Richard Lawler

Today, a Flappy Bird game launched in the Epic Games Store on Android (and nowhere else, so far), but is it the Flappy Bird? It’s from the same “Flappy Bird Foundation” that said it acquired the trademark last year, and also seems to have some kind of crypto / Web 3 tie-in ambitions.

The newsletter-turned-more platform has been experiencing an outage for about an hour. However, the status page now says that “Substack publications, the publisher dashboard, and other functionality are fully recovered,” with work continuing on getting the app and webpage back up and running.

Trump’s interview with The Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg (on purpose, this time) is now out. If you choose to use Signal, we have some advice on how, but here’s the president’s take:

In response to US restrictions on chip exports, Chinese companies have been trying to develop their own hardware to power generative AI, but so far, have trailed behind. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Huawei is not only preparing to ship more of its existing Ascend 910B and 910C chips, but also to start testing a new 910D AI processor.

Signed on Wednesday, it establishes an AI task force directing funding for various “resources for K-12 AI education.” It also outlines the creation of a “Presidential Artificial Intelligence Challenge” to “encourage and highlight student and educator achievements in AI.”

As reported earlier by The Information, data shown in court during the remedies portion of Google’s search antitrust trial says that as of last month, Google’s internal data counted 35 million daily active users for Gemini.

Android Central and leak hunter Assemble Debug point out that the feature has started to appear, as shown in this Reddit post. Beyond just displaying lyrics for certain songs, it allows users to highlight specific ones to create a social media-friendly sharing card, just like Spotify does.

After the September Pixel Watch update to Wear OS 5 ran into issues, Google released a fix in November and said its wearables would have to wait until March for another update.

After the success of Sonic, Mario, and (most recently), Minecraft, Deadline and The Hollywood Reporter say that Universal has found its next videogame-to-movie adaptation: OutRun.

On Friday, a Wired report and allegation by Rep. Gerald Connolly surfaced, saying that DOGE is creating a “cross-agency master database” of personal information for surveillance on immigrants. Today, the Washington Post reports that several staffers were granted access to the Executive Office for Immigration Review’s Courts and Appeals System (ECAS).