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RCS messaging adds end-to-end encryption between Android and iOS

When RCS messaging became available on the iPhone with the rollout of iOS 18, the technical director of the GSM Association teased that the next major milestone for the messaging standard is the addition of interoperable end-to-end encryption. Now, six months later, GSMA has released an updated s...

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Apple to Support Encrypted RCS Messaging in Future Software Update

Apple says it will add support for a new Rich Communication Services ( RCS ) specification that includes end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for messages sent over the protocol in future software updates. "End-to-end encryption is a powerful privacy and security technology that iMessage has supported si...

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Apple will soon support encrypted RCS messaging with Android users 

iPhone and Android users will be able to exchange end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messages in the near future thanks to newly updated RCS specifications. The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE based on the Messaging Layer Security (MLS) protocol, enabling interop...

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Judge orders Feds re-hire workers falsely fired for lousy performance

    Veteran of Oracle vs Google Java trial fumes over 'gimmicks' and 'sham' arguments A federal judge has ordered six US government agencies to immediately rehire employees fired this year by the Trump administration.…

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    Judge orders Trump administration to give fired workers their jobs back

      A federal judge has ordered the rehiring of probationary workers terminated by the Trump administration.

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      Judge Calls DOGE Firings a ‘Sham,’ Orders Thousands of Workers to Be Reinstated ‘Immediately’

        It's a major setback for Elon's government destruction project.

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        Apple reportedly plans to add a live-translation feature to AirPods

        AirPods are arguably Apple's most popular post-iPhone product, and it sounds like the company has plans to make them even more essential. Bloomberg reports that Apple is adding a live-translate feature to AirPods later this year as part of an upcoming software update. The feature sounds like it w...

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        Apple is reportedly bringing live translation to AirPods

        Apple is planning to bring live translation to AirPods, according to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The feature, which will let users translate conversations in real time, will be “tied” to the forthcoming iOS 19, Gurman says. Apple is a little behind others in adding live translation to ...

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        AirPods Getting Live Translation Feature Later This Year

        Apple is working on feature that will let the AirPods translate in-person conversations from one language to another, reports Bloomberg . The functionality will be linked to iOS 19 , and it will be introduced in an AirPods software update planned for later this year. The AirPods will be able to p...

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        Watch the Trailer for Apple's Big Summer Movie 'F1' Starring Brad Pitt

        Apple Original Films this week released a trailer for its upcoming "F1" racing film. In the film, Brad Pitt stars as an F1 driver who was an up-and-coming talent in the 1990s, until an accident on the track nearly ended his career. Thirty years later, Pitt is invited to join a former teammate's s...

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        See Brad Pitt behind the wheel in the trailer for 'F1'

        The full trailer dropped today for Apple's F1 movie. The film is getting an international theatrical release starting June 25, and will be in theaters and IMAX domestically beginning June 27. F1 has received extensive involvement from the Formula 1 world, so it'll be fascinating to see how well ...

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        'Ted Lasso' Fourth Season Confirmed by Series Star Jason Sudeikis

        Ted Lasso is returning to Apple TV+ for a fourth season, series star Jason Sudeikis has confirmed (via The Radio Times ). In an interview on the New Heights podcast, Sudeikis admitted that he will be reprising his role once again as the show's titular character, and said that the fourth instalmen...

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        1Password subscriptions are up to 50 percent off right now

        One of the best things you can do for your online security is to make sure you have a robust, unique password on every single one of your accounts. But not many of us have the ability to memorize the login details for so many different services if the credentials are as strong as they ought to be...

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        How to go back in time using Google Maps P

        There’s a lot to explore in Google Maps, but you may not always know where to look. It’s great if you’re trying to drive through a crowded city or find out which local coffee shop has the best-rated bagels, but there are also other, lesser-known features worth investigating. These include histo...

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        Got a road toll text? Don’t click on this ‘smishing’ scam

        State officials are warning Americans not to respond to a surge of scam road toll collection texts. The texts impersonating state road toll collection agencies attempt to get phone users to reveal financial information, such as credit or debit cards or bank accounts. They’re so-called smishing sc...

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        The fake promise of better Siri P

        Apple Intelligence is technically lots of things, but there’s only one feature with the potential to actually meaningfully change the way you use your phone. That would be Siri, which Apple said last year it had turned from a quasi-helpful voice assistant into an AI-powered helper that could un...

