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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: AT&T on Wednesday filed suit (PDF) against California officials seeking a court order declaring it does not have to continue offering traditional copper wire phone service to new customers as it vowed to spend $19 billion on modern telecom services. California requires the U.S. wireless carrier to spend $1 billion annually to maintain a...
Global affairs chief Chris Lehane wants to tone down the debate over AI’s societal impacts—and get states to pass laws that won’t derail OpenAI’s meteoric rise.
Frustration with fake dating profiles has spurred new dating services with different approaches.
Cancer Research UK figures show number diagnosed with most serious form of skin cancer has risen above 20,000 for first time
The number of cases from the most serious form of skin cancer have reached a record high across the UK, according to analysis by a leading cancer charity.
Melanoma cases in the UK have risen above 20,000 for the first time ever, with 20,980 people being diagnosed with the...
Thousands of Chicago-area Zillow and Trulia listings disappeared after Midwest Real Estate Data cut off Zillow’s access to its feed, “in the latest escalation of a legal battle with Lisle-based Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED),” reports the Chicago Sun-Times. “The fight is over MRED’s private listing network, where homes for sale are shared among real estate professionals. And MRED followed...
Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser’s “most significant design overhaul” yet, featuring a new unified, edge-to-edge interface, six preset layouts, and deeper customization across tabs, toolbars, panels, and themes. The company is also taking a swipe at rivals chasing questionable AI features. Neowin reports: After updating to version 8.0, Vivaldi will present you with the ability to...
A tech industry guide to where to stay, eat, work, and play while visiting LA.
Three firms will pay nearly $1 million for selling “Active Listening” technology that they claimed tapped people’s phones for advertising. The FTC alleges the “tech” was just pricey email lists.
Trump called off a planned AI executive order just hours before a signing ceremony because he said he was worried the framework could slow America’s lead over China. “We’re leading China, we’re leading everybody, and I don’t want to do anything that’s going to get in the way of that lead,” Trump told reporters. The Associated Press reports: The order would have established a framework for the...
In this episode of Uncanny Valley, we unpack the mass layoffs at Meta, big announcements at Google I/O, and the latest backlash against AI.
The owner of the “Peanuts” catalog would really like it if companies and the U.S. government stopped using its music without permission.
Snap, TikTok and YouTube had already settled with the Kentucky district, allowing the companies to avert the first in a series of federal trials.
These are the AC units we’ve trusted to cool our homes for months, if not years.
BrianFagioli writes: Flipper Devices has finally revealed Flipper One, a Linux-powered cyberdeck that sounds less like a gadget and more like an attempt to rebuild portable ARM computing from the ground up. Unlike Flipper Zero, which focuses on offline protocols like RFID and Sub-1 GHz radio, Flipper One is all about networking, modular hardware, SDR experimentation, local AI, and upstream...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Quantum Insider: The Trump administration is preparing a new round of industrial policy aimed at quantum computing, with roughly $2 billion in grants expected to go to nine companies developing quantum hardware and related technologies. According to Reuters, citing a Wall Street Journal report, the U.S. Department of Commerce plans to distribute the...
We love this brand’s stylish storage lockers, and there’s a big sale on eight colors through the end of the month.
Spotify is launching “Reserved,” a new feature that will set aside concert tickets for Premium subscribers it identifies as an artist’s most dedicated fans based on streams, shares, and other activity. “Getting concert tickets today can feel like a race you’re set up to lose,” Spotify wrote in a post on Thursday. “You show up at the right time, refresh endlessly, and still miss out. Too often,...
The hackathon, held to build user-auditing tools for Palantir customers, comes as the company struggles to address employee concerns over its relationship with ICE.
New york ,USA – Online strategy gaming has long been split across a patchwork of separate sites. Players who want a quick casual match, a competitive ladder, a daily puzzle, structured training, and a community to talk shop with often end up juggling four or five different platforms each with its own account, its own […]
Waymo has paused service in Atlanta after one of its driverless cars entered a flooded street and got stuck. It follows a similar pause in San Antonio that prompted a recent software recall (PDF) over flood avoidance. TechCrunch reports: Waymo admitted that it hadn’t finished developing a “final remedy” for avoiding flooded areas when it issued its software recall last week. Instead, the...
Eli Lilly says participants in a sizable trial of retatrutide lost much more weight compared to other weight-loss drugs
A new weight-loss drug has helped participants in a sizable trial lose much more weight than other obesity drugs already on the market – up to an average of 28% of their body weight – Eli Lilly announced on Thursday.
The Indiana-based pharmaceutical company in a press...