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Text • Dan Goodin

Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

Think twice before installing this device promising free movies

In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.

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Text • Jacek Krywko

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds

“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”

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Text • Ryan Whitwam

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google Maps renames "Lake Ontario" to "Lake America" even faster than US government

Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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Text • Barbara Moens, Financial Times

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

ChatGPT and Reddit now face EU's toughest online safety rules

Explosive growth comes with a new regulatory burden in the European Union.

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Text • Stephen Clark

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

NASA's next "great observatory" begins mission to widen our view of the Universe

"We would need over half a million 4K TVs to fully display the single Roman image from our largest survey."

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Text • Kyle Orland

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Pocket's AI made my game ideas real. Now Meta controls the results.

Interactive mobile "gizmos" are easy to make, hard to share outside Meta's platform.

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Text • Kyle Orland

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

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Text • Eric Berger

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

Why it matters that President Trump just dialed into a NASA news conference

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

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Text • Paresh Dave, WIRED.com

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers

The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.

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Text • Reece Rodgers, wired.com

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

I asked 100 companies for my data. Some deleted it instead.

Testing 100 companies found privacy requests often led to confusion and dead ends.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," court rules

Kalshi can't evade Nevada gambling laws by calling bets "swaps," court rules

Judges: "Placing sports bets, even when called by another name, is still gambling."

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Text • Cyrus Farivar

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August

Cancellations have accelerated.

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Text • Beth Mole

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

"RFK Jr. has lied to the Senate": Lawmakers call for criminal probe, ouster

RFK Jr. went to Samoa to spread vaccine fears. The measles outbreak after killed 83.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Trump blacklisting of "woke" Anthropic deemed illegal by federal judge

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

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Text • Eric Berger

Trump calls for creation of a "space academy" to train future NASA leaders

Trump calls for creation of a "space academy" to train future NASA leaders

"It's called the US Space Academy. That's a big deal."

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Text • Scharon Harding

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Apple One and Apple TV subscription prices increase by up to 20 percent

Annual subscriptions see the biggest bump.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

Our 10 favorite scenes from T2: Judgment Day

James Cameron's 1991 sci-fi blockbuster returns to theaters this weekend for its 35th anniversary.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain

Meta tweaks AI glasses to block some creepy recordings, but privacy risks remain

Meta fixes AI glasses to stop recording any time users cover up the safety light.

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Text • Dan Goodin

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP

The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.

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Text • Eric Berger

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

Rocket Report: Europe splashes some cash on launch startups; Pallas-1 nears debut

"From here on, Starlink missions out of Florida will fly on Starship."

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Text • Kyle Orland

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world

Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.

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Text • Jon Brodkin

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP heads to Supreme Court after losing case over TV election ad prices

GOP campaign committees want quick ruling before election ads ramp up next week.

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Text • Samuel Axon

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Report: Nvidia to acquire AI model repository Hugging Face for $13 billion

Nvidia is nabbing critical infrastructure for open models as interest grows.

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Text • Ashley Belanger

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

AI industry says Trump plans to tax chips in the “single dumbest way imaginable”

Tech industry is perplexed by Trump’s plan to win AI race by taxing data centers.

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Text • Robert Pearlman

NASA T-38 astronaut training jet gets new Artemis look

NASA T-38 astronaut training jet gets new Artemis look

"Everyone wants to take that aircraft up now..."

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Text • Beth Mole

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

Kennedy and his allies have a history of downplaying vaccine-preventable deaths.

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Text • Jennifer Ouellette

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Why did 1,000 Swiss citizens bury their underpants?

Study: Land use is the biggest factor in determining decomposition rates of organic cotton underpants.

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Text • Kyle Orland

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

Panic passes Trump tariff refunds back to the Playdate customers who paid them

"It just felt like the right thing to do"

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Text • Kiona N. Smith

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

Traders brought Central American cacao to Georgia 1,000 years ago

"We built this city on good cacao" does have a nice ring to it.