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US private equity firm Thoma Bravo to acquire UK cybersecurity company Darktrace for $5.3 billion in cash

BloFin Sponsors TOKEN2049 Dubai and Celebrates the SideEvent: WhalesNight AfterParty 2024

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MeWe Launches a Community Invest Round via WeFunder

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AeroNet Wireless Launches 10Gbps Internet Plan: A Landmark Moment in Puerto Rico’s Telecommunications Industry

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Your brain after sitting down for 20 minutes vs walking for 20 minutes, research findings will shock you

Nvidia-backed AI startup Synthesia unveils AI avatars that conveys human emotions using user’s text inputs

IBM to buy cloud software provider HashiCorp in a $6.4 billion deal

Velocity Labs and Ramp Network facilitate fiat to crypto onramp on Polkadot via Asset Hub support

Hipposol, A Solana-based Memecoin Announces $Hippos Token Presale Round

Brazilian fintech startup Vixtra secures $36M in funding to support small business importers in Latin America

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Apple’s Regular Mac Base RAM Boosts Ended When Tim Cook Took Over

Google is feeling pretty pumped about a new way of showing you ads on YouTube

Crypto Mixer Samourai Wallet’s Co-Founders Arrested for Money Laundering

Two-bedroom house printed in 18 hours

UK’s Investigatory Powers Bill to become law despite tech world opposition

Three women contract HIV from dirty “vampire facials” at unlicensed spa

GMB launches legal action against ‘out of control’ Amazon at Coventry warehouse

I’m creating PBR Textures and 3D models since 2018 and sharing them for free

Big Tech keeps spending billions on AI. There’s no end in sight.

British intelligence moves to protect research universities from espionage

Writers Guild of Canada Overwhelmingly Votes to Authorize Strike Over AI, Fair Pay

Generative AI could soon decimate the call center industry, says CEO | There could be “minimal” need for call centres within a year

Senate pursues action against AI deepfakes in election campaigns

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths / NHTSA found that Tesla’s driver-assist features are insufficient at keeping drivers engaged in the task of driving, which can often have fatal results.

US probes Tesla recall of 2 million vehicles over Autopilot

The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco

Strict New EPA Rules Cap ‘Historic Grand Slam’, Force Coal Plants to Capture Emissions or Shut Down

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Windows 11 will reportedly display a watermark if your PC does not support AI requirements

Wired

1994 Was the Last Good Year—and It’s Still Going

‘Metaphor: ReFantazio’ Steals the Best Ideas From ‘Persona 5’

Boomergasms Are Booming

North Koreans Secretly Animated Amazon and Max Shows, Researchers Say

The Taylor Swift Album Leak’s Big AI Problem

Nas’ ‘Illmatic’ Was the Beginning of the End of the Album

Delta Is an iOS Game Boy Emulator That (Likely) Won’t Get Taken Down

How ‘Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley’ Hit Its Anti-Authoritarian Stride

The More People Say ‘Megalopolis’ Is Unsellable, the More We Need to See It

‘Civil War’ Review: Alex Garland Plays Both Sides

Slashdot

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Europeans ‘Less Hard-Working’ Than Americans, Says Norway Oil Fund Boss

Encrypted Email Service Files DMA Complaint Claiming It Vanished from Google Search

Windows 11 Will Display Watermark If Your PC Does Not Support AI Requirements

Apple Removes Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps From App Store

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Other Tech Leaders To Serve on AI Safety Board

Honda To Spend $11 Billion On Four EV Factories In North America

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TSMC Unveils 1.6nm Process Technology With Backside Power Delivery

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Alphabet Shares Jump 14% On Earnings Beat, First-Ever Dividend

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Seagate Joins the HDD Price Hike Party, Blames AI for Spike in Demand

The Verge

Lego is bringing summer vibes with K.K. Slider and new Animal Crossing sets

One year with the Light Phone 2

DJI might get banned next in the US

Tesla’s Autopilot is under investigation again following ‘recall’ software update

New EU regulations target Shein’s counterfeit fashion problem

Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths

What’s next with AI?

How to stop being reminded of memories you don’t want to be reminded of

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Sony’s PlayStation Portal handheld is back in stock at multiple retailers

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Baltimore coach accused of using AI voice cloning to try to get a high school principal fired

TechCrunch

Disrupt 2024 speaker applications close at midnight

Pitch Deck Teardown: NOQX’s $200K pre-seed deck

OpenAI Startup Fund quietly raises $15M

Good news for Rubrik, bad news for TikTok, and medium news for Early Stage startups

Global Founders Capital will deploy Rocket Internet’s cash instead of raising a new fund

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Zomato’s quick commerce unit Blinkit eclipses core food business in value, says Goldman Sachs

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The FTC’s ban on noncompete clauses could be good for startups. But it also might be struck down.

