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filter:- + Arc Technica Science: Great white sharks are overheating—The sharks might also be the most physiologically vulnerable to warming waters. [Category: Science, climate change, great white shark, ocean conservat...
- + Arc Technica Science: Rocket Report: Starship V3 test-fired; ESA's tentative step toward crew launch—Blue Origin will soon launch the third flight of its New Glenn rocket, this time with a reused booster. [Category: Science, Space]
- + Arc Technica Science: After a saga of broken promises, a European rover finally has a ride to Mars—Europe's first Mars rover mission is now on its fourth rocket: SpaceX's Falcon Heavy. [Category: Science, Space]
- + Arc Technica Science: OpenAI starts offering a biology-tuned LLM—GPT-Rosalind is an LLM trained on biology workflows, available in closed access. [Category: AI, Science, Biology, gpt, GPT-Rosalind, LLM, openai, rese...
- + Arc Technica Science: Meet the Quantum Kid—Nine-year-old Kai Moskvitch's podcast explores how quantum technologies can transform our daily lives. [Category: Science, Physics, podcasts, quantum ...
- + Arc Technica Science: New 3D map of Universe could solve dark energy mystery—Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time. [Category: Science, astronomy, Dark Energy...
- + Arc Technica Science: DESI completes its 3D map of Universe right on schedule—Latest data must still be analyzed but could help determine if dark energy is constant or varies over time. [Category: Science, astronomy, Dark Energy...
- + Arc Technica Science: What’s the deal with Alzheimer’s disease and amyloid?—For decades, scientists have concentrated on what now looks to be a blind alley. [Category: Features, Science, Alzheimer's disease, Alzheimer's drug]
- + Arc Technica Science: Physicists think they've resolved the proton size puzzle—"We believe this is the final nail in the coffin of the proton radius puzzle." [Category: Science, particle physics, Physics, proton radius puzzle, pr...
- + Arc Technica Science: NASA chose the right crew to launch a new era of human space exploration—"It’s a special thing to be human, and it’s a special thing to be on planet Earth." [Category: Science, Space, artemis, artemis II, Christina Koch, hu...
- + Arc Technica Science: To teach in the time of ChatGPT is to know pain—LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. [Category: AI, Features, Science, LLMs, Science teaching, teaching]
- + Arc Technica Science: Shock from Iran war has Trump's vision for US energy dominance flailing—Record domestic oil and gas production hasn't saved US drivers from price spikes. [Category: Science, diesel, donald trump iran war, energy poilcy, ga...
- + Arc Technica Science: Four astronauts are back home after a daring ride around the Moon—"I can't imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now." [Category: Science, Space, artemis, artemis II, Christina Koch, human...
- + Arc Technica Science: New paper argues history, not mantle plume, powers Yellowstone—A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone. [Category: Science, geology, hotspots, plate tectonics, volcanism, yell...
- + Arc Technica Science: "Oobleck" still holds some surprises—Dense drops of oobleck with high shear rates spread out like a liquid before stiffening into a solid. [Category: Science, chemistry, materials science...
- + Computer Weekly: Surging CVE disclosures force NIST to shake up workflows—NIST announces big changes to the way it categorises and manages CVEs, set to have a big impact on how organisations manage patching and remediation.
- + Computer Weekly: North Korean social engineering campaign targets macOS users—A MacOS-focused social engineering campaign orchestrated by North Korea-based threat actor Sapphire Sleet has been exposed by Microsoft’s Threat Intel...
- + Computer Weekly: Oslo’s robots aren’t yet taking over, but are already punching above their weight—The Norwegian capital’s leading innovators have got the ecosystem up and running, and are now calling for greater access to risk capital to take it to...
- + Computer Weekly: Privacy, power, and encryption: why end-to-end security matters—Governments may continue to look for ways to restrict end-to-end encryption, but the greater danger lies in demanding insecurity by design that would ...
- + Computer Weekly: UK’s Sovereign AI supports supercomputing and drug discovery AI startups—The UK government’s £500m Sovereign AI fund announces first cohort of startups backed to boost economic growth and national security
- + Computer Weekly: CYBERUK ’26: UK lagging on legal protections for cyber pros—Ahead of next week's CYBERUK conference, the CyberUp Campaign for reform of the UK's hacking laws urges the government to keep focus, and proposes a f...
- + Computer Weekly: One year on from the M&S cyber attack: What did we learn?—A year on from the Marks & Spencer cyber attack, we look back at the incident, consider the lessons learned and ask if the retail sector is any mo...
