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President Trump has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on heavier and “sensitive” drones, including models over 55 pounds or equipped with docking stations or thermal imaging. “Those include commercial models from DJI and others used for operations like pow… Continue reading Trump Slaps a 100% Tariff On Heavy and ‘Sensitive’ Drones
Apple is proposing to charge U.S. developers up to 15% when users leave an app through an external purchase link, with lower rates of 10% or 5% for certain programs and smaller developers. The proposal follows years of litigation with Epic Games and a … Continue reading Apple Wants to Charge Developers Up to 15 Percent for Linking Outside the App Store
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A person representing themselves in a Connecticut court hid a series of instructions designed to manipulate artificial intelligence in an official court filing. These “prompt injections” told the hypo… Continue reading Person Hides Prompt Injection In Legal Filing Telling AI To Side With Them
Astronomers using JWST have found three actively feeding supermassive black holes in the distant galaxy J0148-4214, seen as it existed about 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Two sit just 620 light-years apart near the galaxy’s center and are expec… Continue reading Three Supermassive Black Holes Discovered In a Single Galaxy For the First Time
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceDaily: Researchers have found a clever new way to map a part of Earth’s upper atmosphere that is notoriously difficult to observe. Using orbital data from roughly 1,200 Starlink satellites, they reconstruct… Continue reading Scientists Turn Starlink Into a Giant Scanner For Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Miniature human organs and other tissues are to be grown from NHS patients’ cells in a drive to improve medicine testing and reduce the number of animals used in drug development. Scientists will u… Continue reading UK Scientists To Grow Miniature Human Organs For Drug Testing
Microsoft has been steadily scaling back its China presence, closing at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures over the past five years as Beijing favors domestic software. U.S. export controls also make it harder to grow its cloud and AI businesse… Continue reading Microsoft Retreats In China
Google has released Gemini 3.7 Flash just three weeks after 3.6 Flash, focusing on better coding, agentic workflows, and enterprise automation while temporarily cutting API prices in half through the end of 2026. VentureBeat reports: For enterprise dev… Continue reading Google’s Gemini 3.7 Flash Targets Coding and Agents With a 50% Price Cut
Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot apps ahead of a broader “super app” launch later this year. “Both personal and work accounts will be moved to the new unified app, which recycles the ‘Microsoft Copilot’ name but featu… Continue reading Microsoft Is Combining Its Copilot Apps Ahead of a ‘Super App’
Twitch will begin allowing Amazon to use streamers’ content to train generative AI models by default, requiring creators to manually opt out if they don’t want their videos and audio included. The decision has drawn backlash from creators, with Twitch’… Continue reading Amazon Will Train On Twitch Streamers’ Content By Default, Unless They Opt Out