Last May, law enforcement authorities around the world scored a key win when they hobbled the infrastructure of Lumma, an infostealer that infected nearly 395,000 Windows computers over just a...
Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, who illustrated the birth of PCs, dies at 78
On February 1, Robert Tinney, the illustrator whose airbrushed cover paintings defined the look and feel of pioneering computer magazine Byte for over a decade, died at age 78 in...
Yes, Rocket Lab is blowing up engines. No, it’s not a big deal, CEO says.
A little more than two months ago, a Rocket Lab employee called the Stennis Space Center Fire Department from the nearby A3 test stand. There was a grass fire where...
Did seabird poop fuel rise of Chincha in Peru?
A nutrient-rich natural fertilizer Now Bongers has turned his attention to analyzing the biochemical signatures of 35 maize samples excavated from buried tombs in the region. He and his co-authors...
OpenAI researcher quits over ChatGPT ads, warns of “Facebook” path
On Wednesday, former OpenAI researcher Zoë Hitzig published a guest essay in The New York Times announcing that she resigned from the company on Monday, the same day OpenAI began...
“Windows 11 26H1” is a special version of Windows exclusively for new Arm PCs
But for app developers, IT shops, and anyone else who needs to test things against multiple Windows versions at once, it does create an odd period of overlap where they’ll...
Archive.today CAPTCHA page executes DDoS; Wikipedia considers banning site
DDoS hit blog that tried to uncover Archive.today founder’s identity in 2023. Credit: Getty Images | Riccardo Milani Wikipedia editors are discussing whether to blacklist Archive.today because the archive site...
Yet another co-founder departs Elon Musk’s xAI
Other recent high-profile xAI departures include general counsel Robert Keele, communications executives Dave Heinzinger and John Stoll, head of product engineering Haofei Wang, and CFO Mike Liberatore, who left for...
Dewormer ivermectin as cancer cure? RFK Jr.’s NIH funds “absurd” study.
The National Cancer Institute is using federal funds to study whether cancer can be cured by ivermectin, a cheap, off-patent anti-parasitic and deworming drug that fringe medical groups falsely claimed...
Windows’ original Secure Boot certificates expire in June—here’s what you need to do
The second thing to check is the “default db,” which shows whether the new Secure Boot certificates are baked into your PC’s firmware. If they are, even resetting Secure Boot...
Upgraded Google safety tools can now find and remove more of your personal info
Do you feel popular? There are people on the Internet who want to know all about you! Unfortunately, they don’t have the best of intentions, but Google has some handy...
The Kia PV5 electric van combines futuristic looks and thoughtful design
The driver gets a hefty 7.5-inch digital instrument binnacle alongside a 12.9-inch infotainment display. Nearly everything is run through that screen, which is sad for those of us who want...
Alphabet selling very rare 100-year bonds to help fund AI investment
Tony Trzcinka, a US-based senior portfolio manager at Impax Asset Management, which purchased Alphabet’s bonds last year, said he skipped Monday’s offering because of insufficient yields and concerns about overexposure...
After Republican complaints, judicial body pulls climate advice
In short, the state attorneys general object to the document treating facts as facts, as there have been lawsuits that contested them. “Among other things, the Manual states that human...
A Project Hail Mary final trailer? Yes please.
Sure, most Americans are glued to their TVs for today’s Super Bowl and/or the Winter Olympics. But for the non-sports minded, Amazon MGM Studios has released one last trailer for...
Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 2: Frontier Alignment
Coverage of Claude Opus 4.6 started yesterday with the mundane alignment and model welfare sections of the model card. Today covers the kinds of safety I think matter most: Sabotage,...
Claude Opus 4.6: System Card Part 1: Mundane Alignment and Model Welfare
Claude Opus 4.6 is here. It was built with and mostly evaluated by Claude. Their headline pitch includes: 1M token context window (in beta) with State of the art retrieval...
Just look at Ayaneo’s absolute unit of a Windows gaming “handheld”
In 2023, we marveled at the sheer mass of Lenovo’s Legion Go, a 1.88-pound, 11.8-inch-wide monstrosity of a Windows gaming handheld. In 2026, though, Ayaneo unveiled details of its Next...
No humans allowed: This new space-based MMO is designed exclusively for AI agents
For a couple of weeks now, AI agents (and some humans impersonating AI agents) have been hanging out and doing weird stuff on Moltbook’s Reddit-style social network. Now, those agents...
Google experiments with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall
The app’s lyrics feature allows listeners to follow along as the song plays. However, only the first few lines are visible once free users in the test hit the lyric...
