Bluesky crosses 30 million users
Bluesky says it has reached 30 million users, a milestone that underlines its growth even as it remains far behind Threads.
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Google Maps will use Gulf of America labels in the US after Trump’s name change order
Google says it will relabel the Gulf of Mexico for US users in line with the official government name once the change is updated in federal mapping systems.
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Cory Doctorow says the tech industry keeps legalizing misconduct through apps
In a post tied to his new novel, Cory Doctorow argues that many business models hide old-fashioned wrongdoing behind app interfaces.
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DeepSeek-R1 paper says reinforcement learning can grow reasoning without human demos
An arXiv paper claims reasoning in large language models can be improved through pure reinforcement learning rather than human-annotated trajectories.
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Subaru STARLINK flaw reportedly exposed vehicle accounts across multiple countries
Researchers say a vulnerability in Subaru’s admin panel could have given access to vehicles and customer accounts in the U.S., Canada and Japan.
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Trump grants Ross Ulbricht a full pardon, supporters say
Ross Ulbricht’s supporters said he received a full and unconditional pardon from President Donald Trump.
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Leak shows how a 0-click deanonymization attack could expose Signal and Discord users
A technical write-up in the packet describes a 0-click deanonymization attack that could target Signal, Discord and other platforms without a victim clicking anything.
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TikTok briefly goes dark in the US as federal ban takes effect
The app disappeared for many Americans on Saturday night, then began restoring service by Sunday afternoon as the federal ban took hold.
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TikTok service returns in the U.S. after brief shutdown tied to federal sale-or-ban law
TikTok restored access for U.S. users after going dark as a federal law targeting ByteDance took effect, while the app stayed off major app stores.
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Canon’s webcam fee draws backlash over paid access to existing hardware
A post criticising Canon says the company wants users to pay a monthly fee to use their own cameras as webcams, turning a utility into a subscription.
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Blue Origin reaches orbit on first New Glenn launch, but loses booster on landing attempt
Blue Origin says New Glenn’s first flight was a milestone for the company, even as the reusable first stage was lost during recovery.
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Nintendo formally reveals the Switch 2
Nintendo says the Switch 2 will be released in 2025 and will be shown in a full Nintendo Direct on April 2.
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Keygen’s no-calls policy turns into an argument for lower-friction sales
A founder says his company avoids calls entirely, arguing that enterprise sales can work without the time cost and awkwardness of scheduled meetings.
Read report »India Achieves Historic Space Docking Milestone
The Indian Space Research Organisation has successfully docked two spacecraft in orbit, marking a significant advancement for the nation's future space station ambitions.
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A viral essay argues that modern systems fail because nobody cares enough to improve them
The piece is less a tech report than a sweeping complaint about bad incentives, bad design, and too little ownership.
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US and Japanese lunar landers launch together aboard Falcon 9
Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost and ispace's Resilience began separate commercial Moon missions after a shared departure from Florida.
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Telegram Access Returns in Venezuela While Wider Internet Blocks Persist
Providers restored the messaging service after a brief nationwide disruption, but restrictions continued to affect TikTok, Signal, VPN sites and other tools.
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Stop Trying to Schedule a Call With Me
A sharply argued essay captures a familiar complaint in the software business: vendors turn simple product trials into a maze of emails, demos, compliance theater and support dead ends.
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Operating System in 1,000 Lines shows how far a small kernel can go
A new guide walks readers through building a small operating system from scratch in about 1,000 lines of code.
Read report »Meta Replaces US Fact-Checking Program With User-Written Notes
Mark Zuckerberg framed the moderation shift as support for expression, while critics warned it would remove context from misleading posts on Facebook and Instagram.
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A 1993 Volvo Is Being Turned Into an Openpilot Test Bed for a Winter Rally
A builder is retrofitting steering hardware, sensors and control wiring into a 1993 Volvo 940 Estate so it can take on a 6-day, 6,000km Carbage Run through Sweden and Finland.
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A Blog Experiment Finds That Asking an LLM to “Write Better Code” Can Help, Up to a Point
An experiment with Claude 3.5 Sonnet shows that iterative prompting can speed up a Python solution dramatically, but the gains begin to flatten out as the code gets more complex.
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SpaceX Sends Thuraya-4 Connectivity Satellite Toward Geostationary Orbit
The first Falcon 9 mission of 2025 deployed Space42’s all-electric spacecraft, built to provide mobile links across four broad regions.
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Britain's largest dinosaur trackway site found in Oxfordshire quarry
About 200 footprints made 166 million years ago record the movements of sauropods and a three-toed Megalosaurus across a lagoon.
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