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State of AI safety: as capabilities grow and models can monitor other models, issues like adversarial robustness persist and society is still not ready for AI (Boaz Barak/Windows On Theory)

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Dyson’s ultra-thin PencilVac Fluffycones is tougher to resist at $150 off

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Match Group agrees to settle an FTC lawsuit claiming it illegally shared user data from the OkCupid app with facial recognition tech company Clarifai in 2014 (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)

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Macs of Unusual Size

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A Delaware judge reassigns Elon Musk cases over "disproportionate media attention" after allegations she "liked" a LinkedIn post celebrating a Musk legal defeat (Sujeet Indap/Financial Times)

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A new manufacturing process uses lasers to seal paper packaging instead of glue

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Fishbowl review: heartfelt indie turns social isolation into wisdom

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The latest Pixel 11 leak shows slimmer bezels and an all-black camera bar

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How to get and use Hernand refinement tokens in Crimson Desert

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GGMods Spring Modathon Starts April 13

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Darth Maul's robot legs: A definitive Star Wars timeline

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Sycamore, founded by former Atlassian CTO Sri Viswanath to let enterprises build, deploy, and monitor AI agents, raised a $65M seed led by Coatue and Lightspeed (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

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Okta’s CEO is betting big on AI agent identity

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Super Meat Boy 3D review: a sloppy transition from 2D to 3D

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After Copilot injected an ad into a pull request on GitHub, referencing Raycast, GitHub says it "disabled product tips entirely thanks to the feedback" (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)

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Examining the Smartphone Theory of Everything, which blames phones for anxiety, populism, and polarization, despite harms being concentrated in the Anglosphere (Derek Thompson)

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Is the Fire Force anime finished?

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Xbox Game Showcase 2026 dates and Gears of War Direct confirmed by Xbox

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Arc Raiders Flashpoint update release time in your time zone

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ScaleOps, which makes automated cloud spend tools, raised a $130M Series C led by Insight Partners at an $800M+ valuation, bringing its total funding to $210M+ (Meir Orbach/CTech)

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