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
10 Best Computer Monitors (2024): Budget, OLED, 4K, Ultrawide - Wired
18 Best Mechanical Keyboards for PC (2024): Gaming and Work - Wired
20 Best Earth Day Deals (2024): Ebikes, Chargers, and Bags Made of Recycled Plastic - Wired
5 reasons to buy AirPods Max over Bose 700 NC - Pocket Lint
5 things to know about ANC - Pocket Lint
8 questions that tell you everything you need to know about the bitcoin halving - Techpoint
A look at Salad, which pays gamers in Fortnite skins and Roblox gift cards to rent their GPUs remotely to AI companies, including those making AI-generated porn (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media) - Techmeme
A US jury finds Avraham Eisenberg, a crypto trader who stole $110M on the Mango Markets exchange in 2022, guilty of fraud despite his "code is law" claim (Crystal Kim/Axios) - Techmeme
A Wave of AI Tools Is Set to Transform Work Meetings - Wired
A16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund - Techcrunch
Acer Broadens Chromebook Horizons: Introducing the New Model - Itnewsafrica
Acer's $400 Chromebook Plus 514 has up to 512GB of storage - Pocket Lint
Akira Ransomware Gang Extorts $42 Million; Now Targets Linux Servers - Hackers News
Almost a quarter of kids aged 5-7 have smartphones - BBC
Amazon's Fallout has been renewed for season 2 - The Verge
Apple brings AirPlay to select hotels - Pocket Lint
Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China App Store following state order - Techcrunch
Apple removes WhatsApp and Threads from its App Store in China, saying it was ordered to do so by China's cyberspace officials citing national security concerns (Raffaele Huang/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Apple Removes WhatsApp, Threads and Telegram From China App Store - Slashdot
Apple says it was ordered it to remove WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store - Engadget
Audien Hearing Atom One Hearing Aid Review: ber-Cheap and Too Basic - Wired
Automate your vacuuming and mopping with $400 off the Roomba Combo J9+ - Engadget
Baldur's Gate 3 developer confirms it won't make the sequel - Engadget
Bayobab acquires MTN Zambias fibre assets to further growth plans - Techpoint
Bitcoin Miners Brace for the 'Halving''and Race to Cash In - Wired
BlackTech Targets Tech, Research, and Gov Sectors New 'Deuterbear' Tool - Hackers News
Blizzard takes aim at Overwatch 2 console cheaters - Engadget
Boeing Aims To Bring Flying Cars To Asia By 2030 - Slashdot
BYD Yangwang U8 2024: Price, Specs, Availability - Wired
Can AI Be the Catalyst for Financial Inclusion in Africa - Itnewsafrica
Can TikTok's owner afford to lose its killer app - BBC
Canal+ increases MultiChoice stake to 40.8% - Techcabal
CEO Weekends: Kapu Africas Meera Dhanani on building the most relevant B2C e-commerce model for Africa - TechMoran
Chinese Cities Are Sinking Rapidly - Slashdot
Colorado Bill Aims To Protect Consumer Brain Data - Slashdot
Cops Can Force Suspect To Unlock Phone With Thumbprint, US Court Rules - Slashdot
Crackdown on Binance is right but the approach is wrong'- A chat with Oladotun Akangbe of Flincap - Technext
Crypto Trader Eisenberg Convicted of Fraud in $110 Million Mango Markets Scheme - Slashdot
Cybersecurity Transparency: Vital for African Enterprises - Itnewsafrica
Detained executive: CEO says Binance is working with Nigerian government to resolve issues - Technext
Digital marketing software company Ibotta closes up 17% at $103.25 per share in its trading debut, after raising ~$577.3M in an IPO priced above marketed range (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
DJI's first power stations debut an intriguing bidirectional port - The Verge
Early-Stage Startup' Apply to Win $10,000 Cash & Japan Trip at Pitch2Win 4 - TechCity
EFCC deems Binance executive a flight risk, halts bail request - Techpoint
Emulators are taking over the App Store - The Verge
Engadget Podcast: PlayStation 5 Pro rumors and a look back at the Playdate - Engadget
Environmental Damage Could Cost You a Fifth of Your Income Over the Next 25 Years - Wired
Equities platform Midas raises $45M Series A as fintech retains its sparkle in Turkey - Techcrunch
eTranzact says consumer-focused products are its future revenue driver - Techcabal
Fallout has already scored a green light for a second season - Engadget
FBI Says Chinese Hackers Preparing To Attack US Infrastructure - Slashdot
Feds Hit Coding Boot Camp With Big Fine For Allegedly Conning Students - Slashdot
Fintech CRED secures in-principle approval for payment aggregator license - Techcrunch
Frontier Communications Shuts Down Systems After Cyberattack - Slashdot
Google says it will consolidate teams that focus on building AI models across Research and DeepMind, and move its Responsible AI teams in Research to DeepMind (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters) - Techmeme
Google To Employees: 'We Are a Workplace - Slashdot
Hackers Target Middle East Governments with Evasive "CR4T" Backdoor - Hackers News
Hacking group GhostR claims it stole 5.3M records from World-Check screening database used for KYC checks for sanctions and financial crime links (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
How Attackers Can Own a Business Without Touching the Endpoint - Hackers News