Roblox's age verification system is reportedly a trainwreck

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Roblox's age-verification system was designed as a response to allegations it has a child predator problem. Less than a week in, how's it going?

Trump administration imposes a 25 percent tariff on high-end chips

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President Trump has signed a proclamation imposing a 25 percent tariff on “certain advanced computing chips,” the White House has announced.

Arms makers say that the fast-moving war in Ukraine is changing how they design and upgrade weapons

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Milrem Robotics is among the companies making its weapons so they can be upgraded as easily as possible.

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Want a promotion? It might pay to use AI

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Active AI users got promoted more quickly at Cisco, the company found.

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FTC finalizes GM punishment over driver data sharing scandal

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After reaching a proposed settlement last year, the FTC has banned General Motors from sharing specific consumer data with third parties, TechCrunch reported.

X stops Grok from making sexualized AI images on the social-media site after global backlash

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Grok will no longer be allowed to generate AI images of real people in sexualized clothing.

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I took a career break to travel in my 40s, but even that exhausted me. I reparented myself — and finally learned to slow down.

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Himal Mandalia wearing a helmet and driving a quad bike.
Mandalia left his job in 2022 and spent 18 months traveling.

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Nike was the fastest-growing shoe brand on StockX last year — and it wasn't because of a sneaker

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Nike released the ReactX Rejuven8 in early 2025.

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Focusing on future AI doom lets companies dodge responsibility today, professor says

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Tobias Osborne, a Leibniz Universität Hannover physics professor, says AI apocalypse fears distract regulators and let companies evade accountability for real harms happening today.

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Business spending on OpenAI models jumps to a record, new data shows

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman

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