Google Calendar Drops Cultural Events From Default Listings
Black History Month, Pride Month and other observances disappeared after Google returned its calendars to public holidays and national observances supplied by one provider.
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Graduate student overturns 40-year hash-table assumption with faster search method
Andrew Krapivin and collaborators say a new hash table design can search and insert in time proportional to the square of a logarithm, beating a long-held conjecture.
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Free online course aims to teach people how to navigate ChatGPT and other LLMs
The course frames large language models as useful tools that can also flood the information environment with nonsense, making discernment as important as experimentation.
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Krebs says DOGE access story shows how cybercrime histories collide with government power
Krebs on Security recaps Wired reporting that a 19-year-old DOGE technologist with roots in The Com gained access to sensitive government systems, raising clear vetting questions.
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Unsealed emails appear to deepen Meta's legal fight over AI training data
New filings in the authors' copyright case point to internal discussions about torrenting and seeding, giving plaintiffs more material for their claim that Meta handled pirated books while training AI models.
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Estimated 2032 Impact Risk for Asteroid 2024 YR4 Rises to 2.3%
Astronomers urged calm after an early orbit calculation put the newly discovered object at a one-in-43 chance of striking Earth, with revisions expected.
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How a self-tracking experiment exposed the reach of location data brokers
A developer who traced leaked app data said he was able to find how his location could be reconstructed from ad-tech and analytics traffic.
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CDC data begin disappearing as scientists warn of a widening purge
Scientists said CDC pages and datasets were vanishing as agencies moved to scrub terms related to gender and identity.
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Gamedev City goes offline as its creator says the maintenance burden became too much
The operator of Gamedev City said he is taking the site offline for now and leaving only a read-only archive.
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Asteroid 2024 YR4 puts planetary defence teams on alert after early orbit calculations
Astronomers are tracking a newly spotted asteroid whose early measurements give it a small but non-zero chance of striking Earth in 2032.
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JavaScript Temporal arrives as MDN expands documentation for modern date handling
Experimental browser releases are beginning to ship Temporal, a new JavaScript API designed to replace the long-troubled Date object.
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Why one longtime developer is still sticking with Sublime Text in 2025
A long-time Sublime Text user says the editor remains fast, familiar and actively maintained despite the crowded market.
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Bluesky crosses 30 million users
Bluesky says it has reached 30 million users, a milestone that underlines its growth even as it remains far behind Threads.
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Google Maps will use Gulf of America labels in the US after Trump’s name change order
Google says it will relabel the Gulf of Mexico for US users in line with the official government name once the change is updated in federal mapping systems.
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Cory Doctorow says the tech industry keeps legalizing misconduct through apps
In a post tied to his new novel, Cory Doctorow argues that many business models hide old-fashioned wrongdoing behind app interfaces.
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DeepSeek-R1 paper says reinforcement learning can grow reasoning without human demos
An arXiv paper claims reasoning in large language models can be improved through pure reinforcement learning rather than human-annotated trajectories.
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Subaru STARLINK flaw reportedly exposed vehicle accounts across multiple countries
Researchers say a vulnerability in Subaru’s admin panel could have given access to vehicles and customer accounts in the U.S., Canada and Japan.
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Trump grants Ross Ulbricht a full pardon, supporters say
Ross Ulbricht’s supporters said he received a full and unconditional pardon from President Donald Trump.
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Leak shows how a 0-click deanonymization attack could expose Signal and Discord users
A technical write-up in the packet describes a 0-click deanonymization attack that could target Signal, Discord and other platforms without a victim clicking anything.
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TikTok briefly goes dark in the US as federal ban takes effect
The app disappeared for many Americans on Saturday night, then began restoring service by Sunday afternoon as the federal ban took hold.
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TikTok service returns in the U.S. after brief shutdown tied to federal sale-or-ban law
TikTok restored access for U.S. users after going dark as a federal law targeting ByteDance took effect, while the app stayed off major app stores.
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Canon’s webcam fee draws backlash over paid access to existing hardware
A post criticising Canon says the company wants users to pay a monthly fee to use their own cameras as webcams, turning a utility into a subscription.
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Blue Origin reaches orbit on first New Glenn launch, but loses booster on landing attempt
Blue Origin says New Glenn’s first flight was a milestone for the company, even as the reusable first stage was lost during recovery.
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Nintendo formally reveals the Switch 2
Nintendo says the Switch 2 will be released in 2025 and will be shown in a full Nintendo Direct on April 2.
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