This Week in Tech

IBM's PC turns 40, Senate plan to open Apple's App Store, where Countach got its name
Lamborghini Countach LPI 800-4 unveiled: This wedge is a hybrid.
"Blue" hydrogen is worse for the climate...

Apple's proposed CSAM protections, Google Pixel 6, Firefox declines
Apple explains how iPhones will scan photos for child-sexual-abuse images.
Daring Fireball: Apple's New 'Child Safety'...

Bimbo Squalo - Blizzard mess, China tech crackdown, quarterly earnings, Rickroll hits 1 billion
Review: A deep new history of Tesla takes the shine off Elon Musk.
Apple Watch lead Kevin Lynch...

Billionaires in space, Right to Repair, Akamai outage, NSO Spyware
Amazon's New World is reportedly bricking RTX 3090 cards.
Jeff Bezos and Sir Richard Branson not yet astronauts, US says.
Report...

Windows 365, Windows on iPad
Targets of spyware revealed
Retail stores packed with unchecked Facial Recognition
So Long, Twitter Fleets
Twitter for iOS now lets you edit (who can reply to your...

Branson in Space, Amazon, Kaseya Hack
GitHub Copilot · Your AI pair programmer
AI voice actors sound more human than ever—and are ready to hire
Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter & YouTube, Claiming His...

Amazon and the FTC, REvil ransomware, GitHub Copilot, Pokémon Go
FTC votes to expand antitrust enforcement powers
FTC charges computer chip supplier Broadcom with illegal monopolization
Amazon...

Windows 11 unveiled - can your PC run it? China bans Bitcoin and other crypto mining, gig app for open-source intel gathering, and more.
Microsoft makes Windows 11 official, and it's coming this...

Five Anti-Big Tech bills, Windows 11 leak, WWW as an NFT, Right to repair
Read The Five Big Tech Bills Congress Just Introduced.
Lina Khan Named F.T.C. Chair by Biden.
Pros and Cons of Amazon's...

WWDC highlights, Big Tech regulation, flying cars
Apple Lists 'M1X MacBook Pro' in YouTube Tags for WWDC Keynote Video.
Rene picks privacy and extensibility as his favorite announcements during...

WWDC preview, hacking Tamagotchi, Nigeria suspends Twitter
El Salvador looks to become the world's first country to adopt bitcoin as legal tender.
Hacking Group Anonymous Issue Veiled Threat to...

Rideshare surges, Ford F-150 Lightning, Amazon antitrust
Amazon to acquire MGM Studios for $8.5 billion
Uber and Lyft Surges: What to Know
McDonald's in Illinois Offering Free iPhones to New...

Google IO recap, Windows 10X gets dumped, Bitcoin collapse, Twitter verified
LaMDA: our breakthrough conversation technology.
Google made AI language the centerpiece of I/O while ignoring its...

Colonial Pipeline ransom, Pixel 6 leaks, Biden's Venmo, Twitter Blue
Colonial Pipeline Paid Hackers Nearly $5 Million in Ransom.
Elliptic Follows the Bitcoin Ransoms Paid by Colonial Pipeline and...

Facebook Oversight Board, Google vs. Roku, Epic vs. Apple, Musk on SNL
SNL and Elon Musk: Dogecoin takes center stage.
What's wrong with Doge?
'Tiger King' star Carole Baskin explains why she's...

Big quarter for big tech, AirTags and privacy, Resident Evil 3 speedrun
'A Perfect Positive Storm': Bonkers Dollars for Big Tech.
EU Charges Apple With App Store Antitrust Violations in Spotify...

Apple event roundup, Big Tech Antitrust action, Signal CEO hacked Celebrite device
Apple announces a new iPad Pro with an M1 chip, Thunderbolt, 5G, XDR display.
Time for Apple to pull off the Band...

Apple's Spring event, Jeff Bezos letter to shareholders, Elon Musk and NASA
Introducing Club TWiT.
Apple's 'Spring Loaded' Event Officially Announced for Tuesday, April 20.
Apple Music Reveals How...

Google vs Oracle, Elon Musk's Boring Tunnel, Google IO 2021
Why new Apple products are arriving later than ever this year.
White House set to host Google, Intel CEOs to discuss computer chip...

MS Build 2021, Hololens and the US Army, ACLU's privacy letdown, Google's Pixel 6 chip
Amazon offers rare apology, says it will look for solutions to drivers peeing in bottles.
It's official:...