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Nintendo Switch accessories deals to get you ready for Tears of the Kingdom
Save on fun accessories before you glide into Hyrule once more.
“We must regulate AI,” FTC Chair Khan says
Khan: FTC is "well equipped" to handle AI collusion, fraud, and privacy concerns.
Starlink nixes plan to impose 1TB data cap and per-gigabyte overage fees
Home users won't have to pay extra for each gigabyte thanks to policy reversal.
Disease detectives gathered at CDC event—a COVID outbreak erupted
Some attendees reportedly did not mask, distance, or take other precautions.
AI vs. Hollywood: Writers battle “plagiarism machines” in union talks
WGA writers don't want to train AI or clean up AI-generated "sloppy first drafts."
Google will retire Chrome’s HTTPS padlock icon because no one knows what it means
Google says only 11% of users understand "the precise meaning of the lock icon."
Facebook furious at FTC after agency proposes ban on monetizing youth data
Meta has 30 days to respond to allegations about its Messenger Kids product.
Testosterone in tusks: Hormones in mammoth fossils excite paleontologists
The technique could allow us to link mammoth health and nutrition to mating.
Passwordless Google accounts are here—you can now switch to passkey-only
Switching is probably a terrible idea right now, but you've got to start somewhere.
Twitter just realized it was dumb to cut off automated public service tweets
Twitter reversed what may have been its least popular change yet under Musk.
Musk threatens to reassign NPR Twitter account if it won’t start tweeting again
Musk threat to NPR contradicts Twitter's own inactive account policy.
Europe’s major satellite players line up to build Starlink competitor
The bid includes large players such as Airbus Defence and Space, Eutelsat, and SES.
Caught in the act: Astronomers spot star swallowing a planet for first time
A sneak peek at Earth's eventual fate.
AMD says new Ryzen 7040 chips beat Intel (and Apple) in thin-and-light PCs
Ryzen 7040 brings CPU and GPU upgrades, along with AI hardware acceleration.
Ford boosts Mustang Mach-E range and drops price as profits grow 20%
The range now starts at $42,995, with price cuts of between $1,000-$4,000.
Thousands of unknown viruses discovered in baby poo—and that’s not bad news
Around 90% of viruses found in Danish diapers were bacteria killers.
I used System76’s Pangolin for weeks, and Linux was not the biggest problem
A comfy keyboard, weird trackpad, blah webcam, and notably mature Linux desktop.
AI’s chaotic rollout in big US hospitals detailed in anonymous quotes
Health care systems struggle with each step of AI implementation, study finds.
Pornhub shocks Utah by restricting access over age-verification law
State senator says he "did not expect adult porn sites to be blocked in Utah."
AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
30-second spot set to "All Star" may inspire awe—or nightmares.
Apple and Google introduce standard to combat AirTag and Tile tracker misuse
Tracker-makers will chime in over the coming months to finalize the standard.
Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox
Other versions will remain available, but Firefox will get some exclusive tools.
Colorado kills law that made it harder for cities to offer Internet service
State law forced cities and towns to hold elections before offering broadband.
Here’s what caused black stains on Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Atlanticus
The culprit: nanoparticles of metacinnabar, a mercury sulphide black crystalline phase.
Mastodon fixes “confusing” sign-up process to attract users fleeing Twitter
Mastodon forms a plan to make decentralized social networks go mainstream.
Redfall convinced me that always-online for single-player is just stupid
One more way Redfall is not the same as Arkane's previous greats.
The 2023 Moto G features good looks, sweet $250 price tag
Motorola's mid-range sweet spot is still worth paying attention to.
NYPD urges citizens to buy AirTags to fight surge in car thefts
"Help us help you."
Microsoft could offer private ChatGPT to businesses for “10 times” the normal cost
Product would keep sensitive information from being used to train AI models.
Rocket Lab hitting its stride with high cadence, new venture for Electron
"I think the great thing about the space industry is it is the ultimate leveler."
IBM plans to replace 7,800 jobs with AI over time, pauses hiring certain positions
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says he could see 30% of back-office functions replaced by AI over 5 years.
Tesla’s magnet mystery shows Elon Musk is willing to compromise
The EV maker said it will expunge rare earths from its vehicles' motors.
New USPS electric vans delayed until mid-2024, according to court docs
With the bespoke NGDV delayed, the USPS has ordered 9,250 Ford E-Transits.
T-Mobile discloses 2nd data breach of 2023, this one leaking account PINs and more
Hack affecting 836 subscribers lasted for more than a month before it was discovered.
Why champagne has stable “bubble chains” and other carbonated drinks do not
Surfactants give champagne its signature stable rising column of bubbles.
AI plus MRI yields the ability to recognize what the mind is hearing
System can also reconstruct speech a person imagines.
Stone-hearted researchers gleefully push over adorable soccer-playing robots
DeepMind tests "robustness to pushing" in football robot breakthrough.
F1 wants to ban tire heaters—here’s why that’s a good idea
Spectacular sportscars at Spa put F1's Azerbaijan snoozefest to shame.
Apple uses iOS and macOS Rapid Security Response feature for the first time
Rapid Security Response updates haven't been released to the public until today.
Environmental groups sue the FAA over SpaceX launch from Texas
The launch on April 20 kicked up a lot of dust and concrete.
Report: Halo’s final survival attempts made even Amazon’s workers concerned
Halo reportedly tried surviving on targeted ads, user data, & creepy AI dreams.
Warning of AI’s danger, pioneer Geoffrey Hinton quits Google to speak freely
"Most people thought it was way off. And I thought it was way off."
OpenAI gives in to Italy’s data privacy demands, ending ChatGPT ban
Italy requested a PSA showing users how to opt out of ChatGPT data sharing.
Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
Judge voids subpoena, says film studios sought info that isn't relevant to case.
Official Pixel Fold images show off big bezels, inner display
Nice-looking UI, that trademark camera bar... and maybe a bit too much bezel.
Elon Musk provides detailed review of Starship’s first launch—and what’s next
"Weirdly, we did not see evidence of the rock tornado actually damaging engines."
Two core Unix-like utilities, sudo and su, are getting rewrites in Rust
AWS-backed group believes command is too central to the web to keep as-is.
The 2023 Kia Niro EV is incredibly efficient and a great all-around car
We achieved more than 4 miles/kWh without much effort.
Those scary warnings of juice jacking in airports and hotels? They’re nonsense
Juice jacking attacks on mobile phones are nonexistent. So why are we so afraid?
Driving across the American West in techno-excess with the BMW XM
"Hey Batman, turn on the seat massage."
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