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Researchers warn that this year's El Niño event, combined with ongoing global warming, resembles a rare pattern last observed in the late 1990s. They caution that the interaction between these two forces could produce extreme weather events that fall outside the range of existing climate models and historical data.
US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to give a keynote speech at a sold-out Washington, DC conference hosted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group he formerly led. He'll share the stage with Andrew Wakefield, the discredited researcher who lost his medical license after publishing a fraudulent study falsely linking the MMR vaccine to autism.
X and SpaceXAI filed a motion to voluntarily dismiss with prejudice their antitrust claims against Apple, while continuing to pursue claims against OpenAI in the same lawsuit. The case originally alleged that Apple's deal to integrate ChatGPT into Siri unfairly favored OpenAI over rival AI apps on the App Store. The dismissal still requires approval from Judge Mark Pittman, and Apple has not opposed the motion.
A comparison of gaming mouse specs finds that modern wireless models can match wired ones on the metrics that matter most: latency, polling rate, DPI, and tracking speed. High-end mice on either connection type can reach polling rates up to 8,000Hz, far outpacing a typical 125Hz office mouse, meaning the wired-versus-wireless debate has less impact on performance than it once did.
During a live session at the All-In Summit, President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who put the call on speaker for the audience. The two discussed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's suggestion that AI development should slow down, with Trump dismissing the idea as a 'hoax' possibly pushed by political rivals or China, and Huang agreeing that such a slowdown would not be allowed to happen.
id Software has permanently lowered the price of Doom: The Dark Ages to $50, alongside a re-listing of the Doom Anthology that now bundles the game's Premium edition, including the Revelations DLC. The updated Anthology is available only on PS5, Steam, and Xbox Series X/S, with no changes for older console versions. Existing owners of the previous Anthology bundle won't automatically receive The Dark Ages.
A hobbyist documents replacing ChromeOS on a Lenovo IdeaPad Duet tablet, first with postmarketOS and later with a custom Ubuntu build after postmarketOS broke unexpectedly. The process involved entering ChromeOS 'developer mode,' booting from a USB image, and installing a full Linux distribution with a GNOME desktop onto the device's eMMC storage.
Security researchers at Sophos and Cisco report that a suspected Russian state actor, previously tied to the Sandworm group linked to Russia's GRU, is exploiting two vulnerabilities in Cisco's Secure Firewall Management Center software. The attackers chain a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw with a lower-severity privilege escalation bug to install a reverse shell and then deploy an updated version of the Cyclops Blink implant, which can steal credentials, map internal networks, and intercept live traffic.
Theresa Burnley, 65, launched protein-bite brand Circ in 2023 while still running her baked-goods manufacturing company, Wiley Road Foods, before leaving that business at the end of 2024 to focus on Circ full-time. The company now sells six flavors and generated roughly $2 million in revenue last year, with distribution across more than 13,000 retail locations including Starbucks and Walmart.
A leaker known as pdfu shared iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate framework code showing Siri AI can hand off tasks to Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's GPT-5.6 models, with Siri acting as an intermediary for system-level access. One demo even shows GPT-5.6 fully replacing Siri as the on-device agent, searching emails and sending iMessages while logging activity in OpenAI's interface.
Rocket Lab has filed a protest with the Government Accountability Office challenging NASA's decision to award Blue Origin a contract worth roughly $700 million to build, launch and operate a Mars Telecommunications Network spacecraft. Rocket Lab argues NASA's selection violated eligibility criteria set by Congress in the funding legislation and that its own technical proposal was reviewed unfairly.
President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, and was put on speakerphone to address the audience. Trump dismissed growing concerns about AI and data center expansion as a hoax, arguing that data centers create wealth for people and states. The call followed a weekend of Trump social media posts attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development and rejecting calls for new AI regulation.