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Text • Jacek Krywko

How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

How fruit flies chase invisible ribbons of smell to get to their source

Tracking smells in turbulent air takes a keen sense of direction and sharp memory.

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Text • John Timmer

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

Not just Neanderthals: Ghost lineage in Africa left its mark on our DNA

Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.

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Text • Beth Mole

Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

Doctors took a look at man's painful shoulder—they found the joint was missing

The term "Milwaukee Should Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Reddit keeps weird DMCA lawsuit against web scraper alive despite Google’s loss

Reddit keeps weird DMCA lawsuit against web scraper alive despite Google’s loss

Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Likely illegally, Claude gained access to 3 networks. Will Anthropic be held to account?

Likely illegally, Claude gained access to 3 networks. Will Anthropic be held to account?

Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Google Earth releases, swiftly retracts AI feature to make fake satellite images

Google Earth releases, swiftly retracts AI feature to make fake satellite images

“What on earth is Google doing?” Misinformation fears spur walk-back of AI tool.

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Text • Nate Anderson

Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?

Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?

LemonLime’s CEO got “carried away” with tattoo gimmick.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmates

Gaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.

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Text • Jacek Krywko

See the heat: An infrared imaging system that outputs in color

See the heat: An infrared imaging system that outputs in color

Wavelength and intensity in the infrared are translated into colors in the visible.

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Text • Scott K. Johnson

China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs

China could supply EV manufacturing boom with recycled EVs

Look at chemistry of batteries and motors shows big opportunity for recycling.

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Text • Scharon Harding

Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs

Sony acknowledges backlash, “cautiously” moves ahead with end of PlayStation discs

Sony doesn't think the move will hurt it financially.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.

Man invested $45M in a Nicolas Cage movie. It got stolen off Netflix’s desk.

Filmmaker sues Netflix over stolen screener of unreleased Nicolas Cage movie.

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Text • Andy Greenberg, wired.com

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.

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Text • Aaron Zimmerman

Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

Pathogenic review: Damn, it feels good to be a virus

The hot new roguelite twin-stick shooter lives up to the hype.

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Text • Nate Anderson

How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit

How a Yale AI-cheating dispute became a 13-count federal lawsuit

A disputed exam, an unreliable detector, and one very late Apple Pages file.

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Text • Eric Berger

Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon

Rocket Report: New launch rule may limit environmental regulations, Falcon 9 to hit Moon

"America won the first Space Race, and we can do it again."

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Text • Samuel Axon

Tim Cook's last earnings call: Strong iPhone sales, but memory costs loom large

Tim Cook's last earnings call: Strong iPhone sales, but memory costs loom large

The iPhone and Mac sold well, but memory costs threaten further price increases.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Kremlin hackers are exploiting Exchange flaw to backdoor unpatched networks

Kremlin hackers are exploiting Exchange flaw to backdoor unpatched networks

Exploits can give persistent server access that survives credential rotation and disk re-imaging.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Trump FCC's war on ABC slammed by both conservatives and liberals

Trump FCC's war on ABC slammed by both conservatives and liberals

"Chilling message to all broadcasters: carry speech we don’t like at your peril."

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show

Iran struck Amazon data centers again amid widening war, satellites show

Satellites show burn scars and fires at AWS data centers and Saudi oil refinery.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future

Just because a game is on disc doesn’t mean it will work in the future

DoesItPlay tracks the many "physical" games that don't work without the Internet.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required

Chrome may get faster updates with no restart required

The last two versions of Chrome have included more patches than the previous 23 combined.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety

Google reveals Gemini Robotics 2.0, promising improved dexterity and safety

Gemini Robotics 2 includes three models, but only one is publicly available right now.

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Text • Stephen Clark

Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit

Space Force-backed mission does its best impression of Top Gun in orbit

"Dogfighting in space doesn’t quite have the drama of an aerial dogfight."

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Text • John Timmer

If a quantum computer outperforms normal ones, can you tell if it's right?

If a quantum computer outperforms normal ones, can you tell if it's right?

Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.

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Text • Samuel Axon

New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption

Plus, a new deprecation policy ensures features aren't removed suddenly.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Mythos uncovers crypto weaknesses that went unknown for years

Mythos uncovers crypto weaknesses that went unknown for years

Separating the chaff from the wheat in Anthropic results is hard. We take a stab anyway.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper

Musk went to “war,” sought jail time for X ad boycotts—but case ends with a whimper

Advertisers agreed to “reset” relationship with X.

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Text • Jeremy Hsu

Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

Who wins and who loses after US bans foreign robots?

Government ban on foreign-made robots may hinder instead of help US robotics.