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  • Synthetic Messenger, Among Us Chicken Nugget for $100,000, Huawei Harmony OS
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    An Army of 100 Bots Is Reading Climate Change News and Clicking Every Ad Along the Way

    Synthetic Messenger

    Requiring proof of age to look at online porn raises privacy issues, Senate committee hears | National Post

    Among Us crewmate-shaped chicken nugget from BTS meal nears $100,000 on eBay – CNET

    Supreme Court reins in definition of crime under controversial hacking law | Ars Technica

    Attack on meat supplier came from REvil, ransomware’s most cut-throat gang | Ars Technica

    Huawei officially replaces Android with HarmonyOS, which is also Android | Ars Technica

    Apple updates AirTags to address stalking concerns | Engadget

    Norton antivirus adds Ethereum cryptocurrency mining – BBC News
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Techguy.org's Mike Cermak, Talking Beef Hacks, Amazon Sidewalk, and Windows 10 Update
    Both Segments: Techguy.org, Mike Cermak. Owner/Operator.
    Topics:
    Network/rack cleanup | Tech Support Guy

    Exclusive: In the office full-time? No thanks, say 86 per cent of tech professionals – CityAM : CityAM

    Microsoft to reveal its next generation of Windows on June 24th – The Verge

    Microsoft is finally ditching its Windows 95-era icons – The Verge

    After Dark (software) – Wikipedia

    Shortages loom as ransomware hamstrings the world’s biggest meat producer | Ars Technica

    Try This One Weird Trick Russian Hackers Hate – Krebs on Security

    Amazon plans to share your internet with your neighbors. This is how you opt out

    Firefox now blocks cross-site tracking by default in private browsing
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Microsoft's New Font, Army of the Dead Pixels, Epic vs. Apple, With Popzara.com
    Both Segments: Nathan Evans, Popzara.com. Managing Editor.
    Throughout Popzara you’ll find views on gaming, movies, technology, cultural icons and so much more. Reviews and previews, in-depth analyses, opinion pieces, conversations, and a regularly updated Podcast keep things interesting and always entertaining. Our diverse editorial staff is committed to bringing this cornucopia of editorial goodness in fair-minded and positive ways, with minimal snark and maximum fun. A little bit of everything for the discriminating reader and curious listener is what you’ll find at Popzara.

    Topics:
    Popzara Press – The Latest Bits and Bytes!

    Beyond Calibri: Finding Microsoft’s next default font – Microsoft 365 Blog

    Microsoft on Twitter: “We need to talk. What should our next default font be? https://t.co/fV9thfdAr4” / Twitter

    What’s up with the “dead pixels” in Army Of The Dead?

    Nine things we learned from the Epic v. Apple trial – The Verge

    Amazon to buy MGM for $8 billion in major boost to Prime Video library | Ars Technica
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Ubuntu P2P Mixup, Microsoft Teases Next Windows, James Bond Won't Get Spinoff's
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    Unreal Engine 5 Temporal Super Resolution promises “4K at the cost of 1080p” – NotebookCheck.net News

    Exclusive: Meet The Murky Russian Network Behind An Anti-Pfizer Disinformation Drive In Europe

    Downloading Ubuntu via BitTorrent gets Comcast customer a DMCA warning | Ars Technica

    EA’s Ultimate Team raked in $3k per minute last year | Engadget

    Microsoft teases a ‘next generation of Windows’ announcement ‘very soon’ – The Verge

    PayPal and Venmo will let you send cryptocurrency to third-party wallets | Engadget

    James Bond to stay on the big screen after Amazon deal – BBC News

    Facebook will no longer stop the spread of a theory that COVID-19 was manufactured – The Verge
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    1 hr 2 min
  • BlizzCon 2021 Cancelled, Amazon Buys MGM, 700 TB CD, RTX 3080 Ti
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    BlizzCon 2021 has been canceled – The Verge

    Amazon to acquire MGM Studios for $8.5 billion – Axios

    Amazon accused of unfair pricing policies by Washington DC – BBC News

    An Insurance Startup Bragged It Uses AI to Detect Fraud. It Didn’t Go Well

    Russia tried to spread dangerous lies about Pfizer vaccine, France suspects | Ars Technica

    Researchers build 700TB optical disc that can probably store all of Netflix – TECHTELEGRAPH

    Epic’s next-gen Unreal Engine 5 is now available in early access | Engadget

    NVIDIA could announce the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti GPU on June 1st | Engadget
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Epic Vs. Apple Update, China To Ban Mining Bitcoin, NFT Sale For Charlie
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    Epic v Apple: What have we learned? – BBC News

    China will likely ban all bitcoin mining soon | Ars Technica

    Florida governor signs law to block ‘deplatforming’ of Florida politicians – The Verge

    This AI makes Robert De Niro perform lines in flawless German | Ars Technica

    Flawless | London-based Neural Network Film Lab

    Charlie Bit My Finger video to be taken off YouTube after selling for £500,000 – BBC News

    A photo of cheese just got a UK drug dealer sentenced to 13 years in prison – The Verge
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Facebook's Demise, Seagate Mach.2, Xbox Easter Egg, Crypto Taxes
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.

    Topics:
    How Apple screwed Facebook | WIRED UK

    Seagate’s new Mach.2 is the world’s fastest conventional hard drive | Ars Technica

    Twitch launches a dedicated ‘hot tubs’ category after advertiser pushback – The Verge

    Developer reveals Xbox Easter Egg after waiting nearly 20 years for people to find it | Engadget

    US Treasury may require crypto transfers over $10K to be reported to the IRS | Engadget

    Epic Games v. Apple by the numbers: Fortnite is worth that much money? | Ars Technica
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    1 hr 2 min
  • Internet Explorer Ends, FreeNode Woes, Bitcoins Fall, RTX Crypto-Limited
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    Developers Flee Open Source Project After ‘Takeover’ By Korean Crown Prince

    Microsoft will truly, finally kill off Internet Explorer in June 2022 | Engadget

    Here’s Anker’s apology after 712 Eufy customers had camera feeds exposed to strangers – The Verge

    Colonial Pipeline CEO confirms company paid $4.4 million ransom – The Verge

    Bitcoin falls further as China cracks down on crypto-currencies – BBC News

    HBO Max with ads: $10/mo starting in June, and guess what it won’t include | Ars Technica

    Most new NVIDIA RTX gaming GPUs will be crypto-limited | Engadget
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    1 hr 2 min
  • AT&T/TimeWarner Split, GameStop FOMO, Twitch Lowers Sub Costs, Apple Lossless Music
    Both Segments: Computer and Technology News.
    Topics:
    AT&T to spin off WarnerMedia, basically admitting giant merger was a mistake | Ars Technica

    GameStop FOMO inspires a new wave of crypto pump-and-dumps | Ars Technica

    Elon Musk clarifies that ‘Tesla has not sold any Bitcoin’

    Twitch lowers subscription prices in most countries to reflect the cost of living | Engadget

    Apple teases a Music announcement as more ‘Lossless’ clues appear | Engadget

    Apple Music announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio – Apple

    US fuel pipeline ‘paid hackers $5m in ransom’ – BBC News

    Waymo self-driving taxi confused by traffic cones flees help – BBC News

    Samsung teases its next generation of flexible displays | Engadget
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    1 hr 2 min

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