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Infotech Headlines Today
[Mon-17-Mar-2025]

Updated: 12 mins ago

THN Weekly Recap: Router Hacks, PyPI Attacks, New Ransomware Decryptor, and More - Hackers News

4 tips and tricks for troubleshooting Android digital car key setup - Pocket Lint

4 ways to add Android Auto to your car - Pocket Lint

7 Best Video Doorbell Cameras (2025): Smart, Battery, AI, Budget, and Subscription-Free - Wired

8 Best Down Comforters (2025), Tested and Reviewed - Wired

A look at "coachbots", AI-powered virtual coaches like CoachHub's Aimy and Valence's Nadia that advise on salary talks, work habits, and role-play conversations (Emma Jacobs/Financial Times) - Techmeme

A profile of Chetan Nayak, who leads Microsoft's Station Q team trying to build a quantum computer; source: Microsoft spends ~$300M annually on quantum research (Tom Dotan/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Absa Appoints Kenny Fihla as New Group CEO - Innovation Village

Adobe: traffic from AI sources to US retail sites in February rose 1,200% from July 2024; 39% of US consumers used generative AI for shopping, 53% plan to do so (Mike Pastore/Search Engine Land) - Techmeme

AFR-IX telecom secures 14.3m EU funding for Medusa Africa Submarine Cable System - TechMoran

AgDevCo exits Saise Farming Enterprises, transfers ownership to Buya Bamba - Innovation Village

AI in Cybercrime: Derek Manky Predicts the Next Wave of Threats - Itnewsafrica

AI slop, shared by thousands of prolific accounts, is brute forcing virality, and platforms like Meta embrace it; some AI videos get 350M+ views (Jason Koebler/404 Media) - Techmeme

Airtel Africa Launches Truecaller-Like AI Powered Spam Alert Service - TechMoran

Airtel launchesAI-powered spam alert service to combat SMS fraud in Nigeria - Techpoint

Alphabet spins off laser-based internet company Taara from its X "moonshot" incubator; Taara, which raised new funding, has its origins in Loon, closed in 2021 (Stephen Morris/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Alphabet Spins Off Laser-Based Internet Project Taara From 'Moonshot' Unit - Slashdot

Alphabet's Starlink competitor Taara is spinning off into an independent company - Engadget

Alterra Capital Partners receives a $20 million investment from BII - Innovation Village

Amazon devices chief Panos Panay aims to unveil the first products he has overseen in the fall, talks of new premium devices, hints at wearables like AR glasses (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

An interview with Snap CEO Evan Spiegel on Snap's fifth-generation smart glasses, unveiled in September 2024, competing with Apple and Meta, Snap OS, and more (Austin Carr/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Apache Tomcat Vulnerability Actively Exploited Just 30 Hours After Public Disclosure - Hackers News

Apple AirPods Max with USB-C charging are back on sale for $480 - Engadget

Apple Considered Removing Ports from iPhone 17 Air - TechCity

Apple reportedly considered building the iPhone 17 Air without ports - Techcrunch

Apple should focus on fixing Siri, not redesigning iOS again - Engadget

Apple's 10th-gen iPad is on sale for $80 off - Engadget

Bitwarden Review: The Best Password Manager - Wired

BlueSky Proposes 'New Standard' for When Scraping Data for AI Training - Slashdot

Boeing Starliner astronauts finally head home, nine months later - Engadget

Bumble adds ID verification and other safety features - Engadget

Bumble heightens safety measures with new ID verification feature - Techcrunch

Bumble rolls out new ID verification in the US, the UK, Australia, France, India, and six other markets, as founder Whitney Wolfe Herd returns as its CEO (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Carl Lundstrom, who financed file sharing service the Pirate Bay, died in a plane crash in Slovenia; at its peak, the Pirate Bay had an estimated 20M+ users (Michael Levenson/New York Times) - Techmeme

Cascador launches $2 million Catalytic Fund to support mid-stage entrepreneurs in Africa's tech ecosystem - Innovation Village