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        'Silent Hill f' trailer shows the game's beautiful backdrop and unsettling mood

        It's been a while since Konami teased Silent Hill f , a mainline game in the franchise that's set in 1960s rural Japan instead of the titular town. Now, the publisher has released a full trailer for the much-awaited game at an online event livestreamed on YouTube . Konami's Motoi Okamoto, who's i...

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        China’s new AI agent Manus calls its own shots P

        Modern large language models are really good at a lot of tasks, like coding, essay writing, translation, and research. But there are still a lot of basic tasks, especially in the “personal assistant” realm, that the most highly trained AIs in the world remain hopeless at.  You can’t ask ChatGPT o...

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        Apple Wallet Gets Deeper Integration With PayPal's Debit Card This Year

        It would have been really easy to miss it, but Apple last year briefly mentioned a new PayPal feature coming to the Wallet app on the iPhone. In an October 2024 press release , celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Apple Pay, Apple announced that iPhone users in the U.S. would be able to see the...

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        The Morning After: Is the Roomba an endangered species?

        The company behind Roomba robovacs told investors earlier this week that revenue was substantially down and it’s struggling to pay its debts. Amazon was briefly tapped to acquire the robot company iRobot, but the threat of a European Commission investigation led to the retailer terminating the de...

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        Kerry Washington invests in wedding marketplace Cheersy

        Kerry Washington is expanding her angel investment portfolio, serving as lead investor in the pre-seed round of the wedding marketplace Cheersy.  Cheersy, which was founded in 2024 by Amy Shack Egan, helps couples find day-of service wedding coordinators and has raised a total of $550,000, from o...

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        Dash to Panel maintainer quits after donations drive becomes dash to disaster

          Tin rattling earns rebuke from GNOME extension's original developer as well as dozens of everyday users The maintainer of one of the most popular extensions to customize the GNOME desktop is stepping down and seeking someone to take over development after a fundraising effort backfired.…

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          Activist Groups Challenge UK Demand for Apple Encryption Backdoor

          Two human rights groups have filed a legal complaint with the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in an attempt to quash the UK government's demand for Apple to allow backdoor access to its encrypted data (via Financial Times ). Earlier this year, the UK government invoked the Investigatory ...

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          UK’s secret iCloud backdoor order triggers civil rights challenge

          The U.K. government’s secret order to Apple demanding it backdoor the end-to-end encrypted version of its iCloud storage service has now been challenged by two civil rights groups, Liberty and Privacy International, which filed complaints Thursday. They called the order “unacceptable and dispropo...

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          Engadget Podcast: MacBook Air M4 review, Apple delays smarter Siri

          It's both a great and bad week for Apple. In this episode, we dive into Devindra's review of the excellent M4-equipped MacBook Air (and briefly chat about the new Mac Studio). We also discuss Apple's surprise announcement that it's delaying its smarter, AI-infused Siri, which may not arrive until...

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          Siri’s delay is an artifact of Apple’s unsure AI footing—and more

          Before I go any further, a programming note: On Thursday, March 27 at 1 p.m. ET, my colleague Max Ufberg and I will host “The AI Tools We Love Right Now—and What’s Next,” an online event exclusively for Fast Company Premium subscribers. We’ll discuss the AI-assisted productivity products that are...

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          Outbreak turns 30

          Ars chats with epidemiologist Tara Smith about the film's scientific accuracy and impact over 3 decades.

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          Block Party offers tool for optimizing social media privacy

          If optimizing your social media privacy settings feels important but overwhelming, a company called Block Party may be able to help.  Founder and CEO Tracy Chou has long been known for advocating for diversity in the tech industry. And like many diversity advocates, and women and people of color ...

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          Trump family is reportedly in talks to acquire stake in Binance’s US arm

          President Trump’s family has been weighing an investment in Binance.US, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The investment would come just a couple of years after Binance’s U.S. arm pleaded guilty to violating anti-money laundering regulation. As part of that guilty plea, Binance’...

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          A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

            The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.

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            A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

              The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say.

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              Trump and Musk have huge conflicts of interest. Who’s policing them? P

              In the past week, Donald Trump announced that he would buy a Tesla and advertised the company’s vehicles at an event that turned the White House lawn into a showroom benefitting his ally, Tesla CEO Elon Musk. He also said that vandalizing Tesla cars — as some demonstrators have done to protest Mu...

