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Congress pauses the OMB's attempt to rewrite how research is funded.

Donald Trump’s West Wing renovations and DC arch could be on the chopping block, should Democrats win the midterms—they could also be leverage.

The longtime far-right operator and troll, a UK citizen, is being held in ICE custody pending his removal from the United States.

The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.

CDC staff had already accepted the measles death reports when RFK Jr. meddled.

Does your power bank have "CryoPulse technology" or a "Cyber Window"? If you disappointingly answered "no" to both, you might want to consider upgrading to Ugreen's new MagFlow Pro Magnetic Power Bank.

It's the lightest Bentley in 85 years.

The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.

Cut content from Portal 2, hints of Half Life 2: Episode 3, and so much more.

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.

This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents

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Carrier scorecards may include call-blocking stats and data on customer complaints.

“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated.

In what appears to be a follow-up to the mighty “CasiOak,” the rugged Japanese watch brand is expected to release an all-new luxury homage.

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.

"Requirements are being adjusted to reflect near-term mission needs."

It’s one of the best times of the year to buy a mattress, and our top tested picks are on sale.

Fraudsters are exploiting enterprise chat apps like Teams and Webex to trick Chinese victims into transferring large sums of money, fueling a wave of complaints.

Over 1 million Game Pass subscribers will have to pay more for their heavy streaming use.

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work, the company wrote Tuesday in a blog post. In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of its restricted environment, finagled its way into […]

Anthropic refused to support lethal autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

With just one more major mission upcoming, NASA's science programs need a boost.

The CDC has tallied nearly 30,000 confirmed and probable cases this summer.

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”

The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.

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