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MLB's robot-assisted strike zone is exposing umpire errors in real time 4 April 2026 at 01:26

MLB's robot-assisted strike zone is exposing umpire errors in real time

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4 April 2026 at 01:26

The technology is designed to reduce strike zone disputes, long the source of baseball's most heated arguments. Under the new system, each team receives two challenges per game and only loses a challenge if it is incorrect. In practice, this incentive has quickly reshaped game-day strategy – and last Saturday's...

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Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required 4 April 2026 at 00:02

Google's Gemma 4 AI can run on smartphones, no Internet required

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4 April 2026 at 00:02

The two largest Gemma 4 models – 26B Mixture of Experts and 31B Dense – require an 80GB Nvidia H100 GPU to run unquantized in bfloat16 format. Google claims these models deliver "frontier intelligence on personal computers" for students, researchers, and developers, providing advanced reasoning capabilities for IDEs, coding assistants, and agentic workflows.

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Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage 3 April 2026 at 22:57

Toshiba starts shipping SMR MAMR enterprise hard drives offering up to 34TB of storage

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3 April 2026 at 22:57

Toshiba's M12 Series of 3.5-inch drives uses Shingled Magnetic Recording to achieve storage capacities ranging from 30 to 34TB. The Japanese corporation – one of the world's largest HDD manufacturers alongside Seagate and Western Digital – said the new line of drives is specifically designed for hyperscale customers, cloud service...

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Ford GT Mk IV sets Nürburgring record for gas-powered cars 3 April 2026 at 21:34

Ford GT Mk IV sets Nürburgring record for gas-powered cars

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3 April 2026 at 21:34

The time places the Mk IV just behind two record-holding hybrid and electric machines – the Porsche 919 Hybrid EVO and Volkswagen's ID.R – highlighting the car's singular achievement in an increasingly electrified field. It is also the fastest lap ever recorded by an American manufacturer at the famed German...

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Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI 3 April 2026 at 20:49

Take-Two lays off AI team members weeks after "embracing" generative AI

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3 April 2026 at 20:49

The revelation came from Luke Dicken, who was made Take-Two's Head of AI in early 2025. He wrote in a LinkedIn post that "It's truly disappointing that I have to share with you that my time with T2 – and that of my team – has come to an end."

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NASA's Artemis laser system will send 4K video from the Moon at 260 Mbps 3 April 2026 at 19:25

NASA's Artemis laser system will send 4K video from the Moon at 260 Mbps

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3 April 2026 at 19:25

The new system, known as the Orion Artemis II Optical Communications system, or O2O, will allow astronauts aboard Orion to send 4K footage from their mission to Earth at speeds up to 260 megabits per second, according to NASA. The capability marks a shift from radio-based transmissions that defined the...

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Nvidia shows The Witcher 4 forest demo running path tracing on an RTX 4070 3 April 2026 at 18:47

Nvidia shows The Witcher 4 forest demo running path tracing on an RTX 4070

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3 April 2026 at 18:47

Nvidia has published its full GDC 2026 presentation on its upcoming path tracing and micropolygon tools. The video offers a new glimpse at assets and engine functionality that will feature in the PC version of The Witcher 4.

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X is using a Supreme Court ruling to try to kill a $250 million music copyright lawsuit 3 April 2026 at 17:31

X is using a Supreme Court ruling to try to kill a $250 million music copyright lawsuit

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3 April 2026 at 17:31

X argued that the Supreme Court's ruling wiped out the contributory infringement claim, the only major theory left standing in limited form after last year's motion to dismiss.

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Apple may be stockpiling mobile DRAM to outmaneuver rivals in a tight market 3 April 2026 at 16:54

Apple may be stockpiling mobile DRAM to outmaneuver rivals in a tight market

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3 April 2026 at 16:54

TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently argued that Apple could widen its market share amid the current memory-market upheaval by absorbing higher memory costs instead of raising device prices. That approach, Kuo suggested, would allow Apple to expand its share even in a volatile supply environment.

