Our Solar System possibly survived a supernova because of how the Sun formed
The gas that produce stars also cushion them from the blast of nearby supernovae.
Silent, smooth, sublime: Driving the electric 2024 Rolls-Royce Spectre
We drive Rolls-Royce's first electric car, which was 123 years in the making.
336,000 servers remain unpatched against critical Fortigate vulnerability
69 percent of devices have yet to receive patch for flaw allowing remote code execution.
Fed up with Reddit, mods of popular AMAs quit organizing high-profile interviews
"Will this undermine most of what makes IAmA special? Probably."
The link rot spreads: GIF-hosting site Gfycat shutting down Sept. 1
Snap-owned service has little to say, other than save or delete your stuff.
Free speech group backs Pornhub in fight against state age-verification laws
Pornhub apologized to "loyal visitors" blocked in two states this weekend.
Wendy’s outbreak from last year goes unsolved as food outbreaks rise
We're failing at preventing foodborne outbreaks—and solving them.
Musk annoys Twitter users by capping number of tweets they can view each day
Former Twitter exec says Musk explanation "just doesn't pass the sniff test."
Apple forced to make major cuts to Vision Pro headset production plans
Initial hopes of 1 million shipments in 2024 dashed by manufacturing problems.
Lonely people see the world differently, according to their brains
Brain activity differs among people who feel out of touch with their peers.
A future external Mac monitor will have an always-on display, report claims
Also: Apple plans to switch AirPods to USB-C this year.
Valve says Steam games can’t use AI models trained on copyrighted works
"Legal uncertainty" over models means many devs can't establish "appropriate rights."
Europe’s venerable Ariane 5 rocket faces a bittersweet ending on Tuesday
After nearly three decades, the Ariane 5 rocket reaches the end of the line.
Mars has liquid guts and strange insides, InSight suggests
Wobbles in its rotation are difficult to explain without a liquid core.
Europe’s Euclid telescope launched to study the dark Universe
SpaceX is filling in for ESA as European rockets face delays.
Clever DNA tricks
As cells divide, they must copy all of their chromosomes only once or chaos will ensue.
Saturn’s rings steal the show in new image from Webb telescope
Webb turned its gold-coated mirror toward Saturn this week.
Three more dead in fungal meningitis outbreak linked to tainted surgeries
Anyone exposed should get medical care and testing immediately, even without symptoms.
The Asus Zenfone 10 is a tiny 5.9-inch phone with flagship specs
Asus invites small phone lovers to put their money where their mouth is.
FBI finally tracks “swatting” incidents as attacks increase nationwide
Experts aren't sure the database will reverse troubling swatting trend.
