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The Social Security Administration is planning to stop issuing press releases and move all of its official communications to X, according to Wired. The change is happening amidst cuts at the department directed by DOGE, the organization created by Elon Musk, the CEO of X.

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Tesla's very bad 2025 is far from over. The latest setback: Current Tesla drivers are ending their relationship with the brand in record numbers.

In March 2025, the number of used Tesla vehicles for sale on the popular automotive marketplace Autotrader reached a record level, according to new data from its parent company Cox Automotive. This development was first reported by Sherwood.

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UPDATE: April 12, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

Smartphones and laptops are officially off the hook — for now. According to Mashable's CJ Silva, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has exempted 20 products, including semiconductor and flat-panel display modules, from the newly imposed 125% China tariffs.

UPDATE: April 13, 2025, 4:00 p.m.

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President Donald Trump's tariff policies have only just gone into effect, and we're already seeing price hikes across consumer tech.

President Trump has imposed a huge tariff rate of 145 percent on China (where many tech products are manufactured), as well as smaller global tariffs on most other countries on the planet. That means importing goods to the United States is now much more expensive than


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OpenAI's GPT-4 model will soon be "fully replaced" by its natively multimodal GPT-4o model.

According to ChatGPT's release notes (via TechCrunch), "GPT-4 will be retired from ChatGPT" on April 30. The model, which was released over two years ago, will still be available in the API, but recent updates to GPT-4o have rendered GPT-4 somewhat obsolete.

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Apple announces updates to its smartphone lineup every autumn, but the company often has a hard time keeping the details under wraps. Ahead of the official unveiling of the iPhone 17, we've already heard quite a few hints about what may be in store. Here's what we know and what we're expecting.

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Tequila Works, the Spanish developer that created games like Rime and Gylt and published games like The Sexy Brutale, is auctioning off its intellectual property (via VGC). The studio filed for insolvency in 2024 after "prolonged market conditions" made it financially-difficult to stay above water.

The games and IP rights available to bid on at auction site Escrapalia include Tequila Works' first