Tuesday, March 24, 2026

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Amazon's 7-day Big Spring Sale 2026 kicks off tomorrow: Everything you need to know
45The Points Guy Articles / 10h
Amazon's annual Big Spring Sale is almost upon us. Anyone can shop during this sale, but you can save more if you use the right credit card or join Amazon Prime. If you want to score the best deals, here's everything you need to know before the sale starts. When is Amazon's Big Spring Sale? Amazon's Big Spring Sale kicks off Tuesday, March 25, at 12:01 a.m. PDT. How long does Amazon's Big Spring



Citi AAdvantage Business Card 75K Bonus Miles Limited Time Offer

96One Mile at a Time / 8h
Link: Learn more about the Citi® / AAdvantage Business™ World Elite Mastercard® The Citi® / AAdvantage Business™ World Elite Mastercard® is American’s primary co-branded business credit card. We’re currently seeing an improved welcome offer on the card, making it an ideal time to apply, as this is among the best offers that we’ve seen on the card. I’d like to post a reminder of this offer, as it’






OpenAI ends Disney partnership as it closes Sora video-making tool
BBC News / 4min
The move comes less two years after the launch of the AI video app sent shockwaves through the media industry.






I asked ChatGPT to grade my interview answers — it was more useful than real interviews
Latest from TechRadar / 9min
ChatGPT can simulate and critique a job interview.





NYT Connections hints today: Clues, answers for March 25, 2026
Mashable / 35min
The NYT Connections puzzle today is not too difficult if you keep up with the news. Connections is the one of the most popular New York Times word games that's captured the public's attention. The game is all about finding the "common threads between words." And just like Wordle , Connections resets after midnight and each new set of words gets trickier and trickier—so we've served up some hints





NYT Strands hints, answers for March 25, 2026
Mashable / 35min
Today's NYT Strands hints are easy if you frequent the movie theater. Strands , the New York Times ' elevated word-search game, requires the player to perform a twist on the classic word search. Words can be made from linked letters — up, down, left, right, or diagonal, but words can also change direction, resulting in quirky shapes and patterns. Every single letter in the grid will be part of an





Wordle today: Answer, hints for March 25, 2026
Mashable / 35min
Today's Wordle answer should be easy to solve if you're always learning. If you just want to be told today's word, you can jump to the bottom of this article for today's Wordle solution revealed. But if you'd rather solve it yourself, keep reading for some clues, tips, and strategies to assist you. SEE ALSO: Mahjong, Sudoku, free crossword, and more: Play games on Mashable SEE ALSO: NYT Connectio





BTS comeback concert on Netflix draws 18.4m global viewers
BBC News / 40min
The livestreamed show saw the band perform together for the first time since October 2022.





BTS bring Arirang to NYC and break down that chaotic Hooligan lyric
Mashable / 1h
For the past four years, BTS has been something international fans watched from a distance, as the members completed their mandatory military service in South Korea. In the meantime, they pursued solo projects and toured globally as individuals, while the group itself lived on through archived livestreams and social media posts. On Monday night in New York City, they were back on stage as seven.





Don't wait for EOFY – there's still time to nab exceptional savings on the AirPods Pro 3, AirTags and more Apple gear if you're quick
Latest from TechRadar / 1h
We thought the recent sales events in Australia would be the last time we'd see any discounts on Apple tech. How wrong we were, as these savings of up to 40% prove.





A former Thiel fellow’s startup just launched a drone it says can replace police helicopters
TechCrunch / 1h
Brinc launched its newest 911 response drone this week, as the company seeks to expand its prominence in the public safety industry.





No dropouts, no stress: United’s Starlink Wi-Fi just works — and the rollout to every plane can’t come soon enough
Latest from TechRadar / 2h
Consistent and smooth





I watched all 8 episodes of Daredevil: Born Again season 2 on Disney+ — and the Marvel TV show would be even better than it is if it could fully exorcise its demons
Latest from TechRadar / 3h
Despite its obvious flaws, the latest entry in Daredevil's MCU TV show on Disney+ is a fiendishly good time.





‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Season 2 Is a Slow Burn That’s Worth the Wait
Gizmodo / 3h
Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio star in the New York-based Marvel Studios show, now streaming.





Amazon just bought a startup making kid-size humanoid robots
TechCrunch / 3h
The acquisition of Fauna Robotics is the second robotics startup Amazon has purchased this month.





With $3.5B in fresh capital, Kleiner Perkins is going all in on AI
TechCrunch / 3h
The fundraise includes $1 billion for investing in early-stage startups, and $2.5 billion for late-stage growth businesses.





‘Watershed Moment’: Meta Just Lost a Huge Court Case About Child Safety
Gizmodo / 3h
Thousands of other cases are still waiting in the wings for Meta.





New Mexico just handed Meta its first courtroom defeat over child safety, and the rest of the country is watching
TechCrunch / 3h
The dollar amount isn’t as important as the fact that this is the first jury verdict of its kind against Meta over harm to young people.





Meta loses major child safety trial, ordered to pay $375 million
Mashable / 4h
A New Mexico jury found Meta liable Tuesday for misleading consumers about the safety of its platforms and endangering children. Meta has been ordered to pay the maximum penalties for each violation of New Mexico’s consumer protection laws, amounting to $375 million. "Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about w





LG's world-first LCD laptop display has a battery-saving superpower — and an OLED version is coming next
Latest from TechRadar / 4h
Fancy new screen tech — an innovative take on VRR — is going to mean better battery life, starting with the new Dell XPS.





Need a case for your new 15-inch MacBook Air M5? Here are the best options to keep your kit safe, protected, and organized
Latest from TechRadar / 4h
Covers and bags to keep your 15-inch MacBook protected from bumps and scratches, with spaces to stash your cables and peripherals too.





Lululemon bets Epoch Biodesign can eat its shorts, literally
TechCrunch / 4h
Startup Epoch Biodesign uses enzymes to break plastic waste down into monomers, the chemical building blocks that can be used to make new plastic.





OpenAI’s Sora was the creepiest app on your phone — now it’s shutting down
TechCrunch / 4h
Though the underlying Sora 2 video- and audio-generation model is scarily impressive, there was not sustained interest in an AI-only social feed.





Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Ars Technica - All content / 4h
Roughly a year ago, Spain and Portugal went dark when the electrical grid of the entire Iberian Peninsula failed. While the grid operators did a heroic job of restarting the grid quickly, there were obvious questions about what had led to the blackout in the first place. A preliminary report suggested that a combination of grid-level voltage oscillations and early disconnections was the main fact





Turn your voice into text on your Mac for $50 with Voibe
Mashable / 4h
TL;DR: Voibe AI voice dictation is $49.99 (reg. $149) offering a faster way to turn speech into text on Mac. Opens in a new window Credit: Essence AI Voibe Lifetime Subscription $49.99 $149.99 Save $100 Typing isn’t always the fastest way to get ideas out of your head. If you’ve ever lost your train of thought mid-sentence — or spent more time formatting than actually writing — a voice-first tool





Meta is letting creators fill their Reels with shopping links
Engadget / 4h
It's about to get a lot easier for creators on Facebook and Instagram to push products to their followers. Meta will now allow creators to include clickable shopping links for products directly in their Reels. Brand partnerships and affiliate links, in which creators earn a portion of sales generated by their recommendations, are central to how creators earn money from Facebook and Instagram. But





Accel, Prosus pick six ‘off-the-map’ startups for inaugural India cohort
TechCrunch / 4h
The six startups were selected from over 2,000 applications and will receive $500,000 to $2 million each.





