TWiT News FeedThe Google Fitbit Air is an AI-infused take on Whoop wearables - Engadget - https://www.engadget.com/2166645/the-google-fitbit-air-is-an-ai-infused-take-on-whoop-wearables/
It's basically a small Fitbit Inspire without a strap.
Culpan: Apple goes all in on MacBook Neo production - https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/05/culpan-apple-goes-all-in-on-macbook-neo-production/
Last month, journalist Tim Culpan reported that Apple was going to have to make some hard decisions about the MacBook Neo, because the laptop was selling more than the company expected and, as a re…
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Meta challenges Ofcom in UK High Court over the Online Safety Act, which calculates levies based on global, not UK, revenue, in a case scheduled for October - https://www.techmeme.com/260507/p28#a260507p28
By Sam Tobin / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
How Anthropic’s Mythos has rewritten Firefox’s approach to cybersecurity | TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/07/how-anthropics-mythos-has-rewritten-firefoxs-approach-to-cybersecurity/
Security researchers at Mozilla say Anthropic's Mythos has unearthed a wealth of high-severity bugs in Firefox.
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Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot - https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/05/07/1651222/motherboard-sales-collapse-by-more-than-25
Motherboard sales are sharply declining as AI demand drives shortages and price hikes for memory, storage, CPUs, and other PC components. "Because of this, users who don't have deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer," reports Tom's Hardware. F...
Motherboard Sales 'Collapse' By More Than 25% - Slashdot
Motherboard sales are sharply declining as AI demand drives shortages and price hikes for memory, storage, CPUs, and other PC components. "Because of this, users who don't have deep pockets are putting off upgrading their PCs and holding on to their current devices longer," reports Tom's Hardware. F...
Influential study touting ChatGPT in education retracted over red flags - Ars Technica - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/influential-study-touting-chatgpt-in-education-retracted-over-red-flags/
The retracted study on ChatGPT in education was already cited hundreds of times.
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New Mexico seeks $3.7 billion, changes to Meta platforms in youth harm trial - https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/new-mexico-seeks-changes-meta-platforms-youth-harm-trial-2026-05-04/
The U.S. state of New Mexico on Monday asked a judge to declare Meta Platforms a public nuisance, order the company to pay $3.7 billion and overhaul its Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp platforms to protect young users.
Pinterest crosses $1 billion quarterly revenue as AI-powered visual search drives advertising growth that social platforms cannot match - https://thenextweb.com/news/pinterest-billion-revenue-visual-search-advertising
Pinterest hit $1.008B in Q1 revenue with 631M MAUs. Performance+ AI ads delivered 24% higher conversions. The growth engine is 80 billion monthly visual searches, not social feeds.
Pinterest just crossed $1 billion in quarterly revenue. The bet that made it work was not social media. It was search.
Pinterest reported its first billion-dollar quarter last week. Revenue hit $1.008 billion in the first three months of 2026, up 18 per cent year on year, with monthly active users reaching 631 million for the tenth consecutive quarter of double-digit user growth. The stock jumped on guidance that projects second-quarter revenue of $1.133 billion to […]
S.E.C. Settles Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over His Twitter Disclosures - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/technology/musk-sec-settlement-twitter.html
The agency, which has been pulling back on lawsuits against major companies, ended a case that had accused Mr. Musk of hiding his purchases of Twitter stock. He agreed to pay $1.5 million.
This free website is like Wikipedia meets the CIA - https://www.fastcompany.com/91517984/open-factbook-cia-world-factbook
Fact-check the planet with this free community-run resource based on the abandoned CIA ‘World Factbook.’
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