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Italy’s plan to buy Starlink data deals a serious blow to European space network

"We are strong if we remain united and defend our infrastructure." Elon Musk raises a glass at the Atreju convention in Rome, Italy, on Saturday, Dec. 16, 2023. The annual...

After embarrassing blunder, AT&T promises bill credits for future outages

If you lost service but only 9 cell towers went down, you won't get...

Intel fills out Core Ultra 200 laptop chips with hodgepodge of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs

Core Ultra 200U, 200H, and 200HX will all fall short of Copilot+ compatibility. The new...

Microsoft would really like you to replace your old Windows 10 PCs this year

The carrot of "new features" and the stick of "no more updates for your...

Instagram users discover old AI-powered “characters,” instantly revile them

But the social networking giant still has big plans for AI content across its...

SpaceX’s Starship took a beating, but held on for first return from space

"I think we should try to catch the booster with the mechazilla arms next flight!" SpaceX demonstrated Thursday that its towering Super Heavy booster and...

US agencies to probe AI dominance of Nvidia, Microsoft, and OpenAI

DOJ to probe Nvidia while FTC takes lead in investigating Microsoft and OpenAI. The US Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission reportedly plan investigations into...

What to expect at WWDC24: Big iOS changes, more Vision Pro, and so much AI

There might not be new hardware, but Apple could make up for it with software. Apple's annual developer conference, WWDC, kicks off in Cupertino, California,...

DuckDuckGo offers “anonymous” access to AI chatbots through new service

DDG offers LLMs from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Mistral for factually-iffy conversations. On Thursday, DuckDuckGo unveiled a new "AI Chat" service that allows users to...

T-Mobile hopes you’ll buy $30 “Home Internet Backup” for when cable goes out

Backup plan is $30 every month for service that's meant to be used infrequently. T-Mobile is hoping that home Internet customers who suffer from frequent...

The Motorola Edge 2024 comes to the US for $550

Motorola's Pixel 8a fighter is headed to a carrier store near you. Motorola's newest phone is the Motorola Edge 2024. This is a mid-range phone with...

Canada demands 5% of revenue from Netflix, Spotify, and other streamers

Canada says $200M in annual fees will support local news and other content. Canada has ordered large online streaming services to pay 5 percent of...

Elon Musk’s X defeats Australia’s global takedown order of stabbing video

Australia drops censorship fight threatening Musk’s X with $500K daily fine. Australia's safety regulator has ended a legal battle with X (formerly Twitter) after threatening approximately $500,000...

Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned

Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary. Microsoft’s Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs come with quite a few new...

Google changes repair policy after criticism of third-party parts ban

Google previously said it would not return mailed-in devices using "unauthorized" parts. Google has changed its repair policy in response to criticism from repair advocate Louis...

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place

Eric Yuan told The Verge that "digital twins" are the future of work. Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision for the future of work:...

Nvidia emails: Elon Musk diverting Tesla GPUs to his other companies

The Tesla CEO is accused of diverting resources from the company again. Elon Musk is yet again being accused of diverting Tesla resources to his...

Intel details new Lunar Lake CPUs that will go up against AMD, Qualcomm, and Apple

Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel. Given its recent manufacturing troubles, a resurgent AMD, an incursion from Qualcomm, and Apple’s shift from customer to...

Google accidentally published internal Search documentation to GitHub

Commit snafu slapped an irrevocable Apache 2.0 license on confidential API Docs. Google apparently accidentally posted a big stash of internal technical documents to GitHub,...
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