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Infotech Headlines Today
[Wed-17-Apr-2024]

Updated: 7 hours ago

19 suspects in custody over Equity Bank Kenyas $2.1 million debit card fraud case - Techpoint

4 common mistakes to avoid after you agree to become a co-founder - Techpoint

5 reasons why Apple's EarPods are still worth it in 2024 - Pocket Lint

6 things to know about Samsung's new 98-inch TV - Pocket Lint

7 features every Samsung owner should try - Pocket Lint

9 trackers that support Google's Find My Device network - Pocket Lint

A Crypto Wallet Maker's Warning About an iMessage Bug Sounds Like a False Alarm - Slashdot

A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder - Techcrunch

A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (Joseph Cox/404 Media) - Techmeme

A New Generation Is Uncovering the Tiny Doodles Left By Engineers On Old Microchips - Slashdot

A new NES emulator was briefly available on the Apple App Store - The Verge

A Spy Site Is Scraping Discord and Selling Users' Messages - Slashdot

a16z-backed Rewind pivots to build AI-powered pendant to record your conversations - Techcrunch

Activision cuts entry fees for teams in its professional Call of Duty League, and will return collected fees, as the esports industry faces financial challenges (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Adtech giants like Meta must give EU users real privacy choice, says EDPB - Techcrunch

After Forbes found 120+ YouTube videos and 27 Google ads promoting AI deepfake porn tools and "nudifier" Telegram bots, Google took them down (Thomas Brewster/Forbes) - Techmeme

AI Computing Is on Pace To Consume More Energy Than India, Arm Says - Slashdot

AI-driven Spatialedge secures $3 million to scale in South Africa - Techpoint

Amazon Cloud Unit Kills Snowmobile Data Transfer Truck Service - Slashdot

Anambra State ICT Agency holds cybersecurity awareness week - Technology Times

Andreessen Horowitz's $7.2B new funds for a 'new era - Techcrunch

Apple renews For All Mankind and announces a spinoff series set in the Soviet Union - Engadget

Apple update addresses Jerusalem emoji controversy - BBC

Apple's iOS 18 AI Will Be On-Device Preserving Privacy, and Not Server-Side - Slashdot

Are cyberattacks about to increase - Technext

ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved and the US dropped five percentage points to 6% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

ASML reports Q1 net sales down 21.6% YoY to 5.29B, vs. 5.39B est., net income down 37.4% YoY to 1.22B, vs. 1.07B est., and net bookings down 4% YoY to 3.6B (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC) - Techmeme

ASUS ROG Zephyrus G16 (2024) review: Not just for gamers - Engadget

Average World Incomes To Drop By Nearly a Fifth By 2050, Study Says - Slashdot

B2B marketplace The Folklore bags $3.4M seed to get brands into global stores - Techcrunch

BasiGo launches electric bus assembly line to boost Kenya's public transport electrification - Techpoint

BasiGo Unveils Kenyas first specialized assembly line for modern Electric Buses - TechMoran

Bellwether, a new group inside Alphabet's X innovation lab, plans to offer AI tools to the US National Guard to analyze images of disaster areas in summer 2024 (Gerrit De Vynck/Washington Post) - Techmeme

Big Tech Squares Off Against US Spies - Wired

BigPanda launches generative AI tool designed specifically for ITOps - Techcrunch

Bitcoin Halving: What you need to know and how it affects your wallet - Technext

Boston Dynamics Atlas robot, 2013-2024 - The Verge

Boston Dynamics unveils an all-electric version of its Atlas robot - Engadget

Boston Dynamics' Atlas humanoid robot goes electric - Techcrunch

Brave Search is adopting AI to answer your queries - Techcrunch

Broadcom Throws VMware Customers On Perpetual Licenses a Lifeline - Slashdot

ByteDance gets 24 hours to show EU a DSA risk assessment for TikTok Lite - Techcrunch

