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Bluesky is starting to feel like Twitter

Bluesky might be the Twitter-like we’ve been waiting for. Yes, I know it’s still invite-only. Yes, I know there are only thousands of people on the platform right now. Yes, I know that it’s still missing table-stakes features like video uploads and DMs. Still, I’m starting to feel that Bluesky is where it’s at. It

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Brave severs ties with Microsoft’s Bing for web search queries

Brave, the company that develops its own privacy-focused web browser and search engine, announced that it will no longer use Microsoft’s Bing search as a source for its web searches. “Every Web search result seen in Brave Search is now served by our own index,” reads a Thursday post on Brave’s company blog. “We’ve removed

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Instagram is testing songs in photo carousels

Instagram is testing a new feature that will let you add songs to the photo carousels you post to the platform. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on his Instagram broadcast channel, noting that it’s already available in a “few countries with more to come.” While Instagram already has a similar feature that lets

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How to transfer your Google Authenticator 2FA to a new phone

Two-factor authentication (2FA) is one of the best and easiest ways to keep your online accounts secure. It works by issuing an authentication code on your phone when somebody tries to access the account; If that person doesn’t have the code, they (or you) don’t get in. By using a 2FA app, such as Google

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Reddit is trying chat rooms again

Reddit is piloting new chat channels where you can hold real-time conversations with other users. The Discord-like channels will live within various subreddits, allowing you to swap between browsing through posts and chatting with other Redditors about a range of topics. While this may sound a bit like Reddit’s Live Chat feature, the platform notes

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Microsoft Edge users who use Google Bard get a bonus annoying Bing ad

Microsoft’s Edge can be a great Chromium browser alternative to Google’s Chrome, but the former is displaying some annoying new rivalry antics: advertising Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot while you’re trying out Google’s Bard AI. As pointed out by developer and Twitter user Victor de Luccaa new developer version of Edge will now display a new

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Former Apple employee sentenced for stealing $17 million

A former Apple employee has been sentenced to three years in prison and must pay back over $19 million in restitution for stealing around $17 million from the tech giant through mail and wire fraud schemes. Dhirendra Prasad, 55, was originally charged in March 2022 and later pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud Apple and

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