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NASA's Artemis II crew are the fastest people alive and now have the patch to prove it. The Mach 39 patch updates the 40-year-old original Mach 25 patch, an honor given to astronauts who achieve extre

A student injured in the January 2025 Antioch High School shooting has filed a lawsuit against Omnilert, the company behind the school's AI gun detection system. The school had an Omnilert AI-powered

Five scientists, including the editor-in-chief of America's leading diabetes journal, were removed from the American Diabetes Association's annual conference in New Orleans on June 5, 2026, after dist

Scientists studying Ötzi the Iceman have discovered that the 5,300-year-old ice mummy still hosts an active microbial ecosystem. Researchers found metabolically active cold-loving yeasts and growing G

A multistate outbreak of infant botulism affected 48 infants across 17 states and was linked to ByHeart Whole Nutrition infant formula . The CDC declared the outbreak over on February 26, 2026 , thoug

A security researcher discovered that attackers can silently flash custom firmware to a Creative Sound Blaster USB speaker over Bluetooth without physical contact, and the malicious firmware can explo

Audi has unveiled the Nuvolari, a limited-production mid-engined plug-in hybrid supercar that will begin deliveries in early 2027 with only 499 units made. The supercar features a twin-turbo 4.0-liter

AMD's Radeon RX 9070 GRE is priced at 549—the same launch price as the full RX 9070—despite featuring significantly reduced specifications with 85% of the cores, 75% of memory, and 66% of memory bandw

Spider-Noir is a Prime Video superhero series based on the Marvel Comics character Spider-Man Noir, following an older web-slinger living in New York City during the Great Depression. The series combi

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a hot-fire test on May 28 at Cape Canaveral, resulting in a spectacular explosion that damaged the launch facility . The explosion represen

Safety officials gained detailed data on the impact of large rocket explosions when Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, causing a

Antares Nuclear completed a zero-power criticality test for its Mark-0 demonstrator reactor at Idaho National Laboratory on June 4, 2026, becoming the first company in the Energy Department's Reactor

S&P Dow Jones Indices decided against changes to S&P 500 eligibility requirements, meaning SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic must wait 12 months and become profitable before inclusion. S&P said it will no

The Fitbit Air is a screenless health tracker with sensors that connect to Google's new Health app , offering hardware for just 100, compared to Whoop's subscription models costing 200-$360 annually .

A worsening air leak aboard the International Space Station prompted five astronauts to temporarily take shelter and prepare for evacuation on Friday as Russia attempted to fix a crack on its portion

The Trump administration announced $700 million in funding for coal plants and a new export terminal , utilizing Cold War-era authority to support existing facilities and build new coal plants. This i

A proposed Utah data center backed by Kevin O'Leary was drastically scaled back after pressure from lawmakers. The original project would have consumed 9 gigawatts of power—more than double what Utah

NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft has ended after more than 11 years in orbit at Mars, far exceeding its original one-year mission. The spacecraft was last heard from on

The Supreme Court rejected Verizon and AT&T's constitutional challenge to FCC fines exceeding 100 million combined for illegally sharing customers' location data with third parties, ruling 8-1 that no

A study published in Science found that bumblebees can solve a completely novel object-manipulation task without training. The bees spontaneously moved a ball underneath an out-of-reach flower and cli

In March 2026, the FCC added all consumer-grade routers produced in foreign countries to its Covered List, prohibiting new models from receiving authorization . The ban cites supply chain vulnerabilit

An external party launched a brute force attack on May 31, 2026, targeting Dashlane user accounts by brute-forcing two-factor authentication (2FA) protections to register new devices on existing accou

Elon Musk's X filed a petition with the FTC seeking to terminate a 2022 data security consent order 16 years early, arguing the oversight prevents the company from developing artificial intelligence w

Data center operators are addressing water consumption challenges through innovations like immersion cooling that submerges servers in non-conductive fluids and hybrid approaches combining traditional

A cyberattack in June 2025 at Columbia University compromised the personal information of approximately 870,000 students, applicants, and employees, including Social Security numbers and health inform

Waymo has announced a deal with energy storage company B2U to use retired robotaxi batteries to serve electricity grids in California and Texas. The used battery packs will be installed into grid-conn

Common bean plants detect molecules in caterpillar saliva and release a scent that attracts predatory wasps using a single immune receptor called INR (inceptin receptor). This receptor recognizes ince

Dashlane disclosed a brute-force attack beginning May 31, 2026 that targeted two-factor authentication protections to register unauthorized devices on user accounts. Attackers successfully downloaded

Following a ruling by the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, Google must provide clearer attribution and links to publishers within AI-generated search results and allow website owners to opt out

Google DeepMind released Gemma 4 12B, an open AI model that brings multimodal capabilities to everyday laptops by processing text, images, and audio natively without separate encoders. Small enough to

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during a hot-fire test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, 2026, causing significant damage to the launch pad. The company will need months at minimum to recover from

Microsoft and Atom Computing achieved a major quantum computing milestone by creating and entangling 24 logical qubits on a commercial quantum machine. The breakthrough demonstrated significant error

Plex unveiled several social features aimed at changing how users interact with the platform , including Discussions, a community forum where users can post comments and talk about movies or TV shows

The USDA announced it is testing a suspected case of New World screwworm in South Texas, which would be the first of its kind in the U.S. in decades. Samples were taken from two calves on a ranch in L

Trump signed an executive order on June 2, 2026, establishing a voluntary framework for the federal government to evaluate risks posed by advanced AI systems before release and encouraging companies t

A class action lawsuit filed by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent , with Sigwalt seeking at least $5 million in dam

Google is introducing fake call detection, an industry-first protection that can detect and flag suspected spoofed calls when both contacts use Phone by Google. When a scammer tries to impersonate a c

Blue Origin says it expects to fly its New Glenn rocket by the end of 2026 despite an explosion last week that destroyed the rocket and damaged the company's launch facility at Cape Canaveral Space Fo

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from taking away a supercomputer from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) , preventing the National Science Foundation from transferrin

Impulse Space raised 500 million in Series D funding to expand production of orbital transfer vehicles and spacecraft for commercial and government demand. The funds will scale production of Mira, a m

China launched its partially reusable Long March 12B rocket for the first time on June 1, 2026, without issuing advance airspace closure notices. The rocket successfully deployed two satellites and di

A University of Exeter study found that male bowerbirds in Australian cities use human-made items—including glass, plastic, and unconventional objects like handcuffs—to decorate their bowers and attra

Mathematicians from major institutions have published the Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, which outlines key challenges that widespread AI use poses to mathematics resea

Microsoft announced at Build 2026 a new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, fresh Linux-friendly tooling, and a one-command developer configuration system for Windows 11. The desktop workstation is powered by

Microsoft has developed Project Solara, a platform for devices that run AI agents instead of apps, based on Android instead of Windows. The platform is Microsoft's bet that AI will open up entirely ne

The DRC Ministry of Health removed suspected cases that have been ruled out after investigation on May 29, resulting in a significant reduction in suspect case counts . Improved laboratory capacity, i