Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ From birth to gene-edited in 6 months: Custom therapy breaks speed limits—The N-of-1 accomplishment provides a template for swift, personalized ...

+ The remarkable timeline of a custom gene-editing therapy to save a newborn—The N-of-1 accomplishment provides a template for swift, personalized ...

+ Carnivorous crocodile-like monsters used to terrorize the Caribbean—While low sea levels helped sebecids spread, rising waters left them i...

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+ The empire strikes back with F-bombs: AI Darth Vader goes rogue with profanity, slurs—Fortnite AI voice trained on James Earl Jones spoke curse words and in...

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+ No workaround leads to more pain for VMware users—There are patches for the latest batch of security alerts from Broadco...

+ Security tests reveal serious vulnerability in government’s One Login digital ID system—A ‘red teaming’ exercise to simulate cyber attacks on the government’s...

+ How digital identity will empower people and drive economic growth—The government has finally plotted out the future of digital identity ...

+ The Security Interviews: David Faugno, 1Password—David Faugno, co-CEO of 1Password, discusses how his background led to...

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+ A Portable M4 Mac mini—The Mac mini is the closest to an Apple-based SBC you can get, so it l...

+ The Screamer Is Just Like The Clapper But Even More Annoying—Remember The Clapper? It was a home automation tool (of sorts) that le...

+ ChatGPT & Me. ChatGPT Is Me!—For a while now part of my email signature has been a quote from a Hac...

+ Hackaday Podcast Episode 321: Learn You Some 3DP, Let the Wookie Win, or Design a Thinkpad Motherboard Anew—Join Hackaday Editors Elliot Williams and Tom Nardi as they take a whi...

+ Compliant Mechanism Shrinks Instead of Stretching—Intuitively, you think that everything that you stretch will pull back...

+ This Week in Security: Lingering Spectre, Deep Fakes, and CoreAudio—Spectre lives. Weve got two separate pieces of research, each finding ...

+ Home-casting Thermoelectric Alloys—If you want to convert heat into electrical power, it’s hard to find a...

+ Wireless Doorbell Extension Features Home-Wound Coil—Today in the its-surprising-that-it-works department we have a ding do...

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+ Supreme Court Pumps The Brakes On Trump’s Use Of The Alien Enemies Act—The Supreme Court has delivered a clear rebuke to the Trump administra...

+ The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make The Internet Worse For Everyone—The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is back in the Senate. Sponsors are ...

+ DHS, CBP Looking For Facial Recognition Tech That Will Allow Them To Scan Every Person In A Vehicle—The festival of bad ideas continues. Despite facial recognition having...

+ Daily Deal: The 2025 Embedded Systems Engineer Mastery Bundle—Embedded systems are at the heart of modern innovation, powering every...

+ FCC Commissioner Gomez Calls Out Administration’s Attack On Free Speech, Warns She May Get Fired—We mentioned recently that the only remaining Democratic commissioner ...

+ Trump’s FCC Wants To DOGE Itself, Yet Still Somehow Bully Companies For Doing Critical Journalism Or Not Being Racist Enough—Earlier this month we noted how Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr thinks he ...

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+ U.S. Navy announces updates for preservation of Pearl Harbor’s USS Arizona—The U.S. Navy on Friday announced its plans for a preservation project...

+ Suspected serial killer Glen Rogers executed in Florida—A man convicted of murdering a woman in a Tampa Bay, Fla., motel room ...

+ DHS, Secret Service investigating ex-FBI head James Comey's seashell photo as potential Trump threat—Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that DHS and Secret Servi...

+ Charter, Cox Communications merger valued at $34.5B—Charter Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companie...

+ Republican hard-liners defy Trump, Johnson as megabill fails to advance—President Donald Trump's legislative agenda bill is slated to go throu...

+ Analysis: After meeting Trump, Syria’s new leader must prove his willingness, capability—President Donald Trump's announcement of the cessation of U.S. sanctio...

+ Police investigating missing Slovenian statue of Melania Trump—A bronze statue of first lady Melania Trump was stolen in a city in he...

+ 11 'armed and dangerous' inmates escape from New Orleans jail—Eleven inmates escaped the Orleans Parish jail Friday morning as the N...

