Encryption made for police and military radios may be easily cracked

Two years ago, researchers in the Netherlands discovered an intentional backdoor in an encryption algorithm baked into radios used by ...
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For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says. “There was a study by ...
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New executive order puts all grants under political control

On Thursday, the Trump administration issued an executive order asserting political control over grant funding, including all federally supported research. ...
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Sonos says it’s forced to raise prices while trying to win back customers

During that call, Sonos CFO Saori Casey said that the company expects “tariff expenses will be approximately $5 million in ...
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Tornado Cash sold crypto “privacy”; the US saw “money laundering.” A jury isn’t sure what to think.

Some of Storm’s instant messages that his defense team wanted to use at trial. But Storm fought back. In a ...
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In trial, people lost twice as much weight by ditching ultraprocessed food

In a small randomized controlled trial, people lost twice as much weight when their diet was limited to minimally processed ...
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Grok generates fake Taylor Swift nudes without being asked

“Our teams are actively removing all identified images and taking appropriate actions against the accounts responsible for posting them,” the ...
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Is the Dream Chaser space plane ever going to launch into orbit?

“We wanted to have a fuel system that was green instead of using hypergolics, so we could land it on ...
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These are the best streaming services you aren’t watching

Curiosity Stream doesn’t regularly report subscriber numbers, but it said in March 2023 that it had 23 million subscribers. In ...
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RIP Corporation for Public Broadcasting: 1967–2026

Despite the protests of millions of Americans, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced it will be winding down its ...
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