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Software packages with more than 2 billion weekly downloads hit...

9/10/2025 2:55 AM

Hackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack, which compromised nearly two dozen packages hosted on the npm repository, came to public notice on Monday in social media posts. Around the same time, […]

Former WhatsApp security boss in lawsuit likens Meta’s culture to...

9/10/2025 2:55 AM

“This represented the first concrete step toward addressing WhatsApp’s fundamental data governance Failures,” the complaint stated. “Mr. Baig understood that Meta’s culture is like that of a cult where one cannot question any of the past work especially when it was approved by someone at a higher level than the individual who is raising the […]

Porsche’s insanely clever hybrid engine comes to the 911 Turbo...

9/8/2025 1:55 AM

Today, Porsche debuted a new 911 variant at the IAA Mobility show in Munich, Germany. It’s the most powerful 911 to date, excluding some limited-run models, and may well be the quickest to 60 mph from a standing start, dispatching that dash in just 2.4 seconds. And it’s all thanks to one of the most […]

Ignoring Trump threats, Europe hits Google with 2.95B euro fine...

9/8/2025 1:55 AM

Google may have escaped the most serious consequences in its most recent antitrust fight with the US Department of Justice (DOJ), but the European Union is still gunning for the search giant. After a brief delay, the European Commission has announced a substantial 2.95 billion euro ($3.45 billion) fine relating to Google’s anti-competitive advertising practices. […]

GOP may finally succeed in unrelenting quest to kill two...

9/7/2025 1:54 AM

Before satellite measurements, researchers relied on estimates and data from a smattering of air and ground-based sensors. An instrument on Mauna Loa, Hawaii, with the longest record of direct carbon dioxide measurements, is also slated for shutdown under Trump’s budget. It requires a sustained, consistent dataset to recognize trends. That’s why, for example, the US […]

Who can get a COVID vaccine—and how? It’s complicated.

9/7/2025 1:54 AM

We’re working with a patchwork system, and there are a lot of gray areas. Vaccinations were available at CVS in Huntington Park, California, on August 28, 2024. Credit: Getty | Christina House As fall approaches and COVID cases tick up, you might be thinking about getting this season’s COVID-19 vaccine. The annually updated shots have […]

New AI model turns photos into explorable 3D worlds, with...

9/4/2025 10:59 PM

Training with automated data pipeline Voyager builds on Tencent’s earlier HunyuanWorld 1.0, released in July. Voyager is also part of Tencent’s broader “Hunyuan” ecosystem, which includes the Hunyuan3D-2 model for text-to-3D generation and the previously covered HunyuanVideo for video synthesis. To train Voyager, researchers developed software that automatically analyzes existing videos to process camera movements and […]

Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

9/4/2025 10:59 PM

In a later press conference, Putin confirmed the discussion and said that “life expectancy will increase significantly” in the near future and “we should also think about this” in terms of political and economic consequences. (In Russia, life expectancy has actually decreased significantly in recent years, and the overall population is declining.) The brief snippets […]

A robot walks on water thanks to evolution’s solution

9/2/2025 9:58 PM

Robots can serve pizza, crawl over alien planets, swim like octopuses and jellyfish, cosplay as humans, and even perform surgery. But can they walk on water? Rhagobot isn’t exactly the first thing that comes to mind at the mention of a robot. Inspired by Rhagovelia water striders, semiaquatic insects also known as ripple bugs, these […]

Tesla has a new master plan—it just doesn’t have any...

9/2/2025 9:58 PM

Tesla also disbanded the team building its “Dojo” supercomputer several weeks ago. Much touted by Musk in the past as the key to beating autonomous vehicle developers like Waymo (which has already deployed commercially in several cities), Tesla will no longer rely on this in-house resource and instead rely on external companies, according to Bloomberg. […]

Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent...

