Technology Stories for 2024

California AI Bill Sparks Backlash from Silicon Valley Giants 0
UK Imposes Mysterious Ban On Quantum Computer Exports 16
Artists Are Deleting Instagram For New App Cara In Protest of Meta AI Scraping 17
Google Is Working On a Recall-Like Feature For Chromebooks, Too 42
Google To Start Permanently Deleting Users' Location History 44
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
Mike Karels, of 4.4 BSD Fame, Has Died 10
Remote Amazon Tribe Connects To Internet, Gets Addicted To Porn and Social Media 88
Israel Reportedly Uses Fake Social Media Accounts To Influence US Lawmakers On Gaza War 125
Humane Warns AI Pin Owners To 'Immediately' Stop Using Its Charging Case 15
Oral-B Bricking Alexa Toothbrush Is a Cautionary Tale Against Buzzy Tech 59
Meta Withheld Information on Instagram, WhatsApp Deals, FTC Says 9
Google Acquires Cameyo 12
Popular Mac App Bartender's New Owner Has Burnt Years of Good-Will With a Lack of Transparency 24
Microsoft Reopens Windows 10 Beta Testing For 'New Features' and Improvements 34
Hacker Tool Extracts All the Data Collected By Windows' New Recall AI 141
Google Can Keep Your Phone If You Send It In For Repair With Non-OEM Parts [UPDATE: Changing Policy] 148
Internet Addiction Alters Brain Chemistry In Young People, Study Finds 59
A New Google Maps Layer Shows Public Restrooms In NYC 44
Google Contractor Used Admin Access To Leak Info From Private Nintendo YouTube Video 12
FCC Sued by Broadband Industry Groups Over Net Neutrality Rules 34
The Chinese Internet Is Shrinking 87
Qualcomm Spoofs 'I'm a Mac' Ads To Promote Windows On ARM PCs 66
New York Set to Restrict Social-Media Algorithms for Teens 63
Napster Sparked a File-Sharing Revolution 25 Years Ago 49
Toyota Apologizes For Cheating On Vehicle Testing, Halts Production of 3 Models 45
Google Leak Reveals Thousands of Privacy Incidents 20
CEO of Zoom Wants AI Clones in Meetings 95
Arm Targets 50% of Windows PC Market Share in Five Years, CEO Says 103
Amazon's Drones Gets Key Approval, Can Now Fly Farther to More Customers 19
Is the New 'Recall' Feature in Windows a Security and Privacy Nightmare? 140
Did the US Government Ignore a Chance to Make TikTok Safer? 59
Vehicle Electrification Could Require 55% More Copper Mines in the Next 30 Years 152
Electric Car Sales Keep Increasing in California, Despite 'Negative Hype' 208
HP's MicroLED Monitors Stack Together Like Legos 26
Windows 11's New Recall Feature Has Been Cracked To Run On Unsupported Hardware 53
FCC Ends Affordable Internet Program Due To Lack of Funds 67
Google Will Disable Classic Extensions in Chrome in the Coming Months 86
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
TikTok Preparing a US Copy of the App's Core Algorithm 57
OpenAI Disrupts Five Attempts To Misuse Its AI For 'Deceptive Activity' 16
Google Cloud Explains How It Accidentally Deleted a Customer Account 79
Google Confirms the Leaked Search Documents Are Real 17
Google, AR Startup Magic Leap Strike Partnership Deal 7
Road Planners Embrace the Diverging Diamond Interchange To Speed Up Traffic 200
Google is Killing Off the Messaging Service Inside Google Maps 19
New Tech May Help Find Missing People In the Backcountry Within Minutes 90
Earthcare Cloud Mission Launches To Resolve Climate Unknowns 25
Huge Google Search Document Leak Reveals Inner Workings of Ranking Algorithm 64
Instead of 'Auth,' We Should Say 'Permissions' and 'Login' 101
Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine Under DDoS Cyberattack 31
Russia Mulling Charging Companies To Use Foreign Software 34
Global Sales of Polluting SUVs Hit Record High in 2023, Data Shows 214
T-Mobile To Acquire Most of US Cellular in $4.4 Billion Deal 46
Harris Announces Plans To Help 80% of Africa Gain Access To the Internet 93
Microsoft: Windows 24H2 Will Remove Cortana and WordPad Apps 102
Google's AI Feeds People Answers From The Onion 125
Company will Convert GM's Electric Vans into Speedy Mobile Superchargers for Fleets 145
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
Could Sea Explosions Finally Locate the 2014 Crash Site of Flight MH370? 31
VBScript's 'Deprecation' Confirmed by Microsoft - and Eventual Removal from Windows 88
How Internet Pioneers Celebrated 50 Years of the Internet 7
American Radio Relay League Confirms Cyberattack Disrupted Operations 32
Robotaxis Face 'Heightened Scrutiny' While the Industry Plans Expansion 19
Satya Nadella Says Microsoft's AI-Focused Copilot+ Laptops Will Outperform Apple's MacBooks 86
Meta, Activision Sued By Parents of Children Killed in Last Year's School Shooting 153
Eagles Changed Migration Route To Avoid Ukraine War 28
Feds Add Nine More Incidents To Waymo Robotaxi Investigation 36
Google Threatens To Pause Google News Initiative Funding In US 20
Google Search's 'udm=14' Trick Lets You Kill AI Search For Good 40
Another US State Repeals Law That Protected ISPs From Municipal Competition 34
Apple Explains Rare iOS 17.5 Bug That Resurfaced Deleted Photos 59
Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years 83
SpaceX Launches First Satellites For New US Spy Constellation 36
Mark Zuckerberg Assembles Team of Tech Execs For AI Advisory Council 17
Leaked Contract Shows Samsung Forces Repair Shop To Snitch On Customers 34
YouTube Rolling Out Its Widely Hated New Web Redesign 61
Google: Stop Trying To Trick Employees With Fake Phishing Emails 100
Google AI Search is Telling Users To Put Glue On Pizza Because It's Trained on Reddit Posts 100
RISC-V Now Supports Rust In the Linux Kernel 31
Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds 170
Microsoft Edge Will Begin Blocking Screenshots On the Job 99
People With Commonly Autocorrected Names Call For Tech Firms To Fix Problem 103
Mozilla Says It's Concerned About Windows Recall 67
Windows XP Can Run On an Intel CPU From 1989 Thanks To Dedicated Modder 58
Amazon Plans To Give Alexa an AI Overhaul - and a Monthly Subscription Price 36
ASML and TSMC Can Disable Chip Machines If China Invades Taiwan 135
Google Brings Back Group Speaker Controls After Sonos Lawsuit Win 16
EVs More Likely To Hit Pedestrians Than Petrol Vehicles, Study Finds 287
DOJ Makes Its First Known Arrest For AI-Generated CSAM 98
Windows Now Has AI-Powered Copy and Paste 59
Microsoft Is Making File Explorer More Powerful With Version Control and 7z Compression 44
Gordon Bell, an Architect of Our Digital Age, Dies At Age 89 6
Google's Moonshot Factory Falls Back Down to Earth 25
Match Group, Meta, Coinbase And More Form Anti-Scam Coalition 23
Google Cuts Mystery Check To US In Bid To Sidestep Jury Trial 38
Neuralink To Test Brain Implant On Second Patient 47
HP Resurrects '90s OmniBook Branding, Kills Spectre and Dragonfly 53
Return-To-Office Mandate Is Backfiring On a Key Federal Agency 101
Microsoft Paint Is Getting an AI-Powered Image Generator 41
'Prism' Translation Layer Does For Arm PCs What Rosetta Did For Macs 37
Google Thinks the Public Sector Can Do Better Than Microsoft's 'Security Failures' 27
With Recall, Microsoft is Using AI To Fix Windows' Eternally Broken Search 104
OpenAI Says Sky Voice in ChatGPT Will Be Paused After Concerns It Sounds Too Much Like Scarlett Johansson 54
38% of Webpages That Existed in 2013 Are No Longer Accessible a Decade Later 62
Some People Who Rented a Tesla from Hertz Were Still Charged for Gas 195
Ubuntu 24.10 to Default to Wayland for NVIDIA Users 76
Linux Foundation Announces Launch of 'High Performance Software Foundation' 4
China Uses Giant Rail Gun to Shoot a Smart Bomb Nine Miles Into the Sky 134
US Defense Department 'Concerned' About ULA's Slow Progress on Satellite Launches 33
Amazon Defends Its Use of Signal Messages in Court 54
Are Car Companies Sabotaging the Transition to Electric Vehicles? 320
Robot Dogs Armed With AI-aimed Rifles Undergo US Marines Special Ops Evaluation 74
Are AI-Generated Search Results Still Protected by Section 230? 63
How an 'Unprecedented' Google Cloud Event Wiped Out a Major Customer's Account 50
Eight Automakers Grilled by US Lawmakers Over Sharing of Connected Car Data With Police 35
'Google Domains' Starts Migrating to Squarespace 20
Is America's Defense Department 'Rushing to Expand' Its Space War Capabilities? 46
Cruise Reached an $8M+ Settlement With the Person Dragged Under Its Robotaxi 54
'Openwashing' 40
Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments 74
