Top 6 Jamboard Alternatives & Competitors for 2024 (Free & Paid)

Google Jamboard will no longer be available in late 2024. Which of these six candidates best meets your whiteboard collaboration needs?

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MWC 2024: Everything announced so far, including a Samsung smart ring, Google AI features

The TechCrunch team is in Barcelona this week to bring you all the action going on at Mobile World Congress 2024.
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Bitcoin resumes its rally, ripping through $54,000 for the first time since December 2021

The price of bitcoin shot above the $54,000 level on Monday after waking up from a week of tepid trading.

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LockBit Back Online as Ransomware Gang Continues to Clash with Law Enforcement

LockBit is now running from backup servers and has a new Dark Web presence after their site’s recent takedown by the FBI and international partners.

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QIA to invest $1 billion in international and regional venture capital funds

The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is launching a $1 billion venture capital (VC) fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds, the sovereign wealth fund announced on Monday. The program, according to QIA, seeks to attract international VC funds and startups to Qatar and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a […]
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Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?

Days after it was knocked offline by a sweeping, years-in-the-making law enforcement operation, the notorious Russia-based LockBit ransomware group has returned to the dark web with a new leak site complete with a number of new victims. In a verbose, borderline-rambling statement published Saturday, the remaining LockBit administrator blamed its own negligence for last week’s […]
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Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader

A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but aims to do so […]
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Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions

An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the incident, who was on the call briefed by the company’s executives, said the healthcare tech […]
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Elon Musk unhappy with Community Note placed on his own post

The Community Notes – a fact-checking feature on X – has a new vocal critic, none other than CEO Elon Musk. The fact-checking feature allows users to shine a light on ‘potentially misleading posts’, however, X owner Musk was publicly pointing out its flaw on Sunday.
Musk purchasing a new laptop seemed to start the ball rolling. As he took to X to complain about having to set up a Microsoft account in order to use his new laptop. Musk wrote on X:
“Just bought a new PC laptop and it won’t let me use it unless I create a Microsoft account, which also means giving their AI access to my computer!”
“This is messed up. There used to be an option to skip signing into or creating a Microsoft account.”
However, in true service of fact-checking one user added a Community Note, saying it was possible:
“It is still possible to set up the latest version of Windows without a Microsoft account,” read the note, which linked to a Windows 11 utility guide on the process management platform process.st.”
Musk goes from praising to condemning Community Notes
The utility of Community Notes comes through crowdsourcing. Essentially, anyone who has used X for more than six months has never had their account suspended, and has a verified phone number can apply to be a contributor to Community Notes.
X’s official explanation states: “Contributors can leave notes on any post and if enough contributors from different points of view rate that note as helpful, the note will be publicly shown on a post,”
Previously, Musk heaped praise on the fact-checking feature on X describing it as ‘awesome’ before adding ‘Our goal is to make Twitter the most accurate source of information on Earth, without regard to political affiliation.’
Musk has even been corrected by Community Notes in the past, after posting a screenshot from a fake CNN story; however chose to praise it then as well. Saying ‘they were right to add the label’ to his tweet.
However, the line appears to have been drawn when it comes to Musk’s critique of competing tech giant Microsoft. After the Community Note was added, Musk chose to critique the fact-checking feature. Writing ‘Community Notes is failing here’ before adding ‘This option no longer exists.’
Hilariously though, Musk’s post stating that the feature wasn’t working from X received another Community Note.
 
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Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev asks its players to tone down the recent toxicity

Director of Publishing at Larian. Michael Douse has taken to social media to combat the growing toxicity by some players aimed at Baldur’s Gate 3 developers.
The unrest comes as the publishers of Game of the Year (GOTY) winning Baldur’s Gate 3 are working hard to allow mods to be compatible with the game. Certain patch updates have caused the unofficial mods, created by the Baldur’s Gate 3 community, to stop working or cause instability within the game. The fantasy game had also encountered a number of bugs on Xbox after launch that had seen players lose hours of save games.
These mod-breaking updates are frustrating hardcore fans of the game that use the mods and a small minority have vented their frustration at the Larian team.
Threats and toxicity
Douse would, in a long series of posts on X, challenge the unrest and ask for these threats and abusive language to stop:

To finish, again, we can only be close if we can work close. If we cannot do that, and we have to draw distance, it’ll really suck for everyone, especially us & definitely you. Please help us to work for the greater good of the millions of people who are involved & chill.
— Very AFK (@Cromwelp) February 25, 2024

Douse was clear to address the issue in a polite manner, but he was firm in saying Larian “will be talking in depth about what our mod support will look like soon. Been working on it since launch. As always, we’ll discuss it in our way with our community. Threats & toxicity against our devs & community teams will only harm the conversation. Please stop that.”
”If you truly want to know things about the game, please don’t chip away at the people who connect us all,” he would continue. “99.9% of our community are the absolute best and it’s because of them – thankfully – that my community team perseveres. But I suppose it was inevitable that when you have a city, a few bad eggs will start a fire.”
Baldur’s Gate has received critical acclaim since its launch and the title has now surpassed 10 million players who love the world of Faerûn.
We hope that Douse and the developers are given the time to incorporate the necessary changes to make the GOTY even better and as the Director of Publishing signed off on his post to social media, “work for the greater good of the millions of people who are involved & chill.”
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