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How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them,

Meet the judges who will crown Australia’s next breakout startup

TechCrunch Startup Battlefield is coming to Australia — and we're partnering with Stripe to find the country's most exci

Mobileye CEO Amnon Shashua to step aside as company pushes into robotaxis, robotics

Shashua has been invited to take the chairman of the board seat.

Microsoft responds to LG monitors installing McAfee ads on Windows

App is installed through Windows Update when certain LG monitors connect to a PC.

AMD takes on Nvidia with its Helios AI rack-scale system

AMD is challenging its chipmaker rival with a new rack-scale system that will start shipping to customers later this yea

Patreon lays off 20% of its workforce

In a memo to staff that was posted online, Conte said the company's core business is strong, but the platform has to res

Insurance startup Corgi reportedly raised more money at $4B — its third round in 8 weeks

In the AI-funding frenzy, many startups are raising back-to-back rounds at ever-increasing valuations — but even by thos

Tesla’s door handles may spur new US safety rules

The new rule-making process follows a series of incidents, including fatal ones, in which people have become stuck insid

Meta drops out of a major clean energy pact as its natural gas buildout accelerates

Meta has made significant investments in natural gas over the past year. Now it's dropping out of an industry renewable

FDA reports new outbreak of explosive diarrhea with 72 cases identified

The FDA hasn't said where the cases are or how they're linked.

Forgot your Google password? Now you can log in with a selfie.

Google's selfie videos can be used for account access, AI Avatars, and age verification.

AI Kill Switch Act would let Trump admin order shutdown of rogue AI systems

Bill would let Homeland Security chief decide when an AI should be shut down.

Geometric admissibility conditions for travelling-wave solitons in the Kuralay–IIA equation

A Million-Panel Project

Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Ju

Microwave-field quantum metrology with inherent robustness against detection losses enabled by Rydberg interactions

A fourier neural operator-based subband-BTE solver for sub-10 nm ultra-scaled devices

Coupling of topological interface states in one-dimensional photonic crystals is controlled by spatial distance and cap-layer symmetry, dictating the coupling quality

Teaching a transformer to think like a chemist: predicting nanocluster stability

Ground-based radar unveils natural electron Bernstein waves in the ionosphere of Earth

Vulcan Centaur swapped out again: NASA goes with SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket for launch of space weather mission

NASA's SunRISE mission has been assigned a new launch vehicle: It will now be delivered to

'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 4: Release date & how to watch Paramount+’s sensational sci-fi series

'We've seen a lot of strange new worlds, but we’ll never see something like this again'

Scientists may have finally solved the mystery of the sun's missing silver

Scientists say the sun has a little more silver than we thought.

Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV

Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA

This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years

Extremely basic AI prompt cracks decades-old maths problem

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting th

Can sounds make plants grow bigger? A start-up says they can

Haivya has developed acoustic signals designed to influence plant development, and its trials reportedly show large yiel

Fields medal 2026: Work on unifying laws of physics wins maths prize

Mathematicians who helped unify laws of physics and cracked decades-old problems in geometry are among this year's recip

Dark energy doesn’t exist, claims controversial paper

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy t

New Scientist recommends Anish Kapoor’s show at the Hayward Gallery

Viscera, voids and light-gobbling Vantablack conspire to disturb and amaze in Anish Kapoor’s new exhibition, which has h

Orcas filmed making sunfish explode by ramming them at high speed

Orcas have been seen smashing into sharp-tail sunfish so hard that the fish bursts into thousands of fragments, perhaps

More than a gut feeling

Long overlooked, the connection between our gut microbes and brain is yielding new insights into mental health

Why open-source software can be both good and bad

Software that is free to use creates many opportunities – not all of which are good

This twisty sci-fi thriller is a fantastic debut from Isabel J. Kim

Sublimation, in which a person can split into two when crossing an international border, is tip-top stuff. Don't miss it