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BBC

  1. UK warship HMS Dragon departs for eastern Mediterranean
  2. Nottingham triple killer assaulted husband and wife weeks before attacks, inquiry told
  3. An 'epidemic' of violence: The women and girls killed by men last year
  4. Eni Aluko wins Joey Barton libel case over X posts
  5. Simpson and guide Poth win Paralympic silver for GB
  6. Zendaya's ring and Stella McCartney's horses - the sights and trends at Paris Fashion Week
  7. Inmate charged with murder of Soham killer Ian Huntley
  8. Glasgow Central's main station to remain closed until next week
  9. Court hears millions of PlayStation players charged unfair download fees
  10. Italy buys rare Caravaggio portrait for €30m
  11. Air strikes cause black rain and 'unprecedented' pollution in Tehran, scientists say
  12. Oil and gas prices fall after Trump says war is 'very complete'
  13. War expands to central Beirut as Israeli strike kills Iranians in luxury hotel
  14. 'I just want to be able to sleep': Attacks in Iran rock cities and cut power
  15. Why the price of oil matters more than you might think
  16. Watch: Wildflowers cover Death Valley in best display since 2016
  17. Bridgerton star on dealing with One Piece casting backlash
  18. How the 'red v blue school wars' exposed the social media gap between children and parents
  19. 'My heating oil costs have more than doubled since Iran war started'
  20. Georgia voters to pick replacement for Marjorie Taylor Greene in special election
  21. Quiz: One question for each team in the Champions League last 16
  22. Like Brooklyn Beckham, I don't speak to my family - we need to talk about estrangement
  23. Teen had 'headache' before holiday park deaths
  24. Fortnite-maker raising in-game currency prices 'to help pay the bills'
  25. Relaunched digital ID will make it easier to access services, minister says
  26. Maternity inquiry chair appointed in government U-turn
  27. Syrian ex-colonel in court on crimes against humanity charge
  28. Starmer said ministers can go against wishes of Wales and Scotland in leaked memo
  29. Volkswagen to cut 50,000 jobs as profits drop
  30. BBC News app
  31. How the Iraq war's legacy shaped the UK's Iran response
  32. Iran president apologises for striking neighbours
  33. 'Sad but proud' - Walker retires from England duty before World Cup
  34. Chessum starts in only change as England try to stop rot
  35. The Brits travelling in their thousands to 'Costa del Cheltenham'
  36. 'Saddened' O'Neill fears impact on derby away fans
  37. Windies book own flights after 'distressing' wait
  38. Joey Barton refused bail after 'golf club attack'

Bitcoin

Engadget

  1. Amazon wins a temporary injunction against Perplexity's Comet browser
  2. Wordle’s creator is back with a new game, and it’s a real chin scratcher
  3. Here's the final trailer for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie
  4. ChatGPT will now generate interactive visuals to help you with math and science concepts
  5. Yoshi and the Mysterious Book will be released for Switch 2 on May 21
  6. Google to Provide Pentagon with Gemini-powered AI agents
  7. Live Nation settlement avoids breakup with Ticketmaster
  8. NVIDIA is reportedly working on its own open-source AI agent platform
  9. GeForce Now adds GOG syncing and 90fps game streaming in VR headsets
  10. Meta is buying Moltbook, the ridiculous social network populated by AI bots
  11. Google brings Gemini-powered content creation tools to Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drive
  12. A Resident Evil Requiem story expansion is in the works
  13. The Sonos Play puts the best parts of the Era 100 in a portable speaker
  14. MacBook Neo review: Apple puts every $600 Windows PC to shame
  15. X says it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 over spam and manipulation
  16. Shark's ChillPill puts a mister, fan and cold-plate in one portable package
  17. The best robot vacuums on a budget for 2026
  18. You can now use ChatGPT to open Shazam instead of... just opening Shazam
  19. FAA opens up real world testing for air taxi startups
  20. The Morning After: The new iPad Air M4 is Apple's best overall tablet
  21. The Oversight Board says Meta needs new rules for AI-generated content
  22. TikTok can continue its operations in Canada after agreeing to enhanced security measures
  23. Rode’s Rodecaster Video Core makes livestreaming even cheaper
  24. You can (sort of) block Grok from editing your uploaded photos
  25. Dutch intelligence services warn of Russian hackers targeting Signal and WhatsApp
  26. Bluesky's CEO is stepping down after nearly 5 years
  27. Apple reportedly delays its planned smart display launch to fall
  28. Uber expands its program that helps pair women riders and drivers
  29. Samsung promises 120 games will be playable via its glasses-free 3D monitor tech by the end of the year
  30. EA laid off staffers across Battlefield studios to 'better align' its teams
  31. Hyper Light Drifter studio workers form union after rounds of layoffs
  32. Anthropic sues US government over supply chain risk designation
  33. Amazon’s Zoox will test its robotaxis in Dallas and Phoenix
  34. iPad Air M4 review: Still Apple's best overall tablet, with a few caveats
  35. iPhone 17e review: The economical choice
  36. The 10 best sleep apps and gadgets for a better night's sleep in 2026
  37. The best air purifier for 2026
  38. Qualcomm's new Arduino Ventuno Q is an AI-focused computer designed for robotics
  39. NetEase is reportedly pulling funding for Yakuza creator's studio
  40. Apple is reportedly looking into 3D printing aluminum iPhones and Apple Watches
  41. OpenAI's robotics hardware lead resigns following deal with the Department of Defense
  42. OpenAI is reportedly pushing back the launch of its 'adult mode' even further
  43. NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
  44. Indonesia announces a social media ban for anyone under 16
  45. Roblox introduces real-time AI-powered chat rephraser for inappropriate language
  46. Engadget review recap: Galaxy S26 Ultra, Galaxy Buds 4, Dell XPS 14 and more
  47. Dell XPS 14 (2026) review: A beautiful laptop that excels at almost everything… except typing
  48. Slay the Spire 2, Scott Pilgrim EX and other new indie games worth checking out
  49. Valve doesn't sound confident the Steam Machine will ship in 2026
  50. Netflix's version of Overcooked lets you play as Huntr/x