- + Hack a Day: What Can You Run on a 1960s Univac? Anything You’re Willing To Wait For!—There are two UNIVAC 1219B computers that have survived since the 1960s and one of them is even operational. [Nathan Farlow] wanted to run a Minecraft...
- + Hack a Day: Tool Embodiment and the Dead Trackball—There is a currently ongoing debate in the neuropsychology world about how we relate to the tools that we use. The theory of “tool embodiment” says th...
- + Hack a Day: DJ Controller Modded For Better Scratching—[Jeremy Bell] loves scratching, but he had a problem. His Hercules DJ controller wasnt really doing a great job at emulating the kind of action one wo...
- + Hack a Day: Electric Wind-Up Plane Uses Supercapacitors For Free Flight Fun—Theres something to be said for a simple wind-up, free flight model airplane. With no controls, it must be built very well to fly well, and with only ...
- + Hack a Day: Fixing a GameCube’s Dodgy Optical Drive With Fresh Capacitors—Generally when a game console with an optical drive stops reading discs the first thing that people do is crank on the potentiometer that controls the...
- + Hack a Day: FRED Comes to Hobby Operating Systems (and Linux)—Those who have worked on a hobby operating system for x86 will have interacted with its rather complex and confusing interrupt model. [Evalyn] shows u...
- + Hack a Day: Making a Bronze Mirror From Scratch—Although modern-day silvered glass mirrors have pretty much destroyed the market for bronze mirrors, these highly polished pieces of metal once were t...
- + Hack a Day: Cooking With Plasma (Not Fire)—Cooking food with fire is arguably the technology that propelled humans to become the dominant species on Earth. Its pretty straightforward to achieve...
- + Hack a Day: 2026 Green Powered Challenge: SolMate Charges On the Move—Weve all had those times when your electrical device of choice is running low on battery. Sometimes you even plan ahead and are also carrying a batter...
- + Hack a Day: Hackaday Podcast Episode 366: DOOM on a Toaster, Music in LED Strips, and Old Drives in New Clothes—Its the evening before publication, and a pair of Hackaday writers convene to record the weeks podcast. This week Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny L...
- + Hack a Day: Wearable Circuit Sculpture Is One Smart Bracelet—Well, this might just be a Hackaday first. Certainly not the circuit sculpture part, nor the wearable aspect, but the glorious combination of the two....
- + Hack a Day: This Week in Security: Docker Auth, Windows Tools, and a Very Full Patch Tuesday—CVE-2026-34040 lets attackers bypass some Docker authentication plugins by allowing an empty request body. Present since 2024, this bug was caused by ...
- + Hack a Day: Microsoft Finally Ups FAT32 Size Limit—You probably dont spend a lot of time using the FAT32 file system anymore, since its thoroughly been superseded many times over. Even so, Microsoft ha...
- + Hack a Day: Game Cube Hot Tub Animation Brought Into Real World—Unlike the current era where most consumer electronics are black rectangles, or the early 90s where most consumer electronics were black rectangles, w...
- + Hack a Day: Building a Big RC Mini Truck—Kei trucks are some of the smallest commercial vehicles out on the roads today. You can also get lots of cute kei RC cars if youre into the toy side r...
- + Hack a Day: Comparing 12 VDC Air Fryers with Regular 240 VAC Ones—That boiling water is a contentious topic of discussion is clear, but what about hot air? When you take a 12 VDC, 280 Watt-rated air fryer and pit it ...
- + Hack a Day: Do We Really Need Another Development Board?—Its fair to say that there are a lot of development board form factors for MCUs, with [Tech Dregs] over on yonder YouTube on the verge of adding anoth...
- + Hack a Day: FPGA Powers DIY USB Scope and Signal Generator—Oscilloscopes and to lesser extent signals generators are useful tools for analyzing, testing and diagnosing circuits but we often take for granted ho...
- + Hack a Day: Desktop Digitizer Makes Note Capture a Breeze—While it might seem quaint these days, weve met many makers and hackers who reach for a pen and a pad when learning something new or working their way...
- + Hack a Day: The Kentucky Cave Wars, and Going Viral in 1925—Floyd Collins, the unfortunate star of this post. (Public Domain) Information, it seems, flows at the speed of media. In the old days, information tra...
- + Tech Dirt: AI Could Create A Massive Problem For Valve’s Steam—Two trends that Im very interested in are about to collide and its going to be a mess. By now, some of you will be tired of my calling for a more nua...
- + Tech Dirt: Trump Is Literally Negotiating With Himself Over How Much Taxpayer Money He Gets Because His Taxes Were Leaked—Back in January, we covered Trumps audacious lawsuit demanding $10 billion from his own IRS over the 2019-2020 leak of his tax returns by IRS contract...