Recursively Self Improving AI Will Have Unlimited Space Based Solar Power
Next Big Future / 4h
Eric Schmidt and other AI leaders (Karpathy, Musk, Anthropic executives) have described recursive self-improvement (RSI)—AI autonomously designing, testing, and deploying better versions of itself—as the pivotal transition from narrow, human-guided progress to potentially explosive, closed-loop intelligence growth. RSI is not yet fully autonomous across the entire AI stack with no human oversight





OpenAI Is Shutting Down Sora, Its A.I. Video Generator
NYT > Technology / 5h
The start-up said it would discontinue Sora just three months after signing a multiyear deal to bring Disney characters to the service.





Jury rules against Meta, orders $375 million fine in major child safety trial
Engadget / 5h
A jury in New Mexico has found Meta liable for violating the state's consumer protection laws in a high-profile civil trial over child exploitation and other safety issues. One day after closing arguments in the weeks-long trial concluded, the jury ruled against Meta on every count and ordered the company to pay $375 million. The case was brought by New Mexico's attorney general in 2023 and cente





Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
BBC News / 5h
The government will interview the young people and their parents before and after they try the limits to assess their impact.





Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety
BBC News / 5h
The owner of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp has been found liable by a court in New Mexico.





Meta Ordered to Pay $375 Million Over Child Safety Violations
NYT > Technology / 5h
In one of the company’s first major losses, New Mexico jurors found that it had misled consumers about the safety of its platforms, enabling sexual exploitation of young users.





Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Ars Technica - All content / 5h
Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for setup and accessing smart TV features. Since 2024, Vizio TVs have required a Vizio account, which a V





Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
Ars Technica - All content / 5h
Mozilla developer Peter Wilson has taken to the Mozilla.ai blog to announce cq, which he describes as "Stack Overflow for agents." The nascent project hints at something genuinely useful, but it will have to address security, data poisoning, and accuracy to achieve significant adoption. It's meant to solve a couple of problems. First, coding agents often use outdated information when making decis





OpenAI kills Sora video app, Disney kills deal
Mashable / 5h
Pour one out for Sora, the groundbreaking — but quickly overtaken — video generation app from OpenAI, the makers of ChatGPT. Born Dec. 2024, and baptized by a billion-dollar Disney deal a year later, Sora was axed by OpenAI on Tuesday — and the Disney deal was trashed alongside it. "We're saying goodbye to the Sora app," the Sora team announced Tuesday via the OpenAI X feed . "To everyone who cre





OpenAI unexpectedly kills Sora, and I wonder if this is the start of a mini AI bubble collapse
Latest from TechRadar / 5h
OpenAI unexpectedly announced the shuttering of Sora, and the company may have lost a huge partner.





R.I.P. Sora (2024-2026)
Gizmodo / 5h
OpenAI's video model and social media platform were too beautiful for this world.





Pentagon’s ‘Attempt to Cripple’ Anthropic Is Troubling, Judge Says
Wired / 5h
During a hearing Tuesday, a district court judge questioned the Department of Defense’s motivations for labeling the Claude AI developer a supply-chain risk.





What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Teleportation
Lifehacker / 5h
This week, people are wrong about teleportation. A common science fiction trope, teleportation is the transfer of matter or energy from one point to another without traversing the physical space between them. Widely repeated claims of teleportation have been cropping up since at least 1583, when occultist John Dee supposedly vanished from his home in England and reappeared at the same moment in P





Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer to turn her farm into a data center
TechCrunch / 5h
A "major artificial intelligence company" reportedly offered a Kentucky family $26 million to build a data center on their farm.





'We are continuing to monitor the situation closely': Crunchyroll investigating breach which reportedly stole data on 6.8 million users


Collection (Enterprise TA0009)•
Latest from TechRadar / 5h
A support agent's computer was infected with malware, giving a hacker 24 hours of play time inside Crunchyroll's network.





This is What Has Become of the Humane Ai Pin: An Enterprise Laptop Chatbot
Gizmodo / 5h
HP wants to put a chatbot on your PC, but not like Microsoft did with Windows 11.





This is the best Home Assistant project you can do in an hour
How-To Geek / 6h
Some smart home automations really can feel like magic. Often, these automations take a lot of effort to set up, but there are some projects that you can set up in less than an hour that can have a big impact on your smart home.





OpenAI Is Reportedly Killing Its Disastrous Video AI Slop App
Futurism / 6h
It didn’t take long for OpenAI’s text-to-video AI app, Sora, to melt down into outrageous drama . Almost immediately after the company rolled out the flashy smartphone app in early October, it became ground zero for photorealistic videos of people shoplifting , flagrantly copyright-infringing footage of SpongeBob SquarePants cooking up meth , and mocking clips of deceased celebrities . Less than





Sony is reportedly shutting down Dark Outlaw Games, run by former Call of Duty director
Engadget / 6h
Sony is shutting down Dark Outlaw Games , a first-party game studio led by former Call of Duty producer Jason Blundell, Bloomberg 's Jason Schreier reports . Before leading Dark Outlaw Games, Blundell was the head of Deviation Games, which was an independent studio, but also happened to be developing a PlayStation game before it shut down, Schreier says. Dark Outlaw Games had yet to announce what





High Gear Moonbase Program Kicks Off With 30 Robotic Moon Missions Starting in 2027 and Nuclear Powered Base by 2030
Next Big Future / 6h
NASA will advance lunar science by affordably building out of the Moon Base and underpin future Moon and Mars exploration. An accelerated CLPS cadence, targeting up to 30 robotic landings starting in 2027. NASA is expediting delivery of science and technology to the lunar surface. There will be many opportunities for payload delivery including rovers, ... Read more





NASA Plans $20 Billion Permanent Moonbase by 2032
Next Big Future / 6h
NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman announced a $20 billion plan to build a permanent U.S. base on the Moon over the next 7 years. NASA is cancelling plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit. “NASA is committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump’s ... Read more





NASA Space Reactor 1 Freedom for Nuclear Powered Interplanetary to Mars in 2028
Next Big Future / 6h
NASA will launch the Space Reactor‑1 Freedom, the first nuclear powered interplanetary spacecraft, to Mars before the end of 2028, demonstrating advanced nuclear electric propulsion in deep space. Nuclear electric propulsion provides an extraordinary capability for efficient mass transport in deep space and enables high power missions beyond Jupiter where solar arrays are not effective. ... Read m





OpenAI Just Killed Sora
Lifehacker / 6h
It's the end of an (albeit short) era: OpenAI is reportedly shutting down Sora, the company's once-viral AI video generation app. The Wall Street Journal was the first to break the story , and reports that the company is shuttering the app as part of a grander plan to streamline OpenAI ahead of a potential IPO (initial public offering) later this year. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addressed the news fir





Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
Engadget / 6h
Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Regulators around the world have limited access or launched investigations into the platform's potentially illegal and nonconsensual image generation. The US gov





'Smartphones were never designed to be vaults': How hackers can steal PINs and private data from over a billion Android devices — even while they’re switched off
Latest from TechRadar / 6h
Ledger’s white-hat Donjon team discovered a critical MediaTek flaw allowing attackers to instantly access PINs, messages, photos, and crypto wallets.





