What It’s Like to Get Dragged Through a Florida Swamp by a 200-Pound Python

With some help from his family, python contractor Carl Jackson caught the second-heaviest Burmese python ever captured in the ...
eWeek

Meta AI Wants to Be Your Personal Shopper

Meta is rolling out a dedicated shopping research mode inside its Meta AI web chatbot for a slice of US desktop users. Search ...
PC Magazine

Stop Using Face ID Right Now. Here's Why

Biometric locks like face recognition are convenient to set up—but because of a legal loophole, law enforcement can bypass them more easily than a traditional passcode. I review privacy tools like ...
The New York Times

Iran Turns to Digital Surveillance Tools to Track Down Protesters

As Iranian authorities restore some online services after crushing antigovernment demonstrations, they are using a technological dragnet to target attendees of the protests. By Adam Satariano Paul ...
The New York Times

ICE’s New Surveillance State Isn’t Tracking Only Immigrants

Last April the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement pledged to run the agency with the ruthless efficiency of Amazon. Mass deportations, he said, should be “like Prime but with human ...
Digi Times

D-Wave pursues dual-track quantum strategy to face challenges from IBM, Google

D-Wave has begun 2026 with a series of strategic initiatives to further solidify its position in the race to commercialize quantum computing. The company, which has long focused on quantum annealing ...
Kim Komando

The grocery store is watching you: How ‘smart shelves’ track your face and every move

The Current unmasks the surveillance pricing and hidden cameras taking over Kroger and Walmart aisles. Discover the smart shelf tech that uses facial recognition to detect your age and gender while ...
The Verge

Insta360’s face-tracking webcams get bigger sensors and more expensive

The new Link 2 Pro and Link 2C Pro feature larger 1/1.3-inch sensors and improved AI-powered noise canceling. The new Link 2 Pro and Link 2C Pro feature larger 1/1.3-inch sensors and improved ...
USA Today

'Mar-a-Lago face' is getting attention. Will it dissolve in 2026?

Think MAGA is just a political movement? Think again.Lately, the buzz online has been about the MAGA aesthetic, particularly when it comes to cosmetic enhancements, with the rise of viral terms like ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Chinese Biotech, Investments Are on Track to Face New US Curbs

The US Congress is poised to enact bipartisan legislation that would block some Chinese biotechnology companies from government-funded contracts and authorize the Trump administration to bar US ...
The Hacker News

Legacy Python Bootstrap Scripts Create Domain-Takeover Risk in Multiple PyPI Packages

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered vulnerable code in legacy Python packages that could potentially pave the way for a supply chain compromise on the Python Package Index (PyPI) via a domain ...