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              SoftBank buys $676M old Sharp plant for its OpenAI collab in Japan

              SoftBank is marching ahead on its ambitions to build out a major AI operation in its home market of Japan, on its own steam and in strategic partnership with others like OpenAI. On Friday, the tech company confirmed it would pay $676 million for factory previously used by Sharp to build LCD panel...

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              West Virginia football coach Rich Rodriguez isn’t here for locker room dances

              From the White House to the local police department , TikTok trends are now part of the cultural conversation—for better or worse. But don’t expect to see the latest dance craze in the West Virginia football team’s locker room. Asked whether he had a social media policy for his program, Mountaine...

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              Saturn runs rings around Jupiter

              Ratification of 128 additional moons puts the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count Saturn runs rings around Jupiter Ratification of 128 new moons put the smaller gas giant way ahead on satellite count The International Astronomical Union on Tuesday ratified the recent discovery of 128 p...

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              Shark Promo Codes: 10% Off | March 2025

                Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops. Don’t miss 10% off your next vacuum as you dive into spring cleaning.

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                Shark Promo Codes: 10% Off | March 2025

                  Shark makes some seriously powerful vacuums, from handheld vacs to steam mops. Don’t miss 10% off your next vacuum as you dive into spring cleaning.

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                  Waymo was slapped with nearly 600 parking tickets last year in SF alone

                  Waymo now has more than 300 driverless vehicles zipping passengers around San Francisco, but while they follow traffic laws, parking is another matter entirely. According to city records cited by the Washington Post, these rolling robots racked up 589 citations totaling $65,065 in fines last year...

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                  Anti-aging zealot Bryan Johnson wants to start ‘foodome sequencing’

                  In the same way that genome sequencing determines the genetic makeup of an organism, Bryan Johnson — the investor and founder behind the Don’t Die movement – wants to start “foodome” sequencing.  “We’re going to sequence the U.S. ‘foodome,’ which means test 20% of foods that constitute 80% of the...

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                  T-Mobile is raising prices on some of its prized legacy plans

                  T-Mobile is letting some legacy plan customers know that a price increase is coming, 9to5Google reports. Many Reddit users on r/tmobile said the carrier sent them text messages that their plans will raise by $5 per month per line starting on April 2nd. In an internal memo obtained by CNET, T-Mobi...

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                  Why DeepSeek’s arrival looks like a key moment for safe AI

                  The AI industry is growing up fast. New model releases are now a regular event and premium AI features are quickly overtaken by free or freemium alternatives. Exhibit A: OpenAI unveiled its Deep Research tool, which can write reports on complex topics in minutes, as part of its $200-a-month Pro p...

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                  Apple’s AirPods 4 are down to their lowest price to date

                  Apple’s AirPods 4 are down to the lowest price ever on Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy, where you can pick them up starting at $99.99. That’s about 22 percent off the $129 list price.  These are the newest version of Apple’s base AirPods, launched in September with the iPhone 16. They support spati...

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                  Kuo: Cook Should Personally Address Siri Apple Intelligence Failure

                  Apple made a major misstep with the way that it handled the delay of Apple Intelligence features for Siri , Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo said today . Announcing the delay through a press statement was a bad decision, and Apple should instead have gone through official channels. Kuo referenced the w...

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                  Facebook creators can now monetize their Stories

                  Meta is adding a new incentive to get people to create and share photos and videos on Facebook. The company announced today that creators in Facebook's Content Monetization program can now earn money off people viewing their Facebook Stories . Since you can already easily share photos and videos ...

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                  Nintendo's San Francisco store will open on May 15

                  Nintendo has set the date for its second US store to set up shop. Following the announcement last year, Nintendo's brick and mortar location in San Francisco will open its doors on May 15. The opening is happening almost exactly two decades after Nintendo launched its first US store, which is in ...

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                  Rad Power Bikes already has a new CEO

                  Rad Power Bikes has named a new CEO, just a few days after its previous leader stepped down. The e-bike company has tapped Kathi Lentzsch, who has spent the last few decades helping turn around underperforming companies in both the consumer and B2B spaces. The change comes as Rad Power continues ...

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                  Social media addicts: Here are tips to stop wasting time on apps

                  If you’ve got a smartphone, you probably spend too much time on it — checking Instagram, watching silly TikTok videos, messaging on WhatsApp or doomscrolling on X. It can be hard to curb excessive use of smartphones and social media, which are addictive by design . Reducing your screen time is of...