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Chip foundry market hit $320 billion in 2025, driven by AI demand 3 April 2026 at 16:33

Chip foundry market hit $320 billion in 2025, driven by AI demand

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3 April 2026 at 16:33

A new report by Counterpoint Research highlights the business results of the extremely successful players in the foundry business. The research company coined the "Foundry 2.0" term because today's landscape is apparently much more complex and multifaceted than the traditional chip-making business. Either way, most silicon manufacturers have become massively...

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Colorado's landmark right-to-repair law faces pushback from tech giants 3 April 2026 at 15:58

Colorado's landmark right-to-repair law faces pushback from tech giants

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3 April 2026 at 15:58

Colorado has earned a reputation as the national leader in right-to-repair legislation. Since 2022, the state has approved measures covering powered wheelchairs, agricultural equipment, and consumer electronics, forcing manufacturers to provide the parts, tools, software, and documentation needed for repairs.

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Intel's next laptop chips could bring 28-core CPUs built for discrete GPUs 3 April 2026 at 15:15

Intel's next laptop chips could bring 28-core CPUs built for discrete GPUs

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3 April 2026 at 15:15

The chips sit above the mainstream Nova Lake-H line and retain a wider I/O complex with PCIe 5.0 connectivity for discrete GPUs. Leaker Jaykihn describes Nova Lake-HX as a higher-end branch of Nova Lake-H that uses a broader I/O subsystem designed to work with discrete GPUs.

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Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti Roundup: 9 Graphics Cards Tested 3 April 2026 at 14:26

Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti Roundup: 9 Graphics Cards Tested

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3 April 2026 at 14:26

We tested nine RTX 5070 Ti cards and found consistent performance throughout. The problem isn't which model to buy - it's whether any of them make sense at today's prices.

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Humanity returns to the Moon, but Outlook still doesn't work 3 April 2026 at 10:29

Humanity returns to the Moon, but Outlook still doesn't work

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3 April 2026 at 10:29

A clip from NASA's livestream quickly circulated on social media, capturing the moment astronauts flagged the problem. The glitch added an unexpectedly relatable note to an otherwise historic launch.

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Dell's new XPS 14 dominates MacBook Air with 43 hours of battery life in web browsing test 2 April 2026 at 23:56

Dell's new XPS 14 dominates MacBook Air with 43 hours of battery life in web browsing test

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2 April 2026 at 23:56

Tests conducted by Hardware Canucks show that the XPS 14 delivers exceptional battery life, lasting more than 43 hours on a single charge while browsing the web with variable refresh rate enabled. During the test, the screen refresh rate was reduced to 1Hz. The laptop tested features an Intel Core...

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Developer rebuilds Doom using CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine 2 April 2026 at 23:15

Developer rebuilds Doom using CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

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2 April 2026 at 23:15

Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom renderer after completing an earlier experiment that ran the game on an oscilloscope, reusing code to extract map data from the original WAD file.

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Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers 2 April 2026 at 22:21

Hitachi and MOL plan to turn retired ships into floating data centers

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2 April 2026 at 22:21

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) and Hitachi have signed a memorandum of understanding to build and operate floating data centers hosted on repurposed ships. The two Japanese corporations aim to develop and commercialize a novel approach to the data center business, believing that a seafaring solution could significantly improve convenience and...

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This chip keeps working at 700°C, surviving lava-like heat 2 April 2026 at 20:38

This chip keeps working at 700°C, surviving lava-like heat

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2 April 2026 at 20:38

Researchers at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering have demonstrated an electronic memory device that functions far beyond previously known thermal limits. In experiments, the device remained stable at 700 degrees Celsius – hotter than molten lava – without showing signs of degradation.

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Ubisoft pulled The Crew offline, and now it's facing a lawsuit 2 April 2026 at 19:57

Ubisoft pulled The Crew offline, and now it's facing a lawsuit

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2 April 2026 at 19:57

French consumer group UFC-Que Choisir recently announced a new lawsuit against Ubisoft after the French publisher pulled The Crew's servers offline. This "unilateral decision" stripped consumers who purchased the game of their rights, the group said, as Ubisoft never mentioned the fact that the racing game had an expiration date.