9/1/2025 9:58 PM

Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security tokens connected to the platform compromised following the discovery that unknown attackers used some of the credentials to access email from Google Workspace accounts. In response, Google has revoked the tokens that were used in the breaches and disabled integration […]

Earth models can predict the planet’s future but not their...

8/31/2025 9:59 PM

One of the world’s foremost climate models now faces funding threats. Credit: Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images Credit: Jonathan Kitchen/Getty Images In the 1960s, meteorologist Edward Lorenz was running weather simulations on an early computer system when he realized that a small rounding difference led to extremely divergent weather predictions. He later called this idea the butterfly […]

Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced

8/31/2025 9:58 PM

Skip to content We’re (not) slashing our prices! Ars analysis shows missing price cuts are costing console consumers hundreds of dollars. Artist’s conception of what it’s like to buy a modern game console. Credit: Getty Images Today’s video game consoles are hundreds of dollars more expensive than you’d expect based on historic pricing trends. That’s […]

Texas suit alleging anti-coal “cartel” of top Wall Street firms...

8/30/2025 9:58 PM

It’s a closely watched test of whether corporate alliances on climate efforts violate antitrust laws. This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Since 2022, Republican lawmakers in Congress and state attorneys general have sent letters to […]

Battlefield 6 dev apologizes for requiring Secure Boot to power...

8/30/2025 9:58 PM

Earlier this month, EA announced that players in its Battlefield 6 open beta on PC would have to enable Secure Boot in their Windows OS and BIOS settings. That decision proved controversial among players who weren’t able to get the finicky low-level security setting working on their machines and others who were unwilling to allow […]

Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird

8/29/2025 9:59 PM

Skip to content The species’s boundaries in North America seem to have been fairly fluid. We tend to lump all mammoths together as big, hairy elephant-like beasts with enormous tusks. But there were a number of mammoth species, including less furry ones that inhabited temperate regions. And the furry ones include at least three species: […]

Video player looks like a 1-inch TV from the ’60s...

8/29/2025 9:59 PM

TV static and remote included. The TinyTV 2 powering off. Credit: Scharon Harding The TinyTV 2 powering off. Credit: Scharon Harding If a family of anthropomorphic mice were to meet around a TV, I imagine they’d gather around something like TinyCircuits’ TinyTV 2. The gadget sits on four slender, angled legs with its dials and […]

CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation

8/28/2025 8:59 PM

Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez “values science, is a solid researcher, and has a history of being a good manager. We’re looking forward to working with her.” A low point for the agency The reported ouster comes at what feels like a nadir for the […]

CDC slashed food safety surveillance, now tracks only 2 of...

8/28/2025 8:58 PM

In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention dramatically, but quietly, scaled back a food safety surveillance system, cutting active tracking from eight top foodborne infections down to just two, according to a report by NBC News. The Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet)—a network of surveillance sites that spans 10 states and covers […]

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action

8/27/2025 7:59 PM

Authors are celebrating a “historic” settlement expected to be reached soon in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic’s AI training data. On Tuesday, US District Judge William Alsup confirmed that Anthropic and the authors “believe they have a settlement in principle” and will file a motion for preliminary approval of the settlement by September 5. The […]

OpenAI admits ChatGPT safeguards fail during extended conversations

8/27/2025 7:58 PM

Adam Raine learned to bypass these safeguards by claiming he was writing a story—a technique the lawsuit says ChatGPT itself suggested. This vulnerability partly stems from the eased safeguards regarding fantasy roleplay and fictional scenarios implemented in February. In its Tuesday blog post, OpenAI admitted its content blocking systems have gaps where “the classifier underestimates […]

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next...

8/26/2025 7:59 PM

An early look at the streamlined Android Developer Console for sideloaded apps. Credit: Google Google says that only apps with verified identities will be installable on certified Android devices, which is virtually every Android-based device—if it has Google services on it, it’s a certified device. If you have a non-Google build of Android on your […]

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

8/26/2025 7:59 PM

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian government, that exposed confidential court documents. The breach of the judiciary’s electronic case filing system first came to light in a report by Politico three weeks ago, which went on to […]

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash...

