TSMC delays US chip fab opening, Arizona chip factory won't be operational until 2025 Article 633 words 21 votes
Fear, loathing, and excitement as Threads adopts open standard used by Mastodon social media Article 724 words 40 votes
Amazon seeks to evade EU regulations by claiming it isn't a Very Large Online Platform amazon Article 848 words 29 votes
Why AI detectors think the US Constitution was written by AI Article 625 words, published Jul 14 2023 35 votes
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff ios android Article 1020 words 93 votes
Is distributed computing dying, or just fading into the background? (Remember seti@home?) Article 553 words 24 votes
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM android Article 433 words 46 votes
Going deep with the Book 8088, the brand-new laptop that approximates the specs of the original IBM PC 5150 from 1981 Article 1071 words 12 votes
UK police blame Android for “record number” of false emergency calls android Article 644 words 26 votes
Microsoft launched Bing chatbot despite OpenAI warning it wasn’t ready microsoft Article 751 words 16 votes
Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct google Article 574 words 16 votes
An anti-porn app put him in jail and his family under surveillance - A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond Article 635 words 42 votes
Hackers can steal cryptographic keys by video-recording power LEDs sixty feet away Article 744 words 12 votes
US federal judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly gave false info to court google Article 736 words 14 votes
AI-powered Bing Chat loses its mind when fed Ars Technica article / "It is a hoax that has been created by someone who wants to harm me or my service." microsoft Article 618 words 29 votes
YouTube moderation bots will start issuing warnings, 24-hour bans social media Article 411 words 10 votes
Never-before-seen malware is nuking data in Russia’s courts and mayors’ offices. CryWiper masquerades as ransomware, but its real purpose is to permanently destroy data. security.cyber Article 696 words 12 votes
Elon Musk bans remote work at Twitter, warns staff of “dire” economic outlook social media Article 680 words 16 votes
Twitter quietly drops $8 paid verification; “tricking people not OK,” Musk says social media Article 792 words 25 votes
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits Article 659 words 18 votes
Researchers devise iPhone malware that runs even when device is turned off security Article 655 words 6 votes
Google drops FLoC after widespread opposition, pivots to “Topics API” plan google privacy browsers Article 787 words 16 votes
Hark back to the late 1990s with this re-creation of the dialup Internet experience internet Article 645 words, published Jan 14 2022 6 votes
After ruining Android messaging, Google says iMessage is too powerful apple google Article 769 words 34 votes
Company that routes SMS for all major US carriers was hacked for five years privacy security Article 944 words 27 votes
US phone companies must now block carriers that didn’t meet FCC robocall deadline Article 886 words 18 votes
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges facebook privacy social media Article 985 words 11 votes
US FTC: Facebook was bad at business, so it “illegally bought or buried” competition facebook Article 518 words 14 votes
Zoom to pay $85M for lying about encryption and sending data to Facebook and Google security google facebook Article 1682 words 28 votes
California’s ambitious fiber-Internet plan approved unanimously by legislature internet Article 941 words 13 votes
US Consumer Product Safety Commission sues Amazon, citing over 400,000 hazardous products sold through its "Fulfilled by Amazon" program amazon Article 961 words 12 votes
Judge tears Florida’s social media law to shreds for violating First Amendment social media facebook Article 1547 words 16 votes
Amazon devices in the US will automatically join the Amazon Sidewalk mesh network and start sharing internet with neighbors on June 10th, unless opted out internet privacy security amazon.sidewalk Article 882 words, published May 29 2021 30 votes