Month: April 2023
Rivian’s new ‘Performance’ powertrain lets R1T reservation holders keep their big battery
For customers who placed a preorder on or before March 1, 2022: switching from Quad-Motor AWD + Max pack to standard Dual-Motor AWD + Max pack reduces price by $4,500 ($6,250 CAD) switching from Quad-Motor AWD + Max pack to Performance Dual-Motor AWD + Max pack reduces price by $2,000…
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One of Elon’s handpicked ‘Twitter Files’ writers quits Twitter over its Substack restrictions
Matt Taibbi has announced that he’s leaving Twitter amid the company’s ongoing spat with newsletter platform Substack. If Taibbi’s name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, perhaps the phrase “Twitter Files” might. Using access granted by Twitter CEO and self-avowed free speech enthusiast Elon Musk, Taibbi and other journalists have shared…
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Western Digital’s My Cloud is still down, but there’s a workaround
It’s April 7th, and you know what that means? That’s right. It means that Western Digital’s cloud network has officially been down for five days. On April 2nd (this past Sunday), the data storage manufacturer announced that it was experiencing a service outage impacting a whole bunch of products, including…
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Substack writers say Twitter’s newsletter ban is bad for business — and worse for Twitter
This week, Twitter began restricting the promotion of links to Substack newsletters, a move that seems to fly in the face of owner Elon Musk’s vocal support of free speech on the platform. The change is a huge problem for Substack writers, who have found Twitter to be one of…
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Microsoft sold software to sanctioned Russian companies, says US government
Microsoft has agreed to pay over $3 million in fines for selling software to sanctioned entities and individuals in Cuba, Iran, Syria, and Russia from 2012 to 2019. The US Department of the Treasury says that “the majority of the apparent violations involved blocked Russian entities or persons located in…
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How to use Nearby Share for Windows
While my personal computers have mostly been Windows and my phones Android, I do use a Mac for work, and I’ve always been envious of the ease with which people in the Apple ecosystem can move files from one device to another using AirDrop. Google introduced a similar feature called…
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