Shares in the US tech giant were one of Wall Street’s biggest casualties in the days immediately after Trump announced his reciprocal tariffs. About $700 billion was wiped off Apple’s...
Experimental drug looks to be gastric bypass surgery in pill form
In rats, the drug produced a consistent 1 percent weekly weight loss over a six-week study period while preserving 100 percent of lean muscle mass. In a first-in-human pilot study...
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the Trump White House shared the draft version of its budget request for NASA with the...
Wheel of Time recap: The show nails one of the books’ biggest and bestest battles
Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as...
The Trek Madone SLR 9 AXS Gen 8 tears up the roads and conquers climbs
Trek’s top-of-the-line performance road bike offers some surprises. The Madone SLR 9 Gen 8 AXS with Lake Michigan in the background on a brisk morning ride. Credit: Eric Bangeman When...
Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
The extensions share other dubious or suspicious similarities. Much of the code in each one is highly obfuscated, a design choice that provides no benefit other than complicating the process...
“What the hell are you doing?” How I learned to interview astronauts, scientists, and billionaires
The best part about journalism is not collecting information. It’s sharing it. Sometimes the best place to do an interview is in a clean room. Credit: Lee Hutchinson Sometimes the...
AI isn’t ready to replace human coders for debugging, researchers say
Agents using debugging tools drastically outperformed those that didn’t, but their success rate still wasn’t high enough. Credit: Microsoft Research This approach is much more successful than relying on the...
Turbulent global economy could drive up prices for Netflix and rivals
“… our members are going to be punished.” A scene from BBC’s Doctor Who. Credit: BBC/Disney+ Debate around how much taxes US-based streaming services should pay internationally, among other factors,...
Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe
“As the infectious dose of V. cholerae O1 has been estimated to be 105–108 [100,000 to 100 million] colony-forming units (CFU), this suggests the holy water was heavily contaminated and...
That groan you hear is users’ reaction to Recall going back into Windows
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows 11 that will screenshot, index, and store everything a user...
Chrome’s new dynamic bottom bar gives websites a little more room to breathe
The Internet might look a bit different on Android soon. Last month, Google announced its intent to make Chrome for Android a more immersive experience by hiding the navigation bar...
Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end
Two rare tungsten-centered, hand-crafted cooled anode modulators (CAM) are needed to keep the signal going, and while the BBC bought up the global supply of them, they are running out....
Apple silent as Trump promises “impossible” US-made iPhones
How does Apple solve a problem like Trump’s trade war? Despite a recent pause on some tariffs, Apple remains in a particularly thorny spot as Donald Trump’s trade war spikes...
A guide to the “platonic ideal” of a Negroni and other handy tips
Perfumer by day, mixologist by night, Kevin Peterson specializes in crafting scent-paired cocktails. Kevin Peterson is a “nose” for his own perfume company, Sfumato Fragrances, by day. By night, Sfumato’s...
FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split
After declaring the FTC to be under White House control, Trump fired both Democratic members despite a US law and Supreme Court precedent stating that the president cannot fire commissioners...
Quantum hardware may be a good match for AI
Quantum computers don’t have that sort of separation. While they could include some quantum memory, the data is generally housed directly in the qubits, while computation involves performing operations, called...
On Google’s Safety Plan
I want to start off by reiterating kudos to Google for actually laying out its safety plan. No matter how good the plan, it’s much better to write down and...
ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats
Unlike the older saved memories feature, the information saved via the chat history memory feature is not accessible or tweakable. It’s either on or it’s not. The new approach to...
Researchers concerned to find AI models hiding their true “reasoning” processes
Remember when teachers demanded that you “show your work” in school? Some fancy new AI models promise to do exactly that, but new research suggests that they sometimes hide their...
