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Truecaller faces mounting pressures as its growth matures | TechCrunch

Truecaller is one of the world’s most widely used caller identification platforms, with more than 500 million users. Now it’s entering a more challenging phase as growth slows in its largest market and competition intensifies across telecom networks and...

The Stanford freshmen who want to rule the world . . . will probably read this book and try even harder | TechCrunch

Theo Baker is graduating from Stanford this spring with something most seniors don’t have: a book deal, a George Polk Award that he received for his investigative reporting as a student journalist, and a front-row account of one of...

Linux Version of Framework’s Laptop 13 Pro is Outselling Its Windows Variant – Slashdot

Framework began shipping its new Laptop 13 Pro this week. And the Ubuntu variant is outselling the Windows variant, reports PC World:t's selling quickly by Framework's internal metrics, with six batches of the Intel version of the...

‘STAGED’: Conspiracy Theories Are Everywhere Following White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting

In the immediate aftermath of the attack on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night, influencers, pundits, and random posters lit up social media platforms like X, Bluesky, and Instagram with conspiracy theories about the attack and the...

Privacy Advocate Accuses US Government of Investing in AI-Powered Mass Surveillance – Slashdot

The Conversation published this warning from privacy/tech law/electronic surveillance attorney Anne Toomey McKenna (also an affiliated faculty member at Penn State's Institute for Computational and Data Sciences). The U.S. government "is able to purchase...

Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Isn’t Working. Half Their Teens Still Have Access, Survey Finds – Slashdot

After Australia banned social media for users younger than 16, teenagers "immediately worked to circumvent the restrictions," reports Fortune:14-year-old in New South Wales, told The Washington Post in December 2025, just before the implementation of the ban, she planned to...

White House Pushed Out New AI Official After Just Four Days on the Job – Slashdot

It's the U.S. government's main link to the AI industry, reports The Washington Post, working to assess national security risks of new models like Anthropic's "Mythos". To run it they'd hired Collin Burns, who'd worked at OpenAI and...

Discord Sleuths Gained Unauthorized Access to Anthropic’s Mythos

As researchers and practitioners debate the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday it used early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview to find and fix 271 vulnerabilities in its new Firefox 150 browser...

The Online Civil War About ‘Michael’ Is a Battle Over Truth

Is truth determined by the size of the audience it reaches?If so, Michael—a new film about the pop singer Michael Jackson that is on track to have the biggest-ever opening for a music biopic, with projected earnings of $70...

FDA Gives Green Light To the First Gene Therapy For Deafness – Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from NPR: The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very...
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Watch Live: Trump meets with Chinese leader Xi in Beijing today as trade, tariffs and Taiwan loom over visit

President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Beijing on Thursday...
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