A Siberian lab worker's death triggered quarantines and plague rumors. Officials say testing has not confirmed plague or an outbreak.

The FAA’s SMART pilot uses AI to forecast congestion around Washington, but controllers—not software—decide what happens next.

OpenAI says an internal model proved Navier-Stokes can blow up. Clay hasn't accepted it, and a credit fight with two mathematicians is underway.

A new study estimates that Base Camp’s fuel use and urine add local heat to the Khumbu Glacier, showing the environmental cost of Everest tourism.

AlphaGenome Atlas offers free precomputed predictions for every single-letter human DNA variant, plus a new score that ranks how much each one matters.

China's Ministry of State Security is stripping Windows 10 from government agencies early, replacing it with homegrown Linux systems.

Apple Music will require AI transparency tags, making provenance visible to listeners while leaving key decisions to labels and distributors.

FDA authorizes Vitestro’s Aletta, a robotic blood-draw system that works autonomously but still requires trained human oversight.

A 29-state trial argues Meta engineered Instagram and Facebook to addict minors, with penalties that could reach $1.4 trillion.

Merck and Moderna say their personalized mRNA therapy met two Phase 3 endpoints in resected melanoma, but the effect sizes are still undisclosed.

Rising heat can weaken protective barriers and alter pesticide exposure, adding a climate risk to the people who harvest US food.

A leaked macOS Tahoe demo video shows Apple's next AirPods using onboard cameras to feed Siri's Visual Intelligence.

ChatGPT’s teen experience uses age prediction, content limits, study tools and parental controls to steer under-18 users into a different service.

Google has reportedly told suppliers it will end Pixel manufacturing in China by 2027, moving output to Vietnam and India.

Fairphone's Gen. 6+ brings a direct, unlocked Android phone to the U.S., testing whether repairability can reach a wider market.

An iPhone Bluetooth scanner can warn you about nearby smart glasses—but it cannot tell you whether their camera is recording.

A Senate inquiry is testing whether Roblox child-exploitation reports give police the information needed to act.

Kyoto University turned public orbit files from 1,200 Starlink satellites into the first tomographic map of thermospheric density at 482 kilometers.

A Connecticut court barred a plaintiff from e-filing after hidden prompt-injection text was found in legal filings.

Apple now delivers mercenary spyware threat notifications as iPhone Lock Screen push alerts, reaching targets on the device under attack.

Focused ultrasound reaches the brain's reward center without surgery and can shut down addiction cravings, but safe dosing parameters still don't exist.

British Columbia’s 2021 heat dome showed why schizophrenia requires targeted, stigma-aware heat protection.

A Florida case shows how OpenAI says it may refer credible, imminent threats to law enforcement while retaining a narrow disclosure standard.

DeepSeek’s new peak-hour pricing exposes the physical cost of running long-context, open-weight AI at scale.

Trezor's ShipMonk breach exposed 13,689 buyers. Here's how cold wallets actually get broken — and why an address list is the missing piece.

Apple reportedly trained a China-specific AI model with Alibaba, making Apple Intelligence’s model layer a market-access decision.

The White House will let vetted security firms hack foreign cybercriminals under DOJ and DHS control, a first for U.S. cyber policy.

Instagram’s new wordmark is human-made, but its glitches make it a perfect symbol of the AI era.

Magnetic MXene microrobots removed test microplastics from water and wet soil in a lab study, but real-world cleanup remains unproven.

Some people get hungrier in the afternoon because of stress, so if you're one of them, you should organize your meals better,

Plastic, cigarettes, and more: birds use human trash in their nests to signal their quality as mates. This helps them attract partners.

Unit 42’s Pass-ta-key attacks recover synced Google passkeys from Chrome on Windows. What that proves about passkey security, and what it does not.

A region in the brain appears to increase the likelihood of relapsing into drug use. We'll show you why.

Sanders demanded a pause; 51 House Democrats demanded answers. Both cite AI agents that broke out of testing and hacked outside systems.

It breaks down the boundaries between music and mathematics. Learn how melody drives academic success.

BTP is expanding live facial recognition into London Underground stations, renewing questions about surveillance, safeguards and civil liberties.

Hermit crabs scrape, eat, and excrete seeds of the parasitic plant Balanophora fungosa, a Kobe University study finds — the first case of its kind.

Anthropic is adding invisible watermarks to new Claude outputs, bringing useful provenance signals and clear limits to AI-written text.

A microbiologist questions the reliability of smell for detecting spoiled food. Learn how to make safer decisions.

Are everyday symbols like &?!#@$ more memorable than some vowels? Or are words easier to remember? Here's what science says.

What does neuroscience reveal about the social interactions of deaf people? Discover the surprising findings of new research.

Buffalo mozzarella, the famous ingredient in Italian pizzerias, owes its flavor to these two microbes. Here's why.

The hidden link between industrial food and depression: a look at the study that explains it.

Small everyday pleasures, such as listening to music or drinking coffee, actually benefit your brain’s performance. Find out why.

Want to live longer and better? Find out how eco-friendly foods can help you.

A water-system cyberattack becomes physical when an exposed controller or remote connection reaches operational technology.

WhatsApp is testing optional age confirmation in India. A self-declared birthday is easy; India's data law will eventually demand verified guardians.

A reported T-Life roadmap could move upgrades, new lines and activations into the app, recasting T-Mobile stores as support hubs.

Inouye Solar Telescope images reveal plasma vortices that confirm a long-predicted magnetic process on the Sun.

Cloudflare OS is an open-source workspace where a conversation becomes a document, an app or a workflow that colleagues can open, use and modify.