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Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Stitcher | Amazon | Google This week we answer more of your questions, such as: What is… Read More »Staff! My boss won’t stop using ChatGPT

Enlarge / The fate of a mission to return monsters from Mars hangs in the balance. The U.S. Senate on Thursday cut the budget for… Read More »The Senate just lobbied a tactical nuke to NASA’s Mars Sample Return program

The cryptocurrency industry won an early victory in its lawsuit with US regulators when a federal judge on Thursday ruled that selling a digital asset… Read More »The judge’s ruling on Ripple’s XRP token gives the crypto industry a win

For most IT professionals, moving to the cloud has been a godsend. Instead of protecting your data yourself, you can have it protected by the… Read More »How a cloud flaw gave Chinese spies a key to Microsoft’s kingdom

The Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, the artificial intelligence start-up that creates ChatGPT, over whether the chatbot harmed consumers by collecting… Read More »FTC is investigating ChatGPT Maker

Enlarge / A light, low-cost space telescope design would allow many individual units to be placed in space at once. Astronomers have so far discovered… Read More »A new telescope design with thin lenses could far surpass James Webb

Enlarge / The Jezero crater shows clear signs of water-formed deposits, so it’s no surprise to find water-altered material there. Organic chemicals, mainly composed of… Read More »Rover sampling finds organic molecules in water-altered rock on Mars

When we — Brian X. Chen and Mike Isaac, both longtime technology journalists — were tasked last week by our editor to review Threads, Meta’s… Read More »Threads Review: How Meta’s New App Compares to Twitter

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Chinese hackers attempted to penetrate specific State Department email accounts in the weeks before Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken traveled to Beijing in June,… Read More »China targeted State Department emails in a Microsoft hack, US officials say

Social insects, which do not have a very large nervous system, are capable of remarkably sophisticated behaviors, such as the directional dance of bees or… Read More »Ants estimate the distance before building a ladder from their body

Chinese hackers seeking intelligence on the United States gained access to government email accounts, Microsoft announced Tuesday night. The attack was targeted, according to a… Read More »Chinese hackers hacked into government email accounts, says Microsoft

Enlarge / An artist’s illustration of NASA’s two Janus spacecraft as they would have appeared in space. Two small spacecraft should now have been cruising… Read More »NASA decides not to launch two already built asteroid probes

Lina Khan became chair of the Federal Trade Commission two years ago with a promise to take bold action against the biggest tech companies. For… Read More »FTC’s Lina Khan is facing new questions about her strategy

Enlarge / A stack of Intel’s NUC mini PCs. Andrew Cunningham Since 2012, Intel has been designing and selling its own line of mini PCs.… Read More »No more NUC: Intel’s weirdly named mini PCs seem to be disappearing