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                  A24’s Opus is a stylish symphony of half-baked ideas P

                  Opus, A24’s new horror-tinged thriller from writer / director Mark Anthony Green, has a lot to say about the symbiotic (and sometimes parasitic) relationship between entertainment journalists and celebrities. In the film’s story about reporters tripping over themselves just to be close to an ...

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                  Y Combinator urges the White House to support Europe’s Digital Markets Act

                  Y Combinator, one of the world’s most prolific startup accelerators, sent a letter on Wednesday urging the Trump Administration to openly support Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a wide-ranging piece of legislation that aims to crack open Big Tech’s market power. The DMA designates six tech co...

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                  Google is rolling out a fix for broken Chromecasts

                  Google is rolling out a fix for Chromecast device issues that left many users with “untrusted device” errors that disabled casting. The issue, which appeared over the weekend, seemed to widely affect Chromecast 2nd generation and Chromecast Audio devices. Google has not said what caused the error...

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                  iPhone 16e Has a Bluetooth Audio Problem

                  In the two weeks since the iPhone 16e launched, some early adopters of the device have experienced a Bluetooth audio issue. According to complaints from affected users across the Apple Support Community , Reddit , and X , audio being streamed from an iPhone 16e to a Bluetooth speaker periodically...

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                  AI summaries are coming to Notepad

                  Microsoft is testing AI-powered summaries in Notepad. In an update rolling out to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev channels, you’ll be able to summarize information in Notepad by highlighting a chunk of text, right-clicking it, and selecting Summarize. Notepad will then generate a summary o...

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                  Windows Notepad to get AI text summarization in Windows 11

                    Microsoft is now testing an AI-powered text summarization feature in Notepad and a Snipping Tool "Draw & Hold" feature that helps draw perfect shapes. [...]

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                    Warhammer 40K: Space Marine 2 is unsurprisingly getting a sequel

                    The Emperor protects! Warhammer 40K fans, it appears you won't have to wait nearly as long for a new Space Marine game as you did for a sequel to the 2011 original. Games Workshop announced today that Saber Interactive and Focus Entertainment are working on a new installment in the series.  "Spec...

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                    Oracle is reportedly a top choice for helping run TikTok

                    TikTok has until April to finalize a sale to a U.S.-based buyer, yet uncertainties about the future of the short-form video app remain. However, a new report has emerged, suggesting that Oracle is the leading candidate to serve as the cloud technology partner for managing TikTok in the U.S., acco...

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                    Disco Elysium is coming to Android mobile this summer

                    Disco Elysium is a critically acclaimed RPG from 2019 that won many accolades for its smart storytelling and writing. Later this year, the game is getting reimagined exclusively for Android devices. This mobile version is slated for a summer 2025 launch. The new format looks akin to what you'd fi...

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                    Google Gemini Can Now Use Your Search History to Provide Personalized Responses

                    Google's Gemini AI product is now able to absorb a user's search history in order to provide more personalized information, Google announced today . The Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking model is able to connect to Google apps and services to tailor responses based on past searches. Google says that this...

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                    Tesla Cybertruck deliveries reportedly on hold because the trim is flying off

                    America’s favorite low poly electric truck is facing a new set of problems that don’t have anything to do with people spray painting swastikas or crude comments about Elon Musk on them. Deliveries of the Tesla Cybertruck are on hold while the company addresses issues with reports that the trim is...

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                    Black Mirror is playing the hits in its season 7 trailer

                    The seventh season of Black Mirror is headed to Netflix on April 10, and based on its first trailer, happily returning to concepts and episodes that have come to define the series. You'll see plenty of the stars that were already announced to be in the new episodes in the trailer, like Paul Giam...

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                    Google says it's rolling out a fix for stricken Chromecasts

                      It'll take a few days, give or take your situation Google has told The Register it's beginning to roll out a fix for Chromecast devices that were bricked due to an expired security certificate authority. We're assured this deployment will take place over the next few days.…

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                      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown comes out on May 22

                      Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown will be released on May 22 for PC via Steam . As the name indicates, this is a turn-based strategy RPG. It also happens to be the first turn-based game in franchise history . It’s being developed by Strange Scaffold, who made the fantastic El Paso, ...