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Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the app will be taken off the Quest store at the end of March, and fully removed from Quest headsets by June 15. After that date, it will shift to a standalone "mobile-only experience." CNBC reports: The shift for Horizon Worlds, which was once a central part of the company's push into virtual reality, comes weeks after Meta cut over 1,000 employees from Reality Labs, the u
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Microsoft warns the window to patch known flaws is shrinking, while the window to abuse zero-days grows. Read more ›
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The sooner Anthropic and OpenAI go public, the better—at least then we’d have proper financial disclosure. Both companies’ habit of updating the public on their revenue growth by references to either monthly revenue or annualized revenue, which is (loosely speaking) the last month’s revenue multiplied by 12, is getting old. And it’s not exactly what investors need to know.Take Anthropic, which revealed Monday afternoon that it was now generating annualized... Read more ›
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In his new memoir, Changpeng Zhao reveals he signed the FTX letter of intent as a formality and calls Caroline Ellison's $22 floor price offer a "fatal mistake." Read more ›
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Anthropic is set to access 3.5GW of custom AI chips capacity through Broadcom and Google starting in 2027 One line in Broadcom’s regulatory filing tells a more cautious story than the press release does When Broadcom filed an 8-K with the US Securities and Exchange Commission on April 6, it did something routine in form ... Read more ›
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In an exclusive interview with Digital Trends, director Genki Kawamura broke down his liminal new horror film, Exit 8. Read more ›
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A Weibo leaker says the iPhone 18 and iPhone Air 2 will look almost identical to previous versions. Read more ›
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Risk assets rose late Tuesday as oil collapsed after Trump and Iran confirmed the two-week ceasefire. Read more ›
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X is rolling out a more capable image editor inside its post composer, finally adding basic tools like drawing, text overlays, and redaction-style blur. Read more ›
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Consumer Reports' latest front-load washer rankings are in, and the top-performing brand may surprise shoppers comparing Samsung and others. Read more ›
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After forty years of being everyone's go-to guy—the electrician, the provider, the problem-solver—I ran into an old coworker who couldn't even remember my name, and that's when I realized I'd spent my whole life being needed without ever being known. Read more ›
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What could stop Anthropic now? The maker of the Claude chatbot said Monday it is generating more than $30 billion in annualized revenue, up from $19 billion about a month ago and more than triple its year-end level. At that pace, the company is on track to surpass its mid-December projection of $32 billion in annualized revenue by the end of this year—and could do so eight months early! In... Read more ›
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Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp was today updated with expanded support for CarPlay. ‌CarPlay‌ users are able to more easily call and message their friends and family members in WhatsApp directly from the car interface. WhatsApp had ‌CarPlay‌ integration before, but with limited Siri-based functionality. The new app has a full native ‌CarPlay‌ interface with a list of recent chats and call history, along with a tab for favorite contacts. There... Read more ›
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Google is adding vertical tabs and a more immersive reading mode to desktop Chrome, giving the browser two genuinely useful quality-of-life upgrades. Read more ›
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If the rumor proves true, the 5G Galaxy Watch Ultra would rival the 5G-enabled $799 Apple Watch Ultra 3 that debuted last fall. Read more ›
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The OnePlus Nord 6 has gone fully official in India today. You can register your interest for it on the OnePlus website, and the first sale will take place on April 9 at 12PM local time. The phone is priced at INR 38,999 with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, and INR 41,999 with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. For both options, there's an INR 3,000 bank... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Russia is going to further clamp down Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), which are used by millions of Russians to get around internet controls and censorship, Russia's digital minister said. In what has been cast by diplomats as Russia's "great crackdown," the authorities have repeatedly blocked mobile internet and jammed major messenger services while giving sweeping powers to cut off mass communications. "The... Read more ›
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A Starlink satellite broke apart in orbit after suffering an unexplained "anomaly," apparently due to an "internal energetic source" rather than a collision. "The incident appears to have created some debris, with fragments likely to fall to Earth over the next few weeks," reports Scientific American. From the report: The satellite lost communication at about 560 kilometers above Earth, Starlink said. While the statement from Starlink, which is a subsidiary... Read more ›
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MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on non-sentient monkey "organ sacks": creating human "brainless clones" or replacement bodies for organs as part of an extreme life-extension agenda. From the report: Imagine it like this: a baby version of yourself with only enough of a brain structure to be alive in case you ever need a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: An unknown technical problem caused a number of robotaxis owned by the Chinese tech giant Baidu to freeze on Tuesday in the middle of traffic, trapping some passengers in the vehicles for more than an hour. In Wuhan, a city in central China where Baidu has deployed hundreds of its Apollo Go self-driving taxis, people on Chinese social media reported witnessing the... Read more ›
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Mitchell H. Katz, MD, president and CEO of NYC Health + Hospitals, said hospitals could already replace many radiologists with AI for some imaging tasks -- if regulators allowed it. He argued the technology presents an opportunity to simultaneously cut costs and expand access. Radiology Business reports: Katz -- who has led the 11-hospital organization since 2018 -- said he sees great potential for AI to increase access to breast... Read more ›
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Anthropic is using copyright takedown notices to try to contain an accidental leak of the underlying instructions for its Claude Code AI agent. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Anthropic representatives had used a copyright takedown request to force the removal of more than 8,000 copies and adaptations of the raw Claude Code instructions ... that developers had shared on programming platform GitHub." From the report: Programmers combing through the... Read more ›
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darwinmac writes: OnlyOffice has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its editors into a new project called Euro-Office, according to a report from Neowin. The move comes just days after Nextcloud and partners like IONOS announced the fork as part of a broader push for European digital sovereignty. In a statement, the company accused the project of violating its licensing terms and international intellectual property law, claiming... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In 2023, the Swedish government announced that the country's schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish... Read more ›
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In classic Cloudflare fashion, the CDN provider used April Fool's Day to unveil an actual, "not a joke" product. Today, the company announced EmDash -- an open-source "spiritual successor" to WordPress that aims to solve plugin security. Phoronix reports: With the help of AI coding agents, Cloudflare engineers have been rebuilding the WordPress open-source project "from the ground up." EmDash is written entirely in TypeScript and is a server-less design.... Read more ›
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ZipNada writes: Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the modern internet. In their presentation, Dylan Ayrey, founder of Truffle Security, and Mike Nol Read more ›
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