After 8 years, Europe's BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

“Fundamentally, we want to learn about the origins of this planet and how it came to be like it is.”
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Measles killed 6-week-old baby, coroner confirms after RFK Jr. disputed deaths

“It’s long past time for RFK to stop playing games with people’s lives.”
Trump admin fights ABC lawsuit as watchdogs worry Disney will settle with FCC

FCC tells court it is “open-minded” about whether ABC should lose licenses.
Medieval manuscripts are "biological time capsules" for deadly sheeppox virus

Other archives and libraries around the world may also contain genetic traces of past disease outbreaks.
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs

Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

A once-overlooked block of unicode that’s invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Pentagon rescinds new testosterone screening policy without explanation

The Pentagon says the guidance is being updated after being online for one day.
A ratings board wouldn't let Valve release a trailer. It "leaked" it instead.

“I think we can’t get in trouble for that now. It’s like 20 years ago.”
Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.