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The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset
Technology

The Trump phone sure looks a lot like this HTC handset

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We've reached out, as usual, to ask about the Trump phone's whereabouts, and have stop...

CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year
Technology

CISA is getting a new acting director after less than a year

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as repor...

AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets
Technology

AI deepfakes are a train wreck and Samsung’s selling tickets

On Thursday morning, I attended a Q&A panel with four top Samsung smartphone executives. Until 2025, Samsung was the world's largest smartphone manufacturer, an...

FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs
Technology

FedEx promises to refund customers for ‘illegal’ tariffs

FedEx plans to pass along any refunds resulting from the Supreme Court's ruling that some of President Donald Trump's tariffs are "illegal." In a statement on i...

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount
Technology

Amazon’s Fire TV Stick 4K Plus gets a better interface and a 40 percent discount

When Amazon first showed off its redesigned Fire TV OS at CES, we were impressed. It’s faster, better organized, and feels similar to Google’s top-notch TV inte...

Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more
Business

Paramount and Warner Bros' deal is about merging studios, and a whole lot more

The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the...

AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines
Technology

AI vs. the Pentagon: killer robots, mass surveillance, and red lines

Can AI firms set limits on how and where the military uses their models? Anthropic is in heated negotiations with the Pentagon after refusing to comply with new...

Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games
Technology

Woot’s ‘Video Games for All’ sale features some of our favorite games

There’s a sale happening at Woot that’s delivering Black Friday-esque deals on video games through March 5th. The “Video Games for All” sale includes discounts...

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots
Technology

We don’t have to have unsupervised killer robots

It's the day of the Pentagon's looming ultimatum for Anthropic: allow the US military unchecked access to its technology, including for mass surveillance and fu...

The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser
Technology

The US military reportedly shot down a CBP drone with a laser

The US military mistakenly shot down a drone belonging to Customs and Border Protection near the Mexican border in Fort Hancock, Texas, according to reports fro...

Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show
Technology

Here’s your first look at Kratos in Amazon’s God of War show

Amazon has slowly been teasing out casting details for its live-action adaptation of God of War, and now we have our first look at the show. It's a single image...

The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare
Technology

The Galaxy S26 is a photography nightmare

In many ways, Samsung's new phones are fairly normal upgrades. The S26 lines come with some useful new things - particularly the Privacy Display on the S26 Ultr...

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