President Trump left Beijing on a cordial note that papered over deep disagreements on Taiwan and trade, while the Supreme Court preserved nationwide access to mail-order abortion pills and Anthropic staked out a public position on the U.S.-China AI rivalry — a day of diplomatic theater, judicial stability, and intensifying tech competition.
Trump left Beijing claiming warm ties with Xi after two days of talks that produced modest trade pledges but left Taiwan and Iran tensions unresolved.
Minnesota Democrats staged a chamber sit-in after the Republican speaker broke a promise to bring a gun-violence bill to a vote.
The Court blocked a lower-court ruling that would have restricted remote access to mifepristone, preserving the status quo while litigation continues.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called off the planned troop rotation without explanation, deepening questions about U.S. commitment to European allies.
The Trump administration alleged illegal race-conscious admissions at Yale’s medical school, the second elite med school targeted in eight days.
New York state investigators found the Salmon River school district confined young Native children with disabilities in wooden boxes, prompting major reforms.
Xi hosted Trump in Beijing’s Zhongnanhai compound for a second day of talks that Chinese state media hailed as a new era of “strategic stability.”
A Chinese foreign-ministry adviser said Xi delivered a forceful message urging Washington to halt arms sales to Taiwan and oppose the island’s independence.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe became the highest-ranking Trump administration official to visit Havana as the island grapples with severe fuel shortages.
The first day of U.S.-mediated Israel-Lebanon negotiations concluded in Washington with the temporary ceasefire set to expire soon.
A top Russian engineering university is offering students more than $68,000 and free tuition to suspend their studies and fly military drones.
Trump adopted conciliatory language with Xi in Beijing, a striking contrast to his harsh anti-China rhetoric at home that left analysts parsing the gap.
A developer details how to physically excise the cellular modem and GPS tracker from a modern Toyota RAV4, complete with teardown photos and wiring diagrams.
The controversial pull request to rewrite the JavaScript runtime Bun in Rust has landed in the main branch, ending months of debate but starting new ones.
A developer rigged an RTX 5090 eGPU to an M4 MacBook Air and found surprisingly viable gaming performance despite Apple's limited Thunderbolt bandwidth.
arXiv will now impose a one-year submission ban on authors caught fabricating citations, a direct response to AI-generated paper slop.
A fresh remote-code execution vulnerability in Nginx has been disclosed with proof-of-concept code, prompting urgent patching across millions of servers.
Security researchers published the first known kernel exploit targeting Apple’s M5 chip, achieving arbitrary memory corruption from userland.
OpenAI shipped its Codex coding agent to iOS and Android, letting users spin up cloud sandboxes and review diffs from their phones.
Redis creator antirez reflects on the evolution of his new data-structure store DS4, explaining design trade-offs and what survived from early prototypes.
A provincial audit found that AI clinical-documentation tools used by Ontario physicians were regularly inventing patient details, medications, and symptoms.
A deep dive into reverse-engineering hard-drive firmware reveals how to persist malware at the disk-controller level, below the reach of most security tools.
Federal climate monitors reported that drought now grips over 60% of the continental U.S., with La Niña conditions expected to deepen the dry spell.
A technical breakdown of the GGUF model format uncovers hidden metadata, quantization quirks, and gaps that complicate local LLM inference.
Start9 launched a home router built on a RISC-V SoC, pitched as an open-source, user-controlled alternative to locked-down consumer gear.
A developer reverse-engineered Microsoft’s 1995 3D Movie Maker and produced a native Linux port, complete with modern OpenGL rendering.
Researchers found a bootloader bypass in Tesla’s home charger that defeats downgrade protections, opening a path to persistent compromise.