Month: October 2023
Slack is retiring its status account on X
Slack is retiring its status account on X that previously shared updates about issues and outages on the platform, the company announced on Thursday. “We made the decision to retire the @SlackStatus account in order to consolidate our communications around incidents and focus resources on those most widely used by our…
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Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
Snagging Jon Stewart to host a new political talk show after his departure from The Daily Show was one of Apple TV Plus’ biggest achievements when The Problem With Jon Stewart was first announced back in 2020. But ahead of production kicking off on the show’s third season, Stewart and…
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Israel-Hamas war: how social media companies are handling the response
I have been paying close attention to Brookings’ political podcast database over the past week and a half to see how discussion of the war is taking shape. This is a highly underrated tool and an essential one if you care about the state of political podcasting. It looks at…
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Don’t mistake that 1TB SSD for a snack — smallest ever solid state drive that’s barely bigger than a thumbnail debuts in the Far East
This tiny device looks more like a receiver for a USB mouse or a small flash drive than a high-speed SSD, but that’s exactly what Buffalo is set to launch in November. Priced at roughly $125 (based on an 18,800 yen retail price), the SSD-PST1.0U3-BA is setting new standards for…
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Toyota and Lexus join the Tesla charging connector bandwagon
One of Toyota’s first vehicles to include a NACS connector is a future three-row SUV it is planning for 2025, which will be assembled at the automaker’s plant in Kentucky. Toyota is currently light on EV options compared to most other automakers and has only released the mediocre bZ4X and…
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The latest AI copyright lawsuit involves Mike Huckabee and his books
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is among a group of authors suing Meta, Microsoft, and other companies over the use of their work in building AI tools. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, Huckabee and other authors including Christian writer Lysa TerKeurst allege that their books were pirated and used in…
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