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Has Ford got cheap car fever? A $25K crossover is supposedly on the way.
Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.
Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products for Salmonella amid Cyclospora outbreak
Recall of jalapeno products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.
Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware
New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.
Following Epic loss, Google has started hosting rival app stores in the Play Store
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.
One of China's workhorse rockets just exploded in flight
If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program.
Dogs can tell if you're scared or sad
fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.
2026 Subaru Outback review: Great interior, refined drive, divisive looks
The newest Outback sticks to the script; that's no bad thing if you like Outbacks.
A researcher bought noreply.net. Companies started sending him secrets.
Companies treat some email domains as digital trash cans, despite the risks.
Peer review is overwhelmed—can it survive in the AI era?
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
Mount Toba eruption doesn't seem like it could nearly kill our species
The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.
The first self-driving vehicle on Mars has proven to be a smashing success
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
DeepMind’s hurricane breakthrough has surprised weather scientists
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
Europe's free satellite service just made it easier to track wildfires
Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.
Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500
Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment
New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
The ultimate eclipse chase: A Concorde raced against the Moon's shadow
Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.
New official 30th anniversary Quake mission pack adds new maps and mechanics
19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
OpenAI’s expensive smart speaker will use moving parts to seem “more alive”
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
How snails engineer their slime
Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says
There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?
Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface
We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.
Trump is losing his war on wind power
A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.
Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
Organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs faces shutdown
The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision.
Explosive drone found hovering near Ukrainian cargo aircraft at German airport
Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge
Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.
Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."
Anthropic will design its own hardware to power Claude
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
Large genome models used to design new viruses
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident
"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."
Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too
This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.
Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress
Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says.
Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review
Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up.
Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it's open source.
Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350
Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.
AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI
Why humans need to moderate humans.
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing
Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.
Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project
Anthropic and OpenAI models' unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."
Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch
"Slop" isn't the only problem.
SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon
SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.
This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay
"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
Google's AI shake-up: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart
Google's AI brain drain continues.
Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good
It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.
Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team
Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.
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