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Interesting set of tools! I like the breakdown.

The momentum is building for a social media ban for minors in one of the largest economies in the world.

The latest updates for Windows 11, Windows 10 as well as Windows Server 2022 and 2025 can lead to a BitLocker recovery prompt. Workaround out.

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If you’ve never seen Jim Carrey’s 2007 psychological thriller The Number 23, then congratulations. It is a film about a man who sees the number 23 so many times that he ends up going bonkers. I used to think this film was stupid. However, now I appear to be living it.

The policy change follows years of Meta and its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg’s pivot of political convenience toward President Donald Trump and his base. Following Trump’s second electoral victory, Meta quickly changed its speech rules to allow for anti-transgender slurs and dehumanization of immigrants, The Intercept previously reported, aligning the company with longtime MAGA culture war grievances.

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Chat, is this real?

Unlike conventional systems that process full image frames, the camera only flags changes as they occur, cutting out redundant data and allowing faster, more efficient tracking of dynamic scenes.

Snapchat’s parent company plans to lay off 16% of its employees, around 1,000 people, citing “rapid advancements in artificial intelligence”, the social media company told staff on Wednesday in an internal memo. The staff reduction is part of a wave of tech industry layoffs in the past year, with many firms blaming AI for the cuts.

I’m sure we’re all aware of the memory price increases due to the AI hype, but it’s helpful to see the trends over time. Heck, maybe these graphs could be a good indicator to watch for if/when the bubble pops.

On the morning of Friday, April 10th, a 20 year-old Texas man named Daniel Alejandro Moreno-Gama was arrested for allegedly throwing a molotov cocktail at Sam Altman’s mansion on Russian Hill in San Francisco. Less than two days later, police arrested 25 year-old Amanda Tom and 23 year-old Muhamad Tarik Hussein for allegedly firing a gun at the same house from their car before speeding away.

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The middle distribution of Gen Z’s feelings about AI range from apprehension to downright hatred. Despite the fact that more than half of Gen Z living in the U.S. uses AI regularly, according to a recently released Gallup poll, less than a fifth feel hopeful about the technology. About a third says the technology makes them angry. And nearly half say it makes them afraid.

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Three distinct platforms form the operational core of MASU’s capability set. The Ghost Shark, built by Anduril Australia in Sydney, is an extra-large autonomous underwater vehicle designed for long-duration submerged missions across vast oceanic distances. Unlike conventionally crewed submarines, it uses a flooded hull design that eliminates the need for a pressurized crew compartment, with waterproof zones protecting propulsion, navigation, and payload systems. In September 2025, Australia committed to acquiring dozens of Ghost Shark XL-AUVs under a A$1.7 billion program, with vehicles entering service from early 2026. The first operational Ghost Shark was delivered to the Royal Australian Navy in January 2026, following the start of low-rate production at Anduril’s Sydney manufacturing facility.

Available operational parameters indicate that the HH-200 is designed for use in low-altitude logistics corridors, with the ability to conduct point-to-point cargo transport without reliance on major airport infrastructure. The cargo drone can operate from runways as short as 500 meters, which allows deployment from secondary or improvised airfields. It is capable of operating at altitudes above 4,200 meters, maintaining performance in high-altitude environments where air density affects lift and engine efficiency. Environmental operating limits range from −40°C to +50°C, allowing deployment in both cold and high-temperature climates. Cargo loading and unloading require two personnel and approximately five minutes, enabling high sortie generation rates in time-sensitive operations.

This is a weird time to be alive.

Buried in the story was a deceptively simple question: does your AI agent count as an employee?

For our new BBC podcast, Top Comment, we spoke to a representative of Explosive Media, one of the key accounts generating these clips. He wanted us to refer to him as Mr Explosive.

The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.

Does the world need more billionaires? Guess we will soon find out, as they multiplying now, and not even naturally!