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Infotech Headlines Today
[Fri-24-Jan-2025]

Updated: 59 mins ago

4 reasons why gaming laptops are actually great - Pocket Lint

500 Global Launches 500 MENA to Fuel Regions Startups - TechMoran

Amarachi Iheanacho discusses her role as a Developer Advocate and vision for a collaborative developer ecosystem - Technext

Amazon Prime members can get ad-free Max and Starz for $21 per month - Engadget

Android's Identity Check feature is rolling out to Pixel and Samsung Galaxy devices - Engadget

Another CNN streaming service is coming, because that totally worked last time - Engadget

Anthropic debuts Citations, a new API feature letting developers "ground" answers in source documents, available for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Anthropic's new Citations feature aims to reduce AI errors - Techcrunch

Bedrock Energy wants geothermal to make data centers cooler and offices more comfortable - Techcrunch

Bill Gates' nuclear energy startup inks new data center deal - The Verge

Bill Gates' TerraPower Signs Agreement For Nuclear To Power Data Centers - Slashdot

Can't download TikTok' eBay has a $50,000 solution - Pocket Lint

ChatGPT back online after outage which hit thousands worldwide - BBC

Comcast's sports and news streaming bundle starts at $70 monthly - Engadget

Creditchek Raises Funding from Baobab Network to Build Credit Assessment Infra for African immigrants - TechMoran

Customers say Three mobile outage preventing 999 calls - BBC

DeepSeek's latest AI model R1 sticks to Chinese government restrictions on sensitive topics like Tiananmen Square, Taiwan, and the treatment of Uyghurs in China (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News) - Techmeme

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots - Slashdot

Don't sleep on these early Samsung Galaxy S25 discounts and promos - Pocket Lint

Dumb New Electrical Code Could Doom Most Common EV Charging - Slashdot

Egypts MoneyHash Raises $5.2M to Transform Payments in Middle East and Africa - TechMoran

Epic brings third-party titles to its mobile game store - Techcrunch

Epic Games To Cover Developer iOS Fees - Slashdot

Epic Games to cover some iOS fees in ongoing war with Apple - Engadget

Even some of the best AI can't beat this new benchmark - Techcrunch

Everyone wants MrBeast on their TikTok bid, but he hasn't committed yet - Techcrunch

Everything announced at the Xbox Developer Direct showcase - Engadget

Fitbit fined $12M over Ionic smartwatch burns - Techcrunch

Game of Thrones Author Co-Writes Physics Paper on Superhero Virus - Slashdot

Gamers are already using Nvidia's DLSS 4 tech in Cyberpunk 2077 - The Verge

GITEX Global to hold 2025 Ai Everything event in February - Techcabal

Glovo Selects Nairobi as Hub for Real-Time Operations in 23 Markets - Innovation Village

Google rolls out the first public beta of Android 16 for Pixel devices, introducing Live Updates, a limited version of Apple's Live Activities, and more (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - Techmeme

Google's Gemini AI smart home controls are rolling out to everyone - The Verge

Heat pumps in EVs are making a big difference in cold-weather driving - The Verge

Here are the best AirPods deals you can get right now - The Verge

Hidden Waymo feature let researcher customize robotaxi's display - Techcrunch

How do the Galaxy S25 Ultra and S24 Ultra stack up to one another - Pocket Lint

How Nigerian fintech Marasoft paid salaries with suspected fraudulent funds, trigerring account freezes and employee anguish - Techcabal

How to make oxygen on the moon - BBC

HSBC shuts Zing after launching the payments app in Jan. 2024 to compete with Revolut and Wise, marking the latest failed fintech venture by a traditional bank (Akila Quinio/Financial Times) - Techmeme

Insight Terra Raises $5.7M to Scale Its AI-Driven Greenhouse Gas Plaform - TechMoran

