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Proton has acquired the encrypted note-taking app Standard Notes

Early Reviewers of Humane AI Pin Aren’t Impressed

Meta will auto-blur nudity in Instagram DMs in latest teen safety step

Substack now allows podcasters to sync and distribute their episodes to Spotify

Ubisoft is deleting The Crew from players' libraries, reminding us we own nothing

College Football 25: EA's Biggest Success or EA's Biggest Disaster?

Elon Claims Twitter’s Traffic Is At An All-Time High Because He Can’t Be Bothered To Understand The Misleading Data People Show Him

Google’s next foldable may be the ‘Pixel 9 Pro Fold’

Costco now sells up to $200 million a month in gold and silver

Trump Media shares plunge more than 14%, after company says Truth Social to launch TV streaming

Police arrested four people over $300,000 of stolen Lego kits

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Yahoo is buying Artifact, the AI news app from the Instagram co-founders

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Apple’s new AI: 3 ways Siri could beat ChatGPT

Apple opens the App Store to retro game emulators

Exclusive: Google parent Alphabet weighs offer for HubSpot

EXCLUSIVE: Xbox President Sarah Bond has set up a new team dedicated to game preservation and forward compatibility

Spotify’s latest AI feature builds playlists based on text descriptions

‘We have reached the limit.’ Clash with Elon Musk prompts calls for social media controls in Brazil

Elon Musk announces Tesla will unveil a ‘robotaxi’ on August 8

Meta is accused of censoring a non-profit newspaper and an independent journalist who criticized the company

New Disney animatronics breathe convincing life into its 2D characters

ISPs roll out mandatory broadband 'nutrition' labels that show speeds, fees and data allowances

Terraform Industries converts electricity and air into synthetic natural gas for the first time

NYC Chicken Shop Replaces Cashier With Woman in Philippines On Zoom

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Generative AI develops potential new drugs for antibiotic-resistant bacteria

NYC AI Chatbot Touted by Adams Tells Businesses to Break the Law

ChatGPT no longer requires an account — but there’s a catch

Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after all

The AltStore, an alternative app store coming to the EU, will offer Patreon-backed apps

​​AT&T resets account passcodes after millions of customer records leak online

Google Pledges to Destroy Browsing Data to Settle ‘Incognito’ Lawsuit

Gmail Launched 20 Years Ago on April Fools’ Day

Google Podcasts shuts down tomorrow, April 2

SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket photobombs the moon in incredible award-winning shot

Taco Bell, Pizza Hut going 'AI-first' with fast-food innovations

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Reddit pops 48% in NYSE debut after selling shares at top of range

Reddit sinks below opening price in second day of trading

LinkedIn is experimenting with a TikTok-like video feed in its app

The US Department of Justice is suing Apple — read the full lawsuit here

U.S. Sues Apple, Alleges Tech Giant Exploits Illegal Monopoly

US DOJ’s blockbuster lawsuit against Apple is headline grabber but poses limited near-term impact

Feds Ordered Google To Unmask Certain YouTube Users. Critics Say It’s ‘Terrifying.’

Florida governor signs law restricting social media access for children

DeSantis Approves Social Media Ban For Kids Under 14 In Florida: What To Know

Millions of Americans could soon lose home internet access if lawmakers don’t act

Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans ‘parts pairing’

DoorDash begins piloting drone deliveries in the US

Adam Neumann makes a $500 million bid for WeWork that could hit $900 million if financing and diligence firm up

Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux hacked at Pwn2Own Vancouver

Vulnerability found in Apple's Silicon M-series chips – and it can't be patched

SAG-AFTRA ratifies TV animation contracts that establish AI protections for voice actors

Tennessee becomes first state to pass a law protecting musicians against AI

Sora: first impressions

“Game Changer” – This Liquid Can Stop Tooth Decay in Young Children

Climate change is altering Earth’s rotation enough to mess with our clocks

South Carolina has $1.8 billion in a bank account — and doesn't know where the money came from

Prankster tricks a GM chatbot into agreeing to sell him a $76,000 Chevy Tahoe for $1

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Apple Is in Talks to Let Google Gemini Power iPhone AI Features

MrBeast Strikes Amazon Deal For Biggest Competition Series in TV History

Dell Says Remote Employees Won't Be Eligible for Promotions: Report

Coca-Cola unveils all-new bottles — sort of

Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Reddit prices IPO at $34 per share in first major social media offering since 2019

Biden announces $8.5 billion microchip grant to Intel as he sells economic wins to Arizona amid climate worries

Google used AI to accurately predict floods up to 7 days in advance

Monopoly Go Spent More on Marketing Than Sony Spent to Make Spider-Man 2

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Google, Apple, and Firefox release new Speedometer 3.0 browser benchmark

Google says Chrome can now protect you better while preserving your privacy

Tor’s new WebTunnel bridges mimic HTTPS traffic to evade censorship

The Tor Project introduces WebTunnel to help you bypass Tor network censorship

Apple to allow iOS app downloads direct from websites in the EU

EU parliament adopts 'historic' rules to govern Artificial Intelligence

House passes TikTok bill. Are TikTok's days numbered? What you need to know.

