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Outside experts and watchdogs suspect that before the first meeting in July, Kennedy will work to stack the advisory board with questionably qualified allies wh...
Background Scientists are often advised to explain their work in terms that a child can understand—a task that is particularly challenging when it comes to com...
The Trump administration last month decided to drop out of the case that began during the Biden era. The US blindsided stateshttps://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...
The problem, as detailed by Hagenah on the TotalRecall GitHub pagehttps://github.com/xaitax/TotalRecall, isn’t with the security around the Recall database, whi...
The first Gemini desktop app, now on Mac There’s currently no Google search app for macOS, but Google has the AI side covered with the new Gemini app. This is...
Robots such as Boston Dynamics’ four‑legged Spot can now accurately read analog thermometers and pressure gauges while roaming around factories and warehouses....
Incident Overview A Reddit user posted a thread titled “WHATS NEXT? THE STREAM GOES OUT IN GAME 7 OF THE FINALS FOR THE LAST SHOT?” — the post has garnered 314...
Background The Godzilla franchise is going strong in 2026, with Apple TV’s Monarch: Legacy of Monstershttps://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/meet-the-new-tent...
Chinese drone companies DJI, the market‑share leader, and its smaller rival Autel have yet to receive exemptions. “If the router Conditional Approval process fo...
Personalization and Memory Features Adobe says its AI can learn from users over time about favorite tools and stylistic preferences. While this could be useful...
Statement from Ford CEO The risk to almost a million U.S. jobs is too great to allow imports of Chinese vehicles, according to Ford CEO Jim Farley. In an inter...
Trailer Synopsis Good Omens 3 picks up where the ineffable story left off in Season Two as the beloved and unlikely duo—angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley—retu...
While Allbirds investors still need to officially approve the company’s new direction at a coming meeting, they seem excited about the move so far. As of this w...
Reporting Prediction Market Winnings Traders who treat prediction‑market earnings as gambling winnings face a cumbersome reporting process. Bettors must track...
Robots reporting for duty By comparison, ground robot usage in the Russo‑Ukrainian war has been relatively modest, with Ukraine reporting thousands of ground r...
Sony is removing several features from its recent Bravia smart TVs next month, affecting users who rely on an antenna or a set‑top box. As of late May 2026, peo...
Price hikes for Surface PCs If you’ve been waiting for Microsoft to update its Surface PC lineup—perhaps with Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon X2 Elite processors—I’v...
Mythos AI test results Here, Mythos outshone all previous models, becoming “the first model to solve TLO from start to finish,” AISI said. While Anthropic’s ne...
Overview Google says it has been working with early testers to see how people use Gemini when they can save and recall prompts instantly. Examples - Calculatin...
Background Google says the back button should always do what you expect it to do—go back. Anything else amounts to a deceptive user experience that can discour...
“Every frontier model we evaluated lost money over the season and many experienced ruin,” the authors of the paper concluded, with the AI “systematically underp...
Reentry and Splashdown NASA’s Orion spacecraft, named Integrity, re‑entered Earth’s atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, blazing a trail over t...
Lawsuit Overview Several Californians sued Sutter Health and MemorialCare this week, alleging that an AI transcription tool was used to record them without the...
Windows Insider Program Gets a Make‑over Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable. !Windows 11 dark wallpaperhttps://cdn.ars...
Mixing corn starch and water in appropriate amounts produces a slurry that is liquid when stirred slowly but hardens when you punch it—a substance colorfully du...
Pay with your wallet or your attention Unlike most streaming services, those who can’t stomach YouTube’s latest price increase have an option. Free users can b...
These days, it seems like every tech company and their corporate parent is looking to squeeze AI tools and features into their products, whether they’re wanted...
NASA’s new administrator, Jared Isaacman, also had questions when he took the job in December 2025. In January, after a review, Isaacman announced he had “full...
Background On Monday, a notice in the Federal Register indicated that the charter for the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices ACIP was being ren...
Background Anthropic argues that, despite Claude being a large language model programmed by its creators, it makes sense to analyze it for “unconscious pattern...
Overview Amid customer dissatisfaction with Broadcom’s VMware takeover, rivals are attempting to lure customers away from the leading virtualization firm. Nuta...
Catalysts for the split Even those factors might not have been sufficient, but the authors also identified three possible catalysts. In 2014, five adult males...
Production Shift at the Chattanooga Plant “The Chattanooga plant has been, and will continue to be, a cornerstone of Volkswagen’s strategy in the United States...
Volkswagen's ID.4 Production Update “The Chattanooga plant has been, and will continue to be, a cornerstone of Volkswagen’s strategy in the United States,” sai...
A corporal in the Pennsylvania State Police pleaded guilty to a series of crimes that included rummaging through coworkers’ underwear, possessing a stolen gun,...
Man kept making AI nudes after arrest The Take It Down Act was passed in May 2025, and Strahler was arrested on federal charges by June. The Federal Bureau of...
Routine methods Test‑negative case‑control design studies have been widely used to assess the effectiveness of many types of vaccines. In fact, the CDC publish...
Tesla is really bad at this It is important to note that, according to Reuters’ sources, Tesla has not yet greenlit this new EV for production. And while the i...
Background The Trump administration wants to require health‑insurance companies to provide detailed, identifiable medical records for millions of federal worke...
Browser Scanning Background LinkedIn is facing two class‑action lawsuits over its practice of scanning users’ browsers to determine which extensions they are r...
Hackers working on behalf of the Iranian government are disrupting operations at multiple U.S. critical infrastructure sites, likely in response to the country’...
Meta on Wednesday announced Sparkhttps://about.fb.com/news/2026/04/introducing-muse-spark-meta-superintelligence-labs/, the first AI model in the Muse family th...
New Moto G Stylus Motorola announced the 2026 Moto G Stylus, a mid‑range phone that adds a stylus to the lineup. Apart from a slightly larger battery and basic...
Price Increase Overview Motorola announced the 2026 Moto G Stylus, a mid‑range phone that adds a stylus to the lineup. The device launches at $500, $100 more t...
“That is not the law,” the judge wrote, noting that such a theory would allow a charitable donor like Musk to sue at basically any time, without limitations. “A...
Geopolitical concerns Allowing Iran to continue to control the crucial waterway is likely to be highly unpalatable to Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, Qatar...
Allowing Iran to continue to control the crucial waterway is likely to be highly unpalatable to Gulf states including Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. It also...
Background In February, Valve gave Steam client beta users the option to share anonymized framerate data and hardware informationhttps://store.steampowered.com...
