December 24th, 2023

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TRENDING TECH NEWS 🚀

Hyperloop One to Shut Down After Failing to Reinvent Transit

Volkswagen Will Bring Back Physical Buttons In New Cars | Down with touch screen controls

GM dealer chatbot agrees to sell 2024 Chevrolet Tahoe for $1

Windows 10 end of life could prompt torrent of e-waste as 240 million devices set for scrapheap

Tesla's recall of 2 million cars relies on fix that may not work

Twitter violated contract by failing to pay millions in bonuses, US judge rules

Apple to stop selling its latest smartwatches after losing patent case

Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email

Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma

CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens hand out medical records to cops without warrants

X to be investigated for allegedly not complying with EU laws on hate speech and fake news

Toyota recalls 1.9 million RAV4 SUVs as batteries can shift, catch fire

Scientists replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times

Republicans slam broadband discounts for poor people, threaten to kill program

Lapsus$: GTA 6 hacker sentenced to life in hospital prison

Activision apocalypse: Sony forecasts $1.5 billion loss by 2027 after Microsoft merger

GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start

Comcast says hackers stole data of close to 36 million Xfinity customers

Solar rooftops gain traction as electric vehicles owners look to skip paying for electricity or gasoline

Social media platform X suffers global outages

Lucid’s $50,000 Tesla Challenger Under Development, CEO Suggests

Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud

Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective

AI cannot patent inventions, UK Supreme court confirms

FTC bans Rite Aid from using AI facial recognition in stores for 5 years

Former Samsung employees arrested for selling trade secrets to Chinese memory maker

Xfinity waited 13 days to patch critical Citrix Bleed 0-day. Now it’s paying the price

China to increase curbs on video gaming industry

Pornhub, XVideos, and Stripchat hit with tough new EU safety regulations

SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker

Sony has sold 50 million PS5 consoles over three years

German police takes down Kingdom Market cybercrime marketplace

Google May Replace Some Human Employees with AI

Wireless TVs use built-in cameras, NFC readers to sell you stuff you see on TV

Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche are finally switching to Tesla's charging standard

Why OpenAI developing an artificial intelligence that's good at math is such a big deal

AI robot wins against human for first time in mental and physical task

How 2023 marked the death of anonymity online in China.

VR market keeps shrinking even as Meta pours billions of dollars a quarter into metaverse

Intel CEO laments Nvidia's 'extraordinarily lucky' AI dominance

Astonishing Anti Repair Practices By Apple In the Last 15 Years

Intel's CEO says Moore's Law is slowing to a three-year cadence

1-bit CPU for “super low-performance computer” launched

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