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Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home was raided by the FBI last month and her laptop and phone were seized. The raid and the seizure of her devices were related to a government contractor who was alleged to have kept classified information. As it turns out, the government was unable to get any information out of Natanson’s iPhone thanks to an iPhone feature that is not exactly well known.The iOS Lockdown Mode was created to protect iPhone users from malicious attacksAround since iOS 16 in 2022, the iPhone’s Lockdown Mode prevented the FBI from examining Natanson’s handset. The FBI’s Computer Analysis Response…
VPNs have a mixed reputation, primarily because you can use the technology to hide your location and identity on the internet. Even the best VPNs can be used to conceal crimes and make the perpetrators harder to track. Fortunately, most of the world’s governments (at least for now) recognize that VPNs are just technology that can be used for good or ill.That means VPNs are legal in almost every country in the world. The countries that do restrict VPNs tend to be those where internet freedoms are already curtailed, like Russia, China, Iran and North Korea. There are distinct gradations…
Xbox released a lot of big games in 2025. It was one of the only good bits of Xbox-related news from last year. And in 2026, it will release new entries in four of its oldest franchises: Forza, Gears, Halo, and Fable. But new reporting indicates that while these projects, and others including a Fallout 3 remaster, are on track, Xbox is trying to avoid Grand Theft Auto 6‘s big launch in November. On February 5, The Verge reported a lot of interesting tidbits and nuggets about Xbox’s plans heading into 2026. For example, the company is apparently working on a…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Termites have plagued southern states like Florida for decades, but a new study indicates that the problem is even worse than researchers previously believed. After reviewing over 30 years of monitoring data, entomologists at the University of Florida (UF) now say both the Formosan and Asian subterranean termites (Coptotermes formosanus and Coptotermes gestroi) are expanding their range of destruction. And it gets worse. They’ve already traveled farther north than scientists initially predicted. Formosan and Asian termites are almost entirely restricted to tropical climates, but…
A few Senate Democrats introduced a bill called the ‘‘ICE Out of Our Faces Act,” which would ban Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from using facial recognition technology. The bill would make it “unlawful for any covered immigration officer to acquire, possess, access, or use in the United States—(1) any biometric surveillance system; or (2) information derived from a biometric surveillance system operated by another entity.” All data collected from such systems in the past would have to be deleted. The proposed ban extends beyond facial recognition to cover other biometric surveillance technologies, such…
With gaming becoming an ever-smaller part of NVIDIA’s lucrative business, the company reportedly won’t bother releasing new graphics cards this year. The Information reported on Thursday that NVIDIA has pushed back its plan to release an update to the RTX 50 line in 2026. This would be the first time in three decades that the company hasn’t launched new gaming chips. The culprit? Why, AI, of course.AI demand has driven the current memory chip shortage, throwing the consumer electronics industry out of kilter. Many product prices are expected to rise (as if tariffs hadn’t already done enough damage there). And…
T-Mobile’s new Experience More w/Appreciation Savings and Loyalty plans. | Image Credit – The Mobile Report The Mobile Report has learned from internal sources that T-Mobile will roll out these plans exclusively to certain existing customers.Experience More with Appreciation Savings As the name implies, this is a lower-cost version of the Experience More plan. It starts at $75 per month for one line, compared to Experience More’s rate of $85 for one line. Two lines cost $120, with lines three through eight adding $30 each per month, and lines nine through twelve adding $40 each. Additional lines after the second line…
You know, if you’re ever looking for an example of the power of human artistry, you can typically look to incredible sculptures and statues that depict the human form like David by Michelangelo or the work of Rodin. But these pieces have the advantage of not being mass produced for people to buy and stick on the Nintendo system to unlock cosmetics. The Leon Kennedy Resident Evil Requiem amiibo doesn’t have such luxuries, but it nonetheless accomplishes something remarkable as well: it somehow finally makes the zombie-shooting heartthrob ugly. Requiem for the dead. Nightmare for the living.Grace Ashcroft and Leon…
Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Every Olympic Games has a torch. Every torch has a designer. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, that designer is MIT engineer and architect Carlo Ratti. A winter sports enthusiast, Ratti owns the architectural firm Carlo Ratti Associati and is originally from Turin, Italy—which hosted the Winter Games in 2006. His firm’s work has been featured at numerous international expositions, including the French Pavilion at the Osaka Expo (World’s Fair) in 2025. The Cloud, a 400-foot tall spherical structure, was…
Today, OpenAI announced GPT-5.3-Codex, a new version of its frontier coding model that will be available via the command line, IDE extension, web interface, and the new macOS desktop app. (No API access yet, but it’s coming.) GPT-5.3-Codex outperforms GPT-5.2-Codex and GPT-5.2 in SWE-Bench Pro, Terminal-Bench 2.0, and other benchmarks, according to the company’s testing. There are already a few headlines out there saying “Codex built itself,” but let’s reality-check that, as that’s an overstatement. The domains OpenAI described using it for here are similar to the ones you see in some other enterprise software development firms now: managing deployments,…