A UK startup just fired plasma inside a fusion rocket engine for the first time. If the technology scales, Mars trips could shrink from months to weeks — and the outer planets become reachable.
The European Parliament has rejected the extension of a program that allowed untargeted scanning of private messages. Encrypted services like Signal and WhatsApp are now firmly out of scope.
The same week Meta handed executives stock options worth hundreds of millions, a six-year veteran posted her goodbye on LinkedIn. The company is spending up to $167 billion this year on AI.
A unanimous Supreme Court ruled that internet providers cannot be held liable for user piracy simply because they knew about it. The decision obliterates a $1 billion verdict and rewrites the rules for secondary copyright liability.
A jury found Meta and Google liable by treating infinite scroll and push notifications as defective product design—not user content—opening a path around Section 230's liability shield.
Arm spent 35 years licensing blueprints to everyone. Now it's building its own silicon and competing with its own customers—with Meta as the first buyer.
Disney's planned $1 billion investment evaporated the moment OpenAI pulled the plug on Sora. The money never changed hands. The unit economics of AI video just failed their biggest test yet.
A New Mexico jury found Meta misled users about platform safety and enabled child exploitation — the first time a state has won at trial against a major tech company over harms to young users.
The FCC just banned imports of new foreign-made routers, citing national security. Since virtually all routers are built abroad—including those from US companies like Netgear—consumers could face higher prices and fewer choices for years.
The US Army now has a full-sized helicopter that can fly 70-mile resupply missions, conduct medical evacuations, and sling cargo—all without a pilot aboard. DARPA just handed over the keys.
A leaked exploit kit lets anyone with a GitHub account target hundreds of millions of iPhones. The code is just HTML and JavaScript — no iOS expertise required.
Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI—if you define it as a viral app that makes a billion dollars once and disappears. The CEO of a $4 trillion company knows exactly what he's doing.
Apple's WWDC preview explicitly promises 'AI advancements' — a first. After years of Siri delays and a humbling Gemini partnership, June 8 will test whether Apple can finally catch up.
Internal emails called Instagram 'the leading marketplace for human trafficking.' A New Mexico jury will decide whether Meta knew the risks and sold safety anyway.
If your CI/CD pipeline ran Trivy last week, assume your credentials are in an attacker's hands. The cleanup job facing thousands of organizations is messy, manual, and urgent.
Elon Musk says existing chipmakers can only supply 2% of what his companies need. His solution: build the world's largest semiconductor fab from scratch, with no experience, in Austin.
Tencent's ClawBot puts OpenClaw inside WeChat — an app used by over a billion people for everything from messaging to mortgage payments. The race to embed AI agents into China's super-apps is now fully underway.
Blue Origin has asked the FCC for permission to launch 51,600 data center satellites into orbit. The company has flown its rocket twice and has zero satellites in space.
OpenAI is rolling ads out to all free and Go ChatGPT users in the U.S. Truist analysts project the company could hit $30 billion in ad revenue by 2030. The nonprofit-to-ad-network pipeline is complete.
A former uranium enrichment plant in rural Ohio is about to become the largest data center on Earth — powered by 9.2 gigawatts of brand-new natural gas. The price tag: $500 billion. The carbon bill: still uncalculated.
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