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
AI Beats Human Experts At Distinguishing American Whiskey From Scotch - Slashdot
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
Cloudflare Must Block 'Piracy Shield' Domains and IP Addresses Across Its Service - Slashdot
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
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
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
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
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
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
The 10 most notable tech innovations and milestones of 2024 - Technext
The best couch co-op games for PC, Nintendo Switch, PS5 and Xbox - Engadget
Two major China-based Amazon merchants say Amazon reps have recently been offering incentives like free ads and lower commissions if they stop selling on Temu (The Information) - Techmeme
What is crypto lending, and how does it work - Techpoint
Why your next iPhone should be the 2025 iPhone SE - Pocket Lint
You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family - Wired
9 Best crypto lending platforms: safest options for loans and interest - Techpoint
9 Last-Minute Deals on WIRED-Approved Gifts That Will Arrive In Time - Wired
A Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory report says data centers could account for 6.7%-12% of US total electricity consumption by 2028, up from ~4% currently (Laila Kearney/Reuters) - Techmeme
Affordable Digital Marketing Strategies for African Small Businesses - Innovation Village
AI startups attracted 25% of Europe's VC funding - Techcrunch
Alibaba launches its first African site in Morocco - Innovation Village
All American Airlines flights in the US are currently grounded - Engadget
An investigation finds that Google Maps fails users in the West Bank - Techcrunch
An investigator says he reported 26 OnlyFans accounts suspected of containing CSAM to NCMEC and that all of the accounts were removed within a day of his report (Reuters) - Techmeme
Analysis: SAP accounts for ~40% of Frankfurt DAX's 18.7% gains in 2024, with SAP up 70%+ as the software company transitions its business customers to the cloud (Financial Times) - Techmeme
Apache Tomcat Vulnerability CVE-2024-56337 Exposes Servers to RCE Attacks - Hackers News
Apple Sends Spyware Victims To Nonprofit Security Lab 'Access Now - Slashdot
Arizona Races To Power Data Center Boom as Maricopa County Set For Number 2 Spot - Slashdot
Arizona's Maricopa County is set to have the second largest concentration of US data centers by 2028, as the state races to increase electricity production (Pranshu Verma/Washington Post) - Techmeme
ASUS Christmas Campaign Sparks Malware Panic Among Windows Users - Slashdot
Balderton Capital and Dealroom: European AI startups attracted 25% of the region's VC funding, or ~$13.7B, in 2024, compared to 15% in 2020 (Anna Heim/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Biggest Banks Sue the Federal Reserve Over Annual Stress Tests - Slashdot
Calls, SMS, data to cost more in January - Technext
CISA Adds Acclaim USAHERDS Vulnerability to KEV Catalog Amid Active Exploitation - Hackers News
Clop ransomware gang takes credit for latest mass hack that breached dozens of companies - Techcrunch
Commercial Tea Bags Release Millions of Microplastics, Entering Human Intestinal Cells - Slashdot
Critics Decry Vietnam's 'Draconian' New Internet Law - Slashdot
Disney Pulled the Plug on This Game in 2013. A Group of Teens Kept It Alive - Wired
Donald Trump announces Scott Kupor, a managing partner at a16z, will serve as director of OPM, and Michael Kratsios will serve as the White House OSTP director (Annie Palmer/CNBC) - Techmeme
Drinking Tea and Coffee Linked To Lower Risk of Head and Neck Cancer in Study - Slashdot
Electric Aircraft Startup Lilium Ceases Operations, 1,000 Workers Laid Off - Slashdot
Elon Musk's xAI lands $6B in new cash to fuel AI ambitions - Techcrunch
Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company - Slashdot
Engadget's Balatro of the year - Engadget
Engadget's Balatro of the year 2024 - Engadget
Engadget's Games of the Year 2024 - Engadget
Engineers Achieve Quantum Teleportation Over Active Internet Cables - Slashdot
Experts: Bitcoin has time to adopt newer encryption that's resistant to attacks via potentially upcoming quantum systems, but such an overhaul could take years (Alexander Osipovich/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Filing: Apple asks to participate in Google's upcoming US search antitrust trial, saying it can't rely on Google to defend their revenue-sharing agreements (Jody Godoy/Reuters) - Techmeme
Filing: Chinese video surveillance provider Dahua to terminate or exit five government projects in Xinjiang; Hikvision made a similar announcement this month (Reuters) - Techmeme
Flying taxi maker Lillium lays off 1,000 workers and ceases operations - Engadget
FOMO keeping you online' This new Instagram feature might fix that - Pocket Lint
Google is Using Anthropic's Claude To Improve Its Gemini AI - Slashdot
Google is using Anthropic's Claude to improve its Gemini AI - Techcrunch
Google's Counteroffer To the Government Trying To Break It Up is Unbundling Android Apps - Slashdot
Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld Editor and Renowned Hardware Journalist, Dies At 58 - Slashdot
Halide's next version will come with new film filters, HDR - Techcrunch
Hashed: $112M+ worth of USDC fled Hyperliquid, the top DeFi derivatives exchange by volume, on December 23, after concern over trading by North Korean hackers (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Health Care Giant Ascension Says 5.6 Million Patients Affected In Cyberattack - Slashdot
Home Is Where the Couch Is: Photos by Natcha Wongchanglaw - Wired
HomeKit doorbells suck, so Apple is reportedly making its own - Pocket Lint
Honda and Nissan Announce Historic Merger Plans to Tackle Rising EV Competition - Innovation Village
How AI hallucinations are transforming scientific discovery, with some scientists calling the term "hallucination" misleading and likening it to exploration (William J. Broad/New York Times) - Techmeme
How Apple Developed an Nvidia Allergy - Slashdot
How Instagram Reels Can Bring Your Nigerian Christmas to Life - Innovation Village
How NASA Might Change Under Donald Trump - Wired
How Nigerian Gen Z Creatives Are Going Mainstream - Innovation Village
How tech-enabled transportation service Zidallie is revolutionizing school transport in Kenya - TechMoran
Hyundai is giving away free Tesla NACs adapters to its EV customers - Techcrunch
Hyundai will offer its EV customers free NACS adapters starting next year - Engadget
Infinix Introduces Vibrant New Colours for the HOT 50 Series: A Bold Lifestyle Statement for the New Year - Technext
Internet freedom advocates criticize Vietnam's Decree 147, which goes into effect on Dec. 25 and requires social media users to verify their identities and more (Agence France-Presse) - Techmeme
Iran claims it will lift its ban on "certain widely used foreign platforms", naming WhatsApp and Google Play as the first two apps to be unblocked (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
It Was a Record Year for Dating Apps. They Still Don't Have It Figured Out - Wired