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Updated 2025-07-04 15:15
Microsoft splits up the Teams and Office apps worldwide, following EU split
Changes may save a bit of money for people who want Office apps without Teams.
Discord starts down the dangerous road of ads this week
Discord's first real foray into ads seems minimally intrusive.
Google agrees to delete Incognito data despite prior claim that’s “impossible”
What a lawyer calls "a historic step," Google considers not that "significant."
AT&T acknowledges data leak that hit 73 million current and former users
Data leak hit 7.6 million current AT&T users, 65.4 million former subscribers.
Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about
Cloud firms want a version of Redis that's still open to managed service resale.
Google Podcasts shuts down tomorrow, April 2
Building a podcast player into Google Search was always a weird plan.
Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor rocks the fashion in new Doctor Who trailer
The return of Russell T. Davies as show runner has been a welcome one.
Russia has a plan to “restore” its dominant position in the global launch market
"So we are working on the same trail blazed by Korolev."
StabilityAI chief resigns, raising doubts about AI start-up’s future
Resignation comes in wake of legal woes, battles with investors.
What I learned when I replaced my cheap Pi 5 PC with a no-name Amazon mini desktop
Pi 5 is still an odd fit for day-to-day desktop use; cheap mini PCs come closer.
How Volvo made rear-wheel drive work on ice for the EX30 SUV
Rear-wheel Volvos are a thing again, and software makes them safe, even on ice.
Daily Telescope: A flying telescope gets photobombed by some planets
It's a bird... It's a plane... It's a telescope.
What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.
The entire state of Illinois is going to be crawling with cicadas
And the land shall feast on their dead.
Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
Scientists find a "mitotic stopwatch" that lets individual cells remember something.
Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals
Use of "Lenna" image in computer image processing research stretches back to the 1970s.
NYC’s government chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations
You can be evicted for not paying rent, despite what the "MyCity" chatbot says.
Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections
Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say
Civil rights group sues two counties, says hundreds more have banned visits.
This four-legged robot learned parkour to better navigate obstacles
Latest improvements to ANYmal make it better at navigating rubble and tricky terrain.
8BitDo’s $100 wireless mechanical keyboard is a tribute to Commodore 64
The clicky Kailh White switches are easily replaceable.
Report: Redesigned M3 iPad Pros, large-screened iPad Air now expected in May
Next-gen iPads will be Apple's first new tablets since late 2022.
Google says running AI models on phones is a huge RAM hog
Google wants AI models to be loaded 24/7, so 8GB of RAM might not be enough.
OpenAI holds back wide release of voice-cloning tech due to misuse concerns
Voice Engine can clone voices with 15 seconds of audio, but OpenAI is warning of potential harms.
I use these 2 apps for universal AirDrop rather than pushing people to Apple
They're free, they're easy, they're open source, and they generate funny names.
After overreaching TOS angers users, cloud provider Vultr backs off
Terms seemed to grant an "irrevocable" right to commercialize any user content.
Largely cut off from Western games, Russia looks into a homegrown game console
How hard could it be?
EV buyers want SUVs and sedans, not minivans or trucks, survey says
There's also a wide spread when it comes to acceptable range, Edmunds found.
EV bargains to be found as Hertz sells off some of its electric cars
More than 1,200 EVs are cheap enough to qualify for the used clean vehicle tax credit.
OpenAI shows off Sora AI video generator to Hollywood execs
CEO Sam Altman met with Universal, Paramount, and Warner Bros Discovery.
Rocket Report: Will Northrop’s rocket be reusable? Fourth Starship gets fired twice
"So don't have that expectation, please. It's not going to be perfect."
After Concorde, a long road back to supersonic air travel
Supersonic flight without loud booms? NASA is working on that.
Apple’s first new 3D Vision Pro video since launch is only a few minutes long
Major League Soccer highlight reel is the first Immersive Video since launch.
Getting a charge: An exercise bike that turns your pedaling into power
LifeSpan's Ampera offers a solid workout, but it has a lot of quirks.
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.
Astronomers have solved the mystery of why this black hole has the hiccups
Blame it on a smaller orbiting black hole repeatedly punching through the accretion disk.
PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack
Automation is making attacks on open source code repositories harder to fight.
Ubuntu will manually review Snap Store after crypto wallet scams
Former Canonical employee calls out the "Safe" label applied to Snap apps.
China has a big problem with super gonorrhea, study finds
Drug-resistant gonorrhea is a growing problem-one that doesn't heed borders.
Biden orders every US agency to appoint a chief AI officer
Federal agencies rush to appoint chief AI officers with significant expertise."
Proxmox gives VMware ESXi users a place to go after Broadcom kills free version
Proxmox is a Linux-based hypervisor that could replace ESXi for some users.
How Apple plans to update new iPhones without opening them
Apple wants to rid the iPhone-buying process of the post-unboxing update.
FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison
SBF had asked for sentence of just 5 or 6 years. Prosecutors sought 40 to 50.
Yamaha and Lola pair up to enter Formula E next season
Lola has Yamaha as a technical partner and Formula E veterans in key roles.
Embracer Group lets go of Borderlands maker for $460M after three years
Swedish giant releases the largest piece of its Katamari-like studio roll-up.
Daily Telescope: Peering into the remnants of an 800-year-old supernova
Incomplete explosions can leave a kind of "zombie" star.
The Delta IV Heavy, a rocket whose time has come and gone, will fly once more
The final Delta IV Heavy rocket is scheduled to launch Thursday, weather permitting.
Thousands of servers hacked in ongoing attack targeting Ray AI framework
Researchers say it's the first known in-the-wild attack targeting AI workloads.
Quantum computing progress: Higher temps, better error correction
Amazon, IBM, and traditional silicon makers are all working toward error correction.
Oregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software-pairing checks.
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