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Your next phone or EV could run on a recycled battery that performs nearly as well as a new one. Cornell University researchers have developed a new recycling technique that restores spent lithium-ion cells to up to 95% of their original capacity, while cutting recycling costs by 56%. A bath instead of a shredder Current battery recycling techniques are largely destructive. Spent cells are either smelted at extreme temperatures or crushed into a powder and processed with harsh acids to extract usable materials. The recovered components then have to be rebuilt from scratch before they can go into a new…
Ravie LakshmananJun 10, 2026Vulnerability / JavaScript Cybersecurity researchers have flagged half a dozen vulnerabilities in protobuf.js, a JavaScript and TypeScript implementation of Protocol Buffers (Protobuf), that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution (RCE) and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. “In affected environments, a single malicious protobuf schema, descriptor, or crafted payload could be enough to trigger crashes, runtime corruption, or even code execution,” Cyera security researcher Assaf Morag said. The vulnerabilities have been codenamed Proto6. Protobuf is a free and open-source, language-agnostic mechanism for serializing structured data. It was originally developed and used internally by Google before it was…
Supporters of a permanent data center ban, including members of Kshama Sawant’s congressional campaign, hold signs reading “Stop the Data Centers & AI Layoffs” during public comment at Tuesday’s Seattle City Council meeting. (Screenshot via Seattle Channel) The city that gave the world cloud computing just hit pause on the machines that power it. The Seattle City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to impose a one-year emergency moratorium on new large data centers inside the city limits, responding to concerns about the implications of AI for the city’s power grid, water supply, utility rates, and economy. The moratorium would take effect…
An encounter with a great white shark is undoubtedly a “thrilling” experience, considered especially rare in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. The latest sighting, which has attracted media attention and made headlines around the world, occurred during a dive in the Strait of Sicily carried out by volunteers from Ghost Diving and Healthy Seas, organizations dedicated to protecting marine ecosystems.The encounter was documented by diver Derk Remmers, who told the BBC that he struggled to switch on his camera because of the excitement. The footage—the first ever recorded of a great white shark in its Mediterranean Sea habitat—shows a…
It’s no secret that the last few years have seen a massive explosion in the use of artificial intelligence for general information-gathering. An even more recent trend, though, is how large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly being used for verifying and consuming news; reports from the Pew Research Center over the last year found that one-in-five U.S. teens regularly use LLMs to get their news, while one-in-four young adults have reported using them for that purpose at least once. A new open-access study from the MIT Media Lab should give some of those users pause: Researchers found that, over the…
In May, Ferrari introduced its first entry into the electric vehicle market: the Luce. With an exterior like a Nissan Leaf, and an interior designed by the guy who designed the iPhone, it received a lot of hate. So, if Ferrari can’t make a cool EV, who can?Enter the Slate truck. It’s a Jeff Bezos-backed, American-made compact truck with no bells, whistles, or even AC — the antithesis of the Tesla Cybertruck. It’s kind of cute. And it might just get more Americans to drive an electric car.At a time when American manufacturers have fallen far behind countries like China…
AI spending is outpacing every budgeting model enterprise finance teams have built, and the gap between what tokens cost on paper and what organizations actually owe is becoming an operational crisis. As FinOps evolves into a boardroom strategy, the discipline is now being forced to reckon with a fundamentally new unit of technology being referred to as Tokenomics. The pressure has become acute enough that the Linux Foundation announced its intent to launch the Tokenomics Foundation, a new standards body dedicated to open benchmarks and best practices for AI token economics, according to J.R. Storment (pictured, right), vice president and…
You’ll fight with and against up to seven other players in this action game. FromSoftware FromSoftware’s Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive, The Duskbloods, is still slated to arrive this year. We don’t have a release date as yet — I’m hoping FromSoft has the guts to try counterprogramming Grand Theft Auto 6 in November — but it emerged during Tuesday’s Nintendo Direct that a closed network test will take place this summer. The latest trailer didn’t give much more away, though we did get a few more peeks at the gothic, Bloodborne-esque setting. The Duskbloods is a multiplayer game…
The focus of SEM strategies used to be chasing clicks. But moving the needle requires a genuine, human understanding of their pain points. How do you connect your antisocial buyer to the solutions that would actually make a difference? Key Takeaways Search intent has four distinct layers- each one demanding a fundamentally different response from your SEM strategy. By the time a buyer searches for a transactional term, most of the decision is already made. The brand that showed up during the informational and commercial stages wins the click. Keyword gaps reveal where buyer questions are unanswered across your category.…
Ravie LakshmananJun 09, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Espionage Two Russia-aligned cyber attack campaigns have continued to exploit a security flaw in WinRAR to target Ukrainian organisations, almost a year after patches for the vulnerability were released. The activity has been attributed by Trend Micro to Earth Dahu (aka Gamaredon) and SHADOW-EARTH-066 (aka UAC-0226). It involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-8088, a path traversal flaw that allows an attacker to write files outside the extraction directory via NTFS Alternate Data Streams (ADS). It was patched by WinRAR in July 2025. The findings show “how unmanaged software keeps an exploited entry point open long…