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• Iran's hackers go to war
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• Social media addiction lawsuits hit Meta, Google, YouTube
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• Elon Musk's lawsuit over X (Twitter) ad boycotts thrown out
• Anthropic versus Department of Defense: AI contracting dispute and retaliation claims
• FCC's confusing foreign-made router ban and consumer tech fallout
• Major supply chain attack: LiteLLM malware infects AI devs
• The rise (and risks) of AI agents with voice, identity, and personification
• Turing Award honors pioneers of quantum cryptography
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• Privacy and consent worries escalate with AI-powered recordings and surveillance
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• Is AI progress barreling toward a dystopian tech future?

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• CBS News Shutters Radio Service After Nearly a Century
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• Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs mount
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• Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children
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• Musk admits xAI 'not built right' — weeks after Tesla invested $2 billion
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• Social Security watchdog investigating claims that DOGE engineer copied its databases
• DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery
• U.S. State Bans on Lab-Grown Meats Challenged in Court
• Easy-to-use solar panels are coming, but utilities are trying to delay them
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• TerraPower gets permit to build reactor
• Ex-Uber CEO Kalanick Debuts Plan for 'Gainfully Employed Robots'
• Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud
• Justice Department and Live Nation Reach Settlement Terms in Antitrust Case
• Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
• Palantir's lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
• How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
• 'Flying Cars' Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer
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• Ig Nobel Prize flees US for Switzerland after 35 years over safety concerns
• Swiss e-voting can't count 2,048 ballots after USB keys fail to decrypt them
• Tony Hoare, Turing Award-Winning Computer Scientist Behind QuickSort, Dies At 92

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• Pentagon Officially Tells Anthropic It Is a Supply Chain Risk
• Trump moves to blacklist Anthropic AI from all government work
• If AI is a weapon, why don't we regulate it like one?
• Sam Altman's greed and dishonesty are finally catching up to him
• ChatGPT user base surges 350% in 18 months as it nears 1 billion weekly active users
• AI-generated art can't be copyrighted after the Supreme Court declines to review the rule
• Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens
• Grammarly is using our identities without permission
• Alphabet Grants Sundar Pichai Stock Awards Worth Up to $686 Million
• Google vs Epic Games ends with Android app stores, lower fees
• Google Ends Its 30% App Store Fee, Welcomes Third-Party App Stores - Slashdot
• Xbox CEO confirms next-gen 'Project Helix' console will play PC games
• Motorola Partners With GrapheneOS - Slashdot
• Data Broker Breaches Fueled Nearly $21 Billion in Identity-Theft Losses
• CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples' Movements
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• COPPA 2.0 passes the Senate again, unanimously this time
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• Sam Altman says OpenAI shares Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon fight
• The whole thing was a scam
• OpenAI allows NSA to use GPT for surveilling Americans
• Anthropic's Claude hits No. 1 on Apple's top free apps list after Pentagon rejection
• Layoffs at Block
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• Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for Paramount Takeover
• An update on our model deprecation commitments for Claude Opus 3 \ Anthropic
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• New Apple product launch starts Monday, Tim Cook confirms
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• Hacked Prayer App Sends 'Surrender' Messages to Iranians Amid Israeli and US Strikes
• The Big One: The cyberattack scenarios that keep officials up at night
• CISA replaces acting director after a bumbling year on the job
• New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises
• Victory! Tenth Circuit Finds Fourth Amendment Doesn't Support Broad Search of Protesters' Devices and Digital Data
• Enthusiasts used their home computers to search for ET—scientists are homing in on 100 signals they found
• Americans now listen to podcasts more often than talk radio, study shows | TechCrunch
• Burger King Will Use AI To Check If Employees Say 'Please' and 'Thank You'
• Uber Previews Its Dubai Air Taxi Service - Slashdot
• Rob Grant, creator of Red Dwarf, has died
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• Mark Zuckerberg and his Ray-Ban entourage have their day in court
• Instagram Boss Says 16 Hours of Daily Use Is Not Addiction
• Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push To Advance AI Agenda - Slashdot
• Australia's Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned
• Google I/O 2026 set for May 19-20
• Pixel 10A hands-on: More like a slightly better Pixel 9A than a slightly worse Pixel 10
• Google announces Gemini 3.1 Pro, says it's better at complex problem-solving
• Tucson Daily Brief
• Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand 'Search Party' Surveillance Beyond Dogs
• A $10K+ bounty is waiting for anyone who can unplug Ring doorbells from Amazon’s cloud
• Amazon delivery van accidentally gets stuck in the sea in Britain
• Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
• Government Docs Reveal New Details About Tesla and Waymo Robotaxis' Human Babysitters
• The Supreme Court's Tariff Ruling Won't Bring Car Prices Back to Earth
• A flood of cheap used EVs is coming
• Signal guide for everyday folks
• PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
• Federal ban on TP-Link routers shelved, but Texas fights on
• You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised
• Mississippi health system shuts down clinics statewide after ransomware attack
• Fake Job Recruiters Hid Malware In Developer Coding Challenges
• F-35 Software Could Be Jailbreaked Like an IPhone: Dutch Defense Minister - Slashdot
• In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator | Tom's Hardware
• Lab-Grown Meat Exists (But Nobody Wants To Eat It)
• CERN rebuilt the original browser from 1989

