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Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison adopted a trading plan on June 22 permitting him to sell as many as 50 million shares, worth roughly $7.5 billion at current prices, through October 24. Even after a full sale, Ellison would retain about 1.1 billion shares and remain Oracle's largest shareholder with over 40% ownership.
OpenAI has pulled its financial backing of Caltech's Mathathon competition following tensions with mathematicians. Organizers told Gizmodo they don't expect the withdrawal to substantially disrupt the event.
Following Google's release of a detailed 3D map of a male fruit fly's brain and nervous system, developers quickly began using the digital neural model to control video games. Engineers mapped sensory inputs from Doom, Beat Saber, and Super Mario 64 to the fly's simulated neurons, using dopamine-linked reinforcement signals to shape its in-game behavior. A separate female fly brain model from Princeton's Flywire project was similarly repurposed to play Minecraft.
Public concern over artificial intelligence has escalated sharply, with fears ranging from existential risk to AI-enabled cyberattacks now surfacing in everyday workplace conversations and family discussions. What was once a niche worry among researchers and technologists has become a mainstream source of unease across American society.
Researchers at Curtin University analyzed 76 million radio images over 29 days using a prototype SKA-Low station and detected 112,534 unauthorized emissions from 1,806 Starlink satellites within the exact frequency band needed to study cosmic dawn hydrogen signals. The leakage, published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, comes not from intentional Starlink transmissions but from unplanned electronic interference radiating through satellite hardware, including periodic 13-kHz tones near 137 MHz.
Sony's Insomniac Games, the studio behind the Spider-Man series that sold 50 million copies, launches Marvel's Wolverine on Tuesday as its biggest PS5 exclusive of the year. Unlike its previous family-friendly superhero titles, Wolverine carries a Pegi-18 rating in the UK due to graphic blood, gore and violence, barring purchase by children.
A personal reflection describes how underused feet can lose their natural function as a broad stabilizing surface, gradually shrinking in effective support to a line and then even to a point-like contact with the ground. The author attributes their own instability to an underdeveloped foot and notes it has improved through deliberate practice, likely including barefoot movement and exercise.
Graphify C# is a free, MIT-licensed headless indexer built on Roslyn and MSBuild that extracts semantic relationships from C# codebases, including caller-callee links, interface implementations, inheritance and overrides. Unlike text search, it resolves exact symbol bindings across overloads, generics and multiple projects, producing structured data that coding agents like Codex or Claude Code can query directly instead of guessing from string matches.
Government records show Atlantic Industrial Coatings acknowledged that its own bonding materials blistered and detached, causing the damage to the National Mall's Reflecting Pool. This contradicts earlier claims blaming vandalism, including suggestions the damage was caused by antifa activists.
IBM is running the technical backbone of the U.S. Open's digital platforms, feeding real-time data and AI analysis into the tournament's app and website. Features like the Serve Quality metric track 21 data points per player 50 times a second, producing over 1.2 billion data points across the tournament, while an AI chatbot answers fan questions about the sport. Engagement has surged, with 14 million unique devices and nearly 47 million visits in 2025, a 19% jump from the prior year.
WhatsApp is rolling out a new iPad interface that replaces the bottom tab bar with a Mac-like sidebar for navigating Chats, Updates, Communities, Calls and Meta AI. Users can hide the sidebar to expand the chat list and conversation view for a less cramped layout. The feature is currently reaching some TestFlight beta testers as well as a portion of regular App Store users.
Astroscale executive Ron Lopez discussed the company's upcoming ISSA-J1 mission for JAXA, which will require rendezvousing with two decommissioned Japanese satellites rather than a rocket body. Unlike the ADRAS-J2 mission targeting a stable rocket stage, ISSA-J1 must approach satellites with protruding solar arrays that are likely tumbling, demanding more advanced rendezvous and proximity operations technology.