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WPP, Dentsu, and Publicis settle with the FTC over claims they colluded on misinformation policies that denied ad revenue to conservative publishers (David McCabe/New York Times)
 How to watch Love Island: Beyond the Villa season 2 online from anywhere
Adobe unveils Firefly AI Assistant, which can orchestrate and execute multistep tasks across Creative Cloud apps, available in public beta in the coming weeks (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
 The Saros 20 is a predictably accomplished addition to Roborock's robot vacuum lineup, delivering all-round cleaning excellence
Anthropic launches a repeatable routines feature for Claude Code as a research preview, allowing developers to schedule and automate software development tasks (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Google launches Skills, repeatable AI prompts users can run in Chrome with a keyboard shortcut; users can set up their own Skills or choose from 50+ presets (Reece Rogers/Wired)
Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says "Game Pass has become too expensive for players" and that Microsoft needs "a better value equation" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
 Score best-selling running shoes on a budget at Amazon — save up to 40% on Nike, Hoka, Brooks, and more
 Pokémon Champions isn't perfect, but that hasn't stopped me playing it non-stop for days
As weather betting grows on prediction markets, climate experts are debating whether it improves forecasts by aggregating knowledge or is simply a zero-sum game (Bloomberg)
 Samsung releases its new 2026 TVs — that means you can score stunning discounts on older models, with prices starting at $249.99
Sources: Anthropic met with Christian leaders in March to seek input on Claude's moral and spiritual development and if it could be considered a "child of God" (Washington Post)
 Want cafe-quality lattes at home without buying an expensive new coffee machine? Jura's new gadget upgrades your drinks with perfectly foamed milk every time
 Playing The Last of Us with friends made my favorite PlayStation game feel brand new again
Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (Ryan Devereaux/The Intercept)
 ‘Computers are no longer a bicycle for the mind’: Frameworks founder says the Steve Jobs era is over and PCs are now a ‘self-driving car that takes you directly to the destination’
Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (Ed Bott/ZDNET)
Trump hails Palantir's "great war fighting capabilities", days after short seller Michael Burry said the company will lose to AI startups; PLTR is down ~25% YTD (Joe Miller/Financial Times)
 'I'm going to play this with my granddaughter' — Mark Hamill on Lego Smart Play and nearly 50 years of Star Wars
Sources: the White House is pushing back on GOP-led AI bills in Nebraska and Tennessee, putting new pressure on GOP state lawmakers who support AI guardrails (Axios)
 'Now that is immersion': the muzzle flash of Resident Evil 9 Requiem's titular gun is so bright it's apparently causing one player's OLED TV to restart
Anthropic announces Claude Managed Agents, offering developers an agent harness and other tools to build and deploy AI agents at scale, available in public beta (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
 I went stargazing in the Atacama Desert and used a hidden iOS 26 feature to capture the night sky — here’s how to take similar photos on your iPhone
Internal memo: Julia Liuson, head of Microsoft's developer division, will resign after 34 years and move to an "advisory role" at the end of June (Tom Warren/The Verge)
Anthropic says it will make a preview of its Mythos model available to more than 40 organizations, as part of a new Project Glasswing cybersecurity initiative (Lucas Ropek/TechCrunch)
 'AI is only as strong as its data': Why Microsoft is betting on this little-known startup’s 700B parameter model to predict your next purchase
Sources say Apple plans to announce its foldable iPhone in September alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, rebutting a report about production delays (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
How social media became a freak show: X punishes external links and most top accounts, such as Catturd, are very low-quality but get more engagement than NYT (Nate Silver/Silver Bulletin)
 The MacBook Air M5 is the 'best mix of winning design, near-pro-level performance, and battery life' — get the 15-inch model for a record-low price
Sources: Meta is preparing to release the first AI models developed under Alexandr Wang, with plans to offer versions of those models via an open source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
Medvi, glorified by the NYT as a two-employee startup with $1B+ in revenue, is a warning about how AI can be misused for shady business and marketing practices (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
 '30,000 drones a year': African start-up looks to emulate Ukrainian UAV revolution by taking a leaf out of Apple's playbook
Drift details how suspected North Korean attackers stole $270M posing as a quant trading firm in a 6+ month operation with in-person meetings and a $1M+ deposit (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk)
 'The most powerful weapon is not always a missile': How Iranian "Charming Kitten" hackers used old Cold War methods to steal tech secrets and plant malware on Apple and Windows users
VCs are covering expenses like rent for young college dropouts founding AI startups; Antler: average AI unicorn founder age fell from 40 in 2020 to 29 in 2024 (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
 3 binge-worthy new HBO Max shows to stream in April 2026
 How to watch March Madness Final Four 2026: free NCAA basketball live streams, TV channels, schedule
Sources: Mercor asked professionals in fields like entertainment to sell their prior work materials for AI training, even if the IP could belong to ex-employers (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)
 Looking for a compact air purifier? These are the 3 best options we've tested
Sources: Musk requires banks seeking roles in SpaceX's IPO to subscribe to Grok and advertise on X; some banks are spending tens of millions integrating Grok (Maureen Farrell/New York Times)
 'Side effects may include curiosity': Google's $3 ChromeOS Flex kit aims to save your old Windows 10 laptop from the scrapheap
OpenAI acquires popular tech news show TBPN; the show will stay the same and will continue to air live at 11am PT weekdays (John Coogan/@johncoogan)
 'The future of work is a connected ecosystem': HP repackages Humane AI acquisition into shiny HP IQ AI platform, but will it flop again?
Super Micro co-founder Yih-Shyan Liaw pleads not guilty to US federal charges of helping smuggle billions of dollars' worth of Nvidia-powered servers to China (Bob Van Voris/Bloomberg)
Google attributes the supply chain attack on HTTP client Axios to a suspected North Korean threat actor it calls UNC1069 (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
 I wouldn't let Amazon's Spring Sale come to a close without scoring these epic Lego deals — shop my top picks from $15.99
 Your smartphone could get its signal from the sky — thanks to an amazing drone armada that complements traditional cell towers
Sources: E*Trade is in talks to lead SpaceX IPO share sale to retail investors; Robinhood and SoFi have pitched for roles but SpaceX is mulling cutting them out (Reuters)