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05.11.26
DRONES
Do City Delivery Drones Make Sense? No One Knows, but They’re Flying Over NYC
BY AARIAN MARSHALL | 3-MINUTE READ
One of the country’s busiest airspaces has a new kind of flying machine—maybe temporarily.
BUSINESS
CUDA Proves Nvidia Is a Software Company
BY SHEON HAN | 5-MINUTE READ
There’s a deep, forbidding moat that surrounds Nvidia—and it has nothing to do with hardware.
POLITICS
There’s a Long-Shot Proposal to Protect California Workers From AI
BY MAKENA KELLY | 2-MINUTE READ
California gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer is proposing a new jobs guarantee for workers displaced by artificial intelligence.
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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
BY RUTH FOWLER | 17-MINUTE READ
For screenwriters like me—and job seekers all over—AI gig work is the new waiting tables. In eight months, I’ve done 20 of these soul-crushing contracts for five different platforms. It’s bad.
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HEALTH
Could Contact-Tracing Apps Help With the Hantavirus? Not Really
BY BOONE ASHWORTH | 2-MINUTE READ
Contact-tracing apps were widely deployed during the Covid pandemic. They aren’t as helpful during smaller outbreaks.
SCIENCE
Chevron Wants a School District Tax Break for a Data Center Power Plant in Texas
BY MOLLY TAFT | 5-MINUTE READ
The move could save the oil company hundreds of millions, even as Texas lawmakers start looking at reining in incentives for data centers.
SECURITY
Dangerous New Linux Exploit Gives Attackers Root Access to Countless Computers
BY DAN GOODIN, ARS TECHNICA | 3-MINUTE READ
The exploit, dubbed CopyFail and tracked as CVE-2026-31431, allows hackers to take over PCs and data center servers. The Linux vulnerabilities have been patched—but many machines remain at risk.
SECURITY NEWS
Hackable Robot Lawn Mower Unlocks a New Nightmare
BY MADDY VARNER, MATT BURGESS, ANDY GREENBERG, AND ANDREW COUTS | 4-MINUTE READ
Plus: Meta officially kills encrypted Instagram DMs, the Trump administration targets “violent left wing extremists,” leaked documents reveal Russia's school for elite hackers, and more.
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HOW TO & ADVICE
Keyboard Shortcuts I Learned From My Cat
BY JUSTIN POT | 2-MINUTE READ
Every time my cat Mira walks across a keyboard, I learn a few new Mac and PC keyboard shortcuts I never knew about.
❖ Join the conversation: Has your pet made a tech discovery? Share your stories in the comments below the article
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