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Holy water brimming with cholera compels illness cluster in Europe
In all, "The extension of a cholera outbreak in Africa causing a cluster of infections in Europe is unusual," the authors ...
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
According to the "passback" documents given to NASA officials on Thursday, the space agency's science programs would receive ...
Streaming price hikes more likely amid uncertainty around global taxes, economy
Calls for a streaming tax in the UK come after 2024's 25 percent decrease in spending for UK-produced high-end TV productions and 27 percent decline in productions overall, per the report. Companies ...
Microsoft is putting privacy-endangering Recall back into Windows 11
Following months of backlash, Microsoft later suspended Recall. On Thursday, the company said it was reintroducing Recall. It currently is available only to insiders with access to the Windows 11 ...
Chrome for Android gets edge-to-edge UI update
Simply being on Chrome 135 is not necessarily enough to get the dynamic bottom bar. A separate server-side update is rolling out to enable edge-to-edge viewing—there's no way to force this update, but ...
Researcher uncovers dozens of sketchy Chrome extensions with 4 million installs
Google is hosting dozens of extensions in its Chrome Web Store that perform suspicious actions on the more than 4 million ...
FTC now has three Republicans and no Democrats instead of the typical 3-2 split
The FTC historically had a 3–2 partisan split, with the president's party having a one-seat advantage. But President Trump ...
Is there a Grand Unified Theory of cocktails? Maybe.
In essence, Peterson's work adds scientific rigor to what is frequently called the "Mr. Potato Head" theory of cocktails, a phrase coined by the folks at Death & Company, who operate several craft ...
Rocket Report: “No man’s land” in rocket wars; Isaacman lukewarm on SLS
Ars Technica has mentioned SpinLaunch, the company that literally wants to yeet satellites into space, in previous Rocket ...
“What the hell are you doing?” How I learned to interview astronauts, scientists, and billionaires
His account of Starliner’s thruster failures—and his desperate efforts to keep the vehicle flying on course—was riveting. In the aftermath of the story, many readers, people on social media, and ...
Powerful programming: BBC-controlled electric meters are coming to an end
As of January 2025, roughly 600,000 UK customers still used RTS meters to manager their power switching, after 300,000 were switched away in 2024. Utilities and the BBC have agreed that the service ...
Researchers find AI is pretty bad at debugging—but they’re working on it
There are few areas where AI has seen more robust deployment than the field of software development. From "vibe" coding to GitHub Copilot to startups building quick-and-dirty applications with support ...