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  1. AI video throwdown: OpenAI’s Sora vs. Runway and Pika

    Workers in animation, advertising, and real estate test rival AI systems.

  2. Daily Telescope: The Horsehead Nebula as we’ve never seen it before

    Webb delivers with a new look on an iconic classic.

  3. Two giants in the satellite telecom industry join forces to counter Starlink

    SES is buying Intelsat, the world's first commercial satellite operator, for $3.1 billion.

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  1. Here’s your chance to own a decommissioned US government supercomputer

    145,152-core Cheyenne supercomputer was 20th most powerful in the world in 2016.

  2. The iPhone’s next AAA game, Assassin’s Creed Mirage, gets a release date

    The game launched on consoles and PC months ago.

  3. DEA to reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk drug, reports say

    Marijuana to move from Schedule 1, the most dangerous drug group, to Schedule 3.

  4. Binance’s billionaire founder gets 4 months for violating money laundering law

    US prosecutors sought 3-year sentence for Binance founder Changpeng Zhao.

  5. Health care giant comes clean about recent hack and paid ransom

    Ransomware attack on the $371 billion company hamstrung US prescription market.

  6. Researchers make a plastic that includes bacteria that can digest it

    Bacterial spores strengthen the plastic, then revive to digest it in landfills.

  7. AWS S3 storage bucket with unlucky name nearly cost developer $1,300

    Amazon says it's working on stopping others from "making your AWS bill explode."

  8. Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts

    Mystery LLM highlights transparency issues in AI testing.

  9. Apple confirms bug that is keeping some iPhone alarms from sounding

    If your iPhone hasn't been waking you up lately, you're not alone.

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  1. FTC fines Razer for every cent made selling bogus “N95 grade” RGB masks

    “Deceptive advertising and misinformation posed a risk to public health."

  2. EU probes Meta for killing tool that enables real-time election monitoring

    EU probes Facebook/Instagram owner for possible Digital Services Act violations.

  3. Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups

    The groups supported developers both inside and outside of Google.

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  1. Behind the wheel of CXC’s $600,000 off-road racing simulator

    CXC Simulations wanted to build something special for a cruise liner.

  2. “Forgotten” poem by C.S. Lewis published for the first time

    "Mód Þrýþe Ne Wæg" (1935) was among documents sold to the University of Leeds 10 years ago.

  3. Apple poaches AI experts from Google, creates secretive European AI lab

    At least 36 former Googlers now work on AI for Apple.

  4. New space company seeks to solve orbital mobility with high delta-v spacecraft

    "If we’re going to have a true space economy, that means logistics and supply services."

  5. Tesla to lay off everyone working on Superchargers, new vehicles

    Tesla is also getting rid of its public policy team, despite robotaxi ambitions.

  6. NASA lays out how SpaceX will refuel Starships in low-Earth orbit

    "The fundamental flow mechanism is the pressure delta across the umbilical."

  1. Cats suffer H5N1 brain infections, blindness, death after drinking raw milk

    Mammal-to-mammal transmission raises new concerns about the virus's ability to spread.

  2. Roku OS home screen is getting video ads for the first time

    Meanwhile, Roku keeps making more money.

  3. Dead Boy Detectives turns Neil Gaiman’s ghostly duo into “Hardy Boys on acid”

    Supernatural horror detective series has witches, demons, and a charming Cat King.

  4. Critics question tech-heavy lineup of new Homeland Security AI safety board

    CEO-heavy board to tackle elusive AI safety concept and apply it to US infrastructure.

  5. Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says

    iPads must comply with the same DMA regulations as the iPhone.

  6. FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data

    FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018.

  7. UK outlaws awful default passwords on connected devices

    The law aims to prevent global-scale botnet attacks.