Karen Alfaro

551 published news

June 2025

1. 29 June
2. Users Have Clicked the ‘Unsubscribe’ Button in Emails Without a Second Thought for Years. That’s Exactly What Cybercriminals Expect
3. 28 June
4. Archaeologists Discovered Strange Prehistoric Spheres in the Middle of the Amazon. Inside Were Human and Animal Bones
5. 27 June
6. Watching Instagram or TikTok on TV Is Becoming a Reality: Video Apps’ Ambitious Plans to Land on Smart TVs
7. Israel Has Been Bombing Nuclear Facilities Built by Other Countries for Decades. This Is the Real Risk of Collapse
8. Vinegar May Hold a Clue to Treating Depression, Study Finds
9. 26 June
10. The U.S. Claims to Have Destroyed Iran’s Uranium Centrifuges. Iran Needed Them to Develop an Atomic Bomb
11. If You’re Wondering How to Create Effective AI Prompts, Anthropic Just Released a Guide
12. How Much Has CEO Pay Risen Over the Past 40 Years? A Study Found 1,089%
13. 25 June
14. Novo Nordisk Has Made a Fortune With Ozempic, but It Knows Its Success Won’t Last Forever. So, It Has Already Developed Two Substitutes
15. The Question of How Ukraine Managed to Infiltrate Russia With Thousands of Drones Has a Simple Answer: Bribery
16. 24 June
17. Plastic Surgeons Face a New Trend: Patients Want to Look Like AI-Generated Images
18. The First 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Shot the Sky. In Just 10 Hours, It Did What Would Have Taken Years
19. Israel and Iran Are Confirming What the World Sensed in Ukraine: The War Is Happening Hundreds of Miles Above Our Heads
20. 23 June
21. Scientists Are Far From Developing a Pill That Can Replace Food. The Reason They May Fail Is Simple
22. Gen Z Isn’t Satisfied With Free Coffee and Flex Hours: 38% Want to Have Sex at Work
23. Elon Musk Faces Potential Public Health Issues Over an AI Model Linked to an Illegal Gas Plant
24. 22 June
25. Scientists Now Have a Powerful New Tool to Combat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease: Quantum Computers
