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• X has a new head of product. (theverge.com)
  Nikita Bier, a co-founder of tbh (acquired by Meta, then Facebook, in 2017) and Gas (acquired by Discord in 2023), will lead product at the…
• Adobe to make PDF an open standard (arstechnica.com)
  The PDF specification will make the transition from a de facto standard to an …
• A tale of two Europes: the digital haves and the have-nots (arstechnica.com)
  An EU report on digital content in Europe shows the great disparity that still …
• Tinder’s mandatory facial recognition check comes to the US (theverge.com)
  Tinder is trialing mandatory facial recognition security features in the US to verify profiles and crack down on impersonation and fake acc…
• Whither Big Pharma? (arstechnica.com)
  Barren pipelines and axed R&D sites spell trouble for the pharmaceutical …
• Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default (theverge.com)
  Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” f…
• YouTube tips hat on advertising plans with ingenious "Robin Hood" misdirection (arstechnica.com)
  It worked for Google's AdSense, so it's no surprise that it's working for …
• Newark’s air traffic outages were just the tip of the iceberg (theverge.com)
  The air traffic control outages at Newark airport were decades in the making. And within days additional glitches emerged, as US infrastruc…
• The art of PSP ports, and why the price is important (arstechnica.com)
  It's not that we mind ports, the issue is how much we should pay. Is $20 the …
• Can the music industry make AI the next Napster? (theverge.com)
  Suno and Udio are both facing down copyright suits for the unauthorized use of music for training data. The music industry has a secret wea…
• Susan O'Connor, Bioshock writer, discusses the art of writing in games (arstechnica.com)
  The writing in videogames is rarely anything worth talking about, but some …
• Google kills its Keep app on Apple Watch (theverge.com)
  The Google graveyard has claimed another victim: the company has killed the Apple Watch version of its Keep app.
• Searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, intelligently (arstechnica.com)
  Some new telescopes coming online in the near future offer SETI researchers …
• Analyst predicts iPhone price to fall 20 percent annually (arstechnica.com)
  Analyst CHarles Wolf from Needham and Company predicts that, based on a series …
• Donkey Kong Bananza unearths the franchise’s roots and rips them out (theverge.com)
  Here’s our final look at Donkey Kong Bananza for the Switch 2 before it launches July 17th.
• The movie and TV tech we actually want to use (theverge.com)
  From Back to the Future to Star Trek to Clueless, there’s lots of tech in movies we’d love to make real. On this episode of The Vergecast,…
• Verizon kicked Apple out of bed over iPhone deal (arstechnica.com)
  A new report says that Verizon was Apple's first choice for the exclusive US …
• The Running Man mixes mayhem and humor in first trailer (theverge.com)
  Paramount Pictures has released the first trailer for The Running Man, an adaptation of a Stephen King novel, directed by Edgar Wright.
• Men to VW: You bug me (zdnet.com)
  The iconic VW Beetle - the 'Bug' - has long been seen as a girlie car. But VW's new manlier version - more angles, fewer curves - has had a…
• Terra Soft teaming up with Themis on Linux-based single-board computer (arstechnica.com)
  PPC Linux specialist Terra Soft has teamed up with Themis to bring Yellow Dog …
• Apple, CBS, Fox, Sony, Warner Bros. and 15 others hacked? (zdnet.com)
  A hacker alleges he has compromised the e-mail addresses and passwords belonging to 20 companies. The passwords are hashed though: is this…
• Lost Planet brings back the "find them all" subquest (arstechnica.com)
  It may grant you a larger gamerscore, but finding all the markers in Lost …
• Senate drops plan to ban state AI laws (theverge.com)
  The US Senate has dropped a 10-year moratorium on states regulating AI systems during a debate over Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
• AMC now warns moviegoers to expect ‘25-30 minutes’ of ads and trailers (theverge.com)
  AMC is telling online customers what time a movie will actually start at its theaters, making it easier to avoid sitting through ads.
• Adobe announces pricing, availability for Lightroom (arstechnica.com)
  We now have a release date and price for Lightroom, Adobe's new RAW-oriented …
• Report: APAC to gain SPSR top spot in 2012 (zdnet.com)
  Region to overtake North America as largest market for global service provider switching and routing (SPSR) this year, predicts Ovum.
