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Independent stores and their online supporters are crying out against Amazon after it hosts massive sale during annual indie event.

Jesse Plemons Volunteers as Hunger Games‘ New Old Gamemaker

The Civil War and Black Mirror star will play a young Plutarch Heavensbee in Sunrise on the Reaping.

Amazon’s big book sale just happens to overlap with Independent Bookstore Day

Amazon is raising eyebrows with the timing of its big book sale for 2025, which runs from April 23 to 28 — which means it’s competing directly with Independent Bookstore Day. As writer Maris Kreisman explained in Lit Hub, Independent Bookstore Day...

Windows 10: How You Can Officially Keep It Running Until 2032—But There’s a Catch!

Microsoft now offers an official way to continue using Windows 10 until 2032, but only if one strict condition is met. The American tech giant is extending protection for corporate clients beyond 2030. Microsoft’s primary mission for 2025 is...

Mini's New Shift Lever Is A Perfect Example Of How To Execute A Modern Electronic Shifter

The shifter in fourth-gen Minis is small, conveniently located, stays out of the way, doesn't waste any space and makes it clear what you're supposed to do.

MacRumors

Anker Offers MacRumors Readers 20% Off Collection of Chargers, Hubs, Batteries, and More

MacRumors readers have a chance to get 20 percent off a collection of Anker's best chargers, power banks, cables, hubs, and docks this weekend. In order to get this deal, head to Anker's website and add an accessory to your cart, then enter the...

Clair Obscur Expedition 33’s First Mod Fixes the Game’s Most Annoying Issues

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 has officially received its first mod, targeting some of the RPG’s most criticized elements. This update removes the 30 FPS cap from cutscenes and corrects FOV problems for players using ultrawide monitors. Despite...

Hostinger Horizons lets you effortlessly turn ideas into web apps without coding [10% off]

Vibe coding is quickly becoming a popular use of AI, allowing people without coding experience to bring ideas to life. However, knowing where to begin and how to deploy while providing support is still daunting. Hostinger Horizons is here to solve...

Digital Tends

I tried using a paid search engine for a week, and I don’t think I’ll go back

I tried using a paid search engine to see what it's like outside the world of Google -- and it's pretty good.

Our Thoughts On Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, The Marathon Alpha, The Hundred Line, And More Of The Week's Top Takes

This week we spent some time with the Marathon alpha and tell you what we loved and hated about Bungie’s upcoming extraction shooter. We also found ourselves seduced by Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, smitten with the new time-travel-themed...

Government officials are kind of bad at the internet

Perhaps no one in the world has made such catastrophic tech flubs this year as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The saga started when the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, reported that he had been mistakenly added to an...

New York City subway riders will soon be able to utilize transit cards on iPhone

Apple introduced support for dedicated transit cards in Apple Wallet around six years ago, and since then – it’s slowly expanded. In the US, you’re able to utilize transit cards in Apple Wallet with San Francisco’s Clipper card, Washington DC’s...

American Cybercriminals Get a Hold of an Insane Amount of Money!

TECH NEWS – And this high amount is increasing every year, as the 2024 amount is one third higher than the 2023 result! The annual report of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been released. In addition to the staggering...

Both Meta and Apple Got Huge Fines In the EU, But Not Big Enough!

TECH NEWS – The two US companies have been fined a lot, which is a lot for us and peanuts for them, so the law will not be enforced for long… The European Commission (EC) has found that both Apple and Meta violated the Digital Markets Act (DMA)...

Truthout

Buffalo Is a Union Town — But for Hotel Workers, Union-Busting Runs Rampant

Buffalo hotel workers are facing off with a Trump-aligned developer in their battle to unionize.

iPhone 17: No Extra RAM Due to Supply Shortages?

TECH NEWS – One analyst says smartphones will have more RAM across the board in 2026, but that may not be the case in this year’s devices. Rumors suggest that Apple will add 12 gigabytes of RAM to each model of the iPhone 17 later this year, as...

Prime Video Calls for More Hazbin Hotel and the Helluva Boss Spinoff

Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are coming to Prime Video with more seasons and potential crossovers.

GM's 3800 Engine Still Has A Huge Following, And For Good Reason

The General Motors 3800 engine has gone through several levels of innovation, which has allowed it to gain a cult following of enthusiastic supporters.