Intel is artificially boosting CPU benchmark tests, says Geekbench
How-To Geek / 6h
The latest Intel CPUs might be impressive, but they aren’t as impressive as some benchmarks suggest. A new tool from Intel is tampering with Geekbench 6 results, and giving the company’s latest CPUs a boosted score in some tests.





Disney Says It Will Find Ways to Peddle Slop Elsewhere After Pulling Out of OpenAI Deal
Gizmodo / 6h
Just three months after it was announced, Disney's partnership with OpenAI has ended with OpenAI's shuttering of its Sora AI video app.





10 Hacks Every Nvidia GPU Gamer Should Know
Lifehacker / 6h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Nvidia might be courting controversy with its recent DLSS 5 tech , but the company’s GPUs are still pretty powerful devices for running your games. If you have an RTX card in your desktop or laptop, you might be able to get even better performance out of it than you’re already seeing. Here are some of my favorite hacks to optimize your Nvidia GPU.





OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
Ars Technica - All content / 6h
OpenAI is preparing to shut down Sora, the video generation app that drew widespread attention when it launched in late 2024 . OpenAI announced the move in a social media post Tuesday just after a Wall Street Journal story broke the news . The company said it will have more to share soon on "timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work." "To everyone who created with Sora, sh





Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
Ars Technica - All content / 6h
Back in 2022 when Cindy Cohn, the executive director of a US digital rights nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, started writing her memoir, Privacy's Defender , she worried that people would think she was an "old fuddy duddy" still sounding alarms about government spying online. As one of EFF's first litigators and then its longtime leader, Cohn witnessed firsthand how government





FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Ars Technica - All content / 6h
The Federal Communications Commission yesterday announced it will no longer approve consumer-grade routers made outside of the US, citing a President Trump directive on reducing the use of foreign technology for national security reasons. The action will prevent foreign-made routers from being imported into or sold in the US. Routers already approved for sale in the US can continue to be sold, an





Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
Ars Technica - All content / 6h
Apple has released the 26.4 updates to all of its major software platforms today, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, watchOS, tvOS, visionOS, and the HomePod. The most important reason to install each update is the big pile of included security fixes—you can see the ones Apple is disclosing for iOS/iPadOS and macOS on its security website—but the updates also include a few significant new featur





Daredevil: Born Again season 2 release schedule shifted to make room for this key MCU Return
How-To Geek / 6h
Matt Murdock is back with a vengeance. The blind lawyer turned masked vigilante returns in Daredevil: Born Again season 2 , premiering tonight at 9 p.m. ET/6 p.m. PT on Disney+.





OpenAI is shutting down its Sora video generation app
Engadget / 6h
. "We're saying goodbye to Sora," the company wrote in a X post published Tuesday afternoon. For now, OpenAI has yet to say when the app and its related API service would become unavailable. Instead, promising to share those details at a later date. "We've decided to discontinue Sora in the consumer app and API. As we focus and compute demand grows, the Sora research team continues to focus on wo





As Airport Security Waits Spiral, One Man Started A Line-Sitting Business — $600 To $1,200 To Skip The Wait
View from the Wing / 7h
As long airport security lines continue to frustrate travelers, one man has turned the chaos into a business by standing in line for you and selling the spot. His asking price runs from $600 to $1,200, essentially creating a black-market version of paid airport fast-track services.





‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’ — er Jensen… I don't think we have
Latest from TechRadar / 7h
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang just said “I think we’ve achieved AGI” while on a podcast.





Anthropic hands Claude Code more control, but keeps it on a leash
TechCrunch / 7h
Anthropic’s new auto mode for Claude Code lets AI execute tasks with fewer approvals, reflecting a broader shift toward more autonomous tools that balance speed with safety through built-in safeguards.





Tech Life
BBC News / 7h
Artificial intelligence is already in use in many areas of healthcare.





Spotify tests new tool to stop AI slop from being attributed to real artists
TechCrunch / 7h
The idea behind the new tool is to give artists more control over which tracks are associated with their name on Spotify.





Watch First Video Evidence of Sperm Whales Headbutting Each Other
Gizmodo / 7h
The researchers aren't sure yet why exactly, but the whales do seem to be having a good time.





The Newest 11-Inch Apple iPad Is $150 Off Ahead of Amazon's Big Spring Sale
Lifehacker / 7h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. As part of an early Amazon Big Spring Sale deal, you can get the Apple iPad (11th Gen, 2025) with wifi and cellular capability for $651 (originally $799)–its lowest price ever, according to price trackers . Available in four colors, this capable tablet won a PCMag Best of t





Databricks bought two startups to underpin its new AI security product
TechCrunch / 7h
With an overflowing war chest from its recent $5 billion raise, Databricks is buying startups and looking for more. It acquired Antimatter and SiftD.ai.





Crusoe makes big battery buys for its data centers
TechCrunch / 7h
Form Energy and Redwood Materials both received orders from the data center developer.





Epic Games Laying Off 1,000+ Employees, Swears AI Is Not to Blame
Gizmodo / 7h
The company behind Fortnite, the Epic Game Store, and the Unreal Engine is also implementing a $500 million cost savings plan.





‘Starfleet Academy’ Deserved Better Than This
Gizmodo / 7h
Regardless of the circumstances around its cancelation, the latest 'Star Trek' series has been robbed of the chance almost every other show in the franchise has been given.





Apple could give Siri a standalone app and an 'Ask Siri' button in iOS 27
Engadget / 7h
Bloomberg 's Mark Gurman has been sharing every incremental update about what Apple's long-awaited Siri overhaul will and won't include. His latest article claims that the AI assistant will have a standalone app and will introduce an "Ask Siri" feature that could mark a decidedly different direction in how users will interact with the platform. Gurman reports that Siri is being designed to levera





United Airlines to introduce economy seats that turn into 'couches' in 2027
The Points Guy Articles / 7h
Beginning next year, United Airlines will offer economy seats that convert into lie-flat "couches." United just dropped a surprise announcement at today's media day that caused me to audibly gasp: new lie-flat-seat rows in economy, complete with enhanced bedding and a stuffed animal. No, this isn't an early April Fools' Day joke. In fact, this sort of lie-flat-economy option has existed for years





'We are going to push the limits of physics in compute': Elon Musk wants Texas 'Terafab' plant to produce one terawatt of computing power each year and build a global robot population using Tesla and SpaceX tech
Latest from TechRadar / 7h
Musk outlines terafab to deliver massive compute, yet production limits, resource shortages, and launch demands raise serious feasibility concerns.





Arm Lends a Hand, Launches In-House AI Chip With Meta as Its First Customer
Gizmodo / 7h
Why not just do it yourself?





