Archive of Stories for Last 7 days

Medal Disney Sued by Law Firm Wanting to Use 'Steamboat Willie' in Its Ads 25
Medal Glitches Humiliated Zuck in Smart Glasses Launch. Meta CTO Explains What Happened 37
Medal PIRG, Other Groups Criticize Microsoft's Plan to Discontinue Support for Windows 10 68
Google Temporarily Pauses AI-Powered 'Homework Helper' Button in Chrome Over Cheating Concerns 44
Interlune Signs $300M Deal to Harvest Helium-3 for Quantum Computing from the Moon 48
Medal 6,000 Evacuated During Defusing of American WWII Bomb Found Buried in Hong Kong 58
Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe's Major Airports 6
Doomed 'Cannibal' Star Could Explode In a Supernova Visible During Day 24
There Isn't an AI Bubble - There Are Three 52
Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike's 26
Medal C++ Committee Prioritizes 'Profiles' Over Rust-Style Safety Model Proposal 71
Study Links Microplastic Exposure to Alzheimer's Disease in Mice 15
Is OpenAI's Video-Generating Tool 'Sora' Scraping Unauthorized YouTube Clips? 18
Librarians Are Being Asked To Find AI-Hallucinated Books 46
Hard-Fought Treaty To Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle 22
Africa's Only Internet Cable Repair Ship Keeps the Continent Online 6
Medal Medal Pentagon Demands Journalists Pledge To Not Obtain Unauthorized Material 236
Sold on Walmart, Sent by Amazon: The Weird New World of Online Retail 41
Decline in K-12 National Reading, Math, Science Scores Probed By US Senate Panel 99
Record-Low 35% in US Satisfied With K-12 Education Quality 107
Medal Medal President To Impose $100,000 Fee For H-1B Worker Visas, White House Says 226
Microsoft Hikes US Xbox Prices Citing Economic Environment 45
Meta Pushes Into Power Trading as AI Sends Demand Soaring 17
AI Tool Detects LLM-Generated Text in Research Papers and Peer Reviews 24
China's Xiaomi To Remotely Fix Assisted Driving Flaw in 110,000 SU7 Cars 26
Medal What's Happening To Wholesale Electricity Prices? 113
Austria's Armed Forces Switch To LibreOffice 39
Paris DVD Rental Store in Last Stand Against Streaming Giants 42
Valve To Drop Steam Support For 32-Bit Windows Versions Next Year 38
SoftBank Vision Fund To Lay Off 20% of Employees in Shift To Bold AI Bets 21
This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been Catastrophic 32
Microsoft is Filling Teams With AI Agents 57
China's Future Rests on 200 Million Precarious Workers 103
Intel Says Blockbuster Nvidia Deal Doesn't Change Its Own Roadmap 25
Google Adds Gemini To Chrome Desktop Browser for US Users 57
FTC and Seven States Sue Ticketmaster Over Alleged Coordination With Scalpers 58
Medal Medal Samsung Brings Ads To US Fridges 242
China's DeepSeek Says Its Hit AI Model Cost Just $294,000 To Train 60
Amazon Violated Online Shopper Protection Law, Judge Rules Ahead of Prime Signup Trial 21
Medal $599 MacBook With iPhone Chip Expected To Enter Production This Year 121
How Americans View AI and Its Impact on People and Society 55
Nvidia To Invest $5 Billion in Intel 49
Medal Gen Z Leads Biggest Drop In FICO Scores Since Financial Crisis 105
LimeWire Acquires Fyre Festival Brand 36
Color-Changing Organogel Stretches 46 Times Its Size and Self-Heals 24
Medal Medal China Is Sending Its World-Beating Auto Industry Into a Tailspin 205
DeepSeek Writes Less-Secure Code For Groups China Disfavors 36
After Child's Trauma, Chatbot Maker Allegedly Forced Mom To Arbitration For $100 Payout 35
GNOME 49 'Brescia' Desktop Environment Released 22
Chimps Drinking a Lager a Day in Ripe Fruit, Study Finds 53
Sony Quietly Downgrades PS5 Digital Edition Storage To 825GB at Same Price 16
Congress Asks Valve, Discord, and Twitch To Testify On 'Radicalization' 137
Flying Cars Crash Into Each Other At Air Show In China 40
Microsoft Favors Anthropic Over OpenAI For Visual Studio Code 7
Gemini AI Solves Coding Problem That Stumped 139 Human Teams At ICPC World Finals 73
Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide 55
AI's Ability To Displace Jobs is Advancing Quickly, Anthropic CEO Says 50
Darkest Nights Are Getting Lighter 26
OpenAI Says Models Programmed To Make Stuff Up Instead of Admitting Ignorance 90
Corals Won't Survive a Warmer Planet, a New Study Finds 44
After Years of Resistance, Apple Might Finally Release a Touchscreen MacBook Pro 40
