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The US Space Force announced Friday it selected SpaceX, United Launch Alliance, and Blue Origin for $13.7 billion in contracts to deliver the Pentagon's most critical military to orbit into the early 2030s. These missions will launch the government's heaviest national security satellites, like the National Reconnaissance Office's large bus-sized spy platforms, and deploy them into bespoke orbits. These types of launches often demand heavy-lift rockets with long-duration upper stages that can cr
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has infiltrated the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an agency that has a say over resources Musk needs or could benefit from for some of his private sector business, The Verge has learned. Three people who have been i
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is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. Earlier this week, when it seemed as though TikTok’s fate in the US would actually be decided by April 5th, everyone — from Amazon to the founder of OnlyFans — was coming out of the woodwork to buy it. As it turns out, none of them had a chance. And now, thanks to President Donald Trump’s tariff war, no one may get to buy TikTok. People familiar with the matter tell me that, desp
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For years, U.S.-based tech companies have tapped into India’s vast and increasing internet user base for growth. OpenAI is no exception. But while the AI lab claims that India is one of its fastest-growing ChatGPT markets, third-party data suggests that OpenAI may be struggling to turn that momentum into revenue. According to analytics firm SensorTower, users in India have spent $8 million on ChatGPT subscriptions through in-app purchases since 2023. That doesn’t include purchases made through
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Trump extends deadline to keep TikTok running in US The social media platform, which says it has more than 170 million users in the US, must close in the US under a law passed by Congress - unless a buyer is found. Trump's first extension was granted after he took office in January and was set to expire on Saturday. "We do not want TikTok to 'go dark'," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "We look forward to working with TikTok and China to close the Deal." The platform is currently owned by Chinese
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I’ve been involved in web dev in different forms for 20 years, but I’ve never done anything with these types of websites. My questions are: * When you register a domain with them, is the domain legally yours? * Are there any SEO penalties for using these apps to build websites? Does anyone own a website or client site hosted on Squarespace or similar that’s ranking high on Google? I can see the benefit for developers but I’m wondering about the benefits for clients.
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⏎ μWrap A 10x faster and more accurate text wrapping util in < 2KB (min) (MIT Licensed) Introduction uWrap exists to efficiently predict varying row heights for list and grid virtualization, a technique for UI performance optimization when rendering large, scrollable datasets. Doing this both quickly and accurately turns out to be a non-trivial task since Canvas2D provides no API for text wrapping, and measureText() is quite expensive; measuring via DOM is also a non-starter due to poor perfo
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The F1 Japanese Grand Prix weekend starts on the 4th of April. We have three practice sessions, one qualifying session, and the main race in the lineup. However, you might struggle to find ways to watch it live. Paid channels aren’t an option for many — they’re way too expensive. But can you watch the F1 Japanese Grand Prix on a free channel? Believe it or not, the answer is yes! SRF will broadcast the event for you. In this guide, we’ll explain how to access the TV channel from anywhere and en
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Spring break continues at theme parks and fandom experiences around the country. This past week saw the opening of Star Wars Season of the Force at the Disneyland Resort. io9 was on hand to experience the food and fun there. Here we catch up with the rest of the galactic goods with a look at Shadows of Memory: A Skywalker Saga, the nighttime spectacular over the skies of the Black Spire Outpost at Disneyland (sorry, none for you, Galaxy’s Edge East Coast). Then there’s the latest in fandom mer
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OpenAI surprised folks this week when CEO Sam Altman announced on X/Twitter that the company is switching up its planned release schedule. The next ChatGPT model we can expect to see is o3 and o4-mini, coming soon in the next few weeks. But that means that GPT-5, the next major overhaul we expect for ChatGPT, is being pushed back to later this year. The news is a reversal of a February announcement that OpenAI was integrating o3 and other technology in the upcoming ChatGPT-5 model, meaning that
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Marvel Rivals players are getting invited to the shores of Krakoa for the start of season 2 on April 11. The game dropped the first trailer for the new season, giving us our first official look at the new heroes, and a developer vision video dropped major news about the future of hero releases. The trailer features Emma Frost, wearing slightly more clothes than usual, inviting people from across Rivals' various timelines to the mutant nation of Krakoa, where everyone gets dressed up for a fancy
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The children yearn for the mines. It's no April Fools' Day joke: Kids at my local McDonald's were streaming out the door on Tuesday with the new Minecraft-themed Happy Meal boxes when I drove up to try the new offering. It's all a promotion for A Minecraft Movie, which opens Friday, April 4, and it draws inspiration from the popular video game available across platforms including Xbox, Nintendo Switch and mobile phones. So, of course, I had to try everything they offered and report back. And I t
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is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Ring founder Jamie Siminoff returned to Amazon this week, coming back to the company just about two years after he left, Bloomberg reports. He’s now a vice president at the company, and he will be heading up the Ring, Blink, Amazon Key, and Sidewalk teams. Siminoff is replacing Liz Hamren, who had taken over following Siminoff’s initial departure. Hamren and the team “have do
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an event announcing new tariffs in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, April 2, 2025. President Donald Trump announced an aggressive, far-reaching "reciprocal" tariff policy Wednesday, leaving many economists and U.S. trade partners to question how the White House calculated its rates. Trump's plan established a 10% baseline tariff on almost every country, though many nations such as China, Vietnam and Taiwan are subject to much steeper r
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Weaponized large language models (LLMs) fine-tuned with offensive tradecraft are reshaping cyberattacks, forcing CISOs to rewrite their playbooks. They’ve proven capable of automating reconnaissance, impersonating identities and evading real-time detection, accelerating large-scale social engineering attacks. Models, including FraudGPT, GhostGPT and DarkGPT, retail for
