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After the pivot to humanoid robots and AI, does Tesla want to be a car company again?

“The online right wasn’t supportive and there wasn’t anything that was going to change that,” says one person familiar with the Republican influencer pipeline.

A new feature that lets you create an AI avatar with your likeness is now live on YouTube. First announced in a blog post earlier this year, avatars are designed to be used in Shorts (provided you still allow them to show up), allowing you to insert yourself into video content in a way that YouTu...

Stolen credentials turn authentication systems into the attack surface. Token shows how wearable biometric authentication verifies the user—not the session—blocking phishing relays and MFA bypass. [...]

Consumer complaints about Ticketmaster are so voluminous at state attorneys general offices that Pennsylvania's comes with an explicit plea for residents lodging a grievance about the company to be patient for a response. That kind of pressure has driven more than 30 states to push forward with c...

No emails, no warnings, no humans – just bots, catch-22s, and a 60-day appeals queue Microsoft says that it will work on how it communicates with developers after two leading open source figures were suddenly locked out of their accounts, leaving them unable to sign updates.…

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Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. My guest today is Hayden Field, who’s our senior AI reporter here at The Verge. She’s been keeping c...

A World War II-era policy is stopping old coal plants from closing.

The controls can be used to choose an audio-first experience on the app or a video-enhanced one, Spotify says.

Messages sent to the FBI by an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension went ignored for at least two days, per records obtained by WIRED.

Memory costs were already through the roof - now freight's spiking too, and budget systems face extinction America's war with Iran is jacking up the pressure on computing markets already struggling with memory shortages and component cost inflation, meaning buyers should brace themselves for even...

Part 1 was discussed here: ML promises to be profoundly weird - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47689648 - April 2026 (571 comments) Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703528 Points: 87 # Comments: 62

Spotify has introduced a new universal switch for making the app all about audio. No, it’s not a toggle for hiding podcasts and audiobooks, but it does turn off almost all videos. more…

Instagram debuted its movie-rating-inspired content settings in limited countries in 2025.

Since the beginning of the Iran war, the group Explosive Media has released over a dozen viral videos mocking Trump and the US.

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703419 Points: 297 # Comments: 139

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Wash your mouth out with digital soap Apple Intelligence, the personal AI system integrated into newer Macs, iPhones, and other iThings, can be hijacked using prompt injection, forcing the model into producing an attacker-controlled result and putting millions of users at risk, researchers have s...

Sometimes, you just want your dang music streaming app to play music. Spotify, which has increasingly incorporated video features through the years, is finally giving us the option to turn that mess off. Behold: universal video toggles. Spotify's video settings control several areas. First, the o...