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Defense startup True Anomaly lays off around 25%, cancels summer internship

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Speaker applications close tomorrow for TechCrunch Disrupt 2024

Rubrik’s shares climb 20% in its public debut

Mashable

Hot Spotify Tracks, Taylor Swift’s New Album, Tesla Recalls, and the Best Now Streaming

Jennifer Hudson on surviving in a world with no oxygen in ‘Breathe’

How to watch the 2024 Madrid Open online for free

‘The Exorcism’ trailer teases a horror movie actor going a little bit too method

Summer Movie Preview: Every film you oughta know

‘Boy Kills World’ review: Awesome action, but…

NYT’s The Mini crossword answers for April 26

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‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ review

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How to watch Real Sociedad vs. Real Madrid online for free

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How to watch the 2024 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix online for free

Engadget

NHTSA concludes Tesla Autopilot investigation after linking the system to 14 deaths

Wacom’s first OLED pen display is also the thinnest and lightest it has ever made

It doesn’t matter how many Vision Pro headsets Apple sells

The Google Pixel Buds Pro are back on sale for $135

Dell XPS 13 and XPS 14 review (2024): Gorgeous laptops with usability quirks

OpenAI’s Sam Altman and other tech leaders join the federal AI safety board

The Morning After: Apple announces an iPad event for May 7

Engadget Podcast: Why TikTok will never be the same again

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Apple is launching new iPads May 7: Here’s what to expect from the ‘Let Loose’ event

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Tupac’s estate threatens to sue Drake for his AI-infused Kendrick Lamar diss

ReadWrite

Bulgarian politicians propose a national gambling ad ban

Microsoft ramp up AI spending as it smashes Q3 earnings expectations

Elon Musk’s xAI closes in on $6 billion as AI race heats up

Surprisingly, people are surprised that the Fallout 4 next-gen update is packed with bugs

Blizzard cancels Blizzcon – the end of the show as we know it?

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Baltimore school principal targeted in faked audio AI scam

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Hasbro’s bad Q1 earnings could have been worse without Fallout and Baldur’s Gate

Call of Duty: MW3 Season 3 Reloaded’s mid-season content update arrives May 1

Launch date set for Squad Busters, Supercell’s first game in more than 5 years

Meta sounds profit warning as AI spending soars

The Next Web

This week in Dutch tech

Why Lithuania is a hidden gem of Europe’s startup ecosystem

DeepL launches AI writing assistant for businesses trained on its own LLM

Darktrace agrees £4.3B sale to US investor in blow to UK stock market

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To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

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Cyberattacks on Poland surged after election of pro-Ukraine government, NetScout says

Europe taps deep learning to make industrial robots safer colleagues

AI unicorn Synthesia launches most ’emotionally expressive’ avatars on the market

‘Airbnb for cars’ platform SnappCar changes hands in bid for ‘further growth’

Paris startup adds ‘universal compute’ weapon to France’s growing AI arsenal

Daring Fireball

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[Sponsor] WorkOS

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Mac Rumors

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MacRumors Giveaway: Win an iPhone 15 and Blue Light Screen Protector From Ocushield

The MacRumors Show: Apple’s iPad Event Finally Announced!

AirPods 4 Rumors: Everything We Know So Far

Best Apple Deals of the Week: Shop Low Prices on M3 MacBook Air, M3 iMac, and M1 iPad Air

Share a Webpage Link With Quoted Text in iPhone Messages

Apple Sinks From First to Fifth Place in Chinese Smartphone Market

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Apple’s 2025 M4 Mac Pro: What to Expect

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Review: Satechi Launches New Qi2 Charging Stands

Apple Card Promo Offers 10% Daily Cash at Nike

Best Buy Introduces Record Low Prices on Apple’s M3 MacBook Pro for Members

Ars Technica

Tesla’s 2 million car Autopilot recall is now under federal scrutiny

Switch 2 reportedly replaces slide-in Joy-Cons with magnetic attachment

20% of grocery store milk has traces of bird flu, suggesting wider outbreak

Lost opportunity: We could’ve started fighting climate change in 1971

Rocket Report: SLS workforce cuts; New Glenn launch to launch in the early fall

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Russia stands alone in vetoing UN resolution on nuclear weapons in space