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Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More The general-purpose AI agent landscape is suddenly much more crowded and ambitious. This week, Palo Alto-based startup Genspark released what it calls Super Agent, a fast-moving autonomous system designed to handle real-world tasks across a wide range of domains – including some that raise eyebrows, like making phone calls to restaurants using a realistic synthetic voi
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President Trump announced this week a series of tariffs imposed on the import of products from other countries, which will end up hitting many US companies like Apple – since most of its products come from China. Now it seems that Apple is considering expanding the assembly of iPhones in Brazil to get around the US tariffs. Apple to assemble more iPhones in Brazil Sources familiar with the matter told Brazilian magazine Exame that Apple has been considering expanding the capacity of its facili
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xlwings Lite brings the VBA experience into the modern age by offering a privacy-first, secure, and developer-friendly way to automate Excel and write custom functions with Python. Free & easy to install: Available for free in the Office add-in store for both personal and commercial use. No registration or login required, simply install and create amazing things! Cross-platform: Works on Windows, macOS, and Excel for the web. It’s compatible with Microsoft 365 as well as recent perpetual versi
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Scaling Up Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Smoothing: A 100-AV Highway Deployment Training Diffusion Models with Reinforcement Learning We deployed 100 reinforcement learning (RL)-controlled cars into rush-hour highway traffic to smooth congestion and reduce fuel consumption for everyone. Our goal is to tackle "stop-and-go" waves, those frustrating slowdowns and speedups that usually have no clear cause but lead to congestion and significant energy waste. To train efficient flow-smoothing c
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The long-term impact of the new US tariffs implemented by President Donald Trump may be uncertain, but the short-term effects have been obvious -- stock prices in the leading US markets are crumbling. After the new tariffs were announced late Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by 1,647 points on Thursday and has fallen another 2,000 points, or nearly 5%, on Friday. "It is very difficult for businesses to plan in this chaotic tariff environment created by the Trump administrati
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TikTok isn't going anywhere — for now — after President Donald Trump on Friday said he would sign another executive order to give the social media app another 75 days to sell itself to an approved buyer. He signed a similar order in January after TikTok went dark for a short period of time in the US. Amazon, Oracle and other companies have reportedly expressed interest in buying the app, but no deal has been reached yet. "We do not want TikTok to 'go dark,'" Trump said in a post on Truth Social
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AI development has been at a breakneck speed so it's no wonder Microsoft has been pumping out updates to its Copilot AI assistant. The latest upgrades cement Microsoft's ambition to make Copilot not just an assistant, but a companion, a computer buddy that's your ride-or-die. With AI everywhere, Microsoft is looking to make Copilot more compelling and more essential by making it more personal. "Copilot will understand you in the context of your life, and show up, on your terms, in the right wa
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Hoops fans have some huge March Madness games to look forward to this weekend in the men's NCAA tournament and the women's tournament. If you're wondering how to watch all of the Final Four games today and tomorrow, and the national championship games to follow, you've come to the right place. We've done the work for you and figured out the best ways to watch or stream the rest of March Madness. You don't need a cable or satellite TV subscription to watch either tournament. The NCAA men's and
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As the launch of the Nintendo Switch 2 inches nearer, more details about the console are coming out. First, the specs of the console were mostly unveiled during a Nintendo Treehouse event on April 3. That event also featured the announcement of a new game called Switch 2 Welcome Tour that acts as a user tutorial for the various new features of the Switch 2. Per Nintendo, the game will feature "tech demos, minigames, and quizzes" for players to complete. The primary subject matter is the various
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A Minecraft Movie is finally in theaters, and everyone can now witness the epic bromance between Jack Black and Jason Momoa. The block-building adventure movie, based on the global hit video game, hit theaters on Friday. The movie follows a simple premise: Four unlikely friends find themselves in the Overworld (the cubic pixelated game realm) and must work together to journey through hordes of zombies and battle pigs to find a peculiar orb (it's a cube) to get back home. Black leads the film as
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AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed V7, it's a ground-up rework that is available in alpha to users now. There are two areas of improvement in V7: the first is better images, and the second is new tools and workflows. Starting with the image improvements, V7 promises much higher coherence and consistency for hands, fingers, body parts, and "objects of all kinds." It also offers much more detailed and realistic textures and materials, like
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is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. President Donald Trump’s additional 75 day delay to TikTok’s sale-or-ban deadline leaves service providers like Apple, Google, and Oracle on shaky ground, and, according to one influential Democrat, is straight-up “against the law.” After Trump announced the extension on Friday, 1
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Steve Ballmer, former chief executive officer of Microsoft Corp., speaks during an event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the company at Microsoft headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US, on Friday, April 4, 2025. Microsoft Corp., determined to hold its ground in artificial intelligence, will soon let consumers tailor the Copilot digital assistant to their own needs. President Trump's new tariffs on goods that the U.S. imports from over 100 countries will have an effect on consumers, forme
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Image by Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images Developments Last week, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary and noted anti-vaccine crackpot Robert Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping layoffs as part of a major restructuring effort. Roughly 20,000 of the department's 82,000 full-time employees ended up on the chopping block. Around 10,000 have been laid off, with the rest being taking either early retirements or buyouts, according to the announcement. But it's looki
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