A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs - Techcrunch
A folding iPad could change the game, as long as Apple doesn't screw it up - Pocket Lint
A look at Reddit's growth in sports fan communities; internal data: Reddit recorded a 35% YoY increase in engagement in 1,000+ sports-themed Subreddits in 2024 (Sam Bradley/Digiday) - Techmeme
AI boom masks fundraising struggles for non-AI startups - Techcrunch
AirDoctor Coupon Code: 25% Off Purifiers - Wired
Amazon faces strike threat in US ahead of Christmas - BBC
Amid the AI boom, non-AI startups that raised a Series A 18 months ago are likely facing challenges in securing their Series B, even with decent revenue growth (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Apple Maps on the web adds support for Look Around, Apple's version of Google Street View (Filipe Espsito/9to5Mac) - Techmeme
Apple Maps' Look Around is now available on the web - Engadget
Big Loss For ISPs as Supreme Court Won't Hear Challenge To $15 Broadband Law - Slashdot
Bluesky's use of domains to verify users has led to cybersquatting and impersonation, as domains don't offer enough social proof for the average person (Ernie Smith/Tedium) - Techmeme
Bob Lee verdict: Cash App creator's killer found guilty of second-degree murder - Techcrunch
CAA partners with YouTube to help CAA clients identify and remove AI-generated content that features their likeness, with a wider rollout planned in early 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety) - Techmeme
China Kicks Off Homebrew Bluetooth Alternative 'Star Flash' As It Pushes Universal Remotes - Slashdot
Companies Issuing RTO Mandates 'Lose Their Best Talent': Study - Slashdot
Congo Files Lawsuits Against Apple Over 'Blood Minerals' in Products - Innovation Village
Consultant found guilty in murder of Cash App founder Bob Lee - Engadget
DHS Says China, Russia, Iran, and Israel Are Spying on People in US with SS7 - Slashdot
Digital Retail Africa 2025 Teams Up with Ecommerce Forum South Africa to Empower Africa's Ecommerce Industry - Itnewsafrica
Don't let the holidays go by without streaming these classic films - Pocket Lint
Driverless Bus Service In Scotland To Be Withdrawn Due To Lack of Interest - Slashdot
Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance' servers will shut down in February - Engadget
Elon Musk is opening a preschool near his Texas business operations - Engadget
Elon Musk, SpaceX reportedly under federal review for undisclosed meetings with foreign leaders - Engadget
EU Opens Investigation Into TikTok Over Election Interference - Slashdot
Every night is girls' night with HMD's Barbie phone - Pocket Lint
Game emulator Delta adds an in-app link to pay outside of the App Store, via Patreon, likely the first US app to use Apple's External Purchase Link Entitlement (John Voorhees/MacStories) - Techmeme
Google introduces FACTS Grounding benchmark for evaluating the factuality of LLMs, and announces a leaderboard that ranks Gemini 2.0 Flash Experimental on top (Google DeepMind) - Techmeme
Govee Discount Codes and Deals: Up to 50% Off - Wired
Grubhub settles with the FTC over adding restaurants without their consent - Engadget
Grubhub settles with the US FTC and IL AG for $25M, for allegedly adding restaurants without consent and misleading users about order fees and drivers about pay (Jody Godoy/Reuters) - Techmeme
Grubhub to pay $25M for 'deceptive' practices against customers, drivers - Techcrunch
Here is Everything Gemini 2.0 Can Do For Your Business - TechMoran
Honda and Nissan reportedly open merger talks - Engadget
Host Africa Strengthens Nigerian Market Presence with GO54 Acquisition - Innovation Village
How Facebook restricted news in Palestinian territories - BBC
Hundreds of Websites To Shut Down Under UK's 'Chilling' Internet Laws - Slashdot
India's commerce minister says that Shein will operate in India purely as a tech partner, with Reliance Retail having full ownership and control of operations (Manish Singh/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
India's MobiKwik surges 82% in market debut - Techcrunch
Ingram Micro To 'Stop Doing Business' With Broadcom, Downgrade To 'Limited Engagement' On VMware - Slashdot
Insight VC describes Databricks' wild $10B deal and the bad advice the CEO ignored - Techcrunch
