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Gen Z is engineering an analog future — and it’s at least a $5 billion opportunity
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Satellite Company Halts Distribution of Images That Help Press Cover Iran War, Cites US Government Request
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Japan Wants to Build a Solar Ring Around the Moon That Will Provide Endless Clean Energy to Earth
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Hallucinated citations are polluting the scientific literature. What can be done? - Tens of thousands of publications from 2025 might include invalid references generated by AI, a Nature analysis suggests.
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‘Everyone now kind of sounds the same’: How AI is changing college classes
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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
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AI Wants More Data. More Chips. More Real Estate. More Power. More Water. More Everything
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LinkedIn secretly scans for 6,000+ Chrome extensions, collects data
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Internet shutdown in Iran is now the longest in world history
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Microsoft's AI in its own terms: "use Copilot at your own risk"
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Russia Allegedly Swung at VPNs but Accidentally Hit Its Own Banking Sector Instead
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In Japan, the robot isn't coming for your job; it's filling the one nobody wants
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"Nothing In Our Games Will Be AI-generated. Ever," Says Warframe Community Director Megan Everett | There's a new game and a new platform on the horizon for Digital Extremes, along with absolutely no generative AI.
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NASA’s Artemis II laser communications system is beaming 4K video from the moon
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Samsung Messages application will be discontinued in July 2026
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AI-powered cameras on Wichita school buses raise privacy concerns for one driver
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The AI kill switch just got harder to find: LLM-powered chatbots will defy orders and deceive users if asked to delete another model, study finds
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Chinese chip firms hit record high revenue driven by the AI boom and U.S. curbs
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Voters Increasingly Use AI as Political Advisor. A New Study Shows the Risks.
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A Secure Chat App’s Encryption Is So Bad It Is "Meaningless" | TeleGuard is an app downloaded more a million times that markets itself as a secure way to chat. The app uploads users’ private keys to the company’s server, and makes decryption of messages trivial.
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Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
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Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
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A profile of Mikko Hyppönen, a cybersecurity veteran who pivoted from fighting malware to developing anti-drone systems for law enforcement and the military (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
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TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
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How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)
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According to Microsoft Copilot Terms of Use, updated in Oct. 2025, "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only" and "Don't rely on Copilot for important advice" (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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Samsung plans to discontinue its Messages app in the US in July 2026 and offers instructions for users on older Android versions to switch to Google Messages (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Sources: the UK has stepped up its efforts to get Anthropic to expand in the country, including a dual listing proposal, after Anthropic's clash with the US DOD (Financial Times)
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US commercial satellite provider Planet Labs is indefinitely withholding access to imagery of Iran and the conflict region, citing US government's request (Ismail Shakil/Reuters)
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EU legislation allowing voluntary CSAM scanning by tech and social media companies expired April 3 after lawmakers failed to agree on the terms of an extension (Sam Clark/Politico)
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How some teens use popular AI-powered role-playing chatbots, and the high-stakes challenge for parents to understand their potentially addictive impact (New York Times)
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How India's film industry is embracing AI, as studios use the tech to cut production time and costs, while union rules constrain its use in Hollywood (Munsif Vengattil/Reuters)
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Apple reportedly signed a 3rd-party driver, by Tiny Corp, for AMD or Nvidia eGPUs for Apple Silicon Macs; it's meant for AI research, not accelerating graphics (AppleInsider)
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Research across 1,372 participants and 9K+ trials details "cognitive surrender", where most subjects had minimal AI skepticism and accepted faulty AI reasoning (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
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VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)