Amazon is making an Alexa phone
Over ten years after shelving the Fire Phone, Amazon is reportedly planning to launch another smartphone, this time focused on Alexa. According to Reuters, the phone, which is code-named "Transformer," will center around Amazon's AI assistant, but Alexa won't…
Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation
The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar state…
The team behind 1000xResist is making a game about convincing an AI that it isn’t human
When the team at indie studio Sunset Visitor were wrapping up their critically acclaimed first game, 1000xResist, it wasn't long before they started thinking about what they'd tackle next. According to creative director Remy Siu, the studio's goal is to alway…
Crimson Desert dev apologizes for use of AI art
Reviews of Crimson Desert have been mixed, but the bigger issue for the game has been the discovery of what appeared to be AI-generated assets in the final release. Now the developer has acknowledged that AI art was indeed used during the game's creation, but…
Unionized ProPublica staff are on strike over AI, layoffs, and wages
Unionized staff at ProPublica, one of the country's leading nonprofit newsrooms, are walking off the job for 24 hours beginning Wednesday and asking the public to honor a digital picket line. The roughly 150 members of the ProPublica Guild are in the midst of…
Anthropic’s Mythos Will Force a Cybersecurity Reckoning—Just Not the One You Think
The new AI model is being heralded—and feared—as a hacker’s superweapon. Experts say its arrival is a wake-up call for developers who have long made security an afterthought.
The great EV pullback: all the obstacles, cancellations, and delays
The auto industry bet big on electric vehicles, but now those ambitious goals are falling apart. Demand was already slowing down when Donald Trump took office and took an ax to pro-EV policy: the elimination of the federal EV tax credit, kneecapping clean ene…
Sony Wants to Defeat Ghibli AI Slop… By Feeding Ghibli Movies Into Its Own Slop Machine
Sony hopes its new technology, Protective AI, will protect creators and rights holders from copyright infringement by making their own in-house AI slop machine that does the same thing.
A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta
For almost two hours last week, Meta employees had unauthorized access to company and user data thanks to an AI agent that gave an employee inaccurate technical advice, as previously reported by The Information. Meta spokesperson Tracy Clayton said in a state…
Nvidia GTC: All the AI and Robotics News We Expect to Hear at Today's Keynote
Physical AI, agents, inference and more are on the table for the world's biggest company during Monday's conference kickoff.
How Two Indie Darlings Are Challenging a Collapsing Industry With Their Next Game
'Prove You're Human,' from the developers behind '1000xResist' and 'Slay the Princess,' is a surreal interrogation of an AI that thinks she's human.
Workers Most At-Risk of Being Hit by AI Layoffs Are Well-Positioned to Adapt, Study Finds
A study finds that millions of workers in AI-exposed jobs could adapt, but about 6 million may struggle to find new work.
Iran Threatens to Start Attacking Major US Tech Firms on April 1
Tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft are among those on a target list released by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
6G is coming, and these are 3 things you'll be able to do with it
6G will be here before you know it, and Qualcomm and Nvidia have already shared their plans for the new connectivity tech. Here's what you need to know.
Take-Two Reshuffles Its AI Team
The AI division was working on 'cutting edge technology' to support game development
China’s Biggest Social Media Celebrity Is… Kris Jenner?
RedNote users have been changing their profile pics and "praying" to the reality TV icon with the hopes of manifesting fame and fortune.
In Praise of Chuck Norris Facts, Key Artifact from the Time When It Felt Great to Be Online
Retracing the history of the first meme that completely took over the world.
How AI is getting better at finding security holes
Anthropic announced this week that its new model found security flaws in "every major operating system and web browser." Even before the news, AI models had gotten dramatically better at finding bugs.
We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: ‘What The F***, Nvidia?’
One game developer told Kotaku that after seeing DLSS 5, 'it feels like there is no future for me' in the video game industry
Maine could be the first state to ban new data centers. These 11 other states tried and failed.
Maine's AI data center moratorium bill could halt construction until 2027. 11 other states tried to address concerns over AI infrastructure growth.
