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8/13/2026
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.
Will it be the VSS... Horizon, Explorer, Ascend or Apeiron?
Ukrainian drone pilots teach the US military and NATO hard battlefield lessons.
Flock to lock out cops who stalk exes, but agencies can still hide abuse.
"I've lost trust ..."
Opinion: Some remarks about the new wordmark accidentally being perfectly awful.
Gemini 3.6 Flash debuted just 3 weeks ago, but Google says 3.7 has "substantial improvements."
Pricing hasn't changed, and now you can get captain's chairs for the R1S.
Rapid revenue growth fuels hope Claude maker's IPO is the biggest listing in history
Let's shield the astronauts instead of the spacecraft.
The mark flags anything Claude processed, even human writing it only edited.
8/12/2026
Boy's unusual symptoms could help identify the next case sooner.
“ShieldFont” aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
“It’s the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.”
Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements."
With Truth API, Trump is "selling priority access to news he himself generates."
Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.
JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery.
Trump admin claims New York suing Kalshi created "market emergency."
AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.
Google focuses more on AI and curated experiences than spec upgrades in 2026.
A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompts.
The deal starts with the arrival of the GEN4 car and 2026-27 season this December.
In a recent study, evolution gets even messier than usual.
FBI Atlanta confirms it's looking into the incident, no arrests made.
8/11/2026
It took just hours for the leading pharma group to reject the recommendations.
This follows many drone incursions into Romania and a failed attack in Germany.
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
Judges tell Meta that Section 230 provides a defense, not immunity from lawsuits.
But will Gemini's surge survive slowing model releases?
Depending on the model, you might have hundreds to choose from—or just one.
FDA report reveals where Taylor Farms sent its lettuce—and it raises questions.
Hot hours of summer could triple in the coming decades.
Claire Stapleton's new book, Don't Be Evil, recounts her journey from company cheerleader to outspoken dissident.
Trump has resisted urge to fire FCC Democrat despite recent Supreme Court win.
Phone and Bluetooth signals could turn roadside cameras into far richer tracking tools.
Why passkey apps treat Windows differently than other operating systems.
8/10/2026
Our discussion takes place live on August 11 at 2:30 pm ET.
Meta has been trailing competitors. Zuckerberg thinks he's found a way forward.
Trump falsely claimed the MMR vaccine is "quite lethal" and linked shots to autism.
A reminder of the perils of digital ownership.
Amazon announces first off-the-grid data center in race to reap AI profits.
Zuckerberg’s superyacht and support ship were slow to heed Coast Guard call.
Ford dealers were told about the new Escape-sized model; one of them spilled the beans.
Recall of jalapeño products spans 26 states, major retailers, a variety of foods.
New update includes improvements for the Intel-based MSI Claw 8 EX AI+ among others.
Aptoide has become the first app store distributed inside Google Play under a judge's order.
If the failure involved the YF-100 engine, there are broader concerns for China's space program.
fMRI scans show happiness, fear, anger, and sadness have distinct brain activity patterns in doggy brains.
The newest Outback sticks to the script; that's no bad thing if you like Outbacks.
Companies treat some email domains as digital trash cans, despite the risks.
As research and AI-assisted papers surge, volunteer reviewers struggle to keep up.
8/9/2026
The massive Toba eruption seems to have had little climate impact.
8/8/2026
About 90 percent of the distance driven by Perseverance has been autonomous.
Open source WeatherNext model can make accurate predictions with lower-resolution weather data.
8/7/2026
Copernicus Browser adds wildfire visualization amid record wildfire season.
Six deaths reported among screwworm cases, one directly attributed to the flies.
New Mexico judge orders $567M fund to help address youth mental health crisis.
Fitted with telescopes, the plane did our longest imaging of the Sun's corona.
19 new maps continue the story from MachineGames' other campaign additions.
DOGE's inflated "Wall of Receipts": 96% of grant savings unverifiable, GAO says.
Gurman report claims OpenAI confirmed the speaker is not an Apple ripoff.
Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.
There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?
Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.
Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.
TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.
We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.
A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.
"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
8/6/2026
The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision.
Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.
Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.
Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."
Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.
The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.
"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."
This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.
Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says.
Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up.
Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.
Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.
Why humans need to moderate humans.
8/5/2026
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.
Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.
Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."
"Slop" isn't the only problem.
SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.
"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."
Google's AI brain drain continues.
It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.
Reports of cases began in June, and the national tally is now nearing 23,000.
Disney is interested in "price-sensitive" streaming customers.
The V4 Superchargers will show up in the Tesla nav app and have NACS and CCS1 plugs.
Company noted for building quantum annealers now also making gate-based hardware.
Assistant will disappear, leaving only Gemini for voice control in the coming weeks.
Shares slide in pre-market trading even as group says its quarterly revenues nearly doubled.
Scooter layout makes pedaling a bad experience. But it does have pedals.
