The Weekly Tech Rant

Episode 123: It's time for Meta hypocrisy, Twitter kills API but charges $1000 P/M for Gold, Voodoo GFX, Its the AI Chat wars, Lockbit bites Royal Mail and really Britcoin

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This week we covered:

  • News

    • Meta, which pays for web scraping, sues to stop web scraping

    Twitter to end free access to its API in Elon Musk’s latest monetization push
    Twitter will let businesses keep their gold checkmarks — for $1,000 per month
    For a small fortune you too can buy a piece of PC gaming graphics history
    Google takes first shot in AI search engine wars, announces Bard competitor to ChatGPT
    LockBit ransomware group threatens to publish stolen Royal Mail data
    Bank of England won't call it Britcoin but says digital pound 'likely to be needed in future’

    • Rumours

      • The iPhone Ultra Is Real and on Its Way, per report

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