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YouTube livestreams will now hold back ads during peak engagement to protect the vibe

AISHA MALIK

Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube Premium subscription.

I Watched 18 Hours of Coachella’s Vertical Livestream and All I Got Was This Lousy FOMO

BOONE ASHWORTH

Coachella—and everyone else—is making a big vertical video play. So I watched an entire weekend’s worth of sets only on my phone.

London gets closer to its first robotaxi service as Waymo begins testing

KIRSTEN KOROSEC

Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the UK government approves.

Anthropic co-founder confirms the company briefed the Trump adminstration on Mythos

SARAH PEREZ

The AI giant's co-founder confirms that Anthropic briefed the Trump administration on its latest model, Mythos, which it claims has powerful cybersecurity capabilities.

Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plugins used in thousands of websites

ZACK WHITTAKER

Dozens of WordPress plugins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.

Gik Acoustics SoundBlocks Review: Good-Looking Acoustic Treatment

PARKER HALL

Treating the sound of your space has often involved ugly, permanently mounted panels, but no longer!

Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned $21 Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market

ANDY GREENBERG

The UK designated Xinbi Guarantee as an enabler of crypto scammers and human trafficking weeks ago. Telegram is still hosting it in plain sight.

UK gov's Mythos AI tests help separate cybersecurity threat from hype

KYLE ORLAND

New model is the first AI system to complete a difficult multi-step infiltration challenge.

In the Wake of Anthropic's Mythos, OpenAI Has a New Cybersecurity Model—and Strategy

LILY HAY NEWMAN

OpenAI says its safeguards “suﬃciently reduce cyber risk" for now, while GPT-5.4-Cyber is its first cybersecurity-focused model.

Americans ask AI for health care. Hospitals think the answer is more chatbots.

BETH MOLE

Do you trust AI chatbots for health advice? What about one in your patient portal?

Two-year-old Surface PCs get $300 price hikes as sub-$1,000 models go away

ANDREW CUNNINGHAM

"Paying more for the same stuff" is the story of consumer technology in 2026.

Apple chooses Amazon satellites for iPhone, years after rejecting Starlink offer

JON BRODKIN

Amazon announces $11.6B merger with Globalstar and satellite deal with Apple.

The 10 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month (April 2026)

JENNIFER M. WOOD

The Boys, The Testaments, and Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 are just a few of the TV shows we’re binging this month.

AI datacenter startup Fluidstack in talks for $1B round at $18B valuation months after hitting $7.5B, says report

JULIE BORT

Fundraising is reportedly flowing for Fluidstack after it secured a $50 billion deal to build data centers for Anthropic.

Sony killing features for antenna, set-top box users of Bravia smart TVs in May

SCHARON HARDING

Some 2023 and 2024 models are also affected.