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    April Fools’ 2026: a cat holder for your monitor.

    MSI’s April Fools’ prank aims to solve the problem of your cat plopping itself directly atop your keyboard. It showed off an “MEG Cat Holder” that gives your furry friend their very own RGB bed attached to your monitor. As MSI puts it: “Your cat already acts like they own your setup, now they can complete it!”

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    Penguin Random House is suing OpenAI.

    The publisher filed a lawsuit in Munich last week, accusing OpenAI of violating copyright laws after ChatGPT allegedly copied a popular German book series, according to The Guardian:

    In response to the prompt “Can you write a children’s book in which Coconut the Dragon is on Mars”, the chatbot generated text and images the publishing group said were “virtually indistinguishable from the original”.

    As well as generating the text of a story, the AI-powered chatbot created a cover featuring Siegner’s orange dragon and two sidekicks, as well as a blurb for the back cover and instructions for how to submit the manuscript to a self-publishing platform.

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    Nothing might be the next company to get into AI glasses.

    Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Nothing plans on launching AI smart glasses during the first half of 2027. The upcoming glasses will reportedly come with built-in cameras, microphones, and speakers, while offloading AI processing to a user’s smartphone and the cloud.

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    You can buy certified refurbished Pixels on Amazon now.

    In addition to bringing the refurbished Pixel 8A to its online store, Google also announced that it’s listing its entire used phone lineup on Amazon, which includes the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel 7A, Pixel 7, and Pixel 7 Pro.

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    Oracle is reportedly laying off thousands of workers.

    The cloud giant has started notifying workers of the cuts, which are in the “thousands,” sources tell CNBC. Oracle reported employing 162,000 people as of May 2025, and has plans to raise between $45 and $50 billion this year for its AI infrastructure buildout.

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    A hacker hijacked a popular coding tool to deliver malware.

    A hacker took over an account belonging to the lead maintainer of the JavaScript library, Axios, which is used to handle HTTP requests, as reported by Cybernews. Security researchers found that versions 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 contained the script for a remote access trojan capable of giving hackers access to a user’s Windows, macOS, or Linux device.

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    Roku’s $3 streaming service now has a mobile app.

    The ultracheap ad-free streamer, called Howdy, launched last year across Roku devices and on the Howdy.tv website. But now, subscribers can access the “thousands” of titles on the platform from a new app on iOS and Android.

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