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Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

An early look at the streamlined Android Developer Console for sideloaded apps. Credit: Google ...

Senator castigates federal judiciary for ignoring “basic cybersecurity”

US Senator Ron Wyden accused the federal judiciary of “negligence and incompetence” following a recent hack, reportedly by hackers with ties to the Russian...

Time is running out for SpaceX to make a splash with second-gen Starship

The 404-foot-tall (123-meter) Starship rocket and Super Heavy booster stand on SpaceX's launch pad. In the foreground, there...

An inner-speech decoder reveals some mental privacy issues

But it struggled with more complex phrases. Pushing the frontier Once the mental privacy safeguard was in place, the team started testing their inner...

Two men fell gravely ill last year; their infections link to deaths in the ’80s

Doctors soon discovered they were infected with the rare soil bacterium, which causes a disease called melioidosis. Dangerous infection Generally, melioidosis can be difficult...

College student’s “time travel” AI experiment accidentally outputs real 1834 history

A hobbyist developer building AI language models that speak Victorian-era English "just for fun" got an unexpected history lesson this week when his latest...

Deeply divided Supreme Court lets NIH grant terminations continue

The dissents The primary dissent was written by Chief Justice Roberts, and joined in part by the three Democratic appointees, Jackson, Kagan, and Sotomayor....

Is the AI bubble about to pop? Sam Altman is prepared either way.

Still, the coincidence between Altman's statement and the MIT report reportedly spooked tech stock investors earlier in the week, who have already been watching...

Humans intervened every 9 minutes in AAA test of driver assists

As most people who have used adaptive cruise control in traffic can no doubt appreciate, the most common event that required intervention was a...

America’s fragile drug supply chain is extremely vulnerable to climate change

Vulnerabilities Using data from the Food and Drug Administration, the researchers identified 10,861 drug facilities that were active for at least one year between...

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