ALT: Laura Dern in Jurassic Park Control Room

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

Posted: February 6, 2026 5:49 pm ET | Last Updated: February 6, 2026 5:57 pm ET | NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman issued a Workforce Directive on February 6, 2026 to restore NASA's core competencies...

The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

New browsers keep launching, usually with an AI focus. But a new option from the team behind the Kagi search engine takes a different approach. Orion is built on WebKit and emphasizes speed and user privacy—in other words, it’s a browser built primarily to attract Apple users. After a lengthy beta, the Orion Mac app just launched. Here are the details. more…

Joseph Ladapo, a long-time vaccine skeptic, says that every state vaccine requirement would be repealed

After the deal between Paragon and Homeland Security's investigations unit was frozen, the first signs that Trump wants spyware emerged, sparking concerns amid a growing arsenal of digital tools

The chart President Donald Trump displayed during an Aug. 11 news conference included 2023 data for Washington, D.C. homicides. Since then, the district’s homicide rate has fallen considerably. And…

What experts say can save lives.

If we don’t protect tech sovereignty today, we are going to regret it tomorrow.

Secret order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users.

Elon Musk's DOGE has taken control and accessed large swathes of Americans' private information held by the U.S. federal government.

Consumers and small businesses are already feeling the impact of President Donald Trump’s new tariffs, which eliminated a key trade exemption for parcels worth less than $800.

The agency is currently juggling the response to more than 100 major disasters nationwide.

If you were surprised to see yourself suddenly following President Donald Trump on Instagram and Facebook this week, it’s not because Meta forced you to, the social media company says.

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