A jury has awarded WhatsApp $167 million in punitive damages in a case the company brought against Israel-based NSO Group for exploiting a software vulnerability that hijacked the phones of...
The company with the world’s largest aircraft now has a hypersonic rocket plane
“Demonstrating the reuse of fully recoverable hypersonic test vehicles is an important milestone for MACH-TB,” said George Rumford, director of the Test Resource Management Center, in a statement. “Lessons learned...
Trump and DOJ try to spring former county clerk Tina Peters from prison
President Donald Trump is demanding the release of Tina Peters, a former election official who parroted Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy theories and is serving nine years in prison for compromising...
Trump admin picks COVID critic to be top FDA vaccine regulator
Oncologist Vinay Prasad, a divisive critic of COVID-19 responses, will be the next top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration, agency Commissioner Martin Makary announced on social media...
FAA green-lights Starship launches every other week from Starbase
Although we are still waiting for SpaceX to signal when it will fly the Starship rocket again, the company got some good news from the Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday....
Apps like Kindle are already taking advantage of court-mandated iOS App Store changes
As of an update released today, the iOS app still doesn’t allow books to be purchased directly in the app, but you can search Amazon’s virtual bookstore inside the app...
2025 Alfa Romeo Tonale Turbo review: Italian charm that cuts both ways
While it’s nice to see that this feature is standard equipment, the ACC system can be a bit overeager to close the gap between you and the car in front...
Nvidia GeForce xx60 series is PC gaming’s default GPU, and a new one is out May 19
Nvidia will release the GeForce RTX 5060 on May 19 starting at $299, the company announced via press release today. The new card, a successor to popular past GPUs like...
How long will Switch 2’s Game Key Cards keep working?
You could even argue that Nintendo is more likely to offer longer-term support for Game Key Card downloads since backward compatibility seems to be a priority for the Switch hardware...
Trump administration cuts off all future federal funding to Harvard
The ongoing war between the Trump administration and Harvard University has taken a new twist, with the government sending Harvard a letter that, amid what appears to be a stream-of-consciousness...
Zuckerberg’s Dystopian AI Vision
You think it’s bad now? Oh, you have no idea. In his talks with Ben Thompson and Dwarkesh Patel, Zuckerberg lays out his vision for our AI future. I thank...
Tuesday Telescope: After spacewalking, an astronaut strikes lightning
Welcome to the Tuesday Telescope. There is a little too much darkness in this world and not enough light—a little too much pseudoscience and not enough science. We’ll let other...
Man pleads guilty to using malicious AI software to hack Disney employee
A California man has pleaded guilty to hacking an employee of The Walt Disney Company by tricking the person into running a malicious version of a widely used open source...
Heartbreaking video shows deadly risk of skipping measles vaccine
Once SSPE develops, it moves through progressive stages, starting with mood swings, personality changes, depression, lethargy, and possibly fever and headache. This first stage can last up to six months....
Signal clone used by Trump official stops operations after report it was hacked
Waltz was removed from his post late last week, with Trump nominating him to serve as ambassador to the United Nations. TeleMessage website removes Signal mentions The TeleMessage website until...
OpenAI scraps controversial plan to become for-profit after mounting pressure
The restructuring would have also allowed OpenAI to remove the cap on returns for investors, potentially making the firm more appealing to venture capitalists, with the nonprofit arm continuing to...
Google accidentally reveals Android’s Material 3 Expressive interface ahead of I/O
The youths love it. Credit: Google The youths love it. Credit: Google All those studies allegedly revealed that people prefer Material 3 Expressive to the old version. However, that preference...
Hundreds of e-commerce sites hacked in supply-chain attack
Hundreds of e-commerce sites, at least one owned by a large multinational company, were backdoored by malware that executes malicious code inside the browsers of visitors, where it can steal...
Only elites used hallucinogens in ancient Andes society
“The Wari examples are about 1,000 years later, as are the Tiwanaku ones, so maybe it’s not surprising that there should be some variation in how people were using vilca,”...
RIP Skype (2003–2025), survived by multiple versions of Microsoft Teams
Though not the first software to allow video communication over the Internet, Skype was one of the first recognizably modern peer-to-peer video chatting apps. Created by some of the same...