<p>Do you sometimes refer to X by its old name, Twitter? That&#8217;s okay. Even Elon Musk, the man who changed Twitter&#8217;s name to X, still occasionally refers to the social media platform he runs as Twitter. &#8220;Twitter added far more features with fewer people,&#8221; said Musk in a post on X Monday. The owner of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Apple Fellow Phil Schiller, the executive in charge of leading the App Store, testified in court on Monday that he had originally raised concerns about the 27% commission the iPhone maker planned to charge app developers on any purchases made outside the App Store. In addition to being a potential compliance risk, he suggested that [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>The General Services Administration, the agency that manages buildings owned by the federal government, is planning to shut down its entire network of electric vehicle chargers, according to a report in The Verge. The GSA reportedly operates a network of hundreds of EV chargers with a total of 8,000 plugs that can be used to [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>The little-known surveillance vendor filed for bankruptcy in January, after years of peddling spyware to countries like Colombia.</p>

<p>Instagram is upgrading its direct messages, also known as DMs, with a handful of new features that make its messaging system more competitive with alternatives, like Apple&#8217;s iMessage and other third-party apps. On Wednesday, Instagram users globally will gain access to tools to translate messages across 99 languages, tools to schedule and pin messages to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Duolingo&#8217;s mascot, Duo the owl, is dead. Okay, Duo isn&#8217;t really dead (we think), but the language learning app committed so hard to this bit that its CEO, Luis von Ahn, read a eulogy for this beloved green bird on TikTok. As any fiction author could probably tell you, killing everyone&#8217;s favorite character is not [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Large language models (LLMs) landed on Europe&#8217;s digital sovereignty agenda with a bang last week, as news emerged of a new program to develop a series of &#8220;truly&#8221; open source LLMs covering all European Union languages. This includes the current 24 official EU languages, as well as languages for countries currently negotiating for entry to [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s AI startup xAI plans to continue using 15 gas turbines to power its &#8220;Colossus&#8221; supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, according to an operating permit with the Shelby County Health Department for non-stop turbine use from June 2025 to June 2030. Why does it matter? The Commercial Appeal, a news outlet that obtained the documents, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Ride-share giant Uber filed a lawsuit Friday against DoorDash, accusing the delivery outfit of stifling competition by intimidating restaurant owners into exclusive deals. Uber alleges in the lawsuit, filed in Superior Court of California, that its chief rival bullied restaurants into only working with DoorDash. Uber claims that DoorDash, which holds the largest share of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>SailPoint’s IPO on Thursday was a disappointment for anyone hoping it would indicate that tech IPOs are hot again. The first day’s trading ended below the $23 initial price. The stock fared a tad better Friday, closing at over $24. But that’s nothing close to the big bang companies and VCs hope for. For instance, [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Hotstar and JioCinema, two widely used video streaming apps in India, have merged into JioHotstar. JioStar, a joint venture between Reliance-owned Viacom18 and Star India, said Friday it had integrated JioCinema&#8217;s vast library of content into a revamped version of Disney&#8217;s Hotstar platform. The merged app, live as of early Friday local India time, will [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The U.K. government wants to make a hard pivot into boosting its economy and industry with AI, and as part of that, it’s pivoting an institution that it founded a little over a year ago for a very different purpose. Today the Department of Science, Industry and Technology announced that it would be renaming the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Google&#8217;s Gemini AI chatbot can now tailor answers based on the contents of previous conversations, the company announced in a blog post on Thursday. Gemini can summarize a previous conversation you&#8217;ve had with it, or recall info you shared in another conversation thread. This means you won&#8217;t have to repeat information you&#8217;ve already shared with [&hellip;]</p>

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<p>Security experts often describe identity as the “new perimeter” in the world of security: In the world of cloud services, where network assets and apps can range far and wide, the biggest vulnerabilities are often leaked and spoofed log-in credentials.  A startup called SGNL has built a new approach that it believes is better at [&hellip;]</p>

<p>The Army plans to grant upstart weapons maker Anduril control of one of its highest-profile and long-troubled projects known as the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) pending final Department of Defense (DoD) approval, founder Palmer Luckey announced in a blog post Tuesday. IVAS was initially awarded to Microsoft in 2018 to develop augmented reality headsets [&hellip;]</p>