• Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
• The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
• Once again, NASA is asking for ideas to rescue Hubble from certain death
• Flesh-eating screwworms spread to third state and are attacking pets
• Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
• Supersonic airliner in doubt as company shifts to powering AI data centers
• Anthropic VS code extension on Cursor backdoored for nearly 12 hours
• Dartmouth's provost warned us about AI cheating—but his own AI use cost him his job
• Over 25% of people lie to get antibiotics—and their lies aren't even good
• Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
• Rare meteorite from Mars gives us a view into its ancient crust
• Fujifilm to boost tape production 5x as AI fuels archiving demand
• Thousands of “ghost students” use AI to steal millions in student loans, DOJ says
• Analysts find looming launch crisis is "more severe" than anticipated
• GM to pay $220 million after selling customer Smart Driver data
• Hackers steal $6.3 billion from Binance in record crypto heist
• 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid: Drives like an EV, but there's no plug involved
• Review: You Can See Everything blurs the view of Elizabeth Holmes' deceit
• Rocket Report: Winter is coming for Themis; Cowboy Space adds iron to the fire
• Reddit is moving to “a logged-in-only experience,” CEO says
| • A profile of White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios, an ex-Peter Thiel aide who is among a handful of players steering the Trump administration's AI policy (Harry Lambert/Colossus)
• Solve: the cost of insuring against debt defaults at hyperscalers Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle has hit its highest level since 2021 (Gunjan Banerji/Wall Street Journal)
• A look at a crude campaign of cyberattacks by Russia-linked hacktivist groups that have caused physical damage in NATO-aligned countries over the past two years (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
• Lumaril, which develops AI software for optimizing industrial production by connecting to existing control systems, raised a $66M Series A at a $400M valuation (Sarah Klearman/Wall Street Journal)
• Binance has started resuming withdrawals in phases, including for BTC and ETH, after covering 95% of the $6.3B in tokens stolen in the hack by TraderTraitor (Reuters)
• Shanghai-based NeuroXess, which is developing BCI technology for movement support, speech decoding, and control of external devices, raised a ~$105M Series B (TechNode)
• Enterprise voice AI tools provider Deepgram acquires Daily, which has raised $62M+ and develops open-source voice AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed sum (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
• DeepSeek open sources Super-Agent, a coding agent research prototype it says proactively monitors developer group chats for coding issues and suggests solutions (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
• Insurance software maker Guidewire agrees to acquire Hyperexponential, which makes AI-powered insurance underwriting and pricing software, for $1.7B+ in cash (Anzar Mehraj/Reuters)
• The FBI attributes the $6.3B Binance hack to North Korea's elite hacking unit TraderTraitor, which the agency has also blamed for the $1.5B Bybit hack in 2025 (Kevin Whitelaw/Bloomberg)
• Tests: chatbots rely on three obscure AI-built voter sites for US midterm answers; Copilot cited the error-prone Ballot Brief in 75% of tests and ChatGPT in 22% (Washington Post)
• Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link (Swati Khandelwal/The Hacker News)
• Sources: Meta built a prototype humanoid robot with Chinese firm Fourier in three months and is building a second; Meta says it has no plans to sell these units (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
• Binance says it has covered 90% of its hack losses, having set aside $6.34B+ of company funds; the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens (Angela Christy/Reuters)
• How AI detectors like Pangram are changing human writing: authors drop em dashes, "not X, but Y" phrasing, and words like "delve", or add typos, to look human (Morgan Meaker/Bloomberg)
| • You might be neglecting the one thing that keeps your PC healthy
• OpenAI adds stricter limits for teens asking about firearms
• What is AssistiveTouch on your Apple Watch and when should you use it?
• Your old iPod could get Spotify and USB-C support — here's how
• AI software clones are coming for big-name companies like Adobe
• The simple reason hardware accelerated GPU scheduling isn't the best fit for cheap GPUs
• 5 Spotify settings you'll wish you changed sooner
• Which Android is the closest counterpart to the iPhone 18 Pro Max?
• How to check if your upcoming flight has Starlink Wi-Fi
• MacBook Pro battery life in 2011 vs 2026: how much has it really improved in 15 years?
• Change these PlayStation 5 settings before GTA 6 comes out
• Here's how to know if your TV is too big for any room
• Tesla is ditching its solar roof tiles for a good reason
• How to clear the cache on your Android device
• 5 expensive hobbies where owning a 3D printer actually saves you money
• Amazon made the AUX input on older Alexa devices less useful
• How big and powerful is SpaceX's Starship rocket?
• Why your Apple AirPods' battery drains so fast and how to make it last longer
• The Slate vs Ford Fathom debate might be settled by this one key tech feature
• 4 important features you should know if you use Microsoft Teams
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