Palantir's First-Ever AI Warfare Conference 37
France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia 48
Robert Dennard, Inventor of DRAM, Dies At 91 20
VW and Renault End Talks To Develop Affordable EV 35
OpenAI's Long-Term AI Risk Team Has Disbanded 21
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg 16
Archie, the Internet's First Search Engine, Is Rescued and Running 35
NetBSD Bans AI-Generated Code 64
Sony Lays Down the Gauntlet on AI 37
Reddit Reintroduces Its Awards System 20
Another Billionaire Pushes a Bid For TikTok, But To Decentralize It 68
EU Opens Child Safety Probes of Facebook and Instagram, Citing Addictive Design Concerns 48
Revolutionary New Google Feature Hidden Under 'More' Tab Shows Links To Web Pages 32
Visa Adds New Way To Share Customer Shopping Data With Retailers 46
'Microsoft's Quest For Short-Term $$$ is Doing Long-Term Damage To Windows, Surface, Xbox, and Beyond' 67
Airbus Unveils Half-Plane, Half-Copter In Quest For Speed 25
AT&T Goes Up Against T-Mobile, Starlink With AST SpaceMobile Satellite Deal 14
Wallet Recovery Firms Buzz as Locked-out Crypto Investors Panic in Bitcoin Boom 35
Netflix To Take On Google and Amazon By Building Its Own Ad Server 20
UK Police Could Get Ghostbusters-style Backpack Devices To Halt Ebike Getaways 98
Quantum Internet Draws Near Thanks To Entangled Memory Breakthroughs 47
Google Opens Up Its Smart Home To Everyone 27
Android 15 Gets 'Private Space,' Theft Detection, and AV1 Support 37
Has Section 230 'Outlived Its Usefulness'? 278
Google Will Use Gemini To Detect Scams During Calls 57
Project Astra Is Google's 'Multimodal' Answer to the New ChatGPT 9
Google Targets Filmmakers With Veo, Its New Generative AI Video Model 12
VMware Giving Away Workstation Pro, Fusion Pro Free For Personal Use 90
Feds Probe Waymo Driverless Cars Hitting Parked Cars, Drifting Into Traffic 57
Dublin To New York City Portal Temporarily Shut Down Due To Inappropriate Behavior 73
AI in Gmail Will Sift Through Emails, Provide Search Summaries, Send Emails 43
Unity's Marc Whitten Resigns Amid Runtime Fee Controversy 26
Google's Invisible AI Watermark Will Help Identify Generative Text and Video 17
Google Search Will Now Show AI-Generated Answers To Millions By Default 59
Google is Experimenting With Running Chrome OS on Android 23
Meta Will Shut Down Workplace, Its Business Chat Tool 21
Internet Use Is Associated With Greater Wellbeing, Global Study Finds 47
Cruise Is Back Driving Autonomously After Pedestrian-Dragging Incident 53
Intel Aurora Supercomputer Breaks Exascale Barrier 28
Apple and Google Introduce Alerts for Unwanted Bluetooth Tracking 39
Meta Explores AI-Assisted Earphones With Cameras 23
Microsoft is Finally Changing Word's Annoying Default Paste Behavior 80
Solar Storm Knocks Out Farmers' Tractor GPS Systems During Peak Planting Season 100
US Kicks Off AI Safety Talks With China 20
Google Bringing Project Starline's 'Magic Window' Experience To Real Video Calls 18
Will Smarter Cars Bring 'Optimized' Traffic Lights? 157
Reddit Grows, Seeks More AI Deals, Plans 'Award' Shops, and Gets Sued 45
Photographer Sets World Record for Fastest Drone Flight at 298 MPH 33
Former Boeing Quality Inspector Turns Whistleblower, Says Plane Parts Had Serious Defects 131
Google Employees Question Execs Over 'Decline in Morale' After Blowout Earnings 96
Lightweight Dillo Browser Resurrected: TLS But No JavaScript 39
Did OpenAI, Google and Meta 'Cut Corners' to Harvest AI Training Data? 58
Bike Brands Start To Adopt C-V2X To Warn Cyclists About Cars 157
'Tungsten Wall' Leads To Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough 45
Google Cloud Accidentally Deletes UniSuper's Online Account Due To 'Unprecedented Misconfiguration' 52
The Automotive Cold War Is Officially Underway 170
CEO of World's Biggest Ad Firm Targeted By Deepfake Scam 11
Will Chatbots Eat India's IT Industry? 61
The Most Detailed 3D Reconstruction of Human Brain Tissue 25
Apple Apologizes For Tone-Deaf Ad That Crushed Human Creativity To Make an iPad 243
Chemicals In Car Interiors May Cause Cancer, and They're Required By US Law 60
T-Mobile, Verizon In Talks To Buy Parts of US Cellular 18
