows Recall is the Straw That Broke the Camel's Back' 154
SpaceX Soars Through New Milestones in Test Flight of the Most Powerful Rocket Ever Built 124
Japan's Birth Rate Falls To a Record Low 228
US Regulators To Open Antitrust Inquiries of Microsoft, OpenAI and Nvidia 38
Amazon Acquires MX Player 16
Court Rules $17 Billion UK Advertising Lawsuit Against Google Can Go Ahead 18
Nearly All of Apple's Newest Devices Have an Unannounced Thread Radio On Board 89
Study Finds 268% Higher Failure Rates For Agile Software Projects 211
NewsBreak, Most Downloaded US News App, Caught Sharing 'Entirely False' AI-Generated Stories 90
Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died 10
Remote Amazon Tribe Connects To Internet, Gets Addicted To Porn and Social Media 93
A Billionaire-Backed Texas Stock Exchange Is In The Works 72
Israel Reportedly Uses Fake Social Media Accounts To Influence US Lawmakers On Gaza War 131
Humane Warns AI Pin Owners To 'Immediately' Stop Using Its Charging Case 15
Nvidia Hits $3 Trillion Market Cap On Back of AI Boom 39
Oral-B Bricking Alexa Toothbrush Is a Cautionary Tale Against Buzzy Tech 61
Meta Withheld Information on Instagram, WhatsApp Deals, FTC Says 9
Boeing Spacecraft Carrying Two Astronauts Lifts Off On Historic Maiden Voyage 66
Scientists Find Security Risk in RISC-V Open-Source Chip Architecture That China Hopes Can Help Sidestep US Sanctions 39
Jury Finds Boeing Stole Technology From Electric Airplane Startup Zunum 46
UN Secretary-General Calls For 'Windfall' Tax on Profits of Fossil Fuel Companies 199
Google Acquires Cameyo 12
US Lawmakers Accuse Nigeria of Taking Binance Executive Hostage 44
Yellen To Warn of 'Significant Risks' From Use of AI in Finance 16
Popular Mac App Bartender's New Owner Has Burnt Years of Good-Will With a Lack of Transparency 25
Microsoft Reopens Windows 10 Beta Testing For 'New Features' and Improvements 34
Apple Is Working On LLM-Powered Robots, Report Says 42
Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected By Windows' New Recall AI 143
Google Can Keep Your Phone If You Send It In For Repair With Non-OEM Parts [UPDATE: Changing Policy] 148
Aging Hubble Telescope Moves To 'One-Gyro' Operations 75
Internet Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry In Young People, Study Finds 60
Solar Passes 100% of Power Demand In California 267
The Raspberry Pi 5 Gets an AI Upgrade 47
A New Google Maps Layer Shows Public Restrooms In NYC 44
Nintendo Hits 127 Switch Piracy Tutorial Repos After 'Cracking' URL Encryption 28
Apollo To Provide $11 Billion To Intel For Ireland Facility 9
Google Contractor Used Admin Access To Leak Info From Private Nintendo YouTube Video 12
Online Streaming Services In Canada Must Hand Over 5% of Domestic Revenues 94
ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity All Went Down At the Same Time 29
Ex-Google CEO Funds AI Research at Europe's Top Physics Hub CERN 11
FCC Sued by Broadband Industry Groups Over Net Neutrality Rules 34
Services Disrupted as London Hospitals Hit By Cyber-attack 18
Intel CEO Takes Aim at Nvidia in Fight for AI Chip Dominance 17
The Chinese Internet Is Shrinking 87
OpenAI Employees Want Protections To Speak Out on 'Serious Risks' of AI 36
World Will Miss Target of Tripling Renewable Electricity Generation By 2030, IEA Says 65
More Than Half of US Adults Will Have Cardiovascular Disease By 2050, Research Finds 169
Snowflake Says There's No Evidence Attackers Breached Its Platform To Hack Ticketmaster 24
Palmer Luckey Unveils ModRetro Chromatic Handheld Console 36
Qualcomm Spoofs 'I'm a Mac' Ads To Promote Windows On ARM PCs 66
Sony's PSVR 2 PC Adapter Launches In August 32
Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed 40
Crooks Threaten To Leak 3 Billion Personal Records 'Stolen From Background Firm' 67
