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Infotech Headlines Today
[Fri-29-Mar-2024]

Updated: 3 mins ago

4 reasons to buy an LG TV over a Samsung TV - Pocket Lint

A $3 app shoots better spatial videos than the iPhone's native camera - Engadget

A researcher finds that X is testing a feature that lets users create or join communities focused on "adult content" or other "not safe for work" material (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Activision investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players - Techcrunch

AI Leaders Press Advantage With Congress as China Tensions Rise - Slashdot

AI21 Labs launches Jamba, an AI model that integrates two architectures: transformer and Mamba, which is based on the Structured State Space model (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

An OLED iPad Pro and the first big-screen iPad Air will reportedly arrive in May - Engadget

Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons - Techcrunch

Apples Worldwide Developers Conference returns June 10, 2024 - TechMoran

Biden Orders Every US Agency To Appoint a Chief AI Officer - Slashdot

Bolt told investors that it had revenue of $19.4M for the nine months ending in October 2023, essentially flat YoY; Bolt's troubles grow with a Fanatics lawsuit (The Information) - Techmeme

Bug Zappers Are Swarming on Amazon - Wired

Bumble's new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company - Techcrunch

Buy now, pay later on a Porsche' Zaver now has $30M to make it a reality - Techcrunch

Byju's founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors - Techcrunch

Central Bank of Nigeria withdraws Cellulant's mobile money licence as company focuses on payment solutions - Techcabal

Cloud Server Host Vultr Rips User Data Ownership Clause From ToS After Web Outage - Slashdot

Could artificial intelligence benefit democracy - BBC

Cybersecurity startup Zafran, which develops risk mitigation services, emerges from stealth with a $25M Series A co-led by Sequoia Capital and Cyberstarts (Meir Orbach/CTech) - Techmeme

Dyson Zone review: Better headphones than portable purifier - Pocket Lint

Elon Musk's Twitter a year later: Everything you need to know - Techcrunch

Facebook Allegedly Killed Its Own Streaming Service To Help Sell Netflix Ads - Slashdot

Florida needs digital literacy for kids, not a social media ban - Pocket Lint

FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years - BBC

How Apple Plans To Update New iPhones Without Opening Them - Slashdot

How CAF president Patrice Motsepe could impact Canal+'s bid for MultiChoice - Techcabal

How MowPod, which sells podcast advertising tools, uses mobile game ads to incentivize gamers to follow shows on Apple Podcasts in order to earn in-game tokens (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

In a lawsuit, four Canadian school boards seek damages of CA$4B+ from Meta, Snap, and TikTok for allegedly causing learning and mental health crises in students (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters) - Techmeme

Key players rate FAAN MD on 100 days in office - Tribune

Linux Foundation Launches Valkey As A Redis Fork - Slashdot

Maserati Grecale Folgore review - Pocket Lint

Meta Is Adding AI To Its Ray-Ban Smart Glasses - Slashdot

Methane From Landfills Is a Big Driver of Climate Change, Study Says - Slashdot

Michigan Nuclear Plant Aims To Be First Ever To Reopen In US - Slashdot

NAAPE to protest failure of Aero Contractors to pay off docked workers, seven years after - Tribune

New York-based The Brandtech Group, which provides generative AI-based tools for advertising and marketing campaigns, raised a $115M Series C at a $4B valuation (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Nigeria probes 400+ privacy breaches linked to loan apps - Technology Times

Nothing Phone (2a) review: better value than Pixel 7a - Pocket Lint

NYC is partnering with Evolv, a weapons detection company that has faced scrutiny over its machines' accuracy, to test AI-based gun detectors on the subway (Gaby Del Valle/The Verge) - Techmeme

Oregon's Breakthrough Right-to-Repair Bill Is Now Law - Wired

Questions raised over Temu cash 'giveaway' offer - BBC

Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, after soaring 30% on Monday, and finish the week at $49.30, below the first trading day close of $50.44 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) - Techmeme

SA telcos are selling off their towers. Here is why - Techcabal

SBF's prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era ' so what's next - Techcrunch

Scammers are using sample videos of influencers with modest social media presence to create AI deepfake ads that often push offensive products and ideas (Washington Post) - Techmeme

Snapchat's latest paid perk is an AI Bitmoji of your pet - Engadget

Sources detail Grindr's push to monetize, including plans for an AI chatbot that can engage users in sexual conversations and may be trained on opt-in user data (Zo Schiffer/Platformer) - Techmeme

Sources: the Biden administration is making a list of advanced Chinese chip factories barred from receiving key tools, which could be released in a few months (Reuters) - Techmeme

South Korean national statistics data: chip output grew 65.3% YoY in February 2024, the most since late 2009, with demand for AI-related memory driving growth (Sam Kim/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Surging inflation is forcing auto finance startups to rethink their financing strategies to maintain demand - Techcabal

The 30 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now - Wired

Uber Eats courier's fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won - Techcrunch

US, UK Investigate $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers To Garantex Russian Exchange - Slashdot

