From TechCrunch: A Florida draft bill that would require social media companies to provide encryption backdoors for law enforcement officials to access user accounts has cleared a key legislative hurdle, and will now advance to the state’s Senate floor for a vote.

Florida lawmakers unanimously...

From Forbes: Instagram has announced a new feature called Blend, which creates a custom, invite-only Reels feed for you and your friends. You can invite a friend or group chat to create a Blend. Once accepted, Instagram will show you a custom Reels feed that is made out of suggestions for people in...

From PC World: A few days ago, on April 14, the infamous internet forum known as 4chan.org was subjected to a major hacking attack, which took down the site and made it inaccessible. As of this writing, the site remains down.

4chan has been embroiled in a long series of controversies since its...

From Corsair Press Release: Drop is thrilled to announce its latest collaboration with Bethesda Softworks, bringing the immersive universe of Starfield to players’ desktop setups. This exclusive Drop + Starfield collection features a custom keyboard, an artisan keycap, a coiled USB cable, and a desk...

From TechCrunch: OpenAI announced on Wednesday the launch of o3 and o4-mini, new AI reasoning models designed to pause and work through questions before responding.

The company calls o3 its most advanced reasoning model ever, outperforming the company’s previous models on tests measuring math...

From ExtremeTech: Nvidia has officially announced the long-suspected, often-leaked, and rumor-fed RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 graphics cards. Their recommended retail prices are $429 and $379 for the 5060 Ti (16GB and 8GB, respectively) and $299 for the RTX 5060, which will only come with an 8GB...

From EETimes: Nvidia and AMD this week said they are starting production at TSMC’s new chip facility in Arizona just as U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to levy tariffs on semiconductors a few days from now. The two events are not a coincidence, analysts told EE Times.

“Essentially, AMD and...

From The Verge: TikTok has announced “Footnotes,” its own take on the community notes features that started on Twitter and have been spreading to other social networks. As elsewhere, it’s a crowd-sourced approach to moderation — TikTok says contributors will be able to “add relevant information to...

From CNET: Google is in the process of consolidating the many international domains names that lead to google.com, eliminating sites such as google.co.jp and google.ru for Japan and Russia because the company says it no longer needs so-called "country code top-level domain" names to provide local...

From The Verge: Nvidia is releasing a new GPU driver today that includes a massive amount of fixes for bugs and crashes that have plagued its Game Ready drivers recently. After widespread reports of black screens, game crashes, and general stability issues, today’s 576.02 driver release (.exe...