Tecno taps OpenClaw to supercharge its Ella AI assistant with new automation features
Tecno is integrating OpenClaw into its Ella AI assistant, bringing new automation capabilities such as message prioritization and summarization, multi-app integration, and more.
Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 firmware leak signals launch is right around the corner
The Galaxy Watch 9 could be nearly here with a new chip and same design, but while it promises better efficiency, the unchanged battery means daily charging likely isn’t going anywhere.
Grindr's CPO says software engineering is 'changing in a good way' and 70% of its code is being checked in via AI
Grindr's CPO, AJ Balance, told Business Insider about the company's AI and ads strategy, using Claude Code, and testing a $350 subscription tier.
Non-Determinism Isn't a Bug. It's Tuesday
Kasava is the AI-native platform purpose-built for product development. Plan, build, and ship with AI-powered chat, call analysis, and plan generation.
Amid AI and DLSS 5 concerns, Capcom says “generative AI could be a partner” in game development
Capcom has detailed how it plans to use generative AI in game development, focusing on idea generation and efficiency while avoiding AI-generated assets in final game content.
We Met Disney’s Most Advanced Robot Yet: Olaf From ‘Frozen’
The life-size, walking, talking robot will debut in parks later this month, representing huge leaps for Disney.
Is The RAM AI-pocalypse Finally Over? Probably Not
RAM manufacturers' stock prices are falling across the board this week, but it's too early to break out the celebratory post-AI-bubble-popping champagne
Amazon wants a smartphone do-over: 'Transformer' project to take over, per report
Wild rumors claimed Amazon is headed back down the smartphone road after the Fire Phone failed over a decade ago.
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Increase Guidance and Control over Agent Mode with Android Studio Panda 3
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
How Software Startup InsightSquared Wrestled with Creating an Optimal Sales and Marketing Strategy
Even with strong product market fit, these founders disagreed on how to best focus their strategy to scale.
Chris Pratt Responds To Fan Theories About Wario And Waluigi Being In Mario Galaxy Movie
Also: how much would you pay for a Sonic Heroes tattoo on your elbow?
Valve Writer Erik Wolpaw Says Some At The Studio Have Been Experimenting With AI Tools
The Half-Life writer says the tech is not good at being creative, but could be used to provide real-time responses in games
Gemma 4: The new standard for local agentic intelligence on Android
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Google Search 'experiment' uses AI to rewrite news headlines
More AI in search results
Android Studio supports Gemma 4: our most capable local model for agentic coding
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Trivy Supply Chain Attack Spreads, Triggers Self-Spreading CanisterWorm Across 47 npm Packages
"We have removed all malicious artifacts from the affected registries and channels," Trivy maintainer Itay Shakury posted today, noting that all the latest Trivy releases "now point to a safe version." But "On March 19, we observed that a threat actor used a …
"If it's this easy, why don't more Windows apps use a PC's NPU?" — Microsoft MVP demonstrates how he added meaningful AI to an app in just 10 minutes
Microsoft MVP Lance McCarthy highlights how easy it actually is to add AI to an app using Microsoft's Windows AI APIs during development. I want to see more of this type of AI and less of the unecessary bloat that's giving it a bad name.
Trump unveils national AI policy framework
The Trump administration released a national AI framework addressing safety, jobs, energy use and free speech as the U.S. seeks to stay competitive globally.
Thousands of tech workers have left Israel in recent years. 3 of them told us war wasn't their only reason.
As Israel's tech sector started growing in the '90s, so too did the number of its tech workers and its reliance on the industry. War, politics, and the cost of living are driving people out.
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Beyond Infotainment: Extending Android Automotive OS for Software-defined Vehicles
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
Wall Street Raced To Sell Junk Bond Debt For EA Buyout Before U.S. Potentially Invades Iran
Also: will Marathon really be around for years to come?
The history of Apple in photos, from the early Steve Jobs era to the iPhone launch to its 50-year mark
Apple marks 50 years since its founding, highlighting its evolution from the iMac to the iPhone, and its leaders, including Steve Jobs and Tim Cook.
