Published on: 2025-04-19 03:37:57
is a deputy editor and author of thenewsletter. He has been reporting on the tech industry for more than a decade. The government should be scrutinizing Meta’s power. Unfortunately, its legal attack isn’t cutting to the heart of what keeps Meta big. This week, I spent three days in a Washington, DC courtroom watching Mark Zuckerberg testify. He was there defending his company from being broken up by the Federal Trade Commission, which is seeking to unwind his acquisitions of Instagram and What
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 19:20:24
Elon Musk and company’s apparent desire to suck up as much personal information as they can about Americans has hit another snag. U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander issued a preliminary injunction that will at least temporarily prevent staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive data on millions of Americans while working within the Social Security Administration. The ruling, which comes in response to a lawsuit filed by several unions and groups of retirees
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 17:16:21
Welcome to your Friday edition of TMA. It’s a public holiday where I’m from, so it’s a shorter briefing than usual. Barring a barrage of new cars (tariffs? shh!) revealed at the New York International Auto Show, it’s been a relatively quiet week, but not without a bit of drama. Engadget “You know, they say money can’t buy happiness. And… yeah, OK… I guess that’s true. God knows I’ve tried. But it can buy a Cybertruck, and that’s pretty sick, right? …Right?? Fuck, I’m so alone.” That’s what a p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 23:16:47
There are so many factors that can influence how we perceive others, which in turn can determine the people we choose as platonic friends or romantic mates. We certainly make snap judgments based on physical appearance, but scent can have a powerful influence, too. According to a new paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, two heterosexual women meeting for the first time rely partly on scent to judge whether they want to be friends with each other, deciding within minutes—practically
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-19 23:28:43
It’s April, and the US is experiencing a self-inflicted trade war and a constitutional crisis over immigration. It’s a lot. It’s even enough to make you forget about Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency for a while. You shouldn’t. To state the obvious: DOGE is still out there, chipping away at the foundations of government infrastructure. Slightly less obvious, maybe, is that the DOGE project has recently entered a new phase. The culling of federal workers and contracts wil
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 03:36:00
What just happened? HP has agreed to pay $4 million to settle allegations that it misled customers with deceptive pricing on its website, bringing closure to a class-action lawsuit first filed in October 2021. The case centered on claims that HP's website displayed inflated original prices for computers and accessories – creating the illusion of significant discounts that, according to the plaintiffs, rarely existed. The lawsuit accused HP of using "strike-through" pricing – showing a higher, c
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 02:12:40
By pretty much any account, Blue Origin's publicity stunt of sending an all-female crew into space was a major flop. The Jeff Bezos-owned New Shepard capsule spent mere minutes in kinda-sorta-maybe space, giving its extremely wealthy passengers a momentary glimpse of weightlessness — though more in the way a rollercoaster ride causes you to shift out of your seat than in the microgravity of actual orbit (unlike a theme park ride, though, a ticket for the jaunt set passengers like pop star Katy
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 01:56:00
Getty Images/Zooey Liao, CNET Student loan repayment news is breaking so fast that it's difficult to keep track of all the changes. A recent update to the Department of Education's declarations about how a married borrower's payments are calculated for certain income-based plans led to confusion. Late last week, the Department of Education submitted a court filing that addressed married student loan borrowers enrolled in an income-driven repayment plan who had filed income taxes married but se
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 07:13:45
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is paying software company Palantir $30 million to provide the agency with “near real-time visibility” on people self-deporting from the United States, according to a contract justification published in a federal register on Thursday. The tool would also help ICE choose who to deport, giving special priority to “visa overstays,” the document shows. Palantir has been an ICE contractor since 2011, but the document published Thursday indicates that Palantir want
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 19:46:35
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . A VPN (virtual private network) can come in handy on a regular basis to keep you safe online, and you can save on one of our favorites right now. Our top pick for the best VPN, ProtonVPN, is on sale for just $86.16 for two years of access. That's a 64-percent discount, and it comes out
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 03:21:42
Careers at arXiv arXiv is part of Cornell Tech, the graduate campus and research center of Cornell University. All arXiv employees are Cornell University employees. Positions at arXiv are staff positions with benefits (endowed). Visa sponsorship is not available. You must already possess the legal right to work in the US. arXiv is headquartered at the Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island in New York City. When hiring, there is a strong preference for candidates who can report to work at t
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 11:29:57
StreamElements today put out its latest State of the Stream report for March 2025, where it detailed activity on Twitch for that month. The numbers show that Twitch’s viewership slumped in March, which is apparently typical for the platform — though the numbers drop to a happy normal rather than to a concerning low, according to StreamElements’ data. Monster Hunter Wilds also broke into the top 10 most-streamed categories for the month. According to StreamElement’s report, which was done in par
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 11:52:39
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been reduced to a skeleton crew. The department, which was created to oversee banks and financial institutions, has cut about 1,500 jobs , leaving about 200 employees and reducing the agency by about 90 percent. In addition to cutting most of the staff, Chief Legal Officer Mark Paoletta sent a memo detailing the changed priorities for the CFPB. The bureau has been ordered to deprioritize subjects including consumer data, digital payments, medical deb
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 11:47:16
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. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) is sending out mass layoff notices that appear to be in defiance of a court order blocking further layoffs following DOGE-induced cuts. “I regret to inform you that you are affected by a reduction in force (RIF) action,” says a notic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 14:32:00
William_Potter/Getty Images/CNET If you've been waiting for home prices to go down soon, you're also probably wondering: How can anyone afford a down payment in today's expensive housing market? While most experts recommend forking over 20% of the purchase price upfront, certain buyers are eligible to purchase a home without any down payment. You'll have to consider the drawbacks and determine if it's the right move for your finances. What are no-down-payment mortgages? A no-down-payment mor
