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TikTok won’t add end-to-end encryption to direct messages, report says
The social media giant says that end-to-end encryption would make users less safe.
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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion
A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.
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Meet the MacBook Neo, Apple’s colorful answer to the Chromebook, starting at $599
Apple is offering the MacBook Neo at a more affordable price point by using an A18 Pro chip, which is used in the iPhone 16 Pro.
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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
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The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
Something is afoot in the land of Qwen
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/4/qwen/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47249343 Points: 17 # Comments: 1
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Medical journal says the case reports it has published for 25 years are fiction
Article URL: https://retractionwatch.com/2026/03/03/canadian-pediatric-society-journal-correction-case-reports-fictional-paediatrics-child-health/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248511 Points: 48 # Comments: 10
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The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do
Article URL: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-one-science-reform-we-can-all Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248341 Points: 56 # Comments: 29
"It Turns Out"
Article URL: https://jsomers.net/blog/it-turns-out Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248319 Points: 76 # Comments: 23
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Apple Announces Low-Cost 'MacBook Neo' with A18 Pro Chip
Article URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2026/03/04/apple-announces-low-cost-macbook-neo-with-a18-pro-chip/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247670 Points: 65 # Comments: 41
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A Visual Guide to DNA Sequencing
Article URL: https://www.asimov.press/p/dna-sequencing Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47247245 Points: 15 # Comments: 2
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MyFirst Kids Watch Hacked. Access to Camera and Microphone
Article URL: https://www.kth.se/en/om/nyheter/centrala-nyheter/kth-studenten-hackade-klocka-for-barn-1.1461249 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47246858 Points: 20 # Comments: 2
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One startup’s pitch to provide more reliable AI answers: crowdsource the chatbots
CollectivIQ looks to give users more accurate answers to their AI queries by showing them responses that pull information from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok — and up to 10 other models — all at the same time.
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The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple's long-awaited, colorful, lower-cost MacBook
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.