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As a deadly Ebola outbreak spreads through the Democratic Republic of Congo, health workers are dealing with the consequences of the Trump administration's cuts to global health programs and withdrawa

The FCC published a public notice about broadcasters' 'public interest' obligations, with FCC Chair Brendan Carr stating the agency would take enforcement action for noncompliance. This followed the F

The 2027 Audi RS5 is Audi Sport's first high-performance plug-in hybrid, pairing maximum performance with remarkable efficiency. The powertrain combines a 2.9-liter twin-turbo V6 with a 130-kW electri

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition became available on Steam for macOS on May 28, 2026. The port by Feral Interactive includes three expansions and 4K visuals, with Apple Silicon required. Feral In

Amazon paid approximately $1.8 billion to Blue Origin in 2025 under satellite launch agreements for its Project Kuiper constellation , leveraging Jeff Bezos' aerospace company for its heavy-lift rocke

Apple is reportedly working to distill knowledge and skills from Google's larger Gemini model into a smaller version that could run on iPhones. The new Siri will use a tiered system where simple tasks

An experimental gene-editing therapy called VERVE-102 aims to lower bad cholesterol long-term after a single infusion and showed promising results in a Phase I safety trial published in the New Englan

Federal prosecutors charged a Google software engineer with making roughly $1.2 million in profits from bets on the prediction market platform Polymarket by using confidential insider information he l

A developer added hidden prompt injection instructions to jqwik, a Java testing app, to sabotage projects created by AI coding agents in response to the 'vibe coding' controversy. The incident represe

NOAA forecasts a 55% chance of a below-normal 2026 Atlantic hurricane season (June 1 - November 30) with 8-14 named storms, 3-6 hurricanes, and 1-3 major hurricanes. The below-average forecast is driv

Pigeons possess iron-rich macrophages in their livers that act as magnetic sensors, enabling detection of Earth's magnetic field for navigation. Removal of these cells disrupts magnetic-based homing,

Intel introduced the Arc G-Series processors, a new family designed for next-generation handheld gaming systems, launching with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors running Windows 11 based on Intel C

MIT researchers developed a low-temperature process for extracting battery-grade lithium from the common mineral spodumene. The process uses a liquid reagent to dissolve the rock into useful forms inc

Illinois' House of Representatives passed SB 315, a landmark bill requiring frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to create, publish and annually update plans addressing severe or catastroph

Although the United States spends more on health care than any other country, it consistently underperforms on key metrics. A Commonwealth Fund study evaluating the U.S. health system relative to 19 o

Astronomers directly measured the mass of a black hole in a 'little red dot' observed when the universe was just 700 million years old, finding it is much too massive for its host galaxy, suggesting i

Mina the Hollower is an action-adventure game from Yacht Club Games where players control Mina, a renowned Hollower on a mission to rescue a cursed island. The game features nostalgic throwback visual

Motorola's 2026 Razr lineup features durable and visually refined hardware design , but critics note the devices struggle to establish clear leadership in any single category . Motorola raised prices

NASA satellites can detect and localize GPS jammers operating from orbit using civilian satellite data with improved accuracy over previous methods. A GPS jammer near Shiraz, Iran has remained active

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the chip company plans to invest approximately 150 billion annually in Taiwan, terming it the 'epicentre' of the AI revolution . This represents a dramatic increase f

Nvidia has officially retired the NVIDIA Control Panel after 20 years of service, shifting all functionality to the newer Nvidia App. The legacy Control Panel is no longer included in default GeForce

Roku's redesigned home screen now features larger advertisements that remain visible at all times, and this persistent ad placement has proven more effective in generating revenue. The first major hom

U.S. law enforcement agencies are monitoring growing backlash to AI and have begun classifying anti-technology sentiment as an extremism threat, with unpublished reports from the Department of Homelan

The U.S. Space Force awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite communications network to connect military sensors and weapons platforms across the globe. The Spac

Valve's Steam Deck OLED models are finally back in stock after months of shortages, but buyers are now facing much steeper prices than before. The 512GB Steam Deck OLED now costs 789, up from 549, whi

Volvo Cars, majority owned by China's Geely Holding, received approval from the U.S. government allowing it to continue selling vehicles with Chinese 'connected technology' in the country. This exempt

YouTube is automatically applying AI-generated content labels if it detects a video includes 'significant photorealistic AI use,' while making labels more prominent by displaying them directly below t

Researchers at UC Berkeley have developed Berkeley Humanoid Lite, a low-cost, open-source robot made of 3D-printed parts , which keeps hardware costs under $5,000 with a modular design allowing easy c

Audi's CEO Gernot Döllner outlines the company's strategy to maintain global brand strength through localized vehicle production and tailored models for specific markets like China. As of 2026, Audi w

The Porsche Cayenne Coupe Electric is the most powerful production Porsche ever built with up to 1,156 horsepower and a 0–62 mph time of around 2.5 seconds. The vehicle features direct oil cooling tec

The search results don't contain specific information about the Ars Technica investigation into whether Peter Thiel is the target of the Pope's Gandalf quote. Based on the available information, here'

A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-33579, scoring 9.8/10 severity) was discovered in the OpenClaw open source package, allowing attackers with minimal access to silently escalate privileges to full ad

Elon Musk claimed that US military LUCAS suicide drones initially used commercial Starlink instead of the government-specific Starshield network in violation of SpaceX's terms of service, blaming the

NASA is advancing its Artemis program to build a crewed lunar base over the next decade near the lunar south pole , and the base will sprawl over hundreds of square miles with a perimeter marked by ho

Plate tectonics recycles oxygen into Earth's mantle through subduction, with oxygen-rich fluids from serpentinite rocks being transported deep into the planet as tectonic plates sink. The rapid format

Apple's 599 MacBook Neo launched in March 2026 at approximately half the price of the MacBook Air, directly competing with lower-cost Windows PCs and triggering significant industry reaction. PC maker

The Windows 95 classic 3D Space Cadet pinball game is being converted from its original digital format into a functional physical pinball machine. The recreation uses largely 3D-printed components inc

Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, which addresses safeguarding human dignity in the era of artificial intelligence . The Pope called to 'disarm' AI and free it 'from log

An Ars Technica article examining the cultural pressure to complete highly-acclaimed games like The Witcher 3, arguing that a game being objectively good doesn't obligate players to enjoy it or finish

SpaceX successfully launched an updated version of its Starship V3 on May 22, 2026, the first test flight of the upgraded booster and upper stage designed as part of NASA's Artemis lunar program. The

Tom Akers and Joe Tanner, veteran space shuttle astronauts who each flew four missions, were inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame on May 16, 2026. Tanner logged 1,069 hours in space and more

Cybercriminal group TeamPCP is executing an unprecedented wave of software supply chain attacks, compromising hundreds of open source tools and breaching organizations through poisoned code. The incid

Author Steven Rosenbaum's book 'The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality' was discovered by The New York Times to contain multiple misattributed or synthetic quotes generated by AI tools, which Ro

NASA is in the early stages of identifying what small parts of the International Space Station to bring back to Earth before its scheduled deorbit around 2030 . As the station descends through the atm

A May 2026 Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda involves the rare Bundibugyo virus , with 575 suspected cases, 51 confirmed cases, and 148 suspected deaths reported as of May

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removed the two leaders of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, which makes recommendations on preventive care such as mammograms and colonoscopies. Kennedy