Trump executive order calls for a next-generation missile defense shield
One of the new Trump administration’s first national security directives aims to defend against missile...
January 2025
Why did Elon Musk just say Trump wants to bring two stranded astronauts home?
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social...
How does DeepSeek R1 really fare against OpenAI’s best reasoning models?
It’s only been a week since Chinese company DeepSeek launched its open-weights R1 reasoning model,...
Apple chips can be hacked to leak secrets from Gmail, iCloud, and more
Apple-designed chips powering Macs, iPhones, and iPads contain two newly discovered vulnerabilities that leak credit...
AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Last summer, Anthropic inspired backlash when its ClaudeBot AI crawler was accused of hammering websites...
States say they’ve been shut out of Medicaid amid Trump funding freeze
Amid the Trump administration’s abrupt, wide-scale freeze on federal funding, states are reporting that they’ve...
Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is trying to block a plan to distribute Wi-Fi hotspots...
A telltale toilet reveals “lost” site shown in Bayeux Tapestry
The Bayeux Tapestry famously depicts the events leading up to the 1066 Norman Conquest of...
There’s not much for anyone to like in the Star Trek: Section 31 movie
First floated as a part of Deep Space Nine‘s Dominion War arc, the concept of...
Google goes gaga over the Gulf of Mexico
Well, that didn’t take long. Google Maps, the most popular mapping software in the world,...
Why the markets are freaking out about Chinese AI newcomer DeepSeek
A Chinese company’s claim of a $5.6 million artificial intelligence breakthrough wiped almost $600 billion...
New FPGA-powered retro console re-creates the PlayStation, CD-ROM drive optional
Retro game enthusiasts may already be acquainted with Analogue, a company that designs and manufactures...
Pebble smartwatch founder is launching a smaller-scale, open source reboot
“We’re making new Pebble watches,” writes original Pebble founder Eric Migicovsky on the “rePebble” launch...
With iOS 18.3, Apple Intelligence is now on by default
As is custom, Apple rolled out software updates to all its platforms at once today....
Dead babies, critically ill kids: Pediatricians make moving plea for vaccines
As federal lawmakers prepare to decide whether anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should be...