3 reasons why Elon Musk's X TV will never be the new YouTube - Pocket Lint
5 reasons to buy a Samsung TV over a Vizio TV - Pocket Lint
5 reasons to buy Sony WH-1000XM5 over Bose NCH 700 - Pocket Lint
A look at Saudi Arabia's spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI (New York Times) - Techmeme
Adobe's Impressive AI Upscaling Project Makes Blurry Videos Look HD - Slashdot
AI coding assistant startup Augment emerges from stealth with a $227M Series B at a $977M post-money valuation, following a $25M Series A led by Sutter Hill (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
AI: Nigeria's LangEasy app goes live - Technology Times
Airlines Required To Refund Passengers For Canceled, Delayed Flights - Slashdot
Almost Every Chinese Keyboard App Has a Security Flaw That Reveals What Users Type - Slashdot
Anduril moves ahead in Pentagon program to develop unmanned fighter jets - Techcrunch
Apple Reportedly Developing Its Own Custom Silicon For AI Servers - Slashdot
ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls To Access Government Networks - Slashdot
ATSSSAN warns against deduction of 50% from IGR of aviation agencies - Tribune
Best LG OLED TV in 2024 - Pocket Lint
Check CBSE Class 10th & 12th results 2024 - Techcabal
Check your UP 10th & 12th results 2024 online - Techcabal
Cisco details a hacking campaign that penetrated multiple governments' networks using two zero-day flaws in its VPN and firewall Adaptive Security Appliances (Andy Greenberg/Wired) - Techmeme
CREDICORP: FG opens portal on www.credicorp.ng for Nigerians to access consumer credit - Technology Times
DJI drone tips and tricks for new pilots - Pocket Lint
Edonia grabs '2M to turn microalgae into less bitter-tasting ground meat alternative - Techcrunch
EFCC freezes 300 accounts over fraud scheme - Technext
Eric Schmidt-backed Augment, a GitHub Copilot rival, launches out of stealth with $252M - Techcrunch
Exclusive: Equity Bank employee implicated in $2.1 million fraud - Techcabal
Exclusive: Kenyan officials deny arrest of Binance exec who escaped custody in Nigeria - Techcabal
FAAN reopens Lagos runway after Dana Air incident - Tribune
FBN Holdings' extraordinary general meeting placed on hold following court order - Techcabal
Filing: Swiggy, which has a ~45.8% share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential $1.25B IPO, slated for later this year (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Finally, Aero Contractors to commence payment of redundant workers - Tribune
Google Delays Third-Party Cookie Demise Yet Again - Slashdot
Google Postpones Third-Party Cookie Deprecation Amid U.K. Regulatory Scrutiny - Hackers News
Google-Backed Glance Pilots Android Lockscreen Platform in US - Slashdot
Hands-on with the Rabbit R1: a fun and funky AI device that feels pretty nice and does a solid job with basic AI questions, but the Rabbithole app is unfinished (David Pierce/The Verge) - Techmeme
HashiCorp Reportedly Being Acquired By IBM [UPDATE] - Slashdot
How fraudsters are getting fake articles onto Facebook - BBC
How to disable Windows 11 Start Menu ads - Pocket Lint
How to use Garmin Connect - Pocket Lint
IBM agrees to buy HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in a deal valuing HashiCorp at $6.4B and expected to close by the end of 2024 (Ben Glickman/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
IBM moves deeper into hybrid cloud management with $6.4B HashiCorp acquisition - Techcrunch
IBM reports Q1 revenue up 1% YoY to $14.46B, vs. $14.55B est., software revenue up 5.5% YoY to $5.9B, and net income of $1.6B, up from $927M YoY; IBM drops 5%+ (Jordan Novet/CNBC) - Techmeme
Ibom Air wins big at African Travel Quarterly Travellers Awards 2024 - Tribune
JAMB exam reschedule 2024 - Techcabal
JioCinema, the Indian streaming service, launches 35-cent tier to box out Netflix and Prime Video - Techcrunch
K Krithivasan, the CEO of Indian IT giant TCS, says there'll be "minimal" need for call centers in as soon as a year, as AI chatbots take over much of the work (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Knowing the status of your ticket as a passenger - Tribune
Lenovo First To Implement LPCAMM2 in Laptop - Slashdot
Manga Site Blocks Adult Content, But Only For US and UK Users - Slashdot
Manhattan's DA wants to know why YouTube is pushing "ghost gun" tutorials to kids - Engadget
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta AI assistant has been "tried" by "tens of millions of people" and it will take Meta several years to make money from generative AI (Alex Heath/The Verge) - Techmeme
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads has 150 million monthly active users - Techcrunch
Memo: Thrasio CEO Greg Greeley plans to resign and five other senior executives will "step down when Thrasio emerges from Chapter 11 in the coming weeks" (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - Techmeme
Meta Opens Quest Operating System To Third-Party Device Makers - Slashdot
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $36.46B, net income up 117% YoY to $12.37B, and family daily active people up 7% YoY to 3.24B for March 2024 (Meta Investor Relations) - Techmeme
Meta shares sink after it reveals spending plans - BBC
Meta's Reality Labs Q1: revenue up 30% YoY to $440M, vs. $512.5M est., a $3.85B operating loss, vs. $4.31B est.; Reality Labs lost $45B+ since the end of 2020 (Alex Koller/CNBC) - Techmeme
Meta's stock drops 15%+ after hours on weak Q2 revenue guidance and higher FY 2024 capital expenditures due to increased AI infrastructure investments (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) - Techmeme
Metaphor: ReFantazio' Steals the Best Ideas From 'Persona 5 - Wired
Ministry of Aviation orders immediate suspension of Dana Air operations - Tribune
