Daniel Okafor
China Hits MP Materials and USA Rare Earth With Export Controls
Beijing aimed its response to Washington's tech blacklist at the two companies the US has funded most to break China's grip on rare earth magnets.
Webb Finds Salt Clouds on the 'Pink Planet' GJ504b
A faint magenta world too dim for ground telescopes turned out to be hiding clouds of salt — and a lesson about how astronomers read alien skies.
Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in French Plane Crash at 69
Claude Guillemot, who co-founded Ubisoft with his four brothers in 1986 and ran its Thrustmaster and Hercules hardware arm, has died in a small-plane crash in western France at 69.
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies in France plane crash
The Ubisoft co-founder and Guillemot Corporation chief died alongside a flight instructor when their twin-engine plane went down near La Baule.
Windows 11 26H2 Arrives This Fall as a 200KB Switch, Not an Overhaul
Microsoft confirmed Windows 11 26H2 will ship this fall as a roughly 200KB enablement package, the second straight year its annual update flips a switch rather than overhauls the platform.
Elusive Goblin Shark Filmed Alive in the Deep Sea for the First Time
Researchers have published the first confirmed footage of a goblin shark alive in its deep-ocean habitat, captured near Jarvis Island and in the Tonga Trench.
GTA 6 Pre-Orders Open June 25, but Rockstar Still Won't Name a Price
Rockstar will open Grand Theft Auto VI pre-orders on June 25 and reveal its cover art, holding the November 19 release date, while leaving the game's price unannounced.
NASA Picks Eric Schmidt's Relativity Space for a Mars Orbiter
The Aeolus orbiter would map Mars's atmosphere daily, but it rides on a rocket Relativity has not yet flown to orbit.
Android 17 Reaches Pixel Phones With Bubbles and Tighter Privacy
Google's biggest software update of the year lands on Pixel first, leading with floating windows and quieter, under-the-hood fixes.
Telegram Challenges India Ban Tied to NEET Exam Re-Test
India ordered Telegram switched off until 22 June over the NEET medical-exam re-test. The app is fighting back in court, warning of a precedent for platform blocks.
Burnt Bones Hint Humans Used Fire 1.8 Million Years Ago
Charred bones deep inside Wonderwerk Cave, dated up to 1.79 million years old, point to fire carried in and maintained by early humans, likely Homo erectus.
Google's New CAPTCHA Wants You to Wave at Your Camera
Google's new bot test asks you to wave at your webcam, mapping 21 points on your hand. It aims to stop AI agents, but privacy researchers are uneasy.
Snap opens preorders for $2,195 Specs AR glasses
Snap unveiled Specs, its first consumer augmented-reality glasses, at $2,195 with a fall ship date, a costly bet by CEO Evan Spiegel on a future beyond the smartphone.
Webb Finds the Strongest Case Yet for 'Black Hole Stars'
Webb's deepest spectrum of a 'little red dot,' GLIMPSE-17775, points to a supermassive black hole cloaked in dense gas, a possible answer to two cosmic puzzles.
SpaceX to Buy AI Coding Startup Cursor for $60 Billion
Days after its $2 trillion listing, Musk's SpaceX is paying $60 billion for the maker of Cursor, a bet on AI coding where his Grok has lagged rivals.
Webb Tells Dawn From Dusk on Scorching Planet WASP-121b
On a tidally locked gas giant, Webb told dawn from dusk, finding the evening edge hotter and the air chemistry different across the planet's two faces.
China Paper Faults the Single-Engine Risk in NASA's Moon Lander
NASA's lunar lander leans on one main engine for descent and ascent. A Chinese engineering team argues that staking astronauts' lives on a single point of failure is a flaw worth fixing.
Stanford Drug Regrows Knee Cartilage in Mice by Blocking an Aging Protein
Blocking the enzyme 15-PGDH regrew hyaline cartilage in old mice and stalled arthritis after ACL-type injuries. Human tissue responded too — but this is still a mouse study.
Bezos's Prometheus Raises $12 Billion to Automate Heavy Engineering
Jeff Bezos's once-stealth physical-AI startup emerged at a $41 billion valuation, promising to compress engineering work the way large language models compressed text. The specifics stay locked up.
US Order Forces Anthropic to Disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Models
A government letter arrived Friday evening. Hours after going live, Anthropic's most capable models went dark for every user, citizen or not.