It's dumb to IPO this year': Databricks CEO explains why he's waiting to go public - Techcrunch
Japan's Honda and Nissan To Reportedly Begin Merger Talks - Slashdot
Lost your luggage' These airlines are now using Apple Airtags to track it - Pocket Lint
Masayoshi Son's $100B AI investment pledge to Trump would require a massive fundraising effort, new debt, or selling some of SoftBank's holdings to raise cash (Eliot Brown/Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Meta Fined '251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts - Hackers News
Meta Fined '251 Million for 2018 Facebook Data Breach - Innovation Village
NAHCO aims expansion, projects N300bn revenue by 2029 - Tribune
NERC, overseen by FERC, warns soaring electricity demand from sources including data centers to power AI could strain US and Canadian grids, risking blackouts (Myles McCormick/Financial Times) - Techmeme
NSIB releases report on Port Harcourt helicoptercrash - Tribune
Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, a $249 compact AI development board that promises 67 TOPS, compared to 40 TOPS of the $499 last-gen kit (Avram Piltch/Tom's Hardware) - Techmeme
NYC-based Precision Neuroscience, a maker of brain-computer interfaces, raised a $102M Series C led by General Equity Holdings at a ~$500M post-money valuation (Richard Waters/Financial Times) - Techmeme
Ofcom apologises for 'ill-judged' porn joke job ad - BBC
OpenAI adds o1 to its API, but only for certain developers to start, announces new versions of GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini as part of its Realtime API, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
OpenAI says it has no plans for a Sora API ' yet - Techcrunch
Over 2 Billion Users Love Google Maps'But Are You Using These 7 Tools - Innovation Village
Patch Alert: Critical Apache Struts Flaw Found, Exploitation Attempts Detected - Hackers News
Pricing Software Adds Billions To Rental Costs, White House Says - Slashdot
Rare Pokmon cards are being used to finance organized crime - Pocket Lint
$30M to Drive Zambia's SME & Enterprise Digital Transformation - Itnewsafrica
5 Practical Techniques for Effective Cyber Threat Hunting - Hackers News
A new leak gives us our closest look at the Pixel 9a yet - Pocket Lint
A Taiwanese official says the country is in talks with Amazon's Kuiper over satellite internet as its current OneWeb deal does not offer sufficient capacity (Kathrin Hille/Financial Times) - Techmeme
A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney - Wired
A Third Person Has Received a Transplant of a Genetically Engineered Pig Kidney - Slashdot
African Development Bank to invest$30 million in Africa Finance Corporation to catalyse climate action - TechMoran
After probing an open-and-shut SEC violation for two years, it's nearly too late for the SEC to do anything over how Musk acquired Twitter before Trump moves in (Matt Levine/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
After Trump's win, a look at what the crypto industry could do next, including weakening financial rules that might protect consumers from the next crypto crash (Molly White/Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Agave, the startup behind Find the Cat, finds $18M - Techcrunch
AI Helps ID Paint Chemistry of Berlin Wall Murals - Slashdot
Alexander the Great: The First World Conqueror - TechMoran
Alibaba agrees to sell its Intime department store business, part of a plan to unify online and offline retailing in 2017, for ~$1B, taking a record $1.3B loss (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Alphabet-backed Indian lender files for $171M IPO - Techcrunch
Amazon aware of warehouse injury risk, report finds - BBC
Amazon workers at two NYC warehouses are set to go on strike - Engadget
Antibodies Could Soon Help Slow the Aging Process - Wired
Apple is working on a foldable iPad, but don't expect it any time soon - Pocket Lint
Apple TV+ series Silo will run for two more seasons - Engadget
Atlanta-based Slip Robotics, a robot-as-a-service startup whose robots speed up the loading and unloading of truck trailers, raised a $28M Series B led by DCVC (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