Pinboard

  1. Agent Safehouse
  2. FontCrafter: Create Your Handwriting Font for Free
  3. My Homelab Setup
  4. Qwen3.5 - How to Run Locally Guide | Unsloth Documentation — but tons of ram, use a vm
  5. karpathy/autoresearch: AI agents running research on single-GPU nanochat training automatically
  6. Workers who love ‘synergizing paradigms’ might be bad at their jobs | Cornell Chronicle
  7. tropes.md - Tropes AI tools overuse when writing
  8. ZIP Code First
  9. googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — one command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
  10. We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI | Techdirt
  11. The Pro-Human AI Declaration
  12. Company Contacts
  13. Your LLM Doesn't Write Correct Code. It Writes Plausible Code.
  16. TerraInk
  17. Can coding agents relicense open source through a “clean room” implementation of code? — A leader of the chardet library has "rewritten" it using Claude and issued it under a new licence. The original creator disputes their right to do this.
  18. Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse
  19. A Decade of Docker Containers – Communications of the ACM
  20. Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything”
  21. Filesystems are having a moment
  22. Notes on Writing Wasm
  23. The web is bearable with RSS
  24. Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog
  25. We Should Revisit Literate Programming in the Agent Era | silly business — Literate programming failed at scale because it forced humans to maintain two truths: code and prose. Agents remove that tax. Ask an agent to write an Org runbook that mixes intent and executable blocks, review the narrative, run the steps in place, a…
  26. When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry” — cook your brain on AI
  27. Defuddle — Get the main content of any page as Markdown.
  28. LibreSpeed - Speedtest — Free and Open Source Speedtest. No Flash, No Java, No Websocket, No Bullshit.
  29. How to Recalculate a Spreadsheet – Lord.io
  30. Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents
  31. superpowers — Claude Code superpowers: core skills library
  32. Anthropic Courses — Browse all Anthropic courses
  33. GitHub - nikopueringer/CorridorKey: Perfect Green Screen Keys — Perfect Green Screen Keys. Contribute to nikopueringer/CorridorKey development by creating an account on GitHub.
  34. The surprising whimsy of the Time Zone Database
  35. Why can’t you tune your guitar? | The Ethan Hein Blog — I continue to refine and tighten up my explanation of tuning and temperament systems, one of the least understood music theory concepts out there. Hope this is useful to you. Comments and corrections welcome.
  36. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft — Hong Minhee on Things
  37. Ki Editor | Ki Editor
  38. Over 55.000 car brochures from brands around the world
  39. Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak
  40. Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence Anthropic
  41. FrameBook. — me when FrameBook.
  42. Never the same game twice – Pathetic Fallacy — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/uAtq2bJ
  43. Code Review for Claude Code
  44. How to Talk to Someone Experiencing 'AI Psychosis': Mental health experts say identifying when someone is in need of help is the first step — and approaching them with careful compassion is the hardest, most essential part that follows | 404 Media
  45. Run prompts on a schedule
  46. GitHub - BigBodyCobain/Shadowbroker: Open-source intelligence for the global theater. Track everything from the corporate/private jets of the wealthy, and spy satellites, to seismic events in one unified interface. The knowledge is available to all but ra
  47. ‘AI brain fry’: l'IA al lavoro provoca affaticamento mentale e rischi per le aziende — Uno studio di BCG e UC Riverside su ~1.500 lavoratori statunitensi individua il fenomeno chiamato "AI brain fry": il 14% dei dipendenti segnala affaticamento mentale dovuto all'uso e supervisione intensiva di strumenti AI, soprattutto in m…
  48. How to win a best paper award (or, an opinionated take on how to do important research)
  49. The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying — Acko.net
  50. Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft | Hacker News
  51. this css proves me human · will keleher — I don't think I can build a fence with these posts...
  52. rtk — CLI proxy that reduces LLM token consumption by 60-90% on common dev commands. Single Rust binary, zero dependencies
  53. How to Audit a Rails Codebase: Legacy App Playbook
  54. µJS — Lightweight AJAX Navigation Library
  55. gogcli — Google Suite CLI: Gmail, GCal, GDrive, GContacts.
  56. Whichbook | A new way of choosing what book to read next
  57. GitHub - kantord/blogtato: A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior · GitHub — kantord/blogtato: A CLI RSS/Atom feed reader inspired by Taskwarrior https://ift.tt/kdJIUxs cli, rss
  58. your ai slop bores me
  59. RFC 406i - The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (RAGS) — "stochastic regurgitation "
  60. casier-politique.fr
  61. The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan — "Yakult is a fermented milk drink that contains a specific strain of lactic acid bacteria cultured by Dr Minoru Shirota, Yakult's founder, in 1930. When the scientist began studying medicine at Kyoto University in 1921, Japan was still developing economically, and m…
  62. The Mythology Of Conscious AI — "Why consciousness is more likely a property of life than of computation and why creating conscious, or even conscious-seeming AI, is a bad idea."
  63. Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has ignited a passion again | Hacker News
  64. Claude Code /simplify and /batch Commands Guide
  65. How I Dropped Our Production Database and Now Pay 10% More for AWS
  66. Knuth on Claude — "I learned yesterday that an open problem I’d been working on for several weeks had just been solved by Claude Opus 4.6"
  67. Pride Versioning 🏳️‍🌈 0.2.0
  68. delphitools
  69. T3 Code
  70. Velxio — Free Local Arduino Emulator | AVR8 · RP2040 · 48+ Components
  71. GitHub - gsd-build/get-shit-done: A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. — A light-weight and powerful meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven development system for Claude Code and OpenCode. - gsd-build/get-shit-done
  72. AIエージェント用にCLIを書き直す必要がある
  73. The Internals of PostgreSQL : Introduction
  74. pingdotgg/t3code
  75. Insight Maker | Free Simulation and Modeling in your Browser
  76. superset-sh/superset: The terminal for parallel coding agents - Run dozens of Claude Code, OpenCode, or any other CLI agents in parallel on your machine using worktrees.
  77. New iron nanomaterial wipes out cancer cells without harming healthy tissue — Scientists at Oregon State University have engineered a powerful new nanomaterial that zeroes in on cancer cells and destroys them from the inside out. Designed to exploit cancer’s unique chemistry—its acidity and high hydrogen peroxide levels—the …
  78. ruvnet/RuView: π RuView: WiFi DensePose turns commodity WiFi signals into real-time human pose estimation, vital sign monitoring, and presence detection — all without a single pixel of video.
  79. Panic’s gaming ambitions hinge on the weird and whimsical | The Verge — via The Verge https://ift.tt/8jevG3g
  80. Set up Claude Workflows Correctly in 5 Minutes with Project Files — Claud
  81. affaan-m/everything-claude-code: Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hackathon winner. — Complete Claude Code configuration collection - agents, skills, hooks, commands, rules, MCPs. Battle-tested configs from an Anthropic hacka…
  82. Did baby boomers eat all the pies? John Lanchester on the truth about the generation gap — > It’s a grim time to be in your 20s, no doubt, but don’t blame it all on older people: being chopped up into ever smaller rivalries only serves the market
  83. S.H.I.T Journal
  84. How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts – Krebs on Security — How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts - by Krebs on Security AI-based assistants or "agents" -- autonomous programs that have access to the user's computer, files, online services and can automate virtually any task -- are growing in popu…
  85. The Death of Social Media is the Renaissance of RSS – Smartlab
  86. GitHub - Rabrg/artificial-life: A simple (300 lines of code) reproduction of Computational Life: How Well-formed, Self-replicating Programs Emerge from Simple Interaction · GitHub
  87. LikeC4 - Architecture-as-a-code
  88. Why developers using AI are working longer hours | Scientific American
  89. andrewyng/context-hub
  90. WA ‘millionaires tax’ proposal haunted by 1933 court decision — Most states do not treat income as property, and even at the time, the decision in Culliton misstated how such a tax was treated by courts in most of the country, said Hugh Spitzer, an emeritus law professor at the University of Washington and a state constituti…
  91. (11) Claude on X: "Introducing Code Review, a new feature for Claude Code. When a PR opens, Claude dispatches a team of agents to hunt for bugs. https://t.co/AL2J4efxPw" / X
  92. ‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war | US military | The Guardian
  93. Art Bits from HyperCard
  94. 南場智子「ますます“速さ”が命題に」DeNA AI Day2026全文書き起こし - エンジニアtype | 転職type
  95. A Decade of Docker Containers | Hacker News
  96. MacBook Neo Wallpapers Now Available for All Macs in macOS Tahoe 26.4 Beta - MacRumors — via Daring Fireball https://ift.tt/WcJLtu4
  97. Pixie | Pay Your Kids. Save on Taxes.
  98. AI-powered search is fueling a wave of Epstein Files transparency projects | Nieman Journalism Lab — In the vacuum created by the DOJ, journalists and engineers have stepped in to fulfill EFTA’s transparency promise. Many of them are using AI tools to create alternative databases and release them for the general public — mak…
  99. macOS code injection for fun and no profit — https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47250500
  100. How Apple Used to Design Its Laptops for Repairability — Macbook Neo Shows how far Apple’s repairability design has fallen.

