I believe that we will win. An echo of an old ad for the 2014 US men’s World Cup team. It did not win. I was in Berkeley for the...
ICEBlock lawsuit: Trump admin bragged about demanding App Store removal
ICEBlock creator sues to protect apps that are crowd-sourcing ICE sightings. In a lawsuit filed against top Trump administration officials on Monday, Apple was accused of caving to unconstitutional government...
Paramount tries to swipe Warner Bros. from Netflix with a hostile takeover
Although the US Department of Justice (DOJ) holds the power to block mergers that it deems to go against antitrust laws, Trump’s influence over the DOJ can’t be overlooked. While...
F1 in Abu Dhabi: And that’s the championship
Going into the final race—worth 25 points for a win—Norris was on 408, Verstappen on 396, and Piastri on 392 points. A podium finish was all Norris needed to seal...
A big bike on a budget: Lectric’s XPress 750
A budget e-bike that offers more than you might expect. Almost every bit of bike testing I’ve done starts out the same way. After assembling the bike, I set the...
Meta offers EU users ad-light option in push to end investigation
“We acknowledge the European Commission’s statement,” said Meta. “Personalized ads are vital for Europe’s economy.” The investigation took place under the EU’s landmark Digital Markets Act, which is designed to...
The Boys gears up for a supe-ocalypse in S5 teaser
Prime Video dropped an extended teaser for the fifth and final season of The Boys—based on the comic book series of the same name by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson—during...
Please send help. I can’t stop playing these roguelikes.
it’s “rogue,” not “rouge” 2025 was a very good year for my favorite genre. Hades 2 has me in a chokehold. Credit: Supergiant Games Hades 2 has me in a...
Why is my dog like this? Current DNA tests won’t explain it to you.
Popular genetics tests can’t tell you much about your dog’s personality, according to a recent study. A team of geneticists recently found no connection between simple genetic variants and behavioral...
A massive, Chinese-backed port could push the Amazon Rainforest over the edge
“this would come with a road” The port will revolutionize global trade, but it’s sparking destructive rainforest routes. CHANCAY, Peru—The elevator doors leading to the fifth-floor control center open like...
Streaming service makes rare decision to lower its monthly fees
Somewhere, a pig is catching some sweet air. In a rare move for a streaming service, Fubo announced today that it’s lowering the prices for some of its subscription plans....
In comedy of errors, men accused of wiping gov databases turned to an AI tool
Two sibling contractors convicted a decade ago for hacking into US State Department systems have once again been charged, this time for a comically hamfisted attempt to steal and destroy...
Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private
Kohler is getting the scoop on people’s poop. A Dekoda smart toilet camera. Credit: Kohler Kohler is facing backlash after an engineer pointed out that the company’s new smart toilet...
CDC vaccine panel realizes again it has no idea what it’s doing, delays big vote
Today’s meeting was chaotic and included garbage anti-vaccine presentations. Dr. Robert Malone speaks during a meeting of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) at CDC Headquarters on December...
Researchers find what makes AI chatbots politically persuasive
A massive study of political persuasion shows AIs have, at best, a weak effect. Roughly two years ago, Sam Altman tweeted that AI systems would be capable of superhuman persuasion...
DeepSeek v3.2 Is Okay And Cheap But Slow
DeepSeek v3.2 is DeepSeek’s latest open model release with strong bencharks. Its paper contains some technical innovations that drive down cost. It’s a good model by the standards of open...
Netflix’s $72B WB acquisition confounds the future of movie theaters, streaming
Netflix’s plans to own HBO Max, DC Comics, Harry Potter to face regulatory scrutiny. The bidding war is over, and Netflix has been declared the winner. After flirting with Paramount...
Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death
The culprit is a bacterium called Yersinia pestis, and it’s well known that it spreads among mammalian hosts via fleas, although it only rarely spills over to domestic animals and...
SteamOS vs. Windows on dedicated GPUs: It’s complicated, but Windows has an edge
Other results vary from game to game and from GPU to GPU. Borderlands 3, for example, performs quite a bit better on Windows than on SteamOS across all of our...
Without evidence, RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel tosses hep B vaccine recommendation
Retsef Levi, an operations management expert and ACIP member who expressed strong anti-vaccine views, said, “I think that the intention behind this [recommendation change is] that parents should carefully think...