26. 20 June
27. Future Toys Will Feature AI Systems That Can Interact With You. Barbie and OpenAI Are Already Taking Steps
28. Something Strange Is Happening to Earth’s Clouds—and It Could Have Unpleasant Consequences
29. Israel’s Other War Against Iran: It Just Stole $90 Million in Cryptocurrency
30. TikTok Has Shaped Social Media Platforms for Years, Boosting YouTube’s Rise
31. 19 June
32. The U.S. Will Do Whatever It Takes to Prevent China From Acquiring Advanced Chips, but Malaysia Is an Obstacle
33. Iran and Israel Are Waging Another War Behind the Scenes: A Battle of Fake Images Created With AI Models
34. We Thought Endless Workdays Were Exclusive to Remote Work, but They’re Also Exhausting for Office Workers
35. 18 June
36. Intel Faces One of the Hardest Hits in Its History—A Direct Blow to Its Chip Factories
37. Israel Failed to Breach Iran’s Nuclear Defenses. Its Next Move Involves the U.S.
38. Microsoft Bet Big on OpenAI to Stay in the Game. Now Their Breakup Looks Inevitable
39. 17 June
40. China Takes Next Step Toward EV Dominance by Betting on Domestic Chips
41. Nvidia’s AI Supercomputer Costs $3 Million. To Operate, It Uses a Switch With Nearly 2 Miles of Cable
42. The War Between Israel and Iran Poses a Massive Threat to a Vulnerable Company: Intel
43. What Israel Seeks in Iran Isn’t Visible. It’s Called Fordow and It’s Hidden Under an Almost Impenetrable Mountain
44. 16 June
45. Jules Verne Was Right: There’s Three Times More Water in Earth’s Depths Than in All the Oceans Combined
46. Can We Predict the Next Epidemic? Some Scientists Say AI Systems Hold the Key
47. 13 June
48. For Years, Musk Urged 80-Hour Workweeks. He Doesn’t Even Put in 40 at Tesla
49. Intel and TSMC Lead the Photonic Chip Revolution—But China Just Entered the Race
50. Tim Cook Was Optimistic About Apple’s Expansion Thanks to China. However, China Ended Up Conquering Apple
51. The ‘Natural’ Alternative to Ozempic Sounds Great and Is Much Cheaper. The Problem Is Taking It Seriously
52. 12 June
53. No One Has Ever Reached the Earth’s Mantle. China Just Built a Ship to Try—And Extract Energy Along the Way
54. Wikipedia Wanted to Follow Google’s Lead With AI Systems. However, Editors Have Said, ‘Enough Is Enough’
55. A U.S. Nuclear Power Plant Was Set to Close Due to the Loss of Subsidies. Mark Zuckerberg Seized the Opportunity to Acquire It
56. Windows 10 Support Is Ending, yet Part of the U.S. Air Traffic Control System Runs on Floppy Disks and Windows 95
57. 11 June
58. The War in Ukraine Has Entered Its Mad Max Phase. Russia Is Launching Motorcycle Charges to Break the Front Line
59. IBM Has Revealed That Its First Definitive Quantum Computer Will Be Ready Soon
60. The AI Race for Seemed to Be Evening Out. OpenAI Just Made a Bold Move With o3-Pro, a Model That Aims Very High
61. 10 June
62. More People Are Visiting Antarctica. A Recent Expedition Shows the Magnitude of the Problem
63. Japan Has Discovered Tons of Rare Earth Elements on Its Most Remote Island. Casually, a Chinese Aircraft Carrier Just Approached
64. Is a New Version of macOS Necessary Every Year? Apple Thinks So, With Small but Practical Upgrades
65. 09 June
66. North Korea Lost Internet Access This Weekend. The Question Remains: Who Uses the Internet in This Country?
67. All the Latest News on iOS 26: Apple Has Given the iPhone More Than Just a Facelift. It’s Had Cosmetic Surgery
68. Astronomers Combined 10,000 Images From the James Webb Telescope to Create the Largest Map of the Universe Yet. However, Something Doesn’t Match
69. A Programmer Had ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Other AI Models Play a Strategy Game. Each One Developed a Unique Personality
70. 08 June
71. Archaeologists Thought They Knew the Maya Until They Discovered a Nearly 3,000-Year-Old City in Guatemala
72. 07 June
73. Reddit Has Become the Best Source of Human Data on the Internet. AI Companies Are Trying to Steal It
74. 06 June
75. With U.S. Aid Fading, Ukraine Urges Europe to Fund Domestic Arms Production
76. ‘Without Me, Trump Would Have Lost the Election’: The Phrase That Cost Musk $34 Billion in One Day
77. We Suspected the Ukrainian Drone Strike Was Destructive. Space Imagery Revealed Just How Harmful It Was
78. 05 June
79. Rare Earth Elements Are So Expensive—and So Monopolized by China—That Smuggling Has Become a Business Opportunity
80. Meta Is Turning to Nuclear Power for Its AI Data Centers With New 20-Year Agreement
81. China’s Three-Pronged Approach to Achieving ‘Technological Independence’ Involves Securing Raw Materials, Manufacturing Chips, and Developing AI Systems
82. 04 June
83. China’s Absolute Dominance Over Rare Earth Elements Comes From a Strategy That No One Else Has—Not Even the U.S.
84. The AI Images in Ghibli Style Were Fascinating. The Restored Old Photos Are Amazing
85. OnlyFans Turned Adult Content Into a Million-Dollar Business With a Different Strategy. Now It’s Going for More
86. 03 June
87. Builder.ai Promised to Revolutionize Programming With AI. In Reality, 700 Humans Did the Work
88. TSMC Wants to Build a Chip Factory in the UAE. The U.S. Could Make It or Break It
89. TikTok Didn’t Emerge From a Master Plan. It Grew From a Question That No One Else in Silicon Valley Was Asking
90. 02 June
91. Residents of Starbase Voted to Form a SpaceX City. Now, They’ve Received a Letter About Their Property Rights
92. Nvidia’s Chips Have Long Been a Bargaining Chip in the U.S.-China Trade War—Until Now
93. Samsung Plans to Become the Biggest AI Powerhouse in the Mobile Industry. That’s Why It Wants to Partner With Perplexity
94. 01 June
95. What Looked Like Trash in a Mexican Cave Turned Out to Be a 500-Year-Old Fertility Ritual
96. China Is Testing a Major Submarine Tech Breakthrough to Thwart Enemy Sonar

May 2025

1. 31 May
2. AI Companies Have Declared a Hidden War on Human Teachers
3. There Are No Diesel Motorcycles for Several Reasons. This American Brand Doesn’t Care About Any of Them
4. 30 May
5. U.S. Senators Voice Mistrust of Nvidia as Its China Plans Face Scrutiny
6. A Race Is Underway to Build the Cheapest, Most Powerful AI Model—and China Is Pulling Ahead
7. Tourists Turn Mexican Coastal Town Into Chaos to Swim With Killer Whales
8. 28 May
9. Japan’s Toll System Failed for 38 Hours, but Thousands of Drivers Still Paid
10. Ukraine Shot Down and Opened a Russian Shahed Drone. Inside, It Found a Hidden Message Revealing Moscow’s Electronic Warfare Edge
11. The ‘Patreon of Porn’ Empire: OnlyFans Earns More per Employee Than Nvidia, Google, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft Combined
12. 27 May
13. In Its Push to Increase Domestic Manufacturing, the U.S. Has Threatened Samsung. It Won’t Make Much Difference
14. Gen Z Is Reshaping Japan’s Work Culture, Trading Overwork for ‘Quiet Quitting’
15. OpenAI Just Demonstrated That AI Systems No Longer Obey Unconditionally: o3 Sabotaged Its Shutdown to Keep Running
16. 26 May
17. The Good News: Our Solar System Has a New Minor Planet. The Bad News: It Only Swings By Every 25,000 Years
18. Mayan Languages Are Experiencing a Renaissance—but Not in Mexico
19. BlackBerry Sold More Phones Than Ever Before in 2011. This Is a Disturbing Reminder of Apple’s Indifference to AI
20. Klarna’s CEO Fired 700 Employees and Replaced Them With an AI System. Now, He's Replaced Himself With an Avatar
21. Russia Has Managed to Make Its Combat Drones Fly Higher. Ukraine Found a Solution in North Korea: Balloons
22. 24 May
23. The Curiosity Rover Has Climbed a Mountain on Mars for 12 Years. It Just Sent Back an Impressive Video From the Summit
24. Germany Is Testing Giant Spheres Under the Sea to Store Renewable Energy Without Using Any Land
25. Researchers Believe They’ve Found a Way to Tap Natural Hydrogen Deep Underground
26. ‘It’s Why Bill Gates Is So Rich’: This Is How Microsoft Stuck Hospitals, Trains, and Elevators With Windows Forever
27. 23 May
28. FAA Gives Starship Green Light to Resume Flight Tests After 11 Weeks
29. Life Expectancy Rose in Denmark. The Government Has Used It to Increase the Retirement Age to 70
30. Pocket Was a Place to Save Articles You Never Read. The Dopamine Rush of Social Media Platforms Killed It
31. Claude 4 Envisions a Future Where AI Models Could Blackmail and Create Biological Weapons. Even Anthropic Is Concerned
32. 22 May
33. There’s an Underground Movement of Women Reading Homosexual Erotic Literature in China. The Government Is Cracking Down on It
