Google halts its four-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome ~tech privacy browsers google Article 743 words 36 votes
A chemist explains the chemistry behind decaf coffee. Three methods strive to retain the bean's flavor while removing its caffeine. ~food drinks Article 692 words 13 votes
Intel has finally tracked down the problem making 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs crash ~tech Article 359 words 23 votes
We’re building nuclear spaceships again—this time for real ~space rocketry Article 658 words 20 votes
US Federal Communications Commission closes “final loopholes” that keep prison phone prices exorbitantly high ~tech Article 488 words 44 votes
Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees ~games Article 669 words 56 votes
Lion brothers in search of mates just set a record for longest known swim ~enviro Article 770 words 8 votes
High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil ~science Article 580 words 14 votes
Thirty years later, FreeDOS is still keeping the dream of the command prompt alive ~tech Article 697 words 18 votes
Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims ~tech security.cyber Article 940 words 45 votes
Scholars discover rare 16th-century tome with handwritten notes by John Milton ~books libraries Article 961 words, published May 15 2024 17 votes
Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter ~games Article 535 words 18 votes
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win ~tech internet Article 654 words 59 votes
Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K US car dealerships for days ~transport Article 581 words 22 votes
MacBook Air gets hosed, other models hold steady in macOS 15 as Intel support fades ~tech apple Article 676 words 17 votes
TDK claims insane energy density in solid-state battery breakthrough ~tech apple Article 665 words 29 votes
Neutrinos: The inscrutable “ghost particles” driving scientists crazy ~science physics.particle Article 635 words 20 votes
Watch a six-axis motor solve a Rubik’s Cube in less than a third of a second ~tech Article 537 words 19 votes
Spotify won’t open-source to-be-bricked Car Thing, but starts refund process amid lawsuit ~tech Article 736 words 21 votes
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition ~tech internet Article 576 words, published May 24 2024 22 votes
NASA finds more issues with Boeing’s Starliner, but crew launch set for June 1 ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed rocketry Article 567 words, published May 25 2024 17 votes
The first crew launch of Boeing’s Starliner capsule is on hold indefinitely ~space spaceflight.commercial spaceflight.crewed rocketry Article 950 words 29 votes
Archie, the (pre) Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running ~tech Article 492 words 14 votes
Warner Bros. gives Adult Swim games back to their creators rather than kill them ~games Article 416 words 46 votes
‘TunnelVision’ attack leaves nearly all VPNs vulnerable to spying ~tech security.cyber privacy Article 918 words, published May 6 2024 40 votes
Nintendo pre-announces a Switch 2 announcement is coming… eventually ~games Article 462 words 25 votes
Faulty valve scuttles Starliner’s first crew launch ~space spaceflight.crewed spaceflight.commercial rocketry Article 556 words 20 votes
Reddit, AI spam bots explore new ways to show ads in your feed ~tech social media Article 506 words 61 votes
What cats’ love of boxes and squares can tell us about their visual perception ~science psychology.animal Article 990 words, published May 6 2021 30 votes
Tesla’s two million car Autopilot recall is now under US federal scrutiny ~transport Article 577 words 22 votes
Modder packs an entire Nintendo Wii into a box the size of a pack of cards ~games Article 451 words 27 votes
5.25-inch floppy disks expected to help run San Francisco trains until 2030 ~transport Article 627 words 22 votes
EV bargains to be found as Hertz sells off some of its US electric cars ~transport Article 452 words, published Mar 29 2024 31 votes
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy ~tech facebook Article 506 words 37 votes
Jails banned visits in “quid pro quo” with prison phone companies, lawsuits say ~tech Article 509 words 32 votes
Playtron’s wildly ambitious gaming OS aims to unite stores, lure “core casuals” ~games Article 556 words, published Mar 18 2024 14 votes
Sam Bankman-Fried repeatedly lied to get out of “supervillain” US prison term, FTX CEO alleges ~finance business cryptocurrency Article 787 words 32 votes