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The Corvette ZR1X hybrid can outpace million-dollar sports cars

Chevy’s hybrid sports car is a sweet deal compared to its Chinese, Italian, and German competitors. And its performance specs underscore the inevitability of electric propulsion.

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OpenAI is delaying ChatGPT’s “adult mode.”

The feature was expected to launch sometime this quarter, but an OpenAI spokesperson tells former Verge staffer Alex Heath that “We’re pushing out the launch of adult mode so we can focus on work that is a higher priority for more users right now, including gains in intelligence, personality improvements, personalization, and making the experience more proactive.”

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OpenAI’s Codex updates focus on security and open source.

OpenAI just launched Codex Security, a new research preview AI agent focused on identifying and fixing app security issues. Separately, it announced the Codex Open Source Fund is also now including “conditional access” to Codex Security as part of the six-month ChatGPT Pro with Codex subscriptions it’s offering open source developers.

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Overcooked, now with a Demogorgon.

The stressful-yet-delightful party game is now available as one of Netflix’s streaming TV games that you control with your phone. This version lets you play as 10 “Netflix celebrity chefs,” including the famous Stranger Things monster.

Netflix is also working on an Overcooked reality show.

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What did we expect from the guy who made an AI to ‘cheat on everything’?

All I can say is in the brief time I used the Cluely app, it helped me cheat on exactly nothing. So I am not surprised to see this TechCrunch report alleging that CEO Roy Lee lied about the company’s revenue numbers.

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Epic is discontinuing its browser-based MetaHuman creator tool.

Epic launched the tool to make hyperrealistic human faces in 2021, but it has now “fully integrated MetaHuman creation into Unreal Engine.” The web app will be retired on November 5th.

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Version History season three starts this weekend!

For the next six Sundays, we have stories about tech we talk to… and tech that talks back. We’re starting with Furby, which is truly one of the wildest episodes we’ve done yet. Here’s how to get all things Version History going forward:

Also, we’re already scheming for next season — tell us what stories you want to hear!

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Three California community colleges are spending up to $500K per year on AI chatbots that don’t work that well.

The AI chatbots, which are supposed to help students with questions about financial aid and admissions, often answer “general questions correctly but struggled with more specific ones,” CalMatters reports. “East Los Angeles College’s bot couldn’t even correctly name its own president.”

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Influencers are posting pro-Dubai copypasta.

As drone strikes hit the city, social media videos shared by influencers follow a script: nonchalance at the danger, followed by flattering videos and photos of UAE leaders. “I know who protects us,” the videos go.

TikTok trend or a coordinated influence campaign?

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Samsung is still planning to launch its first smart glasses in 2026.

We still don’t know much about the AR glasses Samsung is building with Google, but Jay Kim, Samsung’s EVP of the company’s mobile division, tells CNBC the device will connect to your phone and have a built-in camera at “your eye level.”

Kim added that Samsung aims to launch the product this year, echoing what the company said in January.

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Bandcamp Friday is here again.

The next one won’t be until May 1st, so if you’ve been itching to pick anything up, maybe today is the day. Let me know what you’re grabbing in the comments. I’m eyeing a few things, including the collab between Montreal rapper cropscropscrops and NYC producer Vaygrnt: We’ve Been After Each Other.

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OhSnap added a kickstand to its ultra-flat phone grips.

Alongside new versions of its MCON sliding gamepads, at CES 2026 OhSnap showed off a new version of its thin phone grip that adds a folding kickstand that can support a phone in portrait or landscape orientations. The Snap Grip Stand is available for preorder now for $49.99 and expected to ship starting on March 20th.

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Life EV completes purchase of Rad Power Bikes.

The company trying to become a “leading vertically integrated electric mobility platform in North America” says it will “support Rad riders through post-closing customer programs, including honoring certain warranties and gift cards.” It also plans to transition production of Rad Power-branded e-bikes to the US using components sourced globally.

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Anthropic usage is booming despite “supply-chain risk.”

The designation from the US Department of War — that’s busy disrupting actual supply chains and human life in several countries — is having the inverse effect of driving up demand for Claude, which has been breaking daily signup records since early last week in every country where Claude is available.

AppFigures data also shows it topping App Store charts for free and AI apps in dozens of countries, including the US, Canada, and much of Europe.

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Epic v. Google won’t be going to the Supreme Court — both sides agree to withdraw it.

While Epic v. Google isn’t quite finished in the US, we no longer have to wait and see if the highest court will hear the case. Rule 46.1 reads that if all parties file in writing that a case be dismissed, “the Clerk, without further reference to the Court, will enter an order of dismissal.” That agreement has now happened.

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Anthropic responds to the Pentagon.

In a blog post, CEO Dario Amodei confirmed reports that the Defense Department had sent them a letter formally designating them a supply-chain risk, and said Anthropic planned to challenge them in court. He also clarified how it would currently impact Claude users:

The language used by the Department of War in the letter (even supposing it was legally sound) matches our statement on Friday that the vast majority of our customers are unaffected by a supply chain risk designation. With respect to our customers, it plainly applies only to the use of Claude by customers as a direct part of contracts with the Department of War, not all use of Claude by customers who have such contracts.

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Anker is the next target for Republican lawmakers who fear China tech.

DJI drones are getting pushed out of the US; TP-Link routers are under investigation. Now Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL), who introduced the Countering CCP Drones Act in 2022, are asking the FCC and Commerce to investigate Anker. The Select Committee on the CCP did similar last year.

The new letter cites my reporting, though not by name:

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Pragmata has a new release date.

But in a welcome twist, it’s launching earlier now, moving up a week to April 17th. In the meantime you can check out the latest trailer.

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Proton’s security and privacy policies can’t always keep your payment information hidden.

While end-to-end encryption can keep an account’s data private and hidden even from a service provider, the name of who paid for the account and other metadata is harder to hide.

404 Media says court records show how Proton Mail responded to a request from authorities in Switzerland, where it’s based, for payment info tied to an account associated with the Stop Cop City protests in Atlanta, GA. That information was then given to the FBI.

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Kristi Noem gets retired.

After overseeing many months of brutal immigration crackdowns, sending ICE to occupy Minneapolis, and fending off backroom attempts to get President Donald Trump to fire her, the controversial Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (and dog anti-enthusiast) has been shuffled out of DHS.

So what will her replacement, Republican Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin, be like as DHS secretary? Well, he once challenged the head of the Teamsters Union to a fistfight in the middle of a Senate hearing, so, there’s that.

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