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Swiss voters overwhelmingly approvedhttps://www.bk.admin.ch/ch/d/pore/va/20260308/can6822.html a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical...

Background An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News detailing a classified U.S. intelligence mission that obtained a previously unknown weapon that ma...

Overview After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation announced a new study by researchers at the SETI Institute...

Background System76 isn’t the only one criticizing new age‑verification laws. The blog 9to5Linux published an informal look at discussions happening across var...

Colliding black holes were first detected through spacetime ripples in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational‑Wave Observatory LIGO, notes Space.com. Si...

AI Not Considered Human in Recent Court Decisions Stephen Thaler Copyright Case On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit filed by artist...

Overview CNN reports on Automated Architecture AUAR, a company that builds “portable” micro‑factories equipped with a robotic arm to produce wooden framing pan...

Remote Robotic Surgery Milestone > “A surgeon in London says he has performed the UK's first long-distance robotic operation,” reports the BBC, “on a patient l...

Steam on Linux Usage Statistics 'In November, Steam on Linux usage hit an all‑time high of 3.2%,' reports Phoronix. In December, it rose further to 3.58%. Janu...

Funding OpenAI’s former chief research officer is raising $70 million for a new startup that will build an AI‑driven software platform to automate manufacturin...

Overview Roughly two thirds of Node.js users are running unsupported or outdated versions, according to data from the Node.js nonprofit steward, OpenJS. Node.j...

Background When Block cut 4,000 jobs—nearly half its workforce—co‑founder Jack Dorsey “pointed to AI as the culprit,” writes Entrepreneur magazine. Dorsey clai...

Introduction Cornell University makes an announcement: Workers who love “synergizing paradigms” might be bad at their jobshttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

Palantir CEO’s warning Palantir’s CEO was blunt on X: > “If Silicon Valley believes we are going to take away everyone's white‑collar job… and you’re going to...

Background The United States has tinkered with the clock intermittently since railroads standardized time zones in 1883, and many other countries have done the...

Hyundai Ioniq 6 Discontinuation Hyundai is discontinuing its most affordable electric sedan after just three years on the market, according to USA Today. Intro...

Overview Steven Spielberg, who directed the original Jurassic Park film nearly 30 years ago, serves as executive producer on The Dinosaurs, a four‑part documen...

Background NASA announced a new studyhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aea4259 documenting a historic first: “the first time a human‑made object has m...

Overview Japan has approved two groundbreaking stem‑cell therapies—one for Parkinson’s disease and another for severe heart failure. The approvals are expected...

Resignation Announcement In a tweet that has been viewed 1.3 million times in the last six hours, OpenAI’s head of robotics announced their resignation. They w...

Discovery of an Almost‑Dark Galaxy Astronomers have identified a galaxy, CDG‑2, located about 300 million light‑years from Earth that appears to be composed of...

Overview 'It took Anthropic's most advanced artificial‑intelligence model about 20 minutes to find its first Firefox browser bug during an internal test of its...

The Wall Street Journal reported that Anthropic’s most advanced artificial‑intelligence model discovered its first Firefox browser bug in about 20 minutes durin...