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Space Force officials take secrecy to new heights ahead of key rocket launch
This will be the first national security mission to fly on United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket.
Why it’s a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes
The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.
Perplexity offers more than twice its total valuation to buy Chrome from Google
Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready.
YouTube backlash begins: “Why is AI combing through every single video I watch?”
Adult YouTubers defend childish viewing habits in fight to block AI age checks.
They’re golden: Fictional band from K-Pop Demon Hunters tops the charts
Netflix film's appeal fueled by killer K-pop soundtrack, with one banger after another.
Rad Power’s Radster: A very non-radical commuter bike
The Radster is great as a Class 2 e-bike, but not quite as strong as a Class 3.
Musk threatens to sue Apple so Grok can get top App Store ranking
Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings.
China tells Alibaba, ByteDance to justify purchases of Nvidia AI chips
Move comes after negotiating an export agreement with the US.
High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups
Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive.
The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess
OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends.
Boar’s Head to reopen plant as mold and funky meat problems pop up elsewhere
Inspection reports of other Boar's Head plants do not bode well.
AOL announces September shutdown for dial-up Internet access
Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US.
Reddit blocks Internet Archive to end sneaky AI scraping
The Internet Archive confirmed it's in ongoing discussions with Reddit after block.
GitHub will be folded into Microsoft proper as CEO steps down
Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018.
Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge, worries it will have to verify user IDs
Judge tossed claim but said UK must not "significantly impede" Wikipedia operations.
Why does Jeff Bezos keep buying launches from Elon Musk?
Satellite companies find themselves between a rocket and a hard place.
LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find
Chain-of-thought AI "degrades significantly" when asked to generalize beyond training.
RFK Jr. posted fishing pics as CDC reeled from shooting linked to vaccine disinfo
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC.
Trump strikes “wild” deal making US firms pay 15% tax on China chip sales
The deal won't resolve national security concerns.
Scientists hid secret codes in light to combat video fakes
Video used to be treated as a source of truth, but that's no longer an assumption we can make."
$30K Ford EV truck due in 2027 with much-simpler production process
It's a clean-sheet approach to designing and building an electric vehicle.
Experiment will attempt to counter climate change by altering ocean
Gulf of Maine will be site of safety and effectiveness testing.
Netflix drops One Piece S2 teaser, renews for S3
"Everything I've done, everywhere I go, is for the One Piece."
How old is the earliest trace of life on Earth?
A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life.
NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a space lawyer explains why
Nuclear power could be the linchpin for long-term human activity.
Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked
An encryption algorithm can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in.
New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater
It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract.
James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home safely, has died
Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice.
For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite
The biomechanics of dinosaur skulls say T. rex was the king of bite force.
Texas prepares for war as invasion of flesh-eating flies appears imminent
In Colombia, the parasites were caught expanding into endangered wild mountain tapirs.
Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS
It's unclear exactly how GPT-5's new approach to model-switching will work here.
Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto memecoins, of course.
Just another "viral" stunt.
Review: The Sandman S2 is a classic tragedy, beautifully told
Stellar cast, lavish visuals make Netflix adaptation of influential graphic novels shine.
Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court
Advocates say Supreme Court shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."
It’s getting harder to skirt RTO policies without employers noticing
Most companies downsizing office space say it's because of hybrid work.
Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside racy .svg files
Running JavaScript from inside an image? What could possibly go wrong?
Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker
Looks like the Sylvanian Drama" TikTok will be revived after a long hiatus.
Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”
Google still trying to fix "annoying infinite looping bug," product manager says.
AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified
Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
ChatGPT users hate GPT-5’s “overworked secretary” energy, miss their GPT-4o buddy
"I want my GPT-4o back and I'll do anything to get it."
Google and Valve will kill “Steam for Chromebooks” experiment in January 2026
Well, that's one way to exit beta.
Texas politicians warn Smithsonian it must not lobby to retain its space shuttle
Generating "...public resistance to the provision's enforcement."
National Academies to fast-track a new climate assessment
Move comes in response to government's questioning of climate science.
Ford switches gears, will push smaller EVs over full-size pickup and van
The e-Transit and F-150 Lightning's replacements will be delayed awhile.
Rocket Report: Firefly lights the markets up; SpaceX starts selling trips to Mars
"Get on board! We are going to Mars!"
New executive order puts all grants under political control
All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.
FCC Democrat: Trump admin is declaring “Mission Accomplished” on broadband
FCC studies broadband "with one eye closed and the other half-open," Democrat says.
Stone tools may hint at ancestors of Homo floresiensis
The stone flakes don't look like much, but they're a clue in an ancient cold case.
Google discovered a new scam—and also fell victim to it
Disclosure comes two months after Google warned the world of ongoing spree.
After using ChatGPT, man swaps his salt for sodium bromide—and suffers psychosis
Literal "hallucinations" were the result.
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