Tuesday/Mardi April/Avril 15th, 2025

Risks To Children Playing Roblox 'Deeply Disturbing,' Say Researchers [Slashdot.org]

Scoop: Trump won't attend 2025 White House Correspondents' Dinner [AXIOS]

FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp [TechMeme]

More and more CEOs are expecting a recession as tariffs rattle the economy [Quartz]

The Covid pandemic was catastrophic. But don’t overlook what went right. — From mRNA vaccines to remote work, the technologies that blunted the worst of the pandemic. [Vox]

Quantum utility is at most 10 years away, industry experts believe [TheNextWeb]

WTF Is a Hormbles Chormbles? [Eater]

How the Trade War Is Testing Gen-Z Startups

They’re facing a TikTok ban and a trade war. Is Gen-Z now Gen-T? [Inc.]

iPhones and laptops are now exempt from tariffs, but Trump’s policy on chips will soon change that [Fast Company]

Top 5 Things Women Instantly Check Out in a Man [Medium]

This Entrepreneur Used AI to Transform Their Business and Create Multiple Revenue Streams — Here's Exactly How They Did It [Entrepreneur]

OpenAI’s New GPT 4.1 Models Excel at Coding [WIRED]

This Week in Tech 1027 [TWIT]

6 Highlights from Google Cloud Next 25 [Google Blog]

Geospatial Reasoning: Unlocking insights with generative AI and multiple foundation models [Google Research]

This Be the Place: Singing in Many Languages [Poetry Foundation]

C/2025 F2 (SWAN): A new comet is in the spring sky [Astronomy Magazine]

A Day in the Life of Quantum Engineers: Intel Leads Efforts to Grow the Quantum Ecosystem [Intel Quantum] #IntelQuantum

AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT unreleased 'reference' design disassembled and tested [TweakTown] #AMDGPU

Linux kernel 6.14 is a big leap forward in performance and Windows compatibility [ZDNet] #Linux #LearnAboutLinux

The dream of quantum computing is closer than ever | The Excerpt [USA Today] #Microsoft #MicrosoftQuantum

Apple’s complicated plan to improve its AI while protecting privacy — Apple’s new AI training method involves comparing synthetic data to real-world samples. [The Verge] #Apple #AI

Why an Amazon driver could be the one who saves your life [TechCrunch] #Amazon

19 Agentic AI Terms Every Business User Needs To Know [Salesforce, The 360 Blog] Salesforce Recruiters said I wasn’t good enough for SF, therefore SF workers were let go.

SAP Datasphere: Top New Features | March 2025 [SAP] #SAP #IwantToWorkAtSAP #Neurodivergent

What’s up, everybody! It’s Tuesday, April 15th, 2025. It’s #TaxDay (I’m looking at you, Former #PatCEO, what did you do with all that CHIPS Act money, and kept profits for #IntelCorp but losses for #IntelFoundry, illegal under the law, IRS will agree). It’s Tuesday, therefore it’s #GeeksNerdsOtakus day. Very great day for the city of Folsom, CA, because AOC & Bernie are coming to visit for a big speech. Ought to be good!

Until Next Time!