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Meta’s layoffs leave Supernatural fitness users in mourning
Supernatural has had its staff cut and won't receive any more content updates.
Managers on alert for “launch fever” as pressure builds for NASA’s Moon mission
"I've got one job, and it's the safe return of Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy."
Rackspace customers grapple with “devastating” email hosting price hike
Reseller says Rackspace plans to charge it 706 percent more.
Archaeologists find a supersized medieval shipwreck in Denmark
The sunken ship reveals that the medieval European economy was growing fast.
Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply
WorldCat operator hopes default judgment will convince web hosts to take action.
This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.
This may be the grossest eye pic ever—but the cause is what’s truly horrifying
Hypervirulent germ nearly destroys man, invading brain and blowing out an eye.
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions
Ads coming to free tier and new $8/month ChatGPT Go plan in US.
Mandiant releases rainbow table that cracks weak admin password in 12 hours
Windows laggards still using the vulnerable hashing function: Your days are numbered.
RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives
GPU makers may prioritize more profitable models; large SSDs are harder to find.
Calif. counters FCC attack on DEI with conditions on Verizon/Frontier merger
Verizon touts "expanded reach of almost 30 million fiber passings" across US.
TSMC says AI demand is “endless” after record Q4 earnings
Amid fears of bubble, world's top chipmaker TSMC says customers just keep asking for more.
Feds give Tesla another five weeks to respond to FSD probe
Regulators want to know why Tesla's system ignores red lights and runs into traffic.
Ferrari doing what it does best: The 12Cilindri review
Retro design and a naturally aspirated V12 deliver tremendous appeal, but it'll cost ya.
Mother of one of Elon Musk’s offspring sues xAI over sexualized deepfakes
Claims Grok chatbot created "countless" sexual images of her without her consent.
Rocket Report: Ariane 64 to debut soon; India has a Falcon 9 clone too?
"We are fundamentally shifting our approach to securing our munitions supply chain."
“I am very annoyed”: Pharma execs blast RFK Jr.’s attack on vaccines
Pharma execs had avoided conflict with Trump admin, but now join doctors in rebukes.
Why I’m withholding certainty that “precise” US cyber-op disrupted Venezuelan electricity
NYT says US hackers were able to turn off power and then quickly turn it back on.
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy tries something different, and I don’t hate it
An interesting new take on Trek includes some characters you already know.
NASA’s first medical evacuation from space ends with on-target splashdown
This is the first time NASA has called an early end to a space mission for medical reasons.
Spotify’s 3rd price hike in 2.5 years hints at potential new normal
Spotify claims the higher fees will help "benefit artists."
ChatGPT wrote “Goodnight Moon” suicide lullaby for man who later killed himself
ChatGPT used a man's favorite children's book to romanticize his suicide.
Six months later, Trump Mobile still hasn’t delivered preordered phones
Lawmakers seek FTC investigation, but Trump has taken control of the agency.
Are people avoiding iOS 26 because of Liquid Glass? It’s complicated.
Liquid Glass is controversial, but adoption rates aren't as low as they seem.
Many Bluetooth devices with Google Fast Pair vulnerable to “WhisperPair” hack
Even Google's own earbuds are vulnerable to the Fast Pair hack.
Bully Online mod taken down abruptly one month after launch
Developers say "this was not something we wanted" as they purge open source project.
Wikipedia signs AI training deals with Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon
Wikimedia Enterprise signs Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Perplexity, and Mistral AI to paid deals.
Key Senate staffer is “begging” NASA to get on with commercial space stations
"It comes up almost every time that I see him. Continuous human presence and no gap."
US government to take 25% cut of AMD, NVIDIA AI sales to China
These new tariffs are designed to survive legal challenges.
The difficulty of driving an EV in the “most beautiful race in the world”
Jet lag and charging added plenty of complications to this regularity road rally.
Exclusive: Volvo tells us why having Gemini in your next car is a good thing
In-car personal assistants are about to get useful, it looks like.
A British redcoat’s lost memoir resurfaces
Shadrack Byfield lost his left arm in the War of 1812; his life sheds light on post-war re-integration.
Musk and Hegseth vow to “make Star Trek real” but miss the show’s lessons
AI weapons systems may annihilate their creators.
SC measles outbreak has gone berserk: 124 cases since Friday, 409 quarantined
On Jan. 6, there were 211 cases. The outbreak, which began in October, is now at 434.
A single click mounted a covert, multistage attack against Copilot
Exploit exfiltrating data from chat histories worked even after users closed chat windows.
I can’t stop shooting Oddcore’s endless waves of weird little guys
Zippy action, fun upgrade system make for a great pick-up-and-play shooter.
FBI fights leaks by seizing Washington Post reporter’s phone, laptops, and watch
FBI searches home and devices of reporter who has over 1,100 government contacts.
US gov’t: House sysadmin stole 200 phones, caught by House IT desk
Scheme allegedly cost taxpayers $150,000.
Grok was finally updated to stop undressing women and children, X Safety says
California's AG will investigate whether Musk's nudifying bot broke US laws.
Federal data underscores meteoric rise of streaming subscription prices in 2025
Streaming services played a big role in 2025 inflation.
Civilization VII is headed to iPhone and iPad with “Arcade Edition”
Apple's platforms are also getting Retrocade, a library of classic arcade games.
Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform
Indie music store says it wants fans to have confidence music was largely made by humans.
Man got $2,500 whole-body MRI that found no problems—then had massive stroke
The MRI showed a problem in a brain artery that should have been flagged, man claims.
Scientists sequence a woolly rhino genome from a 14,400-year-old wolf’s stomach
Fortunately for paleogeneticists, wolf puppies don't chew their food thoroughly.
Gemini can now scan your photos, email, and more to provide better answers
The feature will start with paid users only, and it's off by default.
Deny, deny, admit: UK police used Copilot AI “hallucination” when banning football fans
Police finally come clean about botched use of AI tools.
EPA makes it harder for states, tribes to block pipelines
A new rule aims to speed up and streamline the permitting process.
Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes.
The requirements won't go far enough for many, but it's a start.
BMW’s first electric M car is coming in 2027—with one motor per wheel
Here's what we know about the first BMW EV to wear a proper M badge.
The RAM shortage’s silver lining: Less talk about “AI PCs”
General interest in AI PCs has been wavering for a while..."
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