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Microsoft’s Recall AI Tool Is Making an Unwelcome Return
Security and privacy advocates are girding themselves for another uphill battle against Recall, the AI tool rolling out in Windows ...

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s ...

Cybersecurity Professor Mysteriously Disappears as FBI Raids His Homes
A prominent computer scientist who has spent 20 years publishing academic papers on cryptography, privacy, and cybersecurity has gone incommunicado, ...

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA’s second Space Launch System ...

Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time
That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of these bubbles (both near and ...

Roku Tests Showing Ads Before the Home Screen Loads
Owners of smart TVs and streaming sticks running Roku OS are already subject to video advertisements on the home screen. ...

Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Since Amazon announced plans for a generative AI version of Alexa, we were concerned about user privacy. With Alexa+ rolling ...

What’s Really Happening With Elon Musk and Those ‘Stranded’ Astronauts?
As a result, the Crew 9 mission launched in September with just two astronauts. Wilmore and Williams joined that crew ...

SpaceX’s Latest Starship Explosion Marks Two Consecutive Failures
SpaceX has contracts with NASA worth approximately $4 billion to design and develop a human-rated Moon lander based on the ...

A Brand New Botnet Is Delivering Record-Size DDoS Attacks
A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering ...