3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (515+ words) A closer look at Mercury’s battered surface is revealing clues that could reshape scientists’ understanding of the planet’s hidden interior. Mercury, the planet closest to the Sun, has been gradually shrinking for billions of years and may have lost more…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (140+ words) A single strike reportedly forced Russian drone operators to change positions, retune frequencies, and spend more resources restoring communications. Partisans from the Atesh movement destroyed a communications tower near the settlement of Zhudersky in Russia’s Oryol region. The movement reported…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (199+ words) A month after troubling evaluation incidents, Anthropic is reopening a crucial testing program with new defenses designed to prevent another breach. Anthropic announced on Monday, August 31, that it was resuming external cybersecurity testing of its artificial intelligence models. The decision…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (683+ words) The settlement raises fresh questions about how platforms can protect children without collecting more sensitive personal data from their youngest users. Meta has agreed to strengthen age verification for Facebook and Instagram users as part of an $18 billion settlement with…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (298+ words) Thousands of compromised devices helped conceal attacks on sensitive American networks, but investigators found a way to sever the operators’ control. The FBI has taken control of a number of domains through which a large botnet coordinated and enabled China-linked…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (151+ words) The mission was expected to lift off within days, but a key assessment has forced China to reconsider its carefully timed lunar plans. China has postponed the launch of the uncrewed Chang’e-7 lunar mission following a comprehensive assessment. The state-run…...

3+ week, 18+ hour ago   (425+ words) A mission aimed at unlocking lunar water has missed its launch window, leaving scientists and space agencies watching China’s next move closely. China has postponed the launch of its robotic Chang’e-7 lunar mission, designed to search for and study water…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (700+ words) China’s robot contests began as student tournaments, but their latest stage reveals a tougher question: can humanoid machines perform useful work reliably? Over the past decade, China’s robot competitions have evolved from student engineering tournaments into a large-scale platform where…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (401+ words) A new Meta experiment turns simple instructions into shareable mobile creations, blurring the line between casual gaming, coding, and social media. Meta has made its experimental Pocket app available to all users in the United States. The service allows users…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (320+ words) Its extreme orbit brings the star into a region where gravity could reveal a hidden property of our galaxy’s central black hole. S301 is about 50% more massive than the Sun and five times brighter. As it travels along its orbit, its…...