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DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders

DELL CAMERON

Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

AI-powered apps can make money, but struggle with long-term retention, new data shows

SARAH PEREZ

AI can drive stronger early monetization for apps, but sustaining value remains the challenge, RevenueCat's latest report finds.

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol

JORGE GARAY

Analysis of the tail of 3I/Atlas reveals that it contains an anomalous proportion of methanol, a class of alcohol used in fuels.

Anker’s Discounted Power Station Can Power Your Next Camping Trip

SIMON HILL

Go off-grid camping for a long weekend with my favorite portable power station from Anker. It's on sale.

YouTube surpasses Disney, Paramount, WBD in 2025 ad revenue

LAUREN FORRISTAL

YouTube pulled in $40.4 billion in ad revenue last year, which is more than Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery combined.

Meta acquires Moltbook, the AI agent social network

SAMUEL AXON

The viral social network project was created with OpenClaw.

Trump's divisive FDA vaccine regulator self-destructs, will exit agency (again)

BETH MOLE

It's unclear what Prasad's FDA exit means, but some drug makers are happy to see him go.

Anthropic sues US over blacklisting; White House calls firm "radical left, woke"

JON BRODKIN

Anthropic says it was blacklisted for opposing autonomous weapons, mass surveillance.

After complaints, Google will make it easier to disable gen AI search in Photos

RYAN WHITWAM

One toggle for "fast classic search."

NASA and SpaceX disagree about manual controls for lunar lander

ERIC BERGER

"NASA’s tracking of SpaceX’s manual control risk indicates a worsening trend."

Pete Hegseth Is Pushing Defense Employees to Volunteer With DHS

VITTORIA ELLIOTT

The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown.

DOGE employee stole Social Security data and put it on a thumb drive, report says

LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

A whistleblower is accusing a former DOGE member of stealing a large number of Americans’ personal data while he was working at the Social Security Administration, with the plan of using it at his new job.

Amazon launches its healthcare AI assistant on its website and app

AISHA MALIK

Health AI can answer questions, explain health records, manage prescription renewals, book appointments, and more.

Google and Tesla think we’re managing the electrical grid all wrong

TIM DE CHANT

The duo have teamed up with other companies to launch Utilize, which seeks to change how the grid is used and regulated.

AI can rewrite open source code—but can it rewrite the license, too?

KYLE ORLAND

Is it clean "reverse engineering" or just an LLM-filtered "derivative work"?