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When Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos entered the Senate office building on Tuesday, he got thrown a curveball. What started as a standard antitrust hearing relating to the Warner Bros. merger quickly devolved into a performative Republican attack about the spread of "woke" ideology on the streaming service. At the same time, arguably a much more […]
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ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy rules. Read more ›
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An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take advantage of it. I’m talking about the shingles vaccine. It was invented because, well, shingles is a terrible disease. If you ever had chickenpox (like I did), this virus is […] Read more ›
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An active-duty enlisted member of the US military said their unit was "pressured" into seeing Amazon's "Melania" documentary about the first lady. Read more ›
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Smart glasses are finally moving past the “cool demo, never used” phase. The best versions are the ones that fit into normal life: you put them on, you get hands-free audio, you can grab quick photos or video without pulling out your phone, and you move on. The Oakley Meta HSTN smart AI glasses are ... Read more ›
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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court handed down a one-sentence order announcing that California’s newly gerrymandered maps, which are expected to give Democrats as many as five more seats in the US House, may go into effect during the 2026 midterms. These maps were enacted to counterbalance a Republican gerrymander in Texas, which could also give […] Read more ›
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With a new Canva update, your ChatGPT designs can now match your brand’s look, pulling in the right colours, fonts and logos without you having to tweak or redesign anything manually. Read more ›
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After rolling out age verification last year, Roblox is aiming to grow the number of players over 18 on its platform. As noted in its 2025 year-end earnings report, 45 percent of Roblox's daily active users have completed an age check as of January 31st. Of those who have verified their age, 27 percent are […] Read more ›
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There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them. Read more ›
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A custom firmware project resurrects the Nokia N8, transforming it from a drawer-dwelling relic into a functional device. Read more ›
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Nvidia representative recommends GeForce graphics card owners to uninstall the Windows 11 KB5074109 update to solve framerate drops and gaming artifacts. Read more ›
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A wrongful death lawsuit claims a 20-year-old driver was unable to escape a burning vehicle due to faulty electronic doors. Read more ›
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Read 'Death Echoes Overlapping' by Megan Chee, courtesy of Lightspeed Magazine, right here on io9. Read more ›
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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman has announced that astronauts on the upcoming Crew-12 and Artemis II missions will be allowed to carry iPhones and other modern smartphones into orbit and to the Moon -- a reversal of long-standing agency rules that had left crews relying on a 2016 Nikon DSLR and decade-old GoPros for the historic lunar flyby. Isaacman framed the move as part of a broader push to challenge what... Read more ›
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Nvidia's RTX 50 series Super refresh supposedly is design complete, but the GPU maker won't be releasing any new RTX GPUs in 2026, according to a report in The Information. Read more ›
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The space rock has a 4.3% chance of striking the Moon in six years—and it could generate a flash nearly as bright as Venus. Read more ›
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Tesla filed two new trademark applications on Tuesday for possible Roadster logos. Read more ›
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A federal court in California has ruled that YouTube creators who use stream-ripping tools to download clips for reaction and commentary videos may face liability under the DMCA's anti-circumvention provisions -- a decision that could reshape how one of the platform's most popular content genres operates. U.S. Magistrate Judge Virginia K. DeMarchi of the Northern District of California denied a motion to dismiss in Cordova v. Huneault, a creator-versus-creator dispute,... Read more ›
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Reports of Bill Gates' connections with Jeffrey Epstein grow more lurid with each dump of documents from the Department of Justice. The latest includes somewhat confusing emails that Epstein may have been drafting on behalf of someone named Boris, who worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The messages claim that Bill contracted an […] Read more ›
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The day after the second general strike in Minneapolis, the labor unions of Portland, Oregon, marched in solidarity. It was the warmest day that Portland had seen in a while, with sun peeking out from the clouds here and there. Many people had brought their entire families; not just older children, but toddlers in strollers […] Read more ›
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Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos was launched into the middle of a congressional culture war on Tuesday as he testified before a Senate subcommittee about the company's attempt to buy a large part of Warner Bros Discovery. The hearing before the Senate Judiciary antitrust subcommittee highlighted an array of traditional merger concerns on both sides of […] Read more ›
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Unlike many of the companies stuffing AI into their browsers, Mozilla will soon give you a way to turn all of these features off. An update coming on February 24th will add a new "AI control" option to Firefox's settings menu, allowing you to disable or enable the browser's individual AI features, including access to […] Read more ›
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China is banning Tesla-style concealed door handles on electric vehicles to address safety concerns regarding people getting trapped inside their cars. The ban will take effect on January 1st next year, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology's announcement, and will require all vehicles sold in China to have mechanical release door handles […] Read more ›
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Yes, you read that right. "Moltbook" is a social network of sorts for AI agents, particularly ones offered by OpenClaw (a viral AI assistant project that was formerly known as Moltbot, and before that, known as Clawdbot - until a legal dispute with Anthropic). Moltbook, which is set up similarly to Reddit and was built […] Read more ›
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Walk the rows of the farmers market in a small, nondescript Texas town about an hour away from Austin, and you might stumble across something unexpected: In between booths selling fresh, local pickles and pies, there's a table piled high with generic-looking streaming boxes, promising free access to NFL games, UFC fights, and any cable […] Read more ›
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Users of the text and code editor Notepad++ may have unknowingly downloaded a malicious update for the app after its shared hosting servers were hijacked last year. On Monday, the app's developer, Don Ho, posted an update on the attack with more details, including that the hackers were "likely a Chinese state-sponsored group" and that […] Read more ›
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Is Tesla still a car company? It's a question we've been asking ourselves more frequently over the past year, especially as the company's car business shrinks and Elon Musk continues to push the message that Tesla should be seen more as an AI and robotics leader and less so as a mere seller of four-wheeled […] Read more ›
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Last Saturday, I received an email from the Children's Theatre Company of Minnesota. They explained that they were canceling the weekend's performances of Go, Dog. Go! "for the safety of our patrons, staff, and artists." Earlier that morning, federal agents had killed Alex Pretti in the streets, about nine blocks away from the theater's doors. […] Read more ›
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