Cascador Launches $2M Fund to Empower Nigerian Entrepreneurs - TechMoran

CIG Motors takes charge as Zenolynks LagRide contract is cut - Techpoint

CIG Motors Takes Control of LagRide's operations - Innovation Village

Consumer Groups Push New Law Fighting 'Zombie' IoT Devices - Slashdot

CoreWeave's upcoming IPO in a soft IPO market serves as a bellwether for both the tech industry and how the public market perceives AI in the years ahead (Rachyl Jones/Semafor) - Techmeme

Cost of issuing cards could crash from 1,800 to 400 with contactless payment boom - Techpoint

Crusoe, a startup helping build the first data center for Stargate, says it secured a deal with a gas turbine owner to generate 4.5 gigawatts of energy by 2027 (Anissa Gardizy/The Information) - Techmeme

Crypto exchange OKX says it has "temporarily" suspended its DEX aggregator services, used to launder the $1.5B Bybit hack, after reported EU scrutiny under MiCA (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Cybercriminals Exploit CSS to Evade Spam Filters and Track Email Users' Actions - Hackers News

Dangote-backed tech Fund secures $20m from UK's BII - Techpoint

Director of rural broadband program exits with a warning about shift to 'worse' satellite internet - Engadget

Discord launches a Social SDK to let developers offer friends lists, cross-platform messaging, voice, and more, with console and mobile support "coming soon" (Jay Peters/The Verge) - Techmeme

Discord launches SDK to help developers enhance social experiences in their games - Techcrunch

Discord Unveils Free SDK to Power Next-Gen Social Gaming Experiences - Innovation Village

Do viruses trigger Alzheimer's - The Economist

Does your smartphone speed carry the weight it used to - Pocket Lint

DOGE staffer violated Treasury rules by emailing unencrypted personal data - Techcrunch

DOGE's Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread - Wired

Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, acquires a generative AI video startup - Techcrunch

European Tech Firms Push EU for 'Buy European' Tech Mandate - Slashdot

European tech industry coalition calls for 'radical action' on digital sovereignty ' starting with buying local - Techcrunch

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can't Opt Out - Wired

FSF's Memorabilia Silent Auction Begins Today - Slashdot

Gemini AI Removes Watermarks in Image Editing Feature - TechCity



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Sun-16-Mar-2025]

21Shares plans to liquidate two actively managed bitcoin and ether futures ETFs, following $1.66B in outflows from US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs this month (Francisco Rodrigues/CoinDesk) - Techmeme

340 European Cities Restrict Usage of Cars - Slashdot

5 Apple Pay moves that make checkout faster, smarter, and better - Pocket Lint

A closer look at the iPhone 17 "Air", which lays the foundation for major design changes in future devices, including possible portless and foldable iPhones (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

A developer who had a one-day session with Swift Assist in late 2024 says its UI is complete but results were not very good, and it falls apart on complex tasks (John Gruber/Daring Fireball) - Techmeme

A look at the growing battle over how to define a podcast, as YouTube pushes deeper into podcasting and Spotify pursues video (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

A show based on Philip K. Dick's The Variable Man is in the works - Engadget

Africa's digital rise demands smarter identity verification - Techcabal

After Meta Blocks Whistleblower's Book Promotion, It Becomes an Amazon Bestseller - Slashdot

Amazon Forest Felled To Build Road For Climate Summit - Slashdot

Amazon's Echo will send all voice recordings to the cloud, starting March 28 - Techcrunch

Apple considered making the rumored iPhone 17 Air 'completely port-free,' according to report - Engadget

Apple is reportedly working on two new versions of the Studio Display - Engadget

Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open-Source Local-Only AI Solutions - Slashdot

Baidu launches two new versions of its AI model Ernie - Techcrunch

Baidu releases Ernie X1, an AI model that articulates its reasoning similar to DeepSeek R1, and upgrades its flagship foundation model to Ernie 4.5 (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Beijing to roll out AI lessons for primary, secondary students - Vanguard

Bluesky proposes letting users indicate if their data can be used for AI training, web archiving, and more; critics see it as a reversal of its prior statements (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Cloudflare Accused of Blocking Niche Browsers - Slashdot

