Technology Stories for 2023

Tumblr Is Reportedly On Life Support As Its Latest Owner Reassigns Staff 54
Fakespot Chat, Mozilla's First LLM, Lets Online Shoppers Research Products Via an AI Chatbot 12
Internet Providers Say the FCC Should Not Investigate Broadband Prices 64
Google Only Improves Products Under Pressure, US Argues 29
The Humane Ai Pin Launches Its Campaign To Replace Phones 85
Google Offered Epic $147 Million To Launch Fortnite on the Play Store 21
Big Tech Wants AI Regulation. The Rest of Silicon Valley is Skeptical. 68
Omegle Shuts Down After 15 Years 58
Meta Taps Hugging Face For Startup Accelerator To Spur Adoption of Open Source AI Models 8
Cruise Recalls All of Its Self Driving Cars To Fix Their Programming 31
Court Rules Automakers Can Record and Intercept Owner Text Messages 89
WhatsApp Now Lets You Hide Your IP Address During Calls 17
Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine 37
Microsoft Plans To Bring Its AI Copilot To 1 Billion Windows 10 Users 59
Google Turns To Regulators To Make Apple Open Up iMessage 232
The World's Largest Aircraft Breaks Cover in Silicon Valley 121
Chamberlain Shuts Off Access To MyQ's APIs, Breaking Smart Home Integrations 146
Intel To Build 'Secure Enclave' Chip Facilities For Defense Applications 21
Cruise Confirms Robotaxis Rely On Human Assistance Every Four To Five Miles 52
Waze Will Now Warn Drivers About Crash Dangers Using Historical Data 23
After Big Drop in ISP Competition, Canada Mandates Fiber-Network Sharing 28
Google Search and Chrome Are Getting New Tools To Help Users Find Discounts 17
Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software To Fix Bugs 74
Baidu Placed AI Chip Order from Huawei in Shift Away From Nvidia 31
Google Photos' Magic Editor Will Refuse To Make Some Edits 50
Scientist Claims Quantum RSA-2048 Encryption Cracking Breakthrough 129
US Military Members' Personal Data Being Sold By Online Brokers, Report Finds 32
Washington DC Gives Residents Free AirTags To Help Track Stolen Cars 110
Epic Games Goes To Court To Challenge Google's App Store Practices 63
Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Starlink Achieves Breakeven Cash Flow 155
After Suspending Its Self-Driving Cars, Cruise Takes Steps to Win Back Trust 76
Amazon and Meta Promise UK Regulators to Stop Unfairly Undercutting Rivals 16
Whatever Happened to Amazon's Drone Delivery Service? 71
Will AI-Powered SEO Ruin Google's Search Results? 69
Mozilla Introduces Firefox Nightly .deb Packages for Debian-based Linux Distros 23
Will 'News Influencers' Replace Traditional Media? 123
VW Group's Troubled Cariad Software Division To Lay Off 2,000 Workers 34
Microsoft Commits To 6 Years of Firmware Updates For New and Some Older Surface PCs 12
Meta's Free AI Isn't Cheap To Use, Companies Say 18
Okta Breach: 134 Customers Exposed in October Support System Hack 13
Google, Lendlease End Deals for San Francisco Bay Projects 48
12 V Battery Problem Forces Toyota To Recall 1.8 Million SUVs 62
Apple Called Android a 'Massive Tracking Device' In 2013 29
Microsoft Overhauling Its Software Security After Major Azure Cloud Attacks 40
Mozilla's 'Failed' Bet on Yahoo Takes Spotlight in Google Trial 15
Instagram Head Says Threads API Is In the Works 15
Google's 2019 'Code Yellow' Blurred Line Between Search, Ads 25
Microsoft Calls Time on Windows Insider MVP Program 12
HSBC Takes Stab at Using Blockchain To Modernize London's Antiquated Gold Market 39
A Rare Look at Google's Most Lucrative Search Queries 66
US, China and 26 Other Nations Agree To Co-operate Over AI Development 15