The Next Web

  1. Anthropic sues the US government over its Pentagon blacklist
  2. Meta has bought Moltbook, the AI agent ‘social network’
  3. Google brings Gemini deeper into Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive with new beta features
  4. Legal AI platform Legora raises $550m at a $5.55bn valuation
  5. Anchr raises $5.8m to automate food distribution’s manual back office
  6. Swiss startup Seprify raises €13.4M to replace titanium dioxide with cellulose
  7. Breakout Ventures closes $114m Fund III to back AI-powered science startups
  8. Yann LeCun just raised $1bn to prove the AI industry has got it wrong
  9. Mantle8 secures €2.06M EU grant to scale natural hydrogen tech
  10. BMW Group brings humanoid robots to Germany

Smashing Magazine

  1. Building Dynamic Forms In React And Next.js
  2. Persuasive Design: Ten Years Later
  3. Human Strategy In An AI-Accelerated Workflow
  4. Now Shipping: Accessible UX Research, A New Smashing Book By Michele Williams
  5. Getting Started With The Popover API
  6. Fresh Energy In March (2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  7. Say Cheese! Meet SmashingConf Amsterdam 🇳🇱
  8. A Designer’s Guide To Eco-Friendly Interfaces
  9. Designing A Streak System: The UX And Psychology Of Streaks
  10. Building Digital Trust: An Empathy-Centred UX Framework For Mental Health Apps
  11. Designing For Agentic AI: Practical UX Patterns For Control, Consent, And Accountability
  12. CSS @scope: An Alternative To Naming Conventions And Heavy Abstractions
  13. Combobox vs. Multiselect vs. Listbox: How To Choose The Right One
  14. Short Month, Big Ideas (February 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  15. Practical Use Of AI Coding Tools For The Responsible Developer
  16. Unstacking CSS Stacking Contexts
  17. Beyond Generative: The Rise Of Agentic AI And User-Centric Design
  18. Rethinking “Pixel Perfect” Web Design
  19. Smashing Animations Part 8: Theming Animations Using CSS Relative Colour
  20. UX And Product Designer’s Career Paths In 2026
  21. Penpot Is Experimenting With MCP Servers For AI-Powered Design Workflows
  22. Pivoting Your Career Without Starting From Scratch
  23. Countdown To New Adventures (January 2026 Wallpapers Edition)
  24. How To Design For (And With) Deaf People
  25. Giving Users A Voice Through Virtual Personas
  26. How To Measure The Impact Of Features
  27. Smashing Animations Part 7: Recreating Toon Text With CSS And SVG
  28. Accessible UX Research, eBook Now Available For Download
  29. State, Logic, And Native Power: CSS Wrapped 2025
  30. How UX Professionals Can Lead AI Strategy
  31. Beyond The Black Box: Practical XAI For UX Practitioners
  32. Masonry: Things You Won’t Need A Library For Anymore
  33. A Sparkle Of December Magic (2025 Wallpapers Edition)
  34. The Accessibility Problem With Authentication Methods Like CAPTCHA
  35. Design System Culture: What It Is And Why It Matters (Excerpt)
  36. Designing For Stress And Emergency
  37. Keyframes Tokens: Standardizing Animation Across Projects
  38. From Chaos To Clarity: Simplifying Server Management With AI And Automation
  39. CSS Gamepad API Visual Debugging With CSS Layers
  40. Older Tech In The Browser Stack

