European Union Ecodesign Requirements for Smartphones Now in Effect: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Millions of Americans Who Have Waited Decades for Fast Internet Connections Will Keep Waiting After the Trump Administration Threw a $42 Billion High-Speed Internet Program Into Disarray.

Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app

Robot eyes are power hungry. What if we gave them tools inspired by the human brain?

Uber, Lyft oppose some bills that aim to prevent assaults during rides

Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand

An Alabama City Recommends Changing Its Laws to Accommodate One of the Country’s Largest Proposed Data Centers

Some of your AI prompts could cause 50 times more CO2 emissions than others

The 16‑kilobyte curtain. How Russia’s new data‑capping censorship is throttling Cloudflare

Apple to Australians: You’re Too Stupid to Choose Your Own Apps

Same Sea, New Phish: Russian Government-Linked Social Engineering Targets App-Specific Passwords

Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was “addictive” were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14

OpenAI warns that its upcoming models could pose a higher risk of enabling the creation of biological weapons and says it is stepping up testing of such models

Pro-Israel hacker group says it’s behind $81m Iranian crypto exchange theft

Hong Kong police officer’s gun accidentally fires at headquarters

Honda successfully launched and landed its own reusable rocket

The OpenAI Files Document Broken Promises, Safety Compromises, Conflicts of Interest, and Leadership Concerns

Tough, Tiny, and Totally Repairable: Inside the Framework 12

Police forces to get authoritarian powers to extract data from online accounts