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DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email was hacked
Hackers claimed the attack was retaliation after Patel vowed to "hunt" them.
Sony is raising PlayStation 5 prices again, this time by between $100 and $150
Memory, storage shortages have made all kinds of consumer tech more expensive.
No one is happy with NASA's new idea for private space stations
"It reminds me of sort of Lucy and Charlie Brown with the football."
Apple pulls the plug on its high-priced, oft-neglected Mac Pro desktop
M2 Ultra Mac Pro is no longer for sale, and Apple says no replacement is planned.
Rivian and VW Group complete winter testing of new zonal architecture
The RV Tech joint venture passed a key milestone, opens up $1 billion for Rivian.
Senators want US energy information agency to monitor data center electricity usage
In a letter, senators press for mandated annual electricity disclosure for data centers.
AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition crams 208MB of cache into a single chip
Both of the chip's CPU dies will include 64MB of extra cache stacked beneath.
Rocket Report: Russia reopens gateway to ISS; Cape Canaveral hosts missile test
The US Space Force might move additional payloads off of ULA's grounded Vulcan rocket.
Elon Musk loses big in court; X boycott perfectly legal
X admonished for "fishing expedition" as judge dismisses ad boycott lawsuit.
Spotify seeks $300M from Anna's Archive, which ignores all court proceedings
Even with court orders, music firms struggle to eliminate notorious shadow library.
Internet Yiff Machine: We hacked 93GB of "anonymous" crime tips
Ultra-sensitive data may have been hacked.
As RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine ways turn toxic to GOP, CDC director is hard to find
Wednesday was the deadline to nominate a new director.
Netflix raises prices for every subscription tier by up to 12.5 percent
Netflix last raised prices in January 2025.
You've got $20,000 to spend on an EV: Here are some options
From Audis to Teslas, there's a lot available in this price range.
Study: Sycophantic AI can undermine human judgment
Subjects who interacted with AI tools were more likely to think they were right, less likely to resolve conflicts.
The debut of Gemini 3.1 Flash Live could make it harder to know if you're talking to a robot
Google's new conversational audio AI is rolling out in search, Gemini, and developer tools today.
Intel Core Ultra 270K and 250K Plus review: Conditionally great CPUs
Great performance for the price, if you ignore the price of RAM, SSDs, and GPUs.
OpenAI “indefinitely” shelves plans for erotic ChatGPT
Some staff reportedly questioned how sexy ChatGPT benefits humanity.
Damaged church floor may have revealed the grave of the fourth musketeer
This will not be turning up in the church rummage sale.
The Corvette E-Ray is dead, long live the Grand Sport X
The mid-engined Corvette gets a new variant.
2026's historic snow drought is bad news for the West
For much of the Western US, winter 2026 was the year snow never came.
BRINC's new police drone uses Starlink, carries Narcan, chases vehicles at 60mph
Company calls Guardian the "most capable 911 response drone ever."
Here is NASA's plan for nuking Gateway and sending it to Mars
Only one US-built nuclear reactor has ever flown in space, and that was more than 60 years ago.
Reddit will require "fishy" accounts to verify they are run by a human
AI-generated content is still acceptable for now.
We got an audience with the "Lunar Viceroy" to talk how NASA will build a Moon base
"It has been clear that we all need to be focused on one thing, not 10 things."
Meta, YouTube must pay $3M to woman who got hooked on apps as a child
Meta emerges as the biggest loser as second child safety trial verdict hits.
Nintendo is raising prices of Switch 2 game cartridges starting in May
The first physical game affected will cost $10 more than a digital copy.
Supreme Court rejects Sony's attempt to kick music pirates off the Internet
Sony's 1984 Betamax win helps Cox beat Sony in important online piracy case.
Google's TurboQuant AI-compression algorithm can reduce LLM memory usage by 6x
TurboQuant makes AI models more efficient but doesn't reduce output quality like other methods.
Antibiotic resistance among germs swells during droughts, study suggests
Study links two crises: Climate change and antibiotic-resistant infections.
Trump staffs science and technology panel with non-scientists
Appointee list is in keeping with the administration's hostility toward science.
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Meta loses trial after arguing child exploitation was “inevitable” on its apps
Meta plans to appeal as it faces down two other child safety trials.
Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update
Move follows government pressure on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online.
Disney cancels $1 billion OpenAI partnership amid Sora shutdown plans
Press reports suggest Disney was blindsided and that no money changed hands.
Honda cancels the two electric vehicles it was developing with Sony
Sony Honda Mobility says the Afeela 1 and Afeela 2 are no more.
So long, farewell: Saying goodbye to Audi's best car, the 2026 RS6 Avant
With production now finished, we take one last ride in our favorite station wagon.
How chemists turned bourbon waste into supercapacitors
Hydrothermal carbonization can directly convert sloppy stillage into hard or activated carbon.
"The last straw"—RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally angrily quits CDC panel after spat
Robert Malone quit a vaccine panel, blaming an HHS spokesperson for "trashing" him.
Final analysis of 2025 Iberian blackout: Policies left Spain at risk
Too much hardware was allowed to disconnect right at the edge of normal conditions.
Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features
Walmart wants to connect what people stream "directly with retail interaction."
Mozilla dev's "Stack Overflow for agents" targets a key weakness in coding AI
There are major problems to be solved before it can be adopted, though.
OpenAI announces plans to shut down its Sora video generator
Move comes amid a reported plan to refocus on business and productivity use cases.
Electronic Frontier Foundation to swap leaders as AI, ICE fights escalate
Public interest in government tech abuses is peaking. EFF's new leader plans to build on that.
FCC imposes sweeping ban on foreign-made routers, affecting all new models
Trump admin to decide which router makers get exemptions from FCC import ban.
Apple releases iOS, iPadOS, macOS 26.4 with a long list of medium-size tweaks
The 26.4 updates are more significant than the last few updates have been.
NASA kills lunar space station to focus on ambitious Moon base
"Everyone wants to be on the surface."
Google's new version of Android Automotive will move beyond infotainment
Google wants Android in cars to break out of the infotainment box.
Apple confirms that its Maps app will begin showing ads to users "this summer"
Apple Maps ads will look and work a bit like current App Store ads do.
All of DOGE’s work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds
Musk's X posts bragging about DOGE may trigger reversals of its biggest wins.
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