• Utah passes age verification requirement for app stores.
• The inside story on fake North Korean employees. Is that a Texas accent?
• An update on the ongoing Bybit cryptoheist saga.
• The industry may be making some changes in the wake of the Bybit attack.
• Apple pushes back legally against the UK's secret order.
• Did someone crack Passkeys?
• The UK launches a legal salvo at an innocent security researcher.
• The old data breach we witnessed that just keeps on giving.
• A bit more Bybit postmortem forensic news.
• A lesson to learn from a clever and effective ransomware attack.
• And what about that Bluetooth Backdoor discovery everyone is talking about?

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Is Apple's 'Sky Blue' really blue? Apple is delaying its 'more personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence features. Is anyone excited about RollerCoaster Tycoon coming to Apple Arcade? And Dropbox now supports Live Photos! ... after ten years.

• Sky (blue)'s the limit: M4 MacBook Air offers lower price, improved camera, and new color.
• New Mac Studio spans the generations with M4 Max, M3 Ultra chips.
• Apple is delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence features.
• Apple readies dramatic software overhaul for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
• On Apple Exclaves.
• Apple Arcade announces six new games coming, including RollerCoaster Tycoon.
• Apple reportedly planning 'feature-packed' visionOS 3 update.
• Dropbox now supports this innovative iPhone photos feature...10 years later.
• SpaceX urges FCC to block Globalstar's cellular satellite plans.
• Ben Stiller gives backstory on 'Severance' Grand Central stunt, jokes budget with Apple boss.

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• Andy's Pick: Red Worm Moon Lunar Eclipse
• Alex's Pick: Voyage USB Ambisonic Mic

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• 'Spring forward' no more: Trump and Musk want to end Daylight Saving Time changes. Here's what health experts say
• The $100 Trillion Disruption: The Unforeseen Economic Earthquake
• Apple Is Delaying the 'More Personalized Siri' Apple Intelligence Features
• An audit found that 10 top AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini, repeated false claims from a pro-Kremlin disinformation network 33% of the time
• Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
• The Weird and Wacky Gadgets We Saw at MWC 2025
• AMD finally has a decent NVIDIA killer with the Radeon 9070 + 9070 XT
• Sources: there haven't been negotiations between ByteDance and prospective TikTok US buyers, amid confusion over who's leading Trump administration negotiations
• Crony Crypto Capitalism
• Utah Passes First US App Store Age Verification Law
• The modern era of low-flying satellites may begin this week
• YouTube Premium and Music Surpass 125 Million Subscribers
• America's Justice Department Still Wants Google to Sell Chrome
• Remembering 'Space Ghost' Voice Actor George Lowe

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• Interview with Gary Marcus
• Turing Award Goes to 2 Pioneers of Artificial Intelligence
• Meta Discusses AI Data Center Project That Could Cost $200 Billion
• Satya Nadella Argues AI's True Value Will Come When It Finds Killer App Akin To Email or Excel
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 27-Year-Old EXE Became Python In Minutes. Is AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Next? - Slashdot
• Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice
• What to know about deepfakes bill backed by Melania Trump
• Digg is getting another revival, this time with an injection of AI
• Google lets Americans delete their search results
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Alexis Ohanian Joins Project Liberty's TikTok Bid
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• LATimes insights page
• PDF example from the LATimes
• Gebru: "🔇🔇🔇 THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS AGI AND ATTEMPTING TO BUILD IT IS A EUGENICIST, POWER CENTRALIZATION PROJECT THAT NO ONE SHOULD SUPPORT."
• The New York City Subway Is Using Google Pixels to Listen for Track Defects
• Masnick: Announcing Otherwise Objectionable: A Podcast Series About The Most Misunderstood Law On The Internet
• 18F demolished
• AI.com Is for Sale. Asking Price? $100 Million
• Deutsche Telekom and Perplexity announce new 'AI Phone' priced at under $1K
• Vintage Computer Festival East
• Mimeartist is watching us on the big tv
• Amazon's Delivery Drones Are Grounded. The Birds and Dogs of This Texas Town Are Grateful
  

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Skype to EOL in May, replaced by the consumer Teams client, which is surprisingly good now. There are three possible responses to this:

• "They still make Skype?"
• The 13 people who rely on Skype for calling landlines come out of the woodwork.
• "Come on, Microsoft telegraphed this two years ago"

Plus, Opera previews what an AI agent in a browser can be used for. Firefox 136 now comes with vertical tabs (again), updated sidebar, AI chatbots, and more. And a Google-related tip that lets one see what it's like to live in the EU, minus the universal health care and other social safety nets.

Windows

• Microsoft FINALLY updates the Copilot app in Windows 11 for the 127th time - What Microsoft didn't tell anyone. Arrives just after the release of a native Mac client
• Three months of Recall, and it IS controversial, just not for the reasons you think
• Dev and Beta (last week): lock screen widget customizing (finally), Windows Share updates (again), Task Manager CPU usage calculation change (seriously), more
• It may be controversial at Linux, but not at Microsoft, which is all-in on Rust
• Intel delays Ohio fabs until after the earth careens into the sun
• Dell up 7 percent to $23.9 billion ($11.9 billion from PCs)
• HP up 2.4 percent to $13.5 billion ($9.2 billion from PCs)
• Intel brings Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" chips to commercial market

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft finally puts Skype out of its misery
• A look back at 22 years of Skype
• Outlook Mobile gets delivery and read receipts

AI

• USA! USA! USA! Microsoft makes AI export changes easy to understand for our stupid government
• OpenAI announces GPT-4.5, its final non-reasoning model
• Microsoft brings new local distilled DeepSeek models to Copilot+ PCs, starting with Snapdragon X - a little hands-on
• Microsoft announces Dragon Copilot for clinical workflow
• Stability AI + Arm Holdings = generative AI audio, more to come
• Scam Detection in Messages for Pixel and Android
• Gemini improvements including upcoming features
• Apple's struggles with AI are real. Just ask Siri. Kidding, no one asks Siri anything

Xbox

• New Game Pass titles for first half of March
• Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3+4 coming to all platforms including Game Pass on July 11
• Sony slashes prices on VR2 months after it stopped building it

Tips & Picks

• Tip of the week: Remove yourself from Google Search results
• App pick of the week: Mo' browsers!
• RunAs Radio this week: Secure by Design with Karinne Bessette
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Knappogue Castle 16

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• Firefox amends their privacy policy -- the world melts down.
• Signal threatens to leave Sweden.
• Aftermath of the massive $1.5 billion Bybit ETH heist.
• It turns out that it wasn't actually Bybit's fault.
• "The Lazarus Bounty" monitoring and management site.
• Mozilla's commitment to Manifest V2 (and the uBlock Origin).
• What does the ACM's plea for memory-safe languages mean for developers?
• What exactly are memory-safe languages?
• Australia joins the Kaspersky ban.
• Gmail plans to switch from SMS to QR code authentication.
• A SpinRite success and some fun feedback.
• An astonishing new technology for targeted radio jamming

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Apple updates the iPad Air with the M3 chipset. iFixit does a teardown of the iPhone 16e. A new documentary film about Bono will be released later this year, with an immersive version of the film for Apple Vision Pro. And Apple has launched a legal challenge to UK's "back door" order.

• Apple updates iPad Air with faster M3 processor.
• New M4 MacBook Air could debut on Wednesday.
• Apple Park rainbow arches gone, but reportedly being rebuilt.
• Apple's artificial intelligence efforts reach a make-or-break point.
• iPhone 16e Teardown: Never before has skipping the upgrade made more sense.
• Skype is shutting down after two decades.
• Apple sets premiere of "Bono: Stories Of Surrender".
• Apple just released two brand new apps in iOS 18.4 and visionOS 2.4 beta 2.
• Introducing ADIB spatial banking on Apple Vision Pro.
• Apple Park in 8K 3D 180 HDR.
• Apple faces likely French antitrust fine for privacy tool, sources say.
• US examining whether UK's encryption demand on Apple broke data treaty.
• Apple launches legal challenge to UK "back door" order.

Picks of the Week:

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• Mikah's Pick: WiFiMan Wizard
• Alex's Pick: Neat Video Noise Removal
• Andy's Pick: Zen Browser

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• Amazon Alexa event live blog: all the news from the keynote
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• An in-depth look at Apple's AI crisis, as some in Apple's AI division believe that a true conversational "LLM Siri" won't be ready until iOS 20 at best in 2027
• Google's co-founder tells AI staff to stop "building nanny products
• 'I want him to be prepared': why parents are teaching their gen Alpha kids to use AI
• Skype is shutting down after two decades
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• House Democrats take aim at $TRUMP crypto meme coin
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking
• Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Biden Justice Department downplayed U.K. demand for Apple 'back door'
• "Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cybercommand to "stand down" on Russia
• Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded Instagram With Violent Content
• YouTube Says It Now Has More Than 1 Billion Monthly Viewers of Podcast Content
• 'The Brutalist' Director Brady Corbet Responds to AI Backlash
• Netflix is building an anti-Disneyland
• An small microbial ecosystem has formed on the International Space Station
• All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair Legislation

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• Interview with Stephen Wolfram
• OpenAI now serves 400M users every week
• Nvidia's Profit Jumps 80 Percent as Company Rides Tech's A.I. Boom
• Amazon announces AI-powered Alexa Plus
• Artists release silent album in protest against AI using their work
• AI 'inspo' is everywhere. It's driving your hair stylist crazy.
• Nvidia launches Signs, a new AI platform to teach American Sign Language and create a validated dataset for sign language learners and ASL app developers
• Here's How Four Major Newsrooms Are Using AI
• Google sued by Chegg over AI Overviews hurting traffic and revenue
• Perplexity wants to reinvent the web browser with AI—but there's fierce competition
• Perplexity releases a censorship-free variant of Deepseek R1
• To Identify Suspect in Idaho Killings, F.B.I. Used Restricted Consumer DNA Data
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard suggests UK broke agreement in secretly asking Apple to build iCloud backdoor
• Researchers accuse North Korea of $1.4 billion Bybit crypto heist
• Y Combinator deletes posts after a startup's "AI for sweatshops" demo goes viral
• Grok 3's "sexy mode"
• Grok 3 appears to have briefly censored unflattering mentions of Trump and Musk
• When Your Last Name Is Null, Nothing Works
• Nebraska Man Struggles to Change Daughter's Name From 'Unakite Thirteen Hotel'
• Touch grass
• Bracket City
  

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Week D - If a preview update falls in the woods and no one downloads it, did it really happen? Plus, what is going on with AI for free? Isn't this stuff expensive?

Windows

• 23H2/24H2: Taskbar share, Spotlight updates, Windows Backup snooze in File Explorer, etc.
• Dev and Beta - Semantic search adds OneDrive photo search to Search (was in File Explorer previously), plus the Recall reboot no one is explaining. And Trim comes to Snipping Tool (Canary and Dev)
• Beta (23H2) - Share gets a drag tray and Start All apps gets new Grid and Category views
• Lenovo revenues surge 20 percent
• Framework announces Ryzen AI-based Laptop 13, plus Laptop 12 and Desktop
• Opera adds Bluesky, Discord, and Slack to the sidebar

Microsoft 365

• Microsoft confuses us with a test of a free, ad-supported core Office suite for Windows
• Amazon kills Chime, will use Zoom, Teams, and more
• Amazon kills Appstore for Android
• Google to drop SMS-based 2FA, move to QR codes
• Paul continues with his SSO removals, an update on whether this impacts account availability

AI/Dev

• Following up the previous discussion with an interesting way to use an AI chatbot
• Alexa enters the AI era
• OpenAI now has 400 million weekly active users
• Microsoft cancels some AI datacenter leases, but it's not done spending billions on AI
• Anthropic releases first reasoning model, with a twist
• Gemini Code Assist is now free for individuals!
• ThinkDeeper and Voice in Copilot no longer have usage restrictions
• OpenAI makes Deep Research available to all paid customers
• Apple delays biggest Siri advances past iOS 18.4 - Math is hard, but AI is even harder
• Spotify expands into AI-narrated audiobooks
• NVIDIA partners to bring free ASL training to everyone
• .NET 10 Preview 1 arrives with the promise of LTS and not much else

Xbox

• Xbox Cloud Gaming gets its first update in a while, and it's a big one
• Microsoft delays Fable reboot to 2026

Tips and Picks

• Tip of the week: You can view the source code for the oldest machine-readable version of Unix
• App pick of the week: Adobe Photoshop for iPhone
• RunAs Radio this week: Exchange Server in 2025 with Michel de Rooij
• Brown liquor pick of the week: Glenrothes 15

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• Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users.
• Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine.
• Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links.
• Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess.
• Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in OpenSSH.
• The U.S. seems unable to evict Chinese attackers from its Telecom systems.
• What are those Chinese "Salt Typhoon" hackers doing to get in?
• The largest (by far) cryptocurrency heist in history occurred Friday.
• Ex-NSA head says the U.S. is falling behind on the cyber front lines.
• We have the winner (and a good one) replacement term for "backdoor".
• A look at a pathetic access control system that begs to be hacked (and will be).

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