What Is Fitbit Labs - Pocket Lint

Why adding cameras to AirPods could be a bad idea - Pocket Lint

X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots - Techcrunch

X's Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5 - Techcrunch

YouTube now lets creators share exclusive Shorts with paying viewers, says Shorts average 70B+ daily views and 25%+ of creator partners monetize via Shorts (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch) - Techmeme



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Thu-28-Mar-2024]

12 Best Umbrellas (2023): Windproof, Cheap, Tiny, and Clear Bubble - Wired

19 Best PS5 Games (2024): 'Alan Wake II,' 'Spider-Man 2,' 'Baldur's Gate 3,' and 'Stray - Wired

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 First Look at Samsung's 2024 TV Lineup - Wired

A four-pack of Apple AirTags is down to its lowest price yet of $75 - Engadget

A look at an Indian court case over Byju Raveendran's control of Byju's, as investors, who voted to remove Raveendran last month, brace for a protracted battle (Financial Times) - Techmeme

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

A profile of Anduril founder Palmer Luckey, as the AI surveillance and defense tech startup, which sells drones to the US, expects $1B in annual revenue by 2026 (Tabby Kinder/Financial Times) - Techmeme

A US judge sentences Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in prison over his role in the multi-billion dollar FTX fraud and orders him to forfeit $11B (Reuters) - 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

Ads Safety Report: Google blocked 5.5 billion ads for policy violation in 2023 - Technext

Affordable Chinese phones' drive smartphone market growth - Technology Times

After spat with TikTok, UMG expands Spotify partnership to include music videos and more - Techcrunch

AI chatbot Grok will be accessible to all premium subscribers on X this week, announces Elon Musk - Innovation Village

AI21 Labs' new AI model can handle more context than most - Techcrunch

Amazon Bets $150 Billion on Data Centers Required for AI Boom - Slashdot

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic, completing its planned $4B investment - Techcrunch

Amazon Fined In Poland For Dark Pattern Design Tricks - Slashdot

Amazon launches iOS and Android apps for Amazon One, which let users sign up for the palm-scanning service by using generative AI to analyze palm vein structure (Emma Roth/The Verge) - Techmeme

Amazon One launches new app to scan your palm for checkout - Techcrunch

Analysis: in the past two years, Amazon committed to spending $148B over 15 years on data centers, including in Mississippi, Saudi Arabia, and Malaysia (Matt Day/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

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 sues an ex-employee for allegedly leaking details about the Journal app and more to journalists, to "kill" products and features with which he took issue (Joe Rossignol/MacRumors) - Techmeme

Apple TV+ beats Netflix by having the highest rated shows on IMDb - TechMoran

Apple's M3 and M2 MacBook Airs have never been cheaper - Engadget

Apps you need to boost your productivity - Punch

At a DC event on May 1, over 100 tech CEOs and investors plan to lobby against AI regulation, ask to relax immigration rules, and drum up hawkishness on China (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) - Techmeme

AWOL LTV-3500 Pro Review: So Bright, So Expensive - Wired

Behind the Scenes: The Art of Safeguarding Non-Human Identities - Hackers News

Best compact cameras in 2024 - Pocket Lint

Best waterproof wired headphones in 2024 - Pocket Lint

Boutique startup studio super{set} gets another $90 million to co-found data and AI companies - Techcrunch

Breaking: Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years for $8bn theft - Technext

ByteDance, TikTok's parent company, closes down its African messaging app, LetsChat - Innovation Village

CAC extends tax filing deadline after portal glitches - Technology Times

CAF president Patrice Motsepe to join Canal+'s bid for MultiChoice - Techcabal

Canva acquires UK's Affinity to enhance competition with Adobe in the design industry - Innovation Village

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

ChowNow snaps up YC-backed POS platform Cuboh and is laying off staff - Techcrunch

Circle to Search coming to other Pixel devices, adding in-line translations too - TechMoran

Claude 3 Surpasses GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena For the First Time - Slashdot

Climate tech VC Satgana closes first fund that targets early-stage startups in Africa, Europe - Techcrunch

Core PostgreSQL Developer Dies In Airplane Crash - Slashdot

Coro, building cybersecurity for SMBs, locks down $100M at a $750M valuation - Techcrunch

Darcula Phishing Network Leveraging RCS and iMessage to Evade Detection - Hackers News

Dashlane To Discontinue Its Authenticator App - Slashdot

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

Don't miss out on savings! Only 48 hours left to claim your early bird ticket - Techcrunch

Dragon's Dogma 2 review: Merciless but rewarding - Pocket Lint

Egypts Sprints.ai, an AI-powered edtech startup raises $3 million to expand into 10 new markets - TechMoran

Elon Musk Opens Up Grok AI to All X Premium Subscribers This Week - TechMoran

Ethiopia's largest bank recovers $10 million lost through system glitch - Innovation Village

Experts seek tougher data privacy measures in payment ecosystem - Punch

Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack - Hackers News

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