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China's Space Pioneer seems to be back on track a year after an accidental launch.

Eliminating the Block 1B upgrade now would save NASA at least $500 million per year.

"I have failed you completely and catastrophically," wrote Gemini.

Criminals who get caught are, unsurprisingly, not always great at opsec.

The Web Guide experiment is available as an opt-in feature today.

"TikTok is going to go dark," commerce secretary warns as negotiations falter.

Trump plans to use chatbots to eliminate dissent, senator alleged.

Black market for US semiconductors operates despite efforts to curb Beijing's high-tech ambitions.

"Some people just don't learn from experience; they fail to realize their own behavior is causing the problem."

Customers will get patches at unspecified "later date," Broadcom says.

Dozens of games deleted with no advance notice, thousands more hidden by "deindexing."

Here are some things you can kick the tires on if you install the public beta.

Public beta arrives today; here's what we've found in our weeks of testing.

These versions are still betas, but they should be mostly OK for day-to-day use.

The group wants a task force that no health secretary has set up since 1998.

Trump's "AI Action Plan" reverses regulations, sparks critical pushback.

"This is going to really help us understand how to predict space weather in the magnetosphere."

"Easy to throw around numbers, but this is a gigantic infrastructure project."

Tesla remains profitable, but the headwinds don't look good.

LeFay spearheaded Arena and Daggerfall before passing the torch to Todd Howard.

Easy to exploit. Unauthenticated access. Massive reach. ToolShell has it all.

Massive 2023 hack was easily preventable, Clorox says.

Google is making video AI models harder to ignore.

Intercepted Jabber messages lead to arrest of suspected admin of cybercrime hub.

Trump gutting NSF will forfeit scientific leadership to China, letter of dissent says.

"Basically, I've been given 60 days to come up with the objective architecture."

You can add older devices to a new plan, even if they're not already covered.

Rules will include EU-style curbs on app stores.

We also test out the more powerful S6 Sportback.

Only a handful of the V12 convertibles will come to the US each year.

Possible legal paths to revive a shuttered video series on TikTok and Instagram.

EFF says the "mass surveillance scheme" violates constitutional protections.

Apple disabled news summaries earlier this year after they mangled headlines.

Gordon Pennycook: "It might be one of the biggest false consensus effects that's been observed."

Go shark fishing on the RV Garvin, get hooked on the ideas behind it.

"Complete farce": State lawmaker says US threatened to block broadband funding.

The Pew Research Center analysis shows how hard AI is hitting web traffic.

CTA expert explains how chip tariffs may doom US to pay more for popular tech.

For businesses and individuals with software that can't run on Arm-based PCs.

SpaceX, other commercial launch firms, have been seeking this change in policy.

The fire gutted the museum's gift shop and caused significant smoke damage to several exhibits.

Worse, fewer and fewer consider the brand safe.

Slack messages: Some xAI employees refused to join invasive Grok training.

Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on Office of Research and Development assessments.

Makenzie Lystrup's departure from Goddard comes soon after the resignation of the director of JPL.

Mercedes-AMG is following the Ioniq 5 N playbook with simulated shifting and sounds.

Google's next smartphone keeps the same design.

Analysis of broadband affordability deemed "extraneous" by FCC chair.

Ongoing attacks are allowing hackers to steal credentials giving privileged access.

DeepMind followed IMO rules to earn gold, unlike OpenAI.