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We were easy marks.

Since Elon Musk became Twitter’s CEO, he’s been pushing through a lot of changes to the social network. But perhaps...

About a decade ago, Tesla rigged the dashboard readouts in its electric cars to provide “rosy” projections of how far owners can drive before needing to recharge, a source told Reuters. The automaker last year became so inundated with driving-range complaints that it created a special team to cancel owners’ service...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted new rules requiring publicly traded companies to disclose cyberattacks within four business days after determining they're material incidents.

It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.

It is impossibly hard to play games released before 2010....

Proponents boast that 802.11bb is 100 times faster than Wi-Fi and more secure.

Yesterday, I was reading a thread that asked what's the point of buying a new phone as often as as people do. In the comments there were a variety of answers, but what interested me is that there were a wide variety of answers for how long each person liked to go before upgrading. So I've attempted to come up with justifications...

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

G/O Media, who owns popular tech site Gizmodo along with a slew of other outlets, began publishing AI-generated articles last week, despite strong objections from many of the members of its staff, according to The Washington Post. The articles are all credited to various bots — Gizmodo Bot, for example — with no other...

A new law went into effect in New York City on Wednesday that requires any business using A.I. in its hiring to submit that software to an audit to prove that it does not result in racist or sexist…

Facebook has tried to compete with Twitter in numerous ways over the years, including copying signature Twitter features such as hashtags and trending topics. But now Facebook’s parent company is taking perhaps its biggest swipe at Twitter yet.

A new quantum computer can execute calculations in mere moments that would take the most advanced supercomputers 47 years to process.

Twitter’s dying, Reddit’s changing, everything else is entertainment – and there’s nowhere left to hang out.

Short of donning a tin-foil hat and going to live in the woods, it's practically impossible to completely isolate yourself from all vulnerability to data snoopers. However, there are some practical steps that anyone can take to improve things.

The third party API changes come into effect tomorrow (1/7/2023) so now's a good time to either purge or edit your existing content....

Amazon to be accused of punishing sellers who don't use its fulfillment services.

The platform cited a spike in hate speech and misinformation on X and plans to devote its time to Mastodon.

Google accused DOJ of aiming to force people to use “inferior” search products.

The lawsuit was brought last May against X, as Twitter is now known, by Areej al-Sadhan, the sister of a Saudi aid worker who was forcibly disappeared and then later sentenced to 20 years in jail. Lawyers for Al-Sadhan updated their claim last week to include new allegations about how Twitter, under the leadership of then-chief...

Three visual artists are suing artificial intelligence image-generators to protect their copyrights and careers.

Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."

A recently discovered vulnerability that affects lots of Intel CPUs could steal your data, but there's a fix. The downside? It'll cost you performance.

Universal Music Group , Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records.