Digg, a would-be competitor to Reddit, recently shut down after failing to control the bots that overran its site. Now, Reddit is directly confronting the same challenge. The company announced it will begin labeling automated accounts that provide a service…
Last August, a fire burned through ten acres of grass on either side of California’s I-280 near Redwood City. Traffic backed up as firefighters worked, and California Highway Patrol officers directed drivers to turn around and travel the wrong way…
On Wednesday, Russian police arrested the alleged administrator of the cybercrime forum LeakBase, according to the state-owned news agency TASS. LeakBase was described by the U.S. Department of Justice as one of the world’s largest online forums for cybercriminals, used…
Google announced on Wednesday that it is releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a new music generation model, just one month after the launch of Lyria 3. The new model allows users to create tracks up to three minutes long, a significant…
Block Party founder Tracy Chou announced on Wednesday that the company has been acquired by DeleteMe, an online personal data removal service. A software engineer and advocate for diversity in tech, Chou founded Block Party in 2018. The tool was…
A surge in new data center construction across the United States is fueling a significant backlash against the infrastructure that powers artificial intelligence. In response, two prominent politicians are now proposing a ban on any new data centers with peak…
There is big news today for app developers. Apple has announced a significant update to its App Store Connect service, where developers publish, manage, and track their apps’ performance. The changes introduce more than 100 new metrics to track across…
Meta is laying off several hundred employees across multiple teams, including sales, recruiting, and the Reality Labs division. The cuts will impact employees in the United States and other international markets. According to reports, some affected employees will be offered…
Just one day after Meta lost a similar child safety lawsuit in New Mexico, a Los Angeles jury handed the social media giant, along with Google, another defeat. In a case arguing that social media platforms played a major role…
The cry of “atoms, not bits,” a phrase capturing Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with physical manufacturing over digital products, reached a fever pitch last week. This came with word that Jeff Bezos is putting together a one hundred billion dollar…
