YouTube is testing an official way to download videos on your desktop web browser. From a report: If you want to see if you’re eligible for the test, which runs through October 19th, check out YouTube’s experimental features page, which lists tests ava…
Google Finally Shifting To ‘Upstream First’ Linux Kernel Approach For Android Features
Phoronix reports: Google’s Android had been notorious for all of its downstream patches carried by the mobile operating system as well as various vendor/device kernel trees while in recent years more of that code has been upstreamed. Google has also be…
UK Publishes 10-Year Plan To Become ‘AI Superpower,’ Seeking To Rival US and China
New submitter iarlakd writes: The U.K. government on Wednesday released its 10-year plan to make the country a global “artificial intelligence superpower,” seeking to rival the likes of the U.S. and China. The so-called “National Artificial Intelligenc…
Let’s Encrypt’s Root Certificate is About To Expire, and It Might Break Your Devices
One of the largest providers of HTTPS certificates, Let’s Encrypt, will stop using an older root certificate next week — meaning you might need to upgrade your devices to prevent them from breaking. From a report: Let’s Encrypt, a free-to-use nonprofi…
Apple Bans Fortnite Until Appeals Are Exhausted in Legal Fight
Apple plans to keep Fortnite off of its App Store until appeals are exhausted in its legal battle with Epic Games, the maker of the popular battle-royale game. From a report: Apple sent a letter to Epic Tuesday saying that it “will not consider any fur…
Lithuania Says Throw Away Chinese Phones Due To Censorship Concerns
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry recommended that consumers avoid buying Chinese mobile phones and advised people to throw away the ones they have now after a government report found the devices had built-in censorship capabilities. From a report: Flagship…
Surface Laptop Studio is Microsoft’s New Powerful Flagship Laptop
Microsoft is announcing the Surface Laptop Studio today, a successor to the Surface Book line of powerful laptops. It presents a total redesign for Microsoft’s flagship laptop, ditching the removable display in favor of one that pulls forward to transf…
Surface Pro 8 is a Media-Centric 13-inch Tablet With a 120Hz Dolby Vision Display
Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Pro 8. Engadget: Microsoft’s new Surface Pro 8 tablet can actually go toe-to-toe with most ultraportables. It features a 13-inch PixelSense screen, a significant upgrade from the previous 12.3-inch display. Even bette…
No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push To Defend Its Image
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals. From a report: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named…
Catalogue of Errors Led To $1.36 Billion of State Pension Underpayments
Repeated human errors made for years were to blame for a scandal which led to more than 1bn pound of state pensions not being paid, a report has concluded. BBC: The National Audit Office (NAO) said 134,000 pensioners, mostly women, were underpaid pensi…