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A team of Apple and Audi alumni has launched the Amble One, a street-legal $25,000 electric buggy inspired by the NASA moon rover and built for luxury resorts.

Netflix is forcing every profile under your account to have its own email login. Here is what changed, why it is trending, and what it means for you.

A FOIA lawsuit accuses the FCC of concealing Chairman Brendan Carr Signal account used for government business with Musk and DOGE officials.

The New York Times is rewriting its copyright case against Microsoft, alleging a bespoke supercomputer was built to help OpenAI infringe its work.

Apple pulled VKontakte and the state-backed Max messenger from its Russian App Store. The Kremlin is furious and telling citizens to switch to Android.

A new California law makes streaming ads louder than your show illegal starting July 1, and the volume relief may reach viewers far beyond the state.

A Spanish man whose brain scans screamed metastatic cancer was actually carrying tapeworm larvae. Here is how doctors caught the mistake before invasive surgery.

South Korea will train its entire half-million military to fly drones like a second personal weapon, citing Ukraine and a numerical gap with North Korea.

The FTC has expedited its antitrust review and cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical, a data center optics startup founded by ex-SpaceX engineers.

TikTok is layering shopping, hotel booking, sports hubs, and fintech onto the video app, chasing the WeChat-style super app model in the West.

The US government is approving frontier AI models customer-by-customer, leaving OpenAI's GPT-5.6 and Anthropic's Mythos stuck in preview. Here's what it means.

The Trump administration is letting Anthropic redeploy its Mythos 5 model to more than 100 vetted US agencies and companies, two weeks after pulling it.

YC-backed Corgi denies stealing Papermark's open source data room software, blaming vibe-coded features it has already changed.

OpenAI has named former Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh as its first India managing director, escalating its fight for its second-biggest market.

Xprize founder Peter Diamandis says global surveillance makes people behave better, echoing Larry Ellison. Here is what he claims and the pushback.

A report says Russian hackers were behind the Jaguar Land Rover breach that halted production and cost the UK economy an estimated 2.5 billion dollars.

LastPass says hackers stole customer names, contact details and support case records through a breach at its partner Klue. Password vaults were not touched.

A Barcelona security firm published usbliter8, an unpatchable Boot ROM flaw in Apple A12 and A13 chips that reopens the door to iPhone jailbreaks.

Stream your full Spotify library straight from a browser with zero installs, on any laptop, Chromebook, or work PC.

Twelve legal, ad-supported Android apps for free movies and downloads, with honest pros, cons, and which one fits your taste.

The legit ways to get Spotify Premium at no cost, the limits of each, and why 'free forever' and modded APKs will burn you.
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