Editors’ note: This report was updated Oct. 7. The U.S. government officially shut down Oct. 1, and until a funding deal is reached in Congress, troops will be working without paychecks. Many federal ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Gen V Season 2 is off to a pretty raucous start. The “Guardians of Godolkin” lie has swallowed ...

It's divisive; it cleaves; it drives some people crazy. The writer Kurt Vonnegut said of the semicolon: It's showy; it's chiefly used to show you've been to college. More than two-thirds of young ...

Valve’s Steam client is pretty widely compatible with all kinds of newer and older operating systems—that’s what you do when you want as many people as possible spending their money in your store. But ...

Google announced the Agent Payments Protocol (AP2), an open standard to help AI agents initiate and complete purchases across platforms with clear proof of user authorization and intent. AP2 extends ...

It wasn't so long ago that concussions weren't a big talking point in the NFL. Players who were hit hard were sent back into the game, and post-playing-days issues were attributed to factors outside ...

Next year’s Java release is slated to include a performance boost for the G1 garbage collector and opt-in support for HTTP/3. The Applets API is on the chopping block. Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a ...

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Apple unveiled iPadOS 26 at the Worldwide Developers Conference on June 9, and apart from the translucent new "Liquid Glass" redesign, a menu bar, improved app windowing, and more, Apple also revealed ...

In two large studies of heart attack survivors, beta-blocker drugs benefited those with mildly impaired heart function Contradictory trial results seen in patients without heart dysfunction More data ...

Decentralized social network Mastodon says it can’t comply with Mississippi’s age verification law — the same law that saw rival Bluesky pull out of the state — because it doesn’t have the means to do ...