The CAR complaints were dismissed in January 2025 by then-FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel and then revived by Carr after Trump appointed him to the chairmanship. Carr has continued making allegations...
A new open-weights AI coding model is closing in on proprietary options
On Tuesday, French AI startup Mistral AI released Devstral 2, a 123 billion parameter open-weights coding model designed to work as part of an autonomous software engineering agent. The model...
Cable channel subscribers grew for the first time in 8 years last quarter
In a surprising, and likely temporary, turn of events, the number of people paying to watch cable channels has grown. On Monday, research analyst MoffettNathanson released its “Cord-Cutting Monitor Q3...
Kindle Scribe Colorsoft brings color e-ink to Amazon’s 11-inch e-reader
From left to right: the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, the updated Kindle Scribe, and the lower-end Scribe without a front-lit screen. Credit: Amazon Our review of the regular Kindle Colorsoft came...
US taking 25% cut of Nvidia chip sales “makes no sense,” experts say
Trump’s odd Nvidia reversal may open the door for China to demand Blackwell access. Donald Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to export an advanced artificial intelligence chip, the H200, to...
After key Russian launch site is damaged, NASA accelerates Dragon supply missions
With a key Russian launch pad out of service, NASA is accelerating the launch of two Cargo Dragon spaceships in order to ensure that astronauts on board the International Space...
Ugly infotainment mars the 2025 Subaru Forester Hybrid experience
Although many of us associate it with rally-derived machinery from the late 1990s and early 2000s, these days, Subaru has mostly abandoned its performance cars to concentrate on its true...
This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.) This artist’s impression shows what the fire at Barnham might have looked like. Credit: Craig Williams, The Trustees...
Sperm donor with rare cancer mutation fathered nearly 200 children in Europe
A single sperm donor who carries a rare cancer-causing genetic mutation has fathered at least 197 children across 14 countries in Europe, according to a collaborative investigation by 14 European...
Impeachment articles filed against RFK Jr., claiming abuse of power
“Reckless” Stevens’ impeachment articles were directly supported by a grassroots political organization advocating for the country’s scientific community, called Stand Up for Science. Colette Delawalla, the group’s founder and CEO,...
Selling H200s to China Is Unwise and Unpopular
AI is the most important thing about the future. It is vital to national security. It will be central to economic, military and strategic supremacy. This is true regardless of...
Big Tech joins forces with Linux Foundation to standardize AI agents
Big Tech has spent the past year telling us we’re living in the era of AI agents, but most of what we’ve been promised is still theoretical. As companies race...
Supreme Court appears likely to approve Trump’s firing of FTC Democrat
Justice Samuel Alito suggested that a ruling for Slaughter could open the way for Congress to convert various executive branch agencies into “multi-member commissions with members protected from plenary presidential...
NASA astronauts will have their own droid when they go back to the Moon
Artemis IV will mark the second lunar landing of the Artemis program and build upon what is learned at the moon’s south pole on Artemis III. “After his voyage to...
Court: “Because Trump said to” may not be a legally valid defense
In one of those cases, a judge lifted the hold on construction, ruling that a lack of a sound justification for the hold made it “the height of arbitrary and...
Google is reviving wearable gesture controls, but only for the Pixel Watch 4
Long ago, Google’s Android-powered wearables had hands-free navigation gestures. Those fell by the wayside as Google shredded its wearable strategy over and over, but gestures are back, baby. The Pixel...
Brazil weakens Amazon protections days after COP30
Backed by powerful corporations, nations are giving public false choices: Environmental protection or economic growth. Deforestation fire in the Amazon rainforest. Credit: Brasil2 Despite claims of environmental leadership and promises...
Pompeii construction site confirms recipe for Roman concrete
Back in 2023, we reported on MIT scientists’ conclusion that the ancient Romans employed “hot mixing” with quicklime, among other strategies, to make their famous concrete, giving the material self-healing...
In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars
The committee also looked at different types of campaigns to determine which would be most effective for completing the science objectives noted above. The campaign most likely to be successful,...
Asked why we need Golden Dome, the man in charge points to a Hollywood film
“If they see how prepared we are, no one starts a nuclear war.” A test of the nation’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, in 2019....