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Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

Dan Goodin • June 9, 2026 Microsoft on Tuesday released fixes for two high-severity zero-days that were disclosed by a researcher who has been locked in a testy beef with the software giant. Nightmare Eclipse, the pseudonym the researcher goes by, released a handful of high-severity vulnerabilities in recent months, making them zero-days that had

Three key vital signs make up the “urban pulse” of a city

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Jennifer Ouellette • June 9, 2026 People often speak metaphorically of the heartbeat or pulse of a city, but according to the authors of a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, cities do indeed have an “urban pulse”—an indication of urban “metabolic activity” that can be measured to suss

Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases

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Jon Brodkin • June 9, 2026 Starlink has started charging a $10 monthly rental fee for hardware in a shift away from its longtime practice of selling hardware to customers for a one-time charge. Starlink residential ordering pages now show an upfront hardware cost of $0 and a monthly kit fee of $10, similar to

The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon

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Stevie Bonifield • June 9, 2026 Later this year, you will be able to get bundled subscriptions for iPhone apps, as Apple announced it’s expanding App Store bundles so they can include offers from different companies. It’s similar to streaming video bundles that have combined offers for Apple TV and Peacock, but it also could

GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech

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Andrew J. Hawkins • June 9, 2026 At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV

Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion

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Gaby Del Valle • June 9, 2026 Congress narrowly voted to fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda, giving the Department of Homeland Security $70 billion over the next three years. The house voted 214 to 212 in favor of the reconciliation bill Tuesday, following the Senate’s 52-47 vote last Friday morning. The vote fell

I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works

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Allison Johnson • June 9, 2026 Siri, are you there? Parents want one thing, and one thing only, out of AI: to add a list of soccer games or “spirit week” theme days from an email or a poorly formatted flyer onto their calendar in one shot. And I have good news for parents with

Logitech’s new Mobi Fold squeezes a lot of functionality into a tiny folding mouse

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Andrew Liszewski • June 10, 2026 The Mobi Fold feels like a full-sized mouse when opened and includes a touch panel for scrolling. Logitech finally announced its new ultraportable travel mouse following leaked marketing images that spoiled the surprise last month. As the name implies, the Mobi Fold is a compact mouse that can fold

WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free

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Jess Weatherbed • June 10, 2026 Meta has been ordered by the European Commission to restore free WhatsApp access for chatbots made by rival AI providers while the regulator finishes its antitrust investigation. The rare interim measure announced on Tuesday was deemed necessary “to prevent serious and irreparable damage to competition” in the general-purpose AI

Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road

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Andrew J. Hawkins • June 10, 2026 Waymo has a lot of experience building virtual systems to help its autonomous vehicles better understand the real world. It built realistic 3D worlds to better anticipate natural disasters and unpredictable edge cases. It created a virtual representation of a hyperattentive driver to test against its own autonomous

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Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

Locked in heated rivalry with researcher, Microsoft fixes 0-day they disclosed

Three key vital signs make up the “urban pulse” of a city

Starlink charges $10 monthly hardware fee in move away from one-time purchases

The App Store is going to add subscription bundles soon

GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech

Congress just gave DHS another $70 billion

I tried Siri AI, and so far it actually works

Logitech’s new Mobi Fold squeezes a lot of functionality into a tiny folding mouse

WhatsApp ordered to host rival AI assistants for free

Waymo built a virtual driver to study how humans react to surprises on the road