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2025

Facebook is starting to feed its Meta AI with private, unpublished photos 06-29

WhatsApp rolls out AI-generated summaries for private messages 06-25

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice 06-23

Apple held internal talks about acquiring Perplexity 06-21

Hands-On: How Apple’s New Speech APIs Outpace Whisper for Lightning-Fast Transcription 06-18

Your Password Algorithm Sucks 06-16

How I Built A Task Management Tool For Almost Nothing | How I wrote the notes app of my dreams (no … 06-09

Meta and Yandex Have Both Been De-Anonymizing Android Users’ Ostensibly Sandboxed Private Web … 06-05

From the Creators of Shortcuts, Sky Extends AI Integration and Automation to Your Entire Mac 05-28

Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist 05-20

You didn’t ask for ads in your RCS chat app, but you're going to get them anyway 05-17

Apple is looking at adding Perplexity and other AI search engines to Safari 05-07

OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google 04-29

Perplexity targets Siri with actually useful voice actions from an iPhone AI chatbot app 04-23

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT 04-17

Nintendo Delays Switch 2 Pre-Orders In Canada Because Of The United States 04-08

Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 04-02

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans 03-24

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped 03-19

Encrypted Chat App ‘Session’ Leaves Australia After Visit From Police 03-01

“Truly a middle finger”: Humane bricking $700 AI Pins with limited refunds 02-19

Microsoft probing whether DeepSeek improperly used OpenAI APIs 01-29

Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots 01-23

Dell mocked at its own press launch for copying Apple's names 01-07

2024

This is so true: If you think woke is the problem, try reading the US Constitution and amendments. … 12-28

Why AI language models choke on too much text 12-21

Never Forgive Them 12-20

Flipboard’s Surf app is a big new idea about the future of social 12-19

The return of Steam Machines? Valve rolls out new “Powered by SteamOS” branding. 12-05

Ontario spent record sum on advertisements ‘to promote’ governing party: AG 12-04

iOS 18.2 adds Safari Live Activity for file downloads 11-06

Apple is snapping up one of the best non-Adobe image editors, Pixelmator 11-02

Apple vs Adobe: One is Clearly Better at AI Photo Clean Up 11-01

Julia Roberts Reminds Us - Your Vote, Your Choice - YouTube 11-01

Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 10-24

Writing backwards can trick an AI into providing a bomb recipe 10-19

Alberta UCP to vote on celebrating CO2, and not recognizing it as pollutant 10-18

New law proves Apple’s App Store gets one thing very right - 9to5Mac 10-17

How do QR codes work? (I built one myself to find out) - YouTube 10-16

Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities 10-16

How I Replaced Notion with Reminders, Numbers, and Notes 10-16

Google’s AI search summaries officially have ads 10-04

People are “blatantly stealing my work,” AI artist complains 09-30

Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second 09-27

I took control of NASA's Valkyrie robot and it blew my mind 09-15

First A18 Pro benchmarks smoke the Pixel 9, Galaxy S24, and even MacBooks 09-15

Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type 09-12

The iOS Continental Drift Widens 09-06

The secret inside One Million Checkboxes 08-30

Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (Part One, 1982) - … 08-30

Doom Running on a Neural Network Is a Surreal Dreamscape 08-30

Trump Calls Out Arlington National Cemetery For Hazard-Filled Fairways 08-30

General Mocappery: Spells with Tamara - YouTube 08-28

TERMINATOR ZERO | NSFW | Official Trailer | Netflix - YouTube 08-26

The Banks That Financed Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter Are Now Absolutely Screwed 08-26

AI was responsible for the fake quotes in the Megalopolis trailer 08-25

'Cthulhu Stealer' macOS Malware Can Steal Keychain Passwords, Web Browsing Info, Crypto Wallets, and … 08-23

Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos 08-21

Why Did Samsung Take Control of My Banking App? Inside Android’s ‘Clobbering’ Dilemma 08-17

Google ads push fake Google Authenticator site installing malware 08-15

Google loses major antitrust case over search, declared a monopoly by judge 08-09

Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated … 08-09

X files antitrust lawsuit against advertisers over ‘illegal boycott’ 08-09

Leaked Documents Show Nvidia Scraping ‘A Human Lifetime’ of Videos Per Day to Train AI 08-09

Google ditches plan to kill third-party cookies after pushback — Business Insider 07-25

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal 07-24

Mac users served info-stealer malware through Google ads 06-27

How Siri could actually win the AI assistant wars 06-26

Batman: Caped Crusader Season 1 - Official Trailer 06-26

Apple may delay AI features in the EU because of its big tech law 06-22

GM had $6 billion to spend on next-gen EVs, chose stock buybacks | opinion 06-20

Google Sandbox: Online tracking instead of privacy 06-13

Sony Just Leaked Destiny 2’s ‘The Final Shape’ Expansion Early 05-30

YouTube quietly disables dreadful Apple TV screensaver feature that shouldn't have been there in the … 05-30

Spotify’s Car Things to Be Rebranded as Car Bricks 05-28

Inside Microsoft’s mission to take down the MacBook Air 05-21

Windows Recall could solve my biggest problem in tech 05-21

The Man Who Killed Google Search 05-07

AI Apocalypse: Only Apple Can Win 05-06

Marques Brownlee gets a look at the Disney Holotile 04-27

X-Men ‘97 Lego Intro 04-27

The Long Comics History Behind X-Men's Sentinel Program 04-27

Does everything need to be an ad? 04-25

Premier Doug Ford, Ontario medical group warn Ottawa’s capital-gains tax increase will hurt doctors 04-19

Elon Musk’s X botched an attempt to replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” 04-12

Destiny 2 is getting a surprise new subclass and a lot more in The Final Shape 04-11

YouTube CEO warns OpenAI that training models on its videos is against the rules 04-05

Google’s self-designed office swallows Wi-Fi “like the Bermuda Triangle” 03-12

Once More With Feeling: Banning TikTok Doesn’t Do Much If We Don’t Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A … 03-11

A Roku Terms of Service Update Locks Up Your TV Until You Agree 03-10

Google says the AI-focused Pixel 8 can’t run its latest smartphone AI models 03-09

Deadpool & Wolverine | Official Teaser 02-11

LastPass Rip-Off Named ‘LassPass’ Made It Into the App Store 02-09

YouTube says a Vision Pro app is ‘on the roadmap’ 02-09

Full, automatic podcast transcripts coming to iOS 17.4 01-25

Language Is a Poor Heuristic for Intelligence 01-08

'Most sophisticated' iPhone attack chain 'ever seen' used four 0-days to create a 0-click exploit - … 01-05

Green Day Changes 'American Idiot' Lyrics to Slam 'MAGA Agenda' 01-02

2023

GM’s CarPlay replacement software is off to a disastrous start - 9to5Mac 12-22

Beeper is giving up on its iMessage dream 12-21

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