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Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

Paula Dobbyn, Inside Climate News • June 11, 2026 The upcoming loss of a deep-ocean monitoring system is triggering deep anxiety in Alaska, the nation’s top fish-producing state, where temperatures are warming twice as quickly as the global average. The National Science Foundation announced plans in May to decommission the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a nearly

“This cannot continue”: Xbox leaders lay out “hard truths” behind sagging brand

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Kyle Orland • June 11, 2026 Just 100 days ago, when new Microsoft Gaming CEO Asha Sharma replaced long-serving executive Phil Spencer, she said she’d work to “understand what makes [Xbox] work and protect it.” Now, Sharma and Xbox Studios chief Matt Booty have laid out the many things that are not working for the

Did Iron Age Britons remove brains of the dead?

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Jennifer Ouellette • June 11, 2026 Very little is known about funerary practices in Iron Age Britain, since few human remains have survived. However, the environment in northwest Scotland is more conducive to preserving bone from that period. Archaeologists have previously noted evidence of postmortem manipulation of human remains, such as mummification, and of modifying

F1 teams spend millions on their simulators—what makes them different?

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Jonathan M. Gitlin • June 11, 2026 Among the ways Formula 1 has changed in the 21st century has been its adoption of driver-in-the-loop simulators. It all started in the early 2000s, probably at McLaren, maybe at Toyota or Ferrari; F1 teams are notoriously secretive about their performance advantages. Along the years, they’ve gotten more

After nearly breaking, NASA’s Deep Space Network “worked well” on Artemis II

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Stephen Clark • June 11, 2026 NASA pushed its Deep Space Network beyond its limits during the Artemis I mission nearly four years ago. The global array of deep space communications antennas couldn’t keep up with the routine demands of 40 robotic science missions and the extraordinary surge required by NASA’s Orion space capsule as

AcuRite admits new app falls short, delays old app’s May shutdown to fix problems

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Scharon Harding • June 11, 2026 Smart weather-monitoring device vendor AcuRite has delayed plans to force users onto a new companion app. The transition from My AcuRite to AcuRite NOW, which AcuRite previously set for May 30, “has raised serious questions and concerns among many long-time users,” AcuRite’s VP of product development, Jeff Bovee, told

Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

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Eric Berger • June 12, 2026 Welcome to Edition 8.45 of the Rocket Report! Even though we are now two weeks removed from the catastrophic loss of the New Glenn rocket and its LC-36A launch pad, it continues to dominate discussion in the space community. This week, NASA said it nominally plans to fly Blue

Verizon sent man a refurbished phone with MDM, then deleted his data remotely

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Jon Brodkin • June 12, 2026 Verizon sent one of its customers a “refurbished” phone equipped with a Mobile Device Management (MDM) profile that gave the company remote control over the device. The serious mistake raises questions about Verizon’s process for preparing refurbished phones to be sent to customers. Tom Collery, the unlucky Verizon customer,

Ted Cruz and Ron Wyden try to fight censorship with bipartisan JAWBONE Act

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Jon Brodkin • June 11, 2026 US Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) today introduced the JAWBONE Act, a proposed law that could fuel lawsuits against federal officials who try to coerce broadcasters or tech platforms into restricting speech. The Justice Against Weaponized Bureaucratic Overreach to Networked Expression Act would prohibit federal agencies

Ebola cases in DRC rise to 676 as Kenya protests erupt over US plans

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Beth Mole • June 12, 2026 Nearly a month into the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, cases continue to rise as officials are still trailing the virus in their response efforts. As of Thursday, June 11, the DRC has reported 676 confirmed cases, 136 deaths, and 119 suspected cases. Uganda is