This will be the first national security mission to fly on United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket. After more than a decade of development and testing, US military officials are finally ready to entrust United Launch Alliance’s Vulcan rocket to haul a batch of national security satellites into space. An…
The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work. When something goes wrong with an AI assistant, our instinct is to ask it directly: “What happened?” or “Why did you do that?” It’s a natural impulse—after all, if a human makes a…
Google may soon be ordered to sell Chrome, and Perplexity is ready. In the wake of its big antitrust loss, Google could soon find itself forced to sell one of its crown jewels. Among the government’s proposed remedies in the search case is a requirement that Google divest its…
The Radster is great as a Class 2 e-bike, but not quite as strong as a Class 3. With e-bike manufacturing in China having expanded considerably, the number of companies offering affordable e-bikes over the last five years has exploded. But the market for cycles with an electric assist…
Musk threatens to sue Apple to get Grok to top spot in App Store rankings. After spending last week hyping Grok’s spicy new features, Elon Musk kicked off this week by threatening to sue Apple for supposedly gaming the App Store rankings to favor ChatGPT over Grok. “Apple is…
Exploits allow for persistent backdooring when targets open booby-trapped archive. A high-severity zero-day in the widely used WinRAR file compressor is under active exploitation by two Russian cybercrime groups. The attacks backdoor computers that open malicious archives attached to phishing messages, some of which are personalized. Security firm ESET…
OpenAI faces backlash as users complain about broken workflows and losing AI friends. It’s been less than a week since the launch of OpenAI’s new GPT-5 AI model, and the rollout hasn’t been a smooth one. So far, the release sparked one of the most intense user revolts in…
Around 175,000 households still use dial-up Internet in the US. After 34 years of connecting Americans to the Internet through phone lines, AOL recently announced it is shutting down its dial-up modem service on September 30, 2025. The announcement marks the end of a technology that served as the…
Microsoft bought GitHub for $7.5 billion in 2018. Microsoft has owned GitHub since 2018, but the widely used developer platform has operated with at least a little independence from the rest of the company, with its own separate CEO and other executives. But it looks like GitHub will be…
Anti-vaccine activist RFK Jr. has vilified COVID-19 vaccines and the CDC. Staff at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta are reeling from a deadly shooting that unfolded Friday evening. The shooting left one local police officer dead, at least four agency buildings riddled with bullet…
