Verizon Fails Again, Shutters Attempted Zoom Alternative BlueJeans After Paying $400 Million For It (www.techdirt.com)
Kentucky's largest school district had to cancel class for two days so it could overhaul a 'disastrous' new bus system that left kids on buses until 10 p.m. (www.businessinsider.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 (www.theverge.com)
Quake II gets a remaster for PC and consoles—and it’s exactly what it needs to be (arstechnica.com)
Quake II gets a remaster for PC and consoles—and it’s exactly what it needs to be::It features both split-screen and online multiplayer, new levels, and 4K.
Japan Earthquake Alert App Says Sayonara to X - Unseen Japan (unseen-japan.com)
Many people in Japan depend on the NERV service for earthquake alerts. Unfortunately, they'll no longer be able to receive them on X.
FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried headed for jail after judge revokes bail (www.reuters.com)
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried headed for jail after judge revokes bail::Sam Bankman-Fried is heading to jail after a U.S judge on Friday revoked his bail, finding probable cause that the indicted founder of the bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange tampered with witnesses at least twice.
Fstoppers on YouTube: Printer Ink, It's a SCAM (www.youtube.com)
In this video, a Canon print cartridge is opened up and revealed not to contain the meagre 11.9 ml (0.4 fl oz) of ink it is advertised. The proposed solution is to buy a printer designed to be manually refilled with bottles of ink (such as the featured Epson EcoTank ET-2850), though it has only been tested briefly.
Music labels sue Internet Archive over digitized record collection (www.reuters.com)
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Samsung Announces 256TB SSDs and Unveils Peta-Byte Scale PBSSDs (www.tomshardware.com)
Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth (markets.businessinsider.com)
Apple has plowed over $500 billion into stock buybacks since 2012 — more than Visa, JPMorgan, or Exxon are worth::Only eight companies in the S&P 500 have larger market values than Apple’s outlay on share repurchases over the last decade.
'A wake up call for opponents of net zero': Government predicts gas power will be three times more expensive than renewables by 2025 (www.businessgreen.com)
‘A wake up call for opponents of net zero’: Government predicts gas power will be three times more expensive than renewables by 2025::undefined
The U.S. Government Wants To Control Online Speech to “Protect Kids” (www.eff.org)
Canadians have little incentive to adopt central bank digital currency (techstory.in)
(Sick of Elon but) a few years ago, I'd never have questioned this reality (youtu.be)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows. (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft shuts down Cortana app on Windows 11 | The digital assistant was first part of Windows Phone and now it’s being discontinued on Windows.::Microsoft has discontinued Cortana on Windows 11. The digital assistant no longer functions as a standalone app, years after Microsoft shut down its Cortana iOS and Android apps.
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Xiaomi's MIUI now flags Telegram as dangerous in China (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
Debian Linux is Joining The RISC-V Bandwagon (www.howtogeek.com)
The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change. (archive.ph)
The US just invested more than $1 billion into carbon removal / The move represents a big step in the effort to suck CO2 out of the atmosphere—and slow down climate change.::undefined
A catastrophic breach of the United Kingdom electoral register affects tens of millions of residents following a cyberattack at the U.K. Electoral Commission (techcrunch.com)
The Verge Launches “Installer,” a Newsletter About the Next Big Things to Download, Watch, and Explore (www.theverge.com)
Could be worth keeping an eye on
Richard Branson Blasts Daredevils a Bit High, But Definitely Not Into Space (futurism.com)
Amazon warns workers to come back into the office (www.bbc.com)
Amazon warns workers to come back into the office::This week, a reminder email was sent to employees who didn’t work on-site at least three times a week.
Current state of text to speech conversion (www.stoicsimple.com)
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