Apple's Foldable iPhone Is 'On Track' To Launch In September Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says Apple's foldable iPhone is still "on track" for a September unveiling alongside the iPhone 18 Pro lineup. 9to5Mac reports: The report notes that Apple's stock took a hit earlier today after Nikkei Asia indicated the iPhone Fold was having serious production issues. Clea...

Apple's Foldable iPhone Is 'On Track' To Launch In September

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John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Drive: Farmers have been fighting John Deere for years over the right to repair their equipment, and this week, they finally reached a landmark settlement. While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of ...

John Deere To Pay $99 Million In Monumental Right-To-Repair Settlement

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NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto A New York Times investigation by John Carreyrou, the author of "Bad Blood," the bestselling expose on Theranos, claims a British cryptographer named Adam Back is the strongest circumstantial candidate yet for being Satoshi Nakamoto. The report citing overlaps in writing style, ideology, technical b...

NYT Claims Adam Back Is Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto

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Amazon Is Ending Support For Older Kindles Starting May 20th, Amazon will stop Kindle Store access for Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier. After that date, those devices will "no longer be able to purchase, borrow, or download new content." Owners can still read content already on the device, but if an affected devic...

Amazon Is Ending Support For Older Kindles

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Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Times: Iran will demand that shipping companies pay tolls in cryptocurrency for laden oil tankers passing through the Strait of Hormuz (source paywalled; alternative source), as it seeks to retain control over passage through the key waterway du...

Iran Demands Bitcoin For Ships Passing Hormuz During Ceasefire

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Meta Debuts 'Muse Spark', First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang Meta has launched Muse Spark, its first major AI model under Alexandr Wang's leadership. The model was built over the past nine months and is being positioned as a significant step up from Llama 4. Axios reports: Muse Spark will power queries in the Meta AI app and Meta.ai website immediately, with...

Meta Debuts 'Muse Spark', First AI Model Under Alexandr Wang

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Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates Microsoft has apparently terminated the account VeraCrypt uses to sign its Windows drivers and bootloader, leaving the encryption project unable to publish Windows updates and throwing future releases into doubt. VeraCrypt's developer says Microsoft gave no clear explanation or warning for the move....

Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates

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Valve Releases Native Steam Link App For Apple's Vision Pro Valve has released a native Steam Link beta for Apple Vision Pro, letting users stream their existing Steam games onto a large virtual screen in visionOS. It supports up to 4K resolution and will let you dynamically adjust the curve of the display. The Mac Observer reports: Steam Link does not supp...

Valve Releases Native Steam Link App For Apple's Vision Pro

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Apple and Lenovo Have the Least Repairable Laptops, Analysis Finds An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble ...

Apple and Lenovo Have the Least Repairable Laptops, Analysis Finds

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CIA Reportedly Used Secret Quantum Tool To Find Downed Airman in Iran alternative_right quotes a report from the New York Post: The CIA used a futuristic new tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find and rescue the second American airman who was shot down in southern Iran, The Post has learned. The secret technology uses long-range quantum magnetometry to find the electromag...

CIA Reportedly Used Secret Quantum Tool To Find Downed Airman in Iran

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Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends ra...

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite

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Russian Government Hackers Broke Into Thousands of Home Routers To Steal Passwords An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: A group of Russian government hackers have hijacked thousands of home and small business routers around the world as part of an ongoing campaign aimed at redirecting victim's internet traffic to steal their passwords and access tokens, security re...

Russian Government Hackers Broke Into Thousands of Home Routers To Steal Passwords

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Chrome Is Finally Getting Vertical Tabs Chrome is finally adding built-in vertical tabs, "which will move the tabs to the side of the browser window, making it easier to read full page titles and manage tab groups," reports TechCrunch. The company is also introducing an immersive reading mode for a distraction-free, text-focused experienc...

Chrome Is Finally Getting Vertical Tabs

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Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications An anonymous reader quotes a report from TorrentFreak: Following on the heels of the landmark Cox v. Sony ruling, the Supreme Court has vacated the contributory copyright infringement verdict against ISP Grande Communications, ordering the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision in light of the new...

Supreme Court Wipes Piracy Liability Verdict Against Grande Communications

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Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour A New York Times analysis found Google's AI Overviews now answer questions correctly about 90% of the time, which might sound impressive until you realize that roughly 1 in 10 answers is wrong. "[F]or Google, that means hundreds of thousands of lies going out every minute of the day," reports Ars Te...