+ Judge to consider if 'privilege' gives government right to hide Kilmar Abrego Garcia info—A federal judge will hear arguments Friday from the Trump administrati...

+ Salmon Rushdie attacker gets 25-year prison sentence—The man already found guilty of attempting to kill author Salman Rushd...

+ Trump executive order reduces VOA staff by almost 600—U.S. President Donald Trump has directed the firing of almost 600 empl...

+ Trump legislative agenda bill faces Republican opposition—President Donald Trump's legislative agenda bill is slated to go throu...

+ ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan takes leave until sexual misconduct probe is done—International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Karim Khan notified the ...

+ SpaceX launches 26 Starlink satellites from California—SpaceX Friday launched another routine Starlink satellite launch from ...

+ Novo Nordisk CEO will step down amid falling share price and 'recent market challenges'—Novo Nordisk CEO Lars Fruergaard Jorgensen is stepping down per mutual...

+ Palestinian death toll tops 53,000 after Israel airstrikes pummel Gaza overnight—Dozens were killed in airstrikes after Israel stepped up its military ...

+ Polio detected in Papua New Guinea, medical response is underway—The Papua New Guinea National Department of Health announced Friday th...

+ Microsoft proposes unbundling Teams to resolve European Commission investigation—Microsoft said Friday it is proposing a resolution to European Commiss...

+ California wrestles with approach to homeless encampments—California Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled his model ordinance to address h...

+ Smokey Robinson under criminal investigation for sexual assault—The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Thursday said singer Smoke...

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+ 'Fortnite' Players Are Already Making AI Darth Vader Swear—Others have found more subtle ways to fool the AI into giving problema...

+ The Trump Memecoin Dinner Winners Are Getting Rid of Their Coins—Many of the crypto investors preparing to attend an exclusive gala din...

+ We Hand-Picked the 24 Best Deals From the 2025 REI Anniversary Sale—It’s the best time of the year to pick up all the tents, stoves, sleep...

+ OpenAI Launches an Agentic, Web-Based Coding Tool—As vibe coding takes off, OpenAI says Codex will help advanced develop...

+ The Best Gifts for Book Lovers (2025)—These gift ideas will make your favorite bookworm very happy, from e-r...

+ The Best Motorola Phones (2025), Tested and Reviewed—Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colo...

+ No, Graduates: AI Hasn't Ended Your Career Before It Starts—In a commencement speech at Temple University, I shared my views on ho...

+ Does Your City Use Chlorine or Chloramine to Treat Its Water?—Different cities use different water treatments, and this can affect h...

+ Shark CryoGlow Review: Chill Out—The FDA-cleared LED mask features targeted modes for helping reduce fi...

+ Microsoft Surface Pro 12 Review: Beautiful and Baffling—As gorgeous as it is, Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1 Windows tablet is held...

+ The Best Ergonomic Mouse (2025), Tested and Reviewed—Wrists cramping? Skip the gaming mouse and snag one of these WIRED-tes...

+ 10 Best Android Phones of 2025, Tested and Reviewed—Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost ...

+ The 11 Best Mattress Toppers We’ve Slept On (2025)—Need a little more cushion on your mattress? These mattress toppers ar...

+ The Middle East Has Entered the AI Group Chat—The UAE and Saudi Arabia are investing billions in US AI infrastructur...

+ EA Tried to Stop an ‘Anti-DEI Mod’ for ‘The Sims 4’—but More Keep Surfacing—The download automatically changed Black NPCs to white, trans NPCs to ...

+ The 35 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (May 2025)—Babygirl, The Brutalist, and Aftersun are just a few of the movies you...

+ The Hottest Topic at This Year’s Pornhub Awards? Censorship—Lawmakers’ ongoing attempts to ban pornography in the US didn’t stop P...

+ A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time—Scientists were able to create a bespoke treatment for KJ Muldoon’s ra...

+ Sony WH-1000XM6 Review: The Best Noise-Canceling Headphones—The Japanese flagship headphones come with seven times the processing ...

+ US Tech Visa Applications Are Being Put Through the Wringer—Silicon Valley’s coveted work visas are under heavy scrutiny from the ...

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