The deal, covering the 2026 – 2028 MLB seasons, marks the first time Netflix will provide live coverage of Major League Baseball games. The platform will also stream all 47 games of the 2026 World Baseball Classic in the Japanese market, marking its debut in live-streaming baseball's premier international tournament....
Europe wants to kill the cookie pop-ups they created, for real this time
The European Commission outlined its plans to amend the ePrivacy Directive and make cookie consent less burdensome for the web industry a few months back. These plans are now officially part of the EC's "Digital Package" proposal, designed to simplify the rules governing Europe's digital market and foster innovation. Read...
WhatsApp flaw let researchers scrape 3.5 billion phone numbers, photos, and statuses
WhatsApp's explosive international growth has long relied on its simple sign-up and contact-discovery process. Allowing users to connect by entering a phone number provides instant access to contacts and synchronized messaging across devices – features that have helped the app achieve massive global reach. Read Entire Article
Nvidia’s $57 billion quarter shows the AI boom isn’t slowing down, for now
Nvidia's data center segment accounted for $51.2 billion, an extraordinary 66 percent increase year-over-year and a 25 percent sequential rise. Read Entire Article
X wants to call you out for using a VPN (and maybe catch a few trolls, too)
The situation began in October when Mikita Bier, X's Head of Product, announced that new information would be shown on user profiles, such as the date they joined, number of username changes and the date of the last change, and where the account is based. The aim is to reduce......
White House threatens states with lawsuits over AI regulation
The Trump administration is preparing to challenge state-level laws on artificial intelligence through a new executive order, marking a significant escalation in the ongoing debate over federal versus state authority in tech regulation. Read Entire Article
Qualcomm says Adreno X2 outperforms Intel and AMD iGPUs as Windows game support reaches 90%
At the 2025 Snapdragon Architecture Deep Dive event in San Diego, Qualcomm claimed that the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC's Adreno X2 GPU runs games at an average of 2.3 times faster than Adreno X1. It also increases performance per watt by 125%, offering 70% more performance than X1 at the...
Microsoft exec lashes out at AI skeptics, calls criticism “mind-blowing”
Suleyman expressed his barely concealed contempt for non-AI-lovers in a post on X. "Jeez there so many cynics! It cracks me up when I hear people call AI underwhelming." Read Entire Article
Judge pushes for resolution in lawsuit over legal access at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
A federal judge in Florida is pushing for a resolution in a lawsuit over detainees' access to attorneys at an immigration detention center in the Everglades
Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a populist billionaire
Billionaire businessman and activist Tom Steyer is running for California governor as a Democrat