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You know, tech news isn't all fun and games, and given yourself little electric shocks

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for fun, it can have real consequences, like finding out how good robots are getting.

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So always do the tech news with a partner. If you don't have- I count as a partner, you're good.

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Microsoft's Edge browser has been caught stealing people's Chrome tabs in broad daylight.

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When the Verge reporter Tom Warren started up his PC after updating Windows, he was met

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by Edge, automatically opening with all of his tabs open.

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Doesn't seem that weird, except that he had those tabs open in Chrome, his default browser.

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And Tommy's not alone. There have been a slow and steady buildup of reports from users complaining about their

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Edge browsers just going ahead and importing browser data from Chrome without permission.

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One person that this happened to even uninstalled Edge and deleted all of its app data from

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Windows only to have it pop up having imported everything again after an update.

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And this time, it was angry. Got a bit of a single white female situation.

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You didn't mean to do that, did you? Turns out, Edge has a little-known feature that allows it to pull data from other browsers.

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So when Microsoft decides to push another update that auto-launches the app, it'll take longer

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for users to realize that isn't their grandma at all.

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It's the wolf! Grandma, what great cookies you have!

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Privacy researcher Zach Edwards pointed out that when reinstalling Windows, a screen appears

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giving you the option to disable this feature. But it clearly nudges you towards keeping it on.

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But if you missed that, you can also disable it in Edge's settings.

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Who knows if that'll stick, though? That's half the fun.

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Speaking of browsers, the company behind the unusual Arc browser, they're called the

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browser company to make things less confusing, has launched ArcSearch, an iPhone exclusive

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app with an AI-powered feature called BrowseForMe.

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Because laying on the couch with your phone like this is just exhausting. AI-assisted search is nothing new, but instead of making you go back and forth with a chatbot,

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ArcSearch will actually read six webpages and generate a summary web page for you, complete

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with embedded YouTube videos and verified quotes, which probably could do with some

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more verification afterwards since generative AI is involved, but I can't deny it looks

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pretty convenient. But as with other AI-powered tools, heralded as the future of web browsing, this one sparking

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concern about how publishers get compensated when their content is scraped by a bot instead

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of a squishy human who can be lured into clicking a shiny ad for hot cheese sauce.

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Ads like that don't work on robots. They hate that stuff. It gunks up their gears.

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Ah, what are we gonna do? How do we sell cheese to robots?

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People may have spit in the EU's face with their iOS changes announced last week, but

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Amazon's Cajones apparently aren't as large.

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The e-commerce giant has announced it's cancelling its $1.4 billion agreement to acquire iRobot,

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the company behind Roomba, and did you know there's a mopping Roomba called Brava with

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three As? Pretty cool. This is what Isaac Asimov had in mind.

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Opposition from European regulators and an active investigation by the FTC cooled Amazon's

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linoleum cleansing jets. Unfortunately, the same day the deal was cancelled, iRobot announced an operational restructuring

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plan involving 31% of the company's 1130 employees being laid off while its co-founder

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and CEO, Colin Engel, is stepping down.

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Take a good look, Europe. You did this. Europe.

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Europe! While there were concerns that the acquisition would lead to Amazon favoring its own products

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on its marketplace, because they have done that many times before, others have pointed

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out that iRobot's products are struggling while losing ground to many Chinese-made competitor

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products, none of which have names that are nearly as simultaneously quaint and nonsensical.

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A Roomba. Quick bits are the answer.

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To what question? Indeed.

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Last week, Apple announced its proposed changes in response to the EU Digital Markets Act

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to a chorus of jeering and booze, because the company still wants to review every app

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on offer on iOS, and they even added a potentially punishing new core technology fee for developers.

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When asked about Apple's half-assed plan, EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton

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didn't comment on Apple directly, but told Reuters that company proposals that failed

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to go far enough will be met with strong action.

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It's like how when your mom doesn't say she'll punish you if your room is messy, just

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that the house had better be clean when she gets home. It's a scary home to live in.

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NASA has officially announced the end of the Ingenuity Helicopter's mission on Mars.

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According to NASA, Ingenuity, or Gini, to its friends, is still functional in the sense

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that it's upright and capable of communicating with NASA control back on Earth, but it likely

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damaged one or more of its rotor blades, meaning that it's permanently grounded.

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Over the course of three years, Gini managed 72 flights through Mars' ultra-thin atmosphere,

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far beyond the original five test flights that NASA scientists expected.

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Tragically, despite over two hours of total flight time, this little helicopter was still

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unable to complete its ultimate goal and rescue Matt Damon.

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Some say he's still up there, growing taters, cracking wise.

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Fossil has officially thrown in the towel and will no longer be making smartwatches,

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leaving them to an assortment of non-tech products none of us here care about.

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They're basically dead to us. It's a big deal, but it also really, really isn't.

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Fossil was possibly the biggest partner for Google's Wear OS platform, but despite launching

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nearly a decade ago, Fossil smartwatches still only made up 2% of the smartwatch market.

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This isn't coming out of nowhere, Fossil's last smartwatch was a refresh of the Fossil

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Gen 6 back in late 2022, and they hadn't really said much since.

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It's like having your girlfriend ghost you for over a month. The eventual breakup text isn't that much of a shock.

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Canon, the Japanese camera and printer company, plans to start shipping chip-making machines

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that use a new technology called nano-imprint lithography sometime this year.

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The tech involves stamping chip designs onto silicon, as opposed to etching them using

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EUV lithography, the technique used by industry leader ASML.

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Canon says their stamping method, which sounds suspiciously like a printer, is significantly

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cheaper and uses up to 90% less power than the way the Dutch company does it.

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But at this point, we don't care if they're literally drawing the chip designs on with a pen.

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We need chips to get cheaper, and for that to happen, we need more chips. And the Dutch have stood in our way for too long, Europe.

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Speaking of Japanese Ws, the Japanese government will no longer require companies to submit

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certain official documents in the form of CD-ROMs, mini-discs, and floppy discs, a media

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format that is the same age as Mark Wahlberg, and also apparently the Quarter Pounder.

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Okay. Since 2022, Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has been begging the other

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various branches of the government to modernize their submission protocols, which apply to

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important sectors throughout the Japanese economy, including aircraft and weapons manufacturers.

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Unfortunately, this isn't an issue exclusive to Japan.

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Many elderly planes and medical devices still require floppy discs, and the US government

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only stopped using floppy discs to coordinate nuclear launches back in 2019.

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Truly, proving the power of nostalgia. We have to move on.

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And I know you have the power to come back on Wednesday for more tech news.

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You're capable of so much, especially clicking that mouse on a video.

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You got this.