Italy regulator fines TikTok $11 million over content checks

Google won’t let you use its Gemini AI to answer questions about an upcoming election in your country

Amazon plans 'Big Spring Sale' that's not just for Prime members starting March 20

US health department opens probe into UnitedHealth hack

Deadly brain cancer shrinks after CAR-T therapy — but for how long is unclear 

FCC Officially Raises Minimum Broadband Metric From 25Mbps to 100Mbps

Google's newest office has AI designers toiling in a Wi-Fi desert

‘Polio Paul,’ who spent most of the past 70 years in an iron lung, dies at 78

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Facebook, Instagram, and Threads were all down

Red Sea cables have been damaged, disrupting internet traffic

Google Pauses Gemini’s Image Generator After It Was Accused of Being Racist Against White People

Impressive Capacity and Extended Lifespan – Scientists Have Invented Recyclable “Water Batteries” That Won’t Catch Fire

Peering through Lenovo’s transparent laptop into a sci-fi future

Moon Lander Is Lying on Its Side but Still Functional, Officials Say

Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI’s Sora: “Jobs Are Going to Be Lost”

Spotify HiFi is still MIA after three years, and now so is my subscription

Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data

Reddit files to list IPO on NYSE under the ticker RDDT

Lawyers who voided Elon Musk's pay as excessive want $6 billion fee

A former Gizmodo writer changed his name to ‘Slackbot’ and stayed undetected for months

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Bitcoin regains $1 trillion market cap as the cryptocurrency hits over two-year high

$13M and 3 years later, Superlist hopes to become a decacorn. But will it?

DuckDuckGo’s privacy browser adds built-in password syncing

Signal Finally Rolls Out Usernames, So You Can Keep Your Phone Number Private

Wyze outage led to the cameras of 13,000 customers being shown to other users

Feds Want to Ban the World’s Cutest Hacking Device. Experts Say It's a ‘Scapegoat’

OpenAI introduces Sora, its text-to-video AI model

How companies are using AI to spy on Slack

Airbnb plans to use AI, including its GamePlanner acquisition, to create the ‘ultimate concierge’

ChatGPT Went Berserk, Giving Nonsensical Responses All Night

Disney Outsourcing Blu-Ray, DVD Business to Sony

Walmart to buy TV maker Vizio for $2.3 billion in move to grow its ad business

Elon Musk Says Neuralink's First Patient Can Move a Computer Mouse With Their Thoughts

Lab-grown ‘beef rice’ could offer more sustainable protein source, say creators

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Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

Cyclist hit by driverless Waymo car in San Francisco, police say

Waymo driverless car set on fire, destroyed by San Francisco crowd

Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible “forever”

Wi-Fi jamming to knock out cameras suspected in nine Minnesota burglaries -- smart security systems vulnerable as tech becomes cheaper and easier to acquire

Exclusive: Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI: Read the memo

Notion acquires privacy-focused productivity platform Skiff

OpenAI-buddy Brilliant Labs unveils eyeglasses with ‘AI superpowers’

Disney to take $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, work with Fortnite maker on new content

Microsoft prepares to take Xbox everywhere

Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

Reddit beats film industry again, won’t have to reveal pirates’ IP addresses

Elon Musk started buying Twitter shares soon after Parag Agrawal refused to ban an account tracking his private jet, book says

Apple Is Lobbying Against Right to Repair Six Months After Supporting Right to Repair

Fighting the smartphone ‘invasion’: the French village that voted to ban scrolling in public

New York has ended its trial of a 400-pound security robot in the Times Square subway station

Wilson Airless Gen1 Basketball

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Snap shares drop 30% after company's revenue miss and weak guidance

Google Maps is getting a major AI upgrade — what you need to know

Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’

Mozilla Monitor’s new service removes your personal info from data broker sites automatically

Researchers achieve super-safe, ultrafast Li-ion battery charging

Apple Is Forcing Users Who Forgot the Password to Their $3,500 Vision Pro to Reset It In-Store

Don't wear an Apple Vision Pro while driving, Pete Buttigieg says 

Sorting recycling is hard. AI could help.

Meta says you better disclose your AI fakes or it might just pull them

Bluesky is ditching its waitlist and is now open to everyone

Amazon’s new AWS charge for using IPv4 is expected to rake in up to $1B per year — change should speed IPv6 adoption

Adam Neumann is trying to buy back WeWork

Your Phone Is Not Listening to You

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