Category Archives: Tech News

Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in March (Adam Samson/Financial Times)

Adam Samson / Financial Times: Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 [...]

14
Jan
SIA expects global semiconductor sales to recover and grow 13% in 2024 to $588B thanks to high-priced AI chips, but some analysts question the speed of recovery (Financial Times)

Financial Times: SIA expects global semiconductor sales to recover and grow 13% in 2024 to [...]

13
Jan
An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner hosts 51% of the network by number of active users, followed by France-based OVH (Ben Cox/Ben's Blog)

Ben Cox / Ben’s Blog: An analysis of fediverse backend hosting providers finds Germany-based Hetzner [...]

12
Jan
Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world's most valuable publicly traded company in early trading on Thursday but closed out the day under Apple (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Microsoft briefly unseated Apple as the world’s most valuable publicly traded [...]

11
Jan
The US SEC approves 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, including those of Grayscale, Bitwise, and Hashdex (Reuters)

Reuters: The US SEC approves 11 spot bitcoin ETFs, including those of Grayscale, Bitwise, and [...]

10
Jan
An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the @SECGov's "twitter account was compromised", and that the SEC has not approved spot bitcoin ETFs (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: An X post from US SEC Chair Gary Gensler says the [...]

09
Jan
YouTube updates its cyberbullying policy to ban AI-generated content that "realistically simulates" deceased children or victims of crimes or deadly events (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Mia Sato / The Verge: YouTube updates its cyberbullying policy to ban AI-generated content that [...]

08
Jan
Linear's CEO, who uses Carta to manage its cap table, says Carta tried to sell Linear shares without its consent; Carta CEO blames a rogue employee (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Linear’s CEO, who uses Carta to manage its cap table, says [...]

07
Jan
Google downplays reports of malware abusing an undocumented Chrome API to generate new authentication cookies, saying such token theft attacks "are not new" (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: Google downplays reports of malware abusing an undocumented Chrome API to [...]

06
Jan
Coinbase says it has agreed to buy an unnamed holding company which holds a MiFID II license, allowing Coinbase to launch crypto derivatives in the EU (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

Ryan Browne / CNBC: Coinbase says it has agreed to buy an unnamed holding company [...]

05
Jan