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Investigation details Webloc, an advertising-based geosurveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of recordings from up to 500 million mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 11, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: The dilemma of the Anthropic myth, violence against AI, Tokenmaxxing at Meta The Big Technology…

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MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 7, 2026

Featured Podcasts Big Tech Podcast: More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta’s Next Elusive Hit The Big Technology…

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Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds alternative payment system amid Western sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine (Financial Times)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 6, 2026

Financial Times: Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 is expanding to Africa, as Moscow builds an alternative payment system amid Western…

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Microsoft is updating Windows 11 24H2 devices to version 25H2 without any way to completely opt out, and says an ‘intelligent’ ML-based system is handling the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom’s Hardware)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 6, 2026

Featured Podcasts Lenny’s podcast: Anthropic’s Growth from $1 Billion to $19 Billion: How Claude Became the Fastest-Growing AI Product in…

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Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes control of iPhones running the older operating system (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsApril 1, 2026

Featured Podcasts Cheeky pint: Compliance at Scale and Why TAM is a Distraction with Vanta’s Christina Cacioppo Stripe co-founder John…

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Waymo says its fleet has driven more than 170 million miles as of December 2025 and its Waymo Driver system has been involved in 92% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

By Stacey D. WallsMarch 19, 2026

Andrew J. Hawkins / The edge: Waymo claims its fleet has traveled more than 170 million miles as of December…

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Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a chip designed by Groq and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 28, 2026

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system…

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How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

By Stacey D. WallsFebruary 19, 2026

Featured Podcasts Great discussion: Venture is in its peak growth era A podcast mainly about technology. Presented weekly by Angela…

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Several Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store and iCloud, have been experiencing outages since 6:48 p.m. ET, according to Apple’s system status page (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 21, 2026

Julie Clover / MacRumors: Several Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store and iCloud, have been experiencing outages since…

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ClickHouse, a challenger to Snowflake that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400 million led by Dragoneer at a valuation of $15 billion, up from $6.35 billion in May 2025 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)

By Stacey D. WallsJanuary 16, 2026

Featured Podcasts Hard fork: Jonathan Haidt Strikes Again + What You Coded + An Update on the Forkiverse The future…

Award-winning Burmese journalist Shin Daewe released from prison – Radio Free Asia

RFA welcomes release of Shin Daewe, RFA contributor in Myanmar – Radio Free Asia

Soft power ‘wins’ Beijing as Chinese medical ship treats 5,400 people in PNG for free – Radio Free Asia

US to establish fuel depot in Philippines to support operations in South China Sea – Radio Free Asia

Japan’s combat role in Philippine war drills signals shift in regional strategy – Radio Free Asia

Netflix has long been “a builder, not a buyer.” Are those times over?

Some grocers are using AI to reduce food waste and increase profit margins

Trump names Erica Schwartz director of CDC

RFK Jr.’s Peptide Policy Could Boost Hims & Hers as Its GLP-1 Business Scales

Netflix (NFLX) Q1 2026 Results

Jared Kushner under investigation for potential violations of federal bribery and foreign agent laws

Trump’s Broken Brain Tries to Fool America With Iran War Hallucinations

Donald Trump has lost his power to America

RFK Jr. collapses in front of the country during a hearing at home

Democrats decide to impeach Pete Hegseth for recklessly endangering US troops

Some Mac Mini and Mac Studio models are unavailable or facing wait times of up to 12 weeks in the United States, with analysts citing strong demand from power users of AI agents (Nicole Nguyen/Wall Street Journal)

What some executives think about using universal basic income to mitigate AI-related layoffs: Musk calls it the "best way"OpenAI policy document mentions a public wealth fund (Siladitya Ray/Forbes)

Sources: Recursive Superintelligence, a four-month-old startup developing self-learning AI and founded by former DeepMind and OpenAI engineers, has raised more than $500 million (Financial Times)

Cerebras files for IPO on Nasdaq, reports 2025 revenue of $510 million, up 76% year-over-year, with net profit of $87.9 million, compared to net loss of $485 million in 2024 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

World expands its Tinder partnership and partners with Zoom and others to verify human users, as it continues its shift from crypto to identity verification (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Browsing: system

Investigation details Webloc, an advertising-based geosurveillance system providing access to a constantly updated stream of recordings from up to 500 million mobile devices (The Citizen Lab)

MLB deploys “robot umps,” or an automated ball-striking system, using advanced cameras made by Sony to help officiate games, but it often validates human umpires (Austin Carr/Bloomberg)

Russian cryptocurrency payment network A7 expands to Africa, as Moscow builds alternative payment system amid Western sanctions after its invasion of Ukraine (Financial Times)

Microsoft is updating Windows 11 24H2 devices to version 25H2 without any way to completely opt out, and says an ‘intelligent’ ML-based system is handling the rollout (Kunal Khullar/Tom’s Hardware)

Apple says it will release rare “backported” patches for iOS 18 to protect users from DarkSword, a hack that silently takes control of iPhones running the older operating system (Andy Greenberg/Wired)

Waymo says its fleet has driven more than 170 million miles as of December 2025 and its Waymo Driver system has been involved in 92% fewer serious injury crashes than human drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

Sources: Nvidia plans to unveil new AI inference chip at its GTC conference in March; the system will have a chip designed by Groq and OpenAI is a customer (Wall Street Journal)

How Lego’s Creative Play Lab built the Smart Brick, its custom chip, sensors and proprietary communications system to integrate seamlessly with existing sets (Jeremy White/Wired)

Several Apple services, including Apple TV, the App Store and iCloud, have been experiencing outages since 6:48 p.m. ET, according to Apple’s system status page (Juli Clover/MacRumors)

ClickHouse, a challenger to Snowflake that offers an OLAP database management system, raised $400 million led by Dragoneer at a valuation of $15 billion, up from $6.35 billion in May 2025 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)