News & Headlines: 8 of 10
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Apple responds to the Beeper iMessage saga: ‘We took steps to protect our users’
Beeper Mini made Android users blue bubbles. Apple shut it down after only a few days.
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With Offices Sitting Empty, Landlords Are ‘Handing Back the Keys’
Office landlords, hit hard by the work-from-home revolution, are resorting to a desperate measure in the real estate world: “handing back the keys.” When this happens, the landlord stops paying the mortgage on the office building or declines to refinance it.
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Saudi Arabia ends petrodollar agreement: What it means for the USD, Bitcoin, and gold
The established financial world order of the past 50 years is now transitioning to a new and unknown paradigm as the petrodollar agreement between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was allowed to expire this past Sunday.
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California wants to seize oil majors’ profits as climate damages
California amended a lawsuit it filed against five western oil majors last year, hoping to seize “ill-gotten” gains from climate deception and cover-up.
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Patents based on traditional knowledge are often ‘biopiracy’. A new international treaty will finally combat this
Can you patent something Indigenous peoples already know about? Too often, the answer is yes - but moves are afoot to stop it.
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Project Bluefin: A Linux Desktop for Serious Developers
Want a desktop Linux built on immutable Fedora with an Ubuntu-style desktop designed expressively for programmers? Then you want Bluefin.
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Windows-as-an-app is coming
Who needs a Windows PC when you can run the operating system as a desktop-as-a-service on your Chromebook, Linux box, or Mac?
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Shim vulnerability exposes most Linux systems to attack
This low-level software is the glue that enables Linux to run on Secure Boot PCs, and it has a nasty problem.
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Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators
The change goes into effect globally.
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iMessage will reportedly dodge EU regulations, won’t have to open up
iMessage isn't popular enough with businesses to force interoperability.
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Freenginx: A Fork of Nginx
The Freenginx Web server aims to recapture the spirit of open source development "for the public good," free from corporate control.
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Scientists unearth mysteries of giant, moving Moroccan star dune
Parts of the structure are younger than expected while an east wind blows the whole thing across the desert, researchers find
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Delivery Firm's AI Chatbot Curses at Customer
An AI customer service chatbot for delivery service DPD used profanity and criticized the company after prompting.
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Meta Encryption Privacy Fight Begins in Nevada State Court
Nevada will square off against Meta Platforms Inc. in state court Wednesday over a motion to temporarily block the tech giant’s use of end-to-end encryption in its Messenger platform for some of its youngest users, a legal showdown with potentially far-reaching consequences.
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New Leica camera stops deepfakes at the shutter
First camera with built-in content credentials verifies photos' authenticity
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Sam Altman will return as OpenAI CEO, New board announced in a dramatic turnaround
Sam Altman will officially return as OpenAI CEO.
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Mailchimp is shutting down TinyLetter
TinyLetter will be discontinued in February.
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Apple unveils App Store Award winners, the best apps and games of 2023
The 2023 App Store Awards recognize 14 apps and games that empowered users’ creativity, introduced a world of new adventures, and more.
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The CEOs of Meta, X, TikTok, Snap, and Discord will testify before the US Senate on child safety
Senators are pushing for child safety laws online.
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New York just installed its first offshore wind turbine
The first wind turbine installation at South Fork Wind, New York State's first offshore wind farm, is complete.