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Trump’s Cuba ambitions, briefly explained
President Donald Trump looks on as Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during the "Shield of the Americas" Summit at Trump National Doral in Miami, Florida, on March 7, 2026. | Saul Loeb/AFP via...
Spotify tests letting users directly customize their Taste Profile
Less slop please. | Image: Spotify Spotify Premium users in New Zealand will be the first to experience the service's latest personalization feature. The company is letting users view and make...
Meta is bringing more international news to its AI
Meta AI should soon be better at surfacing international news content thanks to a set of new deals with publishers. The company announced new agreements with international outlets and offered...
Adobe agrees to pay settlement for making its subscriptions hard to cancel
Adobe has agreed to pay the US government $75 million to settle its lawsuit over the company's allegedly harmful approach to subscriptions. The suit started in 2024, when the US Department of...
Microsoft’s Copilot AI assistant is coming to current-gen Xbox consoles this year
Xbox is getting ready to launch its Gaming Copilot AI assistant on "current-generation consoles" this year, according to a report from GamesRadar. Sonali Yadav, Xbox's product manager for gaming AI,...
Trump Mobile is just one in the crowd of conservative carriers
Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. This week, I wanted to see how Trump Mobile stacks up to its conservative carrier competition. Trump Mobile isn't unique. I...
Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam
It's only been a year since Digg founder Kevin Rose, Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian, and a few others announced the link-sharing site would relaunch, promising a "social discovery built by...
Nothing updates its AI app with semantic search and a new way to track events
In the mad dash many companies have made to incorporate AI features into their phones, Nothing arrived at one of the better ideas with Essential Space on the Nothing Phone 3a in 2025. The AI-powered...
The MacBook Neo is Apple’s most repairable laptop
Apple's cheapest laptop is also its most repairable. iFixit gave the new MacBook Neo a 6/10 repairability score. Although that number would only be mediocre for, say, a game review or final exam...
Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs
Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an update on its support page. Unlike WhatsApp, Meta never...