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• Trending: Apple event on March 4: What to expect Hands-on with Google’s Pixel 10a Tesla drops ‘Autopilot’ upsell in California Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026 is Feb. • 25 iPhone Fo

• Following backlash in aHacker News thread, Microsoft deleted a blog post that critics said encouraged developers to pirate Harry Potter books to train AI models that could then b

• Microsoft removed blog post that promoted using pirated Harry Potter books to train LLMs. • Post was written by senior product manager Pooja Kamath, advocating dataset for genera

• We’re coming out of an era where it seemed like all smartphones were roughly the same size and shape. • Now, designs are speeding away from that uniformity. • We’re seeing slight

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• Welcome to Edition 8.30 of the Rocket Report! • As I write this week’s edition, NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is undergoing a second countdown rehearsal at Kennedy Space Cent

• Samsung releases Bixby 2.0 with conversational AI in One UI 8.5 beta. • Users can issue natural language commands without memorizing exact phrases. • Bixby auto‑adjusts settings

• Home Kitchen & Household All the Mind-Blowing Home and Kitchen Tech We Saw at KBIS 2026 The future of home was on display at KBIS 2206. • Here’s all the coolest stuff coming in 2

• Tech Gaming PlayStation PlayStation 6 Rumors: Potential 2029 Release, Specs, Pricing and More While the PS6’s release is still years away, here’s what we know so far about the ne

• Netflix has steadily expanded its content library. • A quick scroll through the streamer’s selection shows how vast the choices are. • For genre TV fans – specifically, the fant

• Properly installed smoke detectors are often the first line of defense against a house fire, keeping the homeowner informed and ready to take action. • However, it’s important th

• I met Will Stancil two days before he got booted from his neighborhood Signal chat. • We were at the Uptown Minneapolis VFW at an event hosted by Rep. • Ilhan Omar, a thank-you p

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• Streaming has become the default way most of us watch TV and movies, but the sheer number of services now available can make choosing what to subscribe to feel like a chore. • Ea

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• ai atlas Tech Services & Software AI AI Agents Are Getting Better. • Their Safety Disclosures Aren’t A study led by MIT researchers found that agentic AI developers seldom publis

• ai atlas Tech Services & Software AI Google Rolls Out Latest AI Model, Gemini 3.1 Pro Starting Thursday, Gemini 3.1 Pro can be accessed via the AI app, NotebookLM and more. • The

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• Policy Report Tech The executive that helped build Meta’s ad machine is trying to expose it Brian Boland testified about shifting from ‘deep blind faith’ in Meta, to becoming its

• Tech Mobile Phones A Mystery Phone, Found in the Desert, Slowly Reveals Its Secrets The Samsung phone had been lost for a decade. • Then Katie Elkin found it. • Katie Elkin found

• Science Moonquakes: Understanding the Moon’s Tectonic Forces Could Protect Future Astronauts Space agencies and companies looking to set up lunar outposts should build far away f

• Entertainment AI Science The Pitt has a sharp take on AI HBO’s medical drama has been teasing out a smart story about what makes gen AI so tempting and concerning. Link Share Gi

• For years, Google has released an A series line of Pixel phones that deliver a lot of features for less money than their more expensive counterparts, and 2026 is no exception. •

• A Georgia college student named Darian DeCruise hassuedOpenAI, alleging that arecently deprecatedversion of ChatGPT ‘convinced him that he was an oracle’ and ‘pushed him into psy

• Fulu Foundation offers $10,000 bounty for developers to move Ring doorbell footage off Amazon’s cloud. • Goal: enable local storage on PCs or servers, giving users full control o

• NASA on Thursday announced it has formally classified the 2024 crewed flight of the Starliner spacecraft as a’Type A’ mishap, an acknowledgement that the test flight was a seriou

• Final day at KBIS 2026 in Orlando showcases cutting‑edge kitchen, bath, HVAC, smart‑home tech. • LG unveiled a 36‑inch fridge/freezer, pushing size limits rather than miniaturiza

• It’s hard to buy a bad pair of wireless earbuds these days, and with constant discounts and deals wherever you look, now is as good a time as any to splurge on the pair you’ve be

• There’s something special about the gadget that ‘just works.’ Technology can open opportunities for those devices but also complicate and weigh down products that have done just

• Tech Services & Software Cybersecurity Apple Sued Over Allegations of CSAM on iCloud West Virginia’s attorney general alleges that iCloud’s end-to-end encryption is being used to

• Google’s Pixel 10A Launch: $499 Price, New Colors, AirDrop Compatibilty Google’s Pixel 10A phone is now available for preorder, featuring a small feature refresh and a design tha

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• Tech News Meta Meta’s VR metaverse is ditching VR Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform that’s ‘almost exclusively mobile.’ Horizon Worlds is now going to be a platform

• News Social Media Zuckerberg’s Trial Testimony Pushes Back on Social Media Addiction Claims Mark Zuckerberg defended Meta’s social media platforms and addressed his public person

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• News Tech Amazon After Search Party backlash, Ring is still avoiding the bigger questions Maps are not the problem. • Maps are not the problem. • Link Share Gift If you buy somet

• Does ‘bouba’ sound round to you? • Neither are real words, but we’ve known for decades that people who hear them tend to associate them with round objects. • There have been plen

• Tech Services & Software Streaming Services Woody and Buzz Join Forces to Take On a Tablet in New ‘Toy Story 5’ Trailer See Woody reunite with the gang during their feud with a n

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• Gaming Entertainment News Sony is closing the studio behind the Demon’s Souls and Shadow of the Colossus remakes Sony purchased Bluepoint Games in 2021, but recently canceled its

• AI News Tech The AI security nightmare is here and it looks suspiciously like lobster A hacker tricked Cline’s Claude-powered workflow into installing OpenClaw on computers. • A

• It’s just two weeks until F1 gets underway in Australia, and teams are currently in Bahrain, midway through their third and final preseason test. • The 2026 season promises to be

• It’s just two weeks until F1 gets underway in Australia, and teams are currently in Bahrain, midway through their third and final preseason test. • The 2026 season promises to be

• Tech News Policy Texas is suing TP-Link over its ties to China Attorney General Ken Paxton accuses TP-Link of ‘masking its Chinese connections,’ while putting consumers at risk o

• ai atlas Tech Mobile Wireless Plans T-Mobile Introduces Real-Time Live Translation in Its Network for Any Call An AI agent on T-Mobile’s network can translate between languages a

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• Home Kitchen & Household Our Top-Rated Nugget Ice Maker Is Getting a Mini Version The first-ever GE Opal Mini ice maker will be out later this year in a range of bright colors. •

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• Another day, another Google AI model. • Google has really been pumping out new AI tools lately, having justreleased Gemini 3 in November. • Today, it’s bumping the flagship model

• Tech Entertainment News Apple TV’s The Hunt finally has a premiere date Following an unexpected delay, the series is now slated to debut on March 4th. • Following an unexpected d

• YouTube introduces Gemini-powered ‘Ask’ button to smart TVs, consoles, and streaming devices. • Feature uses Gemini chatbot trained on each video’s content for contextual answers

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• Tech News Policy West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud The lawsuit claims Apple has allowed iCloud to become a ‘secure avenue’ for storing

• Orbital AI data centers could work, but they might ruin Earth in the process A single collision could cause a cascading effect in orbit. • At the start of the month, Elon Musk an

• Transportation News Policy New York drops plan to legalize robotaxis in setback for Waymo The plan was to legalize limited robotaxi deployment outside of New York City. • But it

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