The military’s stable of certified rockets will include Falcon 9, Falcon Heavy, Vulcan, and New Glenn. A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off on June 25, 2024, with a GOES...

AI image generator Midjourney released its first new model in quite some time today; dubbed V7, it’s a ground-up rework that is available in alpha to users now. There are...

“Taken as true, these facts give rise to a plausible inference that defendants at a minimum had reason to investigate and uncover end-user infringement,” Stein wrote. To Stein, the fact...

This morning’s announcement that Nintendo is delaying US preorders for the Switch 2 immediately increased the salience of President Trump’s proposed wide-reaching import tariffs for millions of American Nintendo fans....

A technique that hostile nation-states and financially motivated ransomware groups are using to hide their operations poses a threat to critical infrastructure and national security, the National Security Agency has...

On this day in 1975, Bill Gates and Paul Allen founded a company called Micro-Soft in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The two men had worked together before, as members of the...

Google’s Tulsee Doshi talks vibes and efficiency in Gemini 2.5 Pro. Google was caught flat-footed by the sudden skyrocketing interest in generative AI despite its role in developing the underlying...

European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday. The European Commission determined last...

Here’s how one teen plans to fix schools failing kids affected by nudify apps. When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify...

Placko called the new policy “not just a policy change” but “a seismic shift.” Rob Daviau, who helps run Restoration Games and designed hit games like Pandemic Legacy, has been...

A new Anthropic paper reports that reasoning model chain of thought (CoT) is often unfaithful. They test on Claude Sonnet 3.7 and r1, I’d love to see someone try this...

“The findings are a stark reminder that even the wealthiest Americans are not shielded from the systemic issues in the US contributing to lower life expectancy, such as economic inequality...

As AI hype permeates the Internet, tech and business leaders are already looking toward the next step. AGI, or artificial general intelligence, refers to a machine with human-like intelligence and...

“The idea is that no matter what, at no time and in no way does Gmail ever have the real key. Never,” Julien Duplant, a Google Workspace product manager, told...

Bonobos, great apes related to us and chimpanzees that live in the Republic of Congo, communicate with vocal calls including peeps, hoots, yelps, grunts, and whistles. Now, a team of...

In the wake of the Switch 2 reveal, neither Nintendo nor Nvidia has gone into any detail at all about the exact chip inside the upcoming handheld—technically, we are still...

Monkey see, monkey yodel? That’s how it works for humans, but when it comes to the question of yodeling animals, it depends on how you define yodeling, according to bioacoustician...

Rumors claim Trump consulted chatbots On social media, rumors swirled that the Trump administration got these supposedly fake numbers from chatbots. On Bluesky, tech entrepreneur Amy Hoy joined others posting...

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s enormous booster. The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway...

In addition to the chatbot functionality, NotebookLM can use the source data to build FAQs, briefing summaries, and, of course, Audio Overviews—that’s a podcast-style conversation between two fake people, a...