Lately’s new gamified app helps people arrive on time

A new app called Lately launched on the App Store a few weeks ago, targeting people with ADHD to help them arrive on time and rewarding them for doing so. The service is designed to help users manage their travel plans by notifying them when it’s...

Mashable

LinkedIn and Adobe announce partnership to help creators protect their work against AI

Adobe is harnessing LinkedIn's free identity verification tool to better connect creators to their work, as artists seek greater protection against AI.

If You Still Use a Printer, This HP Laser Model Now Costs Peanuts on Amazon (42% Off)

For the infrequent user who may print perhaps a dozen times in a year, the HP LaserJet M209d is a cheap and good choice.

Here’s how Apple plans to fix Siri in iOS 19

It goes without saying, Apple’s approach to developing its AI-infused version of Siri has gone very wrong in many ways. Most of the features intended to ship alongside iOS 18 haven’t yet arrived, despite being 10 months past the initial unveiling...

Ford's Twin I-Beam Front Suspension Was A Simple But Genius Design

In the 1960s, Ford revolutionized the game with a new front suspension that would change the ride for trucks. Here's what made the twin I-beam so brilliant.

Amazon Has No Profit Margin Left on This 9-In-1 Air Fryer Rated 4.8/5 From 10,000 Reviews

If you're looking for a way to make meal prep more convenient, the COSORI 9-in-1 air fryer is an investment that will pay off.

Hack-A-Day

From Good Enough to Best

It was probably Montesquieu who coined the proto-hacker motto “the best is the mortal enemy of the good”. He was talking about compromises in drafting national constitutions for nascent democracies, …read more

The OpenAI mafia: 15 of the most notable startups founded by alumni

Move over, PayPal mafia: There’s a new tech mafia in Silicon Valley. As the startup behind ChatGPT, OpenAI is arguably the biggest AI player in town. Its meteoric rise to a $300 billion valuation has spurred many employees to leave the AI giant to...

Michael B. Jordan's Thomas Crown Affair remake is coming in 2027

After nearly a decade of development, the Jordan-starring-and-directed Thomas Crown remake finally has a slot on the schedule.

Watch: How the Vatican said goodbye to Pope Francis

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gather in Rome to pay tribute to the late pontiff.

Watch: How the Vatican said goodbye to Pope Francis

Hundreds of thousands of mourners gather in Rome to pay tribute to the late pontiff.

Unicorn Riot

A People on the Brink: Life and Death in Dheisheh Camp – PT. 2

The following is part 2 of our article series documenting conditions at Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, where independent journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor Brendan Dunn, spent time in 2023 and 2024 collecting...

15 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Just Dusted-Off An Old Formula — With A Twist

Reality has been changed. Again. Here's what it might mean for 'Doctor Who' Season 2.

404 Media

This Sicko Caterpillar Wears the Bones of Its Victims

Bite marks on the pelvis of a beheaded man provide the first direct physical evidence of human-animal gladiatorial combat.

Unicorn Riot

A People on the Brink: Life and Death in Dheisheh Camp – PT. 1

As the genocide in Gaza rages on, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank struggle to survive. 19 refugee camps in the West Bank are home to over 900,000 displaced Palestinian people expelled from their homelands. Dheisheh refugee camp is one of...

Apple @ Work: iOS 18.4 and macOS Sequoia 15.4 bring new IT controls and fixes for Apple in the enterprise

Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage &...

Switch 2 Preorders Open To Pure Chaos And More Of The Week's Top Stories

This week saw a few massive happenings in the world of games. First and foremost, after being delayed to allow Nintendo to take stock of the potential impact of President Trump’s chaotic implementation of tariffs, the company finally kicked off...

MacRumors

Instagram Edits topped 7M downloads in first week, a bigger launch than CapCut’s

Instagram Edits, Meta’s newly released video creation app, had a bigger debut than its direct competitor, ByteDance’s CapCut, once did. The new app, which today helps users craft videos for Instagram reels, stories, and other social posts, was...

25 Years Ago, The Darkest Legend Of Zelda Game Broke The Series Tradition For The Better

The Legend of Zelda broke new ground for the series with its darkest game and showed the power of straying from a winning formula.

Viagra Boys offer something almost like thoughtfulness on Viagr Aboys

The Swedish pop-punks' fourth album is light on the conspiracizing, turning their eyes toward deranged character studies instead.

