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Spotify’s second price hike in 9 months will target audiobook listeners
Bloomberg report claims price hike coming to Australia, Pakistan, and the UK first.
How to hack the Jacksonville Jaguars’ jumbotron (and end up in jail for 220 years)
The story that just keeps getting worse.
Man pleads guilty to stealing former coworker’s identity for 30 years
Victim was jailed for 428 days after LA cops failed to detect true identity.
Copilot key is based on a button you probably haven’t seen since IBM’s Model M
Left-Shift + Windows key + F23
The best robot to search for life could look like a snake
Snaking into the ice on Enceladus might work better than drilling through it.
With payload questions, it’s likely Vulcan will not launch again until fall
United Launch Alliance may seek certification from the Space Force after one flight.
The chemistry of milk washing, aka the secret to Ben Franklin’s favorite tipple
Bonus: a twist on the espresso martini, with peanut butter-washed vodka, coffee, and milk curd.
AI hype invades Taco Bell and Pizza Hut
Everything is suddenly "AI" in corporate food marketing, and we may have hit peak buzz.
Microsoft blamed for “a cascade of security failures” in Exchange breach report
Summer 2023 intrusion pinned to corporate culture, "avoidable errors."
Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
FCC sets April 25 vote to restore net neutrality rules repealed under Ajit Pai.
Amazon kills “Just Walk Out” shopping tech—it never really worked
"AI" checkout was actually powered by 1,000 human video reviewers in India.
TSMC “still assessing” chipmaking facilities after 7.4-magnitude quake hits Taiwan
TSMC makes most high-end chips for Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and others.
X’s new head of safety must toe Elon Musk’s line where others failed
X also announced a new head of brand safety, hoping to woo back advertisers.
George Carlin estate forces “AI Carlin” off the Internet for good
Settlement bars Dudesy podcast from re-uploading its ersatz Carlin comedy special.
Quantum error correction used to actually correct errors
Microsoft and Quantinuum correct problems when entangling pairs of qubits.
Clinical trial will attempt growing new liver from lymph node
With donor livers perpetually in short supply, growing them may be the answer.
The fine art of human prompt engineering: How to talk to a person like ChatGPT
People are more like AI language models than you might think. Here are some prompting tips.
Missouri county declares state of emergency amid suspected ransomware attack
Outage occurs on same day as special election, but election offices remain open.
X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says
Musk's attempt to venue-shop Media Matters lawsuit is not likely to end well.
Billie Eilish, Pearl Jam, 200 artists say AI poses existential threat to their livelihoods
Artists say AI will "set in motion a race to the bottom that will degrade the value of our work."
Broadcom execs say VMware price, subscription complaints are unwarranted
Industry groups aren't giving up hope for government intervention.
Users say Google’s VPN app “breaks” the Windows DNS settings
Does Google's app really need to constantly reset all Windows network interfaces?
Apple wouldn’t let Jon Stewart interview FTC Chair Lina Khan, TV host claims
Tech company also didn't want a segment on Stewart's show criticizing AI.
Expedition uses small underwater drone to discover 100-year-old shipwreck
The underwater drone Hydrus can capture georeferenced 4K video and images simultaneously.
New Catan game has overpopulation, pollution, fossil fuels, and clean energy
If pollution levels go too high, the game ends for everyone. It's a fun escape!
Medicare forced to expand forms to fit 10-digit bills—a penny shy of $100M
Previously, some doctors had to divide bills by 10 and submit 10 claims to get costs covered.
Carmakers give up on software that avoids kangaroos
Australia is turning to virtual fences to cut down on car-kangaroo impacts.
Tesla deliveries drop 8.5 percent year over year in first decline since 2020
Tesla stock price continued its fall today and is down 33 percent in 2024.
US, UK ink AI pact modeled on intel sharing agreements
Bilateral AI agreement seeks to assess, regulate risks from emerging technology.
Daily Telescope: A shiny cluster of stars in a nearby galaxy
This cluster is about 2 billion years old.
Trash from the International Space Station may have hit a house in Florida
NASA collected the item to confirm whether it came from the International Space Station.
OpenAI drops login requirements for ChatGPT’s free version
As competition heats up, free version of ChatGPT still falls far short of paid version in capability.
Microsoft splits up the Teams and Office apps worldwide, following EU split
Changes may save a bit of money for people who want Office apps without Teams.
Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
Discord's first real foray into ads seems minimally intrusive.
Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”
What a lawyer calls "a historic step," Google considers not that "significant."
AT&T acknowledges data leak that hit 73 million current and former users
Data leak hit 7.6 million current AT&T users, 65.4 million former subscribers.
Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
Cloud firms want a version of Redis that's still open to managed service resale.
Google Podcasts shuts down tomorrow, April 2
Building a podcast player into Google Search was always a weird plan.
Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor rocks the fashion in new Doctor Who trailer
The return of Russell T. Davies as show runner has been a welcome one.
Russia has a plan to “restore” its dominant position in the global launch market
"So we are working on the same trail blazed by Korolev."
StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up’s future
Resignation comes in wake of legal woes, battles with investors.
What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop
Pi 5 is still an odd fit for day-to-day desktop use; cheap mini PCs come closer.
How Volvo made rear-wheel drive work on ice for the EX30 SUV
Rear-wheel Volvos are a thing again, and software makes them safe, even on ice.
Daily Telescope: A flying telescope gets photobombed by some planets
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a telescope.
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.
The entire state of Illinois is going to be crawling with cicadas
And the land shall feast on their dead.
Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
Scientists find a "mitotic stopwatch" that lets individual cells remember something.
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
NYC’s government chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations
You can be evicted for not paying rent, despite what the "MyCity" chatbot says.
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.
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