- Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O’Reilly books
- Mozilla says it's developing Thundermail, an email service similar to Gmail but with a focus on privacy, as part of an upcoming premium Thunderbird Pro suite (Jason Evangelho/Forbes)
- CaaStle board confirms financial distress, furloughing employees
- An accounting startup has turned tax preparations into a Pokémon Showdown game
- Andreessen Horowitz is trying to nab a piece of TikTok with Oracle, report says
- New alien abduction film 'Watch the Skies' is giving us Swedish Spielberg vibes (video)
- Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a 'climate of fear' in research
- Who are climate conscious consumers? Not who you’d expect, says Northwind Climate
- How a 1980s Atari creator with cystic fibrosis crafted a story of salmon survival
- Sources: Meta is ramping up work on its first AR glasses with a display, which could be introduced as early as the end of 2025 and cost between $1K and $1,400 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- 'I’d get on in a heartbeat': Starliner astronauts would fly on Boeing spacecraft again despite malfunctions (video)
- Source: Agility Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots led by Peggy Johnson, is raising $400M at a $1.75B pre-money valuation; ~100 of its robots are in the field (Rocket Drew/The Information)
- Satisfactory now has controller support, so there’s no excuse for your bad lines
- Similarweb: Gemini's web app had 10.9M average daily visits in March, up 7.4% MoM; Sensor Tower: Claude and Gemini saw activity jump after flagship model debuts (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Sources: a16z is in talks to join the Oracle-led frontrunner bid for TikTok's US arm, after being approached along with Blackstone Group and others (Financial Times)
- Cheap TVs’ incessant advertising reaches troubling new lows
- Rare 'double sunrise' captured in Canada by intrepid solar eclipse chasers (photos)
- Zelle is shutting down its app, but you probably don’t need to worry
- Bitcoin investor buys entire SpaceX flight for ultimate polar adventure
- Who Was Alan Shepard? (Grades 5-8)
- Mark Cuban backs Skylight, a TikTok alternative built on Bluesky’s underlying technology
- FTC: 23andMe buyer must honor firm’s privacy promises for genetic data
- Déjà vu: President Trump nominates Greg Autry again to be NASA's financial chief
- A US judge rules Arkansas' Social Media Safety Act, which requires minors have parental permission before creating social media accounts, infringes on 1A rights (Ufonobong Umanah/Bloomberg Law)
- How Digital Archivists Are Saving Public Information from the Memory Hole
- Starliner’s flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
- TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor, TikTok Notes, on May 8, directing users to Lemon8, a similar ByteDance-owned app (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
- Meta’s head of AI research plans to leave the company
- Review: Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft is something less than “a Paperwhite with color”
- NASA Receives 10 Nominations for the 29th Annual Webby Awards
- Combination immunotherapy shrank a variety of metastatic gastrointestinal cancers
- Surprising number of environmental pollutants in hedgehogs
- New 3D technology paves way for next-generation eye-tracking
- Diagnosing a dud may lead to a better battery
- We know nanoplastics are a threat — this new tool can help us figure out just how bad they are
- Mpox could become a serious global threat, scientists warn
- Exposure to air pollution in childhood is associated with reduced brain connectivity
- Researchers develop test using machine learning to help predict immunotherapy response in lymphoma patients
- Researchers develop new way to match young cancer patients with the right drugs
- An efficient self-assembly process for advanced self-healing materials
- Omega-6 fatty acid promotes the growth of an aggressive type of breast cancer, study finds
- Awareness grows of cancer risk from alcohol consumption
- A step toward plant-based gelatin
- The food and fuel that farms itself
- The experts that can outsmart optical illusions
- New options for controlling type 2 diabetes
- TikTok is shutting down its Instagram competitor TikTok Notes
- Cryptocurrency billionaire watches SpaceX rocket launch on the way to his own SpaceX rocket launch
- Genetic sharing site openSNP to shut down, citing concerns of data privacy and ‘rise in authoritarian governments’
- DARPA accidentally detects SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket reentry by listening to Earth's atmosphere
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