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Mozilla are leaning even more into AI, with the announcement today of Thunderbolt - their open-source and self-hostable AI client.

Spotify and several major record labels, including UMG, Sony, and Warner, secured a $322 million default judgment against the unknown operators of Anna’s Archive. The shadow library failed to appear in court and briefly released millions of tracks that were scraped from Spotify via BitTorrent. In addition to the monetary penalty, a permanent injunction required domain registrars and other parties to suspend the site’s domain names.

The momentum is building for a social media ban for minors in one of the largest economies in the world.

The latest updates for Windows 11, Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2022 and 2025 can lead to a BitLocker recovery prompt. Workaround out.

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The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.

I’m sure we’re all aware of the memory price increases due to the AI hype, but it’s helpful to see the trends over time. Heck, maybe these graphs could be a good indicator to watch for if/when the bubble pops.

This is a weird time to be alive.

On the morning of Friday, April 10th, a 20 year-old Texas man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama was arrested for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s mansion on Russian Hill in San Francisco. Less than two days later, police arrested 25 year-old Amanda Tom and 23 year-old Muhamad Tarik Hussein for allegedly firing a gun at the same house from their car before speeding away.

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The middle distribution of Gen Z’s feelings about AI range from apprehension to downright hatred. Despite the fact that more than half of Gen Z living in the U.S. uses AI regularly, according to a recently released Gallup poll, less than a fifth feel hopeful about the technology. About a third says the technology makes them angry. And nearly half say it makes them afraid.

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Unlike conventional systems that process full image frames, the camera only flags changes as they occur, cutting out redundant data and allowing faster, more efficient tracking of dynamic scenes.

Buried in the story was a deceptively simple question: does your AI agent count as an employee?

For our new BBC podcast, Top Comment, we spoke to a representative of Explosive Media, one of the key accounts generating these clips. He wanted us to refer to him as Mr Explosive.

The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.

Does the world need more billionaires? Guess we will soon find out, as they multiplying now, and not even naturally!

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More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

…Redwood believes that by 2030, end-of-life batteries could supply more than 50 percent of the entire energy storage market. Instead of grinding up used batteries to reclaim the critical materials inside, put them to work storing electricity. There have been many experiments done that re-purpose used EV batteries which no longer can supply enough power to meet the need for rapid acceleration in an EV but still have up to 80 percent of their original energy storage capacity available…

Terahertz waves enable the detection of transistor activity in a chip

Lego spoofs have lit social media up as Iran keeps winning the online propaganda war against a bewildered US

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Google has removed popular psychological horror game Doki Doki Literature Club! from the Play Store. According to Dan Salvato, who led its development team, and publisher Serenity Forge, Google told them the visual novel was removed because it violated its Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes. The game is “widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world,” they said in their announcement. Its free version, which came out first, has been downloaded at least 30 million times, while the paid “Plus” version has had at least one million downloads. The visual novel has repeatedly made Engadget’s lists of favorite games over the years.

The current conjecture, one with which the Federal Reserve concurs, is that some entry-level positions may look vulnerable in the coming years, and firms are likely to use AI as a reason to ask more from smaller teams. But the evidence in cases of mass layoffs points strongly to different conclusions from the statements made by corporate leaders.

The layoffs are the latest restructuring by Bending Spoons, the Milan-based tech conglomerate that acquired Vimeo for $1.38 billion in an all-cash deal that closed in the latter half of 2025. While Bending Spoons may be unknown to many, it has quietly become one of the tech industry’s most prolific buyers, now owning Meetup, WeTransfer, Eventbrite, and many others.

Get ready for the lines going down on Monday…

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Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week, they finally reached a landmark settlement.

[…]there was one group that was (and remains) uniformly silent as Trump threatened to use the military, and presumably its store of nuclear weapons, to enact genocide: the leadership of the tech industry, which in recent months has inked numerous lucrative deals with that very same military. Currently, OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, xAI, Oracle and even Meta have large contracts with the US military.