16 Best Hair Straighteners We've Tested (2024): Flat Irons, Hot Combs, and Straightening Brushes - Wired
2024 GMC Sierra EV Denali: What we know - Pocket Lint
23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki Considers Taking Company Private - Slashdot
5 Beats Fit Pro features you should be using - Pocket Lint
5 reasons to buy Bose NC 700 over AirPods Max - Pocket Lint
A Chess Formula Is Taking Over the World - Slashdot
A look at Los Angeles' Homelessness Prevention pilot program, which uses AI to identify those at risk of becoming homeless, offering aid to keep them housed (Kate Rogers/CNBC) - Techmeme
AI-Controlled Fighter Jets Are Dogfighting With Human Pilots Now - Wired
Algeria will edge out Nigeria as Africa's third-largest economy, IMF report shows - Techcabal
An interview with Linus Torvalds at the Open Source Summit North America on the XZ Utils exploit, open source development, RISC-V, AI, and more (David Cassel/The New Stack) - Techmeme
Android Gets a New Software-Based AV1 Decoder - Slashdot
Best smart thermostat 2024 - Pocket Lint
Bitcoin's fourth halving is now complete, lowering miners' block subsidy rewards from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC; the third halving was in May 2020 (James Hunt/The Block) - Techmeme
Bowers & Wilkins 706 S3: The best bookshelf speakers I've ever used - Pocket Lint
Can AI help solve Japan's labour shortages - BBC
CesiumAstro claims former exec spilled trade secrets to upstart competitor AnySignal - Techcrunch
Check your 2024 JAMB results - Techcabal
China publishes measures to boost foreign investment in its domestic technology sector, including encouraging tech companies to raise money via bond issuance (Reuters) - Techmeme
Court filing: OpenAI says Elon Musk's claim that the company has abandoned its altruistic principles is "revisionist history" and a bid to boost his AI company (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Critical Update: CrushFTP Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Targeted Attacks - Hackers News
Digital Rights: African journalists to gain skills through PIN-PAU collaboration - Technology Times
Dutch Privacy Watchdog Recommends Government Organizations Stop Using Facebook - Slashdot
EdTech: Enugu, AltSchool Africa plan talks on empowering marginalised communities - Technology Times
EPA Will Make Polluters Pay To Clean Up Two 'Forever Chemicals - Slashdot
Filing: a group of FTX investors and customers agree to drop their claims against SBF if he cooperates in cases against celebrities and others who pushed FTX (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Finally, someone used Pareto's economic theories to find the best Mario Kart 8 racer - Engadget
FintechNGR pushes wider adoption of mobile app banking in Nigeria - Technology Times
Firefox Nightly Expands To Linux On ARM64 - Slashdot
Google scraps a 2019 policy requiring US suppliers and staffing firms to pay their employees $15 an hour and provide health insurance and other benefits (Daniel Wiessner/Reuters) - Techmeme
Harvard's startup whisperer, Peter Gladstone, reveals secrets to validating consumer demand at TechCrunch Early Stage - Techcrunch
How One Corporation Is Cashing In on America's Drought - Wired
How to pair Sony headphones with any laptop - Pocket Lint
How to use an iPhone to locate books - Pocket Lint
How to use Apple AirPods with an Android device - Pocket Lint
How to use your old phone as a security camera - Pocket Lint
India's election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation - Techcrunch
Influential women's tech network shuts down unexpectedly - BBC
Kenya's Ministry of Communications recommends regulating TikTok, rejects outright ban - Techcabal
Linus Torvalds on 'Hilarious' AI Hype - Slashdot
Meta introduces new AI to be present in WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook - TechMoran
Microsoft's AI tool can turn photos into realistic videos of people talking and singing - Engadget
Microsoft's VASA-1 Can Deepfake a Person With One Photo and One Audio Track - Slashdot
My Life Outside of the Apple Vision Pro - Wired
National Bureau of Statistics: China's integrated circuit output rose 40% YoY to 98.1B units in Q1, a sign that the country is expanding legacy chip production (Coco Feng/South China Morning Post) - Techmeme
Netflix Doc Accused of Using AI To Manipulate True Crime Story - Slashdot
Nigeria's government will criminalise fibre damage after causing '27 billion in losses to MTN and Airtel in 2023 - Techcabal
Nothing rolls out ChatGPT integration for Nothing Phone (2) and Nothing earbuds, including voice and text widgets for the phone (Ben Schoon/9to5Google) - Techmeme
Nvidia closed down 10% on Friday, falling the most since March 2020 and losing more than $200B of its market value, as investors pull back from AI bets (George Steer/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Palo Alto Networks Discloses More Details on Critical PAN-OS Flaw Under Attack - Hackers News
Pornhub, Stripchat, and XVideos will have to comply with additional obligations, such as submitting risk assessment reports, under the EU DSA starting next week (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - Techmeme
Post News, the a16z-funded Twitter alternative, is shutting down - Techcrunch
Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow "fast enough" (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme
Rebel Moon Part 2 review: A slow-mo sci-fi slog - Engadget
Safaricom Spearheads Connected Africa Summit 2024, Pledges Sh20 Million Sponsorship - TechMoran
SK Hynix partners with TSMC to develop next-gen HBM4 chips, which are critical for AI and slated for mass production in 2026, and advanced chip packaging tech (Nikkei Asia) - Techmeme
Startups Weekly: Is the wind going out of the AI sails - Techcrunch
Telegram partners with Tether to let the messaging app's ~900M users send USDT to each other through The Open Network blockchain (Ryan Browne/CNBC) - Techmeme
Tesla is recalling all 3,878 Cybertrucks - Pocket Lint
The US Senate reauthorizes FISA's Section 702; some communication service providers had threatened to stop cooperating with the US government in case of a lapse (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge) - Techmeme