Business Insider Reportedly Tells Journalists They Can Use AI To Draft Stories 17
Is TV's Golden Age (Officially) Over? A Statistical Analysis 72
Anthropic Denies Federal Agencies Use of Claude for Surveillance Tasks 19
Medal Gas Stove Makers Quietly Delete Air Pollution Warnings as They Fight Mandatory Health Labels 153
Medal Medal Permanent Standard Time Could Cut Strokes, Obesity Among Americans 191
China Tells Its Tech Companies To Stop Buying All of Nvidia's AI Chips 52
Scientists Find That Ice Generates Electricity When Bent 23
A New Report Finds China's Space Program Will Soon Equal That of the US 93
ChatGPT Will Guess Your Age and Might Require ID For Age Verification 111
Microsoft Announces $30 Billion Investment In AI Infrastructure, Operations In UK 22
Fedora Linux 43 Beta Released 9
Medal Taliban Leader Bans Wi-Fi In an Afghan Province To 'Prevent Immorality' 153
Medal Consumer Reports Asks Microsoft To Keep Supporting Windows 10 137
Another Lawsuit Blames an AI Company of Complicity In a Teenager's Suicide 62
Verizon To Offer $20 Broadband In California To Obtain Merger Approval 17
Waymo Gets Green Light For Airport Service in San Francisco 15
Nature Editorial Calls for Rail Renaissance as Networks Mark 200 Years 80
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford Tells Borderlands 4 Critics To 'Code Your Own Engine,' Calls It a Game For 'Premium Gamers' 65
Perceived Importance of College Hits New Low 79
Apollo Explores Sale of Internet Pioneer AOL 35
Zoom CEO Latest Executive To Forecast Shortened Workweeks From AI Adoption 52
MBAs Cost More and Are Less Profitable as ROI Falls 18
The Mac App Flea Market 40
Medal Medal An Unresponsive Public Is Undermining Government Economic Data 159
Google Releases VaultGemma, Its First Privacy-Preserving LLM 22
UK's MI5 'Unlawfully' Obtained Data From Former BBC Journalist 42
Online Marketplace Fiverr To Lay Off 30% of Workforce In AI Push 41
OpenAI's First Study On ChatGPT Usage 20
FTC Probes Whether Ticketmaster Does Enough To Stop Resale Bots 38
'Meta Ray-Ban Display' Glasses Design, HUD Clips Leak 25
Robinhood Plans To Launch a Startups Fund Open To All Retail Investors 21
Vibe Coding Has Turned Senior Devs Into 'AI Babysitters' 85
Internet Archive Ends Legal Battle With Record Labels Over Historic Recordings 41
How California Reached a Union Deal With Tech Giants Uber and Lyft 15
Airlines Sell 5 Billion Plane Ticket Records To the Government For Warrantless Searching 103
TikTok Deal 'Framework' Reached With China 17
Microsoft's Office Apps Now Have Free Copilot Chat Features 26
Hard Drive Shortage Intensifies as AI Training Data Pushes Lead Times Beyond 12 Months 22
President Calls for Six-Month Corporate Reporting Cycle, Citing Cost Savings 109
Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers 37
A Third of UK Firms Using 'Bossware' To Monitor Workers' Activity, Survey Reveals 23
Apple Ships iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe 26 With 'Liquid Glass' UI Overhaul 33
AI's Economic Boost Isn't Showing Up in US GDP, Goldman Says 78
Anthropic Finds Businesses Are Mainly Using AI To Automate Work 23
Medal Medal 'USB-A Isn't Going Anywhere, So Stop Removing the Port' 243
Google Shifts Android Security Updates To Risk-Based Triage System 2
AI Triggers 70% Collapse in Fresh Graduate Hiring at India's IT Giants That Employ 5.4 Million 51
Medal Medal 'If We Want Bigger Wind Turbines, We're Gonna Need Bigger Airplanes' 184
Medal What Happens After the Death of Social Media? 111
A New Nuclear Rocket Concept Could Slash Mars Travel Time in Half 47
UK's Data Watchdog Warns Students Are Breaching Their Schools' IT Systems 56
Medal Medal The World's EV Owners Discover Unheated Batteries Lose Distance in Freezing Weather 173
Tens of Thousands of US Emergency Workers Trained on How to Handle a Robotaxi 21
Apple Claims 'Most Significant Upgrade to Memory Safety' in OS History 39
Medal Japan Sets Record: Nearly 100,000 People Aged Over 100 67
African Island Demanding Government Action Punished with Year-Long Internet Outage 42
America's FTC Opens New Probe into Amazon and Google Advertising Practices 12
Can Lab-Grown Coral Restore Reefs Damaged By Climate Change? 40
Microsoft Escapes EU Competition Probe by Unbundling Teams for Seven Years, Opening API 31
Medal Most Earth-Like Planet Yet May Have Been Found Just 40 Light Years Away 69