Canada plans to introduce a digital services tax on large tech companies, which could raise CA$5.9B over the five years starting FY 2024-2025 (David Ljunggren/Reuters) - Techmeme

Change Healthcare's New Ransomware Nightmare Goes From Bad to Worse - Wired

Cheaper Evercade retro consoles will arrive in July - Engadget

Cherub, an angel investing community inspired by dating apps, entices investors and founders to pair up - Techcrunch

CIRP: Amazon Prime hit a new high of 180M US shoppers in March 2024, up 8% YoY, despite greater online competition; 75% of US shoppers have a Prime membership (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Cisco Warns of Global Surge in Brute-Force Attacks Targeting VPN and SSH Services - Hackers News

Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report For 2024 Q1 - Slashdot

Cloudflare says its network saw DNS-based DDoS attacks increase by 80% YoY in Q1 2024, with attacks on Sweden surging by 466% after its acceptance into NATO (The Cloudflare Blog) - Techmeme

Collaboration to Boost Cloud Adoption in Emerging Markets - Itnewsafrica

Cozy cat sim Little Kitty, Big City arrives for consoles and PCs on May 9 - Engadget

Creating Sexually Explicit Deepfake Images To Be Made Offense in UK - Slashdot

Creepy monitoring service sells searchable Discord user data for as little as $5 - Engadget

Crescendo' Method Can Jailbreak LLMs Using Seemingly Benign Prompts - Slashdot

Critical Atlassian Flaw Exploited to Deploy Linux Variant of Cerber Ransomware - Hackers News

Current and former T-Mobile and Verizon employees say they are receiving texts offering up to $300 to perform a SIM swap; T-Mobile says it is investigating (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme

Delayed salaries and staff cuts at Tingo Group months after SEC fraud charges - Techcabal

Diagon puts ex-Tesla supply chain muscle to work for small businesses - Techcrunch



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Tue-16-Apr-2024]

"I look back now and I think I could have built this very differently." Sim Shagaya on lessons learnt building Konga - Techpoint

17 Best Xbox Series X/S Games You Can Play Now (2024) - Wired

2024 UTME: JAMB bans smart watches, wearable tech among 2m candidates - Technology Times

5 reasons to buy an LG TV over a TCL TV - Pocket Lint

5 reasons to buy OnePlus Buds 3 over AirPods Pro 2 - Pocket Lint

60 Best Podcasts (2024): True Crime, Culture, Science, Fiction - Wired

8 clear signs it's time to upgrade your phone - Pocket Lint

A crypto wallet maker's warning about an iMessage bug sounds like a false alarm - Techcrunch

A D&D Actual Play Show Is Going To Sell Out Madison Square Garden - Slashdot

A look at Neopets, a website launched in 1999 to let users care for virtual pets, including how the site survived multiple acquisitions and Flash's phasing out (Kari Paul/The Guardian) - Techmeme

A look at the failure of Humane's Ai Pin, which took six years to ship after raising $230M, including building the device "the Apple way" and raising too much (Benjamin Sandofsky/Sandofsky) - Techmeme

Adobe Premiere Pro Is Getting Generative AI Video Tools - Slashdot

Africa Code Week and Partners Equip 17 million Youth with Digital Skills - TechMoran

AI chip developer Rivos, which recently settled with Apple over trade secret theft, raised $250M+ led by Matrix to compete with Nvidia using its RISC-V chips (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Airchat Is Silicon Valley's Latest Obsession - Wired

Alleged Cryptojacking Scheme Consumed $3.5 Million of Stolen Computing To Make Just $1 Million - Slashdot

Amazon brings its 'Amazon Live' shoppable livestreams to Prime Video and Freevee - Techcrunch

Amazon confirms that HQ2 in Arlington lost 200 jobs in 2023, missing Amazon's goal of adding 2,500 jobs; HQ2 has ~8,000 employees and plans to reach ~25,000 (Teo Armus/Washington Post) - Techmeme

Amazon debuts a generative AI-powered playlist feature - Engadget

Amazon Music follows Spotify with an AI playlist generator of its own, Maestro - Techcrunch

