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National PTA Ends Funding Relationship With Meta As Child Safety Trials Continue

The National Parent Teacher Association has decided not to seek renewed funding from Meta for 2026, ending a relationship that began in 2017, as the social media company faces court…

Spanish Police Arrest Man Over €0.01 Hotel Booking Fraud

Spanish police have arrested a 20-year-old man in Madrid after alleging he manipulated the payment system of a travel and hotel booking website to reserve luxury rooms for €0.01 per…

Anthropic Launches Claude Code Security In Limited Enterprise Preview

Anthropic has introduced Claude Code Security, an AI-powered service built into Claude Code that scans software codebases for vulnerabilities and recommends fixes, with the company rolling out the capability in…

Mastercard And Cloudflare Partner To Offer Cyber Defense Tools For Smaller Organizations

Mastercard and Cloudflare said they have formed a partnership to deliver cyber defense solutions aimed at small businesses, critical infrastructure operators, and government organizations, according to a joint press statement…

Apple Plans Three-Day Announcement Push Ahead Of March 4 Press Event

Apple has invited the tech press to a “special Apple experience” on March 4, and reporting suggests the company will spread its product news across several days rather than reveal…

India’s Budget Fashion Chains Gain Ground As Shoppers Shift From Bazaars To Branded Stores

At a three-storey Reliance Trends outlet in Sangli in western India, a geriatric care worker named Alka browses racks of Indian ethnic-wear kurtas in bright colors while looking for a…

U.S. Court Sentences Ukrainian Man To Five Years Over North Korean IT Worker Scheme

A U.S. federal court has sentenced a Ukrainian man to five years in prison for his role in an identity theft operation that enabled North Korean workers to obtain fraudulent…

Judge Rejects Tesla Bid To Overturn $243 Million Autopilot Verdict

A federal judge has denied Tesla’s request to overturn a $243 million jury verdict that found the automaker partially responsible for a fatal 2019 crash in Florida involving its Autopilot…

Lucid Motors To Cut 12% Of Staff As Company Pushes Toward Profitability

Lucid Motors is cutting 12% of its workforce as it works to reduce costs and improve efficiency while preparing new vehicle launches and expanding production, according to an internal memo…

OpenAI Reviewed Shooter’s Chats Before Tumbler Ridge Attack And Did Not Alert Police

An 18-year-old accused of killing eight people in a mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, Canada, used OpenAI’s ChatGPT in ways that triggered internal safety tools, according to reporting, but the…

Microsoft Names Asha Sharma To Lead Gaming As Phil Spencer And Sarah Bond Exit

Microsoft announced a leadership change in its gaming division on Friday, with Microsoft Gaming Chief Executive Officer Phil Spencer leaving the company and Xbox President Sarah Bond also departing, as…

Wikipedia Moves To Remove Archive.today Links Over Abuse And Reliability Concerns

Wikipedia editors have agreed to remove all links to Archive.today and its related domains after concluding that the service should no longer be used as a citation source, a decision…

Altman Pushes Back On Claims About AI Water Use And Focuses On Energy Costs

OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman said this week that claims about AI’s water consumption are not accurate and argued that the more relevant concern is the total energy used…

School Admissions Site Ravenna Hub Fixes Flaw That Exposed Student And Parent Data

A student admissions platform used by families to apply to schools has fixed a security flaw that allowed any logged-in user to access the personal information of other families and…

OpenAI Nears Funding Deal Above $100 Billion At Valuation That Could Top $850 Billion

OpenAI is close to finalizing a funding round of more than $100 billion at a valuation that could exceed $850 billion, according to Bloomberg, as the company continues to spend…

Zuckerberg Testifies In Trial Over Claims Social Media Harms Teens And Kids

Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg testified on Wednesday in a trial that seeks to determine whether the company’s social media apps are addictive and harmful to teenagers and children,…

New York Pulls Robotaxi Legalization Plan, Blocking Waymo Expansion Outside New York City

New York has withdrawn a budget proposal that would have changed state traffic law to allow robotaxis to operate outside New York City, a move that halts Waymo’s latest attempt…

Meta To Shut Down Messenger Website And Shift Web Users To Facebook Messages

Meta is shutting down the standalone Messenger website and will end access to messenger.com in April 2026, directing web users to Facebook’s messaging interface while keeping the Messenger mobile app…

Starbase Moves To Set Up Municipal Court As City Builds Its Own Public Services

Starbase, SpaceX’s company town in Texas that is less than a year old, is moving to create its own municipal court as it continues to build out local government services…

Toyota Canada Brings Digit Humanoid Robots Into RAV4 Plant Under Service Contract

Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada has signed a robots-as-a-service deal to deploy seven humanoid robots at a plant that builds RAV4 SUVs, moving the Digit platform from a year-long pilot into…