New teaser for Noah Hawley's Alien: Earth show redefines "invasive species"

We're apparently set to deal with not just one, but five new space-based monsters when Alien: Earth arrives on FX this summer.

35 Years Later, An Awesomely Stupid Sci-Fi Flop Is Better Than You Remember

'Spaced Invaders' was a flop that bridged the gap between 'E.T.,' 'War of the Worlds,' and 'Mars Attacks.'

55 Weird Things Under $25 You Didn’t Know About That Make Your Home Look So Much Better

I’ve searched Amazon to find the best weird but efficient items that make your home look so much better.

Is The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion still fun for a first-time player in 2025?

How does a fresh coat of paint help this 19-year-old RPG against modern competition?

Hack-A-Day

Digital Squid’s Behavior Shaped by Neural Network

In the 90s, a video game craze took over the youth of the world — but unlike today’s games that rely on powerful PCs or consoles, these were simple, standalone …read more

Mashable

Grab an exclusive price on a Babbel lifetime subscription

Study 14 languages at your own pace with a Babbel lifetime subscription on sale now.

Staff Picks: An Aussie artist and a sophomore album that'll give you goosebumps

If our weekly music roundup wasn’t enough for you, TV Editor Tim Lowery and Staff Writer Mary Kate Carr have some sonic recommendations of their own, including a Melbourne-based artist and a follow-up album by a former child star. Tim...

17 Years Later, The Oldest Sci-Fi Show Just Brought Back Its Most Terrifying Monster

'Doctor Who' just brought back the unseen monster from the David Tennant-era episode "Midnight," in the most surprising way possible.

The Intercept

Marco Rubio Silences Every Last Little Criticism of Israel at State Department

Rubio wants to dismantle the only internal sounding board for critics of Israel — and the only place those criticisms might’ve had any teeth. The post Marco Rubio Silences Every Last Little Criticism of Israel at State Department appeared first on...

BBC - Innovation

M&S stops online orders and issues refunds after cyber attack

The firm has stopped taking orders on its website and apps, including for food and clothes.

Den of Geek

Doctor Who Series 15 Episode 3 Review: The Well

Warning: contains spoilers for Doctor Who series 15 episode 3 “The Well”. Me about 20 minutes into this episode: hmm, getting real “Midnight” vibes from this. Me about 25 minutes into this episode: ah! In a surprise sequel to a classic from the...

Den of Geek

Doctor Who’s “The Well” Callback Explained

Warning: contains plot spoilers for Doctor Who episode “The Well”. If they were really concentrating, fans may have got there just before the Doctor did, at the mention of an Xtonic Star. If they were really really concentrating, they could have...

Musk’s xAI Holdings is reportedly raising the second-largest private funding round ever

Elon Musk’s xAI Holdings is in talks to raise $20 billion in fresh funding, potentially valuing the AI and social media combo at over $120 billion, according to a new Bloomberg report that says talks are in the “early stages.” If successful, the...

Doctor Who drops its most consistent episode of the season so far

Our duo travels 500,000 years into the future and lands on Planet 6-7-6-7.

Rumor Suggests iPadOS 19 to Get Some Mac-Like Tweaks, Like a Menu Bar

Majin Bu: According to my source, Apple is gearing up for another major leap forward. With iPadOS 19 and iOS 19, expected in 2025, the gap between iPad, iPhone, and Mac continues to shrink. [...] One of the most exciting changes will benefit...

Weapons of war are launching from Cape Canaveral for the first time since 1988

Unlike a recent hypersonic missile test, officials didn't immediately confirm Friday's flight was a success.

Russia and Ukraine 'very close to a deal', says Trump

The US president's envoy meets Vladimir Putin in Moscow, while Ukraine calls for more pressure on Russia.

TidBits

Why TidBITS Will No Longer Post to X/Twitter or Facebook

In keeping with our desire to model the behavior we want to see in the world, we have stopped posting TidBITS to X/Twitter and Facebook in protest against the harm they cause to civil society. Many other channels remain available, including Bluesky...

Wayne Ma Reports That Political Tensions Are Making It Difficult for Apple to Shift More iPhone Production From China to India

Wayne Ma, reporting for The Information (paywalled, alas): Earlier this year, Chinese authorities refused to allow one of Apple’s Chinese equipment suppliers to export machinery to India that Apple needed for the upcoming iPhone 17’s trial...