34. Kim Kardashian and Influencers Made Eating Placenta Cool, but Experts Are Stern in Their Warning: Don't Do It
35. Filling Space With Mirrors Is Big Business. The Goal: Keep Solar Panels Working After Dark
36. Bitcoin Reaches All-Time High of $110,000 as Banks and Companies Shift From Critics to Supporters
37. 21 May
38. ‘Let Me See if I’m Dead’: Elon Musk Clarifies His Future at Tesla After Stepping Away From Politics for Good
39. I Made This Video on My Phone in Less Than a Minute. Here’s How Veo 2 Works on the Gemini App
40. One by One, the Problems of Nuclear Fusion Are Being Solved. Optimism Is Overtaking Negativity
41. A Construction Company Built The Simpsons House in 1997. It Didn’t Go as Planned
42. These Mountaineers Want to Climb Everest From London in Seven Days. Their ‘Secret Weapon’: Xenon Gas
43. 20 May
44. Google Search Now Buys Your Tickets and Pays the Bill Without You Lifting a Finger
45. The Way You Search Online Is Over. Google’s AI Mode Doesn’t Just Deliver Results—It Converses
46. Losing Weight Comes With the ‘Ozempic Effect’—And a Face You Might Not Recognize
47. In a Bid to End Rice Shortage, Japan Turned to South Korea. It Didn’t Work
48. Every AI Company Promises AGI Is Coming Soon. The Problem Is That ChatGPT Isn’t the Answer
49. Samsung Wants to Overtake TSMC. Its Best Shot Is Convincing Nvidia and Qualcomm That Its 2 nm Tech Is Superior
50. 19 May
51. Eating Fermented Cabbage May Seem Unpleasant, but Experts Say It’s Excellent for Your Diet
52. TSMC Plans to Increase Chip Wafer Prices by 10% in 2025, Dealing a Blow to Users
53. 18 May
54. Looking to Boost Your Protein Intake? Try ‘Proffee’
55. The Bad News: Earth’s Oxygen Supply Is Finite. The Good News: We Won’t Be Around to Witness It
56. 17 May
57. True Crime Documentaries Have Been So Successful That Less Scrupulous AI Creators Are Exploiting the Genre, Opening a Moral Debate
58. 16 May
59. Harvard Bought a Cheap Copy of the Magna Carta in 1946. It Just Discovered It Owns a Priceless Treasure
60. The U.S. Feared a Tourism Boycott. The First Estimate Shows a $12.5 Billion Loss
61. No One Knew Some U.S. Commercial Flights Were at Risk. A Disconnected Hotline Was to Blame
62. 15 May
63. Trump Sends Tim Cook a Clear Warning as Apple’s India Strategy Gains Momentum
64. If You Feel Like You’re Not the Same Person After a Long Shift, Science Agrees With You. The Reason Lies in the Brain
65. Airbnb No Longer Wants to Be Just a Platform for Booking Vacation Rentals. Now, It Wants to Offer You Access to Chefs and Trainers
66. Plants Exist Due to a Curious Union. Now, Scientists Want to Recreate It in a Lab
67. Ukraine Has Turned Drones Into Armed Soldiers to Fight Russia. They Now Carry Grenade Launchers, So There’s No Longer a Need to ‘Sacrifice’ Them
68. 14 May
69. Saudi Arabia Wants to Be a Data Center Powerhouse. But Can It Deliver?
70. 900 People Are Driving a Virtual Car on Google Street View at the Same Time
71. The U.S. Has a Plan to Counter China’s Dominance in Rare Earth Elements. The Curious Thing Is Where It Will Be Implemented: In a Toxic Pit of Contaminated Water
72. Ukraine Captured Russia’s New Cruise Missile. The Surprise Inside? It Was Made by Its ‘Allies’
73. 13 May
74. An iPad at the Bottom of the Thames Helped Solve a Crime Worthy of Black Mirror
75. 12 May
76. From Burgers to Biodiversity: How Apple Is Turning Livestock Land Into a Climate Lab With Forests and Profits
77. In the Golden Age of MP3, Sony Made a Disastrous Mistake: It Put Malware on Its Music CDs
78. 11 May
79. Our Species Didn’t Make the Oldest Bone Spear Tip in Europe. It Had Been There for 30,000 Years
80. 10 May
81. Playing Nintendo 64 Cartridges on an iPhone Is Something I Never Expected to Do: An Emulator and an Adapter Were All It Took
