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America, it's time to think beyond leather for luxury car seats
Some brands are already ahead of the curve, while others leave the US in the cold.
FDA refuses to review Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine
The move comes amid RFK Jr.'s relentless efforts to enact his anti-vaccine agenda.
SpaceX's next-gen Super Heavy booster aces four days of "cryoproof" testing
The next Starship flight is a key precursor for more ambitious missions.
Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder's identity in 2023.
Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk's xAI
Tony Wu leaves a company now entangled with social media, space-based IPOs.
Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.'s NIH funds "absurd" study.
There's no reason to think ivermectin cures cancer, but RFK Jr's NIH is on it anyway.
Windows' original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here's what you need to do
PCs without the new certificates could eventually have trouble booting new OSes.
Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info
The Results About You tool is getting an upgrade.
The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design
Forget VW's expensive retro bus-this is the electric van we've been waiting for.
Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Alphabet becomes first tech company to issue 100-year bonds in nearly three decades.
After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice
Meant to help judges handle scientific issues, document is now climate-free.
Just look at Ayaneo's absolute unit of a Windows gaming "handheld"
The Ayaneo Next II pushes past 3 pounds, is 13 inches wide, and costs up to $4,300.
No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents
SpaceMolt envisions a world where AI plays with itself and the humans just watch.
Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall
After a lengthy test, YouTube Music is making lyrics a premium feature.
Trump FCC investigates The View, reportedly says "fake news" will be punished
FCC recently issued equal-time warning to late-night and daytime talk shows.
Discord faces backlash over age checks after data breach exposed 70,000 IDs
Discord to block adult content unless users verify ages with selfies or IDs.
NIH head, still angry about COVID, wants a second scientific revolution
Can we pander to MAHA, re-litigate COVID, and improve science at the same time?
Disclosure Day Super Bowl trailer: Could it be... aliens?
Bonus: Mandalorian and Grogu 30-second spot shows duo being pulled through the snow by Tauntauns.
Ive and Newson bring old-school charm to Ferrari's first EV interior
Analogue dials, aluminum switches, and plenty of buttons for the Ferrari Luce.
Report: Imminent Apple hardware updates include MacBook Pro, iPads, and iPhone 17e
High-end Macs and less-expensive iPhones and iPads are all on the docket.
Why would Elon Musk pivot from Mars to the Moon all of a sudden?
"SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon."
A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please.
"There are infinite possibilities for this to go wrong."
Under Trump, EPA’s enforcement of environmental laws collapses, report finds
The Environmental Protection Agency has drastically pulled back on holding polluters accountable.
Sixteen Claude AI agents working together created a new C compiler
The $20,000 experiment compiled a Linux kernel but needed deep human management.
Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge
Claims of penis injections in ski jumpers has fillers spewing into the news.
Lawyer sets new standard for abuse of AI; judge tosses case
Behold the most overwrought AI legal filings you will ever gaze upon.
Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets
Incident is at least the third time the exchange has been targeted by thieves.
Why $700 could be a "death sentence" for the Steam Machine
Analysts expect Valve might be hit particularly hard by soaring RAM, storage prices.
COVID-19 cleared the skies but also supercharged methane emissions
Less pollution meant lower amounts of a methane-destroying chemical.
Waymo leverages Genie 3 to create a world model for self-driving cars
With Genie 3, Waymo wants to explore rare and even impossible driving conditions.
To reuse or not reuse—the eternal debate of New Glenn's second stage reignites
A new job posting suggests the debate may be swinging back toward reusing GS2.
Driven: The 2026 Lamborghini Temerario raises the bar for supercars
This V8 hybrid with more than 900 hp replaces the V10 Huracan.
New critique debunks claim that trees can sense a solar eclipse
Controversial 2025 study "represents the encroachment of pseudoscience into the heart of biological research."
Stellantis swallows $26 billion costs as it rethinks its EV strategy
The automaker follows Ford and GM in writing down huge sums after betting wrong.
Lawmakers ask what it would take to "store" the International Space Station
NASA shall evaluate the "viability of transferring the ISS to a safe orbital harbor" after retirement.
NASA stage show explores "outer" outer space with Henson's Fraggles
"Our two worlds that on paper wouldn't seem connected, made a lot of sense to connect."
EU says TikTok needs to drop "addictive design"
Regulators say design choices that hook users could breach EU's digital rules.
Rocket Report: SpaceX probes upper stage malfunction; Starship testing resumes
Amazon has booked 10 more launches with SpaceX, citing a "near-term shortage in launch capacity."
Why Darren Aronofsky thought an AI-generated historical docudrama was a good idea
Production source says it takes "weeks" to produce just minutes of usable video.
AI companies want you to stop chatting with bots and start managing them
Claude Opus 4.6 and OpenAI Frontier pitch a future of supervising AI agents.
The Switch 2 is getting a new Virtual Console (kind of)
Hamster Corp.'s new "Console Archives" does what Nintendon't.
With GPT-5.3-Codex, OpenAI pitches Codex for more than just writing code
The emphasis is on "mid-turn steering and frequent progress updates."
"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
Neocities founder stuck in chatbot hell after Bing blocked 1.5 million sites
Microsoft won't explain why Bing blocked 1.5 million Neocities websites.
Watch Kanzi the bonobo pretend to have a tea party
Kanzi is able to generate an idea of this pretend object and at the same time know it's not real."
Bad sleep made woman's eyelids so floppy they flipped inside out, got stuck
Never underestimate the value of a good night's sleep.
Google hints at big AirDrop expansion for Android "very soon"
AirDrop came to the Pixel 10 last year, and more Android phones will join the party in 2026.
OpenAI is hoppin' mad about Anthropic's new Super Bowl TV ads
Sam Altman calls AI competitor "dishonest" and "authoritarian" in lengthy post on X.
This black hole "burps" with Death Star energy
Dubbed "Jetty McJetface," the tidal disruption event's energy keeps getting brighter and should peak in 2027.
NASA changes its mind, will allow Artemis astronauts to take iPhones to the Moon
"We are giving our crews the tools to capture special moments."
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