AMD Blows Up Its Laptop CPU Numbering System 20
New York Set to Restrict Social-Media Algorithms for Teens 63
Adobe Scolded For Selling 'Ansel Adams-Style' Images Generated By AI 84
Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago 49
E-Trade Considers Kicking Meme-Stock Leader Keith Gill Off Platform 55
Toyota Apologizes For Cheating On Vehicle Testing, Halts Production of 3 Models 45
Samsung Sues Oura Preemptively To Block Smart Ring Patent Claims 26
Sony Pictures Will Use AI To Cut Film Costs, Says CEO Tony Vinciquerra 80
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents 20
Monthly Drop Hints That China's CO2 Emissions May Have Peaked in 2023 123
NYSE Investigating 'Technical Issue' That Showed Berkshire Hathaway Share Price Dropping 99% 33
CEO of Zoom Wants AI Clones in Meetings 95
Arm Targets 50% of Windows PC Market Share in Five Years, CEO Says 105
AMD Unveils Ryzen AI and 9000 Series Processors, Plus Radeon PRO W7900 Dual Slot 41
Cybercriminal Posed as 'Helpful' Stack Overflow User To Recommend Malware Hosted on PyPi 43
Law Student Claims Unfair Discipline After He Reported a Data Breach 74
AI Researchers Analyze Similarities of Scarlett Johanssson's Voice to OpenAI's 'Sky' 87
Male Birth Control Gel Continues to Show Promise 152
8BitDo's Reimagining of IBM's Model-M Keyboard Draws Reactions Online 70
Amazon's Drones Gets Key Approval, Can Now Fly Farther to More Customers 19
Ozempic-Like Drugs Could Lower Sales of Junk Food 118
Is the New 'Recall' Feature in Windows a Security and Privacy Nightmare? 140
College-Level Minecraft-Based CS Courses Approved for US High School Students 59
A Simple Fix Could Double the Size of the U.S. Electricity Grid 201
Did the US Government Ignore a Chance to Make TikTok Safer? 59
There's a Program to Cancel Some Private US Student Loans. Most Don't Know About It. 50
Are We Closer to a Cure for Diabetes? 75
China Successfully Lands Probe on the Moon's Far Side, Starts Collecting Samples 51
Could AI Replace CEOs? 133
Boeing Starliner Launched Scrubbed Until at Least Wednesday After Redundant Computer Issue 41
Federal Agency Warns (Patched) Critical Linux Vulnerability Being Actively Exploited 20
How Facial Recognition Tech Is Being Used In London By Shops - and Police 85
Vehicle Electrification Could Require 55% More Copper Mines in the Next 30 Years 152
How Misinformation Spreads? It's Funded By 'The Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising' 66
Not 'Quiet Quitting' - Remote Workers Try 'Quiet Vacationing' 116
Apple's AI Plans Include 'Black Box' For Cloud Data 14
Electric Car Sales Keep Increasing in California, Despite 'Negative Hype' 208
World's First Bioprocessor Uses 16 Human Brain Organoids, Consumes Less Power 48
How an Apple AirTag Helped Police Recover 15,000 Stolen Power Tools 90
HP's MicroLED Monitors Stack Together Like Legos 26
Journalists 'Deeply Troubled' By OpenAI's Content Deals With Vox, The Atlantic 100
'Planetary Parade' Will See Six Planets Line Up In the Morning Sky 39
Scientists Find the Largest Known Genome Inside a Small Plant 37
London's Evening Standard To End Daily Newspaper After Almost 200 Years 58
Windows 11's New Recall Feature Has Been Cracked To Run On Unsupported Hardware 53
Battery-Powered California Faces Lower Blackout Risk This Summer 80
Wordle In Legal Row With Geography Spinoff, Wordle 35
FCC Ends Affordable Internet Program Due To Lack of Funds 67
All Santander Staff and 30 Million Customers In Spain, Chile and Uruguay Hacked 10
Hackers Steal $305 Million From DMM Bitcoin Crypto Exchange 28
Biomedical Paper Retractions Have Quadrupled in 20 Years 27
Fax Machines Permeate Germany's Business Culture. But Parliament is Ditching Them 46
Vermont Becomes 1st State To Enact Law Requiring Oil Companies Pay For Damage From Climate Change 130
