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Dustland Delivery asks which is worse: Gas prices or gangs of rotting mutants
Buy low, sell high, fight raiders, and fix tires in this quirky RPG.
Editorial: Mammoth de-extinction is bad conservation
Ecosystems are inconveniently complex, and elephants won't make good surrogates.
With new contracts, SpaceX will become the US military’s top launch provider
The military's stable of certified rockets will include Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Vulcan, and New Glenn.
Midjourney introduces first new image generation model in over a year
The new model is now in public alpha and has personalization enabled by default.
Judge calls out OpenAI’s “straw man” argument in New York Times copyright suit
OpenAI loses bid to dismiss NYT claim that ChatGPT contributes to users' infringement.
Not just Switch 2: ESA warns Trump’s tariffs will hurt the entire game industry
"[It's] hard to imagine a world where tariffs like these don't impact pricing."
NSA warns “fast flux” threatens national security. What is fast flux anyway?
Used by nation-states and crime groups, fast flux bypasses many common defenses.
Microsoft turns 50 today, and it made me think about MS-DOS 5.0
A story about an obsolete PC, an old library book, and a one version of MS-DOS.
Gemini “coming together in really awesome ways,” Google says after 2.5 Pro release
Google's Tulsee Doshi talks vibes and efficiency in Gemini 2.5 Pro.
EU may “make an example of X” by issuing $1 billion fine to Musk’s social network
Regulators discuss size of penalty as X calls punishment "political censorship."
NJ teen wins fight to put nudify app users in prison, impose fines up to $30K
Here's how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps.
Trump tariffs terrify board game designers
Most games are made in China. They now face hefty fees.
We have the first video of a plant cell wall being built
Plant cells without a cell wall are fragile, so it's hard to image its construction.
Newly hatched hummingbird looks, acts like a toxic caterpillar
"Batesian mimicry" is when a species evolves to look like one that's inedible.
2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV LT review: This is one long pickup truck
Has the moment passed for massive electric trucks with massive range?
Switch 2 preorders delayed over Trump tariff uncertainty
Nintendo will "assess" market conditions; planned June 5 launch date still set for now.
SpinLaunch—yes, the centrifuge rocket company—is making a hard pivot to satellites
"Launch has generally been more of a cost center than a profit center."
USDA cuts could cause long-term damage, reverse hard-won progress
Yield-increasing conservation measures now branded as "far left climate activities."
Old faces in unexpected places: The Wheel of Time season 3 rolls on
Episode six: Elayne sings karaoke, the Forsaken attack, and Rand pays his toh.
Rocket Report: Next Starship flight to reuse booster; FAA clears New Glenn
"The first Super Heavy reuse will be a step towards our goal of zero-touch reflight."
Wealthy Americans have death rates on par with poor Europeans
Some wealthy Europeans have death rates 35 percent lower than the richest Americans.
DeepMind has detailed all the ways AGI could wreck the world
DeepMind says AGI could arrive in 2030, and it has some ideas to keep us safe.
Gmail unveils end-to-end encrypted messages. Only thing is: It’s not true E2EE.
Yes, encryption/decryption occurs on end-user devices, but there's a catch.
Bonobos’ calls may be the closest thing to animal language we’ve seen
300 aspects of each call were cataloged, letting researchers estimate meaning.
Nvidia confirms the Switch 2 supports DLSS, G-Sync, and ray tracing
Nvidia says the Switch 2's GPU is 10 times faster than the original Switch.
Monkeys are better yodelers than humans, study finds
Voice breaks in Latin American monkey calls resemble human yodeling, but over a much wider frequency range.
Critics suspect Trump’s weird tariff math came from chatbots
Trump accused of consulting chatbots after critics mock tariffs on islands of penguins.
SpaceX just took a big step toward reusing Starship’s Super Heavy booster
A "flight-proven" Super Heavy booster will power SpaceX's next Starship test flight.
Feeling curious? Google’s NotebookLM can now discover data sources for you
NotebookLM can do the legwork for you now.
Employee pricing for all, tariffs on the sticker: OEMs react to tariffs
New car prices were already 25% more expensive than before the pandemic. Now what?
Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says
Rare survey of AI experts exposes deep divide with public opinion.
A bonus from the shingles vaccine: Dementia protection?
The study shows a sharp change when the vaccine was introduced in Wales.
Explaining MicroSD Express cards and why you should care about them
Little-used 2019 standard bridges a gap between internal and external storage.
Samsung turns to China to boost its ailing semiconductor division
Samsung's contract chipmaking business has struggled to secure big US customers.
Hands-on with the Switch 2: It’s the Switch, too
It's bigger, it's more powerful, and it has some weird Nintendo control gimmicks.
First-party Switch 2 games—including re-releases—all run either $70 or $80
All Nintendo titles see an increase from the $60 Switch 1 status quo.
RFK Jr.’s bloodbath at HHS: Blowback grows as losses become clearer
"Americans will be sicker and face increased health care costs."
Genres are bustin’ out all over in Strange New Worlds S3 teaser
"We want to give audiences a reflection of their own world through the lens of fantasy."
Male fruit flies drink more alcohol to get females to like them
Alcohol makes male fruit flies sexier by stimulating the production of sex pheromones.
Google shakes up Gemini leadership, Google Labs head taking the reins
With fresh leadership, Google aims to create new products based on Gemini.
A look at the Switch 2’s initial games, both familiar and what-the-heck
A bit of early 2020s triple-A, some neat originals, and two wild arrivals.
Vast pedophile network shut down in Europol’s largest CSAM operation
79 arrested after Europol shuts down massive child porn platform.
Not just Signal: Michael Waltz reportedly used Gmail for government messages
More damaging reports for Trump official who invited journalist to Signal chat.
AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50%
Automated AI bots seeking training data threaten Wikipedia project stability, foundation says.
DOGE staffer’s YouTube nickname accidentally revealed his teen hacking activity
Evidence of DOGE staffer's proud history of hacking quickly deleted, report says.
A 32-bit processor made with an atomically thin semiconductor
It's slow and inefficient, but the semiconductor is only one molecule thick.
Some original Switch games will run better on Switch 2; some won’t run at all
Some Switch games will get free updates to improve Switch 2 performance.
RIP Val Kilmer: Celebrating cult classic Real Genius is now a moral imperative
The '80s comedy has stood the test of time, even inspiring a 2009 Mythbusters episode.
Everything you need to know about bird flu
H5N1 influenza's origins stretch back to the 1990s.
Tesla sales and production slumped heavily in Q1 2025
The numbers are going the wrong way for a company valued on continuing growth.
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