Since war plans leaked this week, global downloads for Signal have roughly doubled, app tracking firm Appfigures told Semafor. (TechCrunch first reported on the boost).

In the US, daily downloads tripled to more than 60,000. In Yemen, where the app is less popular, downloads increased by five times to more than 1,000 per day, bringing the platform from No. 50 in the iOS social media app rankings to No. 9 in the country today.

It looks like pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will go live next week.

The Switch 2 was officially announced earlier this year with a hardware-focused teaser trailer. Next week (April 2), Nintendo will host a special Direct presentationthat fans are hoping will tell them the price and release date for the new console.

However, it seems that one store has accidentally revealed when you will be able to pre-order the Switch 2.

In a now-deleted blog post that was spotted by IGN, Best Buy Canada wrote: “Pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 will open on April 2nd at Best Buy Canada giving you the chance to secure your console early.”

There are plenty of justifiable concerns over what impact AI will have on the workplace of the near future. Bill Gates is one big tech name who believes the technology will have benefits, though, including a two- or three-day work week in the next decade. That’s probably welcome news for those whose jobs haven’t been replaced by AI, and provided their employers don’t pay them part-time wages.

Speaking to Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show recently, Gates predicted a future in which humans will no longer be necessary ”for most things” because of advanced AI. It’s a view shared by Elon Musk, who in 2023 told then-UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that artificial intelligence will eventually replace all human jobs as it would be able to ”do everything.”

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The FBI managed to track down and freeze millions of dollars of cryptocurrency Caesars Entertainment sent to a group of hackers that held the casino’s computer systems ransom, according to a 404 Media and Court Watch review of a recently unsealed court document. According to the document, the FBI raced to stop the flow of funds before the hackers managed to move the entire $15 million ransom, with the FBI able to freeze much of it when the hackers appeared to try to convert it into other cryptocurrencies.

The second iOS 18.4 Release Candidate build is rolling out to developers and public beta testers today. In conjunction with that, Apple has shared the official release notes for iOS 18.4 for the first time. The release notes cover much of what we’ve reported here at 9to5Mac over the last month, but with a few new tidbits.

Apple has confirmed that iOS 18.4 will be released to everyone in April. With beat testing winding down, we’re likely looking at a release date as soon as next week.

Grab your popcorn. Nintendo just announced the official release date of the live-action Legend of Zelda movie. It hits theaters on March 26, 2027, which is just about two years from now. The film was first announced back in 2023.

The company dropped this bombshell on the official Nintendo Today! app that was surprise-released during a recent Direct livestream. The stream promised that the app would be a constant source of news and information. It looks like that promise was not hyperbole.