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ZeniMax workers union votes to authorize a strike against Microsoft over stalled contract negotiations (www.pcgamer.com)
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Google adds end-to-end email encryption to Gmail (www.csoonline.com)
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The new encryption system doesn’t require external exchange of keys or complex user certificate management

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Police told not to close investigations until they have used facial recognition (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Nintendo has moved beyond specsThe company is as popular as it has ever been — and it owes it to leaving the technological arms race behind. (www.theverge.com)
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Brain waves become spoken words in AI breakthrough for paralysis (newatlas.com)
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California-based researchers have developed an AI-powered system to restore natural speech for paralyzed people in real time and using their own voices.

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Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. (www.seroundtable.com)
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Well, it seems to be official now. Starting April 14, 2025 Google will update its Unfair advantage policy to say it is allowed to show the same ad, from the same company, going to the same page, as long as the ad is in a different ad location. Google was just experimenting with double serving ads earlier and now it is officially going to be allowed.

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Mozilla is working on new Thunderbird "Pro" email offerings and Thundermail (www.techspot.com)
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"This has been a long time coming," says Managing Director Ryan Sipes

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4chan's DOGE-inspired April Fools' prank leaves posters seething: ‘This board has been closed by order of the Department of 4chan Efficiency.’ (www.dailydot.com)
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Are Dairy Robots the Secret to Happier Cows and More Efficient Farms? (spectrum.ieee.org)
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Xiaomi says it is cooperating with a Chinese police probe into a fatal crash by a car using its autonomous features; its stock is down 10%+ over the past week. (www.straitstimes.com)
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Honey has now lost 4 million Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed (9to5google.com)
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After being exposed for shady tactics in late 2024, Honey has now lost over 4 million users from its peak numbers.

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Elon Musk and Taylor Swift can now hide details of their private jets/// Private aircraft owners can now ask the FAA to keep their registration information out of the public eye. (www.faa.gov)
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Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. (www.techzine.eu)
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A self-proclaimed data enthusiast calling themselves ‘ThinkingOne’ has made a huge database containing 201 million pieces of user data from X freely available. The data is said to have come from two previous leaks and includes email addresses, locations and profile data of users of the social media platform.

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How some UK parents created a “Smartphone Free Childhood” pledge, signed by 124K+ people, after the UK government watered down a bill banning phones in schools. (www.nytimes.com)
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Stop calling them tech companies: GenAI and SaaS — are they really tech? It’s time to call a spade a spade. (sifted.eu)
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When I started angel investing in the late 1990s, a tech investment included a significant technology risk, with the potential upside being groundbreaking innovation. Being an investor at this time meant taking a considerable technology risk and betting on actual tech, such as nanotech, semiconductors or biotech.

E-commerce, albeit hyped and interesting, was not considered tech. It was “Business 2.0”, plain and straightforward, hype included.

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Teachers warn AI is impacting students' critical thinking (www.axios.com)
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Google Ranking Reddit AI Translated Pages Too Well. (www.seroundtable.com)
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It appears that Google is letting Reddit's AI translated pages rank too well within its search results. This is in addition to Google letting Reddit get a lot of other search visibility, but AI translation, well, that should really not perform so well.

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Apple Offers Apps With Ties to Chinese Military. (www.techtransparencyproject.org)
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Millions of Americans are inadvertently sending their internet traffic to Chinese companies—including several tied to the People’s Liberation Army.

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Tinder unveils “The Game Game”, a free in-app voice-based game that invites users to flirt with AI chatbots powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o and GPT-4o mini models. (www.tinderpressroom.com)
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LOL

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The pannotype mystery: cracking the code of a forgotten photographic process. (blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk)
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The “Dark” Greek Telegram. (lab.imedd.org)
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China's telecoms giant Huawei Technologies says its profit fell 28% while revenue surged in 2024 (www.independent.co.uk)
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Chinese telecoms gear giant Huawei says its net profit fell 28% in 2024 while its revenue surged, as the company invested heavily in advanced technologies

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Big brands are spending small sums on X to stay out of Musk’s crosshairs (arstechnica.com)
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Open Source Genetic Database(OpenSNP) shuts down after 14 years to protect user data from misuse by authoritarian governments. (tzovar.as)
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OpenAI plans to release a new ‘open’ AI language model in the coming months. (openai.com)
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