RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
With the rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., brain worms have gotten a bad rap. A year ago, the long-time anti-vaccine advocate and current US health secretary famously told The…
Windows RDP lets you log in using revoked passwords. Microsoft is OK with that.
From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol in Windows that allows people to log in…
Boox launches its first color E Ink monitor
Boox has upgrade its Mira Pro E Ink monitor with the same color screen technology found in e-readers. | Image: Boox Boox is debuting its first desktop monitor featuring a…
Donald Trump might actually believe these Calibri labels are real MS-13 tattoos
For several weeks, President Donald Trump and his administration have been grasping for evidence that a man his administration deported and imprisoned in error is a dangerous gang member, and…
Warning systems for floods, hurricanes, and famine are suffering from Donald Trump’s data purge
Within weeks of President Trump stepping into office, key health and environmental resources that doctors and farmers rely on started disappearing from federal websites. Trump was also quick to dismantle…
WhatsApp is working on private AI chats in the cloud
Meta announced a new WhatsApp feature it says is a private way to interact with Meta AI. Called “Private Processing,” the feature is totally optional, launches in the “coming weeks,”…
Google confirms it’s close to getting Gemini support on iPhones
Google is close to striking a deal with Apple to integrate Gemini into the iPhone. During the search monopoly trial on Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai confirmed the company expects…
Sundar Pichai says the DOJ’s antitrust plan could kill Google Search
Sundar Pichai, Google’s CEO, took the stand on Wednesday during the remedies phase of the company’s search antitrust trial, and offered a simple message. The US government’s plan to rectify…
OpenAI says its GPT-4o update could be ‘uncomfortable, unsettling, and cause distress’
OpenAI rolled back a GPT-4o update for ChatGPT that caused the chatbot’s default personality to be “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic” and that “sycophantic interactions can…
Elizabeth Warren asks Jeff Bezos if he got any favors for his ‘subservience’ to Trump
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) wants to know whether Amazon founder Jeff Bezos received any “promises or favors” from President Donald Trump in exchange for his “subservience” after dropping all plans…