Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trial
Read full article: Jury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trialA jury has found Meta and YouTube liable in a first-of-its-kind lawsuit that aimed to hold social media platforms responsible for harm to children using their services.
World Food Prize goes to food safety scientist for preventing millions of cases of foodborne illness
Read full article: World Food Prize goes to food safety scientist for preventing millions of cases of foodborne illnessDutch food scientist Huub Lelieveld has won the World Food Prize for shaping modern food processing safety standards used worldwide.
OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concerns
Read full article: OpenAI pulls the plug on Sora, the viral AI video app that sparked deepfake concernsOpenAI is shutting down its social media app Sora, which went viral last fall as a place to share short-form videos generated by artificial intelligence but also raised alarms in Hollywood and elsewhere.
Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 amid slowing Fortnite engagement
Read full article: Epic Games lays off more than 1,000 amid slowing Fortnite engagementFortnite publisher Epic Games said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 employees to save money as it grapples with industry-wide and company-specific challenges.
Melania Trump hosts world counterparts and tech reps to discuss children, education and technology
Read full article: Melania Trump hosts world counterparts and tech reps to discuss children, education and technologyMelania Trump is calling on nations to work together to improve access to education and technology for children.
Judge questions Pentagon's motives for labeling Anthropic as a security threat in battle over AI
Read full article: Judge questions Pentagon's motives for labeling Anthropic as a security threat in battle over AIA federal judge weighing the merits of the Pentagon’s designation of rising Silicon Valley star Anthropic as a security threat repeatedly questioned the government’s reasons for vilifying the company following a dispute over how its artificial intelligence technology can be used in war.
Here's how to recycle those old laptops, iPhones and earbuds lying around
Read full article: Here's how to recycle those old laptops, iPhones and earbuds lying aroundMost consumers are guilty of the same habit — filling drawers or closets with devices such as old laptops, cellphones, fitness trackers and other electronics once those things are no longer needed.
Kalshi and Polymarket place new bans on insider trading as senators move to curb prediction markets
Read full article: Kalshi and Polymarket place new bans on insider trading as senators move to curb prediction marketsKalshi and Polymarket are tightening their rules on insider trading as Congress appears to be moving closer to cracking down on prediction markets.
Jury begins deliberations in landmark New Mexico trial over children's safety risks on Meta
Read full article: Jury begins deliberations in landmark New Mexico trial over children's safety risks on MetaJury deliberations have begun in a landmark trial where New Mexico prosecutors are accusing social media conglomerate Meta of misleading people about the safety of its platforms for children.
Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase, absolves him of some fraud claims
Read full article: Jury finds Elon Musk misled investors during Twitter purchase, absolves him of some fraud claimsA jury has found Elon Musk liable for defrauding investors by deliberately driving down Twitter’s stock price in the tumultuous months leading up to his 2022 acquisition of the social media company for $44 billion.
Trump officials announce 10-gigawatt data center, gas plants for former Ohio uranium site
Read full article: Trump officials announce 10-gigawatt data center, gas plants for former Ohio uranium siteThe U.S. Department of Energy has announced a public-private partnership with SoftBank and AEP Ohio to develop a massive artificial intelligence data center and power complex at a former uranium enrichment site in southern Ohio.
Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983
Read full article: Uganda reintroduces rhinos into a protected area where they have been extinct since 1983Ugandan wildlife authorities reintroduced rhinos into a remote protected area where the large mammals once were poached into extinction.
Drone video from inside a Fukushima reactor shows a hole in pressure vessel, likely fuel debris
Read full article: Drone video from inside a Fukushima reactor shows a hole in pressure vessel, likely fuel debrisA video taken by tiny drones sent into one of three damaged reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant shows a gaping hole in the thick-walled steel container of the core, with lumps of likely fuel debris hanging from it, in a first sighting of a pressure vessel bottom since the meltdown 15 years ago.
Teenagers sue Musk's xAI claiming image-generator made sexually explicit images of them as minors
Read full article: Teenagers sue Musk's xAI claiming image-generator made sexually explicit images of them as minorsThree teenagers in Tennessee have sued Elon Musk’s xAI, claiming the company’s image-generation tools were used to morph real photos of them into explicitly sexual images.