Testing Suggests Google's AI Overviews Tells Millions of Lies Per Hour

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Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips Anthropic says its annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion and disclosed plans to secure roughly 3.5 gigawatts of next-generation Google TPU compute starting in 2027. Broadcom will supply the key chips and networking gear for the effort, the company announced. The Register reports: Ne...

Anthropic Reveals $30 Billion Run Rate, Plans To Use 3.5GW of New Google AI Chips

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Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029 Cloudflare is accelerating its post-quantum security plans and now aims to make its entire platform fully post-quantum secure by 2029. "The updated timeline follows new developments in quantum computing research that suggest current cryptographic standards could be broken sooner than previously expe...

Cloudflare Fast-Tracks Post-Quantum Rollout To 2029

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New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: President Javier Milei of Argentina promoted a cryptocurrency last year that quickly skyrocketed in value then cratered just as fast, costing investors millions of dollars and setting off a scandal and an investigation. Mr. Milei said he w...

New Revelations Reignite Crypto Scandal Involving Argentina's President Milei

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Stanford Daily Ponders Fate of Bill Gates Namesake Building On April Fools' Day theodp writes: "Gates Computer Science Building renamed Peter Thiel Center for Panoptic Computing" reads the headline of an April Fools' Day story that ran in the Humor section of The Stanford Daily (with the further disclaimer that "This article is purely satirical and fictitious"). The story begi...

Stanford Daily Ponders Fate of Bill Gates Namesake Building On April Fools' Day

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LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users' browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is "running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history." "The program runs silently, without any vis...

LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning

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China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine Longtime Slashdot reader walterbyrd shares a report from Fuel Cells Works: China says the AEP100, a megawatt-class hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine developed by the Aero Engine Corporation of China, has completed its maiden flight on a 7.5-ton unmanned cargo aircraft in Zhuzhou, Hunan. The 16-minute...

China Flies World's First Megawatt-Class Hydrogen Turboprop Engine

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New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi's Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that New Jersey gaming regulators cannot prevent Kalshi from allowing people in the state to use its prediction market to place financial bets on the outcome of sporting events. A three-judge panel of the Phila...

New Jersey Cannot Regulate Kalshi's Prediction Market, US Appeals Court Rules

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Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, along with CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen have set the record for the...

Artemis II Astronauts Break Apollo Record For Farthest Distance Humans Have Traveled From Earth

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Samsung's Messages App Is Shutting Down Samsung says it will discontinue its Samsung Messages app in July 2026 and is directing Galaxy users to switch to Google Messages instead. Android Central reports: [...] Samsung says users can switch to Google Messages as their default app to maintain a consistent Android messaging experience. The ...

Samsung's Messages App Is Shutting Down

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Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab An anonymous reader quotes a report from KrebsOnSecurity: An elusive hacker who went by the handle "UNKN" and ran the early Russian ransomware groups GandCrab and REvil now has a name and a face. Authorities in Germany say 31-year-old Russian Daniil Maksimovich Shchukin headed both cybercrime gangs ...

Germany Doxes 'UNKN,' Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab

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More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class More Americans have moved into upper-middle-class incomes over the past several decades (source paywalled; alternative source), with new research suggesting that group has grown sharply while the lower and core middle class have shrunk. The Wall Street Journal reports: In 2024, about 31% of Americ...

More Americans Are Breaking Into the Upper Middle Class

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Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars Halter, a New Zealand agtech startup now valued at $2 billion, has raised $220 million to expand its AI-powered cattle management system. "Halter is now valued at $2 billion following the Series E, which was led by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund with participation from Blackbird, DCVC, Bond, Bessemer, ...

Peter Thiel Is Betting Big On Solar-Powered Cow Collars

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Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: AI skeptics aren't the only ones warning users not to unthinkingly trust models' outputs -- that's what the AI companies say themselves in their terms of service. Take Microsoft, which is currently focused on getting corporate customers to pay fo...

Copilot Is 'For Entertainment Purposes Only,' According To Microsoft's ToS

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Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor "It's finally time," writes Phoronix — since "no known Linux distribution vendors are still shipping with i486 CPU support." "A patch queued into one of the development branches ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is set to finally begin the process of phasing out and ultimately re...

Linux Finally Starts Removing Support for Intel's 37-Year-Old i486 Processor

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Russia's VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says Russia's "great crackdown" on VPNs — and a clampdown on Telegram's messaging platform — had an unintended side effect, reports Bloomberg. It "triggered the widespread banking outage seen across the country this week, Telegram's billionaire founder Pavel Durov said." "Telegram was banne...

Russia's VPN Crackdown Caused Bank Outages, Telegram Founder Says

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