Microsoft employee disrupts Satya Nadella’s keynote with ‘Free Palestine’ protest
RFK Jr.’s FDA Severely Restricts COVID Vaccine Use
The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine will only be available to those at high risk from Covid—excluding those who may need it to protect a relative or friend.
xAI says an “unauthorized” prompt change caused Grok to focus on “white genocide”
RFK Jr’s plan to ban fluoride supplements will “hurt rural America,” dentists say
This week, the US health department announced a plan to ban prescription fluoride supplements for children. These ingested fluoride products are dispensed at safe doses by doctors and dentists to prevent tooth decay in children who are unable to get adequate fluoride doses from community water systems—something that may become more common as more states and cities remove or ban fluoride from their water.
Kristi Noem Wants Migrants to Compete for Citizenship on New Reality Show
The reality TV show--titled The American--will have immigrants compete in a string of challenges across the country for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship.
China begins assembling its supercomputer in space
China’s ADA Space has launched the first of a planned 2,800-satellite network of AI supercomputers.
“Orbital data centres can use solar power and radiate their heat to space, reducing the energy needs and carbon footprint.” The US and Europe could carry out similar projects in the future.
CERN gears up to ship antimatter across Europe
A portable containment device that can be dropped on a truck.
This silent home wind turbine is now the biggest rival to solar panels
A massive hidden ocean was just discovered 700 km beneath Earth’s surface
It could swallow all the world’s surface water—three times over.
This newly uncovered reservoir isn’t a free-flowing sea in the traditional sense. Instead, it’s trapped inside a mineral called ringwoodite, a blue rock buried deep in the Earth’s mantle, between the outer core and the crust. Under extreme pressure, this rock can hold incredible amounts of water—at the molecular level.
Earth’s Secret Hydrogen Jackpot: Enough Clean Power for 170,000 Years
Scientists have identified the key geological ingredients needed to find natural clean hydrogen beneath the Earth’s surface.
The potential for natural geological hydrogen has motivated the authors to form Snowfox Discovery Ltd., an exploration company with a mission to find societally significant natural hydrogen accumulations.
SF’s sweatiest new party is this Stonestown game room
Nine rooms contain more than 50 games for all-ages, from analog to high-tech. The LED zaniness is almost irresistible.
Microsoft’s Satya Nadella is choosing chatbots over podcasts
Instead of listening to podcasts, he now uploads the transcripts to Copilot, then talks to Copilot about the content during his drive to the office.
“I started collecting them and already have over 650”: a user has been powering his home with laptop batteries since 2016.
The system has operated without major incident for almost a decade. The user has had no problems with fires or swollen batteries. It has 24 solar panels, each with a capacity of 440 W, and customised racks of cells from dismantled batteries.
'Unbelievably blessed': First custom CRISPR therapy alleviates worst of rare genetic disease for infant
An infant named KJ has made history as the first patient to be treated with an in vivo CRISPR gene editing therapy designed specifically for him. In a “couple of generations, gene editing therapies will have become the standard of care for many diseases,”—just as routine as antibiotics or blood pressure medications.
How the Signal Knockoff App TeleMessage Got Hacked in 20 Minutes
“I first looked at the admin panel secure.telemessage.com and noticed that they were hashing passwords to MD5 on the client side, something that negates the security benefits of hashing passwords, as the hash effectively becomes the password.”
Hoping to find vulnerable JSP files, the hacker then used feroxbuster, a tool that can quickly find publicly available resources on a website, on secure.telemessage.com and archive.telemessage.com, and found the vulnerable URL, which ended in /heapdump.
This URL provides 150-MB of heap memory, containing a snapshot of the server’s memory at the moment the URL was loaded. That data contained credentials from recent logins and plaintext chat logs. “I can read Coinbase internal chats, this is incredible.”
TeleMessage - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Thousands of heap dumps taken May 4, 2025 from TeleMessage.
Due to PII in the dataset and the inclusion of groups and messages unrelated to government or corporate behavior, the data is currently only being offered to journalists and researchers.
Trump to sign law forcing platforms to remove revenge porn in 48 hours
Supporters have touted the 48-hour timeline as remarkably fast, empowering victims to promptly stop revenge porn from spreading widely online. Critics have attacked the 48-hour timeline as too short, warning that platforms will be rushed to remove NCII and likely censor a broader range of content online. Others say it's too long, leaving time for content to be downloaded and reposted.
New 'Defendnot' tool tricks Windows into disabling Microsoft Defender
It registers a fake antivirus product, so Windows automatically disables Microsoft Defender to avoid conflicts. To bypass signature requirements, Defendnot injects its DLL into a system process, Taskmgr.exe, that is signed and already trusted by Microsoft.
Communication outage reported at Denver airport
Air traffic controllers’ radio at Denver International Airport experienced an outage for a minute-and-a-half this week, because “both transmitters that cover a segment of airspace went down.”
OpenAI introduces Codex, its first full-fledged AI agent for coding
Codex, in research preview, allows experienced developers to delegate rote and relatively simple programming tasks to an AI agent that will generate production-ready code and show its work along the way. It can take anywhere from one to 30 minutes to complete the task.
GPT-0.3: a revolutionary leap in AI—at an astronomical cost
GPT-0.3 leaves its predecessors in the dust when it comes to solving complex, multi-step problems and navigating nuanced logic. But running just one advanced query on GPT-0.3 can cost more than $1,500. For comparison, earlier models like GPT-0.1-mini clock in at a mere $0.20 per request—a gulf that’s hard to ignore.
Stack overflow is almost dead
The volume of questions asked has nearly dried up, LLMs have replaced it.
Malicious NPM package uses Unicode steganography to evade detection
The package, named os-info-checker-es6, uses invisible Unicode characters to hide malicious code and Google Calendar links to host the URL for the command-and-control location.
France’s new laser rifle silently melts electronics at 500 meters — and Ukrainian infantry could really use it
The power unit fits in a backpack, and its laser power is likely sufficient to blind drone optics or melt plastic protective filters with short-duration exposure.