There’s a $10 Billion Problem With Elon Musk’s New Chip Factory
Futurism / 7h
If Elon Musk ever cuts the ribbon on his massive chip factory “Terafab,” it could be among the largest buildings on Earth — and one of the most expensive. Terafab, announced in a painfully awkward conference over the weekend, is a joint semiconductor venture between Musk’s SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI companies. Should it ever come to be — we’re skeptical — the factory would be much bigger than its alr





The confusing U.S. router ban, explained: Which routers are banned?
Mashable / 8h
The Federal Communications Commission on Monday added all foreign-manufactured consumer routers to its Covered List — the federal government's running blacklist of communications equipment deemed a national security threat. The move effectively bans the sale of new WiFi routers made outside the country. The ban is sweeping, as virtually every consumer router on the market today is made overseas.





Stop expecting ad-free streaming to return—here's why the industry has moved on
How-To Geek / 8h
The streaming revolution has disrupted the entire landscape of television. What once started as a way to bring television to the internet has now transformed into a multi-billion-dollar industry. Streaming used to be a place where users could go to watch their favorite shows ad-free. The pendulum has completely shifted towards the other side, as major streaming services are incorporating more ads





Zoox is bringing its robotaxi to new cities and expanding coverage in Las Vegas and San Francisco
Engadget / 8h
Zoox has announced plans to bring its robotaxi to Austin, Texas and Miami, Florida for the first time, along with offering expanded service in San Francisco and Las Vegas. The company formally launched its robotaxi service in September 2025, and shared earlier in March that it would begin testing in Dallas and Phoenix . A "Zoox retrofitted testing fleet" has been operating in Austin and Miami sin





What Sleep Scores Are Good for (and When They Should Be Ignored)
Lifehacker / 8h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Sleep tracking apps promise better rest through data. But what happens when the pursuit of a perfect score keeps you up at night? For a growing number of people, that Apple Watch, Oura Ring, or whatever device meant to improve your sleep quality may be doing just the opposite. Here’s what to know about how sleep scores really work, and what you ca





What The FCC's Router Ban Could Mean for You
Lifehacker / 8h
The U.S. government is banning the importation of new routers made overseas, meaning consumers will no longer be able to purchase devices from many popular manufacturers. On Monday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added all consumer-grade routers produced abroad to its "Covered List" of communications equipment that poses an "unacceptable risk to the national security of the United St





Arm is releasing the first in-house chip in its 35-year history
TechCrunch / 8h
Arm is producing its own CPU for the first time. It developed the CPU with Meta, which is also the chip's first customer.





Too Many Typos? Update Your iPhone to iOS 26.4 ASAP to Fix Its Broken Keyboard
Gizmodo / 8h
iOS 26.4 should greatly reduce the number of typos you make when you're sliding into those DMs.





MG’s SolidCore battery and Hybrid+ tech make EVs faster and smarter
How-To Geek / 8h
MG is shaking up the EV world with its SolidCore Battery and Hybrid+ system. These aren’t just numbers on a spec sheet—they promise faster charging, longer range, and better performance in cold weather.





Finally, Some Good News in the Fight Against Lyme Disease
Gizmodo / 8h
Scientists found that the experimental vaccine was more than 70% effective at preventing Lyme disease in a trial of nearly 10,000 volunteers.





Allegiant waives change, cancel fees through end of the government shutdown as security lines grow
The Points Guy Articles / 8h
You know things are bad when a low-cost airline starts waiving fees. Allegiant announced a new " Travel with Confidence " policy this week, waiving change and cancellation fees on all flights until the government shutdown ends. It may be the latest sign that chaos at the airport is starting to keep travelers away, a feat that even higher fares linked to the price of oil have not accomplished (or





OpenAI’s plans to make ChatGPT more like Amazon aren’t going so well
TechCrunch / 8h
OpenAI says it's moving away from Instant Checkout, which allowed users to buy items directly through the ChatGPT interface.





Holy Crap, the ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Trailer Has Been Viewed a Billion Times
Gizmodo / 8h
The trailer for Tom Holland's latest Spider-Man adventure reached the milestone in just four days.





That McDonald’s Robot Video Isn’t What It Looks Like
Gizmodo / 8h
"The robots were not involved in any service or operational functions."





AccuWeather is now available inside ChatGPT
Engadget / 8h
Who among us hasn't tormented over the burden of having to exit an AI app to check the weather? Well, I haven't, and I'm guessing you haven't either. But AccuWeather has a solution regardless. On Tuesday, the company rolled out a ChatGPT app to spare… someone that pain. Snark aside, there may be a few niche situations where this provides a slight advantage. AccuWeather suggests asking ChatGPT, "W





Splitgate's 1047 Games is starting work on a Titanfall-style movement shooter
Engadget / 8h
At the close of a video announcing the second season of Splitgate: Arena Reloaded , the company's co-founder and CEO Ian Proulx revealed that "a small section of the team" has started work on a new game. He said that the next project will be a movement shooter in the style of Titanfall and Black Ops 3 . Those two tidbits are really all that 1047 Games had to share. People can sign up to participa





United Airlines Adds A New Way To Sleep In Coach — 3 Economy Seats Turn Into A Bed Starting Next Year
View from the Wing / 8h
United Airlines is introducing a new coach product next year that turns a row of three economy seats into a bed-like space with leg rests, extra bedding, and family-focused amenities. The new Relax Row gives United a fresh upsell between standard economy and Premium Plus, and brings the Air New Zealand Skycouch concept to a North American airline.





Google TV’s new Gemini features keep fans updated on sports teams and more
TechCrunch / 8h
Three Gemini-powered features are coming to your Google TV. This includes visual responses, deep dives, and sports briefs.





Epic Games Lays Off Over 1,000 Employees, Citing Fortnite Slump
NYT > Technology / 8h
The cut represents about 20 percent of the video game company’s work force, a spokeswoman said.





Linux-powered PinePhone might not get a sequel, and postmarketOS is one reason
How-To Geek / 8h
The PinePhone and PinePhone Pro were great Linux-based phones, with an open hardware design and affordable hardware. Unfortunately, there’s still no follow-up model on the horizon, for a few different reasons.





Tether, the World’s Biggest Stablecoin, Is Finally Getting Its First Full Audit
Gizmodo / 9h
After more than a decade of accusations, the company claims it will submit to a legitimate review of its finances.





NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
Ars Technica - All content / 9h
WASHINGTON, DC—NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on Tuesday laid out a sweeping vision for the space agency’s next decade during an event called “Ignition” in which he and other senior leaders set out their exploration plans. Isaacman and his colleagues shared a number of major announcements, including outlining a nuclear-powered mission to Mars that will release three helicopters there and major





Google's new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment
Ars Technica - All content / 9h
Android has been creeping into cars for more than a decade, first with the phone-based Android Auto and later with built-in Android Automotive OS. Even when Android is running on cars, it has not been allowed outside of the infotainment box. That could begin changing soon with Google's new plans for software-defined vehicles (SDVs), but don't expect most carmakers to step on the gas right away. C





Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer"
Ars Technica - All content / 9h
One benefit of most of Apple's hardware and software is that it's relatively privacy-focused and light on advertising, compared to something like modern Windows or the Roku operating system. But ads have still crept into various apps and services over time, and Apple confirmed today that its Maps app would begin showing ads to users in the US and Canada starting "this summer." Businesses that wan





TESLA TERAFAB PROJECT VALUABLE IN THE NEXT 18 MONTHS
Next Big Future / 9h
The Tesla Terafab will likely take a 2-4 years to build and those first phases will not be all of the 100+ million square foot building or complex. The start of the project with the pilot lab facilities can start paying immediate dividends. Speeding up the design of the chips and allowing for more experimentation ... Read more





This tax-themed malvertising attack can blind security software before it arrives — and then unleashes ransomware
Latest from TechRadar / 9h
If you're rushing to file your taxes, be extra careful - crooks are betting on your sloppiness.





Good luck, Americans, your Wi-Fi choices are about to get worse — we’ve tested hundreds of routers and every single one of our favorites is made outside of the US
Latest from TechRadar / 9h
Judging by our best routers guide, if the FCC does ban non-US-made devices, Americans could be in for a rough ride.





7 open-source apps I install on every Pixel phone
How-To Geek / 9h
As a Google Pixel user, I’m admittedly pretty far from the open source ideal of Android, but that doesn’t mean I can’t still enjoy open source apps. While I don’t use a ton of them, I surprised myself with a couple that I found on my phone.





What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US
Wired / 9h
The FCC just banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.





NASA Announces Gigantic Armada of Moon Launches to “Build President Trump’s Moon Base,” Starting Next Year
Futurism / 9h
In a flashy “Ignition” event today, NASA firmly recommitted itself to returning astronauts to the Moon, while fleshing out its vision for what administrator Jared Isaacman referred to as “president Trump’s Moon base” during an interview with Fox News . “NASA is committed to achieving the near‑impossible once again, to return to the Moon before the end of President Trump’s term, build a Moon base,





This New Claude Feature Can Automate Basically Everything on Your Mac, but It’s a Huge Security Risk
Lifehacker / 9h
Claude really wants to take over your computer for you. Anthropic has released a new feature called Computer Use , which can now take control of your Mac's keyboard and mouse to perform tasks on your behalf. This is finally rolling this out as a Research Preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers, after first being teased back in 2024 . The Computer Use feature builds on recent additions like Cla





The Moon Has Far Less Water Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests
Gizmodo / 9h
A recent search for water ice has turned up empty, casting doubt on the abundance of the valuable resource on the lunar surface.





4 reasons Linux Mint is the best Windows 11 replacement
How-To Geek / 9h
If you're like me, you probably find Windows 11 a disappointment, and you feel more like a resource for Microsoft than its customer. Linux can help you escape, and here's why particularly Linux Mint is the Windows 11 replacement you’ve been looking for.





Samsung reveals its cheaper mini-LED TVs for 2026 — and it’s dropping QLED on some of them, I kid you not
Latest from TechRadar / 9h
New Neo QLED TVs, and two more affordable mini-LED models with no quantum dots mentioned





OpenAI adds open source tools to help developers build for teen safety
TechCrunch / 9h
Rather than working from scratch to figure out how to make AI safer for teens, developers can use these policies to fortify what they build.





Talat’s AI meeting notes stay on your machine, not in the cloud
TechCrunch / 9h
The subscription-free AI meeting notes app is a local-first twist on notetaking tools like Granola.





The Next ‘Gundam’ Movie Is Finally Coming Stateside
Gizmodo / 9h
'Mobile Suit Gundam Hathaway: The Sorcery of Nymph Circe' has been out in Japan since the start of the year, but U.S. audiences will finally get to see it May 15.





Exclusive eBook: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys?
MIT Technology Review / 9h
We’re starting to give AI agents real autonomy, but are we prepared for what could happen next? This subscriber-only eBook explores this and angles from experts, such as “If we continue on the current path … we are basically playing Russian roulette with humanity.” by Grace Huckins June 12, 2025 ACCESS EBOOK Related Stories: Are we ready to hand AI agents the keys? Narrated: Are we ready to hand





Trump Administration Would Rather Pay a Billion Dollars Than Build a Single Wind Farm
Futurism / 9h
Donald Trump’s Quixotic hatred of wind power is breezing up once again. On Monday, the administration said it will pay the French energy company TotalEnergies nearly $1 billion not to build wind farms, the New York Times reports . In the “unusual” deal, announced by the Interior Department, TotalEnergies will forfeit its leases in federal waters for two wind farms off the coast off New York and N





10 Shows Like 'Call the Midwife' You Should Watch Next
Lifehacker / 9h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. In its 15th season, unlikely phenomenon Call the Midwife hasn't slowed down: Season 16 is already confirmed, as are a feature film and a WWII-era prequel series. Plenty of babies still need to be born, it would seem. Initially set in 1957, with the current plots entering the 1970s, the show takes place in and around Poplar, London, one of the city





Peter Thiel’s Cowgorithm-Powered Cattle Collar Company Raises $220 Million
Gizmodo / 9h
Moo-ve over, human tracking. We're doing cows.





Three new Gemini features come to Google TV
Engadget / 10h
Google has announced a trio of new AI-powered features for its Google TV platform, after showing off smarter Gemini integration at CES back in January. Google TV can now provide "richer visual help" when you ask it a question. Request the current sports scores, for example, and Gemini will bring up not only a live updating scorecard, but also where you can watch the game. If you’re looking for a





Apple confirms ads are coming to Apple Maps
Engadget / 10h
Apple Maps will soon have ads, Apple confirmed in a blog post announcing the company's new Apple Business platform. Reports that Apple planned to expand its ad business outside of the App Store and Apple News broke as recently as yesterday, but the company has been rumored to be exploring putting ads in its navigation app as far back as 2022 . Ads in Maps, as the new advertising program is called





OpenAIs new open-source prompts take aim at sexual content for teens
Mashable / 10h
OpenAI has announced new open-source safety prompts for developers, aimed at launching a mass deployment of policies to protect teens. The prompt-based safety pack includes model guidance on common teenage risks, developmental content recommendations, and age-appropriate guidelines on topics such as self-harm, sexual content and romantic role play, dangerous trends or viral challenges, and harmfu





Skip the RTX 50-series: This $7 app does what DLSS 4.5 promises
How-To Geek / 10h
Although GPUs are currently super expensive , we're still constantly told that it's definitely time to upgrade ours. And, in all fairness, Nvidia doesn't make it easy to say no. The latest iterations of DLSS, including 4.5 and the upcoming 5, are extremely tempting ... but does that mean you should be pulling out your wallet?





BKR Capital raises $14.5M (so far) to invest in Black founders
TechCrunch / 10h
BKR Capital announced Monday that its Fund II closed $20 million Canadian toward its $50 million target.





Our Favorite Turntable Is $51 Off Before Record Store Day
Wired / 10h
Audio-Technica is a leading name in home and professional audio, and the AT-LP120XUSB is a great turntable for most listeners.





