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  • Mission Control Games launches with $4M to develop new casual gaming sub-genres

    Mission Control Games, a mobile game studio focused on the casual puzzle genre, has announced its launch alongside the close of a $4 million pre-seed funding round. The investment was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Arcadia Gaming Partners and e2vc. The studio was co-founded by Kıvanç Okutur (CEO) and Murat Gürel (CTO), both read more

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    Mission Control Games launches with M to develop new casual gaming sub-genres

  • Europe builds its first “kill-switch proof” cloud recovery stack

    Today at the European Data Summit of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation in Berlin, Cubbit, SUSE, Elemento Cloud, and StorPool Storage unveil Europe’s first fully sovereign disaster recovery pack. The system is designed to guarantee business continuity for organisations in the face of uncontrollable, catastrophic external events, including a potential foreign vendor kill-switch. It also safeguards European enterprises’ read more

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    Europe builds its first “kill-switch proof” cloud recovery stack

  • These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

    News Kenneth Tam, Alina Tenser, Sheida Soleimani, Leeza Meksin, and American Artist are among the 223 individuals receiving the annual award. 2026 Guggenheim Fellow Kenneth Tam’s installation The Medallion at Bridget Donahue, New York (January 17–March 8, 2025) (photo Jason Mandella, courtesy Kenneth Tam and Hoffman Donahue) The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced read more

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    These Are the Winners of the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship

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

    Waymo has started testing its autonomous vehicles on public roads in London as it prepares to launch a commercial robotaxi service in the city this year. The Alphabet-owned company has been working toward this moment for months. Waymo announced in October it planned to begin driving on London’s public roads. Waymo employees initially drove the read more

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

  • Apple Watch Earth Day and International Dance Day Activity Challenges Launching Later This Month

    Popular Stories Apple Says CarPlay Ultra is Coming to These Vehicle Brands Last year, Apple launched CarPlay Ultra, the long-awaited next-generation version of its CarPlay software system for vehicles. Nearly a year later, CarPlay Ultra is still limited to Aston Martin’s latest luxury vehicles, but that should change fairly soon. In May 2025, Apple said read more

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    Apple Watch Earth Day and International Dance Day Activity Challenges Launching Later This Month

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

    Xinbi Guarantee has also hosted a wide variety of other black market offerings, including harassment services that threaten or throw feces at a victim for a fee, and even sex workers as young as 14 who are likely trafficking victims. One listing Elliptic shared with WIRED, found just in recent weeks, offered a 16-year-old sex read more

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    Telegram Is Still Hosting a Sanctioned Billion Crypto Scammer Black Market

  • Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites | TechCrunch

    Dozens of plug-ins for the widely used open source web blogging software WordPress are now offline after a backdoor was discovered in them, used to push malicious code to any website that relied on the plug-ins. The backdoor was discovered after a new corporate owner bought these plug-ins. Anchor Hosting founder Austin Ginder sounded the read more

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    Someone planted backdoors in dozens of WordPress plug-ins used in thousands of websites | TechCrunch

  • Apple Removes Fake Crypto Wallet App That Stole $9.5 Million From Mac Users

    A fake Mac app designed to look like the real thing snuck past Apple’s app review team, costing users $9.5 million in cryptocurrency. According to CoinDesk, a fake macOS version of the Ledger Live crypto wallet app scammed people into handing over access to their cryptocurrency wallets. More than 50 people fell victim to the read more

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    Apple Removes Fake Crypto Wallet App That Stole .5 Million From Mac Users

  • Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows | TechCrunch

    Google is adding more AI capabilities to its Chrome web browser, the company announced on Tuesday. It’s introducing a new feature called Skills, which will allow users to save and reuse their favorite AI prompts that can run across different web pages without having to type them in again. The feature ties into Google’s integration read more

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    Google adds AI Skills to Chrome to help you save favorite workflows | TechCrunch

  • LR Vandy's Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation

    For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces read more

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    LR Vandy's Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation

  • After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027

    “I don’t think that anybody ever starts with a clear plan to sunset, but nor did I think that this would necessarily institutionalize in a way that would make it exist forever,” artist and Chloë Bass told ARTnews in a recent interview about Social Practice CUNY, the initiative she has co-directed for the past five read more

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    After Five Years of Community Building, Social Practice CUNY Initiative to End in 2027

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

    Despite all the hate it gets, anyone who’s been to Coachella knows it’s a damn good time. I attended once in 2024, where I was welcomed as a Coachella elder. The music is killer, if you can dodge all the influencers setting up ring cameras. I’d likely be right back there huffing dust in the read more

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

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

    YouTube announced this week that it will now hold back ads during livestreams if chat engagement is at its peak, and if users show support with Super Chat, Super Stickers, or gift purchases. Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube Premium subscription. The Google-owned platform said in read more

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

  • Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain | TechCrunch

    Science Corporation, the startup from former Neuralink president and co-founder Max Hodak, has enlisted a top neurobiologist to lead the first U.S. human trials for its biohybrid brain-computer interface. Dr. Murat Günel, chair of Yale Medical School’s Department of Neurosurgery, has signed on as a scientific adviser after two years of discussions. His goal is read more

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    Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain | TechCrunch

  • OpenAI says Microsoft has ‘limited our ability’ to build customer base

    OpenAI acknowledges Microsoft contributions to its growth, but says it’s time to expand New partnership with AWS could unlock more enterprise customers Enterprises bring in 40% of OpenAI’s entire revenue OpenAI has reportedly told staff to focus on growing its relationship with Amazon Web Services (AWS) after a years-long primary relationship with Microsoft, which Chief read more

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    OpenAI says Microsoft has ‘limited our ability’ to build customer base

  • Hard Truths: Can an Artist Exact Revenge on a Dealer Treating Her Like a Pariah?

    With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliverhard truthsin response to questions sent byArt in Americareaders from far and wide. I fired my gallery of 25 years after they refused to release me from a contract that forbade me from selling my work read more

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    Hard Truths: Can an Artist Exact Revenge on a Dealer Treating Her Like a Pariah?

  • Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name

    Michaelina Wautier, “Self-portrait” (circa 1650) (all photos courtesy the Royal Academy of Arts) LONDON — The most remarkable aspect of the Royal Academy’s newly opened monographic exhibition on Michaelina Wautier (1604–1689) is its rediscovery of a talent on a par with the likes of Van Dyck and Rubens. Despite apparent success and recognition during her read more

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    Michaelina Wautier Finally Known by Her Name

  • Europe ramps up autonomous warfare capabilities with German–Ukrainian drone production pact

    Today Germany signed a cooperation agreement with Ukraine to enable the Auterion Airlogix Joint Venture GmbH to execute its first production contract for thousands of mid-range, heavy AI-guided autonomous strike systems. The contract turns a February 2026 announcement at the Munich Security Conference into fully funded, large-scale production in Germany of thousands of systems per read more

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    Europe ramps up autonomous warfare capabilities with German–Ukrainian drone production pact

  • A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

    In the mid-20th century, before preservation efforts revived Miami’s Art Deco South Beach neighborhood with bright colors and lavish hotels, the area was a whitewashed holiday haven for retirees. And in a third-floor room of the Colony Hotel, which looked out onto the building’s marquee and the street below, a unique artistic endeavor unfolded. Ukrainian read more

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    A Delightful Short Film Highlights the Remarkable Self-Taught Art of George Voronovsky

  • Modern Relay raises $3M to build shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise

    Modern Relay today announced a $3 million funding round from Point Nine, Emerge, Amino Collective, Common Magic, and angels, including Charlie Songhurst (board member at Meta), Michael Boehler (former BioNTech executive), and Thomas Clozel (co-founder of OWKIN). Employees are already running multiple agents to draft research, ship code, and handle day-to-day operations. The moment those read more

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    Modern Relay raises M to build shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise