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Live Translation Beta T‑Mobile is opening registration today for a beta test of Live Translation, an AI‑powered feature that will translate live phone calls in...
FDA Refuses to Review Moderna’s Experimental Flu Shot Application The Food and Drug Administration FDA has declined to begin a review of Moderna’s application...
Background Discord has moved to calm a user backlash over its upcoming age verification mandate by clarifying that the vast majority of people will never be as...
The Seductive Narrative in American Work Culture An anonymous reader shares a report: the most seductive narrative right now isn’t that AI will take your job,...
Seedance 2.0 Overview China’s Bytedance has released Seedance 2.0, an AI video generator that can handle up to four types of input simultaneously: images, vide...
Report Summary An anonymous reader shares a report: the Trump administration wants some of the world’s largest technology companies to publicly commit to a new...
Background An anonymous reader shares a report: In 1966, a beach‑ball‑size robot bounced across the Moon. Once it rolled to a stop, its four petal‑like covers...
Google expands “Results about you” tool Google on Tuesday expanded its Results about you tool to let users request the removal of Search resultshttps://blog.go...
Population Outlook The U.S., whose population the Census Bureau did not expect to start shrinking until 2081, may record its first-ever declinehttps://www.bloo...
Overview Microsoft has begun automatically replacinghttps://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2026/02/10/refreshing-the-root-of-trust-industry-collaboration-...
Background An anonymous reader reported that a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange ran a promotional campaign in which hundreds of prize payouts were only a f...
Apple and Google have agreed to a set of commitments to the UK's Competition and Markets Authority CMA that will prevent them from giving preferential treatment...
Overview The American economy's most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ...
Tuition Increases The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colle...
Concentration Risk in Speculative‑Grade Credit Deutsche Bank AG analysts warn that the software and technology sectors represent one of the greatest concentrat...
If you think your daily doses of espresso or Earl Grey sharpen your mind, you might be right, new science suggests. The New York Times reports that a large new...
Industrial Scale Deepfake Fraud Deepfake fraud has gone “industrial,” according to an analysis published by AI experts. Tools to create tailored, even personal...
Study Overview A new study published in The Lancet Planetary Health examined how the growing number of electric vehicles EVs and plug‑in hybrids in California...
Study Overview A new NBER working paper authored by researchers at the Federal Reserve, Northwestern's Kellogg School, and Johns Hopkins examines the forecasti...
> Linus Torvalds has confirmed the next major kernel series as Linux 7.0, reports Linux news website 9to5Linux.comhttps://9to5linux.com/linux-7-0-kernel-confirm...
OpenAI has started testing adshttps://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/ inside ChatGPT for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers in...
Overview Anthropic researcher Nicholas Carlini set 16 instances of Claude Opus 4.6 loose on a shared codebase over two weeks to build a C compiler from scratch...
AI-Generated Romance Fiction: An Emerging Issue The romance genre—long the publishing industry's earliest adopter of technological shifts, from e‑books to self...
Google assured it would not commercialize a product under the same name — then filed a trademark application in Tonga I guess a trademark beats “assurance”? Tha...