For All Mankind is returning for a sixth and final season
Engadget / 10h
Apple TV's long-running sci-fi show For All Mankind has just been renewed for a sixth and final season , ahead of this week's season five premiere . This seems more like the natural endpoint of the story instead of a cancellation, according to remarks made by some of the creators. "Getting to explore the For All Mankind universe over six seasons has been an amazing privilege, and we’re thrilled t





The hybrid SUV that delivers luxury while saving owners $5k over 5 years
How-To Geek / 10h
Many shoppers in 2026 want a car that won’t punish them at the pump or in the service bay. With fuel prices jumping around and more regions pushing away from pure gas engines, good mileage has become a must.





Who Was the Worst Targaryen to Rule Westeros?
Gizmodo / 10h
Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of candidates among the House of the Dragon.





All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds
Ars Technica - All content / 10h
Elon Musk must defend himself against a lawsuit alleging that he unlawfully seized too much power as the leader of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a judge ruled Monday. According to the plaintiffs, Musk needed Senate confirmation before directing DOGE on drastic actions like eliminating agencies, mass firings, and steep budget cuts. Allegedly going far beyond the authority granted





United's new Polaris Studios are finally here: First look at the airline's swankiest plane yet
The Points Guy Articles / 10h
United Airlines' most premium plane ever is here and ready for takeoff — and it's fully equipped with the next era of its Polaris business-class cabin. Inside a hangar in Los Angeles on Tuesday, the Chicago-based carrier took the proverbial wrapper off its brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner in one of the more anticipated new-aircraft reveals in the airline's history. This plane sports what United





Credit card fraud surging: Why you should freeze your credit
The Points Guy Articles / 10h
In the age of online hackers and internet scams, protecting your personal information is as important as ever. Unfortunately, data leaks are on the rise as technology advances. According to a 2025 Pew Research Center study , 73% of U.S. adults have experienced some kind of online scam or attack. So, if you've never fallen victim to someone obtaining your account information, the odds do not seem





Acer Swift Edge 14 AI laptop review: Another lightweight wonder from the Acer stable
Latest from TechRadar / 10h
The Acer Swift Edge 14 AI is a lightweight laptop that leverages a 200-series Core Ultra processor and LPDDR5X memory.





5 anime series where you should definitely read the manga
How-To Geek / 10h
Anime is awesome. I love anime more than the average person. However, most anime is adapted from manga. That is, Japanese graphic novels. Sometimes these adaptations elevate the manga, and sometimes they fall short.





Ultrahuman’s New Ring Pro Is Finally Available in the US
Lifehacker / 10h
Ultrahuman finally has a smart ring back on the U.S. market, and it’s the Ring Pro, the new model with the feature-packed charging case . Pre-orders are now open , with early bird prices starting at $349. The regular price will be $479 for the ring plus case. The ring will begin shipping May 15. The company is using a tiered model for early bird pricing, where the price bumps up after a certain n





Crunchyroll confirms data breach after hacker claims unauthorized access
Collection (Enterprise TA0009)•
TechCrunch / 10h
Crunchyroll said it continues to investigate the data breach involving its users' personal information.





Doss raises $55M for AI inventory management that plugs into ERP
TechCrunch / 10h
Doss's AI-powered inventory management system integrates with existing ERP systems. The Series B round was co-led by Madrona and Premji Invest.





iOS 26.4 is here, with Playlist Playground and new emoji
Engadget / 10h
iOS and iPadOS 26.4 are here, with a surprising number of new features for a point release. Chief among them is a new AI playlist generator, similar to one Spotify launched in 2024 . Playlist Playground is Apple's branding for the song list generator. It works as you'd expect: Type a prompt, and it spits out tracks that match it. As MacRumors noted , your prompts can relate to mood, feelings, act





Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 employees just weeks after raising Fortnite V-Buck prices 'to help pay the bills'
Latest from TechRadar / 10h
Epic Games is laying off more than 1,000 employees.





Surfshark launches HeyPolo, a privacy-first location sharing app to kill "always-on" tracking
Latest from TechRadar / 10h
Surfshark has launched HeyPolo, a new location-sharing app that refuses to sell your data or track you 24/7. Here’s why it might be the ultimate privacy-friendly alternative to standard tracking apps.





Plex's confusing new "Lists" feature actually solves a major mobile problem
How-To Geek / 10h
Last year, Plex rolled out a major redesign to its mobile apps, and some functionality was removed in the process. Mainly, it became impossible to use playlists from your phone. Now, Plex is adding an extremely similar feature simply called “Lists” that solves the problem in a weird way.





New York Times Accused of Running AI-Generated Article
Futurism / 10h
The New York Times faced scrutiny online this week after netizens speculated that a personal essay featured in its storied “Modern Love” column was generated using AI and published without disclosure. Nothing is proven; the AI allegations remain exactly that. The AI paranoia among readers, though, is very real. The controversy kicked off over the weekend, when Becky Tuch of Lit Mag News took to X





Finnair Orders Up To 46 Embraer E195-E2s, Deliveries Start In 2027
One Mile at a Time / 10h
Finnair has just announced a major aircraft order, which will allow the company to refresh the fleet of its regional partner. Finnair modernizes regional fleet with Embraer E195-E2s Finnair has placed an order for up to 46 Embraer E195-E2s, including 18 firm orders, 16 options, and 12 purchase rights. When it comes to the delivery timeline, the first plane should join the fleet in the third quart





Capcom isn't completely abandoning generative AI, but has promised fans it won't use AI assets in games
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
Capcom won't abandon DLSS 5 in current and upcoming games, or the use of AI for development productivity, but promises it won't use AI for game content.





Amazon Says Its Cloud Facilities Were Disrupted Again Due to War in Iran
Gizmodo / 11h
Iran has said American big tech is a new target.





Arm Is Now Making Its Own Chips
Wired / 11h
The chip design firm says Meta, OpenAI, Cerebras, and Cloudflare are among the first customers of its new artificial intelligence hardware.





Arm Holdings, in Break From Past, Will Sell Its Own Computer Chips
NYT > Technology / 11h
For years, the company sold chip designs to other companies. Now it plans to sell its own chips for A.I. data centers.





Bandsintown integration for concerts is coming to Apple Music
Engadget / 11h
The live music discovery platform Bandsintown’s partnership with Apple goes way back , but iOS 26.4 brings the deepest integration between the two companies to date. Concert listings from Bandsintown will now appear in Apple Music , allowing you to find out when either a band you already love, or one you’re discovering for the first time, is next playing live. Artists who use Bandsintown to adver





Pokémon Champions will hit Switch and Switch 2 on April 8
Engadget / 11h
Pokémon Champions — a battle-focused game along the lines of Pokémon Stadium — now has a release date, and it's pretty darn soon. It will hit Nintendo Switch and Switch 2 on April 8. A mobile version is in the works with support for cross-play with Nintendo's consoles. Nintendo released a new overview video that shows how the game works. You can recruit Pokémon in the game or transfer those you'v





iPhone exploit DarkSword has been released in the wild: How to protect yourself
3 TTPs•
Mashable / 11h
DarkSword, the web-based hacker tool that can be used to steal data from millions of iPhones, has just been published on GitHub for public use. Cybersecurity experts say Russian hacking groups are actively using DarkSword "to fully compromise devices." Now that the exploit is public, any would-be cybercriminal can just quickly copy and paste the DarkSword code, take a few minutes to set it up on





'Traces of unauthorized access': Mazda confirms data breach exposing employee and partner data — here's what we know
Exfiltration (Enterprise TA0010)•
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
A handful of Mazda records were exfiltrated - but no one has claimed responsibility yet.





