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• Raycast’s iOS app is now available for AI chat and notes (theverge.com)
  Raycast is a powerful launcher for Mac — and soon, Windows — that now has an app for iOS that can help find information, and chat with AI.
• ACS will reassess plans to change legal structure (zdnet.com)
  The federal court concluded the case and ordered the not-for-profit organisation to pay ACS fellow Roger Clarke AU$127,000.
• Up to 30 percent of some Microsoft code is now written by AI. (theverge.com)
  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella appeared on stage at Meta’s LlamaCon yesterday to discuss the company’s use of AI models with Meta CEO Mark Zuc…
• Microsoft March 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 115 vulnerabilities (zdnet.com)
  The March 2020 Patch Tuesday is the largest Patch Tuesday release in Microsoft's history.
• Apple teams up with Comic Relief charity in the UK (arstechnica.com)
  Apple has teamed up with a UK-based charity to help promote their work through …
• This smart ring could one day prove you’re not a cheater ... maybe (theverge.com)
  RAW Ring is a concept smart ring that uses sensors to track your partner’s emotions, but in so doing, raises questions about dystopian emot…
• Details about new SMB wormable bug leak in Microsoft Patch Tuesday snafu (zdnet.com)
  SMB vulnerability is currently not patched, but now everyone knows it's there.
• Cloudera beats Q4 estimates, touts growing CDP business (zdnet.com)
  The enterprise data cloud company reported 1,004 customers with Annualized Recurring Revenue greater than $100,000, up 27 from the prior qu…
• Content moderators are organizing against Big Tech (theverge.com)
  Content moderators who comb through harmful material uploaded to online platforms have formed a global trade union alliance to improve work…
• Red Hat releases Enterprise Linux 5 (arstechnica.com)
  Version 5 of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux distribution is now available. The …
• It’s Sundar time in US v. Google. (theverge.com)
  In the Google Search remedies trial, the government is done arguing its case and now Google is getting started. Today’s first witness: CEO…
• Cisco buys WebEx (arstechnica.com)
  Cisco will purchase WebEx for $3.2 billion in a deal announced today. WebEx is …
• Roborock S5 Max hands-on: Superb dust collection from a multi-function robot vacuum (zdnet.com)
  The Roborock S5 Max is a really powerful vacuum cleaner with an easy-to-use app and an integrated automated mopping function.
• Microsoft updates Windows 10X emulator for dual-screen devices (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft has updated its Emulator and Emulator Image preview for Windows 10X, its Windows 10 variant for dual-screen devices, with a few n…
• Save up to $130 on the super-fast Samsung T5 external portable SSDs (zdnet.com)
  Need additional external storage? Has to be fast and fit in your pocket? Save $130 on a 2TB Samsung T5 external SSD
• The first 100 days of DOGE have been about Elon Musk’s businesses (theverge.com)
  DOGE hasn’t accomplished much efficiency in its first 100 days. It has, however, gutted anything that might regulate Elon Musk. One way to…
• Google to anonymize logs in a nod to privacy advocates (arstechnica.com)
  Google is changing its privacy policy to anonymize both cookie information and …
• Words with yourself. (theverge.com)
  Words With Friends is getting a new daily, single-player puzzle game called Letter Lock. In the game, you’ll slide letters up and down colu…
• US Department of Transportation puts hold on Vista upgrades (arstechnica.com)
  The Department of Transportation has decided against deploying Vista for the …
• Still waiting for 4G to arrive in your neighbourhood? This £1 billion deal might help (zdnet.com)
  Funding from both the government and four industry players will go towards building a common network in rural areas of the country.
• Microsoft survey makes case for Windows in supercomputing clusters (arstechnica.com)
  Microsoft is looking to take on UNIX/Linux in the supercomputing market, and …
• Rad Power Bikes’ bestselling RadRunner is getting a Class 3 upgrade (theverge.com)
  Rad Power Bikes announced an updated RadRunner lineup, including its first Class 3 e-bike.
• Nvidia’s new tool can turn 3D scenes into AI images (theverge.com)
  Nvidia’s ‘AI Blueprint for 3D-guided generative AI’ lets developers generate AI images by first creating them in 3D using Blender.
