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GitHub’s push protection feature, which automatically blocks the leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, is now free for all public repositories (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: GitHub’s push protection feature, which automatically blocks the leak of sensitive data like API keys and access tokens, is now free for all public repositories — GitHub is now automatically blocking the leak of sensitive information like API keys and access tokens for all public code repositories.

@EdKrassen @TuckerCarlson On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever he or anyone may say. And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind… (Elon Musk/@elonmusk)

Elon Musk / @elonmusk: @EdKrassen @TuckerCarlson On this platform, unlike the one-way street of broadcast, people are able to interact, critique and refute whatever he or anyone may say. And, of course, anything misleading will get @CommunityNotes. I also want to be clear that we have not signed a deal of any kind…

EU draft proposal: non-EU cloud providers seeking an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data must do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU draft proposal: non-EU cloud providers seeking an EU cybersecurity label to handle sensitive data must do so via a joint venture with an EU-based company — Amazon (AMZN.O), Alphabet’s (GOOGL.O) Google, Microsoft (MSFT.O) and other non-European Union cloud service providers looking …

Affirm Q3: revenue up 7% YoY to $381M, vs. $370M est., net loss of $205.7M, vs. $54.7M YoY, gross merchandise volume of $4.6B, up from $3.9B YoY; AFRM down 8%+ (Jeremy C. Owens/Marketwatch)

Jeremy C. Owens / Marketwatch: Affirm Q3: revenue up 7% YoY to $381M, vs. $370M est., net loss of $205.7M, vs. $54.7M YoY, gross merchandise volume of $4.6B, up from $3.9B YoY; AFRM down 8%+ — Buy-now, pay-later company beats expectations across the board with quarterly results, but stock slumps more than 8% in after-hours

Honkai: Star Rail – Every currency and where to get them

Honkai: Star Rail is one of the best gacha mobile RPGs out right now. However, it does fall into one of the biggest traps of F2P gacha RPGs. There are a ton of currencies. In fact, there are so many that it may be tough to remember them all and how they all work. In

UK citizen Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: UK citizen Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe, pleads guilty for his role in the July 2020 Twitter hack affecting high-profile accounts and other crimes — PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O’Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts …

Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a mass shooting in Texas a “psyop”, remarking himself the case was “very strange” and “gets weirder by the moment” (Jordan Pearson/VICE)

Jordan Pearson / VICE: Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a mass shooting in Texas a “psyop”, remarking himself the case was “very strange” and “gets weirder by the moment” — Musk has a history of engaging with right-wing conspiracies, and his reaction to the mass shooting in Allen, Texas continues the trend.

Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his former Fox news show on Twitter; Elon Musk says Twitter has not signed a deal “of any kind whatsoever” (Washington Post)

Washington Post: Tucker Carlson says he will relaunch his former Fox news show on Twitter; Elon Musk says Twitter has not signed a deal “of any kind whatsoever” — Elon Musk tweeted late Tuesday that Twitter had no deal with Carlson and urged people from both sides of the political spectrum to join the site

Unannounced Beats Studio Pro headphones revealed in iOS beta

Beats could release multiple new products in the coming weeks. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Beats seems on the cusp of having a fairly busy spring. We already know that Studio Buds Plus earbuds are on the way (and likely soon), thanks to a premature Amazon listing. And now 9to5Mac is reporting

‘PlugwalkJoe’ pleads guilty for the massive 2020 Twitter hack and other crimes

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge PlugwalkJoe, aka Joseph James O’Connor, a UK citizen connected to the 2020 Twitter hack affecting many high-profile accounts, including Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and Apple, has pled guilty to cyberstalking and other crimes. On Tuesday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that O’Connor has been extradited

Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots (James Vincent/The Verge)

James Vincent / The Verge: Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI staff and that raised $1.3B, including $300M from Google, details its “constitutional AI” for safer chatbots — Anthropic is a bit of an unknown quantity in the AI world. Founded by former OpenAI employees and keen to present itself …

Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+ (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.82B, vs. $1.79B est., its first profitable Q1 with a $117M net income, and a cautious outlook for Q2; ABNB drops 10%+ — – Shares of Airbnb fell in extended trading Tuesday after the company released first-quarter earnings that beat analyst estimates …

Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show on Twitter with help from ex-Fox News staff and will forgo at least $25M owed to him by Fox to break a non-compete clause (Dylan Byers/@dylanbyers)

Dylan Byers / @dylanbyers: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show on Twitter with help from ex-Fox News staff and will forgo at least $25M owed to him by Fox to break a non-compete clause — 🚨 NEWS: Tucker Carlson will relaunch his show *on Twitter* with help from former Fox News staff. He will forgo

EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.87B, up 2.7% YoY, a $12M net loss, vs. a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY (Etan Vlessing/The Hollywood Reporter)

Etan Vlessing / The Hollywood Reporter: EA reports Q4 revenue of $1.87B, up 2.7% YoY, a $12M net loss, vs. a $225M net income YoY, net bookings up 11% YoY to $1.95B, and FIFA net bookings up 31% YoY — But the video game company swung to a net loss of $12 million, against a

Live audio is getting another go on Bluesky

Photo by Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via Getty Images This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. This week is an exciting one for the audio industry, with Podcast Upfront around the corner and awards season underway. This week, we’ll look at a new community

Making Music By Probing Magnetite Crystals

Well, noises anyway. [Dmitry Morozov] and [Alexandra Gavrilova] present an interesting electronics-based art installation, which probes a large chunk of crystalline magnetite, using a pair of servo-mounted probes, ‘measuring’ the surface conductivity and generating some sound and visuals. It appears to have only one degree of freedom per probe, so we’re not so sure all

The 13 Best Movies on Hulu This Week

From Triangle of Sadness to The Hunger Games series, these are the movies you need to watch on the streaming service right now.

iOS 16.5 references new Beats Studio Pro headphones; source: they will come in four colors and have transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, better ANC (Filipe Espósito/9to5Mac)

Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac: iOS 16.5 references new Beats Studio Pro headphones; source: they will come in four colors and have transparency mode, Personalized Spatial Audio, better ANC — Earlier this year, 9to5Mac revealed that Apple has been working on new Beats Studio Buds+ with a custom Beats chip.

Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off

Lawmakers want to make online platforms more responsible for hate speech and misinformation. Google, Meta, and others are fighting back.

Pokémon studio Game Freak is making an action-adventure game codenamed Project Bloom

Image: Private Division Game Freak is best known as the studio behind the mainline Pokémon games, including recent releases like Sword / Shield, Legends: Arceus, and Scarlet / Violet. But the developer is expanding its repertoire for a new release currently codenamed Project Bloom. There isn’t much detail on the game, but it’s described as

Welcome to the E-Commerce Era of Home Services

The home services industry, a $700 billion market in the U.S. alone, encompasses a wide array of trades such as plumbing, lawn care, house cleaning, HVAC, and electrical work that serve as the backbone of modern life. All of the beloved apps and entertainment we use in our homes are irrelevant if the electricity goes

Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over the $1.9B reimbursement pot (Cecilia Kang/New York Times)

Cecilia Kang / New York Times: Carriers in dozens of US states are tearing out Chinese equipment, a difficult process the FCC says has already cost $5B+, well over the $1.9B reimbursement pot — As China and the United States jockey for tech primacy, wireless carriers in dozens of states are tearing out Chinese equipment.

OpenAI releases research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to explain the behavior of GPT-2’s “neurons” (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: OpenAI releases research and an open-source tool that uses GPT-4 to try to explain the behavior of GPT-2’s “neurons” — It’s often said that large language models (LLMs) along the lines of OpenAI’s ChatGPT are a black box, and certainly, there’s some truth to that.

Hackaday Prize 2023: Bolt Bot Micro Servo Droids

This Hackaday prize entry from [saul] is the beginning of a reconfigurable kit of 3D printed parts and servo motors for robotics learning. With just access to a printer, a few cheap-as-chips servo motors, an Arduino, and some nuts and bolts, you could be hacking together robot walkers within a few hours of starting! Bolt

What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, PaLM 2, and maybe some AI surprises (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Emma Roth / The Verge: What to expect at Google I/O 2023: Pixel Tablet, Pixel 7A, foldable-focused Android 14 details, a Pixel 8 and 8 Pro preview, PaLM 2, and maybe some AI surprises — Google I/O is almost here, and that means the launch of the highly anticipated Pixel Fold and Pixel Tablet is

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