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• Jury told that Meta, Google 'engineered addiction' at landmark US trial
• Instagram Chief Says Social Media Is Not 'Clinically Addictive' in Landmark Trial
• Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
• Meta apparently thinks we're too distracted to care about facial recognition and Ray-Bans
• Amazon Ring's Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance
• Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash
• TikTok is tracking you, even if you don't use the app.
• Discord backtracks on controversial age verification rollout...kind of
• Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
• The DJI Romo robovac had security so poor that this man remotely accessed thousands of them
• HP's laptop subscriptions are a great deal — for HP
• FTC Ratchets Up Microsoft Probe, Queries Rivals on Cloud, AI
• T-Mobile announces its network is now full of AI by rolling out real-time translation
• Apple's latest attempt to launch the new Siri runs into snags
• SpaceX Prioritizes Lunar 'Self-Growing City' Over Mars Project, Musk Says
• Elon Musk declares victory with Medicaid data release
• Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars
• Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025
• $1.8 million MST3K Kickstarter brings in (almost) everyone from the old show
• OpenAI Is Nuking Its 4o Model. China's ChatGPT Fans Aren't OK
• Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega's consoles, has died
• Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
• Launching The Rural Guaranteed Minimum Income Initiative

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• More schools are banning phones so students can focus. Ohio's results show it's not that simple
• After Australia, Which Countries Could Be Next to Ban Social Media for Children
• EU says TikTok must disable 'addictive' features like infinite scroll, fix its recommendation engine
• Anthropic and OpenAI release dueling AI models on the same day in an escalating rivalry
• Sam Altman says Anthropic's Super Bowl spot is 'dishonest' about ChatGPT ads, but he agrees it's funny
• Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code
• Alphabet reports Q4 2025 revenue of $113.8 billion
• Amazon's blowout $200 billion AI spending plan stuns Wall Street
• A New Gilded Age: Big Tech goes on a $600 billion AI spending splurge
• Hidden Cameras in Chinese Hotels Are Livestreaming Guests To Thousands of Telegram Subscribers
• AI-generated ads hit the Super Bowl
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• Russia suspected of intercepting EU satellites
• Notepad++ hijacked by state-sponsored actors
• New York Wants to Ctrl+Alt+Delete Your 3D Printer
• Western Digital Plots a Path To 140 TB Hard Drives Using Vertical Lasers and 14-Platter Designs
• A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words
• The Wayback Machine debuts a new plug-in designed to fix the internet's broken links problem
• Project Hail Mary is getting its own LEGO set
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