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Twitter started paying creators a part of the ad money offered in their answers last week to keep its most prominent tweeters in the face of rising competition from Instagram Threads and others. Despite the program’s large payments, some designers complained to Twitter owner Elon Musk over the weekend. Musk …

Nowadays everyone buys mechanical keyboard companies. Corsair outdid them by buying its own mechanical keyboard firm. Today, the Fremont, California-based peripheral company revealed it is buying “certain assets” from Drop for an undisclosed, all-cash purchase. Drop CEO Jef Holove announced on his blog that Corsair had acquired Drop. “I am …

What should 2023 website builders offer? As generative AI developments reshape the landscape, entrepreneurs and incumbents are asking that question. Do prompts and media-generating models make no-code drag-and-drop interfaces obsolete? What abstraction level won’t offend advanced users? Wix, a longtime web builder, bets that today’s clients don’t want to spend …

Microsoft doesn’t know or want to discuss how China-backed hackers obtained a key to covertly break into hundreds of email inboxes, including those of multiple federal government institutions. In a blog post Friday, Microsoft said it was “ongoing investigation” how the hackers obtained a Microsoft signature key and used it …

After a delay due to data privacy concerns, Google is releasing its ChatGPT rival Bard in more than 40 languages and to the EU today. Bard received many new features from the internet giant, some of which are only available in English. Google teased Bard in February in a seemingly …

Honeywell devices used in critical industries have numerous vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to cause physical disruption and possibly endanger lives. Armis, an asset security cybersecurity company, found nine vulnerabilities in Honeywell’s Experion distributed control system (DCS) products. These digital automated industrial control systems control large industrial processes in critical …

Apple released the first iOS 17 public beta. The public beta should be stable, unlike developer betas. iOS 17 will be released this fall. Apple will release summer betas every few weeks. It helps fix bugs and gather user data. Before installing iOS 17, back up your device on iCloud …

Microsoft confirmed that Chinese hackers breached U.S. government employee email accounts using a cloud email service flaw. Microsoft reported that Storm-0558 compromised 25 government agency email accounts and related consumer accounts linked to these organizations. Microsoft calls new or developing hacking groups “Storm.” Microsoft hasn’t named Storm-0558’s government targets. Reported …

Akamai accelerated its cloud computing goals by acquiring Linode. Today, the company is moving forward. It is expanding its cloud computing services to Paris, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Seattle, and Chennai. In these new sites, Akamai will launch premium instances for commercial workloads. Akamai’s object storage service can now store one …

Broadcom’s $61 billion bid for VMware has been approved by the European Commission (EC) if Broadcom meets access and interoperability commitments. When announced in May 2018, the megabucks deal, one of the largest tech acquisitions ever, was bound to draw regulatory scrutiny. In December, Europe announced an in-depth probe for …