Is Reddit down? AWS outages are mitigating, but the social media giant is still half-busted

Amazon Web Services (AWS) server outages have affected a significant chunk of the Internet, including ongoing problems for ...

Reddit sues AI company Perplexity and others for 'industrial-scale' scraping of user comments

Reddit has sued Perplexity AI and three other entities for allegedly scraping user comments for commercial gain. The lawsuit, ...
Windows Central

Reddit Blackout darkens popular Windows and Microsoft subreddits

A massive group of subreddits are protesting Reddit by 'going dark' for at least 48 hours. Multiple Microsoft and Windows-focused subreddits are shut down temporarily as part of the Reddit Blackout.

Windows 11's BitLocker encryption permanently locks 3TB of a user's backups — "Filled my PC with more spyware and viruses than I can count"

A Reddit user ended up losing 3TB of games and backups after reinstalling Windows 11 because the operating system was lagging. Turns out, the BitLocker security was enabled by default after Microsoft ...
Windows Report

Reddit Sues Perplexity for Scraping User Data to Train its AI

Reddit has accused Perplexity AI of illegally scraping user data to train its AI-powered search engine in the latest lawsuit.
Windows Central

Reddit CEO says it's “a real pain in the ass to block these companies" from crawling the site, says Microsoft refuses to negotiate

Microsoft doesn’t want to play ball with Reddit by paying them, says Reddit CEO Steve Huffman, explaining why Google is getting better data. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
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A magical Windows XP activation tool has been hiding in plain sight on Reddit for the last year

This mysterious method for bypassing Windows XP's activation process is making headlines now, but may actually be years old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...