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Fired hacker twins forget to end Teams recording, capture own crimes
One little mystery—solved.
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Cell phone users can't stop incriminating themselves
People confide almost everything to their phones.
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Energy supplier abandons Lake Tahoe residents to serve data centers
Town’s 49,000 California residents compete with Nevada data centers for energy.
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AMD promises to bring improved, hardware-backed FSR 4 upscaling to older Radeon GPUs
FSR 4.1 running on RDNA3 or RDNA2 GPUs may take a bigger performance hit.
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Judge probes whether Musk settlement with Trump admin is tainted by corruption
Trump admin wants to let Musk pay $1.5M fine to settle $150 million Twitter suit.
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Zero-day exploit completely defeats default Windows 11 BitLocker protections
It's not entirely clear how the exploit works. Microsoft says it's investigating.
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Your doctor’s AI notetaker may be making things up, Ontario audit finds
Made-up therapy referrals, incorrect prescriptions among the common mistakes.
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Vaporware or not? Aptera assembles its first five validation models.
The three-wheel, two-seat EV has been in development since 2006.
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Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day
Layoffs are "not a savings-driven resutrcture," CFO says.
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Forecasters predict wildfires, floods, severe heatwaves from incoming El Niño
Ocean heat plus human-caused global warming is a grim recipe for deadly climate extremes.
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Motorola Razr Fold review: Fits neatly in your pocket but not your budget
The Razr Fold has a lot going for it, but like all foldables, it's wildly expensive.
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Desperate Trump taps "Tim Apple," Jensen Huang, Elon Musk to attend Xi summit
Xi meeting may force Trump to pivot on semiconductor tariffs and Taiwan.
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Solar drone with jumbo jet wingspan broke a flight record—then it crashed
The final flight and complex legacy of a pioneering solar-powered aircraft.
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FCC angers small carriers by helping AT&T and Starlink buy EchoStar spectrum
Approval is no surprise after FCC chair pressured EchoStar to sell licenses.
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Protein in Homo erectus teeth suggests Denisovans gave us some of their DNA
Distinct form of tooth protein in Homo erectus shows up in Denisovans—and us.
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Foiled plot tried to sneak 49 lbs of cocaine into Australia via Xerox printers
The drugs had an estimated worth of over $9 million USD.
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AI invades Princeton, where 30% of students cheat—but peers won't snitch
Old "honor code" systems are under strain.
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The physics of how Olympic weightlifters exploit barbell's "whip"
The type of bar matters when it comes to how it bends and recoils, but why is still a mystery.
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NASA provides some details about Artemis III, but hard decisions remain
"NASA also is defining the concept of operations for the mission."
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A new US military wargame series began by simulating a nuclear weapon in orbit
US officials have said a nuclear detonation would render portions of low-Earth orbit useless for up to a year.
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Neanderthals drilled cavities to treat a toothache 59,000 years ago
“Every time I go to the dentist, I think about that guy,” researcher says.
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Altman forced to confront claims at OpenAI trial that he's a prolific liar
"Very painful": Altman relives his Muskian reaction to losing control over OpenAI.
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Windows Update is getting better at saving your PC from buggy drivers
Driver recovery can automate what used to be an irritating manual process.
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Amazon devices chief says a new smartphone is “just not the goal”
"We know what customers need right now.”
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Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act “evil”
But training on "synthetic stories" that model good AI behavior can help.
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Gravitational lens shows a galaxy just 800 million years post-Big Bang
Early galaxy has elements produced by the Universe's first supernovae.
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Blue Origin may need external funding to hit ambitious launch targets
Are the pockets of Jeff Bezos not as deep as everyone thinks?
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Daredevil: Born Again S2 gives us a darker, grittier canvas
Cinematographer Hillary Fyfe Spera on how she kept things visually fresh for Born Again’s second season.
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Rivian adds a new onboard AI assistant to its latest software update
The Rivian Assistant is available for both Gen1 and Gen2 hardware.
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Could this be the moment that drug manufacturing takes off in orbit?
"I do think it's a really good historical moment for the space industry."