This Week in Tech 1028

• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup
• AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
• OpenAI's secret Yap score
• 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
• FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
• Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming ‘Very Soon’
• Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances
• Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games
• Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence
• Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers
• Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires
• China’s First Robot Marathon Runners Trip, Emit Smoke, Fall Apart
• OpenAI is building a social network
• Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
• New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
• Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

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Links

• Judge rules Google illegally monopolized ad tech, opening door to potential breakup | TechCrunch
• FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe
• 4chan, the internet's most infamous forum, is down following an alleged hack
• Trump Signals Semiconductor Tariffs Are Coming ‘Very Soon’
• Tariffs making it impossible to shop for tech, applicances
• Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders live on April 24, for real this time; fans still mad at $80 games
• Risks to children playing Roblox ‘deeply disturbing’, say researchers
• Hacked Crosswalks In Bay Area Play Deepfake-Style Messages From Tech Billionaires - Slashdot
• OpenAI is building a social network
• AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk
• Is this a Bad Therapist? Real Therapist Reacts to Adolescence
• Leaked: Palantir’s Plan to Help ICE Deport People
• New Jersey Sues Discord for Allegedly Failing to Protect Children
• Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away