- + Tech Dirt: Inside Trump’s Effort To “Take Over” The Midterm Elections—This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In mid-December 2020, federal officials responsible...
- + Tech Dirt: A First Amendment Legend Eviscerates Brendan Carr With Substance And Style—Weve been covering Brendan Carrs censorial ambitions for a long time now. When Trump first picked him to chair the FCC, we warned people that the free...
- + Tech Dirt: Daily Deal: Python Crash Course—The Python Crash Course is a guide on how to get started in Python, why you should learn it, and how you can learn it. The syntax of the language is c...
- + Tech Dirt: Trump Still Pretending The Most Dangerous Domestic Terrorists Are People Who Don’t Like Fascism—Just to be clear, when I refer to Trump in terms of his administration, Im referring to the collective hive mind of dangerous enablers he employs. Tru...
- + Tech Dirt: Brendan Carr Cooking Up New Sham Investigation Of Jimmy Kimmel—As the boss of the countrys media and telecom regulators, theres plenty of corporate malfeasance and corrupt shenanigans Brendan Carr could be targeti...
- + Tech Dirt: Rockstar On Latest Potential Hack & Information Leak: Meh, We Don’t Care—Several years ago, Rockstar Games suffered an intrusion into its corporate network. During that intrusion, a trove of data, files, and information abo...
- + Tech Dirt: Ctrl-Alt-Speech: The Silence Of The LLMs—Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderations Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe n...
- + UPI Science: Pope Leo XIV flies to Angola, says he is not debating Trump—Pope Leo XIV said he has no interest in debating President Donald Trump as he flew to Angola for the third leg of his 11-day trip to Africa.
- + UPI Science: Trump signs order to speed research on psychedelics for mental health—President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday to accelerate research for some psychedelic drugs to treat mental health disorders.
- + UPI Science: Iran blocks Strait of Hormuz, fires on commercial ships—A day after the Strait of Hormuz was declared open, Iran has blocked it again, citing a U.S. "breach of promise," and has fired on ships.
- + UPI Science: Judge blocks Trump administration's pre-emptive lawsuit against Hawaii—A federal judge on Friday blocked a suit against the state of Hawaii that was filed by the federal government to prevent it from suing oil companies.
- + UPI Science: On This Day, April 18: Patriot Paul Revere begins midnight ride—On April 18, 1775, U.S. patriot Paul Revere began his famous ride through the Massachusetts countryside, crying out "The British are coming!" to rally...
- + UPI Science: Supreme Court rules for Chevron in Louisiana wetlands damage case—The Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of Chevron in a case related to damage to wetlands in Louisiana that dates to World War II.
- + UPI Science: Dubai police arrest alleged Irish organized crime boss—An Irish man accused of laundering money and trafficking drugs and firearms was caught in Dubai after police tracked him around the world.
- + UPI Science: Kang Chang-il calls for efforts to improve inter-Korean ties—Kang Chang-il, new senior vice chairman of S. Korea's Peaceful Unification Advisory Council, called for joint efforts to improve inter-Korean relation...
- + UPI Science: South Korea to aid war-hit businesses with emergency funds—S. Korea will provide 462.2 billion won ($308 million) in emergency support for small businesses and exporters affected by the Middle East war.
- + UPI Science: Corporate loan delinquencies rise faster than household debt—Corporate loan delinquency rates in S. Korea are rising three times faster than household debt, increasing pressure on banks as lending expands.
- + UPI Science: Japan to create control system for defense exports—Japan is moving to strengthen a government-wide system to boost defense exports, including creating a centralized control structure.
- + UPI Science: South Korea opposition leader delays return from U.S.—Jang Dong-hyuk, leader of S. Korea's main opposition People Power Party, has delayed his return from a U.S. visit at the request of U.S. officials.
- + UPI Science: Naver showcases AI robots across ‘lab-like’ headquarters—S. Korean tech company Naver is expanding its AI capabilities with robots operating throughout its headquarters, as the firm ramps up investment.
- + UPI Science: China posts 5.0% Q1 growth, defying war concerns—China's economy grew 5.0% in 1Q, exceeding expectations despite concerns over the impact of the Iran conflict, official data showed Thursday.
- + UPI Science: Nearly one-third of U.S. may see aurora borealis overnight—Nearly one-third of the U.S. could be among areas the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said could see the aurora borealis in the sky.
- + UPI Science: British foreign office official fired for not disclosing ambassador failed security check—The most senior civil servant in Britain's Foreign Office has been fired former ambassador Peter Mandelson's security vetting not being disclosed.
