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Two AI agents playing each other cracked the rules of a Roman game older than chess, hidden on a stone slab at Coriovallum

Researchers at Leiden University used two AI agents playing thousands of matches against each other to reconstruct the rules of a lost Roman-era board game carved into a limestone slab found at Coriovallum, the ancient settlement beneath modern Heerlen in the Netherlands. The artifact, a small stone tablet made from white Jurassic limestone quarried in […]

By Dorian Maddox

Space Systems

NASA set the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch for August 30, pulling the date forward from early September

By Cassian Holt

Health

Gladstone and UCSF scientists screened pre-existing drug databases to find Alzheimer’s reversers, skipping the years it takes to invent new ones

By BeckhamLangford
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Rivian opens R2 SUV deliveries this quarter at roughly $45,000, putting it head-to-head with the Tesla Model Y

By Rowan Calder

Russia fired 73 missiles and 656 drones at Ukraine in one overnight barrage, including 8 Zircon hypersonics — the largest such salvo of the war

By Kade Winslow

Anthropic’s Mythos cyber model is now defending power, water, healthcare, and communications networks across more than 15 countries

By Cassian Holt

Five organizations were posted on leak sites on June 2 alone, hitting public health, healthcare, logistics, communications, and graphics shops

By Cassian Holt

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  • Science
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Health

Gladstone and UCSF scientists screened pre-existing drug databases to find Alzheimer’s reversers, skipping the years it takes to invent new ones

By BeckhamLangford
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Archeology

Liverpool researchers detected original collagen still locked inside fossilized dinosaur bones, rewriting what we thought about preservation

By BeckhamLangford
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Neuroscience

Baylor researchers caught the brain processing complex language while patients were fully under general anesthesia

By BeckhamLangford
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Neuroscience

Columbia found that up to a quarter of unresponsive brain-injury patients show sleep brain waves that signal hidden consciousness

By BeckhamLangford
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  • Technology
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Space Systems

NASA set the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope launch for August 30, pulling the date forward from early September

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Anthropic’s Mythos cyber model is now defending power, water, healthcare, and communications networks across more than 15 countries

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Five organizations were posted on leak sites on June 2 alone, hitting public health, healthcare, logistics, communications, and graphics shops

By Cassian Holt
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Military

Russia fired 73 missiles and 656 drones at Ukraine in one overnight barrage, including 8 Zircon hypersonics — the largest such salvo of the war

By Kade Winslow

Military

Northrop Grumman is expanding B-21 production capacity by 25% as StratCom Commander Adm. Correll floats a 145-bomber fleet

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

A KC-135 Stratotanker completed the first aerial refueling of a B-21 Raider over Edwards Air Force Base on April 14

By Kade Winslow
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AI

Two AI agents playing each other cracked the rules of a Roman game older than chess, hidden on a stone slab at Coriovallum

By Dorian Maddox
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AI

Microsoft unveiled MAI-Code-1-Flash, its first in-house model for turning written descriptions into working source code

By Dorian Maddox
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Anthropic just filed for IPO at a $965 billion valuation on a $47 billion revenue run-rate, overtaking OpenAI

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AI

The Navy just deployed an AI system called ShipOS to speed Columbia and Virginia submarine production — algorithms flagging supply-chain risk weeks before yard managers see it

By Dorian Maddox
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Electric Vehicles

Rivian opens R2 SUV deliveries this quarter at roughly $45,000, putting it head-to-head with the Tesla Model Y

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

The IIHS named the Rivian R1S a 2026 TOP SAFETY PICK+ award winner, the institute’s highest crashworthiness rating

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Ford’s EV sales collapsed 70% in Q1 to just 6,860 units as the F-150 Lightning sat out and Mustang Mach-E faded

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Ford F-Series moved 159,901 units in Q1 to stay America’s top truck despite a 16% year-over-year drop

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Next-generation Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 enter production in October with new exteriors and reworked powertrains

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Bot Auto says its driverless freight rigs already beat human drivers on cost across the 230-mile Houston-Dallas corridor — robot trucks cheaper per mile than a paid driver

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Aurora’s driverless trucks just logged 280,000 autonomous miles on the Dallas-to-Houston run — 1,400 loads, 100% on time, no human in the cab

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla just shrank its unsupervised robotaxi fleet to 20 cars across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what is holding back the rollout

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

China’s first national solid-state EV battery standard takes effect July 2026 — locking in safety and performance rules just as carmakers across Asia race their first cells off the line

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

The Neoliner Origin — the world’s largest cargo ship to use wind as its primary propulsion — just launched in Turkey, built to cross oceans on sails alone

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

The Air Force just reversed course on the E-7A Wedgetail — telling Congress it will now buy at least seven of the radar aircraft it tried to cancel last year

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Greater Bay’s debut solid-state cells are headed straight into GAC’s high-end Hyptec sedans — GWh-scale production targeted for late 2026 in the company’s first commercial launch

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla just shrank its unsupervised robotaxi fleet to 20 cars across Texas — Musk himself telling investors safety validation is what is slowing the rollout

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Aurora’s driverless trucks just logged 280,000 autonomous miles on the Dallas-to-Houston run — 1,400 loads, 100% on time, no human in the cab

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

Boeing’s Q1 deliveries hit 143 jets — beating Airbus’s 114 and handing the planemaker its strongest first quarter since the MAX crisis

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Bot Auto says its driverless freight trucks already beat human drivers on cost across the 230-mile Houston-Dallas corridor — robot rigs cheaper per mile than a paid driver

By Rowan Calder
  • Energy & Climate

Extreme Weather

A severe thunderstorm near Attica, Kansas pushed east at 45 mph on Tuesday, packing 80 mph gusts and mobile-home damage warnings

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Texas alone accounts for 40% of new solar and 53% of new battery storage being built across the country in 2026

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

EF-4 packing 180 mph winds tore through Grove Hill, Alabama as Tuesday’s derecho spawned 67 tornadoes across seven Southern states

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters now give the Pacific a 70% chance of an above-normal hurricane season — unusually warm waters and evolving climate signals lined up against quiet Atlantic odds

By Everett Sloane
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