Your next PC build needs this storage strategy—here's why two M.2 slots matter more than you think
How-To Geek / 11h
As a value-oriented gamer and PC builder, I've always looked for ways to get the most bang for my buck when putting a system together. Storage is a key part of any build, but there's a fine line between buying what you need and what you think you need—the latter is where money starts to get wasted. So, here's a simple strategy that'll help you balance speed, capacity, and cost in your desktop PC.





Apple Music partners with Ticketmaster to power its concert discovery feature
TechCrunch / 11h
Apple Music teamed up with Ticketmaster to power its Concert Discovery feature, which recommends live music events based on users' listening habits.





This Chip Could Fix the Fukushima Plant’s Wi-Fi Problem
Gizmodo / 11h
The ultimate goal is to devise a fully wireless, durable communication device that functions deep within a nuclear plant, the team said.





This scientist rewarmed and studied pieces of his friend’s cryopreserved brain
MIT Technology Review / 11h
L. Stephen Coles’s brain sits cushioned in a vat at a storage facility in Arizona. It has been held there at a temperature of around −146 degrees °C for over a decade, largely undisturbed. That is, apart from the time, a little over a year ago, when scientists slowly lifted the brain to take photos of it. Years before, the team had removed tiny pieces of it to send to Coles’s friend. Coles, a res





Krita 5.3 brings new tools and Wayland support to the open-source paint app
How-To Geek / 11h
Krita, an open source digital painting app , has rolled out version 5.3.0 and 6.0.0 simultaneously. After several years in development, both versions come with significant updates and share nearly identical features. Krita 5.3 continues to run on Qt 5, while Krita 6 moves to Qt 6 and is still considered in the experimental phase. The dual-release strategy ensures stability for current users while





The Best Ways to Make Use of Those Spare USB Ports on Your TV or Monitor
Lifehacker / 11h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. If you've taken a look at the back of your computer monitor or TV lately, you may have noticed there's a USB port or two alongside the more familiar HDMI—and that in turn might have left you wondering what exactly a USB port is doing on the back of a big screen. Well, these USB ports have more uses than you might think. Their precise function is g





Fine, I'll buy another copy of Clair Obscur Expedition 33 to snag this special Mirror Edition
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
The Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 – Mirror Edition is now available to pre-order in the UK exclusively at Amazon, and as a huge fan of the game, I'm unable to resist.





Ads may be coming to Apple Maps as soon as this summer, report says
Mashable / 11h
Apple Maps might get a fairly big change soon, and it's one that few people will be excited about. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported this week that Apple will put advertisements in the Maps app on iPhone this summer, with an initial announcement as early as this month. Rather than bombarding users with annoying pop-up ads, it sounds like it'll be more of a "sponsored search results" sort of thing,





Redemption songs: How business owners turn points balances into big value
The Points Guy Articles / 11h
There's no question that it's gotten more difficult to find great deals when it comes to booking award flights. Business owners can build up an ample supply of points and miles pretty quickly, but it's only worth the effort if you can redeem them for a worthwhile trip. And while it's all too common to find prices as high as 500,000 miles one-way for a business-class ticket, recent experience show





'Welcome back, Frank': Marvel confirms the official title for The Punisher TV Special on Disney+ — and it'll be released a week after the Daredevil: Born Again season 2 finale
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
The launch date and official title for the Jon Bernthal-starring Disney+ special presentation have been unveiled.





Stop telling AI it's an expert programmer, you're making it worse at its job — new research shows the best results need specific prompts
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
Stop telling AI how it should generate answers – focus more on asking what you want of it, and giving it the necessary context.





Best website builders
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
We have everything you'll possibly need to know about the best website builders available on the market.





Android’s clipboard history is one of its best hidden features
How-To Geek / 11h
For much of the past five years, I have done my job using various Android devices as my primary computer. You could think of that as my one neat trick. But Android has a feature of its own that has often helped me be more productive working on a touchscreen than sitting at my keyboard, and it's an icon tucked away at the top of your virtual keyboard.





No, McDonald’s Isn’t Deploying Humanoid Robots as Workers in Shanghai
Futurism / 11h
A video is making the rounds on social media, showing a uniformed robotic employee at a McDonald’s in Shanghai, China greeting a patron while seemingly taking their order. The stunt was a joint collaboration between the fast food chain and Keenon Robotics, an international company specializing in service robots, like the serving trays on wheels that are becoming an increasingly common sight at re





5 Questions We Need Answered in the ‘Paradise’ Season 2 Finale
Gizmodo / 11h
All hell's breaking loose inside the bunker, and there's only one episode left to sort everything out and set up season three.





The Punisher's one-off TV special hits Disney+ on May 12
Engadget / 11h
We knew Disney+ was prepping a standalone special for The Punisher, but we didn't know it was coming so soon. The Punisher: One Last Kill premieres on May 12. This is just one week after the season two finale of Daredevil: Born Again , which starts up this week. It's possible The Punisher will be featured in that, so we could be in for eight straight weeks of skull-shirted shenanigans. Frank Cast





I’m a big fan of FlexiSpot’s single monitor arm for freeing up desk space, and it’s just $30 in Amazon’s Spring Sale
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
Forget buying a bigger desk, FlexiSpot’s single monitor arm frees up space and it's half-price in Amazon’s Spring sale, now just $30.





Xbox indie program lead says Project Helix will be 'easier' for developers and that Microsoft is 'working hard so developers can make one Xbox build in the future' that will run on everything
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
Xbox portfolio and programs general manager Chris Charla has said Project Helix will be easier for developers to work with, but advises studios to prioritize developing their games for current gen and PC first.





I trapped a clone of my boss on a desert island in Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream — and it only got weirder from there
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream had me tormenting a virtual version of my TechRadar boss.





Elon Musk Will Have to Face the Music in Lawsuit Over DOGE’s Government Overreach
Gizmodo / 11h
A federal judge allowed key parts of a lawsuit accusing Musk of wielding significant government power without Senate confirmation to move forward.





Claude Code can now take over your computer to complete tasks
Ars Technica - All content / 11h
Anthropic is joining the increasingly crowded field of companies with AI agents that can take direct control of your local computer desktop. The company has announced that Claude Code (and its more casual user-oriented Claude Cowork ) can now "point, click, and navigate what’s on your screen" to "open files, use the browser, and run dev tools automatically" when necessary to complete tasks. When





Fortnite-maker Epic Games lays off 1,000 more staff
BBC News / 11h
It is the second time in recent years the company has announced lays offs due to struggles with its blockbuster online game.





Two streaming services are better than one — this is your last chance to score this Disney+ and Hulu bundle and pay $15 for three months
Latest from TechRadar / 11h
This Disney+ and Hulu bundle ends today, so grab it while you can!





