From TechCrunch: Witness lists and testimony, mental health evaluations, detailed allegations of abuse, and corporate trade secrets. These are some of the sensitive legal court filings that security researcher Jason Parker said they found exposed to the open internet for anyone to access, and from...

From PCWorld: Evernote is tightening the strings attached to the free version of its service.

As of today, those users who have signed up for the free version of Evernote will be restricted to a single notebook and just fifty notes at a time, Evernote said in a blog post. The idea, of course, is...

From PC Mag: Google regularly rolls out Android and Pixel updates that add new features to your phone. The latest is a new option to type responses during a phone call, but to start, it's coming to only a small selection of Pixel phones.

The typed response option builds on Live Captions, which saw...

From PC Mag: A cyberattack has hit office supplier Staples, temporarily disrupting the company’s customer support channels and delivery systems.

Staples announced the incident on its website today. “Staples recently identified a cybersecurity risk [and] took proactive steps in an effort to...

From The Verge: November has been a big month for RCS — the mobile messaging protocol championed by Google — and now, the company is capping it off with the announcement of a milestone and some festive new features. First, the number: according to Google, over 1 billion monthly active users are...

From The Verge: Valve’s Steam Link app, which lets you stream games from your Steam library to another device, is out now for the Meta Quest 2, 3, and Pro headsets, according to a news post from Valve. Having Steam Link available on Quest devices means that you can more easily play your VR games...

From PC Mag: Elon Musk had a hostile message for companies pulling their advertising from Twitter/X because of his controversial views.

“If somebody’s gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail with money, go fuck yourself,” he said while being interviewed today at the New York Times'...

From TechCrunch: Amazon is releasing an image generator — joining the ranks of the many, many other tech giants and startups that have already done so.

During a keynote at its AWS re:Invent 2023 conference this morning, Amazon debuted Titan Image Generator, which is now available in preview for AWS...

From PC World: If you’ve delayed buying a cheap SSD for the holidays, you might want to try and jump in before Christmas. Market reports out of Taiwan note that the price of the flash memory used in SSDs is increasing sharply, meaning those prices will hit your wallet before long.

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From The Verge: Sam Altman is officially OpenAI’s CEO again.

Just before Thanksgiving, the company said it had reached a deal in principle for him to return, and now it’s done. Microsoft is getting a non-voting observer seat on the nonprofit board that controls OpenAI as well, the company announced...