Month: June 2023

Some developers using Twitter’s API, including Enterprise tier users paying $42K/month, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and bad or no customer support (Matt Binder/Mashable)

Matt Binder / Mashable: Some developers using Twitter’s API, including Enterprise tier users paying $42K/month, say they are experiencing outages, bugs, and bad or no customer support  —  Everything worked fine until Elon Musk took over.  —  Twitter’s new API may now cost tens of thousands of dollars per month …

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The Value of Intelligent Products and Services is Clear. Can Traditional Product Companies Seize the Opportunity?

Digitally native companies have dominated the intelligent products and services landscape with software-driven offerings and services. But that may be changing. A 2022 survey of executives and senior leaders at 1,000 traditional manufacturers in 11 countries explored how they’re retooling for the future and how they’re using, or planning to use, intelligent products and services

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Switching phone carriers: How hard is it, and can you keep your existing phone?

Let’s be honest; sometimes, change can seem overwhelming. That’s true even for something as simple as switching phone service. The good news is switching cell phone carriers doesn’t have to be complicated. In this guide, we explain how to switch your phone carrier while keeping your number, as well as what you’ll need to know

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US-based Silver Lake acquires 63%+ of Germany-based enterprise software developer Software AG for €2.4B and plans to delist the company as soon as possible (Dan Taylor/Tech.eu)

Dan Taylor / Tech.eu: US-based Silver Lake acquires 63%+ of Germany-based enterprise software developer Software AG for €2.4B and plans to delist the company as soon as possible  —  US-based private equity firm Silver Lake says it’s secured a majority stake in Software AG and plans to delist the company as soon as possible.

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Why influencers love a free trip — even a controversial one from Shein

Photo by Xavi Torrent / Getty Images Thousands of influencers post content online with one goal: getting a brand deal. It’s affirmation that they’ve “made it” as an influencer, that they’re interesting enough to be paid to post, and that content creation could be a job. It’s usually a good thing — until, of course,

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TSMC confirms it experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang, which is demanding $70M not to publish stolen data (Carly Page/TechCrunch)

Carly Page / TechCrunch: TSMC confirms it experienced a data breach after being listed as a victim by the LockBit ransomware gang, which is demanding $70M not to publish stolen data  —  Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, has confirmed it’s experienced a data breach …

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DIY Robotic Actuator Built For Walking Robots

[Aaed Musa] has built a variety of robots over the years, but found off-the-shelf servos to be underwhelming for his work. Thus, he set out to build a better actuator to support his goals of building a high-performance walking bot in future. [Aaed] decided to try and build a quasi-direct drive actuator, similar to those

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An Indian court dismisses Twitter’s challenge to government content rules and fines the company ~$61K after it failed to explain its delayed compliance (Manish Singh/TechCrunch)

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: An Indian court dismisses Twitter’s challenge to government content rules and fines the company ~$61K after it failed to explain its delayed compliance  —  An Indian court has dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit against the federal government that sought to challenge New Delhi’s block orders on tweets and accounts.

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European companies claim the EU’s AI Act could ‘jeopardise technological sovereignty’

The letter warns that the strict rules for generative AI outlined in the AI Act have ‘consequences.’ | Photo by Philipp von Ditfurth/picture alliance via Getty Images Some of the biggest companies in Europe have taken collective action to criticize the European Union’s recently approved artificial intelligence regulations, claiming that the Artificial Intelligence Act is

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Poll: Do you leave your foldable phone open when not using it?

Credit: Ryan Haines / Android Authority Foldable phones are arguably the most exciting segment in the smartphone space right now, as more and more brands offer these devices in global markets. After using a couple of foldable phones for a while, that got me wondering whether foldable owners leave their devices unfolded when not in

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Hackers claim responsibility for an attack on Russian satellite service Dozor-Teleport; IODA project says the network has been offline since 10pm EST on June 28 (Daryna Antoniuk/The Record)

Daryna Antoniuk / The Record: Hackers claim responsibility for an attack on Russian satellite service Dozor-Teleport; IODA project says the network has been offline since 10pm EST on June 28  —  A group of previously unknown hackers has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the Russian satellite communications …

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Who killed Google Reader?

Illustration by Hugo Herrera for The Verge Ten years after its untimely death, the team that built the much-beloved feed reader reflects on what went wrong and what could have been. Continue reading…

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Following TerraUSD’s and Luna’s collapse, South Korea passes the Virtual Asset User Protection law, which defines digital assets, imposes penalties, and more (Hooyeon Kim/Bloomberg)

Hooyeon Kim / Bloomberg: Following TerraUSD’s and Luna’s collapse, South Korea passes the Virtual Asset User Protection law, which defines digital assets, imposes penalties, and more  —  South Korea approved its first standalone digital-asset bill to boost investor protection just over a year after the implosion …

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This will end well: Facebook will let you download Android apps via ads

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Meta will allow European users to directly download Android apps via Facebook ads. The company will start a pilot program later this year with a selection of developers. There are a few reasons why we’re skeptical of Android apps being hosted on Facebook. Meta already owns the world’s largest

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Paris-based Gleamer, which develops AI software for radiologists, including its FDA-cleared BoneView, raised a €27M Series B, taking its total funding to €36M (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: Paris-based Gleamer, which develops AI software for radiologists, including its FDA-cleared BoneView, raised a €27M Series B, taking its total funding to €36M  —  Gleamer, a five-year-old French startup that has developed AI software to help radiologists diagnose and detect bone trauma lesions …

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Has your lift and shift been a clunker in the cloud?

If your applications running on public clouds are not meeting expectations, you’re not alone. These are typically applications that were lifted and shifted to the cloud with little or no modernization or refactoring. This means they are not leveraging cloud-native services, such as infrastructure as code, serverless compute, cloud-native security, and cloud-native operations services. During

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Wasm: 5 things developers should be tracking

As browser-based WebAssembly (Wasm) gains interest as a back-end technology, developers are moving from “Hmm, that sounds interesting” to “Let’s see what Wasm can really do beyond browsers, video gaming, and content streaming.” At the same time, Wasm itself is starting to morph and shift. All of this makes it a good time to take

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