8/25/2025 7:58 PM

SpaceX is gearing up for another Starship launch after three straight disappointing test flights. SpaceX’s 10th Starship rocket awaits liftoff. Credit: Stephen Clark/Ars Technica STARBASE, Texas—A beehive of aerospace technicians, construction workers, and spaceflight fans descended on South Texas this weekend in advance of the next test flight of SpaceX’s gigantic Starship rocket, the largest […]

Developer gets 4 years for activating network “kill switch” to...

8/25/2025 7:58 PM

“The defendant breached his employer’s trust by using his access and technical knowledge to sabotage company networks, wreaking havoc and causing hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses for a U.S. company,” Galeotti said. Developer loses fight to avoid prison time After his conviction, Lu moved to schedule a new trial, asking the court to […]

Why wind farms attract so much misinformation and conspiracy theory

8/23/2025 7:54 PM

The recent resistance Academic work on the question of anti-wind farm activism is revealing a pattern: Conspiracy thinking is a stronger predictor of opposition than age, gender, education, or political leaning. In Germany, the academic Kevin Winter and colleagues found that belief in conspiracies had many times more influence on wind opposition than any demographic […]

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

8/23/2025 7:54 PM

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team started testing their inner speech system with cued words first. The patients sat in front of the screen that displayed a short sentence and had to imagine saying it. The performance varied, reaching 86 percent […]

Rocket Report: Pivotal Starship test on tap, Firefly wants to...

8/22/2025 7:54 PM

All the news that’s fit to lift Starship returns to the launch pad for the first time in three months. SpaceX released this new photo of the Starbase production site, with a Starship vehicle, on Thursday. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX released this new photo of the Starbase production site, with a Starship vehicle, on Thursday. Credit: […]

Samsung’s “Micro RGB” TV proves the value of RGB backlights...

8/22/2025 7:54 PM

The $30,000 TV brings a new, colorful conversation to home theaters. Samsung’s 115-inch “Micro RGB” TV. Credit: Scharon Harding ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, New Jersey—Micro LED is still years away, but the next best thing is taking shape right now. A $30,000 price tag and 114.5-inch diagonal size makes the Samsung “Micro RGB” TV that I demoed […]

A geothermal network in Colorado could help a rural town...

8/21/2025 7:55 PM

Town pitches companies to take advantage of “reliable, cost-effective heating and cooling.” This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Hayden, a small town in the mountains of northwest Colorado, is searching for ways to diversify its […]

Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver...

8/21/2025 7:55 PM

As most people who have used adaptive cruise control in traffic can no doubt appreciate, the most common event that required intervention was a car ahead cutting into the driver’s lane. These occurred about once every 8.6 miles, or 24.4 minutes, with 90 percent requiring intervention by the driver. Inadequate lane centering was the next […]

Top pediatricians buck RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine meddling on COVID shot...

8/20/2025 7:56 PM

“It’s clear that we’re in a different place in the pandemic than we were four or five years ago in terms of risks to healthy older kids,” Sean O’Leary, chair of the AAP Committee on Infectious Diseases (COID), said in a statement. However, “the risk of hospitalization for young children and those with high-risk conditions […]

Fallout S2 teaser brings us to New Vegas

8/20/2025 7:56 PM

Prime Video has dropped an extended teaser for the much-anticipated second season of Fallout, widely considered to be among the best TV adaptations of a gaming franchise. In our 2024 year-end roundup, Ars senior editor Samuel Axon wrote that the first season gave us “a specific cocktail of tongue-in-cheek humor, sci-fi campiness, strong themes, great […]

T-Mobile claimed selling location data without consent is legal—judges disagree

8/19/2025 7:55 PM

T-Mobile can’t overturn $92 million fine; AT&T and Verizon verdicts still to come. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images A federal appeals court rejected T-Mobile’s attempt to overturn $92 million in fines for selling customer location information to third-party firms. The Federal Communications Commission last year fined T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon, saying the carriers illegally […]

Elon Musk’s “thermonuclear” Media Matters lawsuit may be fizzling out

8/19/2025 7:55 PM

Judge blocks FTC’s Media Matters probe as a likely First Amendment violation. Media Matters for America (MMFA)—a nonprofit that Elon Musk accused of sparking a supposedly illegal ad boycott on X—won its bid to block a sweeping Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe that appeared to have rushed to silence Musk’s foe without ever adequately explaining […]

Rocket Report: Ariane 6 beats Vulcan to third launch; China’s...

8/18/2025 6:56 PM

Why is China’s heavy-lift Long March 5B able to launch only 10 Guowang satellites at a time? Wearing their orange launch and reentry spacesuits, Artemis II commander Reid Wiseman (bottom) and pilot Victor Glover (top) walk out of an emergency egress basket during nighttime training at Launch Complex 39B. Welcome to Edition 8.06 of the […]

Here’s Acura’s next all-electric RSX crossover

8/18/2025 6:56 PM

“The Acura RSX has a sporty coupe style that expresses the performance that comes from excellent aerodynamics,” said Yasutake Tsuchida, Acura creative director and vice president of American Honda R&D. “Starting from this all-new RSX, we will redefine the Acura brand around timeless beauty and a high-tech feel that is essential for a performance and […]

Celebrating 50 years of The Rocky Horror Picture Show

8/17/2025 5:55 PM

hot patootie, bless my soul “It’s had a profound impact on our culture, especially on people who’ve felt different and marginalized.” Credit: 20th Century Studios When The Rocky Horror Picture Show premiered in 1975, no one could have dreamed that it would become the longest-running theatrical release film in history. But that’s what happened. Thanks […]

Rapidly intensifying Hurricane Erin becomes historic storm due to strengthening

8/17/2025 5:55 PM

Erin’s central pressure was in the 990s this time yesterday, and it’s now in the 920’s heading for the teens. This will make Erin the fastest deepening Atlantic hurricane before Sept 1st. Beating Emily 2005, by a lot. [image or embed] — Sam Lillo (@samlillo.bsky.social) August 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM With a central pressure […]

SpaceX reveals why the last two Starships failed as another...

8/16/2025 5:54 PM

“SpaceX can now proceed with Starship Flight 10 launch operations under its current license.” SpaceX completed a six-engine static fire of the next Starship upper stage on August 1. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is continuing with final preparations for the 10th full-scale test flight of the company’s enormous Starship rocket after receiving launch approval Friday from […]

Tiny, removable “mini SSD” could eventually be a big deal...

8/16/2025 5:54 PM

The Mini SSD card isn’t and may never be a formally ratified standard, but it does aim to solve a real problem for portable gaming systems—the need for fast storage that can load games at speeds approaching those of an internal SSD, without requiring users to take their own systems apart to perform upgrades. Why […]

Google releases pint-size Gemma open AI model

8/15/2025 5:53 PM

Big tech has spent the last few years creating ever-larger AI models, leveraging rack after rack of expensive GPUs to provide generative AI as a cloud service. But tiny AI matters, too. Google has announced a tiny version of its Gemma open model designed to run on local devices. Google says the new Gemma 3 […]

Meta backtracks on rules letting chatbots be creepy to kids

8/15/2025 5:53 PM

“Your youthful form is a work of art” Meta drops AI rules letting chatbots generate innuendo and profess love to kids. After what was arguably Meta’s biggest purge of child predators from Facebook and Instagram earlier this summer, the company now faces backlash after its own chatbots appeared to be allowed to creep on kids. […]

Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

8/13/2025 4:56 PM

“The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve.” Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images It’s no secret that much of social media has become profoundly dysfunctional. Rather than bringing us together into one utopian public square and fostering a healthy exchange of ideas, […]

