2024 NYSC updates and answers to major questions - Techcabal
5G adoption rose to 1.11% in January NCC - Punch
A Faster Spinning Earth May Cause Timekeepers To Subtract a Second From World Clocks - Slashdot
A look at the rise and fall of Emad Mostaque and Stability AI, including how Mostaque's relationship with Coatue and Lightspeed blossomed and fell apart (Fortune) - Techmeme
Absa Bank, Visa to digitize online & card payments for travel agents in Kenya - TechMoran
Accel rethinks early-stage startup investing in India - Techcrunch
Access Holdings' Hydrogen posts first profit in two years - Techcabal
Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment - Techcrunch
Amazon Fined In Poland For Dark Pattern Design Tricks - Slashdot
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 for the first time on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced leaderboard used by AI researchers for LLM evaluations (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica) - Techmeme
Anti-trans hate is 'widespread' on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, report warns - Engadget
Apple's M3 and M2 MacBook Airs have never been cheaper - Engadget
Apps you need to boost your productivity - Punch
Best compact cameras in 2024 - Pocket Lint
Best waterproof wired headphones in 2024 - Pocket Lint
CAF president Patrice Motsepe to join Canal+'s bid for MultiChoice - Techcabal
Celestial AI, which develops optical tech for linking together processors and memory modules, raised a $175M Series C led by US Innovative Technology Fund (Maria Deutscher/SiliconANGLE) - Techmeme
Data observability service Observe raised a $115M Series B led by Sutter Hill Ventures with participation from Snowflake, sources say at a $400M-$500M valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Dragon's Dogma 2 review: Merciless but rewarding - Pocket Lint
Experts seek tougher data privacy measures in payment ecosystem - Punch
GLAAD: Meta is failing to curb posts calling for violence against trans people, posts calling trans and gender nonconforming people "satanic", and more (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post) - Techmeme
Google says it blocked or removed 5.5B ads and 12.7M advertiser accounts for violating its policies in 2023, up from 5.2B and 6.7M respectively in 2022 (Nicola Agius/Search Engine Land) - Techmeme
GTBank loses commercial bank status after Bank of Uganda downgrade - Techcabal
How in-app browsers silently subvert user choice, stifle innovation, trap users into apps, break websites, and enable apps to severely undermine user privacy (Open Web Advocacy) - Techmeme
How to fix RCS messaging not sending on Google Messages - Pocket Lint
How Tuneshine went from a wood block to the ultimate way to view album art - Pocket Lint
ICANN opens application cycle for global grant program - TechMoran
Israel's military reportedly used Google Photos to identify civilians in Gaza - Engadget
Kenya Airways cuts down losses, records first operating profit in years - Techcabal
Leaked images show a white disc-less Xbox Series X console, which Microsoft plans to release in 2024, with the same design as the existing black Xbox Series X (lvaro/eXputer) - Techmeme
LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app - Techcrunch
Loan defaults eat into Kenya's banking giant Equity Group's profits - Techcabal
MainOne: Why we set eight weeks for undersea cable fix - Technology Times
MLCommons announces results from its MLPerf 4.0 inference benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; systems with Nvidia GPUs came out on top (Samuel K. Moore/IEEE Spectrum) - Techmeme
NewRetirement, which offers financial retirement planning tools for consumers and enterprise customers, raised a $20M Series A led by Allegis Capital (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Nigerian business leaders seek competitive edge in privacy-first era, partner with Google for strategic advantage - Technext
Operation 404' Results In First Prison Sentence For Pirate IPTV Operator - Slashdot
Oregon Governor Signs Nation's First Right-To-Repair Bill That Bans Parts Pairing - Slashdot
Oregon signs right to repair into law - Techcrunch
Oregon's governor signs the first US right-to-repair law that bans manufacturers from using "parts pairing" to dictate what replacement components can be used (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge) - Techmeme
Oregon's Right to Repair bill is now a law - Engadget
Phil Spencer Wants Epic Games Store and Others On Xbox Consoles - Slashdot
Poland's consumer watchdog fines Amazon ~$8M for allegedly misleading consumers, including with dark pattern design tricks, ending a probe opened in Feb. 2023 (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users - Slashdot
Samsung Galaxy S24 phones are on sale for record-low prices at Amazon - Engadget
Sega of America workers have ratified their union contract - Engadget
Similarweb: GPTs created by subscribers on OpenAI's GPT Store accounted for just 1.5% of desktop visits to ChatGPT's site in February, suggesting limited appeal (Clara Murray/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Sonos Roam 2 is coming soon: 7 features we want - Pocket Lint
StealthMole raises $7M Series A for its AI-powered dark web intelligence platform - Techcrunch
SWIFT Planning Launch of New Central Bank Digital Currency Platform in 12-24 Months - Slashdot
Tackling deepfakes 'has turned into an arms race - BBC
Take-Two acquires Borderlands developer Gearbox Entertainment from the Embracer Group for $460M in stock; the deal is expected to close by the end of June 2024 (Rebekah Valentine/IGN) - Techmeme
TechCabal Daily ' Uganda downgrades GT Bank - Techcabal
Texan Bitcoiners Start Mining In Argentina Using Flared Excess Gas - Slashdot
The Ricoh GR series HDF cameras offer dreamy vibes - Pocket Lint
The UK threw a splashy event in New York this week to woo more American VCs - Techcrunch
TikTok Is Under Investigation By the FTC Over Data Practices - Slashdot
Tinubu appoints Bosun Tijani, Chidi Ajaere, Funke Opeke to the Presidential Economic Council - Technext