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Sony erases digital content from libraries; we're reminded we don’t own what we buy
Sony has been scaling down its digitial store for a few years.
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A satellite company supporting Ukraine appears to be in Russia's crosshairs
This capability is not common for satellites conducting typical missions."
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Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic
I hope that it makes it far enough away from the pad that it does not cause pad damage."
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Amazon stuck with months of repairs after drone strikes on data centers
AWS stops billing Middle East cloud customers as repairs to war damage drag on.
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S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms
SpaceX won’t get easy access to billions of dollars from passive investors.
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Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely
Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users.
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Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab make a breakthrough in rotor technology
Testing shows rotor blades won't disintegrate when they spin at supersonic speed.
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"Cognitive surrender" leads AI users to abandon logical thinking, research finds
Experiments show large majorities uncritically accepting "faulty" AI answers.
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Twin brothers wipe 96 gov't databases minutes after being fired
A case study in why credentials are revoked before firings.
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Ridley Scott's post-apocalyptic The Dog Stars drops first trailer
The world that was, doesn't exist. It's just us, trying to hold onto what was."
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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
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Palantir employees are talking about company's "descent into fascism"
Slack messages, interviews with current and former works paint picture of company in turmoil.
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Windows and Linux users: The deadline to update Secure Boot keys is near
What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.
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Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code
Undisclosed addition in jqwik instructed AI coding agents to delete app output.
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The Artemis II mission sends back stunning images of the far side of the Moon
The Moon, the Earth, and the Sun; oh what fun!
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SpaceX is starting to move on from the world's most successful rocket
Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is set to become SpaceX's busiest launch site—for now.
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A Falcon 9 upper stage will strike the Moon in August
The object will be traveling at 2.43 km a second, or 5,400 mph, upon impact.
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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints
Those ousted included ADA journal editor-in-chief Steven Kahn and former ADA president Desmond Schatz...
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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
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Cheap Iranian drone downed $25 million US Army helicopter—maybe by chance
The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike.
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The Internet can't stop watching Figure AI's humanoid robots handling packages
Figure AI's 24/7 livestream showcases human soft spot for humanoid robots.
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Russia's military hacks thousands of consumer routers to steal credentials
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
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Open source package with 1 million monthly downloads stole user credentials
If you're one of millions using element-data, it's time to check for compromise.
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How a melting glacier led to a 500-meter-high tsunami
Fortunately, it happened early in the morning, so nobody was around.
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Well, this is embarrassing: The Lunar Gateway's primary modules are corroded
Preliminary findings indicate that the issue likely results from a combination of factors."
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Anthropic’s $1.5B copyright settlement is getting messy as judge delays approval
Lawyers accused of rushing historic settlement to seize $320 million in fees.
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Nobody needs AI to search the Internet, court says in ruling against Google
Google AI Overview court loss in Germany could spell doom for AI search industry.
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As the most severe Linux threat in years surfaces, the world scrambles
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
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Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
The outage has hampered communication concerning a critical vulnerability that gives root.
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Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity
Telltale SSD activity can be measured in the browser using simple JavaScript.
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To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain
LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor.
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Inside Toyota’s $10B private utopia: Big ideas, few people, cameras everywhere
Woven City is a privacy nightmare but could be helpful to an OEM desperate to be more.
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Blue Origin's rocket reuse achievement marred by upper stage failure
Blue Origin's reused first stage hit its targets, but New Glenn's upper stage did not.
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NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module
We are reassigning most affected employees across existing opportunities and programs."
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Netflix must refund customers for years of price hikes, Italian court rules
Consumer group says it will sue if Netflix doesn't reduce current prices.
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NASA's Moon ship and rocket seem to be working well, so what about the landers?
Lori Glaze: "We have seen real commitment to try and do that... from both Blue and from SpaceX."
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When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket
Even moderately sized data centers can have an outsized local impact.
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First US test of modular reactor reaches criticality
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
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A revolutionary cancer treatment could transform autoimmune disease
Researchers are testing CAR T cell therapy as a way to reset the immune system.
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New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
Both GDDRHammer and GeForge hammer GPU memory in ways that compromise the CPU.
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Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket just exploded during a static fire test
New Glenn was due to play a starring role in NASA's Artemis Program.
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Amazing interior, controversial exterior: Ferrari's first electric car
The interior is spectacular; the exterior looks better in person than on screen.
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Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
Unlike with Volvo, there will be no authorization for Polestar to sell its cars here.
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Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath
Google says it could penalize back button hijacking by demoting websites in search ranking.
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Underpromise, overdeliver? Hands-on with the $24,950 Slate auto.
It has 205 miles of bare-bones range.
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Artemis II pilot describes landing in Orion: "From intense to pure elation"
I've been thinking about reentry for three straight years."
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Trump may be mystery patient in odd case of 79yo getting experimental obesity drug
White House spokesperson denied it was Trump only after story was published.
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Here's what that Claude Code source leak reveals about Anthropic's plans
A persistent agent, stealth "Undercover" mode, and... a virtual assistant named Buddy?
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How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.
Everyone is in a place where it’s no fun to be there."
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Mozilla: Anthropic's Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
CTO says new AI model is "every bit as capable" as world's best security researchers.
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