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Man Pleads Guilty to AI Attack on Disney Employee
Overview of the Case In a high-profile cybercrime prosecution, 25-year-old Ryan Mitchell Kramer has ...
Consequences of Skipping the Measles Vaccine
In a harrowing new publication in JAMA Neurology, neurologists in India have released chilling ...
TeleMessage Signal Clone Hack: Analysis and Implications
On May 4, 2025, TeleMessage—a subsidiary of Portland-based Smarsh—temporarily suspended operations of its modified ...
Google’s Material 3 UI Leaked Before I/O 2025: Technical Details
With Android 16 on the horizon, Google’s design team may have just spoiled their ...
OpenAI Reverses For-Profit Split, Nonprofit Board in Control
Overview of the Decision On Monday, May 5, 2025, OpenAI issued an official blog ...
Hallucinogens in Ancient Chavín Society
Expanding our understanding of social stratification and ceremonial practices in the ancient Andes, recent ...
E-commerce Platforms Hit in Long-Dormant Supply-Chain Attack
Security researchers have uncovered a sophisticated supply-chain intrusion affecting at least 500 online stores ...
Farewell Skype: Rise and Fall to Microsoft Teams
Microsoft has officially shuttered the legacy Skype client and service as of May 5, ...
Roku OS 14.5 Update reportedly breaks HDR on various apps
After the automatic rollout of Roku OS 14.5 at the end of April, users ...
DOGE Appeals to Supreme Court for SSA Data Access
On May 5, 2025, the Trump administration filed an emergency application with the Supreme ...
Google Gemini’s Pokémon Success and Its Hidden Limitations
Earlier this year, Anthropic’s Claude struggled to beat Pokémon Red despite months of effort. ...
The Shutdown of Mr. Deepfakes: The Fall of a Deepfake Porn Giant
Over the weekend, Mr. Deepfakes, once the world’s most notorious online destination for non-consensual ...
F1 in Miami: Pastels and High-Tech Racing Evolution
After a brief break following Imola, the Formula 1 paddock descended on Miami’s Hard ...
NOAA Budget Cuts Threaten Hurricane Forecasting This Storm Season
As the Atlantic hurricane season approaches (June 1–November 30), forecasters are riding high on ...
Amos-6 Revisited: SpaceX’s Sniper Theory and Aftermath
Introduction On the morning of September 1, 2016, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lay prone ...
The Last of Us: Dina and Ellie’s Seattle Adventure
HBO’s season 2 of The Last of Us continues to blend stark post-apocalyptic drama ...
Review: Thunderbolts Elevates VFX with AI Workflows
The curious asterisk in the title of Marvel’s Thunderbolts* only makes sense once the ...
The End of Moore’s Law and Gaming Hardware Price Cuts
For over four decades, video game consoles have followed a reliable trajectory: launch at ...
Doge Recruiter Staffing AI Agents for U.S. Government
Introduction A disruptive startup founder has unveiled an ambitious plan to deploy autonomous AI ...
Trump’s First 100 Days: Environmental Impact Analysis
Executive Summary During the first 100 days of the Trump administration, a sweeping rollback ...
Amazon’s Project Kuiper: A Deep Dive into Secret Satellites
After years of whispers and speculation, Amazon has finally peeled back the curtain on ...
Censorship Undermines Federal Research Funding
Introduction In early May 2025, the National Science Foundation (NSF) abruptly terminated multiple lines ...
DOJ Aims to Divide Google’s Ad Tech: Key Impacts Reviewed
While Google is often thought of first as a search giant, its true stronghold ...
Baxter: Trump Tariffs to Cost $60–70 Million in 2025
During its Q2 earnings call on May 1, 2025, Baxter International’s Executive Vice President ...
Trump’s 2026 Budget: Deep Cuts to Science and Competitiveness
On May 2, 2025, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) delivered ...
Texas probes toothpaste makers over fluoride dispute
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched a formal investigation into Colgate-Palmolive Company and ...
Microsoft’s Passwordless Default: Technical Insights and Trade-offs
Overview of Passwordless by Default In May 2025, Microsoft announced that all newly created ...
Judge Examines Fair Use in Meta’s AI Training Impacting GenAI
At a high-stakes hearing on May 1, 2025, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria signaled ...
Kubernetes v1.33: Improvements in Pod Scheduling and CSI Allocatable Counts
Scheduling stateful applications reliably depends heavily on accurate information about resource availability on nodes. ...
Screwworms Are Coming: A Horrifying Threat
By popular demand, and with fresh urgency: the New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) is ...