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Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers' AUX input
Amazon hasn’t made an Echo with a 3.5mm port in six years.
Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize
Francis Halzen of University of Wisconsin-Madison led development of IceCube Neutrino Observatory.
Googlebook "Better Together" phone features don't work with Samsung at launch
Googlebooks require Android 17, but Samsung’s Android 17 phones won’t work yet.
Big Oil asks Supreme Court to kill climate lawsuits before trial
Oil companies say federal law should block state climate deception claims.
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
Licensing costs driving 90 percent of VMware users to explore options: Survey
Users want to “reduce risk and avoid unnecessary disruption” while making changes.
MCP for agent-to-agent comms may be the riskiest protocol you've never heard of
Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
Cable lobby to sue Trump FCC over repeal of national TV ownership cap
Cable industry to sue, says FCC can’t repeal TV ownership limit set by Congress.
Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage
Prices of public records tracking cops’ use of Flock go up as backlash swells.