Spotify fined in Sweden over GDPR data access complaint – coming more than four years after a complaint was lodged by noyb ~tech privacy Article 1331 words 9 votes
Spotify is shutting down Heardle, the Wordle-like music guessing game it bought last year – will sunset on May 5 as it aims to focus on music discovery ~tech Article 688 words 14 votes
Substack opens up a $2 million community fundraising round ~finance business Article 747 words, published Mar 28 2023 4 votes
Microsoft launches the new Bing, with ChatGPT built in ~tech microsoft browsers Article 1007 words 13 votes
Tumblr to add support for ActivityPub, the social protocol powering Mastodon and other apps ~tech social media Article 604 words 18 votes
Shared micromobility company Bird said it will fully exit Germany, Sweden and Norway – winding down operations in several dozen small to mid-sized markets ~transport Article 483 words 3 votes
Netflix establishes an internal games studio in Helsinki, led by former Zynga GM Marko Lastikka ~games Article 587 words 6 votes
Denmark bans Chromebooks and Google Workspace in schools over data transfer risks ~tech privacy google Article 596 words 25 votes
BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time... And replace them with greener alternatives ~enviro sustainability Article 1892 words 5 votes
SpaceX’s Texas Starbase needs natural gas for a new power station and rocket fuel. But how will it get there? ~enviro Article 991 words 5 votes
Amazon is reportedly working on a smart fridge that tracks what’s inside ~tech amazon Article 321 words 3 votes
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp are all down ~tech social media facebook.messenger Article 114 words 47 votes
Silia Nanotechnology’s battery technology will launch in Whoop wearables ~tech Article 866 words 3 votes
Reddit is quietly rolling out a TikTok-like video feed button on iOS ~tech social media ios Article 505 words 14 votes
Twitch, Pinterest, Reddit and more go down in Fastly CDN outage ~tech internet social media Article 90 words 25 votes
Blue Origin will upgrade New Shepard rocket with the ability to simulate lunar gravity ~space rocketry Article 306 words 4 votes
SpaceX will attempt to recover Super Heavy rocket by catching it with launch tower ~space rocketry Article 405 words 12 votes
Discord raises another $100M in venture capital ($480M total now) at a valuation of $7 billion ~tech Article 882 words 11 votes
Twitter will force users to delete COVID-19 vaccine conspiracy theories ~tech social media Article 333 words 11 votes
Microsoft reveals Pluton, a custom security chip to be built into Intel, AMD and Qualcomm processors ~tech security microsoft Article 476 words 9 votes
Panasonic explores a European battery deal with Norway's largest energy and industrial companies ~finance business Article 358 words 4 votes
Helsinki rides the Slush wave toward a booming startup future – six venture capitalists share their thoughts on Finland's tech ecosystem ~tech Article 1558 words 6 votes
Adobe’s "Liquid Mode" uses AI to automatically redesign PDFs for mobile devices ~tech Article 439 words 5 votes
Reddit CEO defends their intention to run Trump ads ahead of election, outlines their plans to move comments on ads into subreddits ~tech social media Article 1174 words 51 votes
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces ~finance business Article 350 words 6 votes
Oracle's BlueKai tracks you across the web. That data spilled online. ~tech internet privacy Article 1833 words 5 votes
Apple doubles down on its right to profit from other businesses ~tech apple.app store Article 1816 words 11 votes
DuckDuckGo now crawls the web regularly to create a free list of trackers to block ~tech internet Article 431 words 21 votes
Apple and Google launch exposure notification API, enabling public health authorities to release apps ~health Article 859 words 8 votes
Uber lays off another 3000 employees, shuts forty-five offices in coronavirus crunch ~transport Article 502 words 7 votes
Tesla sues Alameda County to force California factory reopening ~finance business Article 367 words 13 votes
Google announces a Journalism Emergency Relief Fund for local newsrooms ~news usa journalism Article 299 words 6 votes
OneWeb to file for bankruptcy as effort to secure funding, including from investor SoftBank, falls through ~space spaceflight.commercial satellites Article 412 words 3 votes
SpaceX will now let you book a rocket launch online starting at $1 million ~space spaceflight.commercial Article 473 words 9 votes
DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say thirty to fifty affected ~tech Article 651 words 10 votes
Mozilla lays off seventy as it waits for new products to generate revenue ~tech Article 1043 words 27 votes
Announcements from Google's 2019 "Made by Google" event ~tech smartphones google.stadia Article 616 words 14 votes
Algolia raises $110M from Accel and Salesforce for its search-as-a-service, used by Slack, Twitch and over 8000 others ~finance Article 923 words 6 votes