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Early in the 11th century, a young Benedictine monk named Eilmerhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury jumped from the 150-foot tower of his abbey i...
The summer blockbuster season has kicked offhttps://deadline.com/2026/06/box-office-global-disclosure-day-1236955715/ in earnest with the theatrical release of...
The study only covers living arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks, Stewart said, and doesn’t include dead fungal networks, which also help to store carbon and...
Anthropic completely shut off access to its Mythos 5 and Fable 5 models Friday night, just days after they were launched. The move comes after Anthropic’s recei...
Space Exploration Technologies, better known simply as SpaceX, became a publicly traded company on Friday nearly a quarter of a century after it was founded. Th...
“While several organizations successfully blocked the activity or remediated the vulnerabilities, others experienced compromise, resulting in stolen data being...
Title VII of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act FISA is set to expire at midnight tonight after Congress failed to pass an extension of the controversial...
In November, Jeff Bezos announced that he would become co-CEO of a new startup called Prometheus.https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/with-a-new-company-jeff...
Skip to content This means war? A pending report on climate attribution may be setting the stage for conflict. The National Academies of Science building in Was...
Skip to content Real terminator drones Full autonomy is rare, but Ukraine is installing AI modules on drones and robots. Fully autonomous drones killed Russian...
Playbook to oppose data centers Winning fight against AI data centers gives people a “taste of political power.” It’s clear that communities now have an effecti...
Think globally, worry locally While there’s no risk of big tech companies literally draining the oceans to power the data centers behind their LLMs, even moder...
Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course...
“Unwilling to talk to you” “None of STAT’s FOIA requests have been completed, and some haven’t been acknowledged—despite HHS policy requiring a response with t...
1440 minutes More than 350,000 spectators will watch 62 cars compete, day and night. !LE MANS, FRANCE - JUNE 9: The line up of cars photograph during previews a...
“That was one of the most egregious things that we saw in her chat,” she said. “Even when we saw things about getting support, the sycophancy kicked in.” OpenAI...
Double vision This World Cup, refs will use digital twins of each player to view plays from every angle. Brian Gutierrez of Mexico is fouled by Sphephelo Sithol...
In one of the CDC modeling’s worst-case scenarios, in which only 20 percent of Ebola cases are isolated, most simulations projected more than 20,000 cases and m...
Skip to content Shocked Pikachu face The repurposing of Pokémon Go data for AI training continues to draw scrutiny. A player wearing a hat decorated with Pokemo...
Verizon horror story Failure raises questions about how Verizon prepares refurbished phones for new users. Verizon's operational headquarters in Basking Ridge,...
See you next summer? … NASA chose an experienced, all-male crew with military backgrounds. The individuals were revealed inside a darkened Teague Auditorium whe...
A bill summaryhttps://www.commerce.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/JAWBONE-One-Pager-FINAL.pdf said that under current legal precedent, plaintiffs must pr...
Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which A...
Breathing room “Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say.” File photo of the 70-meter antenna at NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Communicati...
This is no game Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you’re chasing milliseconds. !https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/DMG-1_Moto...
!Evidence of intentional postmortem manipulation in an Iron Age female Britonhttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/briton2-640x506.jpg Postmort...
Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencerhttps://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/02/microsoft-gaming...
The state is also preparing for El Niño conditionshttps://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml later this summer. Oce...
Some assembly required Our ancestors’ genomes were built through successive waves of gene transfers. We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build...
so far so golden AI aside, Golden Gate includes a bunch of subtle-but-helpful improvements. Screenshot Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple Intelligence and Siri AI...
Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7K2j3Rs-Qg Wednesday apologizing for the org...
Wrongful arrest lawsuit Lawsuit: “Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation.” A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a f...
A datasheet PDF https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/mobi-fold-for-business-datasheet.pdffor the device claims the Mobi Fold “is made to withs...
Multiple paths to local efficiency If diffusion is so much faster, why isn’t Google using it in big cloud-based Gemini models? Google has experimented with thi...
Multiple paths to local efficiency If diffusion is so much faster, why isn’t Google using it in big cloud-based Gemini models? Google has experimented with thi...
A deep discussion “I was on the phone with Blue Origin leadership that night, all the next day, all through the weekend.” NASA's Jeremy Parsons monitors the cou...
Potentially impacting all AI search engines and chatbots known to poorly paraphrase source links, a German court has ruledhttps://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content...
Skip to content Close encounters of the unusual kind The US military struck Iran again after an Iranian drone’s lucky midair strike. AH-64 Apache helicopters fl...
For the first time, the American College of Obstetricians & Gynecologists ACOG has released its own recommendations for maternal vaccinationhttps://www.acog.org...
Not in a sto’ no mo’ The end of physical gift cards effectively severs Valve’s last link to the old brick-and-mortar retail world that Steam so effectively kil...
In Comfort mode, the ride is soft, the powertrain is quiet, and the engine cuts out whenever possible. Toggle into GT, and the Prelude’s adaptive dampers stiffe...
The researchers used an AI system trained to identify comments in the dataset that were likely to violate Meta’s current policies in three areas: violence and i...
protect the grid, not drain it There are more than a quarter of a million V2G-capable GM EVs on the roads already. V2G, or vehicle to grid, requires a bidirecti...
Starlink has started charging a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in a shift away from its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time c...
Tuesday’s patch bundle also fixed MiniPlasmahttps://web.archive.org/web/20260521144855/https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/MiniPlasma, a separate vulnerability...
People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paperhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.25377701...
Maybe not five years? Five peer-reviewed papers update the design and model its expected output. The scientific community has a plan for achieving fusion power....
“More films and series in production means more call sheets, more location days, more transportation, casting, and catering work,” Delrahim wrote. Notably, in a...
