A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in
A number of people on social media say that they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on Friday evening …
Google and Apple use passkeys to capture users by locking credentials into their platforms and have made the UX of passkeys worse than that of password managers
At around 11pm last night my partner went to change our lounge room lights with our home light control system.
A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful
Dana Mattioli's important book looks the winner-takes-all dynamic that built a competition-squashing behemoth
Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing
- The iPhone maker has also been holding discussions with Google — Negotiations center on powering AI chatbot in iOS 18 update
Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015
- Report reassures investors about its prospects with AI — Google parent already twice breached level on intraday basis
Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub
Fond memories of beige machines. — Ah, the PC in the spare room. Back when “going on the computer” was an event, not a daily necessity, I cut my teeth on MS-DOS games.
Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills
Alphabet (GOOGL.O) unit Google said on Friday it would invest $3 billion to set up a data center campus in Indiana and expand sites in Virginia.
Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US”
Search engine giant ‘serious’ about beefing up equipment and software ecosystem
Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments
We are not prepared for the world we have created. — #Baltimore #generativeAI — https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/ ... Dan Gillmor / @dangillmor@mastodon.social : If what's being charged in this ...
Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon
- Agency accuses retail giant of failing to preserve documents — Top executives communicated via Signal disappearing chats
A look at the rise in video podcasts, as YouTube leads in podcast consumption in the US and companies invest in video to gain new audiences and boost ad revenue
To some, “video podcasts” are a contradiction in terms. That hasn't made them any less popular.
Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business
Kate Kelly / New York Times :
Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months
Meta had its worst trading day in 18 months after warning of years of AI investment; shares of Microsoft and Alphabet rallied
New rules that allow UK law enforcement agencies to seize, destroy, or transfer crypto holdings used for crime before making an arrest take effect
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers
The FCC on Thursday once again voted along party lines … Paul Lilly / HotHardware : Net Neutrality Is Officially Back After FCC Votes To Regulate ISPs techfreedom.org : FCC Can't Write Its Own Communi...
Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure
Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators
Biden's campaign is making an unprecedented effort to court influencers, even though he signed a bill that could lead to TikTok vanishing in the US.
IBM plans to expand its semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Bromont, Quebec, with more than CA$1B in investments over the next five years
Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg :
As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500's worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company's missteps
Kif Leswing / CNBC :
Sources: China's muted response to TikTok bill reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value than Huawei; China prefers TikTok US closure to sale
Apple's latest supplier list shows the challenges the company is facing in diversifying its supply chain, as its Chinese suppliers grew from 48 to 52 in 2023
The Apple supplier list represents 98 percent of our direct spend for materials … Michael Carroll / Mobile World Live : Apple faces challenges decoupling from China José Adorno / BGR : Apple is still ...
Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action
https://www.404media.co/... #News #Discord #SpyPet #Bots #TechNews #AllThingsTech Jason Koebler / @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social : New: Discord has shut down a tool that was surveilling thousands of D...
Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills
new AI experiment on Google's Search Labs! [image]
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26
Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control
Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.