Technology
India's 'blue gold' starts a new drinks industry
Agave plants grow wild in India and new distillers are using them to create a spirits industry.
Researchers are developing textiles that can produce drinking water from the air
How very Dune.
Overwatch's latest hero will throw a bike at your head
Shion arrives when Season 3 starts on June 16.
ShinyHunters Exploits Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day (CVE-2026-35273) to Breach Universities
The ShinyHunters extortion crew exploited an unpatched flaw in Oracle PeopleSoft to break into enterprise systems, steal data, and demand payment to keep it private. The campaign …
Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act
Cruz/Wyden bill would help Americans sue federal officials over censorship.
AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems
The old app "still needs to be retired," AcuRite tells us.
Another parent has filed a wrongful death suit against OpenAI
Yet another parent is suing OpenAI, claiming its chatbot did not do enough to prevent their child's death by suicide.
After nearly breaking, NASA's Deep Space Network "worked well" on Artemis II
"Some missions are using more than what their paperwork would say."
Boox's new Go 6 ereader offers stylus support for note-taking
Boox's new Go 6 ereader offers stylus support for note-taking.
F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?
Latency, bandwidth, and fidelity all matter when you're chasing milliseconds.
Waymo's monthly membership seems like a bad deal
Waymo will happily relieve you of $30 a month in exchange for not a whole lot.
New Attacks Trick OpenClaw AI Agent Into Running Code and Leaking Secrets
Two security teams have shown, in separate research published this week, that OpenClaw, the popular self-hosted AI agent, can be driven to run attacker-controlled code or hand ove…
New GreatXML Exploit Bypasses Windows BitLocker via Recovery Partition XML Files
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse and MSNightmare) has released a new Windows BitLocker bypass dubbed GreatXML, a day after they published an exploit for …
Reddit now lets you post videos in comments
Reddit comments now allow videos.
The Philips Skylight lets you recreate natural daylight anywhere in your home
The Philips Skylight recreates natural daylight indoors, but we may not be able to buy it in the US.
Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?
Archaeologists found apparent scrape marks inside a skull; long bones may have been sharpened into tools.
Dave the Diver swims onto iOS and Android this August
Underwater roguelite / restaurant management game Dave the Diver paddles onto mobile later this summer.
The Gentlemen Ransomware Claims 478 Victims, Can Spread Like a Worm
A new analysis of The Gentlemen operation has revealed that the financially motivated threat group initially operated as an affiliate responsible for conducting double extortion a…
Teardown finds that the Trump phone is practically the same as an HTC handset
The only functional difference between a Trump Phone and the HTC U24 Pro is the battery, iFixit discovered.
Summer Game Fest 2026 roundup: All the shows, trailers, news and reviews
So long and thanks for all the cool new video games.
Spyro: A Realm Beyond sees the '90s purple dragon make a big comeback
We learned some new details about the upcoming revival for the classic 3D platformer.
Stranger than Heaven hands-on: Harder than Yakuza?
Set across mid-twentieth century Japan, RGG's latest has an entirely new fighting system.
"This cannot continue": Xbox leaders lay out "hard truths" behind sagging brand
Brutal self-assessment paints a picture of a Microsoft gaming division in crisis.
I'm glad Apple isn't hyping up agentic AI (yet)
Apple is more focused on delivering usable features with Siri AI, instead of hyping up agentic AI. That's a good thing.