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Tracking Disinformation Networks: New Guide Maps Four-Step Method as Riot Cases Pile Up

A new practitioner guide sets out a four-step method for mapping coordinated disinformation networks. Investigators, it argues, should stop chasing individual false posts and start looking at the infrastructure behind them.

NASA's Swift telescope dies as a rescue fails and a Goddard exodus bites

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies have abandoned the robotic rescue of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, leaving the $500 million gamma-ray telescope to burn up in Earth's atmosphere later this year while scientists warn that the same institutional erosion threatens missions still on the ground.

Waymo's Flood Pauses, Recalls and Investigations Show Robotaxi Edge Cases Piling Up

Waymo paused service in four cities after robotaxis drove into flooded roads. It is the latest in a run of recalls and investigations that show how far the industry still is from solving rare edge cases.

Google's 49-Qubit Quantum Supremacy Deadline: What the Record Shows

Copyright disputes in 2026: five cases that explain who owns music, design and data

Sports tech's data pitch meets a harder question: who holds the keys

Search traffic to publishers is falling, and some are weighing a break with Google

Medical AI privacy audits miss patient-level leaks, Nature paper finds

Hyundai's Ulsan plant becomes the first car factory to strike over humanoid robots

TSMC Sees 'Endless' AI Demand as Micron Warns DRAM Supply Falls Short

The memory wall in AI accelerators: d-Matrix, Microsoft and the 3D DRAM push

US chip export controls: Nvidia's $4.5bn charge and the fight over what happens next

Medical AI has two problems at once: it guesses wrong early and leaks who trained it

NASA Killed Its Swift Rescue Mission. Here Is What Went Wrong

NASA Opened Its Labs to Private Rescue Missions. Then It Emptied the Labs

AI Safety Evaluation Under Strain as Researchers Quit, Models Cheat Tests

Open source vulnerability advisories tripled in a year, and a tenth carry no CVE at all

Medical AI regulation: what the research actually shows about diagnosis tools

Wearables Move Sleep Research Out of the Lab, but the Evidence Is Still Young

Europe's Night Trains: New Routes, Old Tunnels, Real Numbers