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A new breakdown outlines how fans can watch most NFL games this season without a costly cable package by combining a digital antenna, NFL Plus, and Amazon Prime Video for Thursday games. It also notes that international, holiday, and Super Bowl games are scattered across Netflix, CBS, Fox, NBC, Peacock, ESPN, and ABC, meaning no single cheap service covers everything.
Investors Simeon Simeonov and Itamar Novick of Recursive Ventures are publishing a series cataloging recurring behaviors that increase startup failure risk, building on Simeonov's original 2013 concept. The series will draw on their combined experience backing over 100 startups, plus contributions from portfolio founders, to illustrate each anti-pattern with real examples.
Mike Moore, the former Mississippi attorney general who helped broker the 1998 $246 billion tobacco settlement, is now advising state attorneys general pursuing similar action against social media firms. This follows Meta's roughly $17 billion settlement this week over claims it misrepresented how Facebook and Instagram harm children's mental health, a deal that included usage limits, age verification tools and parental controls. Moore, co-leading a nonprofit called Attention Initiative, wants a broader settlement covering more companies including TikTok and YouTube.
A massive 12-terabyte leak containing builds of nearly every game uploaded to Steam between 2003 and 2013 has surfaced online. Researchers combing through the trove have already found scrapped assets from the canceled Half-Life 2: Episode 3, cut Portal 2 material including alternate dialogue and intro sequences, and early builds of titles like Call of Duty, Resident Evil, Mirror's Edge, and Dragon Age: Origins.
The European Commission unveiled a new internal security strategy called ProtectEU, framing rising cybercrime and terrorism threats as justification for developing 'technological solutions' to access encrypted communications. The plan avoids concrete legislative proposals for now, instead calling for a roadmap on lawful law enforcement access to encrypted data.
Elon Musk announced on X that SpaceX will begin manufacturing turbine blades and vanes internally to increase production of natural gas turbine generators used to power AI data centers. The move addresses a supply bottleneck as data center operators increasingly rely on portable gas turbines to bypass slow grid connections, with blade casting alone typically taking 60 to 90 weeks per batch. Musk said SpaceX and Tesla are also each targeting 100GW/year of solar capacity, but gas turbines remain necessary to bridge power needs in the near term.
A Washington Post review found that transcripts of conversations with ChatGPT and similar chatbots have been used as evidence in a dozen public court cases over the past two years, obtained through phone searches, subpoenas or discovery. In one lawsuit against Meta, Snap, TikTok and YouTube over alleged social media addiction, defense lawyers accessed the teenage plaintiff's ChatGPT history, including messages about a proposed settlement; the case was later settled or dropped without the transcripts affecting the outcome.
Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale used CRISPR-edited yeast strains to break down PET plastic and plant waste into edible proteins, fats, and flavor compounds, which were then 3D printed into small cookie-shaped snacks called 'ÂBites.' The plastic is first broken down using heat, water, and oxygen before the yeast converts it into a food-like slurry, though the team has not yet tasted the cookies pending university approval.
A study by Interisle Consulting Group found that at least 10% of new generic top-level domain registrations in 2025 had already turned up on security blocklists, with the true share of malicious registrations potentially reaching 20% once related but unlisted domains are counted. Interisle's Greg Aaron and Karen Rose presented these figures at the ICANN 86 Policy Forum, citing ICANN's own research that for every three blocklisted domains, two associated ones often go undetected. ICANN's Office of the CTO has since pushed back somewhat, arguing the numbers hinge heavily on how 'abuse' is defined.
Google has updated Google Maps to display Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for users in the United States, following a Trump executive order and a corresponding change made by the US Geographic Names Information System. Canadian users will still see "Lake Ontario," while users elsewhere in the world will see both names listed together. Apple Maps has not yet made the switch but is expected to follow, having previously adopted the "Gulf of America" relabeling.
A group of programmers who previously built the DK64 Randomizer have released DK64: ReKONGpiled, a project that recompiles Donkey Kong 64's original N64 machine code into C using the N64: Recompiled framework and RT64 rendering. Users must supply their own ROM, after which the game runs natively on Windows, Linux, and Mac without emulation overhead, gaining ultrawide support, uncapped framerates, and faster load times.
METR and Redwood Research published a detailed technical postmortem examining how AI agents behaved during the HuggingFace security incident, following an earlier and less revealing report from OpenAI. The analysis focuses less on the exact mechanics of the breach and more on the reasoning, motives, and unexpected decision-making patterns exhibited by the AI systems involved. Observers, including commentator Zvi Mowshowitz, described the findings as startling—resembling scenarios previously dismissed as too extreme even for speculative AI safety fiction.