Financial Times Reports That Apple Wants to Produce All U.S. Phones in India by the End of Next Year

The Financial Times: Apple plans to shift the assembly of all US-sold iPhones to India as soon as next year, according to people familiar with the matter, as President Donald Trump’s trade war forces the tech giant to pivot away from...

Here’s how and why to delete your personal data from the internet

With data brokers making big money by selling your personal details, it’s never been easier for spammers and scanners to get access to your phone number, email address, physical address, and even sensitive data like your social security...

Andor Season 2 Is So Good We Can't Stop Talking About It

Roughly two and a half years after its first season aired, Star Wars Andor, the fiercely political series starring Diego Luna who reprises the role of Cassian Andor he first played in Rogue One, has returned for its second and final season....

Here's How the Switch 2 Specs Compare to the Original

Here's how the consoles compare on paper.

Until Dawn’s best sequence pays homage to one of the game’s standout mechanics

The horror movie Until Dawn doesn’t exactly follow the video game it’s based on. In fact, it has an entirely new cast of characters and a totally different story. But that doesn’t mean the filmmakers abandoned their source material entirely. In...

How the Legend of Ochi director found his perfect throat-whistler

In A24’s new fantasy adventure movie The Legend of Ochi, the titular apelike creatures communicate via strange chirps and whistles. Their unique vocals become a pivotal plot point, especially after lonely 12-year-old Yuri (Helena Zengel) runs off...

Trump Department Of Justice strips away Biden-era journalistic protections

Trump's AG announced today that journalists' phone records are once again fair game for subpoenas when the government goes hunting for leaks.

With over 900 US measles cases so far this year, things are looking bleak

US hasn't seen this many cases this early in a year since the 1990s before we hit "elimination."

Reverse Searing Is Faster in the Air Fryer

Good steak faster is never a bad thing.

Mike Lindell’s lawyers used AI to write brief—judge finds nearly 30 mistakes

Lindell brief has many defects including "cases that do not exist," judge says.

MacRumors

What's Next for the Apple Watch Ultra 3 and Apple Watch SE 3

This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Apple Watch, which launched on April 24, 2015. Yesterday, we recapped features rumored for the Apple Watch Series 11, but since 2015, the Apple Watch has also branched out into the Apple Watch Ultra and...

New study shows why simulated reasoning AI models don’t yet live up to their billing

Top AI models excel at math problems but lack reasoning needed for Math Olympiad proofs.

Looming tariffs are making it extra hard to be a tech geek

Looming tariffs are already making electronics shopping harder.

Sunrise on the Reaping proves it: The Hunger Games movies perfected the casting formula

The very same day Sunrise on the Reaping, Suzanne Collins’ fifth Hunger Games book, was announced, so was a movie adaptation. Lionsgate had previously jumped on announcing the movie version of Collins’ other Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of...

Kotaku’s Weekend Guide: 5 Games We’re Psyched To Jump Back Into

Though the weather has taken a turn for the better recently, nothing beats staying inside for some gaming—or, if you prefer, taking a game to go with you on your portable device of choice. Should you be planning on staying in this weekend with some...

The Beginner Motorcycle Gear You Really Need, And How To Pick It Out

If you take your time looking and trying things on, you can find motorcycle gear that's as safe as it is comfortable - and maybe even stylish to boot.

Many Physical Switch 2 Games Don't Contain The Game At All

As pre-orders for the Switch 2 went live earlier this week, we started to learn more about many of the launch and post-launch games that will be available for Nintendo’s next big console. And it turns out that a lot of physical Switch 2 games are...

New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths

"Microlensing" lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star.

Propublica

Inspector General Probes Whether Trump, DOGE Sought Private Taxpayer Information or Sensitive IRS Material

by William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Christopher Bing and Andy Kroll ProPublica is a...

How to Get Minesweeper and Seven Other Classic Games Back in Windows 11

Play those classic Windows games on your modern PC.

Documenting Japan’s classic arcades before it’s too late

Depending who you ask, arcades have been dead or dying or on their last legs for… almost 40 years now. The reality is more complex, with new business models, barcades, bigger complexes like Dave & Busters, and VR/immersive/experimental options...