82. North Korea’s Cabo San Lucas Is Almost Ready. Who Will Fill Its Thousands of Rooms?
83. Researchers Have Tried to Understand Neuroestrogens for Years. They’ve Just Found a Clue: These Hormones Regulate Our Appetite
84. 09 May
85. Ozempic Has Caused Thousands to Lose Weight Dramatically—Now Their Closets Are for Sale
86. Tariffs Weigh on Imports From China to the U.S., Raising Fears of Empty Shelves
87. For Many People, Food Is a Necessary Evil—So They’ve Started Eating ‘Human Kibble’
88. CMF Phone 2 Pro Review: This Is the Phone to Buy for Under $280
89. 08 May
90. Eggs: Good or Bad for You? The Confusion Is Old, but the Evidence Is Clear
91. ESA’s Mars Rover Is Cursed: The ExoMars Mission Has Faced 20 Years of Hardship and Bad Luck
92. Researchers Uncover Bronze Age Fortress Hidden Beneath Romanian Forest for Nearly Five Millennia
93. 07 May
94. One Gorilla vs. 100 Men: The Viral Debate Taking Over the Internet
95. The Morning Elixir: More and More People Take a ‘Shot’ of Vinegar or Herbs First Thing to Lose Weight
96. The Latest U.S. Slap in Europe’s Face Has Echoed Into Space: NASA Just Dumped ESA From Artemis Program
97. Something Extraordinary Has Happened in Ukraine: For the First Time, a Naval Drone Has Shot Down Russian Fighter Jets
98. 06 May
99. A New Study Sets Fertility Benchmark to Avoid Demographic Extinction: Two-Thirds of Planet Falls Short
100. A Soviet Probe Is About to Crash Into Earth. The Disturbing Part: It Was Built to Survive Hell
101. Just Before the Cardinals Locked Themselves Away in Conclave, They Did One Last Thing in the Vatican: They Ate
102. Rockstar Games Releases Second GTA VI Trailer. It Shows a Stunning Leap, but Fans Still Have to Wait
103. 05 May
104. We’re Consuming More Mercury Linked to Fish. Scientists Are Fighting Back With Engineered Probiotics
105. Venice Introduced a Fee to Curb Crowds. Now Japan Is Doing the Same
106. The SpaceX Base in Boca Chica Has Grown So Much That Texas Has Decided to Legally Make It a City
107. Temu Has Stopped Shipping Orders to the U.S. This Is a Huge Problem for Meta and Google
108. 04 May
109. Shaving Eyelashes for Masculinity? Experts Warn Against ThisTikTok Trend
110. Apple Killed Its Least Profitable Product. Then, Fans Protested, and Steve Jobs Responded With Coffee and Doughnuts
111. 03 May
112. Apple Discarded Its Operating System and Started Over Twice. The Reason: It Wanted to Avoid Looking Like Windows
113. ‘The Most Extreme Event in World Climatic History’: Meteorologists Are Alarmed by Heat Wave in Africa and Asia
