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- Inside Ukraine’s Effort To Train Drone Pilots Defending The Country
Ukraine’s drone advantage isn’t just technology. Volunteer groups are training the operators behind the country’s expanding drone war.
- Gas Prices Are Already Up 50 Cents Per Gallon—And Rising
Gas prices could get hit $4 per gallon within the next month as oil slows out of the Strait of Hormuz—while Trump urges oil tankers to have “some guts.”
- Freedom 250 Washington, DC IndyCar Course Layout And Details Revealed
Key details including the course layout were unveiled for the Freedom 250 IndyCar race in Washington, D.C. on March 9 in a celebration of America's 250th Birthday.
- Anthropic Challenges Defense Dept. Ban After AI Dispute
The lawsuit filed on Monday argues the designation punishes Anthropic for “protected speech.”
- ‘Coraline’ Monster High Skullector Doll Coming Soon From Mattel
The title character from Laika’s stop-motion animated movie classic “Coraline” is getting a Monster High Skullector doll.
Technology
- 2026 Australian Grand Prix: Formula 1 debuts a new style of racing
The key is understanding how to conserve energy across a lap. Oh, and be reliable.
- How AI is turning the Iran conflict into theater
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. “Anyone wanna host a get together in SF and pull this up on a 100 inch TV?” The author of that post on X was referring to an online intelligence dashboard following…
- The usability imperative for securing digital asset devices
When Tony Fadell started working on the iPod, usability often trumped security. The result was an iterative process. Every time someone would find a security weakness or a way to hack the device, the development group would iterate to add measures and fix the issues. Yet, flaws would frequently be found, and the secure design…
- The Download: murky AI surveillance laws, and the White House cracks down on defiant labs
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI? The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question:…
- Chevrolet killed it then brought it back, now we drive it: The 2027 Bolt
Faster charging, more modern infotainment, and a new LFP battery are highlights.
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