The Black Ops 7 X Half Baked Tracer Pack Featuring Dave Chapelle Is A Real Thing But Players Aren’t Impressed
Also: classic Tomb Raider gets a patch for its ugly new cosmetics
Quantic Dream Is About To Skip An Entire PlayStation Console Generation
Also: another Black Ops 7 oopsie
AYANEO can't sell its NEXT 2 Windows gaming handheld anymore because it's "no longer sustainable" — AI and the RAM and SSD shortage crisis are to blame
Sales of AYANEO's enthusiast-class NEXT 2 handheld gaming PC have been suspended due to ongoing RAM and SSD shortages caused by the AI boom.
Microsoft’s latest AI image generator aims for accuracy over hype, but it’s not top‑tier just yet
Microsoft’s latest image model, MAI-Image-2, vaults to #3 on the global leaderboards, marking a major shift toward internal AI development over OpenAI reliance.
OpenAI just killed its Sora AI video creation app
OpenAI released its second iPhone app in September with the launch of Sora. Unlike ChatGPT, however, Sora has failed to gain traction. As a result, OpenAI is discontinuing the app. more…
OpenAI shock as firm shuts down popular Sora AI video generation app in desperate bid to temper spending
Open AI has announced that it's shutting down Sora, its popular AI video generation app and model that also powers Microsoft's Bing video generation service.
Crimson Desert Has Already Sold A Shocking Number Of Copies In Just 24 Hours
Also: does Diablo 4 keep changing too much?
Former Microsoft Xbox VP says AI is "the big question mark" for the future of gaming — he believes "There won't be a line where it's 'AI' and 'not AI' anymore"
Microsoft's former gaming and Xbox VP Ed Fries believes AI is "the big question mark" for gaming moving forward, and says it's not going away.
Even the studios highlighted in NVIDIA's DLSS 5 reveal were shocked by the generative AI showcase — game developers "found out at the same time as the public"
Developers at Ubisoft and Capcom reportedly learned about Nvidia’s DLSS 5 at the same time as the public, raising questions about developer control and AI use.
No AI in Node.js Core
A petition to disallow acceptance of LLM assisted Pull Requests in Node.js core - indutny/no-ai-in-nodejs-core
Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11 as it moves to reduce AI bloat across the OS
Originally announced in 2024, Microsoft's plan to integrate Copilot across various areas of the Windows 11 shell has been shelved as the company reevaluates its AI approach in the OS.
The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
Welcome to the era of sprawling, idiosyncratic tooling.
Bethesda's Todd Howard says NVIDIA DLSS 5 in Xbox's Starfield is "amazing" — everyone else is calling it uncanny AI slop
The internet is laying into NVIDIA's DLSS 5 tech for making NPCs look like AI slop, but Bethesda's Todd Howard thinks it's "amazing" in Xbox's Starfield.
2027 Is Shaping Up to Be a Great Year for Big Sci-Fi RPGs
Whether you're excited for 'Exodus' or 'The Expanse: Osiris Reborn,' it looks like RPG fans will be eating good next year.
Every Law a Commit – US Law in GitHub
How we turned the entire United States Code into a Git repository in a weekend — and why it matters.
Meta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop It
Meta Is Turning Its Smart Glasses Into A Mass Surveillance Tool… And You Can’t Stop ItIf not Palantir, why Palantir-shaped?? Palantir builds spy tech for the CIA, DHS, and ICE. It aggregates data, maps your life, and tells governments who...
Microsoft’s leadership exodus deepens as diversity chief departs — is the company’s “AI-powered transformation” to blame?
An internal memo reveals Microsoft’s HR restructure with new leaders, departures, and AI priorities reshaping employee experience.
New Toyota Celica Might Pack 450 HP from a Hybrid-Turbo Engine
It's been about 20 years since the last Toyota Celica rolled off the assembly line, but it's coming back with a vengeance. It's not like a spur-of-the-moment...
