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Google DeepMind releases DiffusionGemma, a model that runs local AI 4x faster

Ryan Whitwam • June 10, 2026 Another day, another AI model from Google. This time, Google DeepMind has released a new member of the Gemma 4 open model family, but it’s fundamentally different from the rest of the lineup. DiffusionGemma doesn’t generate outputs linearly like most AI models. Instead, it can produce an entire block

Logitech’s foldable mouse is for people who refuse to carry a mouse with them

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Scharon Harding • June 10, 2026 I see it often. Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored. They would prefer a mouse to a trackpad, but are reluctant to travel with

Man sues Florida cops over arrest spurred by “93% match” in facial recognition

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Jon Brodkin • June 10, 2026 A man suing Florida police alleges that cops relied on a faulty facial recognition match and concealed exculpatory evidence when they arrested him on a charge of attempting to lure a child in August 2024. The plaintiff, Robert Dillon, was arrested after a facial recognition system flagged him as

Diabetes org apologizes for ejecting scientists over criticism of Trump

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Beth Mole • June 10, 2026 Amid intense backlash, the head of the American Diabetes Association posted a video Wednesday apologizing for the organization’s decision on Friday to forcefully remove five leading diabetes scientists from the association’s annual meeting. The scientists were ejected for handing out copies of an April editorial—published in the ADA’s own journal

Several things I like about macOS 27 Golden Gate that have nothing to do with AI

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Andrew Cunningham • June 11, 2026 Apple Intelligence and Siri AI have sucked most of the oxygen out of the room at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference this year—understandable, maybe, given that the AI-powered Siri delays are all anyone has wanted to ask any Apple executive about for the last two years. But Apple Intelligence is

The first complex cells had genes from a complex mix of species

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John Timmer • June 11, 2026 We tend to view ourselves and the complex cells that build us as a distinct branch of the tree of life from the compact, seemingly featureless cells of bacteria and archaea. But we’ve found that our genome is actually a hybrid, a mish-mash of genes from bacteria and archaea,

Alaskans will be flying blind after NSF decommissions ocean monitoring network

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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