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NASA launches Artemis II, its first crewed mission toward the Moon in decades 2 April 2026 at 19:20

NASA launches Artemis II, its first crewed mission toward the Moon in decades

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2 April 2026 at 19:20

Four astronauts – Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch, and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen – rode a 322-foot Space Launch System off Launch Complex 39B at 6:35 pm Eastern on Wednesday, beginning a roughly nine-day loop around the Moon.

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USPTO rejects Nintendo's "summon and fight" Pokémon patent as Palworld battle continues 2 April 2026 at 18:32

USPTO rejects Nintendo's "summon and fight" Pokémon patent as Palworld battle continues

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2 April 2026 at 18:32

Nintendo can respond to the decision within two months, amend the claims, and appeal. But the fact that the examiner rejected all 26 claims is hardly a great look for a patent that IP lawyers were hammering long before this latest ruling arrived.

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SpaceX quietly files for massive IPO that could value the company at over $1.75 trillion 2 April 2026 at 18:09

SpaceX quietly files for massive IPO that could value the company at over $1.75 trillion

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2 April 2026 at 18:09

The people, who asked not to be identified because the details are private, said SpaceX could seek a valuation above $1.75 trillion, eclipsing Saudi Aramco's 2019 IPO as the biggest to date.

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Memory spiked first, CPUs followed, now PCBs could be the next victim of the AI boom 2 April 2026 at 17:46

Memory spiked first, CPUs followed, now PCBs could be the next victim of the AI boom

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2 April 2026 at 17:46

TrendForce reports that DRAM and NAND costs will continue increasing in the second quarter of 2026 as demand from AI data centers remains strong. Meanwhile, sources from the tech industry supply chain have informed Nikkei Asia that shortages of basic materials will raise the prices of printed circuit boards and...

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Hoax post claiming the world's oldest tortoise had died was a crypto scam 2 April 2026 at 17:11

Hoax post claiming the world's oldest tortoise had died was a crypto scam

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2 April 2026 at 17:11

Several large media outlets, including the BBC, USA Today, and the Daily Mail, reported yesterday about an X post that purportedly belonged to Joe Hollins, a vet who has previously cared for Jonathan.

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NYC hospital chief says AI could replace many radiologists if regulations change 2 April 2026 at 16:43

NYC hospital chief says AI could replace many radiologists if regulations change

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2 April 2026 at 16:43

"We could replace a great deal of radiologists with AI at this moment, if we are ready to do the regulatory challenge," Katz told participants.

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Quantum computers might crack today's encryption far sooner than we thought 2 April 2026 at 16:02

Quantum computers might crack today's encryption far sooner than we thought

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2 April 2026 at 16:02

According to a study by engineers at Caltech and the UC Department of Physics, quantum computers do not need to be nearly as powerful as previously believed to crack the most advanced cryptographic technologies. The research claims that Shor's algorithm could break RSA public-key encryption using quantum computers with just...

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March Steam survey: Intel Arc finally breaks into the charts as AMD and Linux reach record shares 2 April 2026 at 15:15

March Steam survey: Intel Arc finally breaks into the charts as AMD and Linux reach record shares

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2 April 2026 at 15:15

February was one of those weird months where the Steam survey saw massive changes from the status quo: the RTX 5070 became the top GPU, AMD lost CPU share, Windows 11 was down 10%, and Chinese became the most common language among participants.

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Apple turns 50 with a legacy of reinventing the personal computer 2 April 2026 at 14:24

Apple turns 50 with a legacy of reinventing the personal computer

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2 April 2026 at 14:24

Across those five decades, Apple has repeatedly redefined what a personal computer looks like, from beige boxes and Bondi Blue CRTs to fanless ultraportables and super powerful handhelds.

