April 21, 2025

Tech & AI

Tech & AI

DOGE staffer resigns after racist posts uncovered. Elon Musk might bring him back.

Marko Elez, a 25-year-old engineer, is the first of Elon Musk’s DOGE crew to lose their job. Elez resigned from his post at Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, better known as DOGE, on Thursday after the Wall Street Journal uncovered that Elez had published racist statements on an anonymous account that once bore his name. 

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The Best Samsung Galaxy S25 Cases and Accessories (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Try These Magnetic Accessories Make sure to check out our many MagSafe guides for compatible accessories, but I’ll also be adding more to this list since not all MagSafe accessories will work with the Galaxy S25’s unique camera placement. If it’s a simple, circular accessory, it will likely be OK, but larger square or rectangular

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Anthropic CEO says DeepSeek was ‘the worst’ on a critical bioweapons data safety test

Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei is worried about competitor DeepSeek, the Chinese AI company that took Silicon Valley by storm with its R1 model. And his concerns could be more serious than the typical ones raised about DeepSeek sending user data back to China.  In an interview on Jordan Schneider’s ChinaTalk podcast, Amodei said DeepSeek generated

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UK Government Reportedly Demands Access to Encrypted iCloud Files

The U.K.’s office of the Home Secretary has allegedly asked Apple to provide a backdoor into any material any user has uploaded to iCloud worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Feb. 7. Anonymous sources provided The Washington Post the information and expressed concerns about tech companies being leveraged for government surveillance. Apple has not commented;

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Super Bowl Halftime 2025: Who will join Kendrick Lamar on stage?

Kendrick Lamar is back on the biggest stage in sports. The rap icon is set to headline the Super Bowl 59 halftime show as the Kansas City Chiefs face off against the Philadelphia Eagles — round two in a high-stakes rematch just three years in the making. It marks Lamar’s first return to the Super

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Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to be the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), owns stocks valued between $1 to $5 million in a company that controls Shein, a controversial ecommerce and fashion giant founded in China, according to lobbying and corporate records from three countries reviewed by WIRED. They show that

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Andrew Ng is ‘very glad’ Google dropped its AI weapons pledge

Andrew Ng, the founder and former leader of Google Brain, supports Google’s recent decision to drop its pledge not to build AI systems for weapons. “I’m very glad that Google has changed its stance,” Ng said during an on-stage interview Thursday evening with TechCrunch at the Military Veteran Startup Conference in San Francisco. Earlier this

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IT Leaders Fear AI-Driven Cybersecurity Costs Will Soar

IT leaders are concerned about the rocketing costs of cyber security tools, which are being inundated with AI features. Meanwhile, hackers are largely eschewing AI, as there are relatively few discussions about how they could use it posted on cyber crime forums. 1 New Relic Employees per Company Size Micro (0-49), Small (50-249), Medium (250-999),

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Best charger deal: Get an Anker Zolo magnetic power bank for 50% off at Amazon

SAVE $25: As of Feb. 7, get the Anker Zolo Magnetic Power Bank for $24.99 at Amazon using promo code ANKER1685011 at checkout. That’s a discount of 50%. No one likes dealing with low battery notifications — it always seems to pop up when you’re trying to do something important. If you’re tired of dealing

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Photopea Is a Free Photoshop Alternative That Runs in the Browser

Sometimes you need to quickly edit a photo but don’t want to bother paying for Photoshop or installing an unfamiliar desktop image editor. Photopea is a free, ad-supported application that runs entirely in the web browser. It offers many of the same features as the marquee photo-editing applications but does not require you to download

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