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Email spam used to be one of the major annoyances of the digital world. But in recent years, email providers have taken steps to improve our overflowing inboxes, which were often riddled with distractions and unwanted mail, like hyperbolic promotions and attempts to steal your data.But that doesn’t mean the problem has gone completely. While we can often feel helpless to this issue, there are a selection of ways to ease the problem. One of the easiest and best ways to go about it is with email aliases.What is an email alias?An email alias sounds more dramatic than it is.…

Google on Monday quietly released an offline-first dictation app called “Google AI Edge Eloquent” on iOS to take on the likes of Wispr Flow, SuperWhisper, Willow, and others. The app is free to download, and once its Gemma-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) models are downloaded, you can start dictating on your phone. In the app, you can see the live transcription, and when you hit pause, the app automatically filters out filler words like “um” and “ah” and polishes the text. Below the transcript are options like “Key points”, “Formal”, “Short”, and “Long” to transform the text. Image Credit: Screenshot…

Iran has warned of further attacks on data centers across the Middle East in response to ongoing threats and air strikes from the United States. Iran’s military said that if the U.S. went ahead with its threats to hit its civilian infrastructure, the country would retaliate with its own strikes against U.S.’ energy and tech infrastructure in the region, according to a video released late last week and shared widely on Sunday of Iranian military spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaghari. The video released by Iran shows an image of a globe, then zooming in on the Stargate data center in the United…

Microsoft is making sure its Copilot Terms of Use no longer steal the show. Loading audio narration… The tech giant said it will be updating its user agreement after viral posts pointed out that Copilot said it is “for entertainment purposes only,” a far cry from how Microsoft has sold its AI tool.”The ‘entertainment purposes’ phrasing is legacy language from when Copilot originally launched as a search companion service in Bing,” a Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement, first published by PCMag. “As the product has evolved, that language is no longer reflective of how Copilot is used today and…

AI could usher in an amazing new age for humanity. Loading audio narration… There may also be some potential downsides. As one company put it:”Jobs and entire industries being disrupted; bad actors misusing the technology; misaligned systems evading human control; governments or institutions deploying AI in ways that undermine democratic values; and power and wealth becoming more concentrated instead of more widely shared.”If you’re surprised to learn that this risk assessment comes from OpenAI, the company at the forefront of the AI push, you shouldn’t be: Concern about the technology’s use and effects was core to OpenAI’s founding in 2015,…

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents scheduled a Tuesday vote to consider firing the system’s president, who refused their offer to quietly resign because he said no reason had been given for the surprise ouster.Jay Rothman said in two letters sent to regents that he would not resign from leading the 165,000-student system without an explanation of what he had done wrong.Board of Regents President Amy Bogost said in a statement Monday that Rothman “was not without notice, nor was this process sudden.”“The Board has engaged with President Rothman in good-faith discussions over the past…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department said Monday it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.The decision means the department will no longer play a role in enforcing those agreements, which called for schools to take steps to comply with federal civil rights law. The districts affected are Cape Henlopen School District in Delaware, Fife School District in Washington, Delaware Valley School District in Pennsylvania, and La Mesa-Spring Valley School District, Sacramento City Unified and Taft College in California.Under the Biden and Obama administrations,…

As governments grapple with how to manage the economic fallout of superintelligent machines, OpenAI has released a set of policy proposals outlining the ways wealth and work could be reshaped in an “intelligence age.” The ideas blend traditionally left-leaning mechanisms like public wealth funds and expanded social safety nets with a fundamentally capitalist, market-driven economic framework.  OpenAI’s proposals are essentially a wish list, a public declaration that helps elected officials, investors, and the public understand how the $852 billion company sees the world shifting in an age where artificial intelligence transforms labor and the economy. The proposals were released amid…

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa can enforce a law that restricts teachers from talking about LGBTQ+ topics with students in kindergarten through the sixth grade and bans some books in libraries and classrooms, an appellate court said Monday.The decision for now vacates a lower court judge’s temporary blocks on the law.The measure was first approved by Republican majorities in the Iowa House and Senate and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds in 2023, which they said reinforced age-appropriate education in kindergarten through 12th grades. It’s been a back-and-forth battle in the courts in the three years since lawsuits were filed by…

Pre-Series A founders and anyone who knows a startup worth funding, this is your reminder. Nominations for Startup Battlefield 200 are open, and the strongest contenders are already stepping forward. If your startup was nominated, don’t stop there. Submit your application today. This is not just another pitch opportunity. You are stepping onto the main stage in front of 10,000+ attendees, top-tier VCs, and the global TechCrunch audience at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. You are competing, getting live feedback from top VCs, and proving your company belongs. If you have been thinking about applying or nominating a startup, waiting is the fastest way to miss out. Founders who move…