From PC Mag: After nearly a decade as YouTube’s CEO, Susan Wojcicki is stepping down to focus on her family and personal projects.

“The time is right for me, and I feel able to do this because we have an incredible leadership team in place at YouTube,” Wojcicki wrote(Opens in a new window) in the...

From TechCrunch: Tesla fired more than 30 employees who work at its factory in Buffalo, New York, in retaliation for union organizing, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board.

The firings and complaint were first reported by Bloomberg.

Tesla Workers United, a group...

From PC World: Microsoft is planning to update Bing Chat to make it a little less bizarre. OpenAI, meanwhile, is trying to make ChatGPT a bit more neutral.

Microsoft issued a blog post late Wednesday outlining the changes coming to Bing’s AI chatbot, while OpenAI issued a technical blog post on...

From Forbes: The mysterious flying object shot down by NORAD fighter jets in Canada on Feb. 11 likely belonged to a balloon hobby club in Illinois, according to a new report from Aviation Week. But agencies like NORAD and FBI won’t confirm to the balloon club whether it was one of their balloons...

From CNET: here are galaxies. Then there are galaxy clusters, which are made up of hundreds to thousands of galaxies held together by gravity. Then there are galaxy megaclusters -- a cluster of clusters, if you will. A new James Webb Space Telescope image reveals never-before-seen details of Pandora...

From Forbes: The Chinese spy balloon that was eventually shot down over the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 4 after sailing over the continental U.S. was apparently blown off course and had a “self-destruct function” that wasn’t activated before reaching Alaska, according to a new report from the New York...

From PC Mag: Feel like ChatGPT is too tame with its answers? The program’s creator, OpenAI, is working on an upgrade that could unlock more personality and controversial takes from the popular chatbot.

“We believe that AI should be a useful tool for individual people, and thus customizable by each...

From PC World: Going by tech headlines alone, one might be forgiven for thinking older graphics cards drop off the planet once the new hardware hits shelves. But GPU makers tend to support several generations of cards at once with their monthly driver updates, improving performance across the board...

From ExtremeTech: Today, Intel is pulling the wraps off its newest lineup of Xeon processors bound for professional workstations. The company is announcing two product lines dubbed Xeon W-3400 and W-2400. The 3400 series are for “experts” and carry a TDP of 350W. The 2400 CPUs are labeled...

From The Verge: Twitter is back after an outage for many on Wednesday. The full extent of the issues was unclear, but the problems were centered on the iOS app. If I tried to refresh my “For you” feed, for example, I got a message that says “tweets aren’t loading right now.” My “Following” feed...