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Cloudflare debuts Wildebeest, an open-source ActivityPub server built on its Supercloud service that makes it easier to self-host a Mastodon-compatible instance (Celso Martinho/The Cloudflare Blog)

Celso Martinho / The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare debuts Wildebeest, an open-source ActivityPub server built on its Supercloud service that makes it easier to self-host a Mastodon-compatible instance — Loading… The Fediverse has been a hot topic of discussion lately, with thousands, if not millions, of new users creating accounts …

Game Boy games make Nintendo Switch Online feel like the ultimate retro subscription

The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Nintendo Switch Online. | Image: Nintendo With the way Nintendo tends to drip-feed retro releases, it’s easy to forget that it operates an excellent subscription service for fans of classic games. It’s one that showed a lot of promise at launch, and since then, it has steadily grown

Bob Iger wants more Zootopia, Frozen, and Toy Story sequels from Disney

Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde, two of Zootpia’s anthropomorphic animal cops. | Image: Disney Following last month’s rumblings that Disney might be gearing up for a massive round of layoffs, CEO Bob Iger confirmed during this week’s earning call that the company plans to let go of 7,000 employees in an effort to deal with

Luther is back in the first trailer for Netflix’s The Fallen Sun

Image: Netflix Things aren’t looking so great for John Luther in the first trailer for Luther: The Fallen Sun. The upcoming Netflix film sees Idris Elba return as the beleaguered detective, and the new clip shows him breaking out of prison in order to solve a crime that continues to haunt him before going up

7 problems facing Bing, Bard, and the future of AI search

Image: The Verge Microsoft and Google say a new era of AI-assisted search is coming. But as with any new era in tech, it comes with plenty of problems, from bullshit generation to culture wars and the end of ad revenue. Continue reading…

Rejecting a deal on Sam Bankman-Fried using encrypted messaging apps, a judge orders his lawyers to make a plan to tighten his bail to ensure messages are saved (New York Times)

New York Times: Rejecting a deal on Sam Bankman-Fried using encrypted messaging apps, a judge orders his lawyers to make a plan to tighten his bail to ensure messages are saved — A federal judge said he was not satisfied with a plan that lawyers for the disgraced FTX founder struck with prosecutors to limit

Ski Season Sees Apple’s Crash Detection System Fire Deluge of False Positives

Smartphone features used to come thick and fast. Cameras proliferated, navigation got added, and then Apple changed the game by finally making touch computing just work. Since then, truly new features have slowed to a trickle, but Apple’s innovative crash detection system has been a big deal where safety is concerned. The problem? It’s got a

Lucid joins the EV price war with a $7,500 credit for its luxury Air sedan

Image: Tim Stevens for The Verge Lucid is giving buyers a $7,500 credit when purchasing some models of its luxury Air electric sedans. The company is the latest EV maker to offer a discount in what some auto industry experts see as a slowly developing price war for plug-in models. The credit applies to select

Redwood Materials scores $2 billion DOE loan to boost its EV battery recycling operations

Image: Getty Redwood Materials, the electric vehicle battery recycling venture founded by the former chief technologist at Tesla, has secured a $2 billion green energy loan from the Biden administration in what clearly is a major win for the nascent operation. The loan originates from the US Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program,

Matter is going to tackle healthcare next

The CSA announced it’s putting together a Health and Wellness Working Group. | Image: Connectivity Standards Alliance The Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), the group behind Matter, announced today that it’s putting together a working group to build a standards and certification program for health and wellness technology — basically, a specialized “Matter” that zeroes in

The Chatbot Search Wars Have Begun

Microsoft, Google, and China’s Baidu all showed off ChatGPT-inspired technology to reinvent web search this week.

The Chatbot Search Wars Have Begun

Microsoft, Google, and China’s Baidu all showed off ChatGPT-inspired technology to reinvent web search this week.

