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Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign
Court filings reveal new details about Exxon's decades of internal climate deliberations.
Nvidia's big bet on physical AI aims for safer robotaxis, humanoid robots
Full-stack safety solution for physical AI is being used by robotics companies.
A senator tried to ban gambling on prediction markets—now she's a Kalshi lobbyist
Sen. Blanche Lincoln wrote law that let US ban sports-event contracts. She lobbies for the other side now.
Microsoft event debuts new AI-friendly hardware and Windows changes
Get ready for more AI in your Windows and more AI on the desktop.
“Software is over”: Bold AI developer takes aim at Adobe with open source clones
Opus-built Creative Cloud alternatives are ambitious, free, and nowhere near finished.
PA measles outbreak tops 1,000 cases, largest since disease was eliminated
Pennsylvania reported 1,066 outbreak-linked cases on Wednesday.
TP-Link problems in US grow amid FCC router ban and four state lawsuits
TP-Link can't sell latest routers in US, still needs exemption from FCC ban.
Chemistry Nobel goes to reactions like those that gave life a hand
Altering molecular handedness has implications for the origins of life.
Pediatricians renew call to ban raw milk as anti-science rhetoric reigns
In renewed policy, pediatricians review the benefits of heating milk to kill germs.
Fraudster jailed for using 10K bots and AI songs to outstream Taylor Swift
Man gets 18 months for AI scheme stealing $8M in music streaming royalties.
Jaguar Type 01 debuts; now, no one remembers the electric Ferrari
Car design sure riles people up on the Internet these days. Goes double for EVs.
Trade group crunches numbers on Trump’s impossible push for 100% US-made tech
Trump's aggressive reshoring push could cost tech firms $230 billion, CTA estimates.
Mistral says "Le Chonk" can challenge the best AI models
Mistral says Le Chonk can rival top closed models while remaining open-weight.
Google rolls out improved SynthID AI content detector, now available globally
The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.
AI/ML is becoming a performance factor in motorsport
More than just a sponsor: OpenAI has been helping Ganassi with setups.
Review: Fine, let's talk about Digger
Its excesses may try one's patience at times, but the film sticks the landing with a savagely moving finale.
If you're looking, here's a "good deal" for NASA and the European Space Agency
"Weare in the era of people interested in having good deals, and LISA is a very good deal for the US."
Drones sink ships near NATO countries in “unacceptable” attacks, EU says
Two cargo ships have sunk, one ship was afire, and sailors are dead or missing.
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT outputs by default—but only in the EU
Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and it's easy to circumvent.
HBO Max, Paramount+, and Discovery+ "will unify into a single service”
A combined service could lead to higher prices.
It looks like the Atlantic storm season may finally produce a hurricane
To date, this Atlantic tropics year has been exceptionally quiet.
Hackers obtain counterfeit TLS certificates for Google and other large services
Compromise of 3 domain registries allows hackers to walk off with unauthorized certs.
Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth
Paramount now owns Warner Bros. as last-ditch effort to stop $111B merger fails.
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Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input
Amazon hasn't made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years.
Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch
Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung's Android 17 phones won't work yet.
Why is NASA bringing 7,500 contractors back to work as civil servants?
"The administrator's directive is a coherent and necessary vision for the future."
All-electric camping gets a solar upgrade: The 2027 Pebble Flow
The Pebble Flow has a 45 kWh LFP battery and can even charge an EV.
Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Users want to "reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption" while making changes.
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can't repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
Prices of public records tracking cops' use of Flock go up as backlash swells.
Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
Controlling the brain with light earns a physiology Nobel
The entire field of optogenetics traces back to light-seeking algae.
Russian drones strike Ukraine’s data centers by exploiting air defense gaps
Russian attacks on Internet, phone services threaten Ukraine's wartime economy.
F1 in Bahrain... in Malaysia: The race needed a software update to start
A software bug waylaid half the field and required a race reboot.
Mass quarantine issued in Russia after unexplained death of plague researcher
Unconfirmed reports have suggested there was a laboratory accident.
AI glasses face their first major government crackdown
Norway wants time to write permanent rules for glasses that can record bystanders.
Explaining Hall-effect, TMR, and other new types of "mechanical" switches
Ars Technica's guide to new keyboard sensing technologies.
New forensic evidence supports Egyptian "retainer sacrifice"
Fresh analysis of First Dynasty mass burials finds signs of fatal blunt force trauma on 39 percent of skulls.
Lions and cheetahs and chimps, oh my: A spotlight on Africa's diverse wildlife
Wunmi Mosaku (Sinners, Loki) narrates NatGeo's new documentary Africa: Earth's Wild Home.
All hail electrification. But let’s talk about the hard part.
The IEA and climate negotiators want to set a target for shifting the economy to run on electricity.
Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94
"...we were making history."
The dawn of the age of theexoskeleton
The devices continue to show noticeable benefits for users in various real-world tasks.
Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents
Meta says FDA isn't sufficient to Muse reading messages. Apple begs to differ.
Someone got Doom in an SQL database
1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps.
Amazon’s $1B plan to combat data center backlash draws more backlash
Amazon praised for ending NDAs but slammed for downplaying data center pollution.
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