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
Closing arguments set in trial of children’s book author charged with killinghusband
Lawyers are scheduled to make closing arguments at the trial of a Utah woman who published a children’s book about grief after the death of her husband and was later accused of killing him
4 ways Trump is sabotaging climate action around the world
President Trump has spent much of his second term trying to reshape global politics, first through a series of tariffs and trade deals that began on what he termed “Liberation Day” last April. This year, he’s focused on changing the world through military force: After abducting the leader of Venezuela...
Species slowdown: Is nature’s ability to self-repair stalling?
Nature is slowing down, and its ability to regenerate is failing in the face of climate change, according to the authors of a new analysis of the speed of species turnover in ecosystems across the world. The finding comes as a big surprise to many ecologists. They have long predicted...