Wirecutter

  1. The Best Standing Desk Mats
  2. The Best Men’s Boots
  3. The Best Wildfire Preparedness Supplies and Strategies
  4. The Best Windows Laptop
  5. I Shadowed LA’s Volunteer Fire Brigade for a Day. Here’s What They Taught Me About Wildfire Prep.
  6. The Best Kids Headphones
  7. The Best MacBooks
  8. Wirecutter’s 77 Essential Wedding Registry Items
  9. The Best Laptops for Video and Photo Editing
  10. The Best Laptops for Older Adults

Sweethome

  1. The Best Wildfire Preparedness Supplies and Strategies
  2. The Best Food Storage Containers
  3. The Best Bean Bag Chairs
  4. The Best Label Makers
  5. The Best Digital Photo Frame
  6. The Best Stain Removers
  7. The Best Sleeper Sofas
  8. Our Favorite Watering Cans
  9. We Recommend Dozens of Yamazaki Picks to Organize Small Spaces. Here’s How We Use Them at Home.
  10. This Is Not a Drill. These Renter-Friendly Curtain Hangers Leave (Almost) No Trace.

Hacker News

  1. Tony Hoare has died
  2. Launch HN: RunAnywhere (YC W26) – Faster AI Inference on Apple Silicon
  3. Debian decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions
  4. Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world
  5. Billion-Parameter Theories
  6. I built a programming language using Claude Code
  7. Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data
  8. Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over
  9. Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy
  10. Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
  11. Rebasing in Magit
  12. Meta acquires Moltbook
  13. I put my whole life into a single database
  14. Show HN: How I Topped the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard on Two Gaming GPUs
  15. The Enterprise Context Layer
  16. Open Weights Isn't Open Training
  17. Defeat as Method
  18. I used pulsar detection techniques to turn a phone into a watch timegrapher
  19. RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
  20. Levels of Agentic Engineering
  21. Bypassing Apache Fop PostScript Escaping to Reach GhostScript
  22. Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults
  23. Surpassing vLLM with a Generated Inference Stack
  24. The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to "The Office" (2009)
  25. We are building data breach machines and nobody cares
  26. How many options fit into a boolean?
  27. PgAdmin 4 9.13 with AI Assistant Panel
  28. A new Oracle Solaris Common Build Environment (CBE) release
  29. Isotopic Evidence for a Cold and Distant Origin of Interstellar Object 3I/Atlas
  30. Show HN: DD Photos – open-source photo album site generator (Go and SvelteKit)

Ars Technica

  1. Gemini burrows deeper into Google Workspace with revamped document creation and editing
  2. Ig Nobels ceremony moves to Europe over security concerns
  3. These new winter tires have studs that retract as it warms up
  4. After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes
  5. Apple MacBook Neo review: Can a Mac get by with an iPhone’s processor inside?
  6. After falling far behind the rest of industry, Blue Origin creates new stock option plan
  7. Quad Cortex mini amp modeler: All the power, half the size
  8. Testing Apple's 2026 16-inch MacBook Pro, M5 Max, and its new "performance" cores
  9. US blindsides states with surprise settlement in Live Nation/Ticketmaster trial
  10. An unlikely set of clues helps reconstruct ancient Chinese disasters
  11. Nintendo sues to prevent Trump from dodging full tariff refunds
  12. Flexible feline spines shed light on "falling cat" problem
  13. Don't worry, Valve still plans to launch the Steam Machine "this year"
  14. 2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing
  15. Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt
  16. “It doesn't feel safe”—Many international game developers plan to skip GDC in US
  17. Jessica Jones joins the fray in Daredevil: Born Again trailer
  18. Tiny, long-armed dinosaur leads to rethink of dinosaur miniaturization
  19. Hunting for elusive "ghost elephants"
  20. A unicorn-like Spinosaurus found in the Sahara