3 men are charged with conspiring to smuggle US artificial intelligence to China
Read full article: 3 men are charged with conspiring to smuggle US artificial intelligence to ChinaA senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China.
Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into Earth
Read full article: Meteorite hunters scour Ohio for fragments of 7-ton space rock that crashed into EarthMeteorite hunters are combing Ohio for fragments of a space rock that streaked across the sky earlier this week.
China's Alibaba targets $100B in AI and cloud revenue over 5 years
Read full article: China's Alibaba targets $100B in AI and cloud revenue over 5 yearsChina’s Alibaba Group has pledged on Thursday a goal of surpassing $100 billion in revenue from its artificial intelligence and cloud businesses over the next five years, which it says would be powered by the AI demand boom.
Cryptocurrency and AI industries tested their influence in Illinois. It didn't go that well
Read full article: Cryptocurrency and AI industries tested their influence in Illinois. It didn't go that wellThe artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries have suffered a setback as they try to reshape the midterm elections and establish themselves as power players in American politics.
Seven-ton meteor that fell from the Cleveland sky could be seen several states away
Read full article: Seven-ton meteor that fell from the Cleveland sky could be seen several states awayA 7-ton meteor that sped across the Cleveland sky at 45,000 miles per hour on Tuesday broke apart in a thunderous boom that startled residents who feared an explosion.
Nvidia CEO heralds ‘inference inflection’ as next phase of AI boom, backed by $1 trillion in orders
Read full article: Nvidia CEO heralds ‘inference inflection’ as next phase of AI boom, backed by $1 trillion in ordersNvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday elaborated on his vision for keeping his company at the forefront of the artificial intelligence boom that he predicted will produce a $1 trillion backlog in orders within the next year.
Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make annual flight to Arctic
Read full article: Raucous bird tornado touches down as snow geese make annual flight to ArcticThousands of snow geese touch down at a Pennsylvania reservoir each spring, turning sunrise into a loud, swirling liftoff that draws big crowds.
US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at once
Read full article: US forecasts blizzard, polar vortex, heat dome and atmospheric river all at onceThe United States is getting slammed by a stretch of weather extremes, from flooding rain to record heat and late-season snow.
Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away
Read full article: Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back awayOne of the hottest tickets in Rome these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.
NASA clears its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts following repairs
Read full article: NASA clears its Artemis moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts following repairsNASA has cleared its moon rocket for an April launch with four astronauts after completing the latest round of repairs.
Iran-linked hackers take aim at US and other targets, raising risk of cyberattacks during war
Read full article: Iran-linked hackers take aim at US and other targets, raising risk of cyberattacks during warPro-Iranian hackers are targeting sites in the Middle East and starting to stretch into the United States during the war.
Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the jury
Read full article: Lawyers in landmark social media addiction trial make final appeals to the juryAfter about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury has heard closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using their platforms.
Google overhauls its Maps app, adding in more AI features to help people get around
Read full article: Google overhauls its Maps app, adding in more AI features to help people get aroundGoogle Maps will depend more heavily on artificial intelligence to help people figure out where they want to go and the best way to get there as part of a major redesign unveiled Thursday.
A service dog named Alfred sparked a Lyft settlement in Minnesota with nationwide reach
Read full article: A service dog named Alfred sparked a Lyft settlement in Minnesota with nationwide reachLyft has agreed to protect the rights of blind and disabled riders to travel with service animals under a Minnesota settlement that applies nationwide.
King penguins are the rare species benefiting from a warming world. But that could change
Read full article: King penguins are the rare species benefiting from a warming world. But that could changeKing penguins are adapting to climate change in a way that seems to help them breed successfully, which is unusual.
Microsoft and retired military chiefs back AI company Anthropic in court fight against Pentagon
Read full article: Microsoft and retired military chiefs back AI company Anthropic in court fight against PentagonMicrosoft and a group of retired military leaders are backing Anthropic in court to block the Trump administration from labeling the AI company a supply chain risk.
Japan marks 15 years since tsunami disaster as Takaichi pushes more nuclear energy use
Read full article: Japan marks 15 years since tsunami disaster as Takaichi pushes more nuclear energy useJapan is marking the 15th anniversary of the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster on its northeastern coast as the government pushes for atomic energy use.
