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Overview Google is accelerating Chrome's major release cadence from four weeks to two weeks, starting with version 153 on September 8. The goal is to give deve...

Background Many users choose Microsoft Office over LibreOffice because of its support for proprietary formats .docx, .xlsx, .pptx and its “ribbon” interface. C...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from Engadget: Users of Meta's AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitiv...

Background OpenAI is amending its Pentagon contract after CEO Sam Altman acknowledged that the original agreement appeared “opportunistic and sloppy.” The comp...

Deal Overview Accenture is acquiring Downdetector parent company Ooklahttps://www.theregister.com/2026/03/03/accenture_buys_ookla_downdetector_ziff_davis/ from...

Supreme Court Reaction An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: India's Supreme Court has threatened legal consequences after a judge was found to hav...

New M5 Chips in MacBook Pro and Air Apple updated the MacBook Prohttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-macbook-pro-with-all-new-m5-pro-and-m5...

Background The U.S. Copyright Office has taken the position that AI‑generated works lack the required human authorship for copyright protection. In 2019, the O...

After OpenAI announced a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. uninstalls of the ChatGPT app surged 295 % in a single day【TechCrunch】. Meanwhile...

Background An anonymous reader shared a CTech article captioned “A brilliantly executed operation.” According to reporting by the Financial Times paywalled, ye...

Incident Overview A Reuters report detailed drone strikes in the Middle East conflict with Iran that damaged Amazon Web Services AWS data centers in the United...

Restoration and Discovery The Library of Congress has restored Gugusse et l'Automatehttps://www.loc.gov/item/2026125501/?loclr=blogloc, an 1897 short by George...

Study Overview Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago examined post‑mortem hippocampal tissue from 38 adult human brains. The samples were divided i...

Background Linn County, Iowa has adoptedhttps://www.linncountyiowa.gov/DocumentCenter/View/27399/PA26-0001-Data-Center-Ordinance-Staff-Report-PDF?bidId= what m...

British Columbia to End Time Changes, Adopt Year-Round Daylight Time An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBC.cahttps://www.cbc.ca: The B.C. government say...

Apple has reportedly asked Google to look into “setting up servers” for a Gemini‑powered upgrade to Sirihttps://www.theverge.com/tech/887802/apple-ai-siri-googl...

Background Paramount Skydance plans to combine HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single streaming platform, following its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. Th...

Deal Overview Charter Communications, the operator of the Spectrum cable brand, has received permission from the Federal Communications Commission FCC to acqui...

Background Over the weekend, Windows Latest noticed that Microsoft’s official Copilot Discord server began automatically blocking the term “Microslop”. As show...

Announcement At MWC 2026, Motorola announced a partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation to bring the hardened, Google‑free Android variant to future devices....

AI Drafting at The Plain Dealer An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: The Plain Dealer, Cleveland's largest newspaper, has begun to fea...

Announcement Apple today announced the iPhone 17e with support for MagSafe and an upgraded A19 chip. The base model gets 256 GB of storage at $599, and it feat...

Background South Korea's National Tax Service seized crypto assets during recent enforcement actions against 124 high‑value tax evaders, confiscating holdings...

Background Japan will effectively ban the in‑flight use of power banks starting in mid‑April after a recent series of alarming incidentshttps://www.bbc.com/new...