Maryland Passes Two Bills Limiting Tech Platforms' Ability To Track Users 19
OpenAI Considers Allowing Users To Create AI-Generated Pornography 108
Deepfakes of Your Dead Loved Ones Are a Booming Chinese Business 57
Google Will Exit Prominent San Francisco Waterfront Office Tower 22
FCC Explicitly Prohibits Fast Lanes, Closing Possible Net Neutrality Loophole 36
Smart Home Startup Brilliant Runs Out of Cash, Which Could Mean Lights Out For Its Light Switches 44
Researchers Warned Against Using AI To Peer Review Academic Papers 17
Google DeepMind's 'Leap Forward' in AI Could Unlock Secrets of Biology 29
Full Repairs To Damaged Red Sea Internet Cables Delayed by Yemen Political Splits 11
Defense Think Tank MITRE To Build AI Supercomputer With Nvidia 44
Minor Car Crashes Mean High Tech Repairs 105
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
Apple Announces M4 With More CPU Cores and AI Focus 66
Google's Pixel 8A is a Midrange Phone That Might Actually Go the Distance 35
Motional Delays Commercial Robotaxi Plans Amid Restructuring 5
Microsoft Creates Top Secret Generative AI Service Divorced From the Internet for US Spies 42
Ten Years Ago Microsoft Bought Nokia's Phone Unit, Then Killed It As a Tax Write-Off 82
Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse 60
Novel Attack Against Virtually All VPN Apps Neuters Their Entire Purpose 114
Google Fit Dev APIs Shutdown Set, Fate of Android and Wear OS Apps Go Unannounced 5
Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky 34
OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT 18
'The Good Enough Trap' 80
Google is Changing How You Set Up 2FA 55
Police Resurrect Lockbit's Site and Troll the Ransomware Gang 15
Microsoft Readies New AI Model To Compete With Google, OpenAI 26
More Than 90% of Stablecoin Transactions Aren't From Real Users, Visa Study Finds 45
Could Better Data Protections Reduce Big Tech's Polarizing Power? 39
AI-Operated F-16 Jet Carries Air Force Official Into 550-MPH Aerial Combat Test 113
Is Mastodon's Link-Previewing Overloading Servers? 39
The US Just Mandated Automated Emergency Braking Systems By 2029 286
Multinational ISP Offers $206M In Secured Notes Backed By IPv4 Addresses 43
Extremist Militias Are Coordinating In More Than 100 Facebook Groups 204
US Official Urges China, Russia To Declare AI Will Not Control Nuclear Weapons 85
Humans Now Share the Web Equally With Bots, Report Warns 32
AI Engineers Report Burnout, Rushed Rollouts As 'Rat Race' To Stay Competitive Hits Tech Industry 36
Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years 116
German Police Bust Europe's 'Largest' Scam Call Center 24
Google Defends App Store, Fighting Epic Games' Bid For Major Reforms 23
Individual Gets 6 Years in Prison for Selling Fake Cisco Gear on Amazon, eBay 73
Hyundai Spending Nearly $1 Billion To Keep Self-Driving Startup 'Motional' Alive 7
Hubble Network Makes Bluetooth Connection With a Satellite For the First Time 83
The Original Smart Thermostat, Unveiled 16 Years Ago, is About To Get Dumb 72
Warrantless FBI Searches of American Communications Drop 50 Percent 33
Google Defends 'Better' Search Product as Antitrust Trial Concludes 31
Microsoft Launches Passkey Support For All Consumer Accounts 28
Google's Payments To Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show 27
Google Phone Starts Rolling Out 'Audio Emoji' 52
A New Battery Warns Parents if Their Child Has Swallowed It 244
AM Radio Law Opposed By Tech and Auto Industries Is Close To Passing 317
Google Lays Off Hundreds of 'Core' Employees, Moves Some Positions To India and Mexico 80
Congress Lets Broadband Funding Run Out, Ending $30 Low-Income Discounts 129
National Archives Bans Employee Use of ChatGPT 10
Microsoft Says April Windows Updates Break VPN Connections 101
Tens of Millions Secretly Use WhatsApp Despite Bans, Company Says 25
Google Urges US To Update Immigration Rules To Attract More AI Talent 98
Windows 10 Reaches 70% Market Share as Windows 11 Keeps Declining 157
Microsoft Concern Over Google's Lead Drove OpenAI Investment 10
Satellite Operator SES Acquiring Intelsat In $3.1 Billion Deal 13
Is Self Hosting Going Mainstream? 135

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