ArsTechnica
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Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty
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Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs
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Another AT&T FirstNet user gets shocking $6,200 bill, at $2 per megabyte
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Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10
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M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody
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Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
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Measles vaccinations rose 291% among New Mexico adults during outbreak
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Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times
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Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer
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BYD's latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes
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Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review
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The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker's Windows network
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Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, "robbing them blind"
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HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers
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Trump's DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried's MAGA makeover on X
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Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs
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Perplexity's "Personal Computer" brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer
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Centuries before the Inca, Peru's wealthy imported parrots from afar
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Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
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Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense
Techmeme
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Digg announces a "hard reset" and shuts down operations two months after it was relaunched by Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian, citing the scale of AI bot spam (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
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Facebook launches new tools to help creators detect and report impersonation, and updates guidelines to better define what it considers to be "original content" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to develop AI models for scientific research, is in talks to raise $175M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
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Didi reports Q4 revenue up 10.5% YoY to $8.46B, international revenue up 47% YoY to $638M, and a net loss of $43.48M amid an overseas expansion push (Reuters)
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MacBook Neo teardown: most repairable MacBook in ~14 years, with no parts pairing issues, a screwed-down battery, and relatively easy keyboard replacement (Elizabeth Chamberlain/iFixit News)
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Travis Kalanick renames CloudKitchens' parent company as Atoms, focused on creating "gainfully employed robots" for the food, mining, and transport industries (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 now offer a 1M context window at standard pricing; it is the default for Claude Code Max, Team, and Enterprise users on Opus 4.6 (Anthropic)
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Meta says Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, saying "very few people" were using E2EE in their DMs (Karandeep Singh Oberoi/Android Police)
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Sources: Travis Kalanick prepares to launch a self-driving car company with backing from Uber and has been discussing acquiring Anthony Levandowski's Pronto.ai (Jessica E. Lessin/The Information)
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Elon Musk says xAI "was not built right first time around, so is being rebuilt from the foundations up" (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
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AWS plans to deploy Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine chip for AI inference functions; AWS will still offer slower, cheaper computing using its Trainium processors (Wall Street Journal)
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Amazon Prime Video plans to raise the price of its ad-free plan, Ultra, to $4.99 per month, and add support for up to five simultaneous streams, from April 10 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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Sources: Elon Musk pushed out two more xAI co-founders after getting frustrated with xAI's coding product progress and brought in "fixers" from SpaceX and Tesla (Financial Times)
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Adobe will pay a $75M fine and provide $75M in free services to users to resolve a US government lawsuit accusing it of concealing termination fees, and more (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
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Peacock adds a new feature to its app that uses AI to curate personalized vertical video playlists, narrated by a generative AI avatar of host Andy Cohen (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)