OpenAI brings back GPT-4o after user revolt

8/13/2025 4:56 PM

On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that GPT-4o has returned to ChatGPT following intense user backlash over its removal during last week’s GPT-5 launch. The AI model now appears in the model picker for all paid ChatGPT users by default (including ChatGPT Plus accounts), marking a swift reversal after thousands of users complained about […]

High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups

8/12/2025 4:56 PM

A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing messages, some of which are personalized. Security firm ESET said Monday that it first detected the attacks on July 18, when its telemetry spotted a […]

The GPT-5 rollout has been a big mess

8/12/2025 4:56 PM

It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been a smooth one. So far, the release sparked one of the most intense user revolts in ChatGPT’s history, forcing CEO Sam Altman to make an unusual public apology and reverse key decisions. At the heart […]

NASA plans to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon—a...

8/11/2025 4:52 PM

These sought-after regions are scientifically vital and geopolitically sensitive, as multiple countries want to build bases or conduct research there. Building infrastructure in these areas would cement a country’s ability to access the resources there and potentially exclude others from doing the same. Critics may worry about radiation risks. Even if designed for peaceful use […]

Green dildos are raining down on WNBA courts. Why? Crypto...

8/11/2025 4:52 PM

Take a deep breath and prepare yourself, because the “saga of the green dildos” is going to get really, really dumb. Now take another one, just to steel yourself—this story involves crypto and memecoins, after all. Ready? Okay. Perhaps you’ve heard that people have been tossing lime green dildos at WNBA players for the last […]

New adhesive surface modeled on a remora works underwater

8/10/2025 4:52 PM

It was tested for its ability to adhere to the inside of the digestive tract. Most adhesives can’t stick to wet surfaces because water and other fluids disrupt the adhesive’s bonding mechanisms. This problem, though, has been beautifully solved by evolution in remora suckerfish, which use an adhesive disk on top of their heads to […]

James Lovell, the steady astronaut who brought Apollo 13 home...

8/10/2025 4:52 PM

Gemini and Apollo astronaut Lovell was the first person to fly to the Moon twice. Astronaut Jim Lovell takes a self-portrait aboard NASA’s Gemini 12 spacecraft during the final mission of the program in 1966. Credit: NASA James Lovell, a member of humanity’s first trip to the moon and commander of NASA’s ill-fated Apollo 13 […]

Adult sites use malicious .svg files to rack up likes...

8/9/2025 4:52 PM

The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: Malwarebytes The obfuscated code inside an .svg file downloaded from one of the porn sites. Credit: Malwarebytes Once decoded, the script causes the browser to download a chain of additional obfuscated JavaScript. The final payload, a known malicious script called […]

Toymaker suddenly drops lawsuit against “Sylvanian Drama” TikToker

8/9/2025 4:52 PM

A toy company has voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against a popular TikTok and Instagram account called “Sylvanian Drama.” Epoch Company Ltd., is the US maker of adorable fuzzy dolls called Calico Critters. Those dolls are known as “Sylvanian Families” in other markets, and more recently, they became a viral sensation after an Ireland-based content creator, […]

Review: Framework Desktop is a mash-up of a regular desktop...

8/7/2025 3:58 PM

Size matters most for Framework’s first stab at a desktop workstation/gaming PC. The Framework Desktop. Credit: Andrew Cunningham The Framework Desktop. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Framework’s main claim to fame is its commitment to modular, upgradeable, repairable laptops. The jury’s still out on early 2024’s Framework Laptop 16 and mid-2025’s Framework Laptop 12, neither of which […]

2025 Subaru WRX tS review: A scalpel-sharp chassis lets this...

8/7/2025 3:58 PM

Lots of suspension tweaks but no extra power for this WRX variant. Subaru went with a sedan for the current version of the WRX. Credit: Jim Resnick Subaru went with a sedan for the current version of the WRX. Credit: Jim Resnick The Subaru WRX has always been the equivalent of an automotive shrug. Not […]

In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching...

