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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

How snails engineer their slime

How snails engineer their slime

Collagen and calcium work in tandem to achieve varying mechanical properties of different kinds of mucus.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

Volkswagen plans to win America back with a pickup, report says

There's no evidence the truck will be a cheap EV truck, but what if it were?

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Text • Beth Mole

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

Report: White House drafting executive order linking vaccines and autism

Trump determined to link life-saving shots to autism, despite science and political risk.

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Text • Cyrus Farivar

AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed?

Clinicians and researchers say AI companies need to open up their safety data.

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Text • Zijing Wu, Financial Times

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

ByteDance trains massive AI model in bid to rival Anthropic

TikTok owner training a model with 10 trillion parameters.

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Text • Jacek Krywko

The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface

The world's biggest solar telescope caught vortexes on the Sun's surface

We expected them to be there, but they had previously been too small to see.

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Text • John Timmer

Trump is losing his war on wind power

Trump is losing his war on wind power

A court rules that a hold on all wind projects clearly violates the law.

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Text • Alan Bradley

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment

"Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."

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Text • Beth Mole

US to shutter organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs

US to shutter organ donation group accused of trying to take living man's organs

The organization, Network for Hope, "strongly disagrees" with Trump admin's decision.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Germany disarms explosive drone found at airport, hunts possible second drone

Germany disarms explosive drone found at airport, hunts possible second drone

Russian attack? Explosive drone targeted parked aircraft at Leipzig airport.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Elon Musk's X isn't done suing advertisers, asks court to revive boycott case

Elon Musk's X isn't done suing advertisers, asks court to revive boycott case

Musk continues appeal despite court loss and settlement with advertiser group.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

Suno hopes to go legit with watermarks for AI-generated music

Suno plans watermarks and download limits to stop "large-scale abuse."

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Text • Samuel Axon

Anthropic confirms plans to build an in-house silicon team

Anthropic confirms plans to build an in-house silicon team

Anthropic and OpenAI are racing to scale up while reducing dependence on Nvidia.

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Text • John Timmer

Large genome models used to design new viruses

Large genome models used to design new viruses

The AI system makes genetically distant versions of a bacteria-killing virus.

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Text • Eric Berger

Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident

Blue Origin narrowing in on root cause of catastrophic rocket accident

"The anomaly originated at the main oxygen valve on one of the BE-4 engines."

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Parasitic zombie fungus thrives in mosses, too

Parasitic zombie fungus thrives in mosses, too

This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress

Change will let "Trump-aligned billionaires" buy more stations, advocacy group says.

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Text • Beth Mole

Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review

Moderna's mRNA flu shot earns FDA approval after rollercoaster review

Moderna's new flu vaccine, mFLUSIVA, is approved for all adults ages 50 and up.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare open-sources vibe-coding platform for people who aren't coders

Cloudflare built an AI agent workspace for its employees. Now it’s open source.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350

Ford picks "Fathom" for its affordable truck name, starts at $28,350

Deliveries of the new electric pickup are slated for later next year.

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Text • Scharon Harding

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

AI isn’t enough to protect social media communities from AI

Why humans need to moderate humans.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.

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Text • Beth Mole

Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing

Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing

Schwartz is well-qualified for the role, but crashed and burned in Senate hearing.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

Anthropic and OpenAI models’ unprompted actions forced halt to UK cyber tests.

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Text • Scharon Harding

Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com

Reddit signals ominous upcoming "changes” for old.reddit.com

Reddit says the beloved site is used for some "bad behavior."

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Text • Nate Anderson

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

"Slop" isn't the only problem.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

SpaceX won't build large cell towers but plans small base stations across US.

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Text • Eric Berger

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

"The models are forecasting something outside the envelope of anything we have ever observed."

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google's AI shakeup: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google's AI shakeup: DeepMind's Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

Google's AI brain drain continues.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good

Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good

It's as much about grounded characters and well-timed emotional beats as CGI-filled action extravaganzas.