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Sony's upcoming handheld could outperform Xbox Series S with next-gen upscaling 2 April 2026 at 07:37

Sony's upcoming handheld could outperform Xbox Series S with next-gen upscaling

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2 April 2026 at 07:37

Prominent leaker KeplerL2 recently claimed that Sony's rumored handheld will feature a faster graphics chip than the Xbox Series S. The device, codenamed Canis, is expected to complement the PlayStation 6, which is not expected to arrive before late 2027.

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Google offers researchers early access to Willow quantum processor 2 April 2026 at 01:04

Google offers researchers early access to Willow quantum processor

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2 April 2026 at 01:04

The Early Access Program invites researchers to design and propose quantum experiments that push the boundaries of what current hardware can achieve. It is a selective program – the processor will not be publicly available – and Google is setting firm deadlines for participation. Research teams have until May 15,...

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US government hires BlackSky to build next-gen AI surveillance satellites for Earth and beyond 1 April 2026 at 23:48

US government hires BlackSky to build next-gen AI surveillance satellites for Earth and beyond

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1 April 2026 at 23:48

The US government has selected BlackSky to design and build the next generation of its space surveillance capabilities. The newly announced contract is an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) agreement, meaning the company will provide as many satellites and monitoring services as the Air Force Research Laboratory requires for its missions....

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Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests 1 April 2026 at 21:52

Linux gaming levels up as CachyOS beats Windows 11 in head-to-head tests

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1 April 2026 at 21:52

The tests, conducted by NJ Tech, used identical hardware: an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X paired with a Radeon RX 6700 XT, alongside 16GB of DDR4 memory, a 2TB NVMe SSD, a Corsair RM1000x power supply, and a Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite motherboard. On the software side, Windows 11 ran AMD's...

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AirPods Max 2 reviewed: premium sound, top-tier ANC, same high price 1 April 2026 at 21:35

AirPods Max 2 reviewed: premium sound, top-tier ANC, same high price

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1 April 2026 at 21:35

Early reviews of the AirPods Max 2 highlight improved sound quality, excellent noise cancellation, and deeper Apple ecosystem integration, powered by the new H2 chip and added smart features.

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Google Drive can now detect ransomware and roll back your files 1 April 2026 at 20:26

Google Drive can now detect ransomware and roll back your files

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1 April 2026 at 20:26

Google officially announced its new anti-ransomware protections in September 2025, and the company is now making these tools available to Workspace customers using Google Drive for Desktop. The security features leverage a specially trained AI model, which has been further developed and refined over the past few months.

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A paralyzed musician is using a brain implant to create music 1 April 2026 at 19:23

A paralyzed musician is using a brain implant to create music

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1 April 2026 at 19:23

A diving accident at age 16 left Buckwalter paralyzed from the chest down. In 2024, he enrolled in a Caltech brain-computer interface study and underwent a craniotomy to have six Blackrock Neurotech chips implanted in his motor cortex.

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Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code source, raising security concerns 1 April 2026 at 18:41

Anthropic accidentally exposed Claude Code source, raising security concerns

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1 April 2026 at 18:41

The exposure traces back to version 2.1.88 of the @anthropic-ai/claude-code package on npm, which was published with a 59.8MB JavaScript source map intended only for internal debugging.

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Crimson Desert hits 4 million sales despite rocky launch 1 April 2026 at 18:03

Crimson Desert hits 4 million sales despite rocky launch

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1 April 2026 at 18:03

Crimson Desert, which was one of our Most Anticipated Games of 2026, arrived to review scores of between 60 and 70 in most cases. It also held a disappointing Steam user rating of Mostly Positive. The failure to meet expectations resulted in developer Pearl Abyss' shares falling almost 29%.

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Oracle layoffs could reach 30,000 as company doubles down on AI 1 April 2026 at 17:37

Oracle layoffs could reach 30,000 as company doubles down on AI

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1 April 2026 at 17:37

The company declined to comment on the total scope of the layoffs, though some estimates suggest they could affect as many as 20,000 to 30,000 workers. Oracle employed about 162,000 people worldwide as of the end of May.

