Enlarge / “Backlit” image of Saturn and its rings, taken by the Cassini spacecraft in 2006. NASA/Public domain Astronomers long assumed that Saturn’s distinctive rings… Read More »More evidence is emerging that Saturn’s rings are much younger than the planet
Linda Yaccarino, NBCUniversal’s advertising chief, was preparing to interview Elon Musk, the owner of Twitter, on stage at a conference last month when she received… Read More »Linda Yaccarino is Twitter’s new CEO, confirms Elon Musk
Enlarge / An AI-generated image of a robot reading a book. Benj Edwards / Stable Spread On Thursday, AI company Anthropic announced that it has… Read More »Anthropic’s Claude AI can now process an entire book like The Great Gatsby in seconds
China has ordered Tesla, the world’s dominant electric vehicle manufacturer, to recall 1.1 million vehicles, citing a problem with the acceleration and braking systems of… Read More »China orders Tesla to recall 1.1 million vehicles over braking risks
Enlarge / Orbital view of the Utopia Planitia region of Mars. Most of Mars appears to be an endless expanse of alien desert, with no… Read More »Chinese Mars rover sends back images of recent watery crusts
Just over a week after thousands of television and film writers went to work, Netflix is feeling the heat. Late Wednesday night, Netflix abruptly said… Read More »Notable writers find their villain: Netflix
Earlier this week, Microsoft released a patch to fix a Secure Boot bypass bug used by the BlackLotus bootkit we reported on in March. The… Read More »Microsoft will take almost a year to patch the new 0-day Secure Boot bug
Peloton, the maker of home exercise equipment, said Thursday it was recalling more than two million exercise bikes, an announcement that sent its stock down.… Read More »Peloton shares slide after it recalled two million exercise bikes
Enlarge / Wildfire smoke hovers over the Pacific coast of Northern New South Wales, Australia in September 2019. Orbital Horizon/Copernicus Sentinel Data/Gallo Images via Getty… Read More »Wildfire smoke from Australia fueled “super La Niña” for three years
For more than 50 years, computer chip designers have primarily used one tactic to improve performance: They shrunk electronic components to put more force on… Read More »US focuses on incentive ‘chiplets’ to stay at the forefront of technology
Aurich Lawson A ransomware intrusion at hardware manufacturer Micro-Star International, better known as MSI, is fueling concerns about devastating supply chain attacks that can inject… Read More »MSI UEFI signing key leak fuels fears of “doomsday” supply chain attack
When San Francisco start-up OpenAI released ChatGPT late last year, the AI chatbot appeared to be Google’s first major threat in decades. One day, tech… Read More »Google I/O: AI is embedded in search, building on the new craze of technology
Enlarge / Android Studio gets a special helper chatbot called Studio Bot. During today’s I/O presentation, Google announced Studio Bot, an AI assistant that Android… Read More »Google jumps into the AI coding assistant fray with Codey and Studio Bot
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Enlarge / Fire-damaged trees in a boreal forest near the Saskatchewan River in Alberta, Canada. As northern forests burn, massive amounts of carbon are released.… Read More »The Far North is burning – increasing the heat on the planet
