Treasure Secretary Scott Bessent has been named the Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), the bureau announced today. Bessent quickly instructed the agency to âto stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities,â reports Bloomberg Law. A source inside the CFPB told Bloomberg Law that his order âappeared to shut down the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Nvidiaâs RTX 50-series GPUs are just around the corner, with the first releases â the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080 â dropping on January 30th. The RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5070 will follow that with their own releases in February, but some are already getting a sneak peek at the software benefits of the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Google could soon bring its Adaptive Charging battery protection feature from its Pixel phones to the Pixel Watch line. The feature is designed to preserve battery health by preventing overcharging, and hinges on its ability to predict your charging schedule. Android Authority spotted code strings that reference Adaptive Charging in the latest version of the [âŠ] Read more âș
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Uber introduced a new feature designed to make it easier for people with disabilities to ride with service animals. For years, Uberâs policies toward service animals have been in accordance with state and federal law: they are allowed to ride at all times at no extra cost. But now the company is allowing customers to [âŠ] Read more âș
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NetChoice has filed its 10th lawsuit in an ongoing fight against a broad slate of state internet regulations â this time against a Maryland law billed as protecting kids from inappropriate material online. Itâs the latest effort to oppose what NetChoice calls an unconstitutional speech code in disguise. NetChoice has become one of the fiercest â [âŠ] Read more âș
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo and US President Donald Trump announced the US is pausing tariffs against Mexico for one month, as previously reported by Bloomberg. Sheinbaum Pardo said the sides âhad a good conversationâ that resulted in agreements about border security and weapons trafficking. âMexico will immediately reinforce the northern border with 10,000 members [âŠ] Read more âș
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The state of electric vehicle charging in North America is shaping up like the smartphone charging wars â but focused on much more expensive hardware. Right now, like USB-C and Android phones, the Combined Charging System (CCS, Type 1) plug is on a greater variety of cars. Meanwhile, Teslaâs plug was long compared to Apple [âŠ] Read more âș
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President Donald Trump kicked off the first day of his presidency by signing a flurry of executive actions, including halting enforcement of the TikTok ban and rolling back the Biden administrationâs artificial intelligence order. Having already run the country once before, Trump entered the presidency with the goal of hitting the ground running, having already [âŠ] Read more âș
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A new year means a new Sundance Film Festival, and a fresh crop of promising original features that could go on to become awards season darlings in a few months. It might be hard to top last yearâs festival where DĂŹdi, A Different Man, and I Saw the TV Glow all made strong showings. But [âŠ] Read more âș
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Cloudflare has launched a new feature to help people quickly verify the authenticity of online images. The web security and hosting provider has adopted the Adobe-led Content Credentials system, which applies a digital metadata tag to images and video that tracks who owns it, where itâs been posted, and if itâs been manipulated â including [âŠ] Read more âș
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Today, Iâm talking with Andy Hunter, the CEO of Bookshop.org. Bookshop, at its core, is a website that lets local bookshops all over the country â and in a few other countries â sell their books online. If you want a book, you go to Bookshop and click buy â itâs just as easy as [âŠ] Read more âș
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Kobo has increased the price of three of its e-readers following a similar price increase by the company in January 2023. The seven-inch Kobo Libra Colour, as well as the six-inch Kobo Clara Colour and Kobo Clara BW, are all now $10 more expensive, as spotted by TheeBookReader. The prices of the larger (and aging) [âŠ] Read more âș
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Hey, real quick: look at this keyboard. Thereâs something cool about it. Itâs a mechanical keyboard. Itâs a laser keyboard. Itâs a magnetic induction keyboard. It has the new switches. It has the old switches. Itâs very thin. Itâs got a weird layout. It has a trackpoint. Or a screen. It has cool keycaps. It [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Canadian province of Ontario is canceling a $100 million CA (about $68 million USD) contract with Starlink in response to tariffs US President Donald Trump issued on Canada over the weekend, reports The Associated Press. Ontario Premier Doug Ford wrote on X today that the region is also âbanning American companies from provincial contractsâ [âŠ] Read more âș
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The first âApple approvedâ porn app for iPhone is rolling out in Europe, via AltStore PALâs alternative iOS app marketplace. AltStore PAL developer Riley Testut says that Hot Tub, which describes itself as an ad-free âadult content browser,â has made it through Appleâs notarization review for fraud, security threats, and functionality, and will be available [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sid Meierâs Civilization VII is the latest in the long-running 4X strategy franchise that first debuted in 1991 on MS-DOS. The new turn-based game from Firaxis Games and the titular, legendary designer is set to release on PC and modern consoles in on February 11th, 2025 â over eight years after the last installment. Civ [âŠ] Read more âș
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Sid Meier developed the first Civilization game in 1991 and has contributed to every iteration since. When I visited Firaxis Games last year, I saw that the company maintains the very computer Meier used to develop the game, which can still be booted up and played. Walking through the halls of the studio, I saw [âŠ] Read more âș
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The Beatles have won their eighth competitive Grammy award thanks to a little help from artificial intelligence. The 2023 track âNow and Thenâ â which Billboard reports is the first song knowingly created with AI assistance to earn a Grammy nomination â was awarded Best Rock Performance on Sunday, beating out competition from Green Day, [âŠ] Read more âș
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Microsoft is getting ready to remove the VPN feature from its Microsoft 365 subscription later this month. Originally designed as a privacy feature, the VPN in Microsoft 365 utilizes the Microsoft Defender app to encrypt internet traffic and hide IP addresses. Microsoft is now removing this privacy protection feature from Microsoft 365 on February 28th. [âŠ] Read more âș
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Big players, including Microsoft, with Copilot, Google, with Gemini, and OpenAI, with GPT-4o, are making AI chatbot technology previously restricted to test labs more accessible to the general public. How do these large language model (LLM) programs work? OpenAIâs GPT-3 told us that AI uses âa series of autocomplete-like programs to learn languageâ and that [âŠ] Read more âș
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