8/6/2025 2:53 PM

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed food compared to when they switched to a diet that included ultraprocessed versions of foods but was otherwise nutritionally matched. The trial, published in Nature Medicine by researchers at University College London, adds to a […]

RIP to the Macintosh HD hard drive icon, 2000–2025

8/6/2025 2:53 PM

That version of the icon persisted through the Apple Silicon-era Big Sur redesign and was still with us in the first public beta build for macOS 26 Tahoe that Apple released last week. The new beta also updates the icons for external drives (orange, with a USB-C connector on top), network shares (blue, with a […]

Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch...

8/5/2025 1:53 PM

“We wanted to have a fuel system that was green instead of using hypergolics, so we could land it on a runway and we could walk up to the vehicle without being in hazmat suits,” Tom Vice, then Sierra’s chief executive, told Ars in late 2023. “That was hard, I have to say.” Apparently it […]

AI site Perplexity uses “stealth tactics” to flout no-crawl edicts,...

8/5/2025 1:53 PM

AI search engine Perplexity is using stealth bots and other tactics to evade websites’ no-crawl directives, an allegation that if true violates Internet norms that have been in place for more than three decades, network security and optimization service Cloudflare said Monday. In a blog post, Cloudflare researchers said the company received complaints from customers […]

Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations

8/4/2025 1:52 PM

Since 2023, Amazon has been framing Alexa+ as a monumental evolution of Amazon’s voice assistant that will make it more conversational, capable, and, for Amazon, lucrative. Amazon said in a press release on Thursday that it has given early access of the generative AI voice assistant to “millions” of people. The product isn’t publicly available […]

Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed

8/4/2025 1:52 PM

Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat. 150-year-old fossil of Palaeocampa anthrax isn’t a sea worm after all. Credit: Christian McCall It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve […]

Five children see HIV viral loads vanish after taking antiretroviral...

8/3/2025 1:53 PM

The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults. An ARV tablet being held in Kisumu, Kenya, on April 24, 2025 Credit: Michel Lunaga/Getty For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers? Starting in the […]

With Trump’s cutbacks, crew heads for ISS unsure of when...

8/3/2025 1:53 PM

“We are looking at the potential to extend this current flight, Crew-11.” NASA astronaut Zena Cardman departs crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, for the ride to SpaceX’s launch pad. Credit: Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images The next four-person team to live and work aboard the International Space Station departed from NASA’s Kennedy Space […]

At $250 million, top AI salaries dwarf those of the...

8/2/2025 1:52 PM

A 24 year-old AI researcher will earn 327x what Oppenheimer made while developing the atomic bomb. Silicon Valley’s AI talent war just reached a compensation milestone that makes even the most legendary scientific achievements of the past look financially modest. When Meta recently offered AI researcher Matt Deitke $250 million over four years (an average […]

RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

8/2/2025 1:52 PM

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its operations after the White House deemed NPR and PBS a “grift” and pushed for a Senate vote that eliminated its entire budget. The vote rescinded $1.1 billion that Congress had allocated to CPB to fund […]

Peacock feathers can emit laser beams

7/31/2025 10:56 AM

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Per the authors, it’s the first example of a biolaser cavity within the animal kingdom. As previously reported, the bright iridescent […]

$15 billion in NIH funding frozen, then thawed Tuesday in...

7/31/2025 10:56 AM

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed the funding pause to journalists. US Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.), vice chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, estimated that the amount of funding being frozen was roughly $15 billion. But, later Tuesday, amid uproar around the funding freeze, the decision was reportedly reversed. The […]

Trump promised a drilling boom, but US energy industry hasn’t...

