Google and Apple have just released matching announcements. iPhone’s new iOS 26.5 is now live, unleashing a long-awaited change to text messaging. But while Apple’s update drives headlines worldwide, Google’s change is more critical.“End-to-end encrypted RCS messaging begins rolling out today for Android and iPhone users,” Google confirmed on May…

Using AI chatbots for even just 10 minutes may have a shockingly negative impact on people’s ability to think and problem-solve, according to a new study from researchers at Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Oxford, and UCLA.Researchers tasked people with solving various problems, including simple fractions and reading comprehension, through an online…

Passkeys are supposed to replace passwords and stop phishing attacks. But Google and Microsoft warn that passkeys alone are not enough if weaker recovery methods remain attached to accounts. “Each account is only as secure as its weakest credential,” Microsoft says, warning that passwords and SMS recovery options can become…

Sean Strickland became a two-time UFC middleweight champion with an interesting and highly tactical split-decision win over the previously undefeated Khamzat Chimaev. Strickland was taken down nine times, but he succeeded where previous opponents like Dricus du Plessis failed.Strickland was able to get to his feet and fend off submission…

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will leave OPEC and OPEC+ effective May 1, ending a membership that began in 1967—four years before the UAE was founded as a country. This signals a turning point in the UAE’s role in global energy.The government statement, published on state news agency…

Sports Illustrated’s Chris Mannix reports junior welterweight champion and pound-for-pound contender Shakur Stevenson is “finalizing” a deal with Dana White’s Zuffa Boxing. If this is true, White will have secured one of the pound-for-pound best fighters in the world to his growing stable of fighters, and he’ll also have an…

The Department of Justice announced Thursday that it arrested Gannon Ken Van Dyke, an enlisted member of the US Army’s special forces, for allegedly using “classified, nonpublic” information about the capture of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro to notch more than $400,000 in profits on Polymarket trades. A grand jury indicted…

Just two weeks after WWE Backlash, the promotion will head west, well to the midwest, for Saturday Night’s Main Event in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The card isn’t in place yet, but I’d bank on seeing some of the top stars who don’t have matches in Tampa in action in Fort…

When anthropology researcher Ashley McDermott was doing fieldwork in Kyrgyzstan a few years ago, she says many people voiced the same concern: Children were losing touch with their indigenous language. The Central Asian country of 7 million people was under Russian control for a century until 1991, but Kyrgyz (pronounced…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on the company’s earnings call on Thursday that it could take “several months” to meet skyrocketing demand for the Mac Mini, the company’s compact but mighty, screen-free desktop computer. Cook’s remarks come after coders determined in recent months that the Mac Mini was the perfect…