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A 2026 study sampled 7,040 U.S. local-business website listings from the Curlie directory, checking each for seven security headers via a single-request scan. After deduplicating to one HTTP-200 response per unique domain (4,688 sites), 49.7% met none of the seven header criteria.
A columnist reviewing to-do list apps in 2026 says Google Tasks remains missing fundamental features like sharing tasks or lists with other people, despite competing apps such as TickTick, Todoist and Notion offering far more functionality. Despite these gaps, the writer says a single standout feature keeps them from switching away from Google's stripped-down app.
An antisense oligonucleotide therapy targeting the faulty CHCHD10 gene produced improved symptoms in the first ALS patient treated with it, who remained functional as a physician a year later. Separately, a study found that Chinese companies placed on the US Entity List appear to have increased their science patents and publications compared with non-sanctioned firms, though causation remains unproven.
A Science journal analysis of patent citations and publications found that Chinese companies placed on the US Entity List increased their reliance on scientific literature to drive innovation, compared with similar firms not sanctioned. These restricted companies filed more patents citing scientific research and published more scientific articles than their unsanctioned counterparts after being blacklisted.
Apple has classified the 2019 21.5-inch iMac with Retina 4K display as vintage worldwide, following last month's addition of three MacBook models to the same list. The designation applies to products discontinued for more than five but less than seven years.
The FCC has given Asus 'conditional approval,' clearing its routers of security concerns raised by the Defense Department and exempting them from the agency's ban on foreign-made routers until March 2028. The exemption spans multiple Asus product lines including RT, ROG, TUF Gaming and ZenWiFi Mesh series. TP-Link, despite meeting with FCC officials and arguing it operates as a US company based in California, has not yet secured similar approval.
Senators Ron Wyden and Sheldon Whitehouse, joined by Republican Rep. Pat Harrigan, sent a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asking that BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin) be added to the department's entity list. They allege these Indian firms have spent over a decade hacking Americans and using foreign courts to suppress reporting on their activities. The Commerce Department has not indicated whether it will act on the request.
A study of 380 software categories found that nearly 60% of the sources Perplexity's Sonar models cite when recommending products come from domains ranked outside the top 100,000 sites by traffic, and almost a quarter aren't ranked at all. Three interlinked domains, none older than December 2023 and two with homepages literally titled 'Facts & Grounding Page', have published over 215,000 machine-generated 'best software' pages designed to be retrieved by AI models rather than read by humans.
A quantitative analysis tested whether the eight antediluvian reign lengths in the Sumerian King List, which sum to 241,200 years, correspond to actual Quaternary climate or geological events when rescaled and anchored near 11,600 years ago. Comparing the sequence against a catalog of paleoclimate events using a defined null model, the researcher found the alignment was not statistically significant.
Google has resolved a bug that stopped Google Home users from adding items to Google Keep lists using voice commands. The company initially described the problem vaguely as a 'UI issue' before clarifying it involved two separate glitches, one affecting the interface and another preventing users from viewing or using their lists altogether. Google says both issues are now fixed.
The official CPython documentation lays out Big O complexity tables for core operations on built-in types like list and tuple, covering actions such as append, insert, slicing, concatenation, and membership testing. It notes these figures apply specifically to CPython's exact built-in types, and that subclasses or other Python implementations may behave differently.