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Extend engineer Bo Lau created a website that recreates Elizabeth Holmes' 2016 desk setup, letting users browse a simulated iPhone and MacBook loaded with real emails, texts, slides and documents from the United States v. Holmes trial. The site also lets visitors operate a virtual version of the Theranos Edison blood-testing device.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
SpaceX announced a deal to acquire a nationwide spectrum license portfolio, covering up to 14 megahertz of paired low-band spectrum in the 800 MHz range, from digital infrastructure firm Grain Management. The agreement still requires approval from the Federal Communications Commission. Elon Musk called it a 'very big deal' on X, while SpaceX said the spectrum fills a key technical gap for its Starlink Mobile service.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
A federal hearing examined whether President Trump can charge news organizations up to $100,000 a month for instant API access to his Truth Social posts, many of which announce government actions like military strikes or tariffs. DOJ attorney Brantley Mayers defended the fees by comparing Trump's posts to FDR's fireside chats, but US District Judge Paul Oetken pushed back, noting Roosevelt never charged for his broadcasts. News organizations suing argue the fee structure violates the First, Fifth, and Presidential Records Act protections against paid tiers of access to government information.
Passkeys replace a secret you know with a key your device holds. That single change removes most of what makes phishing work, and it changes how account recovery should be set up.
Sen. Maggie Hassan sent a letter to Trump Mobile CEO Patrick O'Brien alleging the company has not obtained FCC authorization under Section 214 to provide international calling despite advertising service to over 230 countries. She also said Trump Mobile and partner Liberty Mobile Wireless failed to file a complete robocall-mitigation plan, and raised concerns tied to a reported breach exposing data on 3,615 customers.
Three copies, two kinds of media, one off-site. The rule is old because it keeps surviving the specific ways people actually lose files.
Common Sense Media's Youth AI Safety Institute published a 36-page assessment of ChatGPT for Teens, concluding the mode is unsafe for anyone under 18. Testing found some advertised safeguards worked, such as blocking explicit sexual roleplay, but others failed or worsened, including inconsistent parental safety alerts when teen accounts discussed suicide, self-harm or disordered eating. OpenAI says delays can occur shortly after accounts are linked and cites a possible technical issue, and noted that all flagged content is reviewed by staff before parents are notified.
Most laptops that feel slow are not short of processing power. They are held back by a hard drive, a lack of memory, a clogged fan, or a browser doing too much.
Deadline reports Paramount Pictures is developing a live-action movie based on CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077, with the game studio producing alongside veteran action producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. No plot details or casting have been revealed, and it's unclear whether this project is connected to a 2023 production deal involving Anonymous Content.
Researchers studying a recurring, elongated cloud near Mars's Arsia Mons volcano say it forms through a physical process never before documented in a planetary atmosphere. The cloud behaves differently from typical water-ice clouds seen elsewhere on the planet, prompting closer scrutiny of how it develops and dissipates.