Codon Python Compiler Gets Faster - and Changes to Apache 2 License - Slashdot

Current and former Meta employees describe how Joel Kaplan has risen over the past decade to become Mark Zuckerberg's most trusted political fixer (Financial Times) - Techmeme

Cybersecurity Alert Warns of 300 Attacks with 'Medusa' Ransomware - Slashdot

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo say they're building a high-tech studio aiming to help artists use AI as a creative tool to make films, shows, and video games (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Elon Musk Says SpaceX's First Mission to Mars Will Launch Next Year - Slashdot

Etsy and eBay are starting to embrace tactics popularized by social media platforms, such as algorithm-based personalization, as a way to stay relevant (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme

Every Raspberry Pi model ranked from worst to best - Pocket Lint

Firefly's 'Athena' Lander Watched Friday's Eclipse - from the Moon - Slashdot

Garry Tan says ~80% of YC's W25 batch is AI focused and the cohort is growing significantly faster than past ones, with actual revenue, thanks to "vibe coding" (Kate Rooney/CNBC) - Techmeme

GOMYCODE, Woolf University to offer globally recognised master's degree in software engineering in Nigeria - Technext

Google and other companies are considering bringing back in-person job interviews, as some startups sell AI tools that let engineers cheat in virtual interviews (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) - Techmeme

Google's Gemma 3 and Cohere's Command A, which require just one or two Nvidia AI chips to run, hint at an industry-wide push for more efficient AI software (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

How I deep clean my grime-covered mechanical keyboard to make it look like new - Pocket Lint

How to Clean a Toaster Oven: Tips and Tricks - Wired

How to Customize the Samsung Galaxy S25's Best New Features - Wired

How to display photos on your Roku TV - Pocket Lint

How to pause Netflix subscription - Pocket Lint

I reduced my screen time using these 3 unique gadgets - Pocket Lint

Is Our Universe Trapped Inside a Black Hole - Slashdot

It's not a competition! The collaborative video game loved by players - BBC

Jio and Airtel, which initially opposed Starlink, partnered with the company following Modi's meeting with Musk and Trump's decision to impose tariffs on India (Scroll.in) - Techmeme

Joby Aviation and Virgin Atlantic partner to launch electric air taxis in the UK - Techcrunch

M-KOPA & Turaco to Launch Hospital Cash Insurance in Ghana - TechMoran

M-KOPA and Turaco Unlock Free Health Insurance for Over 1 Million Kenyans - Innovation Village

MTN and Lagos State Launch 'My Lagos App' to Transform Urban Living - Innovation Village

Nvidia's AI empire: A look at its top startup investments - Techcrunch

Ocean Levels Rise to a 30-Year High - and Faster Than Expected - Slashdot

Ofcom will enforce rules under the UK's Online Safety Act, designed to protect internet users from illegal content and harmful activity online, from March 17 (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times) - Techmeme

PAPSS set to launch Africa Currency Marketplace to Cut Dollar Dependence - Innovation Village

Photo calorie app Cal AI, downloaded over a million times, was built by two teenagers - Techcrunch

See Firefly's Blue Ghost lander bathed in red during solar eclipse captured from the moon - Engadget

Spotify slashed nearly 500M in marketing, R&D spending, and general administrative expenses in 2024, which helped the company swing to a net income of 1.1B (Financial Times) - Techmeme

Startup Claims Its Upcoming (RISC-V ISA) Zeus GPU is 10X Faster Than Nvidia's RTX 5090 - Slashdot

The 11 Best Amazon Echo and Alexa Speakers (2025): We've Tested Them All - Wired

The Best RAM for Your PC (2025) - Wired

The case for offline gaming: It's not just about saving data - Pocket Lint

The hype around AI agent Manus doesn't represent a second DeepSeek moment, but reveals that Chinese startups can compete with AI product companies in the US (Catherine Thorbecke/Bloomberg) - Techmeme

The real threat of AI models training on open-access material is that they may bleed free repositories dry by draining resources and not providing attribution (Molly White/Citation Needed) - Techmeme

These Laptop Stands Run My Household, and Life Is Better for It - Wired

Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture - Wired

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