Google is getting even worse for independent sites (www.theverge.com)
HouseFresh’s search traffic has fallen by 91 percent.
Elon Musk goes ‘absolutely hard core’ in another round of Tesla layoffs (www.theverge.com)
The Apple Vision Pro’s eBay prices are making me sad (www.theverge.com)
Razer made a million dollars selling a mask with RGB, and the FTC is not pleased (www.theverge.com)
Zephyr buyers might be getting a refund.
Can Rabbit’s R1 outsmart the smartphone assistants? Let’s find out! (www.theverge.com)
Bob Barker voice Rabbit R1, come on down!
Meta had its biggest lobbying quarter ever (www.theverge.com)
Meta says employee compensation explains the uptick.
NHTSA opens investigation into Ford’s BlueCruise after software linked to fatal crash (www.theverge.com)
Like Tesla, Ford’s BlueCruise is now also under investigation.
Meta’s “set it and forget it” AI ad tools are misfiring and blowing through cash (www.theverge.com)
In the first Autonomous Racing League race, the struggle was real (www.theverge.com)
The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down (www.theverge.com)
Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths (www.theverge.com)
FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using apps like Signal (www.theverge.com)
“Are you feeling encrypted?”
New EU regulations target Shein’s counterfeit fashion problem (www.theverge.com)
New regulation comes as Shein looks to go public in the US.
Tesla’s Autopilot is under investigation again following “recall” software update (www.theverge.com)
The NHTSA isn’t convinced Tesla did enough to fix it the first time.
DJI might get banned next in the US (www.theverge.com)
First TikTok, then DJI?
Eken fixes “terrible” video doorbell issue that could let someone spy on you (www.theverge.com)
They were sold on Amazon, Walmart, Temu, and others.
Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac (www.theverge.com)
Net neutrality is about to make a comeback (www.theverge.com)
Biden signs TikTok “ban” bill into law, starting the clock for ByteDance to divest it (www.theverge.com)
Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)
Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....
Framework won’t be just a laptop company anymore (www.theverge.com)
It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it (www.theverge.com)
Tesla’s in its flop era (www.theverge.com)
When Tesla releases its first quarter earnings this afternoon, the company’s CEO Elon Musk will field the usual questions about new products, new factories, and progress toward its futuristic vision of self-driving cars and robot workers. But Musk will also face increasingly urgent questions about its current state of affairs...