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Michigan politicians want to ban Chinese-badged cars from even visiting the US

4h ago

"Chat is dead": OpenAI preps overhaul of ChatGPT

4h ago

The weather and climate science AI revolution isn’t revolutionary

7h ago

RIP Anthony Head: Our 10 favorite moments of Buffy's Giles

22h ago

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

Sun

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Sat

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Sat

Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it

Fri

Highly reviewed speaker can be hacked over the air to infect connected devices

Fri

Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test

Fri

The saga of the International Space Station air leak took a worrying turn Friday

Fri

S&P 500 blocks fast SpaceX entry, won’t waive rule for unprofitable AI firms

Fri

"We pissed off a lot of people": Giant data center plan cut 50% amid protests

Fri

Review: Spider-Noir recaptures the magic of a bygone era

Fri

Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

Fri

The Fitbit Air is a good wearable weighed down by a chatty AI "coach"

Fri

Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.

Fri

Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money

Fri

Safety officials finally have a good idea of what a big rocket explosion can do

Fri

Steve Jobs in Exile is a fine profile of Jobs' years at NeXT

Fri

Review: AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a disappointing way to spend $549

Fri

The skeptic’s guide to humanoid robots going viral on the Internet

Thu

AT&T and Verizon lose Supreme Court case over fines for selling location data

Thu

These LLMs are the best at resisting Russian propaganda

Thu

Dashlane explains how attackers managed to download encrypted password vaults

Thu

Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling

Thu

Cable lobby warns of chaos if FCC doesn't relax ban on foreign routers

Thu

Bumblebees can spontaneously solve problems, study finds

Thu

After 11 years at Mars, NASA's MAVEN spacecraft went out with a whisper

Thu

It doesn't feel very agricultural: The 2026 Subaru Solterra review

Thu

How some data center operators are tackling their water use problems

Thu

My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with

Thu

Used Waymo robotaxi batteries become backup storage for power grids

Thu

Microsoft, Atom Computing, EeroQ update their quantum computing progress

Wed

Flesh-eating screwworm infection detected in South Texas, USDA says

Wed

Google ordered to put clearer links in AI search and let UK publishers opt out

Wed

Dashlane issues opaque advisory warning 20 encrypted vaults were stolen

Wed

Google's new Gemma 4 12B model is designed to run on any laptop with 16GB of RAM

Wed

Trump plan to test AI models has a problem—US security teams were gutted by DOGE

Wed

New social features further Plex’s evolution from media server business

Wed

Autonomous vehicles were supposed to cut traffic—what if they don't?

Wed

Inside Meta's attempts to play catch-up with AI

Wed

Beans use an immune receptor to call in airstrikes on caterpillars

Wed

How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's launch pad? We asked some SpaceX vets.

Wed

Male bowerbirds hope to dazzle females with bright human-made items

Tue

Microsoft plans Linux tools and an RTX Spark desktop for Windows developers

Tue

Microsoft's Project Solara is an Android OS designed for agents instead of apps

Tue

Amazon-owned Ring should pay Americans for scanning their faces, lawsuit says

Tue

If I had a hammer... it might actually be a rhino tooth

Tue

Feds failing in bid to take a supercomputer from a climate research center

Tue

Mathematicians warn of AI threats to profession as industry encroaches

Tue

Google announces deepfake call detection for Android, new AirDrop device support

Tue

The truth lies in the past in Silo S3 trailer

Tue

Number of suspected Ebola cases falls by hundreds as testing ramps up

Tue

Why a Neo Geo port of Doom is functionally impossible

Tue

In a surprise launch, China debuts another big rocket designed for reusability

Tue

Blue Origin has set a very aggressive return-to-flight timeline

Tue

Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup

Tue

Trump's DOE restarts energy rebate program with dumb conditions

Tue

Impulse Space raises $500 million as orbital maneuvering race heats up

Tue

AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.

Mon

Why cats prefer silver vine to catnip and other May highlights

Mon

Moderna gets $50 million to develop mRNA Ebola vaccine against Bundibugyo

Mon

Hackers duped Meta AI support chatbot to steal celebrity Instagram accounts

Mon

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra looks like its first true MacBook Pro competitor

Mon

Dozens of Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

Mon

Doctors blast Trump for doubling down on vaccine policy modeled after Denmark

Mon

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders

Mon

From 15 hours to one minute: How AI/ML is speeding up GM's development

Mon

Allegedly trashing Airbnbs to test robots puts startup in legal trouble

Mon

AMD extends Socket AM5 support through at least 2029; AM4 refuses to die

Mon

Asus gives the ROX Xbox Ally the OLED screen it deserves

Mon

Nvidia RTX Spark comes to Windows PCs with Arm CPU, RTX GPU, and unified memory

Mon

Intel: Our upcoming AI chip will be cheaper, run cooler than Nvidia, AMD options

Mon

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

Mon

On its 40th anniversary, we reassess 1986's SpaceCamp

May 31

They call it stupid hot for a reason: Heat muddles animal brains

May 31

Grifters, cynics, and true believers: The family tree of vaccine opponents

May 30

Environmentalists turn out in force to oppose Trump coal ash rollbacks

May 30

Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time

May 29

Kenyan court blocks Trump admin from dumping Ebola-exposed Americans there

May 29

Botnet of more than 17 million devices dismantled

May 29

Analysis of Texas measles outbreak shows just how dangerous virus is

May 29

House of the Dragon S3 trailer revels in dragons, fire, and blood

May 29

Trump FCC warns all broadcasters to follow orders or be punished like ABC

May 29

DOJ sues states that rejected ICE requests for undercover license plates

May 29

Startup offers free home cleaning—if it can record it all for robot training

May 29

After years of stability, F1 reliability can no longer be taken for granted

May 29

Severed sea cucumber appendages don't seem to die

May 29

Rocket Report: A dark day for Blue Origin; Pentagon eyes new launch site

May 29

Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

May 29

Here's why the failure of Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket is so catastrophic

May 29

These researchers would be in Africa fighting ebola—but Trump cut their funding

May 29

2027 Audi RS5 first drive: A performance PHEV with split personalities

May 28

LLMs believe false statements even after explicit warnings that they're false

May 28

Fed up with vibe coders, dev sneaks data-nuking prompt injection into their code

May 28

US healthcare still stupidly expensive, with pathetic outcomes, study finds

May 28

Researchers develop a new process to get lithium out of rocks

May 28

FBI says Google engineer used internal search data to win $1.2M on Polymarket

May 28

A respectable port of Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition invades macOS

May 28