Japan's Push To Make All Research Open Access is Taking Shape 8
'Why You Should Use Your TV's Filmmaker Mode' 76
Alzheimer's Takes a Financial Toll Long Before Diagnosis, Study Finds 49
Google Will Disable Classic Extensions in Chrome in the Coming Months 86
You Can Thank Private Equity for That Enormous Doctor's Bill 139
Vista Equity Writes Off IT Education Platform PluralSight Value, After $3.5 Billion Buyout 9
Recycling Old Copper Wires Could Be Worth Billions For Telcos 93
Google is Putting More Restrictions On AI Overviews 42
Best Buy Set For Tenth Straight Quarter of Sales Drop 42
Apple News+ Subscription Growth Blows Away Major Media Sites 47
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy 42
Cut In Ship Pollution Sparked Global Heating Spurt 121
Amazon Prime Now Comes With Free Grubhub Food Delivery 71
Cooler Master Hit By Data Breach Exposing Customer Information 15
Twitch Terminates All Members of Its Safety Advisory Council 39
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
OpenAI Disrupts Five Attempts To Misuse Its AI For 'Deceptive Activity' 16
Framework Boosts Its 13-inch Laptop With New CPUs, Lower Prices, and Better Screens 4
Microsoft's Satya Nadella Worried About an OpenAI-Apple Deal, Report Says 41
New York Governor To Launch Bill Banning Smartphones in Schools 113
Google Cloud Explains How It Accidentally Deleted a Customer Account 79
Corporations Invested in Carbon Offsets That Were 'Likely Junk', Analysis Says 48
Android's New Instant Hotspot Feature Won't Be Available on Samsung Devices 64
Apple Puts iPhone Durability Ahead of Easy Repairs, Exec Says 74
Mystery Malware Destroys 600,000 Routers From a Single ISP During 72-hour Span 56
US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges 107
Google Confirms the Leaked Search Documents Are Real 17
Google, AR Startup Magic Leap Strike Partnership Deal 7
Amazon Execs May Be Personally Liable For Tricking Users Into Prime Sign-Ups 60
Very Few People Are Using 'Much Hyped' AI Products Like ChatGPT, Survey Finds 276
PayPal Adds Stablecoin To Solana Blockchain 22
Wind and Solar Saved the US $250 Billion Over 4 Years, Report Finds 170
Road Planners Embrace the Diverging Diamond Interchange To Speed Up Traffic 200
AST SpaceMobile Stock Surges 69% After Verizon Satellite Internet Deal 2
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors 54
'Ottawa Wants the Power To Create Secret Backdoors In Our Networks' 39
Hackers Claim To Have Breached Ticketmaster, Stealing Personal Data of 560 Million Users 34
Salesforce Shares Plunge 17% On First Revenue Miss Since 2006 27
Treasury Sanctions Creators of 911 S5 Proxy Botnet 6
Blacklisted Chinese Companies Rebrand as American To Dodge Crackdown 46
Google is Killing Off the Messaging Service Inside Google Maps 19
Saudi Arabia Eyes a Future Beyond Oil 58
Apple Signals That It's Working on TV+ App for Android Phones 54
Health Officials Tried To Evade Public Records Laws, Lawmakers Say 184
Mistral Releases Codestral, Its First Generative AI Model For Code 27
Data Centers Could Use 9% of US Electricity By 2030, Research Institute Says 27
Arm Says Its Next-Gen Mobile GPU Will Be Its Most 'Performant and Efficient' 29
Colorado Enacts Right-to-Repair Law for Electronics 62
Ex-OpenAI Director Says Board Learned of ChatGPT Launch on Twitter 57
Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame Sentenced To 7.5 Years In Prison 14
New Tech May Help Find Missing People In the Backcountry Within Minutes 90
Earthcare Cloud Mission Launches To Resolve Climate Unknowns 25
Lawyers To Plastic Makers: Prepare For 'Astronomical' PFAS Lawsuits 110
Huge Google Search Document Leak Reveals Inner Workings of Ranking Algorithm 64
Chromebooks Will Get Gemini and New Google AI Features 9
