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Adobe Modifies Your Hosts File for Their Analytics

Michael Tsai

Apple Scraping YouTube for AI Training Data

Michael Tsai

Perplexity Privacy Lawsuit

Michael Tsai

Apple Granted Stay Over External Purchase Fee

Michael Tsai

Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)

Techmeme

The Neo Effect: How Apple’s cheapest Mac is changing the PC game

The Verge - All Posts

Internal memo: Julia Liuson, the head of Microsoft's developer division, says she will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Techmeme

D&D's Unearthed Arcana Villainous Options lets druids transform into Godzilla

Polygon - All

How the battle pass works in Pokémon Champions

Polygon - All

Amazon says Kindle and Kindle Fire devices released in 2012 and earlier won't be able to access the Kindle Store from May 20; downloaded books can still be read (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)

Techmeme

Could Darth Maul return from the dead in Star Wars? We asked Lucasfilm

Polygon - All

Faces of Death’s villain was inspired by a forgotten 2015 found-footage thriller

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Microsoft’s executive shake-up continues as developer division chief resigns

The Verge - All Posts

Europe’s first commercial robotaxi service is live in Zagreb

The Next Web

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Techmeme

Meta is opening a private API preview for Muse Spark to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience later; META closes up 6.5% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

Techmeme

Homemade Fire Emblem statue is the ultimate thrift store find

Polygon - All

How to use Pokémon from Home in Pokémon Champions

Polygon - All

Meta says Muse Spark powers queries in Meta AI and its "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)

Techmeme

Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark

The Verge - All Posts