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Tesla admits that remote humans can sometimes take control of its robotaxis 1 April 2026 at 17:06

Tesla admits that remote humans can sometimes take control of its robotaxis

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1 April 2026 at 17:06

The revelation comes from a March 26 response to Markey's investigation into how autonomous vehicle companies use remote assistance operators.

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You can finally change your Gmail address without losing everything 1 April 2026 at 16:41

You can finally change your Gmail address without losing everything

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1 April 2026 at 16:41

Starting Tuesday, Gmail account holders in the US can change the usernames that appear on their email addresses without losing the address itself. The change affects accounts used to log into mail, photos, Google Drive, and other services.

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Hypervisor-based cracks are breaking Denuvo protections in hours 1 April 2026 at 16:23

Hypervisor-based cracks are breaking Denuvo protections in hours

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1 April 2026 at 16:23

In recent years, Denuvo has managed to fight widespread PC piracy thanks to its hard-to-crack anti-tamper technology. However, Denuvo's aura of invincibility has recently melted away like snow in the sun. A new virtualization-based method is apparently good enough to crack even the latest triple-A game releases, although the cracks...

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Iran threatens attacks on Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and other US tech firms in the Middle East 1 April 2026 at 15:51

Iran threatens attacks on Nvidia, Microsoft, Intel, and other US tech firms in the Middle East

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1 April 2026 at 15:51

Days after Iran warned that offices and infrastructure belonging to US companies involved in military technology in the Middle East would be targeted, the IRGC updated its threat on Telegram.

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AI can clone open-source software in minutes, and that's a problem 1 April 2026 at 15:03

AI can clone open-source software in minutes, and that's a problem

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1 April 2026 at 15:03

Two software researchers recently demonstrated how modern AI tools can reproduce entire open-source projects, creating proprietary versions that appear both functional and legally distinct. The partly-satirical demonstration shows how quickly artificial intelligence can blur long-standing boundaries between coding innovation, copyright law, and the open-source principles that underpin much of the...

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What Ever Happened to Napster? From MP3 Rebellion to Streaming Blueprint 1 April 2026 at 14:05

What Ever Happened to Napster? From MP3 Rebellion to Streaming Blueprint

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1 April 2026 at 14:05

Napster made digital music feel limitless for the first time, then vanished in lawsuits, rebrands, and sales. Its name faded, but its ideas still shape how the world listens.

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AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history 1 April 2026 at 09:26

AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

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1 April 2026 at 09:26

The all-stock transaction, which AMD described as a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to unify x86 innovation," would combine the two companies under a single umbrella just a few years after such an outcome would have sounded ridiculous.

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The Windows Command Prompt is getting faster, smarter, and a lot more modern 1 April 2026 at 02:40

The Windows Command Prompt is getting faster, smarter, and a lot more modern

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1 April 2026 at 02:40

One key addition is support for rendering inline graphics such as Sixel images, allowing advanced command-line tools like the Windows Package Manager (WinGet) to display app icons and other visuals directly in the console.

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Disney's gaming push could one day include buying Epic Games 1 April 2026 at 01:32

Disney's gaming push could one day include buying Epic Games

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1 April 2026 at 01:32

Sources newsletter author Alex Heath recently said he "knows for a fact" that some senior Disney executives are waiting for the right moment to buy Fortnite and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games. However, others within the company disagree.

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RTX 60 series leaks are everywhere, but Nvidia hasn't finalized the GPUs yet 31 March 2026 at 23:16

RTX 60 series leaks are everywhere, but Nvidia hasn't finalized the GPUs yet

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31 March 2026 at 23:16

According to VideoCardz and other sources, detailed specifications for Rubin-based gaming GPUs simply don't exist in finalized form yet, that's despite a flood of confident claims circulating across social media and YouTube last weekend.

