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Rivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV

Jonathan M. Gitlin • March 12, 2026 Between the antics particular to a certain car company and the industrial chaos that was set off by COVID (then compounded by the invasion of Ukraine) it’s easy to have become cynical about things like timelines. And yet, when Rivian showed off a midsize electric vehicle in 2024

Apple’s MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks

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Andrew Cunningham • March 12, 2026 Apple’s MacBook Neo is the company’s first serious effort to break into the sub-$1,000 laptop business, challenging midrange Windows laptops and Chromebooks with its $599 starting price and its focus on build quality rather than high-end performance. One less-advertised change that may make the Neo more appealing to businesses,

Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer

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Kyle Orland • March 12, 2026 Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company is moving that kind of functionality to the desktop with the confusingly named “Personal Computer,” now available in early

Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs

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Jonathan M. Gitlin • March 12, 2026 Lucid’s entry into the highly competitive, high-volume midsize SUV market will be key to achieving profitability, the company told investors today. And it’s going to do that with a trio of electric SUVs that will use its new midsize EV platform, which it says has been engineered to

Trump’s DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried’s MAGA makeover on X

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Ashley Belanger • March 12, 2026 Ever since Donald Trump took office and declared himself a “pro-crypto president,” FTX’s disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, has been working to convince the administration that he’s a Republican now. The former Democratic megadonor apparently hopes that a right-wing pivot might help him escape a 25-year prison sentence ordered after

HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers

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Scharon Harding • March 12, 2026 Members of the International Imaging Technology Council (Int’l ITC) are calling out HP for issuing firmware updates that brick third-party ink and toner functionality in its printers. HP calls this Dynamic Security and has been doing it for years; however, the Int’l ITC is taking new issue with the

Anthropic’s Claude AI can respond with charts, diagrams, and other visuals now

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Emma Roth • March 12, 2026 Anthropic’s latest update to Claude will allow the AI chatbot to generate custom charts, diagrams, and other visualizations during your conversation. If Claude determines a visual is useful based on the context of your chat, it will insert the image in-line, rather than in its side panel. As an

The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network

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Dan Goodin • March 12, 2026 Within hours of the US and Israel launching airstrikes on Iran two weeks ago, security professionals warned organizations around the world to be on heightened watch for destructive retaliatory hacks. On Wednesday, the predictions appeared to come true as Stryker, a multinational maker of medical devices, confirmed a cyberattack

Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, “robbing them blind”

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Jon Brodkin • March 12, 2026 Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted of gouging ticket buyers and “robbing them blind” with fees for ancillary services such as slight upgrades to parking. Live Nation has tried to exclude Slack messages from a trial that seeks a breakup of Live Nation and

Google’s TV Streamer 4K doubles as a smart home hub and it’s on sale

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Sheena Vasani • March 12, 2026 Between March Madness and the Oscars, now might be a good time to improve your TV setup. Google’s TV Streamer 4K is currently on sale for $79.99 ($20 off) at Amazon, Target, and Walmart, which is its second-best price to date and only $5 more than its all-time low.