Nearly five years after graduating into an independent Alphabet company, Intrinsic is moving under Google's domain.

Snapchat is the latest social media platform to launch awards for creators, joining TikTok and Instagram.

A tax accountant saw Elon Musk fans bidding up a Kalshi prediction market and saw a sure bet to make easy money.

The former boss of a U.S. hacking tools maker was jailed for selling highly sensitive software exploits to a Russian broker. This is how we first learned of his arrest, reported the story, and some of the unanswered questions we still have.

The new privacy tech uses different types of pixels to let you block certain apps and notifications from being viewed by others.

The wearable incentivizes healthy behavior with points that can be redeemed for health products.

Kalshi fined the MrBeast editor, Artem Kaptur, for over $20,000.

Public backlash over the data center boom is leading to a variety of draconian policies—including bans on new construction.

Waymo this week will begin mapping and collecting data in Chicago and Charlotte. The move comes as Waymo announces it is currently operating its robotaxis fully autonomously in 10 US cities.

Gemini on Android will be able to automate tasks involving rideshare requests, or grocery or food delivery, says Google.

COO Brad Lightcap noted that ads can add to the product experience of users if they are done right. He urged to give OpenAI a few months to see how the company fares in rolling out the product.

Peter Steinberger talks about the creation of his viral AI agent OpenClaw and how being more "playful" makes for a better way to learn AI coding.

Eating nothing but oatmeal for just two days might sound extreme, but it delivered a striking payoff in a new clinical trial. People with metabolic syndrome who followed a short, calorie-reduced oat-based plan saw their harmful LDL cholesterol drop by 10%, along with modest weight loss and lower blo...

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General-purpose tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are not designed for this use, making mental health professionals wary.

Earth’s magnetic shield is shifting in dramatic ways. New data from ESA’s Swarm satellites show that the South Atlantic Anomaly — a vast weak spot in Earth’s magnetic field — has grown by nearly half the size of continental Europe since 2014. Even more striking, a region southwest of Afric...

Recent findings also show that video podcasting -- while popular -- is not necessarily replacing audio shows.

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The Trump administration has ordered U.S. diplomats to lobby against countries' attempts to regulate how American tech companies handle foreigners' data.

Mars’ frozen ice caps may be time capsules for ancient life. Lab experiments show that key building blocks of proteins can survive tens of millions of years in pure ice, even under relentless cosmic radiation. Ice mixed with Martian-like soil, however, destroys organic material far more quickly. T...

It's the Los Angeles trucking startup's first acquisition — the latest in a series of moves to spin up new revenue streams.

Atlassian is unveiling "agents in Jira," which gives users the ability to assign and manage work given to AI agents the same as humans.

Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after being a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

Former Trenchant manager profited millions from cyber tools reserved for the US The former general manager of L3Harris's cyber arm will spend the next seven years behind bars for selling trade secrets to Russia.…

Security pros question assurances as company offers staff credit monitoring Wynn Resorts has confirmed that employee data was stolen from its servers, and is taking the hackers' word that they've since deleted it.…

Wayve says it's confident all cars will one day be autonomous, as it announced more than a £1bn in additional investment.

Users of social media - where the marketing campaign has been launched - say it is out of keeping with Gucci's reputation for luxury.

A lost cache of 250-million-year-old fossils from Australia has rewritten part of the story of life after Earth’s worst mass extinction. Instead of a single marine amphibian species, researchers uncovered evidence of a surprisingly diverse community of early ocean predators. One of these creatures...

Note to secret agents: ChatGPT is NOT a private diary A ChatGPT user with links to Chinese law enforcement tried to use the AI chatbot to run smear campaigns targeting the Japanese prime minister and other critics of the Chinese Communist Party, according to OpenAI's latest report on malicious uses ...

Horses have a vocal trick no one fully understood until now. Scientists have discovered that when a horse whinnies, it produces two completely different sounds at the same time. One is a deep tone created by vibrating the vocal folds, similar to how humans sing. The other is a high-pitched whistle g...

More than 40,000 years ago, Ice Age humans were carving repeated patterns of dots, lines, and crosses into tools and small ivory figurines. A new computational study of more than 3,000 of these Paleolithic signs reveals that they were not random decorations but structured sequences with measurable c...

His speech follows years of the firm focusing away from China as it moved its headquarters to Singapore.

The AI developer laid out red lines on military use of its products, a source said.

Users were unhappy about plans for age verification to require facial or ID scans.

Google said the news alert was an error that should not have happened.

New ransomware of choice, same critical targets North Korea’s Lazarus Group appears to have added another tool to its kit. It has begun using Medusa ransomware in extortion attacks targeting at least one US healthcare organization and an unnamed victim in the Middle East, according to Symantec and...

After nearly 50 years of failed attempts and scientific speculation, chemists at Saarland University have achieved what many thought might be impossible: creating a long-sought silicon-based aromatic molecule. By replacing carbon atoms in a famously stable ring-shaped compound with silicon, the team...

Subtle changes in brain blood flow and oxygen use are closely linked to hallmark signs of Alzheimer’s, including amyloid plaques and memory-related brain shrinkage. Simple, noninvasive scans may one day help spot risk earlier—by looking at the brain’s vascular health, not just its plaques.

Deep inside the Milky Way, an invisible force is quietly holding everything together — its magnetic field. Now, researchers have created one of the most detailed maps ever of this hidden structure, revealing surprising twists in how it flows through our galaxy.

Scientists have proposed a surprising connection between solar flares and earthquakes. When solar activity disturbs the ionosphere, it may generate electric fields that penetrate fragile fracture zones in Earth’s crust. If a fault is already critically stressed, this extra electrostatic pressure c...

The UK's data watchdog said the failings meant children could be exposed to harmful material online.

Deep in the Congo Basin, vast peatlands quietly store enormous amounts of Earth’s carbon — but new research suggests this ancient vault may be leaking. Scientists studying Africa’s largest blackwater lakes discovered that significant amounts of carbon dioxide bubbling into the atmosphere come ...

A newly identified ichthyosaur from the UK’s Jurassic Coast is rewriting part of the prehistoric playbook. Nicknamed the “Sword Dragon of Dorset,” the three-meter-long marine reptile lived during a poorly understood window of evolution when major ichthyosaur groups were disappearing and new on...

Public prosecutor mulls sentencing following investigations into two separate attacks Two South Korean teenagers were this week charged with breaching Seoul's public bike service, Ttareungyi.…

Researchers are engineering bacteria to invade tumors and consume them from the inside. Because tumor cores lack oxygen, they’re the perfect breeding ground for these microbes. The team added a genetic tweak that helps the bacteria survive longer near oxygen-exposed edges — but only once enough ...

Training harder may do more than build muscle—it could transform your gut. Researchers found that intense workouts change the balance of bacteria and important compounds in athletes’ digestive systems. When training loads dropped, diet quality slipped and digestion slowed, triggering different m...

A UCLA study in mice reveals that aging muscle stem cells accumulate a protein that slows repair but boosts survival. This protein, NDRG1, acts like a brake, preventing cells from activating quickly after injury. When researchers blocked it in older mice, muscle healing sped up dramatically — but ...

Europe lags far behind the US and China in orbital space launches, but new facilities are opening up.

The executive shake-up has sparked online debate about new boss Asha Sharma's gaming credentials.

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