On Wednesday, members of the NASA advisory board tasked with studying unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP) held its first public meeting, debuting its plan for how it would proceed with a report it ...
The EU is set to rein in the "racket" of scientific publishing by backing open access to publicly-funded research papers.The proposals, first reported by Research Professional News, emerged in a new d...
Federal authorities, tech pundits, and news outlets want you to be on the lookout for a scary cyberattack that can hack your phone when you do nothing more than plug it into a public charging station....
Servers running software sold by Salesforce are leaking sensitive data managed by government agencies, banks, and other organizations, according to a post published Friday by KrebsOnSecurity.At least ...
For years, Twitter has been a go-to for agencies that need to warn people during a rapidly changing crisis. The National Weather Service uses it to share hurricane and tornado alerts. Firefighting age...
If you're a business training a large language model (LLM) AI and want it to learn from the u/420NarutoConspiracy subreddit, you'll soon have to pay for that.Steve Huffman, founder and CEO of social n...
In the insular, rarefied world of Succession, there are a few girl bosses who reign supreme. There's Shiv (Sarah Snook), the hyper-ambitious Roy sibling with a knack for silencing sexual misconduct v...
Last year, comedian Molly Kearney made history as the first nonbinary SNL cast member. And on Saturday night, following Ana de Armas's monologue and Colin Jost and Michael Che taking shots at a numbe...
When Elon Musk slapped NPR's Twitter account with a "US state-affiliated media" label last week, it quickly became clear he didn't know much about how NPR operates or how it's funded. After admitting ...
By now, you'll have seen it. Pope Francis walks across the frame, his focus on the mid-distance. He's brightly lit as though it's early morning. A silver cross hangs from his neck, dangling over his s...
Drop me on a Balinese coastline with a decent paperback and my smartphone, and I'll luxuriate for two weeks straight.But fly me out to the same spot with a Nokia 3310 and a physical map, like the one ...
The U.S. women's national team is back in action this April and Vlatko Andonovski announced his 26-player squad for a pair of home friendlies against the Republic of Ireland. Julie Ertz, Sophia Smith,...
On Friday, a US district judge ruled in favor of book publishers suing the Internet Archive (IA) for copyright infringement. The IA's Open Library project--which partners with libraries to scan print ...
Two months after dumping Newsmax instead of paying a new fee, DirecTV has reached a deal to put the conservative news network back in the satellite provider's channel lineup.Newsmax had waged an aggre...
On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had started the process that will see drinking water regulations place severe limits on the levels of several members of the PFAS (per...
On Christmas morning last year, dozens of households in the Republic of Ireland woke up to a hot water tank that had been heated overnight - for free.These households were part of a pilot run by the p...
Microsoft started its Windows Insider program in 2014 to get public feedback on Windows 10 as it was being developed. Ever since then, the company has continued to provide regularly updated prerelease...
On March 28, 2020, as COVID-19 cases began to shut down public life in much of the United States, then-Surgeon General Jerome Adams issued an advisory on Twitter: The general public should not wear ma...
One side effect of unlimited content-creation machines--generative AI--is unlimited content. On Monday, the editor of the renowned sci-fi publication Clarkesworld Magazine announced that he had tempor...