LinkedIn Hits 1 Billion Users, Adds AI Features for Job Seekers 28
WeWork Plans To File For Bankruptcy as Early as Next Week 50
Google Registry Launches .ing Domains, Begg.ing For Wordplay 75
YouTube Is Getting Serious About Blocking Ad Blockers 286
Russia Blocks 167 VPNs, Steps Up OpenVPN and WireGuard Disruption 42
China Removes Anonymity of Bloggers' Accounts With More Than 500,000 Followers 20
Google Plans RISC-V Android Tools In 2024, Wants Developers To 'Be Ready' 47
Google Promises a Rescue Patch For Android 14's 'Ransomware' Bug 33
Windows 11 Adds Native Support For RAR, 7-Zip, Tar Archive File Formats 85
Meta Told To Stop Using Threads Name By Company That Owns UK Trademark 60
Internet Access In Gaza Partially Restored After Blackout 262
Windows CE Reaches End of Life, If Not End of Sales 36
Xbox's New Policy Says Goodbye To Unofficial Accessories 127
Google CEO Tells Court Search Dominance Is Result of 'Fierce Competition' 65
Facebook and Instagram To Offer Subscription for No Ads in Europe 69
Linux Mint Gets 'Experimental' Wayland Support in December 57
America's Net Neutrality Question: Should the FCC Define the Internet as a 'Common Carrier'? 132
Comcast and Xfinity Lose Customers - Thanks to Cord-Cutters and Competition from Wireless Internet Carriers 98
Tens of Millions Now Work in the $250B 'Creator Economy' 95
Cruise Suspends All Driverless Operations Nationwide 139
Will The Future See Interconnected Social Media Platforms? 37
Oxide Launches the World's First 'Commercial' Cloud Computer 35
How Long Do EV Batteries Last? Longer Than You Might Think, Research Suggests 172
Google Can Turn ANC Earbuds Into a Heart Rate Monitor With No Extra Hardware 20
Auto Execs Are Coming Clean: EVs Aren't Working 352
Windows 11 Now Lets You Write Anywhere You Can Type 51
Google Paid a Whopping $26.3 Billion in 2021 To Be Default Search Engine Everywhere 52
Internet Access in Gaza is Collapsing as ISPs Fall Offline 446
The Restaurant Nearest Google 30
PIRG Petitions Microsoft To Extend the Life of Windows 10 117
Barcode Leads To Arrest of Texas Litterbug Behind 200 Pounds of Dumped Trash 106
Meta's Threads App Has 'Just Under' 100 Million Monthly Active Users, Says Zuckerberg 23
Google Fiber Is Getting Outrageously Fast 20Gbps Service 53
Google Adds Generative AI Threats To Its Bug Bounty Program 3
Hyundai To Hold Software-Upgrade Clinics Across the US For Vehicles Targeted By Thieves 59
OpenAI Forms Team To Study 'Catastrophic' AI Risks, Including Nuclear Threats 16
Google Exec Testifies Innovation Key To Avoid Becoming 'Next Road Kill' 17
Bloomsbury Chief Warns of AI Threat To Publishing 44
JPMorgan Says JPM Coin Now Handles $1 Billion Transactions Daily 97
Inside Google's Plan To Stop Apple From Getting Serious About Search 22
AI Risk Must Be Treated As Seriously As Climate Crisis, Says Google DeepMind Chief 120
The Apple Watch's Double Tap Gesture Points At a New Way To Use Wearables 44
Volkswagen To Stop Selling Combustion Vehicles In Norway From 2024 82
GM Offers Chevy Bolt Owners $1,400 For Dealing With Software-Limited, Fire-Prone Batteries 36
Network State Conference Announced in Amsterdam for October 30 4
Twitter Alternative Pebble, Previously Known As T2, Is Shutting Down 28
Motorola Demos Smartphone That Can Wrap Around Your Wrist (Again) 23
NASA's First Two-Way End-to-End Laser Communications System 14
Intel's New 14th Gen CPUs Get a Boost To Gaming Performance With APO Feature 34
Honda Says Making Cheap Electric Vehicles is Too Hard, Ends Deal With GM 181
