October 2026

Scraping copyrighted material from internet could ‘potentially’ amount to acquisition of property by government, Anne Twomey says Get our daily political email, free app or daily news podcast Altering copyright law to allow AI companies to scrape music, books and journalism could trigger a constitutional breach, Coalition senators and the recording industry have warned, as […]

Welcome to Edition 9.17 of the Rocket Report! It’s been a while since an American company announced plans for a medium-lift new launch vehicle, but that’s what happened this week when a startup named Cowboy Space revealed specs for its Big Iron rocket, named for the classic country-western song by Marty Robbins. I’m a huge

In 2015, biomedical entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes was Silicon Valley’s golden girl, lauded as the youngest and richest self-made female billionaire thanks to the company she founded, Theranos, which was valued at $9 billion at the height of its success. Then it all came crashing down when accusations of fraud surfaced about the company’s signature blood-testing

Nissan provided flights from Washington, DC, to Santa Barbara, California, and accommodation so Ars could drive the Rogue Hybrid. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. Nissan has a new version of its best-selling Rogue SUV, and it’s launching the model here with the latest version of its e-Power hybrid system, which Ars tested back

Not everyone trusts their own personality. Nicoleta Ionescu/Shutterstock You finally started an online conversation with a stranger you find attractive, yet you don’t really know what to say. They seem happy to talk, but you struggle to find the correct responses. You worry that their patience is growing thin. You pray for some guidance. Luckily,

My ears perked up when I heard Apple’s new foldable phones were cracking. I licked my lips when the company announced it’s releasing a touch-screen laptop. This was a company that once charged $19 for a polishing cloth, asked $200 for a VESA mount, and sold $700 wheels for the Mac Pro. Now it’s borrowing

Building an AI agent that works in a demo takes an afternoon. Proving it works on the 10,000th run, with messy inputs, flaky APIs, and a user who types “do the thing from yesterday,” takes a real evaluation strategy. That gap is where most agent projects stall. AI agent evaluation is fast becoming the discipline

Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon brings advanced cybersecurity capabilities to selected defenders first. Here’s who’s eligible and what comes next. The post Google Unveils Gemini 4 Carbon With Advanced Cybersecurity Skills — Who Gets Access First? appeared first on TechRepublic.

A surprising discovery at UC San Diego suggests that chronic lower back pain may become deeply embedded in the brain’s sense of personal identity. Researchers found that movement-triggered pain activates a brain network associated with self-awareness and memories, even though ordinary acute pain typically shuts this network down. This unexpected difference could explain why conventional

Scientists have discovered that three bizarre deep-sea fish that look exactly like seahorses actually belong to a separate evolutionary group, proving that nature created the same unusual body shape more than once. Nicknamed “sea muppets,” these elusive creatures are known from just seven specimens, and no one has ever seen one alive.