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Netflix plans to add vertical video feeds to its mobile app starting at the end of April, the company shared in its first-quarter letter to shareholders on Thursday. The streaming giant first began testing the feature in early 2025 as a way to enhance its recommendation function. “We are launching an updated mobile experience at the end of the month that includes a vertical video discovery feed,” the letter reads. “This redesign will better reflect our expanding entertainment offering and make it easier for members to engage how and when they want.”During a press preview event last year, Netflix executives explained…

Every data management alternative list covers the same ground: better governance, cleaner pipelines, smarter catalogs. This one covers those, then goes somewhere else entirely. The governance conversation is settled. Everyone agrees you need data catalogs, lineage tracking, access controls, quality pipelines, and compliance frameworks. The tools exist. The best practices are documented. If your organization is still arguing about whether to implement governance, that is a different problem, and this piece is not for you. This piece is for the organizations that have the governance layer and are asking what comes next. What does data management look like when the…

They started by mixing sour plum vodka at home, now they produce 1,800 bottles every month At every party, people would pull Alexander Cheong aside and ask the same question: can I get a bottle of that? The “that” was his homemade Sour Plum Vodka. Sick of alcohol brands that felt serious and disconnected from the actual experience of drinking, Alexander started mixing his own at social gatherings, rooted in the Southeast Asian flavours he grew up with. “Alcohol is a social lubricant,” he said. “It’s about making the worries and stress clear up. We want to embody not taking…

If you’ve ever played video games on a laptop that sounded like a small aircraft trying to take off, Intel has heard you (and your laptop). The company’s Chinese division has launched “AI Quiet Plus,” a new certification and optimization program for gaming laptops (via VideoCardz).  As the name suggests, the feature uses artificial intelligence to dramatically reduce fan noise and surface heat while maintaining performance.  Video Cardz / Intel How does AI Quiet Plus actually work? It might be a bit confusing at first, since AI Quiet Plus isn’t a chip or a software update that you can download…

A slide from Snap’s investor update on highlights AI-driven efficiency gains, saying more than 65% of new code is generated by AI. Snap is cutting 95 jobs in Washington state as part of a broader restructuring that will eliminate about 1,000 positions, or 16% of the company’s full-time workforce. The Snapchat parent company filed a WARN Act notice with Washington’s Employment Security Department on Wednesday, showing layoffs across its offices in Bellevue, Seattle, and Vancouver, Wash. The cuts take effect between April 16 and June 16, according to the filing. A filing with the state shows that the affected roles…

If you don’t know where to start—and use—your HP coupon code, there’s a wide variety of options available at HP.com in terms of budget and use case, but my eye goes first to the high-end HP Omen gaming monitors, like the fantastic HP Omen Transcend 32. This 4K 240Hz monitor is a favorite among PC gamers, even among the huge amounts of OLED options out there. It can hit a peak brightness of over 1,000 nits in HDR, bringing scenes in games to life in vivid detail.Or if you’re on the other side of the budget spectrum and just need…

Apple’s MacBook Neo is a $600 (or $500 for students) shot across the bow at affordable Windows laptops, and it seems like Microsoft has ready its first response. The newly announced “Microsoft College Offer” is a bundle of Microsoft 365 Premium, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, custom Xbox controller and discounted laptop that the company thinks could woo students away from Apple’s new deal.With the purchase of a discounted machine directly from Microsoft, retailers like Amazon and Best Buy or PC makers like HP, ASUS and Acer, you can get what the company says is an extra $500 of value from…

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology today announced an overhaul of how it processes cybersecurity vulnerabilities in its National Vulnerability Database . NIST is abandoning its longstanding goal of fully analyzing every submitted Common Vulnerability and Exposure in favor of a risk-based triage model that prioritizes the most dangerous flaws. The change, which took effect today, is the result of the sheer volume of CVE submissions that NIST has been receiving and the number is high. Between 2020 and 2025, CVE submissions surged 263% and in the first quarter of this year, they were nearly one-third higher than the same…

When AT&T recently revamped its unlimited phone plans, the top-level Premiere 2.0 plan cost more than the Unlimited Premium PL plan it replaced. (The Extra 2.0 and Value 2.0 plans came in as less expensive options than their predecessors.) And then the company raised the costs of “retired” plans, encouraging subscribers to switch over — but not giving folks willing to pay for top-tier plans much incentive to do so. Now it looks like AT&T is going to add a pricier unlimited plan that includes more hotspot data to the top spot of its lineup. As reported by Android Authority referencing a…

Bluefish is on the verge of an AI-powered breakthrough- helping organizations appear on search conducted on LLMs. Recently, the organization raised $43 million in its Series B funding. This is a huge milestone for Bluefish. “Having reached over 1 billion MAU within 12-months of launch, AI is clearly the next major marketing channel on the internet, just like search, social, or mobile before it,” said Alex Sherman, co-founder and CEO of Bluefish. “To manage this critical new channel properly, enterprise brands are looking for agentic marketing technology partners with the same enterprise-grade sophistication that they expect across their existing marketing stack. From day one, Bluefish has focused exclusively on building the most comprehensive agentic…