SiFive Lays Off Hundreds of RISC-V Developers 17
Atom Computing Is the First To Announce a 1,000+ Qubit Quantum Computer 20
ICE Uses Tool To Find 'Derogatory' Speech Online 63
Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite Chips Promise Major PC Performance 9
California Suspends GM Cruise Self-Driving Vehicles As 'Not Safe' For Public 115
Google Falsely Flags Samsung Apps as 'Harmful,' Tells Users To Remove Them 45
They Cracked the Code To a Locked USB Drive Worth $235 Million in Bitcoin. Then It Got Weird. 61
Meta Sued by California, States Over Harmful Youth Marketing 36
Millions of Smart Meters Will Be Defunct When 2G and 3G Turns Off 137
Nvidia To Make Arm-Based PC Chips 42
Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband 88
Google Chrome's New 'IP Protection' Will Hide Users' IP Addresses 131
Matter 1.2 is a Big Move For the Smart Home Standard 64
Inside Apple's Big Plan to Bring Generative AI To All Its Devices 52
Japan Investigates Google Over Alleged Antitrust Violations 6
CarPlay? Android Auto? Most People Still Just Listen to AM/FM Radio 209
Mozilla Launches Annual Digital Privacy 'Creep-o-Meter'. This Year's Status: 'Very Creepy' 60
'Threads' Downloads Nearly Doubled in September, as New Features Roll Out 67
Online 'Information War' in Africa Rages on Social Media 46
What Happens When Major Online Platforms Lower Traffic to News Sites? 101
Supreme Court Blocks Restrictions On Biden Administration Efforts To Get Platforms To Remove Social Media Posts 148
OpenBSD 7.4 Released 8
Windows 11 Pro's On-By-Default Encryption Slows SSDs Up To 45% 120
In-memory Database Redis Wants To Dabble in Disk 5
Telegram is Still Leaking User IP Addresses To Contacts 18
Google Takes Aim At Duolingo With New English Tutoring Tool 21
Hackers Compromise Accounts of Kodex, Company That Vets Police Data Requests For Tech Giants 2
Convoy Trucking Startup, Backed By Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, Is Closing Operation With No Buyer 23
Discord is Going To Give Out Warnings Instead of Permanent Bans 25
FCC Greenlights Superfast Wi-Fi Tethering for AR and VR Headsets 5
Google-Hosted Malvertising Leads To Fake Keepass Site That Looks Genuine 37
In Antitrust Trial, Google Argues That Smart Employees Explain Its Success 36
Google To Manufacture Pixel Smartphones in India 17
AMD's Monstrous Threadripper 7000 CPUs Aim For Desktop PC Dominance 62
Adobe Unveils Dress That Can Change Its Pattern On the Fly 68
'Apple Is Approaching Social On Vision Pro the Way Meta Should Have All Along' 69
AlmaLinux Stays Red Hat Enterprise Linux Compatible Without Red Hat Code 34
Tesla Announces Cybertruck Deliveries In November, Claims 125K Production Capacity 127
Amazon Plans To Deploy Delivery Drones In the UK and Italy Next Year 16
Tech Leaders Say AI Will Change What It Means To Have a Job 147
Joseon Becomes First-ever Globally Recognized Cyber Nation-state 115
GM Delays EV Truck Production At Michigan Plant By Another Year 114
Mazda's DMCA Takedown Kills a Hobbyist's Smart Car API Tool 28
Meta Will Now Let You Stop Instagram From Tracking You Across the Web 9
Reddit is Killing Blockchain-Based Community Points 10
Windows 11 is Active on Almost Half a Billion Devices 63
Google Asks Congress To Not Ban Teens From Social Media 118
'World's First Off-Road Solar SUV' Just Drove Across Morocco 82
Comcast Resists Call To Stop Its Misleading '10G Network' Claims 39
Colorado Supreme Court Approves Use of Google Search Data in Murder Case 56
Google's AI-Powered 'Project Green Light' Speeds Traffic, Reduces Fuel Consumption and Carbon Emissions 93
