A tale of two Chinas: Our tech governance isn't perfect, but we still get to say no
Opinion Which China do you want? The innovative good global citizen, adding to the storehouse of knowledge while making better products and services? Or the autocracy, determined to advance the interests of the leadership through any and all means, untrammeled by legal safeguards within its borders and, wherever possible, outside them?…
First 9front release of the year is called DO NOT INSTALL
9front, the most active project continuing development of the sequel to Unix, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, emitted a new version. We did not follow its advice.…
Council claims database pain forced it to drop apostrophes from street names
A row in the UK has locals and council members at odds over apostrophes, and yes – this does actually have a tech angle. …
Boeing Starliner's First Crewed Mission Scrubbed
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Apple's iPhone Spyware Problem Is Getting Worse
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Ransomware crooks now SIM swap executives' kids to pressure their parents
RSAC Ransomware infections have morphed into "a psychological attack against the victim organization," as criminals use increasingly personal and aggressive tactics to force victims to pay up, according to Google-owned Mandiant.…
Stockholm Exergi Lands World's Largest Permanent Carbon Removal Deal With Microsoft
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Novel Attack Against Virtually All VPN Apps Neuters Their Entire Purpose
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Meta, Spotify break Apple's device fingerprinting rules – new claim
Updated Last week, Apple began requiring iOS developers justify the use of a specific set of APIs that could be used for device fingerprinting.…
Google Fit Dev APIs Shutdown Set, Fate of Android and Wear OS Apps Go Unannounced
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Dear Stack Overflow denizens, thanks for helping train OpenAI's billion-dollar LLMs
Stack Overflow, a community-driven Q&A site, and OpenAI, maker of AI models, have agreed to work to improve each other's products, the latest deal in a series of tie-ups to feed machine learning models' thirst for data.…
Pokemon Go Players Are Vandalizing Real Maps With Fake Data To Catch Rare Pokemon
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Fed-run LockBit site back from the dead and vows to really spill the beans on gang
Updated Cops around the world have relaunched LockBit's website after they shut it down in February – and it's now counting down the hours to reveal documents that could unmask the ransomware group.…
Jack Dorsey Departs Bluesky
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The Rabbit R1 Could've Just Been a Mobile App
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Alternative Clouds Are Booming As Companies Seek Cheaper Access To GPUs
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Semiconductor digital twins to sip $285M from America's CHIPS Act funding pool
The US government on Monday earmarked $285 million in CHIPS Act funding for the development of semiconductor digital twins.…
OpenAI and Stack Overflow Partner To Bring More Technical Knowledge Into ChatGPT
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'The Good Enough Trap'
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Shell Sold Millions of 'Phantom' Carbon Credits
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