• Microsoft orchestrates coordinated takedown of Necurs botnet (zdnet.com)
  Microsoft and partners in 35 countries move to bring down Necurs, today's largest malware botnet.
• Controlling the Wiimote with C# or VB.NET (arstechnica.com)
  It may not be practical, but Brian Peek has written a Coding4Fun tutorial that …
• iTunes to everyone: sucks to be you (arstechnica.com)
  A number of iTunes issues have come to light this week, including corrupted …
• Coronavirus might make new iPhones hard to find (zdnet.com)
  Snooze now, and you could be in for a long wait.
• Yale’s latest smart lock can disarm your ADT security system with your fingerprint (theverge.com)
  The Yale Assure Lock 2 Touch with Z-Wave brings fingerprint access to ADT’s security system.
• Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training (theverge.com)
  Meta is making two significant changes to its Ray-Ban Meta privacy policy in an effort to gather more AI training data and improve voice co…
• Microsoft evicts cybersquatters (arstechnica.com)
  How do you get rid of a cybersquatter? Sue them.
• Intel CPUs vulnerable to new LVI attacks (zdnet.com)
  Researchers say Intel processors will need another round of silicon chip re-designs to protect against new attack.
• Hilton uses VR to boost corporate employees' empathy for housekeeping staff (zdnet.com)
  The 100-year-old hospitality company is demonstrating the ways VR is being deployed in the workplace as a training tool for corporate emplo…
• The information paradox gets worse (arstechnica.com)
  Chuck information down a black hole and it does disappear.
• Racing games promote risky driving behavior: study (arstechnica.com)
  A new study, the second in two weeks, identifies a link between racing games …
• Sundar Pichai says the remedies against Google would be a crushing blow. (theverge.com)
  Google’s CEO has talked on the stand about Chrome and Chromium, and shouted out RCS and web standards, but he’s also said over and over tha…
• EU backs down over iTunes (arstechnica.com)
  Less than a week after raising the question of possible action, the EU is now …
• The Mira Pro Color is Boox’s first color E Ink monitor (theverge.com)
  Boox has launched a color version of its Mira Pro desktop monitor featuring the same E Ink technology used in the Kindle Colorsoft.
• Viva Pinata demo crawls onto the Xbox Live Marketplace (arstechnica.com)
  After almost six months, Rare has finally pushed a Viva Pinata demo onto the …
• Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos (theverge.com)
  President Donald Trump appeared to say that Kilmar Abrego Garcia had ‘MS-13’ tattooed on his knuckles based on a crude altered image.
• Unsanity updates utilities; Application Enhancer unsupported by Apple (arstechnica.com)
  Unsanity has updated several of their popular utilities, but Application …
• Avast AntiTrack certificate bug allowed others to snoop on your online activities (zdnet.com)
  The vulnerability opened up PCs to browser hijacking and more.
• Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge (theverge.com)
  Efforts to warn people of floods and famine face a dearth of data under the Trump administration.
• Motion-based analysis can filter copyrighted video clips (arstechnica.com)
  A new technique for finding copyrighted video clips on sites like YouTube …
• Tracking humanity via its swine (arstechnica.com)
  Tracking the spread of humans through the Pacific has proven a challenge. New …
• Elon Musk: We've made 1 million Tesla electric cars (zdnet.com)
  Just as oil price wars start, Tesla CEO Elon Musk reveals that his company has made its millionth electric vehicle.
• Ratings system for independent developers tweaked (arstechnica.com)
  Independent developers will be able to take advantage of a revamped games …
• This ransomware campaign has just returned with a new trick (zdnet.com)
  Paradise ransomware is back again - and the criminals behind it appear to be testing out new tactics ahead of what could be a more prolific…
• Building a $40 overhead filming rig for YouTube (zdnet.com)
  We repurpose an under-$40 Amazon monitor stand into an overhead filming rig. Our short video shows how we do it.
• WhatsApp is working on private AI chats in the cloud (theverge.com)
  Meta says a coming WhatsApp feature called Private Processing will, on request, let users interact with Meta AI in a way that even Meta and…
• Mohsen Mahdawi has been released from ICE detention. (theverge.com)
  The Columbia student, who was arrested during his naturalization interview, was freed from government custody after a federal judge in Verm…