This Week in Tech 1032

• GTA 6 trailer 2 and anticipation
• Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust
• Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He’s Making Himself Obsolete With AI
• How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed
• OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away
• 25% of steam playeres play Blue Prince
• Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad
• Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI
• Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores
• Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store
• Nextcloud accuses Google of “Big Tech gatekeeping” over Android app permissions
• Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era
• Square’s $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table
• Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot
• Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
• The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
• The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair
• They’re just giving up and calling it HBO Max again

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• GTA 6 trailer
• Grok Pivots From ‘White Genocide’ to Being ‘Skeptical’ About the Holocaust
• Elon Musk’s apparent power play at the Copyright Office completely backfired
• Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill
• How Finland's district heating systems are harvesting heat from data centers; Microsoft's project in Kirkkonummi will be the largest in the world when completed
• OpenAI launches Codex, an AI coding agent, in ChatGPT
• China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
• NASA engineers revive Voyager 1's dead thrusters from 15 billion miles away
• Jamie Lee Curtis publicly shamed Mark Zuckerberg to remove a deepfaked ad
• Nextcloud accuses Google of “Big Tech gatekeeping” over Android app permissions
• Samsung's Galaxy S25 Edge starts off the super thin phone era
• Square’s $399 Handheld accepts tap-to-pay at your table
• Montana Becomes First State To Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole - Slashdot
• The first US hub for experimental medical treatments is coming
• Epic Games says Apple is blocking Fortnite from the US and EU App Stores
• Epic wants the court to compel Apple to approve Fortnite's return to the US App Store
• Fortnite players can speak with Darth Vader through a James Earl Jones-voiced AI
• The US Army is getting in on right-to-repair
• They’re just giving up and calling it HBO Max again
• Ed Smylie, Who Saved the Apollo 13 Crew With Duct Tape, Dies at 95
• Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Explains How He’s Making Himself Obsolete With AI
• 25% of steam playeres play blue prince