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Tech Apps Can Now Try to Stop You From Canceling Subscriptions The FAA is finally phasing out floppy disks from air traffic control - Engadget Lawsuit: Man introduced his wife to ChatGPT. She used it to plan his murder. - Ars Technica Judge says xAI must face NAACP lawsuit on data center pollution - Engadget Americans overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms Big Tech claims voters...

Tech Israeli firm used online ads to run vast spy operation, researchers say | Reuters TikTok reportedly bans ads for Musk documentary before its wider US release - Engadget Homeland Security bans DeepSeek use in federal civilian agencies - Engadget Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs - Ars Technica Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract 1...

Tech Flock Safety is reportedly planning major layoffs now that everyone hates it - Engadget Anthropic’s Claude AI submitted false murder tip to Philadelphia police - Ars Technica Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices - Ars Technica YouTube Music rolling out AI labels in the Now Playing screen Netflix to lay off roughly 1,000 employees in biggest round of job cut...

Tech Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage Driver wins $76 after ALPR led to bogus traffic stop, drug searches - Ars Technica Watch Footage of the Flock Search a Judge Ruled Unconstitutional Apple Now Pushing iPhone Users Still on iOS 26 to Install iOS 27 - MacRumors Skydance will combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming service - Engadget Bobby Kotick returns: for...

Tech New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators - Ars Technica Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 - Ars Technica Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline Police may have new ways to access data on locked iPhones - Engadget Gaming PlayStation Wants You to Use Your Controller to Simplify Payments Ubisoft...

Tech Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data - Ars Technica AI leaders want to hit the brakes after years of reckless speed - Ars Technica Instagram chief thinks a chronological feed is ‘much worse’ and says the quiet part out loud Charges Against Man Who Destroyed 3D-Printed ‘Decoy’ Flock Camera Drastically Reduced After State Admits It Was Not Very Valuable Hac...

Tech Wikipedia Workers Unionize for the First Time | WIRED Lawsuit: Amazon refused to give pregnant workers bathroom breaks and chairs - Ars Technica Smear Campaign Says Anti-Flock Movement Is Chinese Propaganda Man told ChatGPT he was feeling delusional. ChatGPT insisted he was Jesus. - Ars Technica The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No Popular navigation...

Tech Cisco probably violated Middle Eastern and Muslim employees’ civil liberties Here’s What Apple is Paying John Ternus to Run the Company Cops Are Asking Axon to Make Their Cameras Look Different From Flock So People Don’t Destroy Them FBI investigates as hackers sell digital scans of 153M drivers licenses MapQuest Tops App Store Charts After Refusing ‘Lake America’ Change - MacRumors Gaming St...

Tech Zuckerberg’s superyacht ignored emergency channel, failed to aid stranded boat - Ars Technica Salem Brought a Guillotine To Oppose New Data Center. Company Reps Left, Feeling “Unsafe”. - Gadget Review City That Arrested Person for Clapping at Data Center Meeting Moves to Virtual Meetings for ‘Public Safety’ Roku Unleashes 24/7 AI Slop Channel Apple is working on a way to authenticate that a p...

Tech Google rolls back the needless AI generation tools it added to Google Earth - Engadget Texas halts data center connections to power grid amid overwhelming demand SpaceXAI says it will take a year to fully remove unpermitted gas turbines from its Mississippi data center - Engadget Judge refuses xAI’s request to stop a Minnesota law banning ‘nudify’ apps - Engadget Apple’s ‘Private Relay’ Is Ex...

Tech Class action accuses Apple of misleading users about Hide My Email’s privacy protections New York enacts first US ban on data center construction - Engadget Meta removes feature that let users generate AI images from public Instagram posts - 9to5Mac Lawsuit claims Meta’s layoff decisions were made by AI, not humans - Ars Technica Fear of humanoid robots spurs human workers to strike at Hyunda...

Tech ’Knockoff’ Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon FTC reaches settlement that brings right-to-repair to John Deere farm equipment - Engadget ’Siri AI’ Lawsuit Update: Apple to Pay Owners of These iPhone Models - MacRumors PSA: Flip these two Instagram toggles now to stop people using your face Gaming Death Stranding director Hideo Kojima “really sad” about Sony ending physical disc...

