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Discord begins to trial face scanning for age verification in the UK and Australia, and Anthony Spadafora from Tom’s Guide shares his AR-driven productivity experience after getting rid of his laptop.

Starring Jason Howell, Huyen Tue Dao, and Anthony Spadafora.

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• Google Partially Loses US Advertising Tech Antitrust Case (GOOGL) – Bloomberg

• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup – TechCrunch

• Zuckerberg underscores TikTok competition as Meta fights monopoly allegations – The Hill

• Google, Apple, and Snap aren’t happy about Meta’s poorly‑redacted slides – The Verge

• Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification – Gizmodo

• TikTok is adding Footnotes, its take on Community Notes – Engadget

• OpenAI’s new o3 and o4‑mini models are all about “thinking with images” – Engadget

• OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open‑source coding tool for terminals – TechCrunch

• Temu and Shein are raising their US prices next week – The Verge

• Apple says zero‑day bugs exploited against “specific targeted individuals” using iOS – TechCrunch

• Patreon is getting livestreaming – The Verge

We discuss Ubisoft’s new dev tools to help game-devs incorporate accessibility into their games for the colorblind. How can sound help patients alleviate issues with motion sickness. TikTok is launching “Footnotes,” a crowd-sourced fact-checking feature. And with the success of A Minecraft Movie, we ponder the potential of what other game IP to leverage for cinematic or TV adaptations.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Scott Johnson, Roger Chang, Joe.

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Plus, the CVE database is fine for now, but Nvidia’s profits are not.

Starring Tom Merritt, and Jenn Cutter, and Tanner Goodman.

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Apple says it has a workaround to training its AI models with data that doesn’t violate its customers’ privacy. The town that used AI to see what everybody wanted. OpenAI is working on a X-like social media platform. Is this what we want? And we share our data security habits when we travel abroad with tech.

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Nica Montford, Roger Chang, Joe.

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OpenAI is getting into the social network game, and Bodie Grimm talks about how BYD vehicles can charge in five minutes!

Starring Jason Howell, Tom Merritt, and Bodie Grimm.

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• Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy – Apple
• Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology – Bloomberg
• Zuckerberg testifies as FTC, Meta trade opening salvos in antitrust trial – Politico
• OpenAI is building a social network – The Verge
• OpenAI’s new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding – TechCrunch
• OpenAI plans to phase out GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, from its API – TechCrunch
• Japan Orders Google to Stop Forcing Phone Makers to Use Apps – Bloomberg
• AMD teases its first 2nm chip, EPYC ‘Venice’ fabbed on TSMC N2 node — Tom’s Hardware
• Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti arrives on April 16th starting at $379 – The Verge
• Google rolling out auto-restart security feature to Android – 9to5Google
• Samsung will resume the One UI 7 rollout sooner than you think (Updated: Confirmed) – Android Authority
• Chipolo’s newest AirTag competitor works with both Apple and Google’s finding networks – TechCrunch
• China Says US Hacked Networks of 2025 Asian Winter Games – Bloomberg
• BYD fast-charging segment with Bodie Grimm
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• Daily Music Headlines

Which tech products are affected by tariffs and which have been given exemptions? Justin is here to break it down for us. Should ChatBots be made to be less human-like so people don’t assume its intelligent? Would you feel violated if your ride-hailing service recorded your conversation during ride? And if smartphones are durable to resist breaking if dropped what’s the point of having a phone case?

Starring Sarah Lane, Tom Merritt, Justin Robert Young, Roger Chang, Joe

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Plus we explain why chips do still have tariffs despite receiving some exemptions and why they may get new tariffs in the next couple of months.

Starring Tom Merritt, and Robb Dunewood, and Matteo Doni.

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