US and China agree to slash tariffs for 90 days

Following negotiations in Geneva, the United States and China have agreed to lower tariffs substantially for the next 90 days, the White House announced. The aim is to de-escalate the current trade war and allow both parties time negotiate to achieve a “sustainable, long-term and mutually beneficial economic and trade relationship,” they said in a … Read more

iOS 19 may bring a feature that makes signing into public Wi-Fi less of a hassle

Apple is reportedly planning to introduce a small but welcome convenience feature with iOS 19: cross-device syncing for Wi-Fi access portals. This is according to the latest Power On newsletter from Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The feature would address the annoyance of having to individually fill out pop-up forms to access public Wi-Fi on all your devices, … Read more

Trump has fired the director of the US Copyright Office

As first reported by Politico, the Trump administration has fired the Register of Copyrights and US Copyright Office Director, Shira Perlmutter. The Register of Copyrights works under the Librarian of Congress — a title held most recently by Carla Hayden, who was fired earlier this week for her DEI efforts, as White House press secretary … Read more

SoundCloud says it’s never trained AI using artists’ work after getting called out for terms of use change

Following backlash about a quietly added clause to SoundCloud’s Terms of Use that says users’ content may be fed to AI, the company says it’s “never used artist content to train AI models,” and insists it “has always been and will remain artist-first.” The outrage came after tech ethicist Ed Newton-Rex (via TechCrunch) spotted a … Read more

Scientists find lead really can be turned into gold (with help from the Large Hadron Collider)

One of the ultimate goals of medieval alchemy has been realized, but only for a fraction of a second. Scientists with the European Organization for Nuclear Research, better known as CERN, were able to convert lead into gold using the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Unlike the examples of transmutation … Read more

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