Louisiana researchers have made a nail polish that turns your fingernail into a phone stylus to solve ‘zombie finger’ problems
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
Two Louisiana researchers made a nail polish that turns your fingernail into a phone stylus.





Boost internet speeds from $87 with 6 super-fast TP-Link Wi-Fi 7 router deals in Amazon's early Spring Sale
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
From compact single-router upgrades to advanced whole-home mesh systems, Amazon's Spring Prime Day sale has a wealth of Wi-Fi router deals.





There's a new Payday game, this time in VR
Engadget / 12h
The popular co-op heist franchise Payday is coming to VR. Payday: Aces High will release for the Meta Quest platform and SteamVR later this year. It looks like it has everything people love about the series, but with some of that VR-style immersion. Just like the mainline games, this version tasks players with planning and then pulling off elaborate heists. It offers four-player co-op, with each





Nvidia RTX 5090 buyer is literally cleaned out as box contains no GPU, just laundry detergent — a reminder to be careful out there
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
GPU scams have involved replacing the graphics card with rocks or lumps of metal in the past, but this is a new one.





How to watch Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards online from anywhere — it's *FREE*
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
A real-life story of abuse, power, and the fight for justice from the victim's perspective. Here's how to watch Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards for FREE.





Subaru’s Uncharted EV proves 300 miles of range doesn't have to cost $50K
How-To Geek / 12h
The Subaru lineup is heading into unexplored or “Uncharted” territory, no pun intended. At a time when the average price of a new car is floating at or near the $50,000 mark , Subaru is hedging its bets on an all-new, yet affordable electric vehicle.





Meet the former Apple designer building a new AI interface at Hark
TechCrunch / 12h
The company said it would design models, hardware, and interfaces in tandem to deliver a "seamless end-to-end personal intelligence product."





Scientists Tried to Clone Clones Forever. It Didn’t End Well
Gizmodo / 12h
The practice of cloning clones indefinitely appears to be a reproductive dead end, for now.





This Govee Smart Floor Lamp Is 25% Off Ahead of Amazon’s Big Spring Sale
Lifehacker / 12h
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. Think smart lighting is limited to basic bulbs and LED strips? Govee proves otherwise with its unique, space-saving take on floor lamp smart lighting that actually brightens an entire room rather than acting as accent lighting. Available in three different colors, the Govee





United’s New Boeing 787-9 With Doored Suites And Caviar Upsell — Entering International Service April 22
View from the Wing / 12h
United Airlines will launch international service on its new Boeing 787-9 on April 22, starting with San Francisco to Singapore. The aircraft introduces doored business class suites and a new premium upsell that adds more space, caviar, and extra service at the very front of the cabin.





Epic is laying off more than 1,000 workers, citing a downturn in Fortnite engagement
Engadget / 12h
Epic Games has announced sweeping layoffs of more than 1,000 employees. “The downturn in Fortnite engagement that started in 2025 means we're spending significantly more than we're making, and we have to make major cuts to keep the company funded,” CEO Tim Sweeney said in a memo to workers on Tuesday. Sweeney wrote that, combined with “over $500 million of identified cost savings in contracting,





Exclusive: Get 4 months extra + up to $50 Amazon gift card with NordVPN
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
Lowest price of 2026: Lock in our exclusive rate before it expires.





This is the cheapest sports car with 400 horsepower in 2026
How-To Geek / 12h
High horsepower used to come with a high price tag, especially in the world of performance cars. Reaching the 400-horsepower mark typically meant stepping into premium territory, where sports cars quickly became expensive to buy and own. In 2026, however, one model is breaking that pattern by delivering serious performance at a price point far lower than expected.





VPN connections are broken on Android 16, and there’s still no fix
How-To Geek / 12h
If you have had connection issues with virtual private networks (VPNs) on your Android phone or tablet, you’re not alone. A bug with always-on VPNs in Android 16 is causing connections to fail, and Google has been aware of the problem for months.





Oura’s Next Smart Ring Just Leaked a Year Early
Gizmodo / 12h
If these images are real, this is the first look at the Oura Ring 5.





FDA Recalls Nearly 90,000 Children’s Ibuprofen Bottles Over ‘Gel-Like Mass’
Gizmodo / 12h
The recalled products come in a berry flavor and were distributed nationwide.





How AI is reshaping compliance: Why governance still matters
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
As AI introduces regulatory and governance challenges, compliance frameworks are critical to managing enterprise risk.





The death of the “personal” computer: Why Microsoft 365 isn’t for you or me anymore
How-To Geek / 12h
Remember the satisfaction of a Word document you took the time to format perfectly, or an Excel workbook you were actually proud to have built from scratch? Well, today, that personal touch is being replaced by "agentic" AI—software that performs tasks autonomously—and Microsoft 365 is pivoting to the boardroom.





United Is Taking The Most Hated Regional Jet In America And Adding First Class, Starlink, And A Closet — Meet The CRJ450
View from the Wing / 12h
United is taking one of the most disliked aircraft in U.S. aviation, the 50-seat CRJ200, stripping it down to 41 seats, adding first class, a luggage closet, and free Starlink Wi-Fi, and rebranding it as the new CRJ450. It is a real upgrade over today’s cramped regional flying, but not a substitute for mainline (or even a larger regional jet).





‘Avatar: Fire and Ash’ Is Finally Coming Home Next Week
Gizmodo / 12h
The third entry in James Cameron's sci-fi saga will be available digitally March 31, ahead of its Blu-ray release in May.





Oracle is revamping how businesses procure AI agents — leave the invoices to AI while you handle the negotiations
Latest from TechRadar / 12h
Oracle has just added 22 new Fusion Agentic Applications to help finance, HR, supply chain and customer experience leaders.





Spotify's New 'SongDNA' Is Actually a Great Way to Learn More About Your Music
Lifehacker / 12h
Spotify keeps adding new features lately. Last week, the company rolled out " Exclusive Mode " for desktop users to stream in the highest quality possible; last month, Spotify announced " Smart Reorder ," which automatically sorts your songs by BPM; and in January, the company's AI-powered " Prompted Playlists " landed in the U.S. after an exclusive stint overseas. It's still not easy to pick a f





How AI will collide with data readiness
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Generative and agentic AI hype has convinced many organizations to invest big and jump headfirst into the latest advances of the technology without necessarily considering the big picture.





Regional data sovereignty in the age of AI: Balancing innovation and regulation
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Navigating innovation, regulation, and sovereignty as enterprises build resilient AI-ready data architectures worldwide.





After Stranger Things, the Duffer Brothers are going full horror with their new Netflix miniseries
How-To Geek / 12h
When anyone thinks of a Netflix subscription, one thing comes to mind—movies and TV. Whether it's Oscar-winning films or television, there's so much entertainment. A few of those Netflix shows have perfect runs , according to some fans. And one that everyone always talks about is Stranger Things , created by the famous Duffer Brothers, Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer.





Epic Games cuts 1,000 jobs, says Fortnite engagement is down
TechCrunch / 12h
Epic Games also increased the price of V-Bucks, the Fortnite in-game currency.