RFK Jr. is targeting a little-known program that underpins childhood immunizations in the US. US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee...
As White House talks about impounding NASA funding, Congress takes the threat seriously
This year, given the recent action on the budget measures, it is possible that Congress could pass Appropriations legislation for most of the federal government, including NASA before October 1....
Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
While Dębiak won 500,000 yen and survived his ordeal better than the legendary steel driver, the AtCoder World Tour Finals pushes humans and AI models to their limits through complex...
Phishers have found a way to downgrade—not bypass—FIDO MFA
Researchers recently reported encountering a phishing attack in the wild that bypasses a multifactor authentication scheme based on FIDO (Fast Identity Online), the industry-wide standard being adopted by thousands of...
After 5 years in development, the Assassin’s Creed TV series is happening
The long-running video game series Assassin’s Creed will get a live-action TV series adaptation. Variety and The Hollywood Reporter report that Netflix has greenlit the series after years of development...
Netflix’s first show with generative AI is a sign of what’s to come in TV, film
Netflix used generative AI in an original, scripted series that debuted this year, it revealed this week. Producers used the technology to create a scene in which a building collapses,...
Trump’s claims of a Coca-Cola agreement quickly go flat as nutritionists groan
The cloying praise for the still-unconfirmed switch that Coca-Cola has, in fact, not announced was doused with some cold reality from Coca-Cola. While continuing not to confirm the agreement, the...
Dictionary.com “devastated” paid users by abruptly deleting saved words lists
Logophiles are “devastated” after Dictionary.com deleted their logs of favorited words that they carefully crafted for years. The company deleted all accounts, as well as the only ways to use...
GitHub abused to distribute payloads on behalf of malware-as-a-service
Researchers from Cisco’s Talos security team have uncovered a malware-as-a-service operator that used public GitHub accounts as a channel for distributing an assortment of malicious software to targets. The use...
How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
Of course, the trick is that you only send out the warning if there’s an actual earthquake, and not when a truck is passing by. Here, the sheer volume of...
On METR’s AI Coding RCT
METR ran a proper RCT experiment seeing how much access to Cursor (using Sonnet 3.7) would accelerate coders working on their own open source repos. Everyone surveyed expected a substantial...
Experts lay into Tesla safety in federal autopilot trial
For example, she said Tesla “clearly recognized that mode confusion is an issue—this is where people, for example, think the car is in Autopilot and don’t understand that the Autopilot...
Trump admin squanders nearly 800,000 vaccines meant for Africa: Report
Nearly 800,000 doses of mpox vaccine pledged to African countries working to stamp out devastating outbreaks are headed for the waste bin because they weren’t shipped in time, according to...
Court rules Trump broke US law when he fired Democratic FTC commissioner
“Without removal protections, that independence would be jeopardized… Accordingly, the Court held that the FTC Act’s for-cause removal protections were constitutional,” wrote AliKhan, who was appointed to the District Court...
Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign
“Defendants’ misconduct was brazen and egregious,” says Apple’s filing. “After Mr. Prosser learned that Mr. Ramacciotti needed money, and that his friend Ethan Lipnik worked at Apple on unreleased software...
After a partly successful test flight, European firm eyes space station mission
Last month, the parachutes on Hélène Huby’s small spacecraft failed to deploy, and the vehicle and its cargo crashed into the ocean on Earth. It was both a success and a...
Local cuisine was on the menu at Cafe Neanderthal
Gazelle prepared “a la Amud,” or “a la Kebara”? Neanderthals at Kebara had pretty broad tastes in meat. The butchered bones found in the cave were mostly an even mix...
Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president
Donald Trump’s first big crypto win “nothing to crow about,” analyst says. Donald Trump is expected to sign the GENIUS Act into law Friday, securing his first big win as...
Rocket Report: SpaceX won’t land at Johnston Atoll; new North Sea launch site
All the news that’s fit to lift “Europe is seizing the opportunity to lead.” NASA astronauts Mike Fincke (left) and Zena Cardman (right), the pilot and commander of NASA’s SpaceX...
Nothing Phone 3 review: Nothing ventured, nothing gained
The Nothing Phone 3 is the company’s best phone by a wide margin, but is that enough? The Nothing Phone 3 has a distinctive design. Credit: Ryan Whitwam The Nothing...