AI just helped researchers read a 2,000-year-old Mount Vesuvius scroll that’s too charred to ever be opened — as X-ray images reveal ancient stoic philosophy

Researchers are getting new insights into life and literature from the first century, via previously inaccessible text. [...]

Spain will require carriers to keep mobile networks live during power outages

Spain's mobile networks will need to stay live for at least four hours during power outages, per new rules. [...]

The most popular Grok feature is, apparently, exactly what you think

NSFW uses account for "well over half" of traffic, a new report says. [...]

Today's NYT Mini Crossword Answers for Friday, June 26

Here are the answers for The New York Times Mini Crossword for June 26. [...]

OpenAI's GPT 5.6 rollout now requires US government approval on a "customer by customer basis"

At the request of the U.S. government, OpenAI will initially make its new GPT-5.6 model available only to select partners, with access approved on a "customer by customer" basis. CEO Sam Alt [...]

TikTok and YouTube cut 4.7 million under-16 accounts in Indonesia

The number arrives with the bluntness of a government tally. TikTok and YouTube have deactivated roughly 4.7 million accounts belonging to children under 16 in Indonesia, the country’s communication [...]

One small step for headphones, one giant leap for audiophiles: why this super-small invention could make your next headphones sound a lot better

Audio component company Knowles has unveiled a brand-new piece of kit, which could change how future headphones sound. [...]

Cargo drone startup Elroy Air nears an $800m SPAC deal

The maker of the autonomous Chaparral is in advanced talks to go public through a blank-cheque merger valuing the combined company at about $1bn. The SPAC, declared dead more than once over the past f [...]

Most companies think they're building a software factory. They're actually just shipping bugs faster.

Industrialized factories changed how the world produced physical goods: more output, lower costs, faster than anything that came before. Now a similar shift is happening with software. LLMs have lowe [...]