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A Mystery Disease Has Killed Dozens So Far in Northwestern Congo

Something is killing people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and no one knows what it is. World Health Organization officials have reported two clusters of a mystery illness in the area that has sickened hundreds and killed dozens in the past few weeks alone. WHO officials in the African Region released the latest update …

Amazon Takes on Google Gemini AI With Alexa+

We’ve been waiting long to figure out what Amazon was doing with its digital assistant. Alexa+ got all the fanfare today at an Amazon event. SVP of devices and services Panos Panay, formerly of Microsoft, debuted the next-generation edition of the shopping giant’s AI bot. Amazon hopes you’ll prefer Alexa+ over the other digital assistants …

'Does Our Code Kill Kids?': Microsoft Employees Protest Selling AI to Israel

Microsoft kicked five employees out of a town hall event yesterday because they were protesting the company’s contracts with the Israeli military. Microsoft is providing artificial intelligence models to the Israeli military to help them fight its wars in Gaza and Lebanon, a business move that’s seen as a moral stain on the company by …

Las Vegas Police Receive 10 Tesla Cybertrucks From Mystery Donor

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department will soon be receiving 10 Tesla Cybertrucks, according to a new report from local news outlet KLAS. And while the donor of the Tesla vehicles is anonymous, there’s widespread speculation they could be from Ben Horowitz, a venture capitalist who’s previously given Las Vegas police money to purchase high-tech …

Apple's Dictation App Is Mistaking the Word 'Racist' for 'Trump'

A recently discovered bug in iPhone’s dictation app caused it to swap out the word “Trump” for “racist,” in a development that is sure to have liberals chortling and conservatives fuming. The issue was first noted by users of TikTok and other social media sites, who found that when they said the word “racist,” the …

Thank Goodness, That Free Ad-Supported Version of Microsoft Office Was Just a Test

If you have been looking for a free alternative to Google Docs, Microsoft might have answered your prayers—or so we thought—until you see what it won’t let you do. Beebom first reported that Microsoft had stealthily launched a free, ad-supported version of the Office app earlier this week, offering limited versions of Word, Excel, and …

We Finally Know Who's (Supposedly) Running DOGE

After weeks of the Trump administration giving everyone—the press, the court system, its own staff—the runaround on who is in charge of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, we finally have an answer. According to a report from Semafor (and confirmed by government sources at numerous outlets), Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of DOGE. …

Days After DOGE Lands at the Agency, the FAA Says It's Testing Starlink Equipment in Its Systems

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is working with the Federal Aviation Administration, the very agency his DOGE organization is currently in the process of modernizing. According to multiple outlets, the FAA is currently testing the use of SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network to improve its telecommunications in remote geographical areas. The relationship between Musk’s company and the agency …

The Framework Desktop Is a (Semi) Modular PC With Soldered RAM

Who wants a desktop with a handle? You could turn to the many NUC solutions or Apple with its Mac mini. Or, perhaps you can turn to Framework with its new, small PC tower full of customizable parts. Other than updated renditions of the Framework 13 and Framework 16 ultra-modular mobile devices, the company has two original …

The Logitech Powerplay Can Power Your Gaming Mice Forever

Everybody dreads the moment when the cursor from their wireless gaming mouse disappears without warning. Is there an easy way to wireless charge my mouse in this era of Qi wireless and other wild inductive charging solutions? The Logitech G Powerplay 2 promises to make some gaming mice last for as long as there is power running …

Dems Introduce the ‘BAD DOGE Act’ to Kill Elon Musk's Organization

Last night California Congressman Dave Min introduced a new bill into Congress called Bolstering America’s Democracy and Demanding Oversight and Government Ethics Act or the “BAD DOGE Act” for short. The bill is one of a pair of new pieces of legislation introduced by Congress in the past 24 hours that’s aimed at reigning in …

Chegg Sues Google, Says AI Search Results Are Killing Its Business

Chegg is sort of on its last dying breath at this point, but it will go out fighting. The online education company, which started out renting textbooks and later expanded into online homework help, sued Google on Monday for anticompetitive practices, saying it is unfairly scraping material from Chegg for its AI-powered search results. The …

21 Workers Resign From DOGE as Elon Musk Destroys the U.S. Government

Twenty-one workers at Elon Musk’s DOGE, the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, resigned on Tuesday over the group’s ongoing destruction of the U.S. government. The workers were all originally part of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) until a month ago, when the government agency was hijacked and rebranded as DOGE by President Donald Trump. “We …