/r/technology
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FBI admits buying Americans' location data and says it won't stop
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North Korea's 100,000-strong fake IT worker army rake in $500M a year for Kim Jong Un
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Meta Horizon Worlds for VR is closing down in June, less than five years after it launched
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Ferrari Boss: Touch Buttons Cost Half As Much As Physical Controls
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AI still doesn't work very well in business, reckoning soon
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Windows 11âs free video editor Clipchamp now requires OneDrive
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Anthropic's Claude claws its way towards the top of the AI market
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US F-35 damaged by suspected Iranian fire makes emergency landing, sources say
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Pentagon replies to Anthropic's lawsuit; says: Refusal to accept the government's contractual terms is not protected
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4chan hit with ÂŁ450,000 UK fine over age checks
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Firefox 149 will offer a free built-in VPN, split views, tab notes and optional AI windows
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IBM CEO pay pack jumps 51% for 2025 to $38 million
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Patreon CEO calls AI companies' fair use argument 'bogus,' says creators should be paid
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Apple warns iPhone users to update software after mass hacking campaigns
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Teslaâs Full Self-Driving is on the cusp of a recall
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Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll | In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into
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US messageboard 4Chan mocks ÂŁ520,000 fine for UK online safety breaches
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Nearly 150 retired federal and state judges have filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic in its lawsuit against the Pentagon
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Small Publishers Are Losing Search Traffic at an Alarming Rate Because of Chatbots
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Meta is killing off the metaverse as it pivots to AI
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Filing: the Pentagon says Anthropic's use of foreign workers, including from China, poses security risks and that its case is "different" from other companies' (Maria Curi/Axios)
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Verily raised $300M led by Series X Capital, giving it ~2 years of runway per a source; Alphabet remains an investor but no longer has a controlling stake (Axios)
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Sources: Kalshi is raising ~$1B led by Coatue at a $22B valuation, up from the $11B valuation announced in December, and has a revenue run rate of ~$1.5B (Yuliya Chernova/Wall Street Journal)
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Amazon acquires Zurich-based autonomous robotics startup Rivr, formerly Swiss-Mile; PitchBook: the startup was valued at $110M in an August 2024 funding round (The Information)
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Signal's Moxie Marlinspike says his privacy-focused AI platform Confer will integrate its encryption tech into Meta AI to provide E2EE for chatbot interactions (Wired)
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Sources: Google has started consumer beta testing of a dedicated Gemini AI app for the Mac, as it seeks to compete with Mac apps for ChatGPT and Claude (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Bluesky raised a $100M Series B led by Bain Capital Crypto in April 2025, following a $15M Series A in 2024 and an $8M seed in 2023; it now has over 43M users (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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Sources: Jeff Bezos is in talks to raise $100B for a fund that would buy companies in industrial sectors such as chipmaking and defense and revamp them with AI (Wall Street Journal)
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Google moved some staffers working on Project Mariner, its AI agent that can navigate Chrome and complete tasks on a user's behalf, to higher-priority projects (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
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Oasis Security, which specializes in securing non-human identities, such as AI bots and automated work tools, raised $120M, bringing its total funding to $190M (Marissa Newman/Bloomberg)
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Google announces a new "advanced flow" for Android sideloading that requires a mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period to install apps from unverified developers (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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Privacy-focused MVNO Cape raised a $100M Series C at a $900M valuation, and says its revenue grew from $4.5M in 2024 to $37M in 2025 (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
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Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times)
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Cursor says Composer 2 is "frontier-level at coding" and is priced at $0.50/1M input tokens and $2.50/1M output tokens, with a faster variant costing 3x more (Cursor)
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Sources: TP-Link told US federal agencies probing its China ties that CEO Jeffrey Chao applied for US permanent residency under the $1M Trump Gold Card program (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)