April 22, 2025

Emily Rampling

Tech & AI

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community

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Zuckerberg: Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted $6B buyout offer

During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer

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Get ‘Balance of Speed and Quality’ From Claude AI Model’s Research Responses

Image: Anthropic Anthropic has introduced a new Research function in its Claude artificial intelligence model, enabling the system to autonomously perform multi-step investigations.

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TikTok is testing ‘Footnotes,’ its version of Community Notes

TikTok is testing out Footnotes, which is effectively its version of X’s Community Notes. The company announced the new feature Wednesday in a

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Will Meta Really Have to Sell Instagram and WhatsApp?

Paresh Dave: Absolutely. The timing when some of those moves were first announced was viewed as kind of suspicious because it was right

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Bluesky feed builder Graze raises $1M, rolls out ads

Graze, a startup that lets people build and monetize custom feeds for Bluesky’s social network, has attracted new capital. Pre-seed investors, led by

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CISA’s Reversal Extends Support for CVE Database

The nonprofit organization MITRE, which maintains the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database, said on April 15 that the US government funding for

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Jackery portable power station deal: $90 off at Amazon

SAVE 35%: As of April 16, the Jackery Explorer 300 is available at Amazon for just $169, down from $259. That’s 35% off,

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Nintendo Switch 2 Backward Compatibility: What You Need to Know

When Nintendo officially revealed the Switch 2 back in January, it confirmed long-standing rumors that the new handheld console would enjoy backward compatibility

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A dev built a test to see how AI chatbots respond to controversial topics

A pseudonymous developer has created what they’re calling a “free speech eval,” SpeechMap, for the AI models powering chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and

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