Category: Tech
Japan orders Google to stop alleged antitrust violations on Android phones
After a multi-year investigation, Japan antitrust regulators have taken action against Google. Google is under the microscope again — this time in Japan. The country’s Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against the tech giant, claiming it may have broken Japan’s antitrust laws. The order, signed Tuesday, alleges that Google pressured Japanese smartphone […]
4chan is down, reportedly hacked as of April 15
The imageboard’s users are trading rumors of a potential hack. 4chan, the controversial imageboard where users can anonymously post anything and everything, is experiencing downtime as of this morning. Thousands of visitors reported outages on Tuesday, according to DownDetector. (Disclosure: Ziff Davis owns both Mashable and Down Detector.) The current speculation among users is that […]
HONOR and Google Cloud Strengthen Partnership to Revolutionize Intelligent Devices
Eric Fang, Senior Director of Product Planning at HONOR, articulated the company’s visionary partnership with Google Cloud, has yielded many user-friendly innovations such as Magic Portal 2.0.
Jack Dorsey, Elon Musk call to delete IP laws, but artists are pushing back
Creatives react to Dorsey’s provocative statement. As artists fight to protect their works from being used to train AI models, Jack Dorsey wants to eliminate intellectual property (IP) laws altogether. Elon Musk agrees. On Friday, the cofounder of X (then Twitter) and Block (then Square) posted on X, “delete all IP law.” Elon …
ChatGPT will help you jailbreak its own image-generation rules, report finds
Political deepfakes were easy to generate on ChatGPT. Eased restrictions around ChatGPT image generation can make it easy to create political deepfakes, according to a report from the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). The CBC discovered that not only was it easy to work around ChatGPT’s policies of depicting public …
Sony PlayStation 5 price goes up in Europe and Australia. The U.S. might be next.
Are we winning yet? There’s a global trade war underway, and prices of tech products are increasing. Sony just increased the price of its PlayStation 5 gaming console in Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand. The prices, effective starting April 14, are as follows: Europe: PS5 Digital Edition: €499.99 UK: PS5 …
With iPadOS 19, Apple might once again try to make the iPad more like a Mac
Is it going to work this time? Apple is once again making the iPad more like a Mac. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman (via MacRumors), Apple is working on an iPadOS 19 “overhaul” with three main focuses: improving productivity, multitasking, and app window management. While that’s pretty vague, Gurman …
Trump admin already walks back smartphone, laptop tariff exemption
According to Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, smartphone tariff relief is only temporary. Donald Trump’s tariff policies appear to be changing once again. It appears that the Trump administration’s tariff exemptions on iPhones and other electronics announced on Friday are coming back. After imposing a whopping 145 percent tariff on goods from China, Trump …
Netflix tests out new AI search engine for movies and TV shows powered by OpenAI
Only certain subscribers have access to the new AI tool and they need to opt-in. Black Mirror may be able to draw inspiration for future episodes from the very platform it streams on. Netflix has just recently rolled out access to a new AI search engine tool to some of its subscribers, according to a […]
Trump’s new tariff plan spares some smartphones, laptops
Hope you didn’t panic-buy an iPhone. UPDATE: April 13, 2025, 4:00 p.m. Don’t get too comfortable. The tariff exemptions announced Friday are only temporary. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said Sunday that smartphones, semiconductors, and display modules will fall under new “semiconductors” tariffs rolling out in “a month or two.” You can catch up on the […]
