Facebook scammers want you to think Elon Musk can cure diabetes

Elon Musk discovered a simple 30-second “fridge trick” that can reverse diabetes, but the discovery has spooked pharmaceutical companies so much they put a $78 million bounty on his head, forcing [...]

Big Tech bent the knee for Trump in 2025

Sure, we've seen millions poured into lobbying and other means of influence during every presidency, but the last two years set a whole new bar. Business leaders, including those from almost ever [...]

Nintendo's digital Switch game sharing plan could be so much simpler

In the final days of our pre-Switch 2 world, Nintendo is trying to rethink how sharing games works. The biggest announcement from the company's latest Direct was its upcoming Virtual Game Cards f [...]

Will the UN finally broker a treaty to end plastic pollution?

To tackle what's been called the plastic "epidemic," the UN spun up a committee in 2022 tasked with brokering a legally binding global agreement. This ambitious treaty between UN member [...]

What will happen to TikTok? A look at the potential buyers.

TikTok may be back online, but the app’s future in the United States is still far from certain. President Donald Trump’s executive order delaying enforcement of the ban was only a temporary reprie [...]

In 2025, AI and EVs gave the US an insatiable hunger for power

You may be surprised to learn electricity only accounts for 21 percent of the world’s energy consumption. Fossil fuels and the rest all play their part to make the world go around, but their role is [...]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei backs President Trump on AI policy, pushes back on criticism

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei goes out of his way to assure President Trump that Anthropic is aligned on AI policy, even as the company faces criticism from the Trump camp.<br /> The article Anthro [...]

Bookshop.org is now selling ebooks

Independent book stores can now get a cut of the ebook market. Today, Bookshop.org announced the addition of ebooks to its website. As it does with physical books, the online retailer prompts shoppers [...]

OpenAI's Sam Altman apologizes for not reporting ChatGPT account of Tumbler Ridge suspect to police

Two months following the deadly shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, OpenAI's Sam Altman has formally apologized for not informing police of the alarming ChatGPT conversations seen with t [...]