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Apple has stopped offering its end-to-end encrypted iCloud storage, Advanced Data Protection (ADP), to new users in the UK, and will require existing users to disable the feature at some point in the future. The move comes following reports earlier this month that UK security services requested Apple grant them backdoor access to worldwide usersā [ā¦]
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Trump removed the military's top officer without explanation as the defense secretary purged the Pentagon's top ranks of five uniformed leaders. Read more āŗ
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Nvidia and research partners introduce Evo 2. Evo 2 can identify disease-causing mutations and assist in synthetic genome design. Nvidia and its research partners have developed an artificial intelligence model designed to analyse genetic sequences at an unprecedented scale. Announced on February 19, the Evo 2 AI is built to read and design genetic code... Read more Ā» Read more āŗ
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Elon Muskās OpenAI rival, xAI, says itās investigating why its Grok AI chatbot suggested that both President Donald Trump and Musk deserve the death penalty. xAI has already patched the issue and Grok will no longer give suggestions for who it thinks should receive capital punishment. People were able to get Grok to say that [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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LetĆ¢ĀĀs pause and look at what the Elon Musk administration has done so far. ThereĆ¢ĀĀs been a lot of panic about the immediate but somewhat abstract constitutional crisis as Elon MuskĆ¢ĀĀs misleadingly-named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) rips the government apart. And as much fun as we all are having watching Congress render itself irrelevant [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Experts say the conflicts posed by Tom Krauseās dual roles are unprecedented in the modern era. Read more āŗ
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The more than 8,000 charging ports available to federal workers are "not mission critical," says the Government Services Agency. Read more āŗ
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Meta has offered up a lucrative new executive bonus plan, according to a company filing released Thursday. Under the new plan, executives could earn a yearly bonus of 200 percent of their base salary, which is up from 75 percent. This comes just after Meta announced sweeping layoffs impacting five percent of its workforce. A committee for Metaās board of directors approved the change on February 13, on the grounds... Read more āŗ
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The cybersecurity lead for VA.gov was fired last week. He tells WIRED that the Veterans Affairs digital hub will be more vulnerable without someone in his role. Read more āŗ
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Trump and Musk keep talking up the idea of sending checks to Americans. But GOP lawmakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, keep batting it down. Read more āŗ
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Itās true: Nvidia has just confirmed it shipped some RTX 5090, RTX 5090D, and even some RTX 5070 Ti graphics chips that were missing render units, as TechPowerUp originally reported ā and that youāll be able to get a replacement if your card was affected. Nvidia global PR director Ben Berraondo tells The Verge: We [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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California Governor Gavin Newsom this week recommended former Apple CEO Steve Jobs for the $1 American Innovation Coin for the State of California that will be minted by the U.S. Mint. Each state is able to create a unique coin recognizing an innovation or innovator from their region as part of the Innovation Coin Program that was launched in 2018. Newsom said that Steve Jobs "encapsulates the unique brand of... Read more āŗ
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Around a dozen current and former federal workers are behind a new website created as an outlet to share anonymous stories and technical expertise about the Department of Government Efficiencyās dismantling of government agencies. āWe the Buildersā aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share how their workplaces are being impacted by [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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President Donald Trump says he wants the US to have the cleanest air and water on the planet āĀ a desire, unsurprisingly, shared by all Americans.Ā Ā Ā Those resources donāt just appear. They come from nature. Freshwater mussels, clams, and aquatic vegetation, for example, filter rivers and streams and provide clean places to swim and habitat for [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Live stream Australia vs. England in the 2025 ICC Champions Trophy for free from anywhere in the world. Read more āŗ
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Judge Carl Nichols in a Friday ruling allowed President Donald Trump's staff reductions in the US Agency for International Development to proceed. Read more āŗ
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The move comes as the company was hit by an encryption backdoor order under the UK Investigatory Powers Act. Here's all we know so far. Read more āŗ
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Reports suggest that some RTX 5090s have 5% fewer ROPs than design specifications, resulting in a noticeable performance drop. Read more āŗ
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The Verge
A team from Elon Muskās SpaceX is visiting the Air Traffic Control Command Center in Virginia Monday to help overhaul the system in the wake of last monthās deadly air disaster in Washington, DC, US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced. The news comes after CNN reported that the Federal Aviation Administration fired hundreds of [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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The Tesla Cybertruck finally has its first crash safety rating over a year after deliveries first began in November 2023. And like all other Tesla vehicles before it, the electric truck scored a 5-star rating in nearly all the individual categories. The categories include frontal and side crashes, as well as risk of rollover. To [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Violent metaphors abound for whatĆ¢ĀĀs happening in Washington: Elon Musk and his allies have taken a Ć¢ĀĀslash-and-burnĆ¢ĀĀ approach to the government and a Ć¢ĀĀsledgehammerĆ¢ĀĀ to government institutions, doing away with supposed waste and excess while leaving the fundamental structure intact. All of this is being done with the stated goal of ridding the federal workforce [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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X users are currently unable to post links to Signal.me, which are used to quickly and securely send direct messages to Signal users. A variety of failure notifications are being reported when X users attempt to post Signal links on the platform, some of which identify the blocked message as containing spam, harmful content, or [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Microsoft believes it has made a key breakthrough in quantum computing, unlocking the potential for quantum computers to solve industrial-scale problems. The software giant has spent 17 years working on a research project to create a new material and architecture for quantum computing, and itās unveiling the Majorana 1 processor, Microsoftās first quantum processor based [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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One of Appleās next big sci-fi shows has a premiere date. The company announced that its adaptation of Murderbot, based on the novels by Martha Wells, will debut on Apple TV Plus with two episodes on May 16th. The season finale will stream on July 11th. The show will star Alexander SkarsgĆ„rd in the titular [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Facebook will start deleting usersā live broadcast recordings after 30 days starting on February 19th. Users who go live after that date must download the videos to save them from getting deleted before their 30-day expiration period ends. Alternatively, you could share the recordings to your profile as Reels, although that means fitting clips into [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Apple has just introduced the iPhone 16E, a spiritual successor to the iPhone SE line that has a significant first: it introduces Appleās long-awaited in-house 5G modem, called the C1. The chip, which Apple says is the most power-efficient modem in a phone, is Appleās bid to end its reliance on Qualcommās 5G chips. Apple [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Newly appointed Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson praised his former boss, the conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, as Ć¢ĀĀthe most important judge of the last 100 years,Ć¢ĀĀ in a memo to agency staff honoring Black History Month. The message, obtained by The Verge and confirmed by the FTC, sheds light on how Ferguson [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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Today marked a second weekend of scattered protests at Tesla showrooms, following a āTeslaTakeoverā hashtag that has been trending on Twitter alternative Bluesky this week. Protestorsā messages largely focused on the divisive efforts of Tesla CEO Elon Musk as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency since the start of Donald Trumpās Presidency. The [ā¦] Read more āŗ
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