China's state-owned space company recovered its first orbital rocket booster after launch.

My ghost hangs out in a recycling bin. In my small family — mom, sister, me — one of my nicknames was “Toter woman.” The Toter was our large blue recycling bin on wheels. I carried it up our hilly driveway every week, without fail. There was no dad or brother to do...

Nextcloud is a free and open-source storage option that offers several advantages. Here's how it works.

This week’s podcast sees Elliot joined by Jenny List, as both suffer silently in the European summer heat because the sound of a desk fan would come over on the recording. A stand-out hack of the week comes from [Bitluni], whose GPU made from thousands of cheap...

The launch of free content would allow Disney+ to better compete with free services like YouTube and Tubi, which are capturing a growing share of consumers’ viewing time.

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Dumb Co sells flip phones that sync to your smartphone, bridging the infinite connectivity of the iPhone and the unrealistic limitations of an early 2000s relic.

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I’m a process fiend. But most of the time, the “how this works” knowledge exists only in my head. As a solo business owner, this was mostly fine… until I needed to collaborate with other people.  Most solopreneurs treat process documentation as a someday task. There’s...

Circle Internet Group (Nasdaq: CRCL), the stablecoin issuer behind USDC, said today that it has received federal approval to operate as a specific type of bank. The move marks a major milestone in the further legitimization of digital assets like cryptocurrencies. But...

Signs have already started appearing in some courts in the state.

On iPhone and Mac, the DuckDuckGo browser now has YouTube ad blocking turned on by default.

Researchers at Ledger's Donjon security team have shown that a precisely timed laser pulse, aimed at the chip inside a Tangem crypto wallet card, can reset the card's password to anything the attacker picks. No old password. No backup card. Once it is reset, whoever...

Though [Ivan Miranda] calls the 3D printed vehicle in his recent video a motorbike, what he ultimately pulls out of his suitcase is clearly a scooter. Linguistic confusion aside, the “Mirandetta” looks like an awesome build and pulling a scooter out of your suitcase...

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Abnormal AI sued by Anthropic, AssuranceAmerica data breach affects 7 million people, NSA brings back TAO. The post In Other News: DHS Database Hacked, Adobe Boosts Patch Cadence, Canada Disrupts...

The new startup raised $300 million co-led by ARCH Venture Partners, Spark Capital, and Khosla Ventures.

OpenAI has decided its AI browser experiment has run its course, pulling the plug on ChatGPT Atlas less than a year after launch and moving its browser-based agent features into ChatGPT and Codex. The company said Atlas will stop working on August 9 as it rolls out...

Amid signs of slowing engagement, Netflix is reportedly considering launching "always-on" live channels, giving subscribers something to tune into 24/7.

Details have emerged about three now-patched security flaws in the OpenClaw personal artificial intelligence (AI) assistant that, if successfully exploited, could enable credential theft, privilege escalation, and arbitrary code execution on the host. A brief...

The European Union accused Meta on Friday of breaching its social media law by designing Facebook and Instagram to get users hooked, and demanded it disable “key addictive features” like infinite scrolling.The EU’s executive arm issued a fresh set of charges against...

Upgrade your home theater with a big-screen Insignia F50 for less than $400 right now at Best Buy.

The tech giant is in breach of the Digital Services Act by focusing on features like infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the highly personalized recommendation algorithms, the European Commission said.