• A visual timeline of the Microsoft-Novell controversy (arstechnica.com)
  Linux.Ars returns with an illustrated guide to the Microsoft-Novell deal and …
• Samsung widens lead over iPhone in China (zdnet.com)
  Samsung controls 24.3 percent of smartphone market, more than three times that of Apple, reports say, noting that lead almost doubled from…
• Sharp pencils for hard times (theverge.com)
  The Blackwing One-Step Long Point Sharpener can hone a pencil for a crossword, a mark for hanging a picture, or a quick note.
• The FCC won’t enforce a ban on ‘exorbitant’ prison phone call prices (theverge.com)
  Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr has announced that the agency will delay the implementation of a rule to regulate the price…
• "Get A Mac" ads come to the UK (arstechnica.com)
  Apple posts six new "Get A Mac" ads, but this time for British customers.
• TV on a cell phone: would you pay $20 a month to watch? (arstechnica.com)
  A whitepaper from one industry group suggests that television on mobile …
• How to safely maintain, use, and dispose of your power banks (theverge.com)
  There have been some incidents recently involving Anker’s lithium-ion batteries, so here’s some information on how to keep your power bank…
• 10-year-old student accidentally discovers explosive new molecule (zdnet.com)
  Tetranitratoxycarbon may have the potential to store energy, combust or do a little of both.
• Microsoft: Forget about PayPal; how about a MasterCard killer? (arstechnica.com)
  Micropayments are back on the radar at Microsoft, as Bill Gates indicates that …
• Casio’s Ring Watch is available online again (update: sold out) (theverge.com)
  Casio’s Ring Watch CRW001-1 has been restocked online at the company’s website for the first time since December.
• A snapshot of The Burning Crusade: what can we expect? (arstechnica.com)
  We take a look at the changes that Burning Crusade brings to World of Warcraft …
• Exetel CEO John Linton passes away (zdnet.com)
  Telecommunications industry veteran and outspoken CEO of Exetel John Linton has passed away overnight.
• Nintendo revealed the Super Mario Odyssey team made Donkey Kong Bananza (theverge.com)
  Nintendo has finally revealed that the team behind Super Mario Odyssey has developed Donkey Kong Bananza.
• For sale: every licensed NES game (arstechnica.com)
  This is one of those monolithic eBay auctions that pop up every now and again …
• Sturgeon's law & the copyright vacuum (zdnet.com)
  Your on the job contributions in collaborative environments are much more protected than elsewhere digitally, but getting credit for ideas…
• Back against the wall: A new energy crisis (zdnet.com)
  New energy codes are radically changing building design, often in unseen ways, says SmartPlanet's resident architecture columnist, C.C. Sul…
• Trump says he’ll look into deporting Musk as fight over bill escalates (theverge.com)
  Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s battle over the ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill is escalating again with threats over DOGE, a new political par…
• Verso and Astarion walk into a video game. (theverge.com)
  Dead Take, the next game from Tales of Kenzera developer Surgent Studios and the first game published under Palworld’s Pocketpair Publishin…
• The PS3 hardware scaler: it exists, but Sony may not want it used (arstechnica.com)
  A new PS3 SDK allows developers to use horizontal scaling, but why won't Sony …
• Crackdown demo impressions (arstechnica.com)
  We spend some hands-on time with Crackdown to see if it's more than just a …
• Linux Mint releases Cinnamon, GNOME 2.x style desktop (zdnet.com)
  GNOME 2.x fans get ready to rejoice. Mint has just released the first stable version of Cinnamon, its GNOME 2.x look-alike Linux desktop in…
• Threads now has DMs (theverge.com)
  Threads has finally launched the ability to send direct messages to everyone. For now, you can only DM users who follow you on Threads or m…
• What does iBooks mean for the eBook/eTextbook industry? (zdnet.com)
  The eTextbook industry got a big publicity and market education boost last week with Apple's announcements. What it didn't get was the mark…
• Can you keep a secret? (theverge.com)
  The new trailer for Marvel’s Eyes of Wakanda Disney Plus series doesn’t give all that much away, but it does make the show look like it’s g…