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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

Slate Auto's bare-bones electric pickup truck features a minimalist design stripped down to just 600 parts, including manual windows and no infotainment system, while still prioritizing privacy by avo

The Neo Geo's 2D-only sprite-based design makes a native Doom port functionally impossible , as the console has no bitmap graphics mode needed for 3D games and instead relies on predefined sprite imag

GitHub Copilot transitioned to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026 , replacing request-based pricing with a system where each plan includes a monthly allotment of GitHub AI Credits calculated based on

The Bot Company, a 2 billion San Francisco startup founded by Tesla and Cruise alumni, rented residential properties through Airbnb under false pretenses to conduct prototype testing on household robo

AMD extended its commitment to support the Socket AM5 platform through 2029, two years longer than its original 2027 pledge, providing seven years of CPU compatibility since the socket's 2022 launch.

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics. The proof came from a new general-pur

On June 1, 2026, multiple official packages from the @redhat-cloud-services scope on NPM were compromised with a credential-stealing worm, affecting 96 versions across 32 packages totaling 116,991 wee

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company knowingly released an unsafe product that could harm users. The suit cited instances of

Hackers exploited Meta's AI support chatbot to break into high-profile Instagram accounts by requesting the bot change associated email addresses. Compromised accounts included those of the Obama-era

Intel plans to ship its Crescent Island AI GPU in 2026, targeting Nvidia and AMD on cost and power efficiency. The chip uses cheaper LPDDR5X memory and is designed to run in air-cooled server racks ra

The Surface Laptop Ultra is Microsoft's direct answer to Apple's MacBook Pro, built in partnership with NVIDIA and running Windows on Arm with an RTX Spark chip. This 15-inch device features NVIDIA's

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced an expanded collaboration with Moderna, committing up to $50 million to support preclinical development and Phase 1 clinical testin

SpaceCamp is a 1986 American science fiction adventure film inspired by the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Alabama. The young attendees of a space camp find themselves in space for real when their shu

Research shows that animals get their minds muddled during heat waves, with birds struggling to learn, dogs biting more often, and chamois picking fights when temperatures rise. When animals can't sta

Environmental advocates voiced strong opposition to proposed new regulations weakening requirements for utilities cleaning up toxic coal ash at hundreds of sites across the country. The Trump administ

This article examines the origins of the most common arguments against vaccines—that they are unnatural, more dangerous than disease, or an affront to freedom—tracing how innocent skepticism from the

An analysis of the Texas measles outbreak examines epidemiological features, transmission dynamics, and clinical manifestations, emphasizing the severe complications the virus poses, with resurgence d

Dutch authorities dismantled a large Asocks botnet comprising at least 17 million compromised devices including computers, routers, tablets, smartphones, and smart security cameras. Investigators iden

The Department of Justice filed lawsuits against Maine, Massachusetts, Oregon, and Washington state alleging their refusal to issue undercover license plates to federal agents imposes unconstitutional

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded during an engine-firing test at Cape Canaveral on May 28, 2026 , which is catastrophic because Blue Origin only has one New Glenn pad and it was damaged in the

The Office of Management and Budget proposed major revisions to federal grant administration rules on May 29, 2026, which would rewrite foundational rules governing how federal grant dollars are award

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on May 28 during a static fire engine test, destroying the 321-foot rocket . The explosion froze all 24 of Amazon's contract