To 'Evolve' Windows Authentication, Microsoft Wants to Eventually Disable NTLM in Windows 11 68
How a Series of Air Traffic Control Lapses Nearly Killed 131 People 58
Australian Student Invents Affordable Electric Car Conversion Kit. 88
Chinese Scientists Claim Record-Smashing Quantum Computing Breakthrough 44
Third-party Reddit App Narwhal Hopes To Survive Reddit's App Purge With Subscriptions 20
Could The Next Big Solar Storm Fry the Grid? 44
Tesla Releases Official API Documentation To Support Third-Party Apps 7
Lenovo Will Soon Distribute Devices Powered By the Esper Foundation OS 16
Google Tests a News-Filled Homepage 38
Canon Begins Selling Chip Machines To Rival World's Best by ASML 23
Woman's Experimental Bionic Hand Passes Major Test 33
Google Removes the Photo Sphere Mode From the Pixel 8 Camera 9
Higher Quality AV1 Video Encoding Now Available For Radeon Graphics On Linux 3
New York Seeks To Limit Social Media's Grip On Children's Attention 23
Google To Defend Generative AI Users From Copyright Claims 16
You Can Now Generate AI Images Directly in the Google Search Bar 21
YouTube TV, Which Costs $73 a Month, Agrees To End '$600 Less Than Cable' Ads 19
CBC Stops Broadcasting Official Time Signal 70
New Starlink Webpage Highlights Upcoming 'Direct To Cell' Service 21
Crunchyroll Will Pay You $30 For Violating Your Data Privacy Rights 17
FTC Lays Out New Rule That Could End Hidden Fees 90
Utah Sues TikTok, Alleging It Lures Children Into Addictive and Destructive Social Media Habits 60
Even Google Insiders Are Questioning Bard AI Chatbot's Usefulness 40
Adobe Previews AI Upscaling To Make Old, Fuzzy Videos and GIFs Look Fresh 42
Federal Judge Throws Out $32.5 Million Win For Sonos Against Google; Google Starts Reintroducing Software Features It had Removed 60
Man Trains Home Cameras To Help Repel Badgers and Foxes 77
Microsoft Says VBScript Will Be Ripped From Windows In a Future Release 79
GNOME Merge Requests Opened To Drop X11 Session Support 99
Deta's Space OS Aims To Build the First 'Personal Cloud Computer' 38
Waymo's Robotaxi Service Is Now Available To Thousands In San Francisco 10
Facebook's Sexist, Ageist Ad-Targeting Violates California Law, Court Finds 71
Finnish President Says Undersea Gas and Telecom Cables Damaged By 'External Activity' 88
RISC-V Group Says Restrictions on Open Technology Would Slow Innovation 29
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle as Resellers Charge $250 77
HTTP/2 Zero-Day Exploited To Launch Largest DDoS Attacks In History 25
Google Makes Passkeys the Default Sign-in Method For All Users 230
Mastodon Actually Has 407K+ More Monthly Users Than It Thought 46
Chinese Programmer Ordered To Pay 1 Million Yuan For Using VPN 35
Europe's First Exascale Supercomputer Will Run On ARM Instead of X86 40
California Governor Signs Ban On Social Media 'Aiding or Abetting' Child Abuse 70
Not Even the Ghost of Obsolescence Can Coerce Users Onto Windows 11 287
Should New Tech Rules Apply To Microsoft's Bing, Apple's iMessage, EU Asks 38
Net Neutrality's Court Fate Depends on Whether Broadband is 'Telecommunications' 84
Google Made Billions With Secret Change to Ad-Auction Algorithm, Witness Testifies 46
What Microsoft's CEO Said in Court About Google - And Its Own 1998 Antitrust Case 58
Freak Accident in San Francisco Traps Pedestrian Under Robotaxi 104
Amazon Launches First Satellites for Kuiper Space Internet System 38
EV Buyers Will Get an Instant Rebate of as Much as $7,500 Starting in 2024 145
