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Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Donald Trump’s account is currently unsearchable on X.

At the moment, if you type “from:realdonaldtrump” followed by a specific term in X’s search bar, you’ll get the same set of results, seemingly no matter what you type, according to a Mediaite story spotted by Engadget.

I experienced the same thing when I tried it, but could still search other accounts this way. X responded with an auto-reply when reached for comment.

‘There’s no price’ Microsoft could pay Apple to use Bing: all the spiciest parts of the Google antitrust ruling

Finally, a legal ruling on whether TikTok is a real search engine. (It’s not.)

Nilay Patel and Sarah Jeong
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Gemini may be rolling out to personal Gmail accounts on Android.

You may need to close and reopen the app to see it, but according to Android expert Mishaal Rahman, Gemini is showing up for non-Google Workspace users.

Gemini can do things like summarize emails, suggest next steps, or draft replies. Before now, you’ve needed a Google AI premium subscription or a Workspace account for access to the AI assistant.

Booking and Priceline chief Glenn Fogel wants you to yell at AI chatbots, not humans

The head of online hotel and flight giant Booking Holdings on how competition, regulation, and AI are changing travel.

Nilay Patel
The teens lobbying against the Kids Online Safety Act

Over 300 high school students converged on Congress to urge lawmakers to vote against KOSA. The bill passed in a landslide.

Lauren Feiner
Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Will Chrome start complaining about itself soon?

A new Canary test build of the Chrome browser (I see it in version 128.0.6611.0 in macOS) has a new performance alert to tell you when a tab is hogging resources, Windows Report spotted.

To try it, open the Canary Chrome browser, navigate to chrome://flags/#performance-intervention-ui, enable “performance intervention suggestions,” and restart. Now Chrome can complain about Chrome’s memory usage, too!

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Take a moment to reflect.

In the old days, running Disk Defragmenter in Windows took forever but was a welcome, meditative reminder that you can’t control everything.

I’m kidding, it was awful. Here’s a website that simulates it, hard drive sounds and all, from developer Dennis Morello. It’s nicer when it’s not keeping you from playing Starcraft.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Bob Wehadababyitsaboy.

Software engineer Robert Heaton wrote a tool that gives him “free, unbelievably stupid wi-fi” on planes, by... repeatedly updating fields in his Air Miles account without paying for in-flight Wi-Fi.

Go read this blog recounting how his PySkyWiFi tool uses data tunneled through the limited space of his Air Miles account information to a proxy computer on the ground. It’s apparently very slow. And it sounds a little familiar.

How to shop for an internet provider in your new home

The FCC’s new broadband labels make it easier to compare internet plans, if you’re lucky enough to have options.

Joe Stanganelli
Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Edge edges out Chrome with new extremely specific clipboard powers.

Microsoft announced an update to Edge’s clipboard allowing SVG files — space efficient vector images — to be copy and pasted into web apps without any complicated workarounds.

The company also contributed the updates to the open-source Chromium project so that other Chromium-based browsers can add streamlined SVG copying and pasting. Maybe Chrome will be next?

Why The Atlantic signed a deal with OpenAI

CEO Nicholas Thompson discusses the deal: ‘AI is coming. It is coming quickly. We want to be part of whatever transition happens.’

Nilay Patel
The aftermath of the Supreme Court’s NetChoice ruling

Here’s what the SCOTUS decision might mean for everything from kids online safety laws to the TikTok ‘ban.’

Lauren Feiner
When you move, what do you do with all those books?

If you have a large collection of hardcover and paperback books, it can be hard to get rid of them — but not impossible.

Barbara Krasnoff
Canva CEO Melanie Perkins thinks the design world needs more alternatives to Adobe

To her, AI is just an extension of what Canva has always done: make accessible design tools that cost less than Adobe’s.

Nilay Patel
The best way to get rid of all the clutter you don’t need

Moving often means downsizing, and fast. Enter: Facebook Marketplace and Buy Nothing.

Gaby Del Valle
Perplexity’s grand theft AIPerplexity’s grand theft AI
Elizabeth Lopatto
Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Perplexity CEO’s answers are weak.

Fast Company asked him why his AI search engine is ripping content from paywalled news outlets like Wired, and... hoo boy. He attempted to shift blame to “third-party web crawlers,” refused to identify which ones, said it was too “complicated” to just stop doing that, and suggested it’s not technically illegal to ignore robots.txt. Sure.

Sean Hollister
Sean Hollister
Plagiarism machine plagiarizes article about its plagiarism.

These links are paywalled, but that’s part of the point: it’s subscription journalism. Wired even blocks Perplexity in its robots.txt file, yet Perplexity is scraping stories anyhow. Might not be the only one, but that’s no excuse.