Attackers Exploit Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk to Deploy DarkGate Malware - Hackers News
Australia's privacy watchdog says Meta agreed to a AU$50M settlement over a 2020 Cambridge Analytica lawsuit alleging 300K+ Facebook users' data was exposed (Rishav Chatterjee/Reuters) - Techmeme
Bamboo secures U.S. license to provide Africans with easy access to U.S. securities - Technext
Beijing-based AI startup Zhipu, which aims to make services tailored to the China market, raised $412M, after raising $400M at a ~$3B valuation in May 2024 (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Best Bird Feeders With Cameras, Tested and Reviewed (2024) - Wired
Bitter APT Targets Turkish Defense Sector with WmRAT and MiyaRAT Malware - Hackers News
Blackmagic's Vision Pro camera is available for pre-order and costs $30,000 - Engadget
Brazilian fintech giant invests in SA-born Tyme Group - Itnewsafrica
Bridgy Fed, a project to connect the open social web, is now becoming a nonprofit - Techcrunch
ByteDance asks SCOTUS to block the US law that could ban TikTok on January 19; when asked about the law, Trump says he has a "warm spot" in his heart for TikTok (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News) - Techmeme
Called your doctor after-hours' ConnectOnCall hackers may have stolen your medical data - Techcrunch
Cambridge Analytica scandal still lingering on as Meta settles with Australian users - Engadget
Cash App creator Bob Lee's killer found guilty of second-degree murder - Techcrunch
Cassava Technologies secures $310 million in debt and equity funding to boost digital inclusion - Technext
Cassava Technologies Secures USD 310 Million in Funding - Itnewsafrica
CES 2025 preview: The new tech we're expecting (and hoping) to see in January - Engadget
Check Point Founder Takes Chairman Role as New CEO Steps In - Itnewsafrica
Chinese Hacker Singlehandedly Responsible For Exploiting 81,000 Sophos Firewalls, DOJ Says - Slashdot
Chinese shopping app Temu was 2024's top free app in the US iOS App Store, same as 2023, followed by Threads, TikTok, ChatGPT, Google, Instagram, and WhatsApp (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - Techmeme
CISA and FBI Raise Alerts on Exploited Flaws and Expanding HiatusRAT Campaign - Hackers News
Cloudflare 2024: Global Traffic Up, Google Still King, US Churning Out Bots - Slashdot
Code Assist, Google's enterprise-focused coding assistant, gets third-party tools - Techcrunch
Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models - Techcrunch
Commonwealth Fusion Systems just picked its first commercial site partly because of its proximity to Washington, D.C. - Techcrunch
Congo has filed criminal complaints against Apple subsidiaries in France and Belgium, accusing the tech firm of using conflict minerals in its supply chain (Sonia Rolley/Reuters) - Techmeme
Copenhagen-based Keepit, which offers SaaS data protection and backup services, raised $50M led by One Peak and Denmark's EIFO, taking its total raised to $90M (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek) - Techmeme
Could AI help prevent diabetes-related sight loss - BBC
Cross-border payment Tranglo enters 10 new African countries - TechMoran
Data Erasure is No Longer Optional. It is a Necessity! - Itnewsafrica
Databricks raised $10B from a16z, Thrive, and others at a $62B valuation, among the largest VC raises in history; documents show Databricks has $2.6B in revenue (Wall Street Journal) - Techmeme
Databricks raises $10B as it barrels toward an IPO - Techcrunch
Digital bank Tyme Group, which operates in South Africa and the Philippines, raised a $250M Series D led by Brazilian digital bank Nubank at a $1.5B valuation (Bloomberg) - Techmeme
Don't tell Elon Musk that X is hemorrhaging users - Pocket Lint
DR Congo files criminal suit against Apple for illegal mining - Technext
Drug Dealers Have Moved Onto Social Media - Wired
EFCC arrest 600 Nigerians, 192 foreigners for crypto and online romance scam in its largest raid yet - Technext
Elon Musk Commentary: The Qardn Token Phenomenon and Its Coinbase Debut - TechMoran
EU to investigate TikTok's response to election security risks in Romania - Techcrunch
Even Great Companies Get Breached ' Find Out Why and How to Stop It - Hackers News