John Ruich

Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, tweeted about the new feature.

2004 was a good year, but your Gmail address doesn't need to be stuck in it, he wrote.

The company has been planning the new policy since last year, and according to a statement online, it's pretty easy to change your Gmail address.

You can do it right in the personal info section of your account.

Once you change your username, Google says the old one will still be there as what they call an alternate account.

In other words, you'll still get emails sent to your old Gmail address.

This will come as a relief to some.

The inability to change usernames has been a source of frustration for a slice of the 3 billion users Google says rely on Gmail, like people who may have signed up years ago with usernames that are inaccurate now, or inappropriate, or just cringeworthy.

John Rewich, NPR News.

The case stems from a dispute between Anthropic and the Pentagon over how the military can use the company's artificial intelligence.

Anthropic doesn't want it used for autonomous weapons or mass surveillance of Americans.

The Pentagon says it's up to the military, not the company, to decide how to use a product.

Last month, President Trump ordered all government agencies to stop using Anthropic, and the Pentagon later labeled the firm a supply chain risk.

That's a designation that's been reserved for foreign adversaries.

Now, a federal judge in Northern California, Judge Rita F. Lynn, says the supply chain risk label was likely contrary to law.

And she says if fixing that label to a U.S.

company for expressing disagreement with the government was Orwellian.

John Rewich, NPR News.

The FCC says it's added consumer grade routers made overseas to a list of telecoms equipment prohibited from being imported into the United States.

The rule applies to new devices, not routers already in the U.S.