Towering lava fountains of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closures
Read full article: Towering lava fountains of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano trigger park and highway closuresHawaii's Kilauea volcano is shooting lava fountains up to 1,000 feet, and falling ash and volcanic fragments are forcing temporary closures on the Big Island.
Taking to social media to complain about hot subway rides? You're not alone, study says
Read full article: Taking to social media to complain about hot subway rides? You're not alone, study saysA new study in the journal Nature Cities shows that as temperatures rise aboveground, the number of subway riders reporting uncomfortable heat belowground increases.
15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes radiation surveys to revitalize her hometown
Read full article: 15 years after Fukushima meltdown, an innkeeper makes radiation surveys to revitalize her hometownTomoko Kobayashi reopened her inn in northeastern Fukushima to bring a sense of normal life back to her deserted hometown five years after the nuclear disaster.
Family sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over school shooting in Canada
Read full article: Family sues ChatGPT-maker OpenAI over school shooting in CanadaThe parents of a girl critically wounded in a school shooting in Canada is suing ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging it knew the shooter was planning a mass attack.
White House war promo videos marry action movies, sports and video games to real-life combat footage
Read full article: White House war promo videos marry action movies, sports and video games to real-life combat footageThrough its social media feed, the White House has sent out a series of pumped-up videos that mix real Iran war explosions with movie action heroes, video game footage and sports heroes.
AI company Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo 'supply chain risk' designation
Read full article: AI company Anthropic sues Trump administration seeking to undo 'supply chain risk' designationAnthropic is suing the Trump administration, asking federal courts to reverse the Pentagon’s decision designating the artificial intelligence company a “supply chain risk” over its refusal to allow unrestricted military use of its technology.
Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the US
Read full article: Uber's women-only option goes nationwide in the USUber is launching a feature that will allow both women riders and drivers across the U.S. to be matched with other women for trips, expanding a pilot program aimed at addressing concerns about the safety of its ride-hailing platform.
AI is spurring a big expansion of high-voltage power lines. Landowners and locals are fighting back
Read full article: AI is spurring a big expansion of high-voltage power lines. Landowners and locals are fighting backBigger and bigger data centers are leading to proposals for massive electric power transmission lines, sometimes across hundreds of miles.
Pentagon's chief tech officer says he clashed with AI company Anthropic over autonomous warfare
Read full article: Pentagon's chief tech officer says he clashed with AI company Anthropic over autonomous warfareA top Pentagon official says a fight with Anthropic centered on how the military could someday use artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons.
Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds
Read full article: Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study findsA new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun.
Pentagon says it is labeling AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk 'effective immediately'
Read full article: Pentagon says it is labeling AI company Anthropic a supply chain risk 'effective immediately'The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude.
Elon Musk defends tweets in lawsuit alleging they caused Twitter stock to fall before acquisition
Read full article: Elon Musk defends tweets in lawsuit alleging they caused Twitter stock to fall before acquisitionElon Musk continued to defend his actions in the months leading up to his 2022 purchase of Twitter in court Thursday.
Punch the orphan macaque is outgrowing his plushie and making friends
Read full article: Punch the orphan macaque is outgrowing his plushie and making friendsPunch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys.
New Mexico jurors watch Zuckerberg deposition in Meta child safety bellwether trial
Read full article: New Mexico jurors watch Zuckerberg deposition in Meta child safety bellwether trialJurors in a bellwether trial about the impacts of social media on children are studying a deposition from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Trump says deal on data centers will lower electricity prices as tech companies vow to cover costs
Read full article: Trump says deal on data centers will lower electricity prices as tech companies vow to cover costsPresident Donald Trump is pressing Big Tech to build its own power as AI data centers spark anger over electric bills.
Google settles with Epic Games with offer to lower its app store commissions
Read full article: Google settles with Epic Games with offer to lower its app store commissionsGoogle will lower the lucrative fees imposed on its Android app store and offer a way for rival options to gain its stamp of approval, ending a bruising legal battle that led to one of several rulings condemning its tactics as an illegal monopoly.