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How painful would it be for ByteDance to shut down TikTok in the U.S. altogether? Such a question may be moot if you only listened to President Donald Trump, who has frequently weighed in on the likelihood of a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—perhaps to Oracle, maybe to Elon Musk, or even to the U.S. government itself! But as we’ve reported here and as the Washington Post reminded us this week, there’s no guarantee the Chinese government will ever approve a TikTok sale, which could give its arch geopo
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An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.” Read more ›
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Sudden and drastic change will make it hard for researchers to keep the lights on. Read more ›
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Over 385,000 people voted in Elon Musk's poll, with 78% supporting rehiring the former DOGE staffer. Read more ›
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Donald Trump’s pick for FBI director told senators he has no plans to divest his shares, which his financial disclosure form says were received in exchange for consulting services. Read more ›
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Ben Solo's new Marvel series, Legacy of Vader, highlights what divides the man that became Kylo Ren from the man that became Darth Vader—and what will ultimately unite them. Read more ›
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Skip the traditional roses and dinner and hop on the Millennium Falcon for a sci-fi smooch. Read more ›
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Some Google Calendar users are angrily calling the company out after noticing that certain events like Pride month are no longer highlighted by default. Black History Month, Indigenous People Month, Jewish Heritage, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Hispanic Heritage have also been removed, according to a Google product expert. One user called the move “shameful” and said that the […] Read more ›
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Judge Carl Nichols blocked Donald Trump and Elon Musk's attempted USAID shutdown days after the American Foreign Service Association filed a lawsuit. Read more ›
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Elon Musk and DOGE are moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken. Read more ›
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A crew took letters off the USAID headquarters hours after President Trump called to "CLOSE IT DOWN." Read more ›
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As Musk's group heads to more agencies, more legal challenges are cropping up. Read more ›
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People have gone wild for NetEase's design spin on the heroes and villains of Marvel's comics multiverse, but you may not be getting what you wished for in the game's first merch. Read more ›
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Users are also reporting problems with PC games that use the PlayStation Network. Read more ›
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Marko Elez has been linked to an account that tweeted things like "normalize Indian hate." Read more ›
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It's been over 14 years since developer Insomniac's fondly remembered alternate history shooter series drew to a close with Resistance 3, but it turns out that fans might have seen a fourth entry if the studio had got its way. Outgoing Insomniac boss has revealed the studio pitched a "wonderful concept" for Resistance 4 - but Sony said ultimately said no. Read more Read more ›
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It turns out Gemini didn't hallucinate a fake stat, Google just copied a website's existing text instead. Read more ›
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Developer's big overhaul of long-running franchise is a brave, long process. Read more ›
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Lina Khan is out of the government, but she hasn’t given up her crusade against big tech. The former Federal Trade Commission chair has written an opinion piece for The New York Times suggesting the success of China’s artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek is a sign that “there isn’t enough competition” in the tech industry. Perhaps Lina Khan is living on a different planet. In the U.S., aside from ChatGPT parent... Read more ›
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How painful would it be for ByteDance to shut down TikTok in the U.S. altogether? Such a question may be moot if you only listened to President Donald Trump, who has frequently weighed in on the likelihood of a deal to sell TikTok’s U.S. operations—perhaps to Oracle, maybe to Elon Musk, or even to the U.S. government itself! But as we’ve reported here and as the Washington Post reminded us... Read more ›
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JPMorgan Chase’s $917 million investment in a Greek fintech company has gone so wrong that the bank last year offered to sell back half of its stake at a valuation of $175 million. The fintech, Viva Wallet, didn’t take the offer. JPMorgan responded with a lawsuit that accused Viva’s founder of bullying and threatening its representatives. It demanded its full investment back, plus interest. Whoever wins this fight, the deal... Read more ›
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Hugging Face, a repository for open-source artificial intelligence, has laid off about 10 people from its sales team, according to a person with direct knowledge of the cuts. That’s around 4% of the 250-person company. The cuts impacted Hugging Face’s consulting business, “Expert Support ... Read more ›
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Amazon’s sales grew 10% year-over-year to $187.8 billion in the fourth quarter, the company said Thursday. Operating income, meanwhile, grew 61% to $21.2 billion, in part as the company kept a lid on logistics costs. Most of Amazon’s business lines reported steady or slightly slowing growth ... Read more ›
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The tech industry’s project to build out artificial intelligence is proving even more capital intensive than the peak of the last investment supercycle by oil and gas firms in the mid-2010s. Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Amazon and Alphabet spent an estimated average of 17.2% of their revenues on capital expenditures in 2024, up from 12.7% in 2021, with the figure expected to rise further in 2025. Read more ›
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When selecting the venue for next weekend’s Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles, the NFL went with a traditional choice: New Orleans. It’ll be the 11th time the Big Easy has hosted the Big Game, tying it with Miami for hosting the most Super Bowls ever. Recently, however, the world’s richest professional sports league has hinted it may be ready to dispense with tradition: A Super... Read more ›
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Republican Senator Bill Hagerty on Tuesday introduced a bill to create a regulatory framework on stablecoins, representing the first push in Congress to pass a crypto legislation under the new Trump administration. Stablecoins—crypto tokens pegged to dollars and backed by U.S. treasuries and ... Read more ›
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SoftBank said on Monday it would spend $3 billion per year on technology from OpenAI for itself and its affiliates, including electronic payment service PayPay and chip designer Arm, of which it is the majority owner. The Japanese telecom conglomerate and OpenAI said they will also ... Read more ›
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Google doesn’t get the accolades OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek are getting in advancing artificial intelligence, but it’s arguably doing some things right.Case in point: On Wednesday, Google made a trio of new Gemini AI models generally available to app developers, including a reasoning model akin to OpenAI’s o1 and the much-discussed DeepSeek R1. The models themselves are nearly as good as those of Google’s rivals, according to the Chatbot Arena... Read more ›
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