Month: January 2023

Meta and Microsoft are vacating some of their Washington office buildings in Seattle and Bellevue, respectively, amid job cuts and popularity of remote work (Paul Roberts/The Seattle Times)

Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times: Meta and Microsoft are vacating some of their Washington office buildings in Seattle and Bellevue, respectively, amid job cuts and popularity of remote work  —  In the latest sign of change in the tech sector — and softness in the office market here — Facebook parent Meta and Microsoft

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A San Francisco federal judge rules that the laid-off Twitter workers must pursue severance claims in individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: A San Francisco federal judge rules that the laid-off Twitter workers must pursue severance claims in individual arbitration rather than a class-action lawsuit  —  Twitter Inc. won a ruling forcing a group of laid-off workers fighting the company over their severance packages to pursue …

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CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee’s laptop and stole 2FA-backed credentials to breach the company’s systems and data in December 2022 (Derek B. Johnson/SC Media)

Derek B. Johnson / SC Media: CI/CD service CircleCI says hackers infected an employee’s laptop and stole 2FA-backed credentials to breach the company’s systems and data in December 2022  —  CircleCI’s chief technology officer said malicious hackers infected one of their engineer’s laptops and stole elevated account privileges …

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Spotify is having an outage

The service is… spoty. | Nick Barclay / The Verge It’s Friday night in the US, and the music is not playing on Spotify for many people. Users report streams suddenly stopped, and for people who’ve logged out, some say they can’t log in again. The outage has garnered over 30,000 reports on DownDetector.com, starting

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Detecting Algal Blooms with the Help of AI

Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) can have negative consequences for both marine life and human health, so it can be helpful to have early warning of when they’re on the way. Algal blooms deep below the surface can be especially difficult to detect, which is why [kutluhan_aktar] built an AI-assisted algal bloom detector. After taking images

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Google Cloud introduces an AI tool designed to help retailers keep track of their inventory by analyzing imagery from retailers’ ceiling cameras, robots, more (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: Google Cloud introduces an AI tool designed to help retailers keep track of their inventory by analyzing imagery from retailers’ ceiling cameras, robots, more  —  An image database of more than a billion products helps power the tool  —  Google Cloud said it has developed …

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Motorola Moto G Play (2023) review: Limited reach

If anyone knows the secret to a successful budget phone, it’s Motorola. The Chicago-based giant has lasted longer in the affordable Android segment than just about anyone else, refining its craft over countless generations of Moto G devices. However, the landscape of cheap smartphones isn’t the same as it once was. Premium specs are working

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Arduino Library Brings rtl_433 to the ESP32

If you have an RTL-SDR compatible radio there’s an excellent chance you’ve heard of the rtl_433 project, which lets you receive and decode signals from an ever-expanding list of supported devices in the ISM radio bands. It’s an incredibly useful piece of software, but the fact that it requires an external software defined radio and

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Strava knows its messy price hike is confusing

Strava, an official price chart would be nice. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge No one likes price hikes, but Strava’s messy rollout has left many customers wondering what’s happening to their subscription. Here’s what’s actually happening: the company is raising prices for the first time in more than a decade, and

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Strava users say the rollout of its first price hike in over a decade has been unnecessarily convoluted and confusing (Victoria Song/The Verge)

Victoria Song / The Verge: Strava users say the rollout of its first price hike in over a decade has been unnecessarily convoluted and confusing  —  No one likes price hikes, but Strava’s messy rollout has left many customers wondering what’s happening to their subscription.  Here’s what’s actually happening …

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Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his recusal, citing his work with Yelp and others (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal: Sources: DOJ cleared its antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter to oversee probes involving Google; Google had sought his recusal, citing his work with Yelp and others  —  Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter’s involvement had been paused and the Alphabet unit sought his recusal

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With the value of next-gen Bitcoin mining rigs down an estimated 85%, some crypto lenders flooded with repossessed rigs are keeping them running for the income (David Pan/Bloomberg)

David Pan / Bloomberg: With the value of next-gen Bitcoin mining rigs down an estimated 85%, some crypto lenders flooded with repossessed rigs are keeping them running for the income  —  Crypto lenders have repossessed so many Bitcoin mining rigs they’re resorting to plugging them in and extracting tokens themselves.

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