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A recent Army contracting notice initially seems more like it comes from an imaginative chocolate factory rather than a major weapons arsenal that manufactures battlefield-ready incendiary munitions.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched its 11th Starship rocket from Texas on Monday and landed it in the Indian Ocean, marking the final flight before the company starts test-launching a new version of the giant rocket equipped with additional features for moon and Mars missions.

The director of the California lab stated that the layoffs—about 10% of the JPL workforce—are not due to the government shutdown.

The Aisuru botnet, the world’s largest and most disruptive, is now drawing most of its strength from hacked U.S.-based IoT devices, including routers and cameras. Recent attacks have shattered records, flooding networks with nearly 30 terabits per second of junk traffic and disrupting major online gaming providers.

A few weeks ago, a keychain-sized camera-slash-accessory based on a model from 1987 sold out in a day. In some markets, the company’s compact digital cameras have outsold those from Canon or Sony.

Apple removed an app for saving TikToks, Instagram reels, news reports, and videos documenting abuses by ICE. The app, called Eyes Up, differs from other banned apps like ICEBlock, which were created to report sightings of ICE officials in real-time to alert local communities.

Technology-facilitated child abuse is increasing worldwide, with cases of AI-generated sexual abuse material — including deepfakes that place children’s faces onto explicit images — rising significantly, experts warned Tuesday.

After months of delay, the Pentagon will select the defense company to design and build the Navy’s next stealth fighter as soon as this week, according to a U.S. official and two people familiar with the decision.

Apple has taken down an app that was used to track Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents from its App Store. The developer mentioned in a social media post that the tech company informed them the ICEBlock app was removed because of "objectionable content."

Motility Software Solutions, a company providing car dealership management software (DMS), suffered a ransomware attack recently in which hundreds of thousands of customers lost their sensitive data.

Brazil’s criminal groups are weaponizing artificial intelligence (AI) to drive high-tech financial fraud, exploiting gaps in a fast-growing digital ecosystem as banks, legislators, and police scramble to keep up.

The Department of Defense has strengthened cybersecurity requirements for its cloud service providers. These modifications follow ProPublica’s revelation that Microsoft’s employment of engineers based in China exposed sensitive government data to potential hacking.

Move occurs amid increasing anti-China rhetoric during Donald Trump’s administration

A troubled former Yahoo manager killed his mother and then himself after months of delusional interactions with his AI chatbot "best friend" — which fueled his paranoid belief that his mom was plotting against him, officials said.

A tragic crash in Texas has raised serious questions about Tesla’s Cybertruck. Michael Sheehan, 47, died when his 2024 Cybertruck went off the road, slammed into a concrete culvert, and erupted into flames so intense that investigators said it destroyed his bones.

The United States hopes to use machine learning to create and distribute propaganda overseas in a bid to “influence foreign target audiences” and “suppress dissenting arguments,” according to a U.S. Special Operations Command document

Spotify has launched a new "Messages" feature that lets users share music, podcasts, and audiobooks with others without needing to exit the app

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More people are saying goodbye to smartphones and embracing simpler tech.

AI bots are misbehaving—engaging in blackmail, deception, and rule-breaking. Experts point out that advanced models today, like OpenAI's "o1" and Claude, aren't experiencing glitches; they are simply optimized in a risky way

A woman working behind the scenes at a popular Nashville radio show gained newfound notoriety with her recent claim of a UFO sighting, while visiting the Orlando theme park with her boyfriend.

Ceres, they are now confident that the dwarf planet once had the right conditions to support it.New research from NASA confirmed

“We have never observed a star that was stripped to this amount."

A new study involving the "Devil Comet" has revealed the "strongest evidence yet" that comets brought water to Earth.