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The US is one of a handful of countries that allow patents on plant varieties.

At 9PM ET on the night of May 28th, a Blue Origin New Glenn rocket sat on the launchpad at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The craft was in the middle of a hot-fire test awaiting the arrival of Amazon Leo satellites, the first of 24 batches to be shuttled into low Earth orbit […]

"Winning" bets were made on cloned website and would have lost money, WSJ finds.

Tesla touts Autopilot as lifesaving a day after grandmother died in crash.

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.

On the new episode of Equity, we discussed what actually prompted the administration's latest moves against Anthropic, and what this might mean for the AI ecosystem.

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started Last year, […]

Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. We don't have the phones we preordered yet, but this week we received unexpected news from Trump Mobile's media relations manager. If you've been following my reporting on the Trump phone, you'll know that Trump Mobile doesn't exactly keep open lines of […]

A new report shows that government agencies failed to communicate and includes recommendations for stronger oversight in a bid to avert future disasters.

Telegram argues India should block specific content, not an entire platform used by millions.

OpenAI is bulking up before its IPO, landing Transformer co-inventor Noam Shazeer from Google DeepMind and former Trump AI policy official Dean Ball in the same week.

It's unclear whether the system is currently intact.

Biggest AI firms will likely recoil at Bernie Sanders' AI wealth fund.

The Onion's InfoWars officially has a launch date: On July 2nd, the conspiracy network previously run by Alex Jones will return as a comedy and media platform. The reboot comes more than a year and a half after news broke that the satirical news site was working to acquire the property owned by Jones, a […]

Apple’s grip on iPhone app distribution is loosening in another major market: Brazil.

Guardrails positions itself as a populist political movement that runs on small donations from people in the trenches of the AI boom.

One messy database is threatening to disenfranchise thousands or even millions of registered voters, while leaving even more at risk of intimidation or data breaches, in the name of solving a problem that barely exists. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, election and privacy experts are sounding alarms about the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic […]

On today’s episode of Decoder, my guest is Hayden Field, senior AI reporter for The Verge. Often when Hayden comes on the show, it’s because something has gone wrong in the world of AI. Last weekend, that something was a pretty intense mix of Anthropic, the Trump administration, and Anthropic’s new AI model, Fable 5. […]

FCC considers AT&T petitions to preempt state rules and discontinue phone service.