The sale marks a turning point for GFiber, which began in 2012 as Google Fiber – a bold experiment aimed at challenging the sluggish US internet market. Its gigabit speeds, demonstrated first in Kansas City, were ahead of their time but proved difficult to expand profitably. Read Entire Article
Microsoft is backing away from putting Copilot everywhere in Windows 11
Microsoft previewed Copilot Suggestions in notifications as far back as 2024, but the feature was never rolled out, even in preview builds for Windows Insiders. According to Windows Central, the company decided to scrap the AI-powered feature following severe backlash over the Windows Recall tool, which many cybersecurity experts viewed......
Doom: The Dark Ages is the first Denuvo DRM game of 2025 to be cracked
A "cracker" known as Voices38 recently shared their latest release: a Denuvo-free version of Doom: The Dark Ages. The newest entry in id Software's FPS franchise has now entered the wild world of PC piracy, though it remains an 81 GB download with significant hardware requirements, including a powerful gaming GPU....
Apple launches AirPods Max 2 with stronger ANC, lossless audio, and live translation
Pre-orders for the AirPods Max 2 open March 25 in more than 30 countries, with general availability beginning in early April. Apple is sticking with the familiar industrial design, which means the sequel looks a lot more like a spec and feature refresh than a dramatic reimagining. Read Entire Article
Meta is pulling the plug on Instagram’s encrypted messages
Unlike WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, where E2E encryption is either the default or automatically applied to certain message types, Instagram's deployment had always been partial and manual. The feature was available only to a subset of users and had to be explicitly enabled. Read Entire Article
As Trump pushes deportations, immigration data becomes harder to find
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding.
Snow and wind batter parts of US, with threat of thunderstorms and tornadoes starting later Sunday
A powerful storm chain has brought blizzard conditions to the Upper Midwest, with dangerous winds elsewhere and the threat of severe storms heading east
CEOs of top airlines demand Congress restore funding to Homeland Security and pay airport workers
The CEOs of the nation’s top airline companies are imploring Congress to restore funding to the Department of Homeland Security and embrace a bipartisan solution to pay federal aviation workers, including airport security officers, during a partial gov...
Republicans resist calls for Iran war hearings, creating a new standoff with Democrats
The United States’ war with Iran is entering its third week, but Congress has yet to publicly test the Trump administration’s case for the conflict
Severe storms pummel parts of US with snow and high winds and raise tornado threat
A severe weather front sweeping across much of the eastern half of the U.S. has dumped heavy snow around the Upper Midwest, spawned thunderstorms in the South and is threatening several mid-Atlantic states with heavy rain and possible tornadoes