The Wall Street Journal, BBC, 9 News, and other outlets report that McDonald’s “technology outage” temporarily closed restaurants in Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, and the UK. There’s no word on any impact in the US, where the McGriddles must flow.

Pocketpair CEO Takuro Mizobe says the studio is in talks to bring the game to more platforms beyond PC and Xbox.

The obvious question is whether the game, which has been nicknamed “Pokémon with guns” and has faced accusations of plagiarizing characters from Nintendo’s hit franchise, will ever come to the Nintendo Switch.

The Starship was reported “lost” before it could splash down after reentry as planned. but for a better look at the takeoff, the folks at NASASpaceflight put together a few different camera angles from this morning’s events.

Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen Curry’s production companies are behind a documentary film for Prime Video about the only AI you can trust to be The Answer, Allen Iverson.

Now, through unprecedented access and personal stories, along with intimate interviews with family, friends, and fellow NBA players and coaches, Iverson shares a more reflective side of his present-day self, as he takes us on a journey through his storied history into the present day where he realizes his cultural impact long after his playing days have come to an end.

Described as an “Energy Star label for the IoT,” this will put the logo revealed last year on participating products that meet certain standards for security, along with a QR code customers can scan to find the latest info about how updates work, or how long the support window will be.

After voting in favor of rules and a framework to move forward, the FCC is now asking for some input:

The Commission is also seeking public comment on additional potential disclosure requirements, including whether software or firmware for a product is developed or deployed by a company located in a country that presents national security concerns and whether customer data collected by the product will be sent to servers located in such a country.

Italian regulators imposed the fine after finding that TikTok “failed to implement appropriate mechanisms” to monitor content on its platform, “particularly those that may threaten the safety of minors.”

It cites the “French scar” challenge as one of the “potentially dangerous” types of content disseminated by TikTok’s algorithm, which involves users pinching their face so hard it leaves a mark.

Claude 3 Haiku can now be accessed through claude.ai, Amazon Bedrock, and Perplexity Labs. It will be available on Google’s Vertex AI soon.

Anthropic previously said that even though Haiku was smaller than Claude 3 Opus and Sonnet, it still reads dense research papers “in less than three seconds.”

That’s according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who says Apple acquired the Canadian firm earlier this year. DarwinAI makes AI systems that visually inspect components for manufacturers, but, as pointed out by Bloomberg, the startup also aims to “make neural network models smaller and faster.”

This tech might prove useful to Apple, which is working to optimize large language models for phones.

The firms include Citadel, KKR. and Blackstone. “Their goal is to minimize any fines and ensure that if they reach a settlement, no firm is singled out for a harsher penalty,” according to Bloomberg.

The SEC is investigating whether WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal use at these companies broke disclosure rules. Citadel in particular is still willing to fight the SEC on this.

Amazon’s robotaxi company is expanding its operating conditions in the two cities where it has been testing its autonomous vehicles, Foster City and Las Vegas. The robotaxis will start driving at night, as well as in light rain and damp road conditions. They will also starting driving at speeds of up to 45 mph on multi-lane roads. And in Las Vegas, it will start tackling roads along the south end of the Strip. Zoox’s purpose-built AVs (no steering wheel, no pedals) will start accepting real passengers later this year.

As usual, Google has chosen to reveal the date of its I/O developer conference through a collaborative puzzle. For I/O 24 it’s a Pipe Dream-style game, guiding a marble from point A to point B.

Completing your levels helps the overall progress (and probably trains generative AI models somehow), which you can monitor on the main event page. Or, just wait for others to finish it while you dig through the I/O 23 announcements to see what has or has not shipped yet.

Update (5:03PM ET): The puzzle’s done, and we have a date (May 14th).

What’s the definition of a “baddie” that’s being “found” by this bot? “I just gathered some photos of girls I thought were hot, attached a small sample.”

If you aren’t picky about personality and your tastes align with this guy’s, you too can be flagged by Tinder for Captchas to prove you’re human!

Bungie is launching a “big content update” for Destiny 2 players on April 9th, just as they eagerly await the The Final Shape DLC that was delayed until June. Destiny 2: Into the Light will “deliver new game content” free to all players throughout April and May. We don’t yet know exactly what kind of game content it will include, but Bungie is holding a live stream on March 19th to everyone more.

Between the gruesome murders, supernatural resurrection, and moody quest for vengeance, director Rupert Sanders’ upcoming remake of The Crow seems like it should have all the right ingredients to appeal to fans of the original comic.

And yet, watching the movie’s new trailer, there’s something that feels kind of off — maybe it’s the Yolandi Visser cut — about Bill Skarsgård’s take on the undead vigilante. The film’s out June 7th.

Users will have until August 14th to finish projects and migrate to Meta’s new social media tracker Meta Content Library and API or other services like it. Journalists and researchers used CrowdTangle to help track viral stories and misinformation through sites like Facebook and Instagram.

Rumors of CrowdTangle’s demise have been around since 2022 when Meta reportedly removed developer support for the service.

Outdoor Voices, a popular athleisure brand once seen as the next Lululemon, is closing all of its stores on Sunday. The direct-to-consumer lifestyle brand was valued at $110 million in 2018, but has been on the decline following internal friction. It’s the end of an era for the e-comm startup once considered a model for founders — the company will go back to selling strictly online.

Almost eight years after Wright publicly claimed to be the digital currency’s enigmatic inventor, UK Judge James Mellor has said the “overwhelming” evidence is that this isn’t the case. In a post on X Jack Dorsey, one of the backers of the organization that brought the legal challenge against Wright, quoted the judge’s verdict:

Given how litigious Nintendo is, the company’s reluctance to go after Palworld has raised a lot of questions about what might actually spur The Pokémon Company to claim of IP infringement.

Sales numbers and visual similarities are obviously part of the equation. But according to TPC’s former Chief Legal Officer Don McGowan, one of other big factors that plays into how fanmade projects wind up on Nintendo’s radar entertainment press coverage.