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New Scientist

  1. I was accused of killing over 100 million rabbits across Australia
  2. Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history
  3. Sharing genetic risk scores can unwittingly reveal secrets
  4. Startup is building the first data centre to use human brain cells
  5. How our ancestors used mushrooms to change the course of human history
  6. Mystery 'whippet' space explosion is the brightest of its kind
  7. Project Hail Mary is a spiritual sibling to The Martian - and it's fab
  8. What is a galaxy? That's a surprisingly difficult question to answer
  9. Human populations evolved in similar ways after we began farming
  10. Why is black rain falling on Iran and how dangerous is it?
  11. We’ve only just confirmed that Homo habilis really existed
  12. Frailty sets in far earlier than you’d expect, but you can reverse it
  13. A daily multivitamin may slightly slow rates of ageing
  14. 'Singing' dogs may show the evolutionary roots of musicality
  15. How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world
  16. The first apes to walk upright may have evolved in Europe
  17. SETI may have missed alien signals because of space weather
  18. The moment that kicked off the AI revolution
  19. Why cosmology seems to be caught in a vibe shift
  20. Shift in the Gulf Stream could signal ocean current collapse
  21. Why Yuri Gagarin wasn’t the first in space – and who beat him to it
  22. Ancient 'weirdo' reptile graduated from 4 legs to 2 in adolescence
  23. The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide
  24. We must close the 'shocking' knowledge gap in women's health
  25. A bizarre type of black hole could solve three cosmic mysteries in one
  26. A crisis in cosmology may mean hidden dimensions really exist
  27. Adrian Tchaikovsky's new Children of Time novel is brilliant
  28. The bombshell results that demand a new theory of the universe
  29. NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time
  30. Chemistry clues could detect aliens unlike any life on Earth
  31. Inflammation might cause Alzheimer's – here's how to reduce it
  32. The best new popular science books of March 2026
  33. Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades
  34. The secret to guessing more accurately with maths
  35. New Scientist recommends real-world stealth game LANDER 23
  36. Alzheimer’s may start with inflammation in the skin, lungs or gut
  37. Möbius strip-like molecule has an entirely new and bizarre shape
  38. How worried should you be about microplastics?
  39. Just one dose of psilocybin relieves symptoms of OCD for months
  40. Two marsupials believed extinct for 6000 years found alive
  41. What to read this week: Poisonous People by Leanne ten Brinke
  42. How to convey amounts of snow to Canadians: use polar bears
  43. The secret of how cats twist in mid-air to land on their feet
  44. Sea levels around the world are much higher than we thought
  45. Top predators still prowled the seas after the biggest mass extinction
  46. Claude AI: Why are there so many internet outages?
  47. Phantom codes could help quantum computers avoid errors
  48. Rare family has had many more sons than daughters for generations
  49. Your microbiome may determine your risk of a severe allergic reaction
  50. Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself
  51. Can Michael Pollan crack the problem of consciousness in his new book?
  52. Spreading crushed rock on farms could absorb 1 billion tonnes of CO2
  53. Can magnesium supplements improve sleep, energy and concentration?
  54. Would aliens do physics, or is science a human invention?
  55. First drone passengers may be combat casualties and criminals
  56. Crisis in cosmology: If we’ve got dark energy wrong, what could it be?
  57. Ants capture carbon dioxide from the air and turn it into armour
  58. People who eat a lot of fibre spend more time in deep sleep
  59. The best new science fiction books of March 2026
  60. Why the sleep industry has got us worrying about the wrong things
  61. Human brain cells on a chip learned to play Doom in a week
  62. Inside the company selling quantum entanglement
  63. The world’s most elusive colour is worth billions – if we can find it
  64. How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war
  65. Return of Fallout, Paradise and Silo fuels passion for bunker sci-fi
  66. The Human Flatus Atlas plans to measure the explosivity of farts
  67. It’s your perception of sleep that’s making you feel tired all day
  68. NASA’s Artemis moon exploration programme is getting a major makeover
  69. Frailty can be eased with an infusion of stem cells from young people
  70. Ocean geoengineering trial finds no evidence of harm to marine life
  71. How worried should you be about an asteroid smashing into Earth?
  72. Our verdict on Juice by Tim Winton: Australian climate novel is a hit
  73. 'If a drug had the same benefits as the arts, we’d take it every day'
  74. Read an extract from Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt
  75. New Scientist recommends the quantum soundscape of Liminals
  76. We all harbour 9 secrets and they are eating us up inside
  77. Could a niche 80s technology be the key to better quantum computers?
  78. When we interbred with Neanderthals, they were usually the fathers
  79. Amazing sneak peek of NASA's spacesuit tests as moon mission nears
  80. Stem cell patch reverses brain damage in fetuses with spina bifida
  81. Banning children from VPNs and social media will erode adults' privacy
  82. How to see six planets in the sky at once in rare celestial alignment
  83. Is geothermal energy on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance?
  84. Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too
  85. AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations
  86. What to read this week: Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean by Dagomar Degroot
  87. SpaceX's 1 million satellites could avoid environmental checks
  88. Tiny predatory dinosaur weighed less than a chicken
  89. Breaking encryption with a quantum computer just got 10 times easier
  90. Loophole found that makes quantum cloning possible
  91. Rapamycin can add years to your life, or none at all – it’s a lottery
  92. Cannibalism may explain why some orcas stay in family groups
  93. Landmark vitiligo cream targets immune cells that disrupt pigmentation
  94. Stone Age symbols may push back the earliest form of writing
  95. The surprising vaccine side effects that can improve long-term health
  96. Saturn’s rings may have formed after a huge collision with Titan
  97. Birdwatching may reshape the brain and build its buffer against ageing
  98. Brutal Iron Age massacre may have targeted women and children
  99. Everyone's a queen: The ant species with no males or workers
  100. A horse's whinny is unlike any other sound in nature

Slashdot

  1. OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle
  2. Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO's 40-Year-Old Apple II Code
  3. Meta Acquires Moltbook, the Social Network For AI Agents
  4. German Publishers Push Regulators To Fine Apple Over App Tracking Transparency
  5. EQT Eyes $6 Billion Sale of SUSE
  6. Many International Game Developers Plan To Skip GDC In US
  7. FBI Investigates Breach That May Have Hit Its Wiretapping Tools
  8. Startup Wants To Launch a Space Mirror
  9. European Consortium Wants Open-Source Alternative To Google Play Integrity
  10. Samsung Wants To Let You Vibe Code Your Galaxy Phone Experience
  11. EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch
  12. Live Nation Avoids Ticketmaster Breakup By 'Open Sourcing' Their Ticketing Model
  13. How AI Assistants Are Moving the Security Goalposts
  14. Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down
  15. Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is an AI-Focused Computer Designed For Robotics

BoingBoing

Core77

  1. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Irene Guerrieri on Design That Unlocks Imagination
  2. Joe Colombo's BOB Desktop Organizer Now Back in Production
  3. Tetris-Style Lockers Make Room for Longer Objects in Limited Space
  4. The Designey WK Bath Stool
  5. From Michael Hilgers, Three Examples of Beautifying and Increasing the Utility of Existing Objects
  6. Touch Sensitive Earbuds Suck, but Loop's Earplugs Have a Physical Dial Interface
  7. A Laptop Concept with a Palm-Rest Screen You Can Sketch On
  8. The VertiStack Avante: A Sectional Garage Door That Stacks Overhead
  9. Core77 Weekly Roundup (3-2-26 to 3-6-26)
  10. An Extreme Custom Drafting Table, by Industrial Design Firm Caliper
  11. From Sweden, a Hybrid Stud Design that Speeds Wall Construction
  12. Industrial Design Student Work: A Two-Way Chair
  13. Core77 Design Awards 2026: Vineet Thuvara on Multidisciplinary Innovation
  14. Two Engineers Improve the UX of the Paint Tray
  15. A Combination Kitchen Sink / Dishwasher

