“It does feel like we’re Wile E. Coyote” The threat posed by Trump’s administration is on a “new level,” environmental groups and legal experts say. Donald Trump listens as coal...
We finally know a little more about Amazon’s super-secret satellites
“Elon thinks we can do the job with cheaper and simpler satellites, sooner,” a source told Reuters at the time of Badyal’s dismissal. Earlier in 2018, SpaceX launched a pair...
Health care company says Trump tariffs will cost it $60M–$70M this year
In the call, Grade noted that only a small fraction of Baxter’s total sales are in China. But, “given the magnitude of the tariffs that have been enacted between the...
DOJ confirms it wants to break up Google’s ad business
In the trial, Google will paint this demand as a severe overreach, claiming that few, if any, companies would have the resources to purchase and run the products. Last year,...
Editorial: Censoring the scientific enterprise, one grant at a time
Recent grant terminations are a symptom of a widespread attack on science. Over the last two weeks, in response to Executive Order 14035, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has discontinued...
Judge on Meta’s AI training: “I just don’t understand how that can be fair use”
Judge downplayed Meta’s “messed up” torrenting in lawsuit over AI training. A judge who may be the first to rule on whether AI training data is fair use appeared skeptical...
Microsoft’s new “passwordless by default” is great but comes at a cost
Microsoft says it’s making passwordless logins the default means for signing in to new accounts, as the company helps drive an industry-wide push to transition away from passwords and the...
Texas goes after toothpaste in escalating fight over fluoride
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is investigating two leading toothpaste makers over their use of fluoride, suggesting that they are “illegally marketing” the teeth cleaners to parents and kids “in...
OpenAI Preparedness Framework 2.0
Right before releasing o3, OpenAI updated its Preparedness Framework to 2.0. I previously wrote an analysis of the Preparedness Framework 1.0. I still stand by essentially everything I wrote in...
DOGE put a college student in charge of using AI to rewrite regulations
The DOGE operative has been tasked with rewrites to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. A young man with no government experience who has yet to even complete his...
Rocket Report: Starbase the city is coming soon; Alpha remains in beta
All the news that’s fit to lift “A commitment to keeping on with the Moon mission is the key requirement.” Europe’s Biomass satellite has launched aboard a Vega-C rocket from...
“Older than Google,” this Elder Scrolls wiki has been helping gamers for 30 years
Interviewing the people behind the 30-year-old Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages. The team is still keeping up with new updates, including for Oblivion Remastered. Credit: Kyle Orland The team is still...
Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests
A new study analyzing the Danish labor market in 2023 and 2024 suggests that generative AI models like ChatGPT have had almost no significant impact on overall wages or employment...
Why MFA is getting easier to bypass and what to do about it
These sorts of adversary-in-the-middle attacks have grown increasingly common. In 2022, for instance, a single group used it in a series of attacks that stole more than 10,000 credentials from...
New study accuses LM Arena of gaming its popular AI benchmark
This study also calls out LM Arena for what appears to be much greater promotion of private models like Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude. Developers collect data on model interactions from...
Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
Being a model citizen and a person of taste, you probably don’t need this reminder, but some others do: Federal judges do not like it when lawyers electronically watermark every...
New material may help us build Predator-style thermal vision specs
One way to do that is called remote epitaxy, where an intermediate layer made out of graphene or other material is introduced between the substrate and the growing crystals. Once...
Sen. Susan Collins blasts Trump for cuts to scientific research
This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine)...
The 2025 Aston Martin Vantage: Achingly beautiful and thrilling to drive
The new infotainment human-machine interface was a little confusing at first; pairing my phone took about 10 minutes but worked out in the end, and wireless Apple CarPlay behaved itself...
AI #114: Liars, Sycophants and Cheaters
Gemini 2.5 Pro is sitting in the corner, sulking. It’s not a liar, a sycophant or a cheater. It does excellent deep research reports. So why does it have so...