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The social platform wants its crowd-sourced corrections to be harder to ignore. Thrive Studios ID/Shutterstock X will update Community Notes so that anyone who interacts with a post that's corrected by a note will receive a direct message notifying them of the change, according to Elon Musk.
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Administrator Jonathan Morrison issued a directive Wednesday to autonomous vehicle (AV) developers, stating that it is unacceptable for their vehicles to interfere with first responders or law enforcement. Morrison noted in the letter that the agency has “identified a clear pattern of driverless AVs
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National Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico. Joe Sohm/Visions of America / Contributor / Getty Images ByCamille Tuutti, Freelance Tech Writer July 8, 2026 05:30 PM ET I wanted to know how astronomers actually go looking for life in space. * TechnoFiles You might think this column is about UFOs and the
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Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 8, 2026 05:36 PM ET DOD Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said last month that the apprenticeship had “already generated more than 70,000 inquiries” since it was first announced in late April. * Defense
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Your smart TV is watching you. Well, not "watching" exactly, but it is keeping track of what you watch and selling that data to other companies. They also do that in reverse, showing you ads based on what you've viewed elsewhere. This is partly why you
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The opinion says whether it's fair is ‘for our citizenry to decide at the ballot box.’ In 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission under former chair Gary Gensler brought a case against Elon Musk regarding his acquisition of Twitter. The regulator questioned Musk's 11-day delay
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The smart-glasses backlash has reached the courtroom. From 20 July, New York will ban recording eyewear from every one of its 1,240 courts. It is the first US state to go that far. An internal memo from the New York State Unified Court System sets out the rule, first
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The nuclear age has quietly reached commercial spaceflight. City Labs, a Miami firm, has launched BOHR, which it calls the world’s first commercial nuclear-powered satellite and the first nuclear CubeSat. The craft is about the size of a softball. It flew on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rideshare on 7
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A Texas startup has raised $91m to build a rocket engine most of the industry once wrote off as too hard. Venus Aerospace announced a $91m Series B to develop its Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine, or RDRE. Mercury Fund led the round. The backers read like a defence roll-call. Lockheed
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A Polish billionaire has laid out plans to build a fleet of small nuclear reactors across Britain, at an estimated £35bn, TechRadar reported. Michał Sołowow’s firm, SGE, says it wants to install 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 reactors on three UK sites. It is targeting first power in 2034.
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Nvidia has found a new way to handle its chip rivals: work with them. The GPU giant is combining its hardware with inference chips from the startup d-Matrix, The Information reported. The two will ship a joint system to run AI models. The AI-cloud firm Parasail will be its first