- + UPI Science: Carnival Cruises ordered to pay $300,000 for overserving woman—Carnival Cruise Line must pay a California woman $300,000 in a lawsuit over serving her 14 shots of tequila before she fell down a stairwell.
- + UPI Science: Analysis: Lebanon set for complex post-truce negotiations with Israel—The Israel-Hezbollah war, temporarily halted by a 10-day cease-fire, has now opened a complex diplomatic process that seeks to end the conflict.
- + UPI Science: French widow, 85, released from ICE custody and returned home—An 85-year-old woman from France whose late husband was a U.S. veteran returned to France Friday after being detained by ICE for 16 days.
- + Wired: The Best Smart Home Accessories to Boost Your Curb Appeal (2026)—These locks, lights, and other smart home upgrades let you add automation without messing up your home’s vibe. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, ...
- + Wired: How to Clean Your Vinyl Records (2026): Vacuum, Ultrasonic, Solution, Brush—Those clicks and pops aren't supposed to be there. Give your music a proper bath with this handy guide. [Category: Gear, Gear / How To and Advice]
- + Wired: Asus TUF Gaming A14 (2026) Review: GPU-Less Gaming Laptop—A gaming laptop without a discrete graphics card feels revolutionary, but the TUF Gaming A14 doesn't quite take full advantage of AMD's daring new sil...
- + Wired: Schematik Is ‘Cursor for Hardware.’ Anthropic Wants In—Schematik is a program that aims to help people vibe code for physical devices. Hopefully, it won’t blow anything up. [Category: Gear, Gear / Gear New...
- + Wired: It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App—Plus: Major data breaches at a gym chain and hotel giant, a disruptive DDoS attack against Bluesky, dubious ICE hires, and more. [Category: Security, ...
- + Wired: Where to Shop for Vinyl Records Online (2026): Discogs, Bandcamp, Ebay—Don’t just load up an Amazon cart! Here are the better ways to find your favorite vinyl records online. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / ...
- + Wired: The Best Movies to Stream This Month (April 2026)—28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Crime 101, and Deathstalker are among the films deserving of your eyeballs this month [Category: Culture, Culture / M...
- + Wired: The ‘Lonely Runner’ Problem Only Appears Simple—Take a group of runners circling a track at unique, constant paces. Answering the question of how many will always end up running alone, no matter the...
- + Wired: OpenAI Executive Kevin Weil Is Leaving the Company—The former Instagram VP is departing the ChatGPT-maker, which is folding the AI science application he led into Codex. [Category: Business, Business /...
- + Wired: Gazing Into Sam Altman’s Orb Now Proves You’re Human on Tinder—Honestly, what’s hotter than a real person? [Category: Business, Business / Artificial Intelligence, Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency]
- + Wired: AI Drafting My Stories? Over My Dead Body—AI-assisted writing is creeping into newsrooms under the guise of efficiency. But the tradeoff may be more profound than publishers are willing to adm...
- + Wired: Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump's Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance—A post-midnight revolt in the House sank the White House's efforts to extend Section 702—a spy program the FBI has used to look into members of Congre...
- + Wired: MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged—Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president. ...
- + Wired: Coolfly Aura Review: More Angles, Fewer Advantages—Coolfly’s Aura is colorful, clever, and flexible, but its signature feature ends up being more hassle than help. [Category: Gear, Gear / Reviews, Gear...
- + Wired: Best Bluetooth Speakers (2026): JBL, Sonos, Bose, and More—These are our favorite portable speakers of all shapes and sizes, from clip-ons to a massive boom box. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying Guides, Gear / P...
- + Wired: The Best MagSafe Accessories (for Android, Too!): Chargers, Wallets, and More—MagSafe accessories make your phone feel uniquely yours. These are our favorites, including Android-friendly Qi2 picks. [Category: Gear, Gear / Buying...
- + Wired: How Can Astronauts Tell How Fast They’re Going?—Weirdly, spaceships have no direct way to gauge their own speed. Luckily, we can use some physics tricks to figure it out. [Category: Science, Science...
- + Wired: Canyon Spectral:ON CF 8 Electric Mountain Bike: Beginner-Friendly, Under $5K—The Spectral:ON CF 8 is a do-it-all, full-carbon electric mountain bike with an 800-Wh battery and under $4,500. Yes, please! [Category: Gear, Gear / ...
- + Wired: The Influencers Normalizing Not Having Sex—From a celibate porn star to an asexual ex-Mormon, the internet is full of people who are abstaining from sex—and it’s not just incels. [Category: Cul...
- + Wired: The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden’s Surveillance Machine—Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a ...