Somewhere in the South China Sea, a ship's crew reeled in the catch of the century. It weighed several tons, was on fire moments earlier, and used to be the first stage of a rocket. The World's Most Extreme Game of Catch On July 10, a Long…

The traditional security researcher move is to find a bug, write a strongly worded disclosure, and let some poor maintainer lose a weekend fixing it. OpenAI's new approach skips the strongly worded part and just... fixes the bug itself. The…

Patch Tuesday used to be a calendar reminder you could safely ignore until Thursday. Not this month. Microsoft just shipped fixes for 570 vulnerabilities in one go, and two of them were already being actively exploited in the wild — which i…

Twelve tries in, you'd think SpaceX would run out of superlatives for "biggest rocket ever." They have not. Starship is back on the pad for flight 13, and this time it's bringing friends nobody's seen in orbit before. The Super Heavy Boost…

Somewhere in Beijing today, a lot of very lonely chatbots got laid off. China's new rules on humanlike AI just took effect, and two of the country's biggest tech giants are pulling the plug on their most emotionally clingy features right on…

Quantum encryption has spent years being the physics equivalent of a garage band — technically brilliant, wildly impressive at parties, but never quite ready to headline a real venue. This week it got signed to a label. Or, well, it got ins…

New York has officially looked at the AI industry's insatiable appetite for electricity and said, in the immortal words of every landlord ever: rent's due, and also please stop flooding the basement. It's the first state in the country to j…

Tuesdays used to just mean tacos and mild dread about the rest of the week. This Tuesday, Microsoft turned it into a full-blown cardio workout for every sysadmin on Earth, dropping the single largest patch bundle in Windows history. Bring s…

Quantum computers have a dirty little secret: for all the talk of qubits and superposition, the thing actually strangling progress is boring old wiring. Cram in a million qubits and you need a million control lines, which turns your quantum…

Apple spent two years and presumably several very expensive law firms arguing it shouldn't be called a "gatekeeper" under the EU's Digital Markets Act. The EU General Court's answer, delivered in full, was essentially: nice try. …