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Tech brands are forcing AI into your gadgets—whether you asked for it or not

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Dirty “vampire facials” behind first HIV outbreak linked to spa treatments

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HMD’s first self-branded phones are all under $200

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Apple releases eight small AI language models aimed at on-device use

Recode

Maybe AI can finally kill the cover letter

Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

A new era of technology coverage on Vox

The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app

Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained

Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

Stop using your phone number to log in

Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

TechRadar

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Signed, sealed, delivered, summarized: new Gemini-powered AI feature for Gmail looks like it’s close to launch

Security and interoperability on the cards for US government use of Zoom, Slack and Teams

Avengers 5 rumored to start filming in early 2025, and one Marvel supergroup isn’t expected to feature

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 specs predictions: all the key specs we expect

Nintendo Switch 2 will reportedly be larger than its predecessor and feature magnetic Joy-Con controllers

Gigabyte’s heavy-handed fix for Intel Core i9 CPU instability drops performance to Core i7 levels in some cases – but don’t panic yet

US health giant Kaiser hit by data breach — millions of customers informed they could be at risk

Microsoft is bringing Window’s 11’s slimmed-down updates to Windows 10, shedding megabytes for quicker upgrades

Distributed cloud may solve data management challenges

AWS is investing billions in one of its biggest US cloud regions

BuzzFeed

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Meet Kat Abu, The TikToker Mocking Fox News “Just For Funsies”

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“An Extremely Dangerous Game”: How Andrew Tate’s Recent Behavior May Be Doing Him More Harm Than Good

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Help, The World Is On Fire And I Feel Like My Life Is Over At 24

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TikToker Kat Abu Is So Happy Tucker Carlson Got Fired

Help, The World Is On Fire And I Feel Like My Life Is Over At 24

Researchers Accused Google And “60 Minutes” Of Spreading AI “Disinformation”

Researchers Are Calling Out Google And “60 Minutes” For Overhyping AI’s Abilities

“An Extremely Dangerous Game”: How Andrew Tate’s Recent Behavior May Be Doing Him More Harm Than Good

Fake Drakes And Counterfeit Kanyes: The Internet Is Suddenly Full Of AI-Generated Hip-Hop

People Are Using ChatGPT For Therapy. Here’s What Mental Health Experts Think About That.

Inquisitr

Scientists Sound Alarm Over Elon Musk’s Neuralink Brain Chip

Luxury Brands Embrace Metaverse Amid Crypto Bubble Fears

Instagram Adds Option For Users To Include Pronouns On Profile

Elon Musk Announces Dogecoin-funded Mission To Moon

LiveLeak Shuts Down After 15 Years

Humans Could Soon Be Able To Talk To Spiders, Experts Say

‘Alien Raindrops’ Could Uncover Secrets Of Other Worlds, Study Suggests

Large 492-Foot Asteroid To Shoot By Earth Today At 40,000 MPH

Two Asteroids To Swing By Earth Tomorrow On Double Close Encounter

NASA To Test-Fire Its Massive Moon Rocket Today In Anticipation Of The Artemis 1 Mission

New York Times

Concern Over Visa Wait Times for Fans of the 2026 World Cup

The Emotions of Each Premier League Title Race Fan Base

Kirk Cousins Stunned by Falcons’ Decision to Draft Michael Penix Jr.

Joel Embiid — Battling Bell’s Palsy — Turns in 50-Point Masterpiece

A Former M.L.B. Player Honors His Son, a Marine Pilot: ‘He Was My Hero’

Grading Every Pick From Round 1 of the N.F.L. Draft

They’re Both Pro Hockey Players. This Is How They Make Their Marriage Work.

The Winners and Losers From Round 1 of the N.F.L. Draft

Auto Safety Regulator Investigating Tesla Recall of Autopilot

TikTok on the Clock, Tesla’s Flop Era and How NASA Fixed a ’70s-Era Space Computer

BBC News

World’s biggest 3D printer whirs into action

Tesla Autopilot recall to be probed by US regulator

Google accused of making it harder to search for rival

Meta shares sink after it reveals spending plans

How fraudsters are getting fake articles onto Facebook

US TikTok ban would be ‘devastating’, UK firms warn

Tesla profits slump by more than a half

US Senate passes bill that could see TikTok banned

Spotify turns up volume to make record profits

Tech Life: Humanoid robots

CNET

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