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Apple's foldable iPhone may be delayed due to engineering snags Apr 08, 2026

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The long-awaited device is supposed to arrive later this year or early 2027.

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Anthropic launched an effort to prevent AI cyberattacks with AI, Binge is a tracking app warning about jump scares, and Sony will scan you to put you in PlayStation games Apr 08, 2026

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-Anthropic has announced a new initiative called Project Glasswing to help address those concerns by working "to secure the world’s most critical software" against AI-powered attacks.

-Binge leverages Apple's Live Activities feature to warn viewers about jump scares in horror movies. This seems to work rather simply. Users open the app when starting a movie and Apple devices will display warnings on the lock screen ahead of frightening scenes.

-Sony just announced a truly strange initiative called The Playerbase. This is a program to scan people's likenesses and pop them in PlayStation games.

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An Italian court ruled Netflix has to refund its customers for price hikes Apr 07, 2026

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Italian Netflix customers could receive a lump sum refund and an immediate reduction in monthly subscription costs.

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New Jersey can't ban Kalshi's prediction market, Apple's foldable iPhone may be delayed, and three YouTubers accused Apple of illegal scraping to train its AI models Apr 07, 2026

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-A 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled on Monday that New Jersey has no authority to regulate Kalshi's prediction market allowing people to bet on the outcome of sports events. That power rests with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the panel ruled 2-1.

-The engineering problems reportedly cropped up during the device's early test production phase and may delay first shipments by months, according to multiple sources briefed on the matter.

-According to the lawsuit, the creators behind h3h3 Productions, MrShortGameGolf and Golfholics have accused Apple of violating the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by scraping copyrighted videos on YouTube to train its AI models.

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Banks working on the SpaceX IPO have to subscribe to Grok?, Ireland testing out a digital wallet, and Netflix has to refund its Italian customers Apr 06, 2026

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-Elon Musk reportedly set a condition for banks, law firms, auditors and advisors who want to work on the SpaceX IPO., requiring them to subscribe to Grok.

-The Irish government is trialing its Government Digital Wallet, which includes a way to verify a user's age to access social media platforms.

-A court in Rome recently ruled that Netflix owed its Italian users a refund for price hikes between 2017 and January 2024 and a reduction to previous subscription costs.

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Google releases Gemma 4, a family of open models built off of Gemini 3 Apr 03, 2026

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The new systems are all available under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Sony bought an AI startup that turns photos into 3D volumes, fan fiction website AO3 finally coming out of beta, and Flipboard's 'social websites' are a new spin on decentralized social media Apr 03, 2026

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-Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand, has acquired Cinemersive Labs, a UK startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumes.

-The famous fan fiction website Archive of Our Own or AO3 has finally exited open beta, 17 years after it launched way back in 2009.

-Flipboard is rolling out its latest experiment, "social websites." The project offers publishers and creators an easier path into what's often called the "open social web," which includes the fediverse, as well as other protocol-based platforms like Bluesky.

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What to expect from WWDC 2026 Apr 02, 2026

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Apple might finally have a version of Siri that can compete with ChatGPT and Gemini.

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Claude Code leak suggests Anthropic is working on a 'Proactive' mode for its coding tool, The AI Doc's director was scared by AI, so he made a movie about it, and What’s going on with Donut Lab? Apr 02, 2026

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-After the company released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update on Tuesday, users found it contained a file that exposed the app's source code. Before Anthropic took action to plug the leak, the codebase was uploaded to a public GitHub repository, where it was subsequently copied more than 50,000 times.

-Director Daniel Roher said the goal of his project to be a sort of "first date" with AI, a way to hear about its potential benefits from AI boosters, while also taking in the many negatives brought up by critics.

-Even to a non-expert, there’s clearly a gap between what Donut promised and what its tests are showing. There is a whole lot more to this article written by Engadget Senior Editor Daniel Cooper with intensive investigation. You can check it out here.

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DoorDash partners with Rivian spinoff for autonomous delivery vehicles Apr 01, 2026

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RIP bike lanes.

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