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April 2026
The ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Reboot Snags an Exciting Director
Curry Barker, the emerging horror talent behind ‘Obsession,’ will take on Tobe Hooper’s legacy at A24.
Pentagon wants $54B for drones, more than most nations’ military budgets
The US military’s massive $1.5 trillion budget request for the next fiscal year includes what Pentagon officials described as the…
Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 zero-day vulnerabilities in Firefox 150
Earlier this month, Anthropic said its Mythos Preview model was so good at finding cybersecurity vulnerabilities that the company was…
Supreme Court arguments make it clear that FCC fines are “nonbinding”
Supreme Court justices today expressed skepticism of AT&T and Verizon’s claim that the Federal Communications Commission’s procedure for imposing fines…
SpaceX cuts a deal to maybe buy Cursor for $60 billion
With an IPO looming for Elon Musk’s SpaceX / xAI / X combo platter of companies, SpaceX has announced an…
Silo S3 teaser turns back the clock to a greener past
The critically acclaimed second season of Apple TV’s dystopian sci-fi drama Silo ended on one heck of a cliffhanger, with…
Framework’s CEO on the RAM crisis and creating a “MacBook Pro for Linux users”
We’ve seen enough product announcements from Framework at this point that today’s updates feel more or less routine. The biggest…
Meta Plans to Turn Its Employees’ Clicks and Keystrokes into AI Training Data
Surely this will encourage a sense of job security.
Physicists Now Understand Why a Weird Quantum Gas Refuses to Heat Up
It’s weird but true, and physicists now have more questions.