• Judge Blasts Apple For Violating Antitrust Ruling
• Google's Sundar Pichai Calls US Remedies 'De Facto' Spinoff of Search - Slashdot
• Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executive
• Visa Announces Plans to Give AI Agents Your Credit Card Information
• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The TAKE IT DOWN Act: A Flawed Attempt to Protect Victims That Will Lead to Censorship
• Congress Moving Forward On Unconstitutional Take It Down Act
• White House Slams Amazon After Report it Will Highlight Tariff Costs
• The Kickstarter you backed may soon ask for more money to cover Trump's tariffs
• Microsoft Raises Xbox Prices 20% as Tariffs Drive Up Cost of Development
• UPS will cut 20,000 jobs because fewer Amazon packages are coming
• Elon Musk's DOGE ties could get his companies out of $2 billion in potential liability
• President Trump's fiscal 2026 budget proposal suggests slashing $491M from CISA's ~$3B budget, claiming the cut "refocuses CISA on its core mission"
• Government Actually Threatens Wikipedia's Editorial Freedom; Self-Proclaimed Free Speech Warriors Suddenly Have Other Plans
• Mark Zuckerberg Sailed 5,300 Miles With Two Superyachts Only to Helicopter Up a Mountain and Ski
  Down in Billionaire Style - Sustainability Times
• Massive power outage in Spain, Portugal leaves millions in dark
• Wall Street Banks Sell Final Slug of Elon Musk's X Debt
• Elon Musk's SpaceX gets a company town in Texas
• Amazon deploys the first Project Kuiper internet satellites
• Researchers Secretly Ran a Massive, Unauthorized AI Persuasion Experiment on Reddit Users
• How Badly Did ChatGPT and Copilot Fail to Predict the Winners of the Kentucky Derby? - Slashdot
• Quantum message travels record distance over fiber optic network
• Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages
• Chinese university designed 'world's first silicon-free 2D GAAFET transistor,' claims new bismuth-based tech is both the fastest and lowest-power transistor yet
• The one interview question that will protect you from North Korean fake workers

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• The Age of Realtime Deepfake Fraud Is Here
• The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete
• Bridges and Tunnels in Colorado Are Helping Animals Commute
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YOU ARE THE PRODUCT! But... are you? In Russia, Windows 11 uses you! Plus, something happened to Paul on the way to dual-booting Ubuntu 25.04 on Surface Laptop 7, but all is well! Also, you should be using Brave. But if you don't like/trust Chromium, Firefox 138 finally added profile management support.

Windows

• Windows 11 24H2 preview update for April finally arrives
• Now we know why Microsoft waited: It wanted to announce the "general availability" of Recall, Click to Do, and "improved Windows Search" (we're still struggling with a name for that one)
• Dev and Beta (24H2) builds add a profanity filter, a Pen shortcut for Click to Do, improved Windows Search for work and school accounts, Accessibility flyout in Quick settings
• Microsoft (sort of) explains why Windows Insider Preview channels don't follow a logical order anymore
• Microsoft deprecates Map app in Windows 11
• That makes sense. But also VBS Enclaves in pre-24H2 versions, which is interesting

Corporate

• Microsoft says it will defend EU companies against US government
• Alphabet/Google is doing just great, thanks
• Intel earnings are flat, and that's as good as that news gets
• Samsung posts record revenues on strong S25 series sales

Dev

• Build and Google I/O are coming in hot
• Google is holding a separate Android event for the first time, ahead of I/O
• What about Surface? At Build last year, the company announced Copilot+ PC

AI

• Microsoft has an OpenAI problem - duh and/or hello
• Microsoft is part of an AI unholy quaternity on new Moto phones
• Duolingo announces controversial "AI first" strategy - And then announces 148 new AI-based courses
• Apple on Apple Intelligence: Just kidding!
• OpenAI on GPT-4o: Just kidding!
• ChatGPT goes shopping and OpenAI improves Deep Research
• Google updates NotebookLM audio overviews with support for over 50 languages
• YouTube starts testing AI overviews for videos - and Spotify is using AI for playlists
• Adobe updates Firefly models, adds third party support
• DuckDuckGo's Duck.ai now supports real-time model switching
• Meta launches a standalone AI app that no one should want

Xbox

• Xbox-exclusive game Towerborne is here in preview on Xbox, PC, and Game Pass

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: Be prepared
• App pick of the week: Firefox 138
• RunAs Radio this week: Modern Work in 2025 with Karoliina Kettukari
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Highwayman Whisky Abbey 2024

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