7/30/2025 10:53 AM

Exec: “Liberation Day chaos and tariff antics have harmed the domestic energy industry.” “We will drill, baby, drill,” President Donald Trump declared at his inauguration on January 20. Echoing the slogan that exemplified his energy policies during the campaign, he made his message clear: more oil and gas, lower prices, greater exports. Six months into […]

The first company to complete a fully successful lunar landing...

7/30/2025 10:53 AM

The financial services firm Charles Schwab reported last month that IPOs are on the comeback across multiple sectors of the market. “After a long dry spell, there are signs of life in the initial public offerings space,” Charles Schwab said in June. “An increase in offerings can sometimes suggest an improvement in overall market sentiment.” […]

Peacemaker S2 trailer finds our anti-hero in a parallel world

7/29/2025 9:56 AM

HBO Max dropped the hotly anticipated full trailer for S2 of Peacemaker—James Gunn’s Emmy-nominated series spun off from his 2021 film, The Suicide Squad—at San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. (Spoilers for S1 below.) As previously reported, the eight-episode first season was set five months after the events of The Suicide Squad. Having survived a near-fatal […]

20 years after Katrina, New Orleans remembers

7/29/2025 9:56 AM

20 years ago, Ivor Van Heerden warned of impending disaster in New Orleans. Are his warnings still going unheeded? A man is stranded on a rooftop in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Credit: Wickes Helmboldt Next month marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most devastating natural disasters in US history: Hurricane […]

Microsoft to stop using China-based teams to support Department of...

7/27/2025 8:52 AM

Last week, Microsoft announced that it would no longer use China-based engineering teams to support the Defense Department’s cloud computing systems, following ProPublica’s investigation of the practice, which cybersecurity experts said could expose the government to hacking and espionage. But it turns out the Pentagon was not the only part of the government facing such […]

This aerogel and some sun could make saltwater drinkable

7/27/2025 8:52 AM

Earth is about 71 percent water. An overwhelming 97 percent of that water is found in the oceans, leaving us with only 3 percent in the form of freshwater—and much of that is frozen in the form of glaciers. That leaves just 0.3 percent of that freshwater on the surface in lakes, swamps, springs, and […]

Firmware update hinders Echelon smart home gym equipment’s ability to...

7/26/2025 7:54 AM

Some might never have purchased Echelon equipment if they knew the machines might one day fail to work without a web connection or Echelon account. Third-party app connections severed For some owners of Echelon equipment, QZ, which is currently rated as the No. 9 sports app on Apple’s App Store, has been central to their […]

OpenAI’s most capable AI model, GPT-5, may be coming in...

7/26/2025 7:54 AM

References to “gpt-5-reasoning-alpha-2025-07-13” have already been spotted on X, with code showing “reasoning_effort: high” in the model configuration. These sightings suggest the model has entered final testing phases, with testers getting their hands on the code and security experts doing red teaming on the model to test vulnerabilities. Unifying OpenAI’s model lineup The new model […]

New Zemeckis film used AI to de-age Tom Hanks and...

11/5/2024 8:52 PM

On Friday, TriStar Pictures released Here, a $50 million Robert Zemeckis-directed film that used real time generative AI face transformation techniques to portray actors Tom Hanks and Robin Wright across a 60-year span, marking one of Hollywood’s first full-length features built around AI-powered visual effects. The film adapts a 2014 graphic novel set primarily in […]

Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit

11/5/2024 8:52 PM

Researchers spot black hole feeding at 40x its theoretical limit Similar feeding events could explain the rapid growth of supermassive black holes. How did supermassive black holes end up at the center of every galaxy? A while back, it wasn’t that hard to explain: That’s where the highest concentration of matter is, and the black […]

Here are 3 science-backed strategies to rein in election anxiety

11/4/2024 8:19 PM

In this scenario, I encourage my patients to move past that initial thought of how awful it will be and instead consider exactly how they will respond to the inauguration, the next day, week, month, and so on. Cognitive flexibility allows you to explore how you will cope, even in the face of a negative […]

Thousands of hacked TP-Link routers used in years-long account takeover...

