Microsoft is reportedly offering voluntary buyouts to up to 7 percent of its employees

Microsoft is planning to get rid of more US employees via its first voluntary buyout program, CNBC reports. The buyout program will reportedly be offered to US employees at "the senior director l [...]

Mullvad VPN Creates iOS Master Switch to Protect Users From Data Leaks

Mullvad's new approach addresses an issue with Apple app updates, but you'll need to do more hands-on maintenance. [...]

US soldier arrested for allegedly making over $400,000 on Polymarket with classified Maduro information

United States soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke has been arrested and charged for placing bets on prediction marketplace Polymarket using classified information he had access to related to the capture of fo [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, April 24

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for April 24 [...]

Government adoption of AI agents could outpace the private sector

According to a new survey, most government leaders expect that AI will surpass the internet, PCs, and even smartphones in its impact on the workforce. [...]

As agentic AI pushes rivals to raise prices and cap usage, Deepseek ships a good-enough model for almost nothing

Chinese AI lab Deepseek has released V4-Pro and V4-Flash, two new models with up to 1.6 trillion parameters and a one-million-token context window. Pricing sits well below OpenAI, Google, and Anthropi [...]