How the original Roomba’s behavior-based simplicity reshaped consumer robots
TL;DR iRobot recently filed for bankruptcy and is set to be acquired by a Chinese consumer-goods firm. The first Roomba,…
Anna’s Archive Loses .org Domain in Unexpected Registry Suspension
TL;DR The popular shadow-library meta-search Anna’s Archive had its annas-archive.org domain placed on serverHold, rendering it unreachable. The site’s operators…
I Switched to eSIM and Regret It About the Loss of Physical SIMs
TL;DR A Wired feature by Ryan Whitwam argues that the move to embedded SIMs has made switching phones less straightforward.…
Kodiak teams with Bosch to scale modular autonomous systems for semis
TL;DR Kodiak AI announced a partnership with Bosch at CES 2026 to jointly develop hardware and software that can convert…
Flu Is Relentless. Crispr Might Be Able to Shut It Down Using Cas13
TL;DR Researchers are developing CRISPR-Cas13 systems delivered by lipid nanoparticles as a potential flu antiviral, aiming to cut viral RNA…
ICE Uses Facial-Recognition Technology via Mobile App to Rapidly Make Arrests
TL;DR A Wall Street Journal headline reports that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is employing facial-recognition technology to speed up…
Your smart TV is watching you — and no one seems to be stopping it
TL;DR Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has sued five major TV makers, accusing them of intensive and deceptive user surveillance…
Flutterwave acquires Nigerian open-banking startup Mono in rare exit
TL;DR Flutterwave has bought Mono in an all-stock deal valued between $25 million and $40 million, bringing an open-banking provider…
Scientists Report a Spider Web Structure Unlike Any Seen Before
TL;DR The New York Times published an item titled "A spider web unlike any seen before," but the full text…
Researchers explore triggering self-NSFW filters in image models to deter edits
TL;DR A commenter reports experiments that nudge image-generation systems to mark uploaded images as NSFW, activating their own safety filters.…