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$5 billion settlement agreement: Google will delete Chrome data collected in Privacy Mode

Google has agreed to erase or anonymize browsing data records collected in privacy mode in Chrome. The proposed global settlement in the case of Brown v. Google will also require the company to provide more information on how it collects data in this...

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Xiaomi warns of delays in deliveries of its SU7 electric car amid strong demand - nearly 89k orders in first 24 hours

Recently, Xiaomi started selling its first electric car, the SU7, for just over $30,000. The Chinese company planned to begin delivering the electric vehicle by the end of April. However, interested buyers will have to wait significantly longer - up ...

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Apple says the iPhone 6 Plus is now "obsolete" and the iPad Mini 4 is "vintage"

Apple considers a product "obsolete" if it has been 7 years since its last official sale - this means that Apple Store and authorized Apple service providers will no longer offer repair or other hardware services for the device. The company has long ...

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Not just in the EU: Microsoft will separate Teams and Office 365 for customers worldwide

Teams, which was added to Office 365 for free in 2017, was later replaced by Skype for Business and became popular during the pandemic partly due to video conferencing. However, in 2020 Salesforce, which offers a competitive messaging program Slack, ...

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End of an era: Jim Ryan has stepped down as PlayStation CEO, he's no longer at Sony

Ryan has been leading the PlayStation gaming business since February 2019 and has worked at Sony for a total of 30 years (his career started a year before the first PlayStation console was released). Now the division is led by Hiroki Totoki - the cur...

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A backdoor has been discovered in xz Utils. Users are urged to stop using Fedora distributions

In the popular xz Utils package for lossless data compression and working with the .xz format, a backdoor was discovered. A backdoor is a method of bypassing standard authentication procedures, providing unauthorized remote access to a computer. On F...

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Microsoft is testing a grid layout for programs in the Start menu in Windows 11

The new design somewhat resembles the "Start" menu in Windows 10X and Microsoft Launcher on Android. Currently, all programs in the "Start" menu on Windows 11 are displayed in a vertical list, organized alphabetically - however, Microsoft is testing ...

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Google believes that the Rust programming language is 2 times more efficient than C++

Google believes that the efficiency of developers using the Rust programming language is twice as high as when using C++. This was stated by Google's Director of Development Lars Bergstrom during a speech at the Bri...

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Adobe Firefly now generates images and styles from thumbnails - 10 examples of how to use the Structure Reference feature

Structure Reference helps Adobe Firefly users generate images and styles based on existing sketches or drafts, without wasting time on text prompts that the model typically doesn't understand the first time. Adobe Firefly is a family of creative gen...

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Goodbye Lenna. Scientists have been banned from using an iconic 1972 Playboy photo to illustrate articles

A fragment of the digitized portrait of the Swedish model Lena Forsen, depicted in the centerfold of Playboy in November 1972, was widely used in scientific papers to test and illustrate image processing algorithms. Last week, the Computer Society IE...

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Ukrainian team NAVI became the first ever world champion in Counter-Strike 2

The Ukrainian esports team won in the final of the PGL Major Copenhagen 2024 championship, defeating the Americans from FaZe Clan. As a result, NAVI became the first world champions in Counter-Strike 2. The team won on two maps out of three. They pl...

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