CNET

  1. Apple's New Smart Home Display Delayed Until Fall Over Siri Issues
  2. Where Can You Stream the Top 100 Channels on YouTube TV, Hulu Live, Sling and More? We Compare
  3. Philo Shakes Up Its Plan Offerings With New Essential Tier
  4. Champions League Playoff Soccer: Stream Newcastle vs. Barcelona Live From Anywhere
  5. ChatGPT's Latest Homework Help Tool Will Show How Math and Science Concepts Work
  6. Mario Day Is Here and We Are Celebrating Our Favorite Plumber
  7. You Can Still Get Windows 10 Security Updates for Free—Here's the Trick
  8. Don’t Hunt for Spring Sale Deals. We'll Text Them Directly to You
  9. Champions League Soccer: Stream Galatasaray vs. Liverpool Live From Anywhere
  10. AI Could Change Homebuying. How Listings and Negotiations Are Already Shifting
  11. How to Unlock Netflix's Secret Awards Season Categories in Seconds
  12. Photoshop's AI Assistant Can Edit Photos for You, if You Want That
  13. These Fun New Emoji Should Be Dropping Soon in iOS 26.4
  14. MWC 2026 Recap: All the Phones, AI Toys, Robots, Concepts We Saw in Barcelona
  15. 11 Things Your Dishwasher Will Quietly Destroy
  16. Don’t Fret: Learn How to Easily Change Your IP Address With a VPN and These Other Simple Methods
  17. MacBook Neo Review: Near-Perfect Starter Mac Only Misses Out on One Key Feature
  18. Google's New AI Features Are Trying to Make Data Entry a Thing of the Past
  19. MacBook Neo Review: Apple Just Upended the Budget Laptop Market video
  20. Nintendo Switches Lanes, Sues US Over Tariffs
  21. The AI Lie Detector: How to Spot Machine-Written Text Every Time
  22. The Apple Watch Series 12 Could Bring Back a Throwback iPhone Feature
  23. Why Subtitles Aren't Enough: The Growing Demand for ASL in Entertainment
  24. 'R.J. Decker': When Is Episode 2 Coming to Hulu?
  25. Sony WF-1000XM6 vs. Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 Pro Earbuds: A Photo Finish video

Reddit

The Verge

  1. States’ trial against Live Nation could move forward as soon as next week
  2. Judge blocks Perplexity’s AI agents from shopping on Amazon
  3. Slay the Spire II is even better with a friend
  4. Satechi’s new folding dock adds USB, audio, and video ports to the iPad
  5. Grammarly will keep using authors’ identities without permission unless they opt out
  6. The best Mario Day deals we found
  7. Nvidia’s DLSS 4.5 with 6x Frame Generation is rolling out at the end of March
  8. Every influencer eventually becomes a merch store
  9. The gym-friendly Beats Powerbeats Pro 2 are 20 percent off right now
  10. Meta acquires Moltbook, the Reddit-like network for AI agents

Wired

  1. Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol
  2. DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders
  3. Our Favorite Earbuds for Samsung Owners Are on Sale
  4. Fake AI Content About the Iran War Is All Over X
  5. A Trumpworld Events Company Is Raking In Millions in Federal Contracts
  6. GPS Attacks Near Iran Are Wreaking Havoc on Delivery and Mapping Apps
  7. I Used Google’s New Gemini-Powered ‘Help Me Create’ Tool in Docs. It’s Great at Corporate-Speak
  8. Apple MacBook Neo Review: Delicious, Low-Hanging Fruit
  9. What’s the Best iPhone to Buy or Avoid Right Now? (2026)
  10. Some People Are Too Sleepy to Make Fancy Coffee. For Them, There’s the Keurig K-Cafe
  11. 8 Best Cheap Phones (2026), Tested and Reviewed
  12. The Best Streaming Bundles and Streaming Deals of March 2026
  13. How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?
  14. How to Responsibly Dispose of Your Electronics (2026)
  15. Use Microsoft PC Manager to Speed Up Your Windows 11 Computer
  16. Wiim Amp Ultra Review: A Fantastic Streaming Amp With TV Input
  17. 11 Best Pillows: Tested For Side, Back, and Stomach Sleepers (2026)
  18. Yann LeCun Raises $1 Billion to Build AI That Understands the Physical World
  19. Nvidia Is Planning to Launch an Open-Source AI Agent Platform
  20. ‘Flying Cars’ Will Take Off in American Skies This Summer

