“Russia and China already occupy important strategic hills and mountains in space.” Germany’s defense minister, Boris Pistorius, said Thursday that it’s time for his country to consider putting “offensive capabilities” in space after revealing Russian spacecraft are tracking two communications satellites used by the German military. Speaking at the…
New mobile chatbot feature analyzes conversations overnight. On Thursday, OpenAI announced ChatGPT Pulse, a new “push” feature that generates personalized daily updates for users without having to ask each time. The preview feature, available now for Pro subscribers on mobile, marks OpenAI’s latest attempt to make ChatGPT proactive rather…
Drug patents frequently cite research that the NIH wouldn’t be able to fund. The proposed federal budget would see drastic cuts made to most of the agencies that fund science. The sheer magnitude of the cuts—including a 40 percent slashing of money going to the National Institutes of Health—would…
AI-selected portfolios might perform well in a growing market, but experts warn of downturn risks. With AI chatbots growing in popular usage, it was only a matter of time before large numbers of people began applying them to the stock market. In fact, at least 1 in 10 retail…
Tech firms pressed to explain if H-1B workers are paid less than US workers. Senators are demanding answers from Big Tech companies accused of “filing thousands of H-1B skilled labor visa petitions after conducting mass layoffs of American employees.” In letters sent to Amazon, Meta, Apple, Google, and Microsoft—among…
The least exciting iPhone this year is also the best value for the money. Apple seems determined to leave a persistent gap between the cameras of its Pro iPhones and the regular ones, but most other features—the edge-to-edge-screen design with FaceID, the Dynamic Island, OLED display panels, Apple Intelligence…
These features try to turn iPhones into more powerful work and organization tools. iOS 26 came out last week, bringing a new look and interface alongside some new capabilities and updates aimed squarely at iPhone power users. We gave you our main iOS 26 review last week. This time…
Search shows 2 million vulnerable Cisco SNMP interfaces exposed to the Internet. As many as 2 million Cisco devices are susceptible to an actively exploited zero-day that can remotely crash or execute code on vulnerable systems. Cisco said Wednesday that the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-20352, was present in all…
Instead of contracting an outside team to campaign it, Ford Racing gets the job. Formula 1 might be riding high these days on a wave of interest not seen since the 1960s, but the Drive to Survive effect has been felt elsewhere in the world of motorsport. Endurance racing…
An AI figures out how robots can get jobs done without getting in each other’s way. A lot of the stuff we use today is largely made by robots—arms with multiple degrees of freedom positioned along conveyor belts that move in a spectacle of precisely synchronized motions. All this…