11/4/2024 8:19 PM

Hackers working on behalf of the Chinese government are using a botnet of thousands of routers, cameras, and other Internet-connected devices to perform highly evasive password spray attacks against users of Microsoft’s Azure cloud service, the company warned Thursday. The malicious network, made up almost entirely of TP-Link routers, was first documented in October 2023 […]

El móvil que te recomiendo si buscas potencia, buena cámara...

10/30/2024 12:28 AM

Su procesador Tensor G3 ofrece un gran rendimiento ante cualquier tipo de tarea y aplicación Google ha asegurado 7 años de actualizaciones para este Google Pixel 8a, así que tendremos móvil para rato / Imagen de Christian Collado Supongo que a estas alturas de película todos estamos de acuerdo en que Google hace las cosas […]

Estos son los móviles Samsung Galaxy que podrán probar One...

10/30/2024 12:28 AM

One UI 7 avanza en su desarrollo y desde Corea ya nos anticipan unas pruebas ‘beta’ públicas que esta vez se abrirán a más dispositivos y deberían iniciarse muy pronto La personalización One UI de Samsung prepara por fin su salto a Android 15 Sabemos desde hace semanas que One UI 7 retrasará su aterrizaje […]

8BitDo’s new controller is perfect for Android phones of all...

10/29/2024 1:25 PM

Image: 8BitDo 8BitDo started as a company trading almost entirely on nostalgia — and it still does that — but it’s also making some pretty darn great conventional gaming products at great prices. Take its very first controller in the popular “mobile grip” category, the new Ultimate Mobile Gaming Controller. Um, maybe take it easy […]

The Legend of Vox Machina season 4 has been confirmed...

10/29/2024 1:25 PM

Skip to content Image: Prime Video Three seasons of The Legend of Vox Machina have brought sorcerers, elves, gnomes, vampires, sphinxes, and dragons, as well as raunchy dialogue, dirty humour and some astounding songs. All indications are that the series’ fourth season, now officially announced by Amazon, will feature even more unusual creatures and memorable […]

Ella es Sharada Orihuela, la prima mexicana de Kamala Harris:...

10/29/2024 12:59 PM

ELECCIONES EN ESTADOS UNIDOS Sharada Orihuela nació en la Ciudad de México y gran parte de su vida se la pasó entre la República Mexicana y la India MUNDO · 28/10/2024 · 22:14 hs Última actualización: 28/10/2024 · 22:16 hs La prima de Kamala Harris reconoce que tienen una familia muy diversa. Créditos: AFP. Kamala […]

"¡Defendemos el suelo de conservación en la Ciudad de México!":...

10/27/2024 7:36 PM

La jefa de Gobierno, Clara Brugada Molina, se comprometió a continuar con los trabajos de defensa al suelo de conservación que se emprendieron en la administración pasada. Ante ello, reveló que durante un operativo que se llevó a cabo en la alcaldía Tlalpan se detectó un aserradero clandestino del que se aseguraron 5.97 metros cúbicos […]

"Con mucha alegría de servir al pueblo": Ariadna Montiel realiza...

10/27/2024 7:36 PM

AVANCES EN LA TRANSFORMACIÓN La titular de la Secretaría del Bienestar del Gobierno Federal, se suma a los esfuerzos por garantizar la accesibilidad del apoyo del nuevo programa social EDICIÓN IMPRESA · 25/10/2024 · 18:49 hs Última actualización: 25/10/2024 · 18:52 hs “Con mucha alegría de servir al pueblo, nos fuimos con nuestras compañeras servidoras […]

¿INE se rebela? Continuará con proceso de elección de jueces

10/25/2024 8:19 PM

El Instituto Nacional Electoral informó que atacará la determinación del Tribunal Electoral y continuará con al proceso electoral para la elección de jueces…Read More