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Elon Musk Had ‘Hair-Raising’ Idea of Passing OpenAI On to His Kids, Sam Altman Says

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  • May 13, 2026
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Musk’s lawyers questioned Altman over allegations of deception and his network of financial investments, but the OpenAI CEO painted a picture of Musk as obsessed with controlling the company.
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xAI Adds 19 New Gas Turbines Despite Ongoing Lawsuit

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  • May 13, 2026
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Emails show that Elon Musk’s company is expanding its use of portable gas-fired power at its Colossus 2 site as a fight over air quality continues.
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The Unitree GD01 Is a Giant Mecha Robot You Can Actually Buy

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  • May 12, 2026
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China’s Unitree, famous for making low-cost dancing robots, will now sell you a giant, wall-smashing mecha.
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Foxconn Ransomware Attack Shows Nothing Is Safe Forever

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  • May 12, 2026
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Famous for helping build Apple’s iPhones, Foxconn just suffered another cyberattack, highlighting the perils of warehousing some of the world’s most valuable data.
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MAHA Keeps Being Weird as Hell About Fertility

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  • May 12, 2026
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RFK Jr. and Mehmet Oz’s comments about teen sperm count and “underbabied” Americans at a recent women’s health event underscore the White House’s pronatalist agenda.
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The Audemars Piguet x Swatch Collaboration Is Here for Real

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  • May 12, 2026
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With Instagram awash with inaccurate AI-generated concepts for its Royal Pop collab, Swatch was forced to reveal the genuine article.
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Iran Is Using Tiny ‘Mosquito’ Boats to Shut Down the Strait of Hormuz

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  • May 12, 2026
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Iran’s traditional naval fleet has been almost completely destroyed by US-Israeli raids. But Iran’s military has put a fleet of small vessels on the water that is crippling every passageway.
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The Top New Features in Google’s Android 17—and Gemini Intelligence—Coming This Summer

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  • May 12, 2026
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You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.
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Googlebook Is Google’s New AI-Powered Laptop Platform Built on Android

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  • May 12, 2026
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They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise of desktop-grade apps.
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Trump Media Scales Back Plans for Its Own Prediction Market

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  • May 12, 2026
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Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.
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All Your Hantavirus Questions, Answered by an Infectious Disease Expert

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  • May 12, 2026
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Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.
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Hantavirus Conspiracy Theories Are Already Spreading Online

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  • May 12, 2026
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From claims of an Israeli false flag to efforts to sell ivermectin, influencers and grifters are using lessons learned from Covid-19 to push their baseless conspiracy theories.
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Some Women Are Obsessively Testing Their Vaginas to Optimize Them

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  • May 12, 2026
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Biohacker Bryan Johnson recently bragged about his girlfriend’s “top 1%” vagina as the at-home vaginal microbiome test industry is thriving. But experts are skeptical.
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Why Soccer Still Defies Statistical Analysis

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  • May 12, 2026
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Sarah Rudd, who once ran analytics for Arsenal, made her name applying the tenets of probability theory to movements on the pitch. Even she admits not everything can be solved with data.
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Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’

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  • May 11, 2026
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The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
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Testing for ‘Bad Cholesterol’ Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

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  • May 11, 2026
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There’s a more accurate way of measuring who’s at risk for cholesterol-related health issues. So why don’t more doctors use it?
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The FCC Received Hundreds of Complaints About Bad Bunny’s ‘Vulgar’ Super Bowl Performance

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  • May 11, 2026
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The complaints, obtained by WIRED, described Bad Bunny’s performance as being overly sexual and protested that the show was in Spanish.
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There’s an Unhinged New Video Game About Trump and the Iran War

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  • May 11, 2026
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The game, developed by the group of anonymous artists known as Secret Handshake, is available online and in person in Washington, DC.
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A New Hantavirus Vaccine Is in the Works

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  • May 11, 2026
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Since 2023, Moderna and Korea University have been developing a new mRNA vaccine for hantavirus. The work has been promising so far, but a finished product isn’t likely coming any time soon.
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Update Your iPhone Now for Better Encrypted Messaging With Android

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  • May 11, 2026
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As part of the iOS 26.5 update, Apple’s Messages app can now encrypt texts between some iPhone and Android smartphones.

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