NASA moves swiftly to end DEI programs, ask employees to “report” violations
NASA’s acting administrator is moving swiftly to remove diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility—or DEIA—programs from...
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Florida man eats diet of butter, cheese, beef; cholesterol oozes from his body
What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks...
Apple must face suit over alleged policy of underpaying female workers
Apple must face a potential class action alleging that Apple had a policy of paying...
Reddit won’t interfere with users revolting against X with subreddit bans
Reddit is staying out of the current revolt against social media website X and, to...
Wine 10.0 brings Arm Windows apps to Linux, still isn’t an emulator
The open source Wine project—sometimes stylized WINE, for Wine Is Not an Emulator—has become an...
Anthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027
On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities “in...
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 event was an AI presentation with occasional phone hardware
Samsung announced the Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra at its Unpacked event today. What is...
Fast radio burst in long-dead galaxy puzzles astronomers
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are puzzling phenomena because their details are so difficult to resolve,...
Trump announces $500B “Stargate” AI infrastructure project with AGI aims
On Tuesday, OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle, and MGX announced plans to form Stargate, a new company...
The Internet is (once again) awash with IoT botnets delivering record DDoSes
We’re only three weeks into 2025, and it’s already shaping up to be the year...
Google increases investment in Anthropic by another $1 billion
Google is making a fresh investment of more than $1 billion into OpenAI rival Anthropic,...
All the things Nintendo didn’t tell us about the Switch 2
After literal years of speculation and leaks, it was nice to get an actual glimpse...
Bambu Lab pushes a “control system” for 3D printers, and boy, did it not go well
Bambu Lab, a major maker of 3D printers for home users and commercial “farms,” is...
New year, same streaming headaches: Netflix raises prices by up to 16 percent
Today Netflix, the biggest streaming service based on subscriber count, announced that it will increase...
RIP EA’s Origin launcher: We knew ye all too well, unfortunately
After 14 years, EA will retire its controversial Origin game distribution app for Windows, the...