South Korea Warns Google, Apple of Possible Fines Over Apps Marketing 5
Google Open-Sourced a Hat Shaped Like a Giant Keycap - and It Actually Types 20
Biden Administration Backs Strong Rules To Close Digital Divide 82
Rebuilt Microsoft Teams App Promises Twice the Speed, Half the RAM Usage 121
Displace Came Up With a Landing Gear Safety System For Its Totally Wireless TV 68
Google Agrees To Reform Its Data Terms After German Antitrust Intervention 4
Hyundai, Kia To Adopt Tesla EV-Charging Standard From 2024 In US 59
Apple Considered, Rejected Switch To DuckDuckGo From Google 25
Men Overran a Job Fair For Women In Tech 692
A New Satellite Outshines Some of the Brightest Stars in the Sky 41
Kidnapped By a Runaway Electric Car 351
Linux Tries To Dump Windows' Notoriously Insecure RNDIS Protocol 35
Gmail Unleashes 'Email Emoji Reactions' Onto an Unsuspecting World 35
Russia Plans To Block VPN In March 2024 150
The Pixel Watch 2 Adds New Sensors, Longer Battery Life, and Better Accuracy 12
Los Angeles is Using AI To Predict Who Might Become Homeless and Help Before They Do 112
Android 14 Officially Releases for Pixel Phones 20
Google's New Virtual Assistant To Include Bard AI Tools 14
The Google Pixel 8 is Official With 7 Years of Updates 77
Meta To Lay Off Employees in Metaverse Silicon Unit Tomorrow 55
Google Mandates Unsubscribe Button in Emails For Those Sending Over 5,000 Daily Messages 91
Meta Plans To Charge $14 a Month for Ad-Free Instagram or Facebook 119
An Emergency Alert Test Will Sound On All US Cellphones, TVs and Radios On Wednesday 101
Dish Dealt First-Ever Space-Debris Fine For Misparking Satellite 63
Vulnerable Arm GPU Drivers Under Active Exploitation, Patches May Not Be Available 30
Cooler Master's Sneaker Gaming PC Sells For $3,799 30
Chromebook Plus is Google's New Certification for Premium Chromebooks 17
Microsoft CEO Says AI Will Help Google Extend Search Edge 17
European Telecom Groups Ask Brussels To Make Big Tech Pay More For Networks 60
'Embarrassing' Court Document Google Wanted to Hide Finally Posted Online 44
Web Sites Can Now Choose to Opt Out of Google Bard and Future AI Models 35
Social Media Dunks on an AI-Generated 'Batman' Comic Strip 110
Will EVs Send OPEC Into a Death Spiral? 206
Republican Presidential Candidates Criticize TikTok as 'Dangerous', 'Controlled by Communist China' 167
NSA Is Starting an AI Security Center 13
Kia and Hyundai Blame TikTok and Instagram For Their Cars Getting Stolen 80
Supreme Court To Decide If State Laws Limiting Social Media Platforms Violate Constitution 42
Norway Wants Facebook Behavioral Advertising Banned Across Europe 8
$5,000 Google Jamboard Dies In 2024 -- Cloud-Based Apps Will Stop Working, Too 40
A Hidden Bar Code in iPhone Screens Saved Apple Hundreds of Millions of Dollars 47
A Test of iPhone-to-HDMI Adapter That Demands Location/Browsing Data 29
You Can No Longer Activate New Windows 11 Builds With Windows 7 or 8 Keys 84
Nissan To Go All-Electric By 2030 Despite UK's Petrol Ban Delay 240
How Lockheed Martin Designed the World's Weirdest, Quietest Supersonic Jet 77
Reddit Is Removing Ability To Opt Out of Ad Personalization Based On Your Activity 54
Nvidia's French Offices Raided In Cloud-Computing Competition Inquiry 9
Mark Zuckerberg Can't Quit the Metaverse 84
Microsoft Considered Investing Billions in Apple To Compete With Google Search 16
Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Lousy Browser Spell-Checkers? 96
Meta's Smart Glasses Can Take Calls, Play Music, and Livestream From Your Face 63

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