LifeHacker

  1. Meta Is Buying Moltbook
  2. Here Are the New Features Coming in iOS 26.4
  3. 10 Revolutionary Movies You Should Watch After 'One Battle After Another'
  4. Five Fixes to Try If Push-Ups Hurt Your Wrists
  5. These Beats Studio Pro Headphones Are $220 Off Right Now
  6. This Outdoor-Ready JBL Bluetooth Speaker Is Over 20% Off Right Now
  7. These Stylish Marshall Headphones Are Nearly 50% Off Right Now
  8. Lifehacker Deals Live Blog: The Best Tech Sales, All in One Place
  9. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: Alysa Liu and 'Goonbait'
  10. How I Use My iPhone's Focus Modes to Stop Getting Distracted at the Gym
  11. Bigfoot, 'Distorted Face,' and Six More New Emoji Coming to Your iPhone
  12. Peloton Rides Can Finally Sync to Your Garmin Account
  13. Everything We Know About WhatsApp's Paid Subscription Service
  14. The Fast-Charging Pixel Watch 4 Is Under $300 Right Now
  15. How Anyone Can Score Apple's Educational Discount
  16. This Scam Impersonates the Official Claude Code Website to Spread Malware
  17. The Best Headphones I’ve Ever Tested Are $60 Off Right Now
  18. Here’s What’s in Garmin’s 218-Page Countersuit Against Suunto
  19. The MacBook Neo Outperforms These M-Series MacBooks
  20. This Three-in-One Belkin Charging Pad Is Nearly 75% Off Right Now
  21. 10 Hacks Every Dark Web User Should Know
  22. This Arlo Outdoor Camera Two-Pack Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  23. I’m a Deals Writer, and These Are My Top 10 Tech Deals This Week
  24. This Handheld Atari Console Comes With 200 Old-School Games, and It's $50 Off
  25. These Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Are $100 Off Right Now
  26. Google I/O 2026: How to Watch and What We Know so Far
  27. These Bowers & Wilkins ANC Headphones Are Nearly 60% Off Right Now
  28. This Premium ASUS OLED Gaming Monitor Is Over $100 Off Right Now
  29. How to Track Your Sleep With an Apple Watch
  30. 10 Hacks Every Whoop User Should Know
  31. This Compact Samsung Soundbar/Subwoofer Combo Is on Sale for $140
  32. Yep, Amazon Is Down
  33. Best Buy Has the Best Preorder Deals on the New MacBook Lineup
  34. 10 Tools and Gadgets That Make Lawn Care Way Easier
  35. Virtually Ride Any Route in the World With This New TrainingPeaks Feature
  36. 15 Features Missing From the MacBook Neo
  37. A Four-Pack of These Samsung Tracking Tags Is $45 Right Now
  38. The M3 iPad Air Is $150 Cheaper After the Launch of the M4
  39. Apple Won't Say What Bugs It Patched With iOS 26.3.1
  40. 20 Vampire Movies You Should Watch After 'Sinners'
  41. 10 Hacks Every TikTok User Should Know
  42. How NotebookLM's New 'Cinematic Video' Tool Works
  43. The Top 10 TV Series Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  44. This Amazon Fire TV Surround-Sound System Is Over $200 Off Right Now
  45. How to Use the ‘80/20’ Rule for Running
  46. The MacBook Neo Is Here to Disrupt the Personal Computing Market
  47. Walmart Has a Preorder Deal on the New M4 iPad Air
  48. Here's What's New in Google's Big March Pixel Drop
  49. Apple Is Bringing Back One of Safari's Best Features
  50. Your Android Phone Will Soon Be Able to Help Airlines Find Your Lost Luggage
  51. The 15-inch M4 MacBook Air Just Dropped in Price Following the M5 Announcement
  52. I Ditched Duolingo for Babbel and I'm Actually Learning Instead of Chasing a Streak
  53. The MacBook Neo Isn't the Only Low-Cost Mac Worth Buying
  54. 10 Hacks Every Amazon Fire TV User Should Know
  55. The Pixel's Beloved 'Now Playing' Widget Finally Has a Dedicated App
  56. The Top 10 Movies Right Now, According to Streaming Data
  57. 25 of the Best Hulu Original Series You Should Be Watching
  58. Update Your Android ASAP to Patch These 129 Security Flaws
  59. Apple March Event Live Blog: MacBook Neo, iPhone 17e, M5 Macs, and More
  60. These Are the Best Kinds of Exercise for Losing Weight
  61. You Can Now Customize Your Calling Card on Android
  62. Here’s What’s Happening (and Not Happening) With Smart Rings in 2026
  63. 10 Hacks Every Bluesky User Should Know
  64. You Can Get a $200 Amazon Gift Card With the New Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra
  65. I Tried Meta AI's Shopping Assistant, and I Won't Be Using It Again
  66. This ASUS OLED Gaming Monitor Is $200 Off Right Now
  67. You Can Now Import Your ChatGPT Data to Claude for Free
  68. You Can Preorder the New Samsung Galaxy Buds 4 and Get Up to a $30 Amazon Gift Card
  69. This 104-Piece Craftsman Set Is Just Like My First Tool Box, and It’s Over 50% Off Right Now
  70. Apple Just Announced Five New Mac Products
  71. What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Is Jim Carrey a Clone?
  72. How to Prevent Your Smartwatch Band From Irritating Your Skin
  73. These Skullcandy Headphones Are Over 50% Off Right Now
  74. Amazon's Newest 4K Fire TV Stick Is $20 Right Now
  75. The 30 Best Original Shows Streaming on HBO Max Right Now
  76. Amazon Prime Members Can Get Two Free E-Books in March
  77. Do These Things Now to Prepare for Daylight Saving Time
  78. The Best Ways to Refresh Your Old Kitchen for Cheap (or Free)
  79. 10 Hacks Every Facebook User Should Know
  80. 10 Hacks Every Snapchat User Should Know
  81. The AirPods I Wish I Owned Are $155 Right Now
  82. Apple Just Announced the M4 iPad Air
  83. EcoFlow's Most Powerful Portable Power Station Is 46% Off Right Now
  84. You Can Get This Highly Rated Smartphone Gimbal for $99 Right Now
  85. These Stylish Marshall Headphones Are Over $100 Off Right Now
  86. Google Messages Finally Has Real-Time Location Sharing
  87. Six Features I Already Love About the Amazfit T-Rex Ultra 2 Smartwatch
  88. You Can Get This Five-Year iProVPN Plan for Just $20 Right Now
  89. Apple Just Announced a New 'Affordable' iPhone
  90. You Can Get $150 in International eSIM Data for Just $70 Right Now
  91. You Can Get This Budget HP Laptop on Sale for Just $245 Right Now
  92. Claude Is Down
  93. The Out-of-Touch Adults' Guide to Kid Culture: What Is an 'Alpine Divorce'?
  94. Lenovo's Foldable Gaming Handheld Is Too Cool to Remain Just a Concept
  95. 10 Hacks Every Oura Ring User Should Know
  96. How to Manage Your Increasingly Desperate App Notifications
  97. The New Ultrahuman Ring Pro Has a Surprisingly Feature-Filled Charging Case
  98. The Newest Apple Watch Is $100 Off Right Now
  99. Peloton Just Launched a 12-Week Hyrox Training Program
  100. 10 Hacks Every Meta Quest User Should Know