After backlash from gamers, the developers of Crimson Desert are reevaluating their stance on Intel Arc graphics card support
Crimson Desert initially launched without working Intel Arc support, prompting backlash from players. Pearl Abyss has now confirmed it is working on compatibility and optimization updates.
Unremarkable Medieval Action Sim 1348 Ex Voto Gets Hit With Absurd Conspiracy Over Italian Tax Relief Funds
Online chuds are claiming it's Lesbian propaganda
Generative AI in Gaming Is Here, but Facing Pushback from Gamers -- and Developers
At GDC 2026, Google trumpeted Gemini-powered games, but the industry still hasn't found must-have uses to win over players and developers.
VR Is Not Dead
VR is not dead. It is rooted in ancient ideas, psychology, and culture. These form strong social foundations for the technology.
‘How Do We Make Sure That Claude Behaves Itself?’ Anthropic Invited 15 Christians for a Summit
Anthropic is reportedly looking to be steered by various kinds of moral thinkers.
FBI warns of zoning permit scam emails
The FBI warns scammers are sending fake zoning and permit fee emails to homeowners, builders and businesses using real property details.
Why the crisis in official statistics matters — and how it can be fixed
Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate funding and increased politicization of official data.
Show HN: Phantom – Open-source AI agent on its own VM that rewrites its config
An AI co-worker with its own computer. Self-evolving, persistent memory, MCP server, secure credential collection, email identity. Built on the Claude Agent SDK. - ghostwright/phantom
Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?
We asked the Dark Sky guy what it takes to get the forecast right.
Crimson Desert developers apologize for the use of generative AI
Player counts continue to rise as Pearl Abyss apologizes for reported AI use.
This sci‑fi twist on Moby-Dick will blow your mind
Alexis Hall reimagines Melville’s classic with space whales, AI intrigue and a bold queer twist that launches Moby-Dick into an entirely new sci‑fi universe
Microsoft's AI slop is infecting GitHub — Copilot is now injecting ads into pull requests
A software developer found Copilot injecting ads into a GitHub pull request. Over 11,000 similar instances have been discovered.
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What’s Hot, What’s Not: AI Search Changes In Q1 2026 [Recap] via @sejournal, @MattGSouthern
At SEJ Live, we sorted Q1's AI search changes into what's hot and what's not. Here's what we covered and where to watch it.The post What’s Hot, What’s Not: AI Search Changes In Q1 2026 [Recap] appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
The Tim Ferriss Show Transcripts: Q&A with Tim — The Upcoming AI Tsunami and Building Offline Advantage, Book Recommendations, Spotting Psychedelic Red Flags, Courage as a Learnable Skill, and More (#859)
Please enjoy this transcript of another in-between-isode, with one of my favorite formats: the good old-fashioned Q&A. Books, people, tools, and resources mentioned in the interview Legal conditions/copyright information Additional podcast platforms Listen to…
"We never got to finish": Ex-Windows chief reveals Microsoft could have already improved Windows 11 by now — cutting memory and storage demands by 20%
Microsoft had the chance to make Windows 11 faster and lighter by cutting memory and storage by 20%, but the project never materialized.
How To Do Evergreen Content In 2026 (And Beyond)
Why traditional evergreen SEO content is losing impact and how to reframe it around information gain, audience value, and business outcomes.The post How To Do Evergreen Content In 2026 (And Beyond) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
Vertex AI Vulnerability Exposes Google Cloud Data and Private Artifacts
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security "blind spot" in Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform that could allow artificial intelligence (AI) agents to be weaponized by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data and compromise an organiza…
Project Mario: the inside story of DeepMind
The inside story of how DeepMind’s experiments in AI safety governance transformed Demis Hassabis from an idealist into a realist
Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure
LLM-generated passwords appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure. Testing across GPT, Claude, and Gemini revealed highly predictable patterns: repeated passwords across runs, skewed character distributions, and dramatically lower entropy than expected. C…
Palantir defends its role in the kill chain: "We are proud of that"
There are no secrets” is Palantir’s conference motto. Yet how its software actually works in real-world use remains a secret to outsiders.
