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- The US Air Force cancels RTX's ground-control network for the US' next generation of GPS satellites after years of delays and cost overruns (Anthony Capaccio/Bloomberg) [3d]
- Q&A with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins on the company's growth in enterprise, competing with AI labs, token pricing, investing in its own models, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge) [3d]
- A US jury finds Uber liable for a sexual assault by a driver in 2019, handing Uber a second consecutive defeat in its first trials of 3,000+ pending lawsuits (Emily Steel/New York Times) [3d]
- OpenAI rolls out Chronicle, which builds memories from screen captures to make Codex more aware of context, as a research preview for Pro subscribers on macOS (Zac Hall/9to5Mac) [3d]
- John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman of Apple's board (CNBC) [3d]
- Apple says Johny Srouji, who most recently served as senior VP of Hardware Technologies, will assume an expanded role leading Hardware Engineering (Apple) [3d]
- Amazon agrees to invest up to $25B in Anthropic, on top of the $8B that it has already invested; Anthropic commits to spend $100B+ on AWS over the next 10 years (Ashley Capoot/CNBC) [3d]
- Apple announces that John Ternus, senior VP of Hardware Engineering, will become Apple's next CEO on September 1; Tim Cook will become executive chairman (Business Wire) [3d]
- Microsoft pauses new GitHub Copilot signups for Pro, Pro+, and Student tiers, tightens usage limits, removes Opus models from Pro, and limits Opus 4.7 to Pro+ (The GitHub Blog) [3d]
- Docs: Microsoft intends to pause student and paid individual tier signups for GitHub Copilot, tighten limits, and then move from request to token-based billing (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...) [3d]
- RaveDAO's RAVE has lost $6.6B+ in market cap and its price has sunk ~98% since Saturday, after ZachXBT called on exchanges to probe if it was being manipulated (André Beganski/Decrypt) [3d]
- A profile of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes, who has been kicked off most mainstream social media but made ~$900K from "fanatical" donors since early 2025 (Washington Post) [4d]
- Filing in California's antitrust lawsuit: CA accuses Amazon of price-fixing by pressuring brands to ask competing retailers to increase prices on some products (David McCabe/New York Times) [4d]
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- Quordle hints and answers for Tuesday, April 21 (game #1548) [3d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Tuesday, April 21 (game #1045) [3d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Tuesday, April 21 (game #779) [3d]
- “Essentially invisible:” How hackers 'trojan-horsed' QEMU virtual machines to bypass security and drop ransomware [3d]
- "100x faster than traditional tools": Scientists load quantum computer with first complete genome to crack biology’s 'impossible' puzzle — in time for World Quantum Day [3d]
- Veremark Background Check review: A surprisingly practical solution for businesses of all sizes [3d]
- "Relying on a single, centralized mine represents a risk": US wants rare earth independence from China — but can DARPA actually make it work? [3d]
- Tim Cook to step down, John Ternus will become new Apple CEO [3d]
- I turned my text messages into a song with Suno and now my dinner plans sound like a pop duet [3d]
- 'The 1000 TOPS consumer': How the NPU-everywhere strategy could turn every user into a walking supercomputer by 2030 [3d]
- How to watch NBA Playoffs 2026: live streams, schedule, TV channels [3d]
- I picked up this cheap MP3 player, and it freed me from my phone so often, I wish I'd got it sooner [3d]
- Robots are fighting wars and helping to quash riots — China is arming riot police with squads of AI controlled drones and Ukraine wants to man the frontlines with 25,000 robots [3d]
- Hyundai reinvents the hatchback with the 300-mile range Ioniq 3 — a compact, aerodynamic EV that runs on Android Automotive [4d]
- Accurate Background review: Streamlining background employment checks — but I found it's geared to mid- to large-sized businesses, not SMBs [4d]
- US security agency still using Mythos despite ban – government using new security tool despite Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' designation [4d]
- What is the release date for Running Point season 2 on Netflix? [4d]
- How to watch 'Running Wild with Bear Grylls' season 9 online from anywhere — stream the survival series [4d]
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