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TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
Plant won’t be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
John Timmer
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Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space
“I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that.”
Stephen Clark
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Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
John Timmer
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Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
Ryan Whitwam
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TerraPower gets OK to start construction of its first nuclear plant
Plant won’t be done until 2030 at the earliest, and it still needs an operating license.
John Timmer
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Space Command chief throws cold water on the question of UAPs in space
“I am not aware of anything that is extraterrestrial, other than comets and things like that.”
Stephen Clark
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Large genome model: Open source AI trained on trillions of bases
System can identify genes, regulatory sequences, splice sites, and more.
John Timmer
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Google and Epic announce settlement to end app store antitrust case
The era of the 30 percent app store cut has ended.
Ryan Whitwam
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Lawsuit: Google Gemini sent man on violent missions, set suicide “countdown”
Gemini allegedly called man its “husband,” said they could be together in death.
Jon Brodkin
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After a rocky six years, Sony cancels future single-player PC game releases
Titles like Ghost of Yotei will remain exclusive to Sony’s hardware.
Samuel Axon
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Re-creating the complex cuisine of prehistoric Europeans
SEM analysis of pottery residues showed people combined fish with a wide variety of plants when cooking.
Jennifer Ouellette
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The US Senate empowers NASA to fully engage in lunar space race
“Our bill authorizes critical funding for, and gives strategic direction to, the agency.”
Eric Berger
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MacBook Neo hands-on: Apple build quality at a substantially lower price
The Neo won’t be for everyone, but Apple has managed to preserve a premium feel.
Andrew Cunningham
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Are consumers doomed to pay more for electricity due to data center buildouts?
Data center operators to sign pledge to supply their own power instead of relying on grid.
Financial Times
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Google’s very own walled garden
With developer verification, Google’s Apple envy threatens to dismantle Android’s open legacy
Questions remain as Google prepares to lock down Android app distribution in the name of security.
Ryan Whitwam
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The $599 MacBook Neo is Apple’s long-awaited colorful, lower-cost MacBook
Cute, colorful laptop takes the place of the old $599 M1 MacBook Air.
Andrew Cunningham
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No fooling: NASA targets April 1 for Artemis II launch to the Moon
“Engineers are assessing what allowed the seal to become dislodged to prevent the issue from recurring.”
Stephen Clark
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Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal
Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.
Scharon Harding
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FCC chair calls Paramount/WBD merger “a lot cleaner” than defunct Netflix deal
FCC to review foreign debt, but Carr indicates it will be a formality.
Jon Brodkin
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What we can learn from scientific analysis of Renaissance recipes
Multispectral imaging, proteomics, historical texts yield new insights into 16th-century medical manuals.
Jennifer Ouellette
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There are plenty of great choices if you want to spend less than $15K on an EV
There’s a lot of good Hyundai and Kia EVs in this price bracket, plus the Bolt and i3.
Jonathan M. Gitlin
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M5 Pro and M5 Max are surprisingly big departures from older Apple Silicon
Apple is using more chiplets and three types of CPU cores to make the M5 family.
Andrew Cunningham
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New MacBook Airs come with M5, double the storage, and higher starting prices
New Airs leave more room underneath for the rumored low-cost MacBook.
Andrew Cunningham
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Apple intros M5 Pro and Max MacBook Pros and its first new monitors in years
New laptops come with more storage but also higher starting prices.
Andrew Cunningham
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This is why our electricity bills are so high right now
New data shows electricity rates rose 5 percent nationwide in 2025.
Inside Climate News
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As Moon interest heats up, two companies unveil plans for a lunar “harvester”
“Ultimately, we want to build a fleet of electric harvesters.”
Eric Berger
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Medical journal The Lancet blasts RFK Jr.’s health work as a failure
Kennedy’s destruction “might take generations to repair,” The Lancet said.
Beth Mole
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LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy
Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.
Dan Goodin
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Clueless cops post seized crypto wallet password. $5M quickly stolen.
South Korean police deeply apologized for preventable loss of seized funds.
Ashley Belanger
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Charter gets FCC permission to buy Cox and become largest ISP in the US
FCC rejects protests because Charter and Cox don’t compete directly in most places.
Jon Brodkin
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Iowa county adopts strict zoning rules for data centers, but residents still worry
Though the rules are among the strictest in the US, locals say they aren’t enough.
Inside Climate News
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$599 M4 iPad Air is a lot like the old one, but with a substantial RAM boost
Unexpected RAM upgrade is the highlight of an otherwise straightforward refresh.
Andrew Cunningham
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Research roundup: Six cool science stories we almost missed
Smart underwear measures farts, brain cells play Doom, and AI discovers rules of an ancient game.
Jennifer Ouellette
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Apple’s new iPhone 17e has an A19 chip, MagSafe, and 256GB of storage for $599
New just-the-basics phone replaces the year-old iPhone 16e at the same price.
Andrew Cunningham
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It’s almost a station wagon: The 2026 Subaru Trailseeker, driven
Despite the Toyota platform, there’s plenty of Subaru DNA in this one.
Michael Teo Van Runkle
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Former NASA chief turned ULA lobbyist seeks law to limit SpaceX funding
America succeeds in space when American companies compete.
Eric Berger
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Unequal time
Trump FCC’s equal-time crackdown doesn’t apply equally—or at all—to talk radio
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s unequal enforcement of the equal-time rule.
Jon Brodkin
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AMD Ryzen AI 400 chips will bring newer CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs to AM5 desktops
First wave of Ryzen AI desktop CPUs targets business PCs rather than DIYers.
Andrew Cunningham
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The strange animals that control their body heat
Some creatures can dramatically alter their internal temperature and outlast storms, floods and, predators
Knowable Magazine
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