Research roundup: 7 cool science stories we almost missed
Other July stories: Solving a 150-year-old fossil mystery and the physics of tacking a sailboat.
August 2025
Citing “market conditions,” Nintendo hikes prices of original Switch consoles
Switch 2 and online membership pricing "will remain unchanged at this time."
Google releases Gemini 2.5 Deep Think for AI Ultra subscribers
This ultra-powerful AI is ultra-expensive.
Anthropic studied what gives an AI system its ‘personality’ — and what makes it ‘evil’
On Friday, Anthropic debuted research unpacking how an AI system's "personality" - as in, tone, responses, and overarching motivation -…
Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing
Yesterday, when Epic won its Google antitrust lawsuit for a second time, it wasn’t quite clear how soon Google would…
Verizon is upping its fees again
Verizon just announced a three-year price lock in April, but now the company has confirmed that it’s “making some adjustments”…
80 New Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror Books Arriving in August
io9 co-founders Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders both have new releases coming this month.
Dark Reading News Desk Turns 10, Back at Black Hat USA for 2025
Dark Reading’s 2025 News Desk marks a decade of Black Hat USA memories. We’re making our return with a slate…
Twist on Famous Double-Slit Experiment Deals a Blow to Einstein’s Quantum Doubts
A groundbreaking experiment demonstrates yet again that light exists both as a wave and a particle in the quantum world—but…
ChatGPT users shocked to learn their chats were in Google search results
OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results.