AMD unveils Ryzen Pro 8040 series for commercial laptops and mobile workstations and Ryzen Pro 8000 series for desktops, adding a neural processing unit for AI (Paul Alcorn/Tom's Hardware) - Techmeme

Andreessen Horowitz raised $7.2B, with $600M for American Dynamism, $3.75B for late-stage startups, and $600M for gaming, exceeding its target by ~4% (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Anker's latest Soundcore Sleep earbuds actually improve slumber for less than $90 - The Verge

Apple debuts web distribution of iOS apps to EU users, allowing qualifying devs who opt in to its Core Technology Fee to offer direct downloads from their sites (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Apple lawsuit behind it, chip startup Rivos plots its next moves - Techcrunch

Apple opens web distribution option for iOS devs targeting EU - Techcrunch

Apple Opens Web Distribution Option for iOS Devs Targeting EU - Slashdot

Apple to allow used parts for iPhones' repairs - Technology Times

As nine US states advance online child safety bills, a look at tech giants' lobbying efforts against the legislation, led by industry group NetChoice (Katie McQue/The Guardian) - Techmeme

Ask Slashdot: Are Movies Becoming More Derivative - Slashdot

Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot - Techcrunch

Avoiding Pitfalls in Business Website Design: What to Know - Itnewsafrica

AWS, Google, and Azure CLI Tools Could Leak Credentials in Build Logs - Hackers News

Baidu Says AI Chatbot 'Ernie Bot' Has Attracted 200 Million Users - Slashdot

Baidu says that eight months after launch, its AI chatbot Ernie Bot now has 200M+ users and 85K enterprise clients, after reaching 100M+ users in December (Josh Ye/Reuters) - Techmeme

Bain Capital agrees to sell UK payroll software company Zellis, acquired in 2017, to Apax Partners; sources say the deal values Zellis at ~1.25B (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Bay Bridge Ventures is raising $200M for a new climate fund, filings show - Techcrunch

Berlin-based finmid, which makes embedded fintech solutions for SMBs, raised a 23M Series A at a 100M post money valuation, bringing total raised to 35M (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Betaworks bets on AI agents in latest 'Camp' cohort - Techcrunch

Big Tech's ad transparency tools are still woeful, Mozilla research report finds - Techcrunch

Boston Dynamics Retires Its Hydraulic Humanoid Robot - Slashdot

Boston Dynamics sends Atlas to the robot retirement home - Engadget

Building trust: Why Africa needs inclusive cybersecurity solutions - Techcabal

California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days - Slashdot

Celebrity Deepfake Porn Cases Will Be Investigated by Meta Oversight Board - Wired

Cellulant Bolsters Leadership Team for Growth Strategy - TechMoran

Change Healthcare stolen patient data leaked by ransomware gang - Techcrunch

Change Healthcare's Ransomware Attack Costs Edge Toward $1 Billion So Far - Slashdot

Comviva Redefines Development for Fintechs with New Platform - Itnewsafrica

Consumer tech investing is still hot for Maven Ventures, securing $60M for Fund IV - Techcrunch

Crickets From Chirp Systems in Smart Lock Key Leak - Slashdot

Cybersecurity: The growing imperative for transparency in African enterprises - Technology Times

Cybertruck owners say deliveries halted over bad accelerator pedal - The Verge

Design firm Zypsy will do $100,000 worth of work for 1% equity for early-stage startups - Techcrunch

Dove Protects Women's Real Beauty Against AI Influence - Itnewsafrica

Ethiopia joins South Africa to launch its Sexual Violence Registration System - Techpoint

EU antitrust regulators are questioning Broadcom about changes to VMware's licensing conditions, following complaints from EU business users and a trade group (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters) - Techmeme

Evolution Equity Partners raises $1.1B for new cybersecurity and AI fund - Techcrunch

Excessive Social Media Use Results in Brittle Nails: Expert - Itnewsafrica

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