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Recently, President Donald Trump demanded that Microsoft sack its head of global affairs, Lisa Monaco, over her past roles in the Biden and Obama administrations. He added that her position was “unacceptable” given Microsoft’s major contracts with the U.S. government.
Microsoft hasn’t yet responded publicly to Trump’s demand. If Monaco stays at Microsoft, the company’s handling of the situation could provide a template for how its peers in tech can hold their ground when Trump or his administration attacks
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First announced at CES 2025, Belkin’s Stage PowerGrip is finally available for $79.99. You can find power banks with wireless charging and more than 9,300mAh capacity for less than that, but Belkin has packed a lot of extra functionality into its latest that could justify the price if you’re a smartphone photographer. The imaging capabilities […] Read more ›
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Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt. Read more ›
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“We are going to do everything in our power to fight this,” says ICEBlock developer Joshua Aaron after Apple removed his app from the App Store. Read more ›
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The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want. Read more ›
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'Pluribus,' starring Rhea Seehorn from 'Better Call Saul,' premieres November 7 on Apple TV+. Read more ›
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr says Internet service providers shouldn't have to list every fee they charge. From a report: Responding to a request from cable and telecom lobby groups, he is proposing to eliminate a rule that requires ISPs to itemize various fees in broadband price labels that must be made available to consumers. The rule took effect in April 2024 after the FCC rejected ISPs' complaints that listing every... Read more ›
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The how-to website iFixit posted a teardown of Meta's new Ray-Ban Display augmented reality glasses and came away impressed by the tech but wary of repairability. As a matter of fact, one of the techs said in the accompanying video that it's "very clear that the first iterations of these smartglasses are going to be unrepairable." This repairability issue is relatively unsurprising, given this is a newish technology. The website... Read more ›
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Neil Jacobs, who was confirmed by the Senate on Tuesday, was found to have violated the agency's code of ethics during the first Trump administration. Read more ›
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So long as Lee is president of DC Studios, the company will not have its heroes drawn or written by AI. Read more ›
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Last month, Alphabet told the House Judiciary Committee that it would allow some creators who were banned from YouTube for spreading COVID-19 and election-related misinformation to come back to the platform. Now, the company is outlining how that process will work, though it's not clear exactly who will be provided that opportunity,YouTube says that beginning today it will give "some previously terminated creators" the ability to "request" a fresh channel... Read more ›
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Legendary Windows dev confirms the infamous XP-era 'FCKGW' volume licensing key was just a leak, not a hack. Read more ›
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The northernmost town in the world, Longyearbyen, is 800 miles from the North Pole, but home to over 2,000 people. Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's new album, "The Life of a Showgirl," has sold over 3.5 million copies in its first week, breaking a record previously held by Adele. Read more ›
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Heart Machine will wind down development on the third-person roguelike Hyper Light Breaker, seemingly confirming that it will never make it out of early access. The follow-up to indie darling Hyper Light Drifter was first announced in 2022 and after several delays finally entered early access at the beginning of 2025. But it looks like a 1.0 release won’t be arriving, with the studio confirming that it is ending development... Read more ›
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Locket, an social media app popular with teens, is coming for the Instagram photo dump.' Read more ›
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Oracle became the best-performing megacap stock of 2025 after its executives said last month that the once-sleepy database firm will generate an astonishing $381 billion in revenue from renting out specialized cloud servers to OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers over the next five fiscal years. But internal documents show the fast-growing cloud business has had razor-thin gross profit margins in the past year or so, lower than what many... Read more ›
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A group of Tesla shareholders is urging investors to vote against CEO Elon Musk’s proposed pay package, which could be worth up to $1 trillion, at the electric automaker’s annual meeting next month, according to a letter included in a regulatory filing. The shareholders, which include officials ... Read more ›
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Over the past year, companies have been tinkering with generative artificial intelligence to create customized agents that automate complex tasks, but they’ve gotten mixed results. Now, OpenAI is pushing a new suite of tools to make the assembly of agents easier, and to peel customers away from competitors like Anthropic and Google.OpenAI on Monday announced Agent Builder, a set of tools for configuring agents to resolve IT support tickets or... Read more ›
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For years, Chinese billionaire He Xiaopeng has been pegged as an Elon Musk wannabe, and his electric vehicle company, XPeng, as a mere Tesla copycat. And until recently the company seemed laggardly, raising questions about whether it would survive. All of that is changing quickly. In other words, XPeng has moved up a stair from the realm of mere novelty to unignorable player with intimidating products and shrewd commercial instincts.... Read more ›
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CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator said Tuesday that the cloud provider will not change its $9 billion bid for Core Scientific ahead of a shareholder vote scheduled for October 30. Two Seas Capital said last month it would vote against the deal and urged other shareholders to do so. The hedge fund, ... Read more ›
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Countless startups sell tools to software engineers, such as version control systems to track who’s making changes to a codebase, and sandboxes where code can be safely run and tested without affecting the main system.Now, a startup is building such tools for artificial intelligence agents that aim to do the work of human coders. Andreessen Horowitz, which has been among the most prolific backers of young AI startups in the... Read more ›
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Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund is doubling down on its biggest artificial intelligence bets, embracing a concentrated strategy as rivals spread their bets across a wide swath of startups. Among them are OpenAI, data center builder Crusoe and General Matter, a nuclear fuel startup the firm has incubated, Founders Fund said at its recent annual general meeting for investors. In contrast, other venture firms have poured money across the AI landscape,... Read more ›
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Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Can Reed Jobs be more than the son of Steve?• Electric Vehicles: The Chinese flying car that should worry Detroit—and Silicon Valley • Plus, our Recommendations: “The Romesh Ranganathan Show,” “When It All Burns” and “The Eastern Gate”The ultimate winner from the artificial intelligence wars remains hard to distinguish, but none of the contenders has displayed a more consistent ability to win... Read more ›
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Anyone of a certain age will remember Uri Geller, the magician who became a big star in the 1970s for bending spoons with his mind, a trick that was later discredited. Given that sorry history, you might wonder why an internet conglomerate based in Italy chose Bending Spoons as its name. Is the management trying to prove it can perform acts of corporate magic? Perhaps (its logo is “Impossible.Maybe”). That... Read more ›
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OpenAI on Monday unveiled its biggest-yet effort to bring all of the web’s consumer activities directly into ChatGPT, as it aims to turn the chatbot into a so-called superapp that people can use to control any app in their lives—similar to Facebook’s efforts from 15 years ago. But before we get too excited, we should remember we’ve been here before. The “apps in ChatGPT” feature allows people to access apps... Read more ›
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