A WIRED journalist filed data access requests with more than 100 companies under the California Consumer Privacy Act, seeking to see what personal information had been collected. Instead of providing the requested data, many firms sent deletion confirmations the reporter never asked for, or refused to honor the contact method listed in their own privacy policies. McDonald's, notably, returned a 515-page file detailing app usage and predictive behavioral profiling.
NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is scheduled to launch Sunday from Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. The $4.3 billion observatory began as a surveillance satellite platform built by the National Reconnaissance Office for post-9/11 intelligence gathering, which was donated to NASA after the spy program was scrapped before launch.
A file named nvngx_dlssnr.dll was found inside NBA 2K27's early access build, revealing pieces of Nvidia's unreleased DLSS 5 neural rendering system. A RenoDX modder used the library to enable DLSS 5-style effects on character models in Control, exposing seven adjustable style and intensity sliders.
SK hynix held a groundbreaking ceremony this week for its first U.S.-based HBM packaging and testing facility, located in West Lafayette, Indiana. The $4 billion site will package HBM stacks using DRAM wafers made in South Korea, with volume production of next-generation HBM memory expected in the second half of 2029, roughly a year later than originally planned.
Apple has raised the price of its Apple TV streaming service from $12.99 to $14.99 per month, with the annual plan rising from $99 to $119. The individual Apple One bundle, which includes Apple TV alongside other Apple services, also increased from $19.95 to $21.95 monthly. The change took effect immediately, and existing subscribers will see it reflected on their next bill.
Indiana Michigan Power (I&M) has proposed a major residential rate reduction plan expected to save Hoosier customers roughly $59 million in electric bills through 2027, or about $100 annually for a typical household. The utility also intends to freeze rates for three years, crediting rising demand from data centers and other large customers for boosting revenue enough to offset costs. The proposal now awaits approval from the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission, with a decision anticipated by June 2027.
A technical writeup describes a fast method for computing the volume of any simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh by applying the divergence theorem. Instead of directly integrating over the mesh's interior, the approach converts the volume integral into a surface integral using a chosen vector field with unit divergence, then sums contributions from each triangle in the mesh.
Apple TV's sci-fi drama Dark Matter returns for a second season that pushes its multiverse concept even further, following physicist Jason Dessen's fractured family across parallel timelines. The new season builds on season one's cliffhanger, in which Jason, his wife Daniela, and son Charlie fled into the interdimensional box seeking a peaceful new world after an army of Jason variants converged on Chicago.
ServiceNow issued fixes for three critical vulnerabilities in its AI Platform that could let unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary code, escalate privileges, or manipulate data via SQL injection, all without user interaction. The company also patched a separate high-severity sandbox escape bug that could allow low-privileged users to achieve remote code execution. ServiceNow says it has no evidence of active exploitation but is urging customers to apply the updates immediately.
RhinoShield and Sent Into Space sent an iPhone 17 Pro fitted with RhinoShield's AirX case up on a high-altitude balloon from Kiruna, Sweden, then released it from over 30,600 meters. After a 25-minute fall through temperatures as low as minus 60 degrees Celsius, the phone landed intact in remote terrain and was later recovered, powered on, and used to make calls and take photos. Guinness World Records confirmed the feat as the highest drop of a phone in a case onto natural landforms.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency, via its Sovereign Tech Fund, is investing €508,640 into a two-year effort to improve Flatpak, the Linux app packaging and sandboxing system. The project is organized by Modal with Para-Real Ltd. as a supporting organization, aiming to close gaps in Flatpak's security model, including missing Portals for networking and VPNs.
A new Use.AI survey of over 15,000 respondents found that 53% now verify explanations from doctors, teachers, and other professionals using AI before accepting them, while 46% say professional credentials carry less weight than before. Use.AI calls this shift an 'expertise recession,' describing a decline in automatic trust toward trained professionals as AI tools let people independently investigate claims.
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