Intel Pitches Modular PC Designs To Make Repairs Less Painful - Slashdot

JetBrains launches Junie, a new AI coding agent for its IDEs - Techcrunch

Keyamo witnesses commencement of construction at XeJet construction hangar facility - Tribune

Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops - Slashdot

Misinformation and Cyberespionage Top WEF's Global Risks Report 2025 - Slashdot

Moniepoint Raises Funding from Visa to Accelerate Financial Inclusion for African SMEs - TechMoran

Netflix's cloud plans include co-op and party games - The Verge

Nigeria: The Potential Africa Crypto Market Leader - Innovation Village

OpenAI and SoftBank are reportedly putting $19B each into Stargate - Techcrunch

OpenAI says it may store deleted Operator data for up to 90 days - Techcrunch

OpenAI's Operator can surf the web for you - Engadget

PalmPay Collaborates With Zone To Enter A New Era Of Safe And Transparent Financial Services - Innovation Village

Palworld developer Pocketpair has opened up a publishing division - Engadget

PE firm Everstone acquires Delhi-based Wingify, whose flagship product Visual Website Optimizer helps business improve their online conversion rates, for $200M (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

Perplexity now has a mobile assistant on Android - The Verge

Reddit groups ban X links in protest at Musk arm gesture - BBC

Reliance plans world's biggest AI data centre in India, report says - Techcrunch



Infotech Headlines Yesterday
[Thu-23-Jan-2025]

11 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed - Wired

3 Great Ways To Boost Your Soft Skills - TechMoran

3 Ways to Change Your iPhone Location without PC or Jailbreak - Itnewsafrica

3Dtracking and the Evolution of Telematics: Transforming Fleet Management Across Africa - Itnewsafrica

5 Best AI Tools for Excel: Top Picks for Smarter Spreadsheets - Techpoint

5 Essential Tips to Secure Your Digital Wallet and Banking Apps - Itnewsafrica

A comprehensive list of 2024 and 2025 tech layoffs - Techcrunch

A GDC survey of 3K+ developers finds 80% are currently making PC games, up from 66% in 2024, versus 38% for the PlayStation 5 and 34% for the Xbox Series X/S (Andy Chalk/PC Gamer) - Techmeme

A profile of Chinese AI lab DeepSeek, which says its new open-source DeepSeek-V3 model rivals US models while using fewer AI chips to train, costing just $6M (New York Times) - Techmeme

A US district judge rules that the FBI's warrantless "backdoor" searches of FISA's Section 702 databases violate the Fourth Amendment (Patrick G. Eddington/Cato Institute) - Techmeme

Africa Tech Summit Nairobi Announces 10 Innovative African Tech Ventures for Investment Showcase - Innovation Village

African fintech Moniepoint gets Visa backing, plans to work on contactless payments - Techcrunch

After pivoting from crypto to payroll, Rollfi gets acquired - Techcrunch

AI Apps Saw Over $1 Billion In Consumer Spending In 2024 - Slashdot

AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes - Slashdot

All the details about how the 50% telecom tariff hike will affect Nigerians - Technext

Amazon Exits Quebec Operations, To Cut About 1,700 Jobs - Slashdot

Amazon includes a $200 gift card when you pre-order the Samsung Galaxy S25 Ultra - Engadget

An analysis of two years of episodes by nine prominent podcasters shows how they became mainstream sources for young men and rallied support for Trump's agenda (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

An Indian tribunal suspends restrictions preventing WhatsApp from sharing user data with Meta for ads, temporarily lifting a five-year ban imposed by the CCI (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

An interview with ex-CISA Director Jen Easterly, appointed in 2021, on leaving the agency, Trump, China's Salt Typhoon, Russia, unfinished business, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired) - Techmeme

An interview with Pinterest CEO Bill Ready on why his company is backing US state laws to restrict cellphone use in classrooms (Naomi Nix/Washington Post) - Techmeme

Android 16's first beta version brings iOS-style live notifications - Techcrunch

AngelList, CoinList partner to help crypto startups raise and manage funds - Techcrunch

Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass 'Almost All Humans At Almost Everything' Shortly After 2027 - Slashdot

Assassin's Creed Shadows preview: a few steps in the right direction - Engadget

At Davos, Trump blasts EU for targeting Apple, Google, and Meta, describing regulatory cases as "a form of taxation", and references Apple's 13B Irish tax bill (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Ati Motors raises $20M as India's robotics industry grows - Techcrunch

Baya Systems, which says its multi-die systems overcome traditional semiconductors' bottlenecks, raised a $36M Series B led by Maverick Silicon (Dean Takahashi/VentureBeat) - Techmeme

Beware: Fake CAPTCHA Campaign Spreads Lumma Stealer in Multi-Industry Attacks - Hackers News

Brave Search rolls out Rerank to let users boost or downgrade domains from their search results through thumbs up or thumbs down buttons (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer) - Techmeme

Brave will allow you to tune search results with upvotes and downvotes - Techcrunch

ByteDance board member Bill Ford says ByteDance is exploring alternatives to selling TikTok US, including a change of control to comply with US legislation (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

ByteDance launches Doubao-1.5-pro, an upgraded AI model, claiming it outperforms OpenAI's o1 in AIME benchmarks, joining DeepSeek in China's AI reasoning push (Reuters) - Techmeme

CAIS and Scale AI release "Humanity's Last Exam", a new evaluation that they claim is the hardest-ever AI test, consisting of ~3,000 multiple-choice questions (Kevin Roose/New York Times) - Techmeme

Canon has developed a 410-megapixel full-frame sensor - Engadget

Canoo craters and Trump comes for EVs - Techcrunch

Changpeng Zhao announces that Binance's VC arm Binance Labs, which oversees about $10B of crypto-related assets, will become a family office called YZi Labs (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

ChatGPT suffered a major outage on Thursday morning and OpenAI's API also experienced downtime; OpenAI says both issues are fixed (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme

ChatGPT suffered a major outage this morning, but OpenAI says it's back up - Techcrunch

China and Southeast Asian nations pledge to deal with cybercrime centers, extending efforts that China's Global Times says has led to the arrest of 70K+ people (Bloomberg) - Techmeme

Cisco Fixes Critical Privilege Escalation Flaw in Meeting Management (CVSS 9.9) - Hackers News

Coval evaluates AI voice and chat agents like self-driving cars - Techcrunch

Custom Backdoor Exploiting Magic Packet Vulnerability in Juniper Routers - Hackers News

Design Within Reach Promo Codes: 50% Off - Wired

DHS Terminates All Its Advisory Committees, Ending Its Investigation Into Chinese Telecom Hack - Slashdot

Doom: The Dark Ages hits PC, PS5 and Xbox on May 15 - Engadget

Dozens of subreddits are banning X links from their communities - Engadget

Driving Growth and Innovation: Canon Highlights Africa's Potential at 2025 Kickoff - Itnewsafrica

EA expects net bookings of $7B to $7.15B for the FY ending March 31, below guidance of $7.5B to $7.8B, citing underperforming games; stock falls 5%+ after hours (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - Techmeme

Easybet: The Ultimate Online Betting Experience - Itnewsafrica

eBay Sellers Are Hawking Used Phones With TikTok Preinstalled for Thousands of Dollars - Wired

Elon Musk Plays DOGE Ball'and Hits America's Geek Squad - Wired

Epic launches a free games program on mobile and promises to pay the Apple Core Technology Fee for participants in the program on iOS for one year (Lauren Feiner/The Verge) - Techmeme

Everstone acquires bootstrapped Indian startup Wingify for $200M - Techcrunch

Everything announced at Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2025 - Innovation Village

Experts Find Shared Codebase Linking Morpheus and HellCat Ransomware Payloads - Hackers News

Extremely OK Games has cancelled its follow-up to Celeste - Engadget

Federal Court Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional - Slashdot

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