Instead of 'Auth,' We Should Say 'Permissions' and 'Login' 101
Nvidia Denies Pirate e-Book Sites Are 'Shadow Libraries' To Shut Down Lawsuit 105
Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine Under DDoS Cyberattack 31
Anthropic Hires Former OpenAI Safety Lead To Head Up New Team 5
Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password To a $3 Million Software-Based Crypto Wallet 74
Ubuntu Linux 24.04 Now Optimized For Milk-V Mars RISC-V Single Board Computer 35
Russia Mulling Charging Companies To Use Foreign Software 34
A Robot Will Soon Try To Remove Melted Nuclear Fuel From Japan's Destroyed Fukushima Reactor 56
Klarna Using GenAI To Cut Marketing Costs By $10 Million Annually 33
How China's 1980s PC Industry Hacked Dot-Matrix Printers 99
Adam Neumann Drops Bid To Acquire Bankrupt WeWork 17
Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 is Coming To Xbox Game Pass On Its Release Day 15
Carbon Offsets, a Much-Criticized Climate Tool, Get Federal Guidelines 37
Global Sales of Polluting SUVs Hit Record High in 2023, Data Shows 214
Wall Street Moves To Fastest Settlement of Trades in a Century 31
PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers 35
T-Mobile To Acquire Most of US Cellular in $4.4 Billion Deal 46
OpenAI Says It Has Begun Training a New Flagship AI Model 40
YouTube Begins Skipping Videos for Ad-Blocker Users 193
Ransomware Group Claims Responsibility for Christie's Hack 1
Intel Removes Knights Mill and Knights Landing Xeon Phi Support In LLVM 19 18
Rivers of Lava on Venus Reveal a More Volcanically Active Planet 24
Ditch Brightly Colored Plastic, Anti-Waste Researchers Tell Firms 82
Microsoft's Automatic Super Resolution Arrives To Improve Gaming Performance 53
Millions in US Face Extreme-Heat Threat 153
Harris Announces Plans To Help 80% of Africa Gain Access To the Internet 94
Bungie Wins Lawsuit Against Cheat Maker Aimjunkies 64
North Korea Says Its Attempt To Put Another Spy Satellite Into Orbit Has Failed 20
Microsoft: Windows 24H2 Will Remove Cortana and WordPad Apps 102
Google's AI Feeds People Answers From The Onion 125
China Sets Up Third Fund With $47.5 Billion To Boost Semiconductor Sector 37
Company will Convert GM's Electric Vans into Speedy Mobile Superchargers for Fleets 145
Food Industry Launches 'Ferocious' Campaign Against Regulations on Ultraprocessed Foods 208
1 in 9 American Kids Were Diagnosed With ADHD, New Study Finds 175
America Has One Public Charger for Every 20 Electric Cars 131
Pew Research Finds 64% of Americans Live Within Two Miles of a Public EV Charger 196
Technical Issues' Stall MLB's Adoption of Robots to Call Balls and Strikes 39
Memory Sealing 'mseal' System Call Merged For Linux 6.10 50
Mojo, Bend, and the Rise of AI-First Programming Languages 26
Could Sea Explosions Finally Locate the 2014 Crash Site of Flight MH370? 31
Netflix's Sci-Fi Movie 'Atlas': AI Apocalypse Blockbuster Gets 'Shocking' Reviews 94
Ubuntu 24.04 Now Runs on the Nintendo Switch (Unofficially) 6
Rust Foundation Reports 20% of Rust Crates Use 'Unsafe' Keyword 92
How A US Hospital is Using AI to Analyze X-Rays - With Help From Red Hat 19
VBScript's 'Deprecation' Confirmed by Microsoft - and Eventual Removal from Windows 88
A Startup's Faster-Than-E-Ink Android Tablet Challenges Apple's IPad 97
Trump Promises He'd Commute the Life Sentence of 'Silk Road' Founder Ross Ulbricht 283
Proposed Zero-Carbon Cement Solution Called 'Absolute Miracle' 79
Elon Musk Says AI Could Eliminate Our Need to Work at Jobs 289
How Internet Pioneers Celebrated 50 Years of the Internet 7
American Radio Relay League Confirms Cyberattack Disrupted Operations 32
Thursday's Bing API Outage Took Down DuckDuckGo, Copilot, and ChatGPT Search 17

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