Ferguson said that “similar concerns have resulted in ongoing litigation against Google in other settings” but did not mention that a judge rejected the Republican claims. “Hearing from candidates and...
Starship’s heat shield appears to have performed quite well in test
One of the more curious aspects of the 10th flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket on Tuesday was the striking orange discoloration of the second stage. This could be observed on...
Today’s game consoles are historically overpriced
Overall, though, you can see a clear and significant downward trend to the year-over-year pricing for game consoles released before 2016. After three years on the market, the median game...
Google Pixel 10 series review: Don’t call it an Android
Google’s new Pixel phones are better, but only a little. Left to right: Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, Pixel 10 Pro XL. Credit: Ryan Whitwam Left to right: Pixel 10,...
700-piece Lego G3 iMac design faces long-shot odds to get made, but I still want one
I don’t usually get too excited about user-submitted designs on the Lego Ideas website, especially when those ideas would require negotiating a license with another company—user-generated designs need to reach...
Rocket Report: SpaceX achieved daily launch this week; ULA recovers booster
Firefly Aerospace reveals why its Alpha booster exploded after launch in April. Starship and its Super Heavy booster ascend through a clear sky over Starbase, Texas, on Tuesday evening. A...
Google warns that mass data theft hitting Salesloft AI agent has grown bigger
Google is advising users of the Salesloft Drift AI chat agent to consider all security tokens connected to the platform compromised following the discovery that unknown attackers used some of...
Genetically, Central American mammoths were weird
This led a Mexican-European research collaboration to get interested in finding DNA from elsewhere in the Columbian mammoth’s range, which extended down into Central America. The researchers focused on the...
Video player looks like a 1-inch TV from the ’60s and is wondrous, pointless fun
TV static and remote included. The TinyTV 2 powering off. Credit: Scharon Harding The TinyTV 2 powering off. Credit: Scharon Harding If a family of anthropomorphic mice were to meet...
High-severity vulnerability in Passwordstate credential manager. Patch now.
The maker of Passwordstate, an enterprise-grade password manager for storing companies’ most privileged credentials, is urging them to promptly install an update fixing a high-severity vulnerability that hackers can exploit...
AI #131 Part 1: Gemini 2.5 Flash Image is Cool
Once again we’ve reached the point where the weekly update needs to be split in two. Thus, the alignment and policy coverage will happen tomorrow. Today covers the rest. The...
Trump admin dismisses Endangered Species List as “Hotel California”
“Once a species enters, they never leave,” interior secretary says. But there’s more to the story. A female northern spotted owl catches a mouse on a stick at the Hoopa...
Blogging service TypePad is shutting down and taking all blog content with it
TypePad was a blogging service based on the Movable Type content management system but hosted on TypePad’s site and with other customizations. Both Movable Type and TypePad were originally created...
With recent Falcon 9 milestones, SpaceX vindicates its “dumb” approach to reuse
As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones. Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of...
New dinosaur species is the punk rock version of an ankylosaur
And we have known for sure that the armor was around back then, given that we’ve found the skin-derived osteoderms that comprise the armor in Jurassic deposits. But with little...
As GM prepares to switch its EVs to NACS, it has some new adapters
The first adapter that GM released, which cost $225, allowed CCS1-equipped EVs to connect to a NACS charger. But now, GM will have a range of adapters so that any...
Unpacking Passkeys Pwned: Possibly the most specious research in decades
Researchers take note: When the endpoint is compromised, all bets are off. Don’t believe everything you read—especially when it’s part of a marketing pitch designed to sell security services. The...
Porsche adds digital keys, in-car gaming to 2026 Macan Electric
There’s also a trained parking feature, which lets you record up to five parking routines. Once the car recognizes it’s in a parking environment that it knows, it will offer...
The personhood trap: How AI fakes human personality
Intelligence without agency AI assistants don’t have fixed personalities—just patterns of output guided by humans. Recently, a woman slowed down a line at the post office, waving her phone at...
CDC director has been ousted just weeks after Senate confirmation
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, told the outlet that Monarez “values science, is a solid researcher, and has a history of being a good manager....
