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Ring founder Jamie Siminoff has been on an "explanation tour," as The New York Times puts it, following the fallout from its Super Bowl ad and the introduction of its Search Party feature. In an interview with The Times this week, Siminoff explained that he understands people's concerns and that "maybe people were 'triggered' by […]
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The US military is in the midst of its largest build-up of forces in the Middle East in decades, in preparation for some sort of military action in Iran. Military officials say strikes could come as early as this weekend and some US personnel are being evacuated from the region. Diplomacy isn’t officially over yet. […] Read more ›
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A bare-bones Chinese app called "Are You Dead?" -- whose entire premise is that solo-living users tap daily to confirm they're still alive, triggering an alert to an emergency contact after two missed check-ins -- has rocketed to the top of China's app store charts and gone viral globally without spending a dime on advertising. The app wasn't built for the elderly, as many assumed; its creators are Gen-Z developers... Read more ›
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West Virginia's attorney general alleges that iCloud's end-to-end encryption is being used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material. Read more ›
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The Executive Branch has a reported membership list that includes Trumpworld elites like David Sacks. A WIRED review of corporate filings reveals an under-the-radar player: a notorious former DC police officer. Read more ›
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Apple has inked a deal with EverPass Media to bring Apple TV sports content to EverPass customers in the United States. EverPass is a company that bundles premium sports content for restaurants, hotels, casinos, sports bars, and other businesses that want to air sporting events. EverPass will now be able to offer Formula 1, Major League Soccer, and Major League Baseball content to its customers at no additional cost through... Read more ›
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These compact Edifier speakers may not be the fanciest, but they'll blow your monitor's built-in speakers out of the water. Read more ›
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Microsoft Research has published a paper in Nature detailing Project Silica, a working demonstration that uses femtosecond lasers to etch data into small slabs of glass at a density of over a Gigabit per cubic millimeter and a maximum capacity of 4.84 terabytes per slab. The slabs themselves are 12 cm by 12 cm and just 2 mm thick, and Microsoft's accelerated aging experiments suggest the data etched into them... Read more ›
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"If you are interested in helping shape and deliver the next chapter of Palantir’s work across DHS, please reach out,” a Palantir executive wrote to employees about the massive purchasing agreement. Read more ›
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Statins are one of modern medicine’s miracles. For every 10,000 people who take these cholesterol-lowering drugs, 1,000 will avoid major cardiovascular events. When you consider that cardiovascular disease is America’s top killer, and 92 million Americans are currently taking a statin, thousands of lives every year are being saved. There are essentially no other prescription […] Read more ›
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On TikTok, Chinese manufacturers are advertising signal-blocking weapons with the breezy cadence of consumer lifestyle advertising. Read more ›
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Razer has a new flagship gaming keyboard, the Huntsman Signature Edition, that embraces a fully CNC aluminum construction and PVD mirror finish on the back. The $500 keyboard is basically a spruced-up Huntsman V3 Pro aimed at gamers that wanted a more aesthetically pleasing keyboard. Read more ›
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AMD's chips will be used as debt collateral in a $300 million loan to cloud startup Crusoe with financing from Goldman Sachs. Read more ›
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Asus and Acer bring German websites down, leaving users without support or downloads due to the companies' recent spat with Nokia over the HEVC codec. Read more ›
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AI security firm Irregular has found that passwords generated by major large language models -- Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini -- appear complex but follow predictable patterns that make them crackable in hours, even on decades-old hardware. When researchers prompted Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 fifty times in separate conversations, only 30 of the returned passwords were unique, and 18 of the duplicates were the exact same string. The estimated entropy of... Read more ›
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Cassian, Jyn, Saw, Chirrut, Baze, and even Darth Vader himself will star in a series of new one-shots. Read more ›
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, younger brother of King Charles III and a former British royal prince, was arrested Thursday morning in the UK over suspicions that he shared confidential information with the notorious sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein. The latest batch of Epstein files appears to show Mountbatten-Windsor, at the time serving as an official British trade envoy, […] Read more ›
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The Verge
Following intense backlash to its partnership with Flock Safety, a surveillance technology company that works with law enforcement agencies, Ring has announced it is canceling the integration. In a statement published on Ring's blog and provided to The Verge ahead of publication, the company said: "Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety […] Read more ›
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In 1986, electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel created Music Mouse, a way for those with a Mac, Atari, or Amiga computer to dabble in algorithmic music creation. Music Mouse is deceptively simple: Notes are arranged on an XY grid, and you play it by moving a mouse around. Back in 1986, the computer mouse was […] Read more ›
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The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein's emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein's properties, possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many […] Read more ›
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The Late Show host Stephen Colbert says CBS blocked him from broadcasting an interview with James Talarico, a Democratic representative from Texas. During his opening monologue on Monday night, Colbert says the network's lawyers told him in "no uncertain terms" that he couldn't have Talarico on the show, forcing him to post the interview on […] Read more ›
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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more news about video game industry's pushback against generative AI, follow Jay Peters. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Long before the generative AI explosion, […] Read more ›
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To say that Ford has struggled to make profitable electric vehicles would be an understatement. The company recently pulled the plug on its F-150 Lightning, a truck once heralded as the most important EV ever made, after taking a staggering $19.5 billion hit on its EV investments in 2025. A new focus on hybrids and […] Read more ›
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Sam Altman announced on X that Peter Steinberger, the man behind the trendy AI agent OpenClaw, was joining OpenAI. He said that Steinberger has "a lot of amazing ideas" about getting AI agents to interact with each other, saying "the future is going to be extremely multi-agent." He also said that this ability for agents […] Read more ›
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User reviews on Steam may get more informative after a Steam Client Beta update released on Thursday, which adds an option for users to attach their hardware specs to game reviews. Steam users have always been able to share their specs in the text of their reviews, but the option to automatically include that data […] Read more ›
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After rejecting Paramount's latest acquisition bid, Warner Bros. Discovery says it's giving the David Ellison-led entertainment giant seven days to make its "best and final" proposal. Though WBD is reopening negotiations with Paramount, the company makes it clear in a press release that it still favors Netflix's $82.7 billion deal to purchase its studio and […] Read more ›
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After cramming AI into every inch of its smartphones, appliances, and other devices, Samsung is now increasingly slapping it across social media. Several videos posted to the company's YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok accounts in recent weeks were made or edited using generative AI tools, including its latest teaser for the upcoming Galaxy S26 series. The […] Read more ›
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