OpenAI says it will shut down the Sora video app
OpenAI plans to wind down Sora, end a Disney deal tied to the service and shift resources to other products, according to NBC News.
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NASA pauses Gateway and shifts lunar work toward the surface
The agency says it wants to repurpose hardware and partner commitments for sustained Moon operations instead of the orbital station in its current form.
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OpenAI to close Sora as Disney investment and licensing deal ends
The video-generation app and developer access are being discontinued, dissolving a proposed $1 billion partnership centered on Disney characters.
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Personal EU service migration highlights trade-offs in leaving major platforms
A March 23, 2026 field report detailed one user’s move toward European email, hosting, domain and code services in pursuit of greater control and data protection.
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Hormuz Minesweeper turns the Strait of Hormuz into a satirical puzzle game
The site frames classic Minesweeper as a shipping-lane challenge across the Strait of Hormuz, asking players to clear water, flag mines and survive.
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EFF warns publisher blocks could leave gaps in the web’s historical record
In a March 21, 2026 commentary, the digital-rights group argued that attempts to restrict AI crawlers risk obstructing nonprofit web archiving as well.
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Technology blogger makes the case for waiting out the AI adoption rush
A March 20, 2026 essay argued that people can defer new tools until their usefulness is clear, without treating early adoption as an obligation.
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Afroman wins defamation case over satirical raid video
A jury found the rapper not liable after Ohio deputies sued over a music video built from footage of a botched raid on his home.
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Quantum-cryptography pioneers Bennett and Brassard win 2025 Turing Award
The $1 million computing prize recognised the researchers whose BB84 protocol laid a foundation for detecting interception in quantum communications.
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New evolutionary model reveals magma ocean on exoplanet L 98-59 d
Advanced atmospheric and interior modeling suggests that the exoplanet L 98-59 d sustains a permanent magma ocean that influences its long-term chemical evolution.
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Ageless Linux turns Debian overlay into protest against California age law
A Debian conversion project says it will deliberately withhold age data, using a reversible operating-system overlay to challenge California’s Digital Age Assurance Act.
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Essay argues entry-level Mac limits can be part of learning
Developer Sam Henri Gold says the $599 MacBook Neo should be judged not only by ideal workloads, but by what curious beginners may discover while pushing past its constraints.
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Computer scientist Tony Hoare dies at 92
The Turing Award winner, former Oxford professor and creator associated with quicksort, Hoare logic and ALGOL died on 5 March 2026.
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Ireland’s Moneypoint exit ended coal-fired electricity generation
The 915MW County Clare station stopped participating as a coal generator in June 2025, while retaining a limited emergency oil-backup role through 2029.
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Preprint reports significant acceleration in adjusted global warming data
Researchers Stefan Rahmstorf and Grant Foster say temperatures rose faster after 2015 than during any earlier 10-year period since 1945 once major natural variations were accounted for.
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Space One's Kairos rocket ends third flight after two minutes
The Japanese startup terminated its latest small-launch mission shortly after liftoff from Spaceport Kii, extending a run of three unsuccessful flights.
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Astronomers identify record-tight quadruple star system
TIC 120362137 combines a compact three-star core with a fourth star on a 1,046-day orbit, according to TESS data and ground observations.
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Vietnam’s AI law takes effect with labelling and disclosure rules
Vietnam has become the first South-East Asian country with a comprehensive AI law, setting rules for synthetic content and automated systems.
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microgpt Distills a GPT Training System Into 200 Lines of Python
A compact educational project brings tokenization, automatic differentiation, a GPT-style network, optimization, training and generation into one dependency-free file.
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Google and OpenAI Workers Invited to Sign Joint AI Military-Use Letter
An independently organized letter asks current and former employees to oppose domestic mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.
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Hegseth says Anthropic will face a supply-chain-risk designation
A post from the U.S. secretary of war says the Pentagon must have unrestricted access after what he called a betrayal by Anthropic.
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Anthropic Rejects Demand to Remove Two Safeguards From Military AI Use
Chief executive Dario Amodei said the company wanted to keep serving US defense agencies but would not accept unrestricted terms for Claude.
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Google API keys were treated as non-secrets. Gemini changed that assumption.
Truffle Security says Google has spent years telling developers API keys are not secrets, but newer Gemini-related behavior means that guidance no longer holds.
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