The Nintendo Switch just got a new update that adds Virtual Game Cards as a way to share digital games with other people. But the update also closes a loophole that would let you play shared games online at the same time as somebody you […]
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YouTube is testing blurred thumbnails for ‘mature content’
YouTube has announced a new experimental feature that’s “aimed at providing safer search experiences for all users.” The service will begin blurring the thumbnails in search results for some queries “that frequently include sexual themes.” According to a recent update in the Community section of […]
PlayStation Plus monthly games for May include Balatro and Ark: Survival Ascended
There are some cool games coming to PlayStation Plus in May, including one modern classic. This month’s titles include the universally-beloved Balatro, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and Ark: Survival Ascended. All three games will be available to PS Plus members beginning on May 6. Unless you’ve […]
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’
OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic” and that “sycophantic interactions can be uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress,” the company says in a blog post. The company […]
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones
Google is close to striking a deal with Apple to integrate Gemini into the iPhone. During the search monopoly trial on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by the middle of this year and suggested […]
Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos
For several weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have been grasping for evidence that a man his administration deported and imprisoned in error is a dangerous gang member, and the effort has now reached what may be an untoppable peak: the President repeatedly insisting […]
UK retail giant Co-op warns of disruption as it battles cyberattack
The U.K. grocery and retail giant said the unspecified cyber incident is affecting its back office and call centers.
Samsung says US tariffs will affect prices and demand for smartphones and memory chips
During an earnings call, Samsung’s chief financial officer Soon-cheol Park told reporters that “ongoing uncertainty surrounding US tariff policies continues to pose a potential risk of demand slowdown.” According to Financial Times, Park said that US tariff policies and stronger export controls against artificial intelligence […]
Raycast brings its super-powerful Mac launcher to iOS, sort of
Raycast users have been asking the app’s developers for an iOS app for a long time. It took a while, though, for the developers to figure out exactly what that app was supposed to do. See, on a Mac (and soon a Windows PC), Raycast […]
Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies
The Trump administration aims to make fossil fuels cheap—so cheap they wouldn’t be worth extracting. “‘Drill, baby, drill’ is nothing short of a myth,” one oil executive has said.