The Onion

The Register

  1. Cybercrime isn't just a cover for Iran's government goons - it's a key part of their operations
  2. AI datacenters may gulp a New York City's worth of water on hot days
  3. JetBrains launches AI agent IDE built on the corpse of abandoned Fleet
  4. Crooks compromise WordPress sites to push infostealers via fake CAPTCHA prompts
  5. Flying cabs, next-gen aircraft cleared for takeoff in 26 states
  6. Musk admits Starship V3 launch date has slipped as Super Heavy booster rolls into place
  7. Oracle moves to assure MySQL community it really does care
  8. Sorry, kids. Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
  9. Linux PC vendor System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks
  10. Fake job applications pack malware that kills EDR before stealing data
  11. Microsoft Authenticator to nuke Entra creds on rooted and jailbroken phones
  12. Ericsson blames vendor vishing slip-up for breach exposing thousands of records
  13. Protecting democracy means democratizing cybersecurity. Bring on the hackers
  14. Polish cops bust alleged teen DDoS kit sellers – youngest just 12
  15. Retro tech fan views LaserDisc movie data with a budget microscope
  16. Mystery outage behind US airline JetBlue asking FAA to ground its flights
  17. Brit competition cops warn AI agents may not be 'faithful servants' to consumers
  18. Xen Project quietly announced five years of support for all releases
  19. SETI admits its search for alien life may be too narrowly focussed
  20. HPE tweaks T&Cs so the price it quotes may not be the price you pay
  21. Palantir’s lethal AI weaponry deployed to find chairs for US government staff
  22. Anthropic debuts pricey and sluggish automated Code Review tool
  23. AI vs AI: Agent hacked McKinsey's chatbot and gained full read-write access in just two hours
  24. Moody humans should let AI handle bad public feedback first, study finds
  25. Microsoft taps Claude to make Copilot Cowork a better agent
  26. ShinyHunters claims more high-profile victims in latest Salesforce customers data heist
  27. Amazon tells FCC to bin SpaceX's million-satellite datacenter dream
  28. China browses lunar landing spots in race to land on Moon
  29. RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
  30. 'AI brain fry' affects employees managing too many agents
  31. Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier, stuffed with AI and few discounts
  32. EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen
  33. MariaDB backs down on Galera removal after community outcry
  34. LibreOffice learns to speak Markdown in version 26.2
  35. Ex-Meta execs pop up on Nscale board as rent-a-GPU firm raises $2B
  36. Dutch cops warn 100 alleged scammers: Turn yourselves in or we tell Grandma
  37. Russian cybercrims phish their way into officials' Signal and WhatsApp accounts
  38. NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead
  39. Microsoft Azure CTO set Claude on his 1986 Apple II code, says it found vulns
  40. Musk's Grok sparks outrage after chatbot makes offensive jibes about football disasters
  41. Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is
  42. UK government's Shared Services Strategy is entering the danger zone
  43. Royal Navy races to arm ships against drone threat
  44. Bug that wiped customer data saved the day – and a contract
  45. Lenovo, Nintendo sue US government seeking tariff refunds
  46. NASA’s asteroid defence mission slowed targets by 1.7 inches per hour
  47. Iran is the first out-loud cyberwar the US has fought
  48. Beijing warns of more chip supply worries after Nexperia China claims it was cut off from SAP
  49. FBI is investigating breach that may have hit its wiretapping tools
  50. AI agents now help attackers, including North Korea, manage their drudge work

TechMeme

  1. Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
  2. Sandbar, which is developing the Stream Ring, a $249+ AI-powered wearable that transcribes audio notes, raised a $23M Series A, bringing total funding to $36M (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
  3. Slide, which develops data backup and disaster recovery tech for managed service providers, raised a $70M Series B led by GC, bringing its total funding to $95M (CJ Fairfield/CRN)
  4. The Senate confirms Army Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd to lead the NSA and US Cyber Command, filling a vacancy created when Gen. Timothy Haugh was fired in April 2025 (Martin Matishak/The Record)
  5. After an online backlash, Superhuman says experts can now opt out of Grammarly's Expert Review feature by emailing a dedicated address, but fails to apologize (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
  6. Sources: Salesforce plans a record debt sale of up to $25B to fund its share buybacks; the company announced a $50B stock buyback program in February (Bloomberg)
  7. Epic says V-bucks will get more expensive starting March 19, with players getting 800 V-bucks for $8.99, down from 1,000 now, citing Fortnite running costs (Stevie Bonifield/The Verge)
  8. Oppo and OnePlus announce price increases for existing smartphone models starting March 16, citing the rising costs of components such as high-speed storage (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
  9. In a preliminary ruling, a US judge orders Perplexity to stop using Comet browser to make purchases on behalf of users from password-protected Amazon accounts (Bloomberg)
  10. After a backlash, Google adds a toggle to let Google Photos users return to the "classic" search experience instead of the newer AI-powered "Ask Photos" option (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
  11. An interview with Sonos CEO Tom Conrad about Sonos' new speakers, its first consumer product since 2024, killing its set-top box plans, the app fiasco, and more (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
  12. Emil Michael says Google will deploy Gemini AI agents to Pentagon's 3M-strong workforce, initially on unclassified networks for tasks such as creating budgets (Katrina Manson/Bloomberg)
  13. Rhoda AI, which is developing an AI model for industrial robots trained on public internet videos, raised $450M led by Premji Invest at a $1.7B valuation (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
  14. YouTube expands its likeness detection tool to select government officials, political candidates, and journalists to "manage unauthorized AI-impersonation" (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
  15. Meta acquires AI agent social network Moltbook for an undisclosed sum; its creators, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, will join Meta Superintelligence Labs (Ina Fried/Axios)