First we must covered Moltbook. Now we can double back and cover OpenClaw. Do you want a generally impowered, initiative-taking AI agent that has access to your various accounts and...
Looking back at Catacomb 3D, the game that led to Wolfenstein 3D
No longer keen on more Commander Keen While id’s decision to lean into fast, action-oriented first-person games might seem obvious in retrospect, the video reveals that it was far from...
Streaming service Crunchyroll raises prices weeks after killing its free tier
Crunchyroll is one of the most popular streaming platforms for anime viewers. Over the past six years, the service has raised prices for fans, and today, it announced that it’s...
SpaceX acquires xAI, plans to launch a massive satellite constellation to power it
We’re going to need more X’s “This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI’s mission.” SpaceX’s Starship and Super Heavy booster lift off...
Russian drones use Starlink, but Ukraine has plan to block their Internet access
Ukraine and SpaceX say they recently collaborated to stop strikes by Russian drones using Starlink and will soon block all unregistered use of Starlink terminals in an attempt to stop...
Court orders restart of all US offshore wind construction
Based on reporting elsewhere, some of the judges viewed the classified report that was used to justify the order to halt construction, but they didn’t find it persuasive. In one...
Notepad++ users take note: It’s time to check if you’re hacked
According to independent researcher Kevin Beaumont, three organizations told him that devices inside their networks that had Notepad++ installed experienced “security incidents” that “resulted in hands on keyboard threat actors,”...
A century of hair samples proves leaded gas ban worked
Science also produced a hero in this saga: Caltech geochemist Clair Patterson. Along with George Tilton, Patterson developed a lead-dating method and used it to calculate the age of the...
Ongoing RAM crisis prompts Raspberry Pi’s second price hike in two months
The ongoing AI-fueled shortages of memory and storage chips has hit RAM kits and SSDs for PC builders the fastest and hardest, meaning it’s likely that, for other products that...
Judge rules Department of Energy’s climate working group was illegal
But the flaws weren’t limited to scientific deficiencies. Two advocacy organizations, the Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists, sued, alleging that the Climate Working Group violated various provisions...
DOJ released Epstein files with dozens of nudes and victims’ names, reports say
DOJ reportedly failed to redact nearly 40 nude photos and 43 victims’ names. Epstein survivor Haley Robson holds up a photo of her younger self during a news conference on...
Welcome to Moltbook
Moltbook is a public social network for AI agents modeled after Reddit. It was named after a new agent framework that was briefly called Moltbot, was originally Clawdbot and is...
At NIH, a power struggle over institute directorships deepens
The research agency has 27 institute and center directors. Will those roles become politicized? When a new presidential administration comes in, it is responsible for filling around 4,000 jobs sprinkled...
Fungus could be the insecticide of the future
Exterminators keep getting calls for a reason. Wood-devouring insects, such as beetles, termites, and carpenter ants, are constantly chewing through walls or infecting trees and breaking them down. The fight...
Research roundup: 6 cool stories we almost missed
A lip-syncing robot, Leonardo’s DNA, and new evidence that humans, not glaciers, moved stones to Stonehenge Credit: Yuhang Hu/Creative Machines Lab It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough...
A cup of coffee for depression treatment has better results than microdosing
The effect of microdosing have been overstated, at least when it comes to depression. About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection...
Rocket Report: How a 5-ton satellite fell off a booster; will SpaceX and xAI merge?
ESA to study Falcon 9 breakup over Poland. The European Space Agency has published a call to tender for a study examining the reentry and breakup of a SpaceX Falcon...
Inside Nvidia’s 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device ever
“Selfishly a little bit, we built Shield for ourselves.” The Shield TV has that classic Nvidia aesthetic. Credit: Ryan Whitwam The Shield TV has that classic Nvidia aesthetic. Credit: Ryan...
The TV industry finally concedes that the future may not be in 8K
Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day. In 2012, Sharp brought the first 8K TV prototype to...
ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face
“I am concerned that border patrol and other federal enforcement agencies now have my license plate and personal information, and that I may be detained or arrested again in the...