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SpaceX gets FCC permission to launch another 7,500 Starlink satellites
Including previous approvals, Starlink can now deploy 15,000 Gen2 satellites.
ESA considers righting the wrongs of Ariane 6 by turning it into a Franken-rocket
ArianeGroup is still trying to catch up to where the bleeding edge of the launch industry was 15 years ago.
Measles continues raging in South Carolina; 99 new cases since Tuesday
With so many exposures sites, officials can't figure out where people were infected.
Google: Don’t make “bite-sized” content for LLMs if you care about search rank
Google says creating for people rather than robots is the best long-term strategy.
Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS
Italy fines Cloudflare 14M euros for not blocking pirate sites on 1.1.1.1 DNS service.
US Black Hawk helicopter trespasses on private Montana ranch to grab elk antlers
Crazy, but that's how it goes.
Is Orion’s heat shield really safe? New NASA chief conducts final review on eve of flight.
"That level of openness and transparency is exactly what should be expected of NASA."
These 60,000-year-old poison arrows are oldest yet found
Hunter-gatherers probably derived the poison from the milky bulb extract of a Boophone disticha plant.
X’s half-assed attempt to paywall Grok doesn’t block free image editing
Faced with a ban in the United Kingdom, X pushes flawed fix to CSAM problem.
Rocket Report: A new super-heavy launch site in California; 2025 year in review
SpaceX opened its 2026 launch campaign with a mission for the Italian government.
“Ungentrified” Craigslist may be the last real place on the Internet
People still use Craigslist to find jobs, love, and even to cast creative projects.
General Motors writes down $6 billion as domestic EV sales plans change
Canceled contracts and scaled-back product plans turn out to be costly.
NASA orders “controlled medical evacuation” from the International Space Station
"The crew is highly trained, and they came to the aid of their colleague right away."
Michigan man learns the hard way that “catch a cheater” spyware apps aren’t legal
Spying doesn't become legal just because "cheaters" are the targets.
Wi-Fi advocates get win from FCC with vote to allow higher-power devices
FCC says new category of devices "can operate outdoors and at higher power."
High RAM prices mean record-setting profits for Samsung and other memory makers
SK Hynix and Micron are also riding high on the AI industry's demand for RAM.
RFK Jr.’s dietary guidance: Food funnel features slab of red meat, butter
Old-school food pyramid returns, but jumbled and upside-down, like a funnel.
These dogs eavesdrop on their owners to learn new words
Under the right conditions, some dogs present behaviors strikingly similar to those of young children."
Grok assumes users seeking images of underage girls have “good intent”
Expert explains how simple it could be to tweak Grok to block CSAM outputs.
ChatGPT Health lets you connect medical records to an AI that makes things up
New feature will allow users to link medical and wellness records to AI chatbot.
Seasonal Switch 2 sales show significant slowing as annual cycle sunsets
After record-setting launch, Western holiday sales are down compared to the first Switch.
Trump withdraws US from world’s most important climate treaty
US also pulling out of pacts promoting development, democracy, and human rights.
Former Google CEO plans to singlehandedly fund a Hubble telescope replacement
This is a very significant contribution to the astronomical community."
ChatGPT falls to new data-pilfering attack as a vicious cycle in AI continues
Will LLMs ever be able to stamp out the root cause of these attacks? Possibly not.
Google announces AI Overviews in Gmail search, experimental AI-organized inbox
Last year's premium Gmail AI features are also rolling out to free users.
Volvo says new EX60 has 400-mile range, charges up to 400 kW
The new EX60 will be unveiled later this month; here's what we know.
NASA considers evacuating ailing crew member from International Space Station
"The matter involved a single crew member who is stable," NASA said in a statement.
Ford is getting ready to put AI assistants in its cars
The Blue Oval is also working on new hands-free driver assists.
Samsung’s Ballie home robot, once promised for summer 2025, gets grim update
Six years after its CES debut, Samsung has demoted Ballie to internal use.
AI starts autonomously writing prescription refills in Utah
The program allows patients in the state to get prescription refills for 190 common meds.
Warner Bros. sticks with Netflix merger, calls Paramount’s $108B bid “illusory”
Larry Ellison pledged $40B, but "he didn't raise the price," Warner chair says.
Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life
If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
Expired certificate completely breaks macOS Logitech apps, user customizations
Even with a fix available, broken apps won't be able to update themselves.
SteamOS continues its slow spread across the PC gaming landscape
Legion Go 2 support announced at CES, wide support for Arm hardware coming soon.
Japanese nuclear plant operator fabricated seismic risk data
Company staff were very selective about how they modeled earthquake dangers.
EVs remain a niche choice in the US, according to survey
Consumers around the world told Deloitte what they want in their next vehicle.
New battery idea gets lots of power out of unusual sulfur chemistry
Rather than being used as a storage material, the sulfur gives up electrons.
We have a fossil closer to our split with Neanderthals and Denisovans
A recent study suggests that North Africa may be a key place to look.
Computer scientist Yann LeCun: “Intelligence really is about learning”
The AI pioneer talks about stepping down from Meta, limits of large language models.
Review: Stranger Things’ frustrating finale didn’t quite stick the landing
Sure, there were many great moments, but in the end, they didn't add up to a satisfying whole.
Here are the launches and landings we’re most excited about in 2026
A lot could happen in space this year, but let's get real about what actually will.
Motorola reveals the Razr Fold, a book-style foldable launching this summer
Motorola is light on details but heavy on hype for its first book-style foldable.
HP’s EliteBoard G1a is a Ryzen-powered Windows 11 PC in a membrane keyboard
The most familiar, full-fledged PC experience you can get from a keyboard.
With GeForce Super GPUs missing in action, Nvidia focuses on software upgrades
Nvidia's only GeForce announcements this year were about software improvements.
Letting prisons jam contraband phones is a bad idea, phone companies tell FCC
"Jamming will block all communications," including 911 calls, CTIA tells FCC.
Dell’s XPS revival is a welcome reprieve from the “AI PC” fad
Dell moves from pushing "AI PCs" and back to what matters in laptops.
News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.
OpenAI's loss in privacy fight could lead to sharing even more deleted chats.
Appeals court agrees that Congress blocked cuts to research costs
The Trump admin can't arbitrarily set university reimbursements to a low flat rate.
Nvidia’s new G-Sync Pulsar monitors target motion blur at the human retina level
Four new monitors promise "effective motion clarity of a theoretical 1,000 Hz monitor."
Ørsted seeks injunction against US government over project freeze
Trump administration had suspended Danish group's work on major wind farm off coast of Rhode Island.
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