Volkswagen says it will bring physical controls back for vital car functions
VW’s design chief says the brand will not repeat the mistake of hiding essential controls inside touchscreens.
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EFF warns age-verification laws are expanding into surveillance systems
The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that laws sold as child-protection measures are expanding into broad identity checks that collect personal data and threaten privacy online.
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Mistral launches OCR system for complex documents and multimodal workflows
Mistral says its OCR model can read complex documents, tables, equations and images, and is being positioned as a faster, document-aware tool for AI workflows.
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Ariane 6 begins commercial service with French military satellite mission
The European heavy-lift launcher departed Kourou on March 6, 2025 carrying the CSO-3 observation satellite, marking its first commercial flight after a maiden mission in July 2024.
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Intuitive Machines Spacecraft Lands Near Lunar South Pole
A private spacecraft has reached the Moon's South Pole, though officials report the vessel is not in the expected upright position.
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Apple unveils M3 Ultra chip for new Mac Studio
Apple introduced M3 Ultra, a new high-end chip for Mac Studio that it says offers its most powerful CPU and GPU yet.
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World’s Largest Iceberg Grounds Near South Georgia
A23a became lodged about 80 kilometres from the island, creating risks for seabed life and shipping while potentially releasing nutrients into surrounding waters.
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Gene-Edited ‘Woolly Mice’ Test Traits Linked to Mammoths
Colossal Biosciences produced mice with altered coats, but outside researchers cautioned that the unpublished work did not demonstrate cold tolerance or bring mammoth-like elephants close.
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Apple software quality criticism sharpens as user complaints pile up
A developer blog argues that Apple’s premium hardware increasingly ships alongside software problems that undermine the user experience.
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Firefly lands Blue Ghost on the moon in a rare private-sector milestone
The Texas company says its robotic lander successfully touched down, making it only the second private-sector outfit ever to do so.
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Firefly's Blue Ghost lands on Moon carrying NASA experiments
The commercial lander touched down upright in Mare Crisium and began a planned two-week program for 10 science and technology payloads.
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18F employees defend the agency as it faces its latest political threat
A letter from staff argues that the digital services team still has work to do for the public despite the uncertainty around its future.
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Zelensky leaves White House after public clash with Trump and Vance
The Ukrainian president's Washington visit ended abruptly after an angry Oval Office exchange, deepening uncertainty around Kyiv's relationship with its most important partner.
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Microsoft Announces Retirement of Skype Platform
After two decades of operation, Microsoft confirms the permanent closure of the Skype communication service to consolidate resources toward Teams.
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OpenAI launches GPT-4.5 as a research preview
OpenAI says GPT-4.5 is its newest and largest model, but not a frontier system, and is rolling it out first to ChatGPT Pro users.
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EA open-sources Command and Conquer: Red Alert and other classic games
Electronic Arts published the source code for Command and Conquer: Red Alert on GitHub, alongside other games, giving developers and fans a new look at the series’ internals.
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TypeScript types run DOOM in a stunt that pushes the language to extremes
A video claims the DOOM engine was run purely in TypeScript types, highlighting how far type-level programming can be stretched.
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Illinois FOIA fight over SQL injection logic heads to court
A Chicago-area FOIA dispute became a broader test of whether database schemas can be withheld as a security risk, prompting a court fight and a bill in Illinois.
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NASA rules out significant 2032 Earth risk from asteroid 2024 YR4
Additional telescope observations sharply narrowed the object's predicted orbit, reducing an initially notable impact probability to effectively zero.
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Bert Hubert warns Europe against putting governments in US clouds
A Dutch technologist argues that European governments and societies are taking an unnecessary strategic risk by relying on American cloud infrastructure.
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Apple withdraws strongest iCloud encryption option from UK users
The company stopped new activations of Advanced Data Protection after a government access demand, intensifying debate over privacy, security and law enforcement.
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The Atlantic says DOGE has unprecedented access to federal systems
A reported internal view from USAID and other agencies says Elon Musk’s DOGE now has unusually deep access to government data and systems.
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Apple unveils iPhone 16e and drops the iPhone SE and 14 Plus
Apple has introduced the iPhone 16e while discontinuing the iPhone SE and 14 Plus and removing the iPhone 14 from its website.
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Trump order brings independent US regulators under tighter White House control
The directive requires review of significant rules, sets new budget and management oversight, and makes presidential legal interpretations binding across the executive branch.
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