Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules
Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid
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The missing 500 million: Cosmic bombardment melted Earth’s first crust
Earth is the only planet we know of with buoyant, silica-rich continents. But, despite decades of research, geologists still don’t agree on how they formed.
How Meta’s Threads Became as Popular as X
The social platform that Meta once positioned as a rival to Elon Musk’s X now has 500 million users. It increasingly resembles Reddit.
Google loses long-running appeal of record EU fine, will have to cough up $4.7 billion
Back in 2018, Google was handed a record-setting 4.34 billion-euro ($4.9 billion) fine in Europe for abusing its monopoly on Android. The company has spent
Trump gets OpenAI to offer US 5% stake, far lower than Sanders’ target
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly in active talks with the Trump administration about the US potentially acquiring a 5 percent stake in the leading
Germany’s most conservative banks are about to let millions of customers buy Bitcoin
Germany’s cooperative banks and savings banks, the local institutions that handle mortgages, current accounts, and small business loans for tens of millions of customers, are rolling
Macron and Modi are winning the AI infrastructure race with text messages and personal meetings
The global race for AI infrastructure has become a contest of personal relationships. French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have emerged
US government body paid $1M to hackers who never locked a single file
A US government entity paid around $1m to stop stolen files from being published, according to a case study by researcher Rakesh Krishnan for Ransom-ISAC. The analysis
India’s CG Semi starts commercial chip production at $870M Gujarat plant
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s chip assembly and testing plant in Sanand, Gujarat. The facility will initially turn out
Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks
Brave has rolled out Containers with the Brave Browser 1.92 release, giving its Chromium-based browser something Firefox users have had for years now. And no
Australia’s child social media ban is failing, and the Senate just delayed the fix
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Friday condemned senators who blocked amendments to the country’s world-first social media ban for children, warning that the delay would give
China wants cinemas to sell you karaoke and coffee, not just tickets
China’s cinemas are being told to stop relying on tickets alone. New guidelines from the National Film Administration and the State Administration for Market Regulation
Review: Supergirl is not the disaster its low box office suggests
Pour one out for Supergirl , the latest installment in the DCU’s Gods and Monsters chapter, which has been beset by online troll attacks, mixed
Artificial cell manages a few rounds of cell division
Understanding the origin of life requires addressing a collection of overlapping scientific questions. We’ve made a lot of progress toward explaining how simple chemicals present