Moto G Power 5G review: Battery life trumps odd software - Pocket Lint
Nooks, whose AI tools can analyze sales calls and summarize customer interactions, raised a $22M Series A led by Lachy Groom, bringing its total funding to $27M (Ken Yeung/VentureBeat) - Techmeme
12 Best Wi-Fi Routers (2024): Budget, Gaming, Mesh - Wired
18 Best Portable Battery Chargers (2024): For Phones, iPads, Laptops, and More - Wired
2024 Chevrolet Electric Silverado: What we know - Pocket Lint
45 startups shortlisted for the 2024 edition Of The Africatech Awards - TechMoran
5 Best VPN Services (2024): For Routers, PC, iPhone, Android, and More - Wired
5 features to try out in the new Photoshop Beta - Pocket Lint
5 key Cybersecurity Steps for SMEs Thriving in the Cloud Era - Itnewsafrica
5 things to know about the new Sonos app - Pocket Lint
7 signs to upgrade your AirPods - Pocket Lint
8 essential apps I have on my Google Pixel phone - Pocket Lint
A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer) - Techmeme
A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker) - Techmeme
AGM G2 Guardian: Meet rugged smartphone made for extreme environments - Technology Times
AI Is Poisoning Reddit To Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO - Slashdot
An interview with Apple Arcade's Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023, and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian) - Techmeme
An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz) - Techmeme
Anon is building an automated authentication layer for the gen AI age - Techcrunch
Apple debuts OpenELM, a family of language models with 270M, 450M, 1.1B, and 3B parameters, designed to run on-device, pre-trained and fine-tuned on public data (Shubham Sharma/VentureBeat) - Techmeme
Apple Releases OpenELM: Small, Open Source AI Models Designed To Run On-device - Slashdot
Apple Removes WhatsApp and Threads from China App Store Over Security Concerns - TechCity
Apples highly anticipated iPad launch event set for may 7 - TechMoran
ArcaneDoor' Cyberspies Hacked Cisco Firewalls to Access Government Networks - Wired
As software gets better at labeling photos, CAPTCHA designers are adopting more difficult logic-based prompts to thwart nefarious bots (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Bang & Olufsen Beosystem 9000c: Price, Specs, Release Date - Wired
Berlin-based Parloa, which uses conversational AI to automate call center operations, raised a $66M Series B led by Altimeter, after a $21M Series A in 2023 (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Beyond making ends meet: Surprising reasons why employees juggle multiple jobs - Techpoint
Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees divestiture as a last resort (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Biden signs bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance fails to sell the app - Techcrunch
Biden Signs TikTok 'Divest or Ban' Bill Into Law - Slashdot
Binance's executive arrest in Kenya reportedly debunked by wife and Kenyan officials - Techpoint
Block lets Square merchants convert a part of their daily sales to bitcoin - Techcrunch
Block says it has finished the development of its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a "leading global semiconductor foundry" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC) - Techmeme
Braintree Attains the Status of LS Retail Diamond Partner - Itnewsafrica
Can Augmented Reality Be the Future of Cybersecurity - Itnewsafrica
Can the First Amendment Save TikTok - Wired
Centre of Excellence for Fiber Optic Technicians Launched - Itnewsafrica
Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers - Slashdot
China approves US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an ease on the crackdown (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation - The Economist
Companies Overlook the African Cloud Ecosystem's Potential - Itnewsafrica
CoralRaider Malware Campaign Exploits CDN Cache to Spread Info-Stealers - Hackers News
Court adjourns Binances Tigran Gambaryans bail ruling to May 17 - Techpoint
Diamond Market Shows Serious Cracks From Man-Made Stones - Slashdot
Diddo's new funding will bring its shoppable TV API to streaming platforms - Techcrunch
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery - Wired
Dripos raises $11M Series A to replace Square, Toast and 8 other pieces of software - Techcrunch
Dublin-based Tines, which offers no-code automation tools for security teams, raised a $50M Series B extension, sources say at a near $600M post-money valuation (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Eastern Cape Schools Embrace Coding and Robotics - Itnewsafrica
Electric Vehicles: IZI Rwanda delivers 5 electric buses to ease public transportation in Kigali - Technext
Emails released as part of US v. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...) - Techmeme
eScan Antivirus Update Mechanism Exploited to Spread Backdoors and Miners - Hackers News
EU's new right-to-repair rules force companies to repair out-of-warranty devices - Engadget
Ex-Amazon Exec Claims She Was Asked To Ignore Copyright Law in Race To AI - Slashdot
Exciting announcement: Introducing The Big Daily newsletter - Techcabal
Filings: in 2024, ByteDance and TikTok spent $7M+ combined on lobbying against the US TikTok bill; AdImpact: TikTok spent $4.5M+ on TV and digital ad campaigns (Brian Schwartz/CNBC) - Techmeme
Fintech gaming startup Sanlo's webshop tool could help developers avoid costly app store fees - Techcrunch
FinTechNGR to host session on PAPPS - Technology Times
Flame-Throwing Robot Dog Now Available Under $10,000 - Slashdot
For the third time, Google delays the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome, pushing back its plans to early 2025 amid regulatory scrutiny (Seb Joseph/Digiday) - Techmeme