The team behind iA Writer, a distraction-free writing app that syncs across platforms, has left its Android app "frozen in carbonite." The app is still alive for those who had…
Waymo's robotaxis are going to get a lot more angular in the future. Today, the autonomous driving startup and Hyundai announced that they have formed a strategic partnership, and the…
Samsung issued a software update on October 2 that bricked some older Galaxy smartphones. While Samsung has stopped the update from rolling out further, those with broken phones have had…
There has been a lot of research on the types of people who believe conspiracy theories, and their reasons for doing so. But there’s a wrinkle: My colleagues and I…
Welcome to Edition 7.14 of the Rocket Report! For readers who don't know, my second book was published last week. It's titled Reentry, and tells the story behind the story…
Thousands of machines running Linux have been infected by a malware strain that’s notable for its stealth, the number of misconfigurations it can exploit, and the breadth of malicious activities…
Tina Peters, a former election official in Colorado's Mesa County who promoted former President Donald Trump's election conspiracy theories and was responsible for a breach of voting-system security, was sentenced…
A California dairy farm worker who had contact with H5N1-infected cows appears to have contracted the avian influenza virus, state health officials reported Thursday. The person's illness is reported to…
Automattic Inc. and its founder have been sued by a WordPress hosting company that alleges an extortion scheme to extract payments for use of the trademark for the open source…
In 2014, researchers monitoring acoustic recordings from the Mariana Archipelago picked up an unusual whale vocalization with both low- and high-frequency components. It seemed to be a whale call, but…
We tend to think of agriculture as a human innovation. But insects beat us to it by millions of years. Various species of ants cooperate with fungi, creating a home…
Any striking marketing claims in companies' ads about the gut benefits of a popular probiotic may be full of, well, the same thing that has their target audience backed up.…
Upholding the First Amendment, a senior US district judge has blocked California's deepfakes law, AB 2839, which was designed to stop deceptive AI-generated content from impacting election outcomes. Last month,…
The second flight of United Launch Alliance's Vulcan rocket, planned for Friday morning, has a primary goal of validating the launcher's reliability for delivering critical US military satellites to orbit.…
I was on vacation last week, the kind of vacation in which entire days had no particular plan. I had brought the ROG Ally X with me, and, with the…
On Monday, Microsoft unveiled updates to its consumer AI assistant Copilot, introducing two new experimental features for a limited group of $20/month Copilot Pro subscribers: Copilot Labs and Copilot Vision.…
The electric vehicle charging company EVgo has secured conditional approval for a $1.05 billion loan from the US Department of Energy, the company revealed this morning. EVgo has applied to…
The next year is crucial for the future of NASA and its plans to extend human activity in low-Earth orbit. For the first time in decades, the US space agency…
Subscribers to Prime Video's ad tier will start seeing more commercials next year, further testing how much advertising streamers will tolerate. Speaking to the Financial Times today, Kelly Day, VP…
Attackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in mail servers sold by Zimbra in an attempt to remotely execute malicious commands that install a backdoor, researchers warn. The vulnerability, tracked…