Tech iPhone 17 Pro Will Make Sports History This Weekend Plex increasing Lifetime Plex Pass cost to whopping $750 - 9to5Mac Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry - Engadget X accounts are limited to 50 posts and 200 replies a day unless they pay for a blue checkmark - Engadget Meta has reportedly laid off 8,000 employees - Engadget LinkedIn doesn’t want your AI slop anymore...

Tech ICE Agents Have List of 20 Million People on Their iPhones Thanks to Palantir Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired - Ars Technica DOJ extracts $30m settlement from PayPal over minority-owned business program - Engadget Amazon employees are “tokenmaxxing” due to pressure to use AI tools Meta employees are protesting the company’s mouse tracking program - Engadget Tec...

Tech Meta AI will analyze faces of teen users ‘but it’s not face recognition’ Google Chrome takes up 4GB of storage on your computer for AI, if you have space Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and NVIDIA will provide AI tech to Pentagon - Engadget Google’s Pentagon AI deal reportedly drove the DeepMind team to unionize - Engadget Building for the future (Cloudflare layoffs) Coinbase lays off nearly 7...

Tech Judge says White House can’t ‘strong-arm’ Apple into blocking ICE trackers Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain This AI Tool Rips Off Open Source Software Without Violating Copyright Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees Meta is downsizing by about 10 percent Hey Meta workers, are you getting paid for those keystrokes? Appl...

Tech Bluesky is having some issues in one of its ‘reginos’ YouTube Premium’s US pricing is going up Video shows how to steal $10,000 from locked iPhone in controlled setting - 9to5Mac French government says au revoir Windows, bienvenue Linux A man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s house Two suspects have been arrested for allegedly shooting at Sam Altman’s house NAACP sues xAI ove...

Tech Apple Says No iPhone in Lockdown Mode Has Ever Been Hacked - MacRumors Iran threatens imminent attacks on US tech companies in the Middle East Don’t Like Your Gmail Email Address? You Can Finally Change It - MacRumors Iran’s hackers are on the offensive against the US and Israel OkCupid gave 3 million dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says - Ars Technica Tech giant Oracle make...

Tech Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company - Ars Technica This is Android’s new ‘advanced flow’ for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period [Gallery] The Removed DOGE Deposition Videos Have Already Been Backed Up Across the Internet Meta is reportedly planning to cut up to 20 percent of its staff in upcoming layoffs Meta will m...

Tech OpenAI’s head of robotics resigns following deal with the Department of Defense Teamsters urge DOJ to block Paramount’s Warner Bros. merger Google to Provide Pentagon with Gemini-powered AI agents After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes Meta just bought Moltbook, the social network for AI bots - 9to5Mac YouTube will alert civic leaders and reporters to d...

Tech Anthropic refuses to bow to Pentagon despite Hegseth’s threats Anthropic is reportedly back in talks with the Defense Department Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash Ars Technica Fires Reporter After AI Controversy Involving Fabricated Quotes Meta’s AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators Lawm...

Tech Microsoft will start refreshing Secure Boot certificates in March for Windows 11 and Windows 10 ESU users TikTok US launches a local feed that leverages a user’s exact location Waymo Is Getting DoorDashers to Close Doors on Self Driving Cars Meta turned Threads algorithm complaints into an official feature Zuckerberg on why Meta should do less safety research: ‘Apple doesn’t study any of this...

Tech Western Digital unveils massive 40TB HDD with energy-assisted recording tech — plans 100TB HAMR hard drives by 2029 | Tom’s Hardware ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face - Ars Technica FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked - Ars Technica Substack C...

Tech Microsoft issues emergency fix after a security update left some Windows 11 devices unable to shut down Massive Microsoft 365 outage affects Outlook, Defender, more - 9to5Mac Here’s why Walmart still doesn’t support Apple Pay - 9to5Mac Verizon starts requiring 365 days of paid service before it will unlock phones - Ars Technica Gaming Marathon’s Recommended System Requirements Have Been Revea...

Tech Verizon outage takes down cell service across large parts of the US Verizon Offering $20 Credit After Major Outage, Here’s How to Get It - MacRumors Apple debuts ‘Apple Creator Studio’ subscription, here’s what you get - 9to5Mac Spotify is no longer running ads for ICE Instagram user fights DHS for the right to post ICE sightings anonymously - Ars Technica Police Unmask Millions of Surveillan...