$132K ' $149K, here's what seed-stage founders pay early employees, based on data - Techcrunch
11 Best Beard Trimmers (2024): Full Beards, Hair, Stubble - Wired
2024 Was the Year Gamers Really Started Pushing Back On the Erosion of Game Ownership - Slashdot
2024 Was the Year the Bottom Fell Out of the Games Industry - Slashdot
4 digital habits I use to calm my anxiety - Pocket Lint
6 Copilot features that are actually useful and don't totally suck - Pocket Lint
A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs - Techcrunch
A look at OpenAI's interest in robotics, from investing in startups like Figure and Physical Intelligence to, sources say, considering making a humanoid robot (The Information) - Techmeme
A look at the more challenging AI evaluations emerging in response to the rapid progress of models, including FrontierMath, Humanity's Last Exam, and RE-Bench (Tharin Pillay/Time) - Techmeme
AI Beats Human Experts At Distinguishing American Whiskey From Scotch - Slashdot
AMD's CES 2025 press conference: How to watch - Techcrunch
Android phone makers dropped the ball on Qi2 in 2024 - Engadget
Ant splits Alipay into the Digital Payment Business Group focused on new payment products, and the Alipay Business Group focused on user growth and monetization (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post) - Techmeme
Banks must settle '212.5 billion USSD debt to telcos by year-end - Techcabal
Benchmarking AMD's MI300X and Nvidia's H100 and H200; in theory, AMD's GPU has advantages in specs and Total Cost of Ownership, but software bugs hold it back (Dylan Patel/SemiAnalysis) - Techmeme
Bret Taylor Urges Rethink of Software Development as AI Reshapes Industry - Slashdot
Cloudflare Must Block 'Piracy Shield' Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service - Slashdot
Critical SQL Injection Vulnerability in Apache Traffic Control Rated 9.9 CVSS ' Patch Now - Hackers News
Critics, Not Fans, Perpetuate the Failed Second Album Myth, Study Shows - Slashdot
Cybercafs in Kenya to install CCTVs, collect customers' IDs under proposed rules - Techcabal
El Salvador Strikes $1.4 Billion IMF Deal After Scaling Back Bitcoin Policies - Slashdot
Elite Colleges Have a Looming Money Problem - Slashdot
Elon Musk is one of two paid subscribers of an X account that has implied South Africa was better off under apartheid, slammed "Black ruled" countries, and more (Isaac Schorr/Mediaite) - Techmeme
FCC 'Rip and Replace' Provision For Chinese Tech Tops Cyber Provisions in Defense Bill - Slashdot
Fiserv to acquire Toronto-based Payfare, which lets gig workers on platforms like Uber access their wages early, for $140M, expected to close in H1 2025 (Niket Nishant/Reuters) - Techmeme
Give Your Social Health a Decent Workout - Wired
GV, the VC team backed by Google, has a broad remit, but it can't do one thing - Techcrunch
Headlights Are Growing Brighter - Slashdot
Home for the holidays' Share this top cybersecurity advice with friends and family - Techcrunch
How to cast to your Roku - Pocket Lint
How to download a book onto your Kindle - Pocket Lint
How to use iOS 18's Eye Tracking accessibility feature - Pocket Lint
In Maine, Remote Work Gives Prisoners a Lifeline - Slashdot
Infinix Introduces Vibrant New Colors for the HOT 50 Series: A Bold Lifestyle Statement for the New Year - TechCity
Iran's Charming Kitten Deploys BellaCPP: A New C++ Variant of BellaCiao Malware - Hackers News
Is your laptop battery not holding a charge' Then it might be time for a replacement - Pocket Lint
Kaiko: the share of BTC-USD trades in US market hours has now climbed to ~53% from 40% in 2021, with crypto liquidity back at levels seen before FTX's collapse (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
More Than 140 Kenya Facebook Moderators Diagnosed With Severe PTSD - Slashdot
Morrisons Christmas delays extend to second day - BBC
NASA's Parker Solar Probe Completes Historic Christmas Eve Flyby of the Sun - Slashdot
NCAA sanctions five airlines over regulatoryviolations - Tribune
North Korean Hackers Stole $1.3 Billion Worth of Crypto This Year - Slashdot
Nosferatu's Resurrection Was a Long Time Coming - Wired
One Third of Adults Can't Delete Device Data - Slashdot
Onyx Motorbikes is back, one year after its owner died leaving the company in shambles - Techcrunch
Opay dominates Nigerian banking apps in 2024 - Technext
OpenAI Has Discussed Making a Humanoid Robot, Report Says - Slashdot
Opensignal ranks Japan #1 in G7 mobile reliability experience between July 1 and September 28, followed by France, Germany, the US, Canada, Italy, and the UK (Yasemin Craggs Mersinoglu/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Post Office Creates CTO Role To Support 'Extensive and Complex' Plans - Slashdot
President Biden signs the $895B 2025 defense policy bill, including $3B for the FCC's "rip and replace" program to get rid of Chinese networking equipment (Martin Matishak/The Record) - Techmeme
Ruijie Networks' Cloud Platform Flaws Could Expose 50,000 Devices to Remote Attacks - Hackers News
Russia's finance minister says Russian companies have begun using bitcoin and other digital currencies in international payments to counter Western sanctions (Gleb Bryanski/Reuters) - Techmeme
Scientists Observe 'Negative Time' In Quantum Experiments - Slashdot
Singapore issued 13 crypto licenses in 2024, pulling ahead of Hong Kong, where authorities have been more cautious, in the race to become a regional crypto hub (Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Sources: Founders Fund seeks ~$3B for its third growth equity fund; it raised $3.4B for its second growth fund and $1.8B for its eighth early-stage fund in 2022 (Dan Primack/Axios) - Techmeme
South Korea Mulls Creating 'KSMC' Contract Chipmaker To Compete With TSMC - Slashdot
State of Libya joins Afreximbank to Boost African Trade & Development - Itnewsafrica
Taiwan's FTC blocks Uber's $950M acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda, arguing it would decrease competition as their combined market share would be 90%+ (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
The 10 most notable tech innovations and milestones of 2024 - Technext