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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.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims

Comcast store punished low sales by smashing pies in workers' faces, lawsuit claims

Comcast, accused of negligence, says lawsuit mischaracterized alleged events.

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Text • Eric Bangeman

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google begins global rollout of age verification API in Google Play

Google's new API relies on parents to set age ranges in Family Link.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Elon Musk’s xAI is trying to sue its way out of a Grok reckoning

Musk defends Grok, says Minnesota's nudifying app ban is unconstitutional.

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Text • John Timmer

Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies

Yet more qubit tech: New quantum dot options, diamond vacancies

Companies are making sure we have a surplus of options for building qubits.

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Text • Eric Berger

Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

Actually, Starliner might fly into space this year

"We're feeling pretty good about that," Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg said.

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Text • Renee Dudley, ProPublica

Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Anthropic is finding bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

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Text • Kyle Orland

New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

New AMD Linux patch boosts low-end gaming performance on Steam Deck

Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

Gaming and IRL worlds collide in Jumanji: Open World trailer

"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."

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Text • The Conversation

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

What happens when you put AI to work deciphering lost languages?

AI is fantastic at spotting patterns, but human insight is the key.

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Tested: Google SynthID works great, but labeling AI content may be a losing game

Deciding what's real on the Internet won't be easy in the future.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Elon Musk finally launches X Money. What could possibly go wrong?

Expect bumps with X Money rollout as major US financial markets are excluded.

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Text • Jonathan M. Gitlin

Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9

Audi has a new flagship designed with the US in mind: The 2027 Q9

The new full-size flagship SUV starts at $87,700 when it goes on sale in Q4.

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Text • Stephen Clark

Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit

Reaction wheel failures leave Swift rescue mission spinning in orbit

"Preliminary investigation shows that two of Link's three reaction wheels currently are not operable."

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Text • Beth Mole

College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure

College lab class ends with 32 people on antibiotics for deadly germ exposure

Lab students were supposed to ID a mild germ. They all identified a deadly pathogen.

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Text • Dan Goodin

JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story

JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story

10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

eBay pays $46M to journalists it targeted in bizarre harassment campaign

eBay sent bloody pig mask and other macabre deliveries to journalists' home.