Starship came home in one piece, and SpaceX finally got to look at an undamaged heatshield

The headline number from Starship’s 13th flight is not 20 satellites. It is one word in SpaceX’s own flight report: intact. Starship lifted off from Starbase in Texas at 5:51pm on Friday, after de [...]

Meta wins dismissal of WhatsApp privacy suit as judge questions whistleblower detail

A federal judge has dismissed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that Meta can read WhatsApp messages despite its end-to-end encryption promises, ruling that the complaint lacked sufficient deta [...]

OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind

Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor is suing OpenAI in San Francisco. He alleges the chatbot gave him dangerously wro [...]

Nvidia’s open-source simulator trains surgical robots in under two minutes

The hard part of medical robotics is not the robot. It is the practice. A surgical system needs thousands of attempts to learn a delicate task, and you cannot run those on real patients. Nvidia thinks [...]

SAP averts an EU antitrust fine by opening up its support market

SAP has talked its way out of an EU antitrust fine. The European Commission said it would accept a set of commitments from the German software group, closing an investigation into how SAP handles main [...]

India summons Meta over Instagram ads promoting child sexual abuse material

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology will summon Meta executives after a BBC investigation found that Instagram had been running paid advertisements promoting child sexual abu [...]

Microsoft pursues Supreme Court appeal in £270 million software resale case

Microsoft is seeking permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court after losing twice in the ValueLicensing case over whether businesses can legally resell surplus on-premise software licences. The Com [...]

Google is cutting 52 jobs in Washington the same week it lost four star researchers

Google is laying off around 52 employees in Washington state, according to a WARN notice it filed on Wednesday and first reported by GeekWire. The letter gives no reason for the cuts. It says only tha [...]

Speed is no longer a selling point for AI agents, caution is

AI agents have spent two years competing on the same thing: independence. Less oversight, fewer clicks, more autonomy, that was the pitch. It didn’t matter if the agent lived in a browser extension, [...]