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Rocket Report: Chinese version of Falcon 9 fails; Artemis depends on rapid heavy lift

A weekly industry rocket news roundup highlighted three key developments: a Chinese Falcon 9-style reusable rocket suffered a launch failure, underscoring ongoing challenges facing China's growing ...

10 Apr 2026

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What leaked 'SteamGPT' files could mean for the PC gaming platform's use of AI

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Leaked code strings discovered on April 7, 2026, by dataminer Gabe Follower in a Steam VR Beta update reveal references to an internal Valve AI system called 'SteamGPT,' which appears designed to ...

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10 Apr 2026

YouTube increases Premium price again, says 90-second unskippable ads are a bug

YouTube raised the price of its Premium subscription for all plan tiers, with increases ranging from $1 to $4 per month, effective for new subscribers immediately and rolling out to existing subscr...

10 Apr 2026

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AI on the couch: Anthropic gives Claude 20 hours of psychiatry

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As part of the evaluation of its Claude Mythos model, Anthropic engaged a clinical psychiatrist for approximately 20 hours of evaluation sessions, describing Mythos as 'the most psychologically se...

CDC study shows COVID shot benefits; Trump official blocks release

A CDC study found that the COVID-19 vaccine reduced the likelihood of emergency department visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by approximately half, but the CDC's acting dir...

Clinical trial shows gene editing works for β-Thalassaemia, too

A phase 1 clinical trial published in *Nature* (2026) demonstrated that a transformer base editor can effectively treat severe β-Thalassaemia by modifying patients' own CD34+ haematopoietic stem ce...

First man convicted under Take It Down Act kept making AI nudes after arrest

James Strahler II of Columbus, Ohio became the first person convicted under the Take It Down Act — a federal law criminalizing the posting of nonconsensual explicit imagery, including AI-generated ...

First, Tesla canceled the Model 2—now it's working on a new small EV

After canceling its long-anticipated 'Model 2' affordable EV program in 2024 and pivoting toward robotaxis, Tesla is now reportedly developing an all-new compact electric SUV priced substantially b...

“Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says

Nutanix CEO Rajiv Ramaswami announced at the company's .NEXT conference in Chicago that approximately 30,000 customers have migrated from VMware to Nutanix's hyperconverged platform since Broadcom'...

Police corporal created AI porn from driver's license pics

Pennsylvania State Police Corporal Stephen Kamnik used his department-issued computer to create AI-generated deepfake pornography of multiple women, drawing source images from the state's driver's ...

RFK Jr. rewrites CDC panel's charter, opening door to anti-vaccine quacks

Following a courtroom defeat, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. rewrote the charter of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), broadening its membership criteria, increasing its focus on...

The gravity of their experience hasn't quite set in for the Artemis II astronauts

The Artemis II crew — NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, and CSA astronaut Jeremy Hansen — launched on April 1, 2026, sending the first humans toward the Moon since 1...

The Moon is already on Google Maps—did Artemis II really tell us anything new?

NASA's Artemis II mission, which launched April 1, 2026, sent four astronauts — Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen — on the first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1...

Trump-appointed judges refuse to block Trump blacklisting of Anthropic AI tech

A three-judge panel of Trump appointees on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — including Gregory Katsas and Neomi Rao, both veterans of Trump's first administration — denied Anthropic'...

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Trump's emergency orders pushing coal power are 'illegal' as well as dumb

The Trump administration's Department of Energy has invoked Section 202(c) of the Federal Power Act — a provision granting broad emergency authority over the electricity system that had previously...

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Ugandan chimps split into two factions, then killed rivals

The world's largest known wild chimpanzee group — the roughly 200-member Ngogo community in Uganda's Kibale National Park — split in 2015 into two factions called Western and Central, after which t...

Volkswagen stops building ID.4s in the US, has inventory 'into 2027'

Volkswagen ended production of the ID.4 electric SUV at its Chattanooga, Tennessee plant in mid-April 2026, primarily due to a sharp drop in EV demand following the Trump administration's withdraw...

Trump admin makes sweeping request for medical records of federal workers

The Trump administration's Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is seeking unprecedented access to the medical records of millions of federal workers, retirees, and their families. The proposed re...