After a one-year delay, Google might finally launch its “Find My” network
Google promised to wait for Apple to launch cross-platform "unwanted tag" detection.
NASA wants to bring back supersonic airliners—but quieter this time
Supersonic flight without loud booms? NASA is working on that.
Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt
Toss certbot or acme.sh onto some servers and baby, you got a stew going!
EU votes to ban riskiest forms of AI and impose restrictions on others
Lawmaker hails "world's first binding law on artificial intelligence."
Chicago battles measles with calls for vaccination—in contrast with Florida
US faces threat of measles resurgence amid global rise and declining vaccination.
IRS free tax filing service now available, but most people don’t qualify
Direct File has many limits, but nearly 19M people in 12 states may be eligible.
Most mobile subscription apps generate under $1,000/month, study of 30K apps finds
New apps reportedly make median monthly revenue of less than $50.
The 2024 Moto G Power packs wireless charging, 8GB RAM in a $300 phone
The 2024 Moto G starts arriving at the end of March at most budget carriers.
New high-end iPads are around the corner; please let me run macOS on them
Op-ed: The iPad needs more than a simple hardware refresh to fix what ails it.
Apple to allow iOS app installs from websites, but small devs don’t qualify
To qualify, devs need an app installed by 1 million users in EU the prior year.
Study: Cicadas pee in jets, not droplets. Here’s why that’s kinda weird.
Come for the cicada video, stay for the scaling graphic of urination across animal kingdom.
NYT disputes OpenAI “hacking” claim by pointing to ChatGPT bypassing paywalls
OpenAI’s claim that NYT “hacked” ChatGPT is “irrelevant” and “false,” NYT says.
Apple’s AirPods Pro could be getting a “hearing aid mode” later this year
In development for some time, AirPods could finally get the FDA label this fall.
Lost, circa-2008 Timesplitters 4 prototype discovered on PS3 dev kit
Redditor paid a reported $670 to rescue the unit and archive the game for posterity.
Some states are now trying to ban lab-grown meat
Spurious "war on ranching" cited as reason for legislation.
Daily Telescope: Gigantic new stars stir up a nebula
Astronomers know of no other region so packed with large stars as this nebula.
HDMI Forum to AMD: No, you can’t make an open source HDMI 2.1 driver
Linux users can't hit the same resolutions and speeds as Windows—or DisplayPort.
Meta will start collecting “anonymized” data about Quest headset usage
Info on hand/eye tracking, "physical environment," and more could be included.
Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot
Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.
NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data
Violating Americans’ privacy "not just unethical but illegal," senator says.