UK CMA data on cloud gaming market share in 2022: Xbox had 60%-70%, Nvidia GeForce had 10%-20%, PlayStation had 10%-20%, Stadia had 0%-5%, and Luna had 0%-5% (Kyle Bradshaw/9to5Google)

Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: UK CMA data on cloud gaming market share in 2022: Xbox had 60%-70%, Nvidia GeForce had 10%-20%, PlayStation had 10%-20%, Stadia had 0%-5%, and Luna had 0%-5% — In new statistics shared by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), we’ve learned that Google Stadia …

The US and the UK sanction seven people, all based in Russia, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan (Alexander Martin/The Record)

Alexander Martin / The Record: The US and the UK sanction seven people, all based in Russia, connected to the Conti and Ryuk ransomware gangs and the Trickbot banking trojan — The United Kingdom and United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people connected to what officials have told The Record is a single network behind

Ask Hackaday: Incidental Earthquake Detection

It never seems to fail: at the very moment that human society seems to reach a new pinnacle of pettiness, selfishness, violence, and self-absorption, Mother Nature comes along and reminds us all who’s really in charge. The obvious case in point here is the massive earthquakes near the border of Turkey and Syria, the appalling

The golden years: Sony’s waterproof Xperia Z flagship turns 10

10 years ago was, arguably, the beginning of the smartphone golden era. 2013 played host to the Samsung Galaxy S4, one of the best-selling Android phones of all time, the HTC One M7, the LG G2, and others. But kickstarting that tremendous year was the Sony Xperia Z, which launched on February 9, 2013 in

SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 2.6% YoY to $1.6B, net profit down 26% YoY to $425.5M; 2022 revenue grew 34% YoY to $7.27B and it expects Q1 revenue to fall by 12% (Che Pan/South China Morning Post)

Che Pan / South China Morning Post: SMIC reports Q4 revenue up 2.6% YoY to $1.6B, net profit down 26% YoY to $425.5M; 2022 revenue grew 34% YoY to $7.27B and it expects Q1 revenue to fall by 12% — Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp (SMIC), China’s top contract chip maker, said its profits declined by

You literally can’t get a faster charging phone than this one

Credit: Realme Realme has launched the GT Neo 5 smartphone in China. The phone offers 240W wired charging speeds, maxing out USB-C’s current capabilities. The company adds that 240W charging will come to the upcoming Realme GT 3 as well. Realme announced that it was working on a smartphone with 240W wired charging speeds just

Cryptocurrency’s Myth of Anonymity

This week on Gadget Lab, we talk to Tracers in the Dark author Andy Greenberg about how authorities are catching crypto criminals by following the money.

Coincover, which offers tools to 300+ companies to protect digital assets from hacks or human error, raised $30M led by Foundation, taking its funding to $41.6M (Jacquelyn Melinek/TechCrunch)

Jacquelyn Melinek / TechCrunch: Coincover, which offers tools to 300+ companies to protect digital assets from hacks or human error, raised $30M led by Foundation, taking its funding to $41.6M — Coincover, a digital asset protection company, has raised $30 million in funding led by Foundation Capital to protect people …

TP-Link’s new budget robot vac will clean for two weeks without being emptied

TP-Link launches its Tapo robot vacuum line this week. | Image: TP-Link If you don’t like emptying your robot vacuum, but also don’t like the idea of shelling out over $500 for an auto-empty model, TP-Link’s new budget robot vac might be for you. It doesn’t empty itself, but thanks to a large 800ml bin,

Google Stadia barely made a dent in the cloud gaming market

Regulators believe that Stadia’s comparatively limited game library contributed to its demise and fear Microsoft could similarly limit cloud gaming competitors by purchasing Activision Blizzard. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge When Google announced last year that it was closing down Stadia because the cloud gaming service hadn’t “gained enough traction,” it

Big Agnes Copper Spur UL1 Review: Small Tent, Big Winner

Clever storage, extremely light weight, and innovative buckles make this tent king of the hills.

Tech Is Changing What it Means to Have Dominant Hand

Computers, mobile phones, and the expanding digital landscape are causing adaptive behaviors, whether you’re a leftie or a rightie.

An AI ‘Engineer’ Has Now Designed 100 Chips

Lurking inside your next gadget may be a chip unlike those of the past. People used to do all the complex silicon design work, but for the first time, AI is helping to build new chips for data centers, smartphones, and IoT devices. AI firm Synopsys has announced that its DSO.ai tool has successfully aided