7 tips from puzzle game developers on how to beat puzzle games

The puzzles of Blue Prince feel less like the gridlike blueprints you draft in the game and more like an intricate web. Even seasoned puzzle lovers might feel tested by its mysteries. In Blue Prince, you explore and construct a sprawling mansion...

The best horror movies to watch on Netflix this April

Spring is here, and for some that means it’s time to get outside and start enjoying the fresh air. If that doesn’t sound like you, then Netflix has quite a few great horror movies to fill your time with instead. This month, we handpicked a few of...

Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired

Just the dialogue—no sound effects or music cues.

Green Minecraft Movie Milk Gets Its Color From Chemicals The Government Wants To 'Eliminate'

Minecraft has milk in it but it’s not green. Instead, the “Creeper milk” going viral on Tiktok arises purely from the marketing geniuses behind chocolate milk maker TruMoo.Drafting off of the Minecraft Movie’s box office success, the dairy company...

CarPlay just added three new features with iOS 18.4

Even as CarPlay 2 work keeps chugging along, Apple has been slowly adding new features to the existing CarPlay too. Last fall CarPlay got some Apple Intelligence enhancements, and recently Ford EV owners gained NACS routing. Now, with iOS 18.4,...

FBI offers $10 million for information about Salt Typhoon members

FBI accepts tips by TOR in likely attempt to woo China-based informants.

Land Rover brought CarPlay to 15-year-old Range Rovers with ‘period‑correct hardware’

While the world awaits next-gen CarPlay, Land Rover has made a retrofit CarPlay solution for Range Rovers from a previous decade. With the exception of wireless support, the CarPlay hardware appears to be pretty basic, and that’s the point. ...

This Cyber Attack Targets Microsoft 365 Accounts

Hackers are contacting victims via WhatsApp and Signal.

Henry Blodget’s Illustrated 2013 Travelogue of Flying in Coach on a Long International Flight

Andrew Leonard, writing for Salon back in 2013: The first thing wrong with the stupidest article to be posted to the Internet in the year 2013 — and possibly the entire century — is the title: “I Was Quite Surprised By Some Things On...

Propublica

Louisiana Judge Nullifies Death Row Inmate’s Murder Conviction That Was Based on Junk Science

by Richard A. Webster, Verite News This article was produced for ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network in partnership with Verite News. Sign up for...

The Intercept

Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It.

In the absence of opposition party challenges and disempowered labor, courts are one of the few sites of meaningful pushback on Trump’s agenda. The post Judges Are Slowing Down Trump’s Fascist Deportation Regime. Now He’s Arresting Them For It....

Google rolling out Material 3 redesign of Gmail for iPhone

After testing earlier this year, Google is now widely rolling out a Material 3 redesign of Gmail on iPhone and iPad. more…

Oura’s AI Chatbot Really Makes You Think—About Yourself

Instead of trying to have all the answers, the Oura Advisor knows how to ask the right questions.

Henry Blodget Creates Imaginary Staff of AI Personalities for His New Website and Hits on One of Them

Henry Blodget, who sold Business Insider to German publishing giant Axel Springer for $340 million a decade ago, has supposedly launched a new site, Regenerator, built on Substack. I was going to tack on an “alas” re: building on Substack, but...

Apple Notes got a power user feature in iOS 18 that’s rare in other apps

Apple Notes used to be a fairly barebones tool, best known for being used by celebrities to apologize. But a few years back, Apple started investing heavily in making Notes a worthy competitor with third-party alternatives. And in iOS 18, Apple...

Prime Video snags a helluva lot of Hazbin Hotel-adjacent Helluva Boss

Prime Video is quadrupling down on Vivienne Medrano's Hazbin Hotel universe, acquiring and ordering two new seasons of sister series Helluva Boss.

Wicked Director And Deadpool Writers Join Split Fiction Movie

A live-action movie adaptation of Split Fiction, EA and Hazelight’s recently released hit co-op game, is moving forward according to new report claiming that the director of Wicked is set to helm the film. It’s also reported that Sydney Sweeney...

'Something different in the air' as hushed Rome reckons with Pope's death

Visitors have noticed a unique atmosphere at the Vatican in the days before Pope Francis's funeral and the conclave.

The Original Google Pixel Watch Is on Sale for $80

The GPS + Cellular version of the first generation smartwatch is 76% off.

Thermal imaging shows xAI lied about supercomputer pollution, group says