OpenAI’s most powerful chatbot API rolls out for all paying customers
Dropping waitlist, devs can build the GPT-4 language model into their apps.
Book authors sue OpenAI and Meta over text used to train AI
AI models allegedly trained on books copied from popular pirate e-book sites.
Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM
Fairphone proves the usual excuses for ending Android support aren't valid.
Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff
Launched in 2004, the company once sought to be the world's brain dump.
Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google
EU-US data pact approved; privacy advocates to appeal because of US surveillance.
Congested transmission lines cause renewable power to go to waste in Texas
State’s inefficient grid can't handle the full load it could deliver in ongoing heat wave.
Windows 95, 98, and other decrepit versions can grab online updates again
Retro-computing fans can download the final updates released for '90s-era OSes.
These are the oldest stone tools ever found in the United States
Indigenous people have been in the Americas longer than archaeologists once thought.
SpaceX launches its fleet-leading rocket booster for record 16th time
Each Falcon 9 booster could fly twice as many times as originally intended.
“Vampire facials” promoted by celebs are linked to new HIV cases
Health officials are calling for former clients to get retested.
Developers restore “retail” Xbox emulators after Microsoft crackdown
Dev says package uses new techniques to avoid automatic detection/banning.
Review: Exquisite Drops of God brings the world of elite wine down to earth
French writer Quoc Dang Tran's evocative adaptation of the influential manga is a delight.
Astronomers solve mystery of how a mirror-like planet formed so close to its star
The atmosphere is super-saturated with silicate and metal vapors.
Get comfortable in the Solar System—we’ll be here for a while
What if we dropped interstellar ambitions and focused on understanding our home system?
Probing the mysteries of neutron stars with a surprising earthly analog
Ultracold gases in the lab could help scientists better understand the universe.
Guidemaster: PC games to keep the dream alive in a cross-platform world
Only modest computer hardware is required to play these favorites.
How Threads’ privacy policy compares to Twitter’s (and its rivals’)
Here’s what is collected by Threads, as well as by Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, Spill, and Hive Social.
In-space manufacturing startup aces pharma experiment in orbit
One more big test remains for Varda's first-of-its-kind "space factory."
Rare case of green hairy tongue is pure nightmare fuel
The man fully recovered after extra tongue brushing. But you might not.
Our big unanswered questions about the switch to Tesla-style EV plugs
Will non-Teslas fit at Superchargers, and what about 3rd party networks?
