Apple made Lockdown Mode for people at high risk CART couldn’t get anything from the iPhone. “Because the iPhone was in Lockdown mode, CART could not extract that device,” the...
Should AI chatbots have ads? Anthropic says no.
Different incentives, different futures In its blog post, Anthropic describes internal analysis it conducted that suggests many Claude conversations involve topics that are “sensitive or deeply personal” or require sustained...
US House takes first step toward creating “commercial” deep space program
A US House committee with oversight of NASA unanimously passed a “reauthorization” act for the space agency on Wednesday. The legislation must still be approved by the full House before...
Judge gives Musk bad news, says Trump hasn’t intervened to block SEC lawsuit
Now, Musk may be running out of arguments after Sooknanan shot down his First Amendment claims and other claims nitpicking the statute as unconstitutionally vague. Whether Musk can defeat the...
Trump admin is “destroying medical research,” Senate report finds
Senators also pressed the director on the future of the NIH, noting that it has been hamstrung by the ongoing chaos, putting upcoming grant funding at risk, too. Of the...
“Capture it all”: ICE urged to explain memo about collecting info on protesters
Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirm or deny the existence of a “domestic terrorists” database that lists US citizens who protest ICE’s immigration...
User blowback convinces Adobe to keep supporting 30-year-old 2D animation app
30 years of animation Animate debuted in 1996 as FutureWave Software’s FutureSplash Animator. After a 1997 acquisition by Macromedia, FutureSplash Animator became Macromedia Flash. In 2005, Adobe bought Macromedia and...
Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites
Those thrusters could also be used to knock satellites out of alignment or even cause them to crash back to Earth or drift into space. Intelligence gathered by Luch 1...
NASA finally acknowledges the elephant in the room with the SLS rocket
“You know, you’re right, the flight rate—three years is a long time.” The Artemis II mission is not going to the Moon this month. Credit: NASA The Space Launch System...
So yeah, I vibe-coded a log colorizer—and I feel good about it
Some semi-unhinged musings on where LLMs fit into my life—and how I’ll keep using them. Welcome to the future. Man, machine, the future. Credit: Aurich Lawson Welcome to the future....
Kimi K2.5
I had to delay this a little bit, but the results are in and Kimi K2.5 is pretty good. Official Introduction. On Your Marks. Positive Reactions. Skeptical Reactions. Kimi Product...
Meet the new tentacled Titan X in Monarch: Legacy of Monsters S2 trailer
Last month, Apple TV released a teaser for the second season of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, part of Legendary Entertainment’s MonsterVerse, which brought Godzilla, King Kong, and various other monsters...
Nvidia’s $100 billion OpenAI deal has seemingly vanished
A Wall Street Journal report on Friday said Nvidia insiders had expressed doubts about the transaction and that Huang had privately criticized what he described as a lack of discipline...
Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy
A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during...
X office raided in France’s Grok probe; Elon Musk summoned for questioning
UK probe moves ahead with “urgency” X said in July 2025 that it was “in the dark” over what specific allegations it faced related to manipulation of the X algorithm...
Nintendo Switch is the second-bestselling game console ever, behind only the PS2
Although it was finally replaced last year by the new Switch 2, the orginal switch isn’t done just yet. Many recent Switch games (and a handful of major updates, like...
Google court filings suggest ChromeOS has an expiration date
The documents suggest that Google will wash its hands of ChromeOS once the current support window closes. Google promises 10 years of Chromebook support, but that’s not counted from the...
Xcode 26.3 adds support for Claude, Codex, and other agentic tools via MCP
Apple has announced a new version of Xcode, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE) for building software for its own platforms, like the iPhone and Mac. The...
Wing Commander III: “Isn’t that the guy from Star Wars?”
C:ArsGames looks at a vanguard of the multimedia FMV future that never quite came to pass. It’s Christmas of 1994, and I am 16 years old. Sitting on the table...
Upset at reports that he’d given up, Trump now wants $1B from Harvard
Amid the Trump administration’s attack on universities, Harvard has emerged as a particular target. Early on, the administration put $2.2 billion in research money on hold and shortly thereafter blocked all...