AI hype and the quality hangover
As AI accelerates software development, quality assurance must evolve to prevent instability and costly outages.
How AI Agents See Your Website (And How To Build For Them) via @sejournal, @slobodanmanic
Websites built with semantic HTML, accessible patterns, and visible server-rendered content are better positioned for the agentic web.The post How AI Agents See Your Website (And How To Build For Them) appeared first on Search Engine Journal.
OpenAI Patches ChatGPT Data Exfiltration Flaw and Codex GitHub Token Vulnerability
A previously unknown vulnerability in OpenAI ChatGPT allowed sensitive conversation data to be exfiltrated without user knowledge or consent, according to new findings from Check Point."A single malicious prompt could turn an otherwise ordinary conversation …
An Interview with Pat Gelsinger
Investing in Startups and Pushing the Boundaries
The Anti-Intellectualism of Silicon Valley Elites
I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, and now every time a reactionary Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation. Here's the column: On Instagram, there’s an acti…
The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI
Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the “AI-powered” telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a “$1.8 billion company” supposedly run by just two brothers — I’ve had multiple friends and family member…
I reverse-engineered the TiinyAI Pocket Lab from marketing photos
A $1.7M Kickstarter campaign built on forked academic research, undisclosed MoE architectures, split memory pools behind PCIe bottlenecks, and a company that won't tell you who they are. I did the math. The math doesn't lie.
AI could reverse social media’s worst consequence
For more than four decades, technological progress has been undermining expert authority, democratizing public debate, and steering individuals toward ever-more bespoke conceptions of reality. In the mid-20th century, the high costs of television production —…
Judge Says Witness Wore Smart Glasses to Sneakily Inform Their Testimony
A UK judge determined that a witness was being fed answers through his smart glasses during cross-examination.
My favorite free Windows 11 app just got another great update — what's new in PowerToys v0.98
The latest update to PowerToys adds a Command Palette Dock that lets you pin your favorite extensions to the desktop. It also improves my favorite new utility, CursorWrap.
Two more senior Xbox leaders exit Microsoft
Microsoft has lost another two long-serving members of its senior team: corporate VP of partnerships, business development, and marketing, Lori Wright, and general manager of gaming AI at Xbox, Haiyan Zhang. Both announced their departures on LinkedIn. Read m…
Dozens of European cloud CEOs call for real tech sovereignty ahead of Cloud and AI Development Act
24 leaders, backed by CISPE, was asking the European Union to carefully consider how it goes about driving tech sovereignty.
Single-maintainer open source is a ticking time bomb, and Booklore just detonated
A warning about open-source projects that have only one maintainer
The State of Trusted Open Source Report
In December 2025, we shared the first-ever The State of Trusted Open Source report, featuring insights from our product data and customer base on open source consumption across our catalog of container image projects, versions, images, language libraries, and…
Sora Is Dead at OpenAI, and So Is Its Deal with Disney, but the AI Video Battle Is Just Beginning
OpenAI will shut down its generative AI Sora text-to-video app for users ahead of a planned IPO.
OFAC Sanctions DPRK IT Worker Network Funding WMD Programs Through Fake Remote Jobs
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) information technology (IT) worker scheme with an aim to de…
Radar Trends to Watch: April 2026
Starting with this issue of Trends, we’ve moved from simply reporting on news that has caught our eye and instead have worked with Claude to look at the various news items we’ve collected and to reflect on what they tell us about the direction and magnitude o…
From Mixed to Magic — Crimson Desert's Steam reviews surge to glory
The developers have been hard at work making changes, and the player base is steadily falling in love with the continent of Pywel.
Significant progress made on Xbox 360 recompilation
Plus: A launcher for recompilations and a new PS1 fan translation.
I tested Google’s upcoming Gemini Nano 4 — its faster, smarter AI isn’t what I expected
Google's upcoming Gemini Nano 4 promises faster, smarter on-device AI for smartphones, so I tested it ahead of release to see what's improved.