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Nvidia App beta enables DLSS 4.5 with dynamic frame-gen, automatic shader compilation 31 March 2026 at 22:55

Nvidia App beta enables DLSS 4.5 with dynamic frame-gen, automatic shader compilation

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31 March 2026 at 22:55

Nvidia DLSS 4.5 with dynamic frame generation is now available for RTX 50 GPUs using the Nvidia App (enable beta updates). The feature adjusts frame-gen in real time to balance performance and image quality. The update also adds MFG modes of up to 6x, along with beta automatic shader compilation to reduce in-game stutter.

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Microsoft halts Windows 11 update after users report installation errors 31 March 2026 at 22:09

Microsoft halts Windows 11 update after users report installation errors

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31 March 2026 at 22:09

According to the official KB5079391 change log, the rollout was paused because users are seeing an "error 0x80073712" message during installation. Microsoft explains that this error occurs when files are missing or corrupted, preventing the update from completing successfully.

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Delta is bringing free Wi-Fi to flights using Amazon's satellites 31 March 2026 at 21:26

Delta is bringing free Wi-Fi to flights using Amazon's satellites

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31 March 2026 at 21:26

Think of Leo as Amazon's version of SpaceX Starlink. The division was established in 2019 and is the third largest satellite system in orbit according to the company. Even still, Leo does feel a bit behind the competition in terms of the sheer size of its constellation.

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GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests 31 March 2026 at 20:45

GitHub pulls Copilot "feature" after it added advertising to more than 11,000 pull requests

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31 March 2026 at 20:45

"Quickly spin up Copilot coding agents from anywhere on your macOS or Windows machine with Raycast," the note said, accompanied by a lightning bolt emoji and a link to install the app.

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PDFsam 6.0 adds compression tools and PDF 2.0 support 31 March 2026 at 20:24

PDFsam 6.0 adds compression tools and PDF 2.0 support

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31 March 2026 at 20:24

PDFsam Basic is a free, open-source tool for splitting, merging, and organizing PDFs. Version 6.0 adds three compression modes, better support for PDF 2.0 and UTF-8 text, stronger handling for malformed files, and more quality-of-life improvements.

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A Supermicro co-founder is accused of smuggling $2.5B in AI servers to China 31 March 2026 at 19:23

A Supermicro co-founder is accused of smuggling $2.5B in AI servers to China

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31 March 2026 at 19:23

Federal authorities recently charged Yih-Shyan Liaw, along with a company employee and an outside contractor, with smuggling roughly $2.5 billion worth of such servers to China. The case not only jolted investors – Supermicro's stock lost a third of its value the following day – but also reignited debate in...

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Instagram is testing a new paid tier that allows users to watch Stories anonymously 31 March 2026 at 18:41

Instagram is testing a new paid tier that allows users to watch Stories anonymously

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31 March 2026 at 18:41

Instagram is testing a new subscription to the photo-and-video-sharing service called Instagram Plus. Pilot schemes have started in Mexico, Japan, and the Philippines, and it'll likely make its way to the US eventually.

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Students in China are renting smart glasses to cheat on exams 31 March 2026 at 18:01

Students in China are renting smart glasses to cheat on exams

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31 March 2026 at 18:01

Vivian, a university student in Hebei province who requested a pseudonym to speak freely to Rest of World, said her Rokid glasses help her pass difficult subjects. "Any subject that I may fail at," she said. The glasses can read text from her exam paper and project answers directly onto...

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Samsung wants $400 for a tablet keyboard, even more than Apple 31 March 2026 at 17:24

Samsung wants $400 for a tablet keyboard, even more than Apple

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31 March 2026 at 17:24

Samsung released a $210 Book Cover Keyboard Slim for the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra when the tablet launched. It arrived alongside a more expensive option, the Pro Keyboard, in Korea earlier this month, and it's now available in the US.

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New RCS standard could enable cross-platform video calls, if Apple and Google play along 31 March 2026 at 16:47

New RCS standard could enable cross-platform video calls, if Apple and Google play along

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31 March 2026 at 16:47

While the upgrade is technical in nature, its implications are broad. If widely adopted, it could allow an Android user and an iPhone owner to move a conversation from text to video within their native messaging apps – no third-party links or app downloads required. GSMA describes this as a...

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