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The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

Thomas Macaulay • June 12, 2026 This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced

Cameras, sensors, and 3D body scans: All the tech helping eliminate blown calls

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Ben Dowsett, WIRED.com • June 12, 2026 At the 2026 World Cup, the refs on the field and the officials on the sidelines will be able to use an abundance of tech to help call penalties, spot offside violations, and make other consequential decisions. The video assistant referee system, known as VAR, and the semi-automated

The biggest race in the world? The 24 Hours of Le Mans is this weekend.

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Jonathan M. Gitlin • June 12, 2026 One of motorsport’s three biggest races takes place this weekend in France. It is the annual 24 Hours of Le Mans, an endurance race that, together with the Indianapolis 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, make up the ‘triple crown,’ an unofficial achievement that only the late Graham

Lawsuit: ChatGPT validated suicidal woman’s distrust of crisis lines

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Cyrus Farivar • June 12, 2026 Last year, a 24-year-old Canadian woman was in a mental health crisis and turned to ChatGPT for help. Hours later, that woman, Alice Carrier, took her own life. According to a new lawsuit filed Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court and brought by Carrier’s surviving family, her ChatGPT session “encouraged

RFK Jr. melts down over NYT report, admits he blacklists reporters

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Beth Mole • June 12, 2026 Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. posted a long, enraged social media response to a New York Times article reporting that health department insiders think Kennedy is disengaged from the work of his sprawling agency. His response, however, seems to back the Times’ claim. The report, published Sunday,

Google sues Chinese cybercrime network that used Gemini to automate scams

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Ryan Whitwam • June 12, 2026 Google loves telling us all the ways people are using its generative AI products to build new things, grow businesses, and save the world. Supposedly. Of course, people are also using AI for crime. Google has announced a new legal salvo aimed at a Chinese group called Outsider Enterprise,

When it comes to total water use, AI data centers are a drop in the bucket

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Kyle Orland • June 12, 2026 If you hang out in any even vaguely AI-skeptical parts of the Internet, you’ve probably stumbled on plenty of memes and posts premised on data centers’ insatiable thirst for water to power evaporative cooling. But a new report from Amazon highlights just how little water all these AI data

Here’s what Jeff Bezos’ new startup Prometheus will do

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Samuel Axon • June 12, 2026 In November, Jeff Bezos announced that he would become co-CEO of a new startup called Prometheus. At the time, the startup said it would focus on “physical AI”—an increasingly common term for applying the same deep learning principles behind large language models or generative AI to things like robotics

Have politics finally come for the National Academies of Science?

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John Timmer • June 12, 2026 Founded during the US Civil War to provide advice to the government, the National Academies of Science have become one of the most prestigious scientific organizations. Its primary function is to prepare comprehensive reports on scientific and technological issues, aided by its ability to attract top talent from across

Ukraine’s one-time test used fully autonomous drones to kill Russian soldiers

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Jeremy Hsu • June 12, 2026 Fully autonomous drones killed Russian soldiers during a battlefield test two years ago, according to a Ukrainian drone manufacturer. If true, the incident would represent another milestone in a war that has spurred unprecedented developments in military drones, robots, and AI-guided weaponry. The one-time test was revealed by Alexander