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Fanfic community craves familiarity much more than novelty-but reports greater enjoyment from novelty.

Your data could soon be used to spike flight costs, as Delta expands AI pilot.

Trump's tax bill means no penalties from model year 2022 onwards.

EU will miss self-imposed deadline to wrap up investigation.

CarPlay Ultra takes over the main instrument display as well as the infotainment.

Smaller businesses most likely to be affected as white-label cloud program is also ending.

Mercedes' new 800 V electric powertrain is ready for the public, and we've driven it.

Overstep backdoor nukes key log entries, making detection hard.

New rule against "certain kinds" of adult content accompanies removal of "incest" games.

Evidence suggests health department gave preferential treatment to xAI, NAACP says.

"After what we've been through, it ties us together. Forever."

We've made an update to clarify and simplify everything.

CPB defied Trump, kept board members even after losing a court ruling.

Amazon has launched 78 of its planned 3,232 Kuiper broadband satellites.

Italian law allows for up to three years in jail for "promotion of pirated copyrighted materials."

The finite number of Mac configurations could be good for players and game devs.

Fast filling times are seductive, but they don't compensate for H2's many drawbacks.

Experts argue that Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase costs for consumers.

Cathartic, punch-fueled land destruction is a great showcase for Switch 2 hardware.

Dark matter particle and antiparticle collisions could make some stars immortal.

Technique transforms the Internet DNS into an unconventional file storage system.

NASA is doing all it can to ensure Boeing doesn't abandon the Starliner program.

"This is very early evidence of a preacher weaving pop culture into a sermon to keep his audience hooked."

RFK Jr. has falsely called aluminum adjuvants "extremely neurotoxic."

We're still months away from these budget bills having a chance to become law.

Seagate's heat-assisted drive tech has been percolating for more than 20 years.

H20 chips, designed to skirt export bans, are back after Trump meets with CEO.

Without rare, proprietary tech, these earbuds are useless.

The adoption of medical scanning tech has improved first-time quality by 90 percent.

xAI announces Grok for Government, tells Grok to stop calling itself MechaHitler.

Trump's crypto bills could turn trusted Big Tech companies into the next FTX.

Paul Calle thought he had represented the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project.

With technology gap narrowed, BYD is poised to outsell Tesla this year.

A 50-year wait for a second mission wouldn't be surprising. Just ask Uranus and Neptune.

AirTags don't have an alert system; Tile trackers charge for the feature.

The event resulted in a new black hole with a mass 225 times larger than our Sun.

Reddit hires company to verify user age with selfie or photo of government ID.

Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.

GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won't be the last.

Trump administration says dismissal is "in the interests of justice."

The governor's office says some emails contain intimate and embarrassing" information.

Security updates will continue, but new features will require Windows 11.

Google's Sameer Samat doesn't get into what "combining" means.

Grok 4's "reasoning" shows cases where the chatbot consults Musk posts to answer divisive questions.

Hyundai appears to be nailing the "make a fun electric car" brief right now.

Brothers-in-law use construction knowledge to compete against Comcast in Michigan.

Sure, the plot lacks originality, but it's a solid B movie-and H.R. Giger designed the alien life form.

A model built using data from the Curiosity rover suggests wet periods were rare.

Experts have advice for how the EV-curious buyer might navigate this tricky moment.

Popular chatbots serve as poor replacements for human therapists, but study authors call for nuance.