Settlement comes more than 6 years after Gary DeMercurio and Justin Wynn’s ordeal began. Two security professionals who were arrested in 2019 after performing an authorized security assessment of a county courthouse in Iowa will receive $600,000 to settle a lawsuit they brought alleging wrongful arrest and defamation. The…
New “Prism” workspace launches just as studies show AI-assisted papers are flooding journals with diminished quality. On Tuesday, OpenAI released a free AI-powered workspace for scientists. It’s called Prism, and it has drawn immediate skepticism from researchers who fear the tool will accelerate the already overwhelming flood of low-quality…
We have no proof that AI models suffer, but Anthropic acts like they might for training purposes. Anthropic’s secret to building a better AI assistant might be treating Claude like it has a soul—whether or not anyone actually believes that’s true. But Anthropic isn’t saying exactly what it believes…
EVs that were once industry-leading have long since been left behind. Yesterday afternoon, following the end of trading on Wall Street for the day, Tesla published its financial results for 2025. They weren’t particularly good: Profits were almost halved, and revenues declined year on year for the first time…
As climate costs rise, states are passing legislation so fossil fuel can pay their share. Illinois lawmakers plan to introduce a climate change superfund bill in the state legislature this session, the latest in a growing number of states seeking to make fossil fuel companies pay up for the…
During cocoon phase, young, supermassive black holes are surrounded by high-density gas. When the James Webb Space Telescope sent its first high-definition infrared images back to Earth, astronomers noticed several tiny, glowing, crimson stains. These objects, quickly named “Little Red Dots,” were too bright to be normal galaxies, and…
More than half its profit came from emissions credits as sales fell 8.6 percent. Tesla published its financial results for 2025 this afternoon. If 2024 was a bad year for the electric automaker, 2025 was far worse: For the first time in Tesla’s history, revenues fell year over year.…
One of the last holdouts for ransomware discussions, RAMP is taken down. RAMP—the predominantly Russian-language online bazaar that billed itself as the “only place ransomware allowed”—had its dark web and clear web sites seized by the FBI as the agency tries to combat the growing scourge threatening critical infrastructure…
For the Mac versions of pro apps, things aren’t actually changing much (yet). Apple’s new Creator Studio subscription bundle officially launches today, offering access to a wide range of updated professional apps for an all-or-nothing price of $12.99 a month or $129 a year. Teachers and students can get…
Despite proof-of-concept video, EA’s Frostbite Engine servers are difficult to pick apart. On January 12, EA shut down the official servers for Anthem, making Bioware’s multiplayer sci-fi adventure completely unplayable for the first time since its troubled 2019 launch. Last week, though, the Anthem community woke up to a…
