Large study squashes anti-vaccine talking points about aluminum
A sweeping analysis of health data from more than 1.2 million children in Denmark born over a 24-year period found no link between the small amounts of aluminum in vaccines…
Medieval preacher invoked chivalric hero as a meme in sermon
Medieval poet Geoffrey Chaucer twice made references to an early work featuring a Germanic mythological character named Wade. Only three lines survive, discovered buried in a sermon by a late…
Belkin Bricks Most Wemo Smart Home Devices, Again Demonstrating You Don’t Own What You Buy
Belkin is the latest company to painfully demonstrate that you no longer own what you buy, and the whims of corporate executives can very often leave you with expensive paperweights.…
Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless
I went for a run this morning while holding my iPhone, which was connected to a cable that attached to my earbuds. I’ve exercised with wired headphones for years, but…
DHS Dumps Intel Office Because Actual Intel Keeps Contradicting Trump’s Bigoted Narrative
The Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act to expedite its ejection of anyone not white enough to be considered worthy of citizenship. ICE raids occur daily, performed by masked…
UnitedHealth’s Response To People Cheering Their CEO’s Murder: Silence The Critics
When your CEO gets murdered and half the internet celebrates, most companies might pause and ask “why do so many people hate us?” But UnitedHealth had a different response: hire…
GOP’s pro-industry crypto bills could financially ruin millions, lawmaker warns
It’s “Crypto Week” in Congress, and experts continue to warn that legislation Donald Trump wants passed quickly could give the president ample opportunities to grift while leaving Americans more vulnerable…
Grok’s “MechaHitler” meltdown didn’t stop xAI from winning $200M military deal
A week after Grok’s antisemitic outburst, which included praise of Hitler and a post calling itself “MechaHitler,” Elon Musk’s xAI has landed a US military contract worth up to $200…
From the hospital to the car plant: What is GM doing with CT scanners?
More and more, we’re seeing imaging technologies and machine learning showing up in automotive applications. It’s usually to diagnose some kind of problem like quality control, although not always—the camera-based…
Hyper-Volumetric DDoS Attacks Reach Record 7.3 Tbps, Targeting Key Global Sectors
Cloudflare on Tuesday said it mitigated 7.3 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the second quarter of 2025, a significant drop from 20.5 million DDoS attacks it fended off the…