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Oregon signs right to repair into law
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek on Tuesday signed Senate Bill 1596 into law, joining California, Colorado, Maine,...
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Fisker lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments for months
Fisker temporarily lost track of millions of dollars in customer payments as it scaled up deliveries,...
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Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricks
Amazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on...
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Facebook snooped on users' Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
In 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between...
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Telegram's peer-to-peer SMS login service is a privacy nightmare
Telegram has introduced a controversial new feature that grants users a free premium membership in exchange...
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Fisker Trading Suspended by NYSE
The New York Stock Exchange said Monday it will immediately suspend trading shares of EV startup...
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UK blames China for breach of voter data
The U.K. government has blamed China for a 2021 cyberattack that compromised the personal information of...
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Nigerian fintech Zone raises $8.5M to scale decentralized payment infrastructure
African financial institutions typically scale their solutions using a mix of local and foreign tech. Appzone...
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Redis switches licenses, acquires Speedb
Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license....
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Waymo to launch commercial robotaxi service in Austin by end of the year
Waymo will begin offering a robotaxi service to the public in Los Angeles this week and...
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DOJ calls out Apple for breaking iMessage-on-Android solution, Beeper
The U.S. Department of Justice’s lawsuit against Apple filed on Thursday cites the iPhone maker’s battle...
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Apple's iPhone is not a monopoly like Windows was a monopoly
The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia...
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Apple slams DOJ case as misguided attempt to turn iPhone into Android
Apple is coming out swinging against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) antitrust case, just announced Thursday,...
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Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent
Users of the popular site Glassdoor, which lets anyone anonymously sign up to review companies they...
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AGI is 5 years away
Artificial general intelligence (AGI) — often referred to as “strong AI,” “full AI,” “human-level AI” or...
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Mermaid Chart, a Markdown-like tool for creating diagrams, raises $7.5M
Mermaid, the open source diagramming and charting tool, has long been popular with developers for its...
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OpenAI's chatbot store is filling up with spam
When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage...
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Orbio Earth finds methane leaks that could cost oil companies $9Bthis year
When it comes to greenhouse gasses, people tend to zero in on CO2, which is responsible...
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Apple exploring a partnership with Google for Gemini-powered feature on iPhones
Apple is looking to team up with Google for a mega-deal to leverage the Gemini AI...
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India drops plan to require approval for AI model launches
India is walking back on a recent AI advisory after receiving criticism from many local and...
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Poseidona is removing invasive algae from oceans and turning it into food
Invasive algae is a problem all over the world. Different species of seaweed pose a threat...
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SpaceX douments show company forbids employees sell stock if they've misbehaved
SpaceX requires employees to agree to some unusual terms related to their stock awards, which have...
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Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updated its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing...
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A comprehensive list of 2023 and 2024 tech layoffs
The tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this...