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:17:02
Getty Images/Zooey Liao, CNET Student loan repayment news is breaking so fast that it's difficult to keep up these days. Now, there are changes to the Department of Education's declarations about how a married borrower's payments are calculated for certain income-based plans. Filing separately or jointly matters Late last week, the Department of Education submitted a court filing that addressed married student-loan borrowers enrolled in the income-driven repayment plan who had filed income ta
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:20:31
HP Inc. has agreed to pay a $4 million settlement to customers after being accused of “false advertising” of computers and peripherals on its website. Earlier this month, Judge P. Casey Pitts for the US District Court of the San Jose Division of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval [PDF] of a settlement agreement regarding a class-action complaint first filed against HP on October 13, 2021. The complaint accused HP's website of showing "misleading" original pricing f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 15:13:05
Expense management startup Ramp is being considered for a charge card pilot program by the U.S. government’s General Services Administration, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. The government’s internal expense card program, dubbed SmartPay, is a $700 billion program. It is estimated that the charge card pilot program contract for which Ramp is being considered is worth up to $25 million, according to a report by Pro Publica. Pro Publica claims that fintech Ramp has been lobbying
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:36:44
is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. A federal judge has struck down an Ohio law that would’ve required children under 16 to get parental consent to use social media platforms. In a decision on Wednesday, US District Court Judge Algenon Marbley ruled that the law is unconstitutional, saying it violates the First Amendment. Signed in 2023, Ohio’s Social Media Parental Notification Act
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-21 23:47:46
“We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half,” said Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs. “Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective.” The Department of Justice did not immediately have comment. The cases against Google are part of a growing push by regulators to rein in the power of the biggest tech companies, which shape commerce, information and communication online. The Jus
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 03:07:22
A federal judge ruled today that Google is a monopolist in some parts of the online advertising market, marking the second case in a year where the company was found to have violated US antitrust law. Last August, a federal judge ruled that Google was maintaining an illegal monopoly in search. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia determined that Google illegally monopolized parts of its advertising technology business to dominate the programmatic a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 07:28:47
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. RetroTINK, a company that sells hardware for playing retro consoles on modern screens, says it will be temporarily suspending US shipments — even though the company wants to pre-pay President Donald Trump’s tariffs, as reported by Time Extension. The company is suspending shipments “due to lack of guidance on how tariffs will be collected starting May 2nd,” RetroTINK’s Mike C
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 11:38:59
Global Payments shares tumbled 17% on Thursday after the company said it's buying Worldpay for more than $24 billion while simultaneously selling its Issuer Solutions business to Fidelity National Information Services . The company said that in acquiring Worldpay, which FIS had purchased in 2019 before later selling a majority stake, it's expanding its reach and will be able to serve over 6 million customers across more than 175 countries, enabling $3.7 trillion in annual payment volume. In se
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 11:00:23
Instagram is adding yet another way to liven up your Reels recommendations. The app is rolling out “Blend,” a feature that allows you to create a custom feed within a DM that combines your recommendations with a friend’s. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Blend has been in the works for some time. It was first spotted in the app more than a year ago, but was only an internal prototype at the time. Now, Meta is finally making it official, describing it as an “invite-only Reels feed for you a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 15:19:44
Coherence is a huge favorite here at CNET and it's a terrifying watch. Not necessarily in the traditional, gory, horrific sense but more in terms of the concepts. It's a multiverse movie released before multiverses were cool and is not what you expect. Coherence is the kind of movie you'll finish and immediately rewatch to try to rewire your brain. It's a fantastic achievement and a must watch.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 15:15:00
Google and the Department of Justice faced off again in a trial regarding whether Google has a monopoly in the advertising technology market. The trial started last fall in a federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, and on April 17th, 2025, Judge Brinkema ruled that Google did act illegally to acquire and maintain monopoly power in online advertising. The DOJ argued that Google unfairly locked up the market for ad tech tools that publishers and advertisers rely on to monetize their websites and m
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 19:01:23
It’s one of the oldest conversations in gaming. Do you play video games because you’re looking for a challenge and want to experience the thrill and satisfaction of overcoming obstacles? Or do you turn to games to feel empowered, for the escapist fantasy of possessing incredible abilities that are often unattainable in real life? Nowhere is this question more relevant than in the role-playing game genre. The core of the genre is developing a character (or stable of characters) over time, watchi
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-22 19:51:40
The US Department of Justice has won its antitrust case against Google, which accused the company of operating a monopoly in the advertising technology industry. “Plaintiffs have proven that Google has willfully engaged in a series of anticompetitive acts to acquire and maintain monopoly power in the publisher ad server and ad exchange markets for open-web display advertising,“ the ruling reads. Over the course of three weeks, the DOJ argued that illegally monopolized three separate markets
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 15:09:43
Konvoy this week released its Gaming Industry Report for the first quarter of 2025, where it revealed more information about trends in the industry, including venture capital deals and mergers and acquisitions across the globe. According to the report, Konvoy predicts that the games industry will be worth $186 billion in 2026, a 4.7% increase year-over-year. It also shows information on the major deals in the industry, as well as the effects of the escalating detente between the U.S. and China.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-23 19:49:32
Former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Chris Krebs testifies before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing to examine claims of voter irregularities in the 2020 election, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, in Washington, U.S., December 16, 2020. A week ago, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeting former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Chief Chris Krebs, and calling on the government to suspend the security
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