114. Loneliness Has Become a Public Health Issue. A New Study Reveals That Animals Can Help Alleviate It
115. 02 May
116. Our Microbiome Is Key to Health, but Protein Sources May Modify It
117. Russia Is Building Up Troops on Its Border With Europe
118. TikTok Hit With Historic $600 Million Fine for Sending User Data to China
119. Apple Expects the Tariffs’ Impact to Be $900 Million. That’s the Cost of Producing Nearly 2 Million iPhones
120. It’s Official: Rockstar Delays GTA VI. It Won’t Arrive Until 2026
121. 01 May
122. Home as a Trench: The ‘Nail Houses’ That Resisted Urban Expansion in China
123. OpenAI First Went After Google. Now, It’s Targeting Amazon and Its Lucrative Affiliates
124. An Unexpected War Has Broken Out in China: BYD, CATL, and Huawei Battle to Build the Ultimate EV Charger
125. Microsoft Raises Xbox Console and Controller Prices Worldwide. Here’s What They Cost in the U.S.
126. Starlink Has Operated for Six Years Without Competition. Now, an Ambitious Contender Has Begun Launching Satellites: Amazon

April 2025

1. 30 April
2. Two Young Men Got Access to America’s Nuclear Secrets. They Work for Elon Musk
3. We’ve Long Linked Calcium to Milk—but That’s Only Part of the Story
4. Jeff Bezos Planned to Detail Tariff Costs on Amazon. A Call from Trump Changed Everything
5. China’s Future in the Chip Industry Rests on a Single, Almost Unknown Company: SiCarrier
6. Russia Has Confirmed One of the Great Unknowns of the War in Ukraine: North Korea Is There, and Not Just With Troops
7. 29 April
8. Fixing an iPhone Screen With a Lighter Isn’t Just Fake—It’s Dangerous
9. When Spain and Portugal Went Dark, Starlink Kept Users Online: It Was ‘Even Better Than Usual’
10. Huawei’s New AI GPU Could Deliver Knockout Blow to Nvidia in China
11. 28 April
12. A Local Electricity Operator Attributes Spain and Portugal Power Outage to Rare Atmospheric Phenomenon: ‘Induced Atmospheric Vibration’
13. Spain and Portugal Power Outage Triggers Cyberattack Concerns, but EU Rules It Out
14. BYD Set Out to Win the EV Race. Then, TSMC Decided to Sell One of Its Factories
15. 27 April
16. In 1914, Russia Banned Vodka to Curb Alcoholism. It Was a Disastrous Decision
17. China’s Silent Oil Boom: The Strategy That Will Rewrite the Global Market
18. Mount Everest Has Become a Tourism Monster. Some Think Drones Are the Answer
19. Android Phone Manufacturers Have a New Obsession: Taking the Battle of Updates to the Limit
20. 26 April
21. For Centuries, People Thought Birds Flew to the Moon During Winter—Until an Arrow Shot in Africa Landed in Germany
22. U.S. Deserts Have 1,200 GW of Solar Power, Which Could Be Used for AI Development. The Technology Is Ready, but Tech Companies Are Hesitant
23. The New Version of Illiteracy Isn’t About Reading or Writing—It’s About Treating AI Like an Oracle, Not a Tool
24. 25 April
25. Don’t Tell Me Your Age—Tell Me Your Grip Strength: What Simple Signs Reveal About Aging
26. Funko Yourself: How to Use ChatGPT to Create a Funko Version of Yourself
27. The Death of the Pope Has Everyone Watching Conclave Again—Viewership Jumps 283%
28. Intel Turns Its Eyes to Meta to Stay Competitive. Its Strategy Involves Layoffs, More Office Days, and Middle Management
29. The U.S. Seems Determined to Break Up Its Monopolies. Google Is Its Primary Target
30. People Have Used Earth’s Magnetic Field as a Navigational Guide for Centuries. Researchers Want to Change That
31. 24 April
32. The iRobot Roomba Max 705 Is Ready to Conquer Homes With Pets Using One Major Weapon: Power
33. Desperate to Compete With ChatGPT, Google Has a Plan to Get Gemini Everywhere: Money
34. 23 April
35. In Response to Labor Shortages, Japan Takes an Unprecedented Step: Equal Pay for Women
36. ‘Ozempic Pills’ Are Just Around the Corner—And They’re Not From Ozempic’s Maker
37. 22 April
38. The U.S. Seemed Happy to Revive its Nuclear Industry. Now, Tariffs Have Created a Problem
39. If You Wondered How the U.S. Would Get Rare Earth Elements After China’s Ban, the Answer Is Hard Drives
40. Who Was the First Person in History That Appeared on Video? It Might Be a Pope
41. 21 April
42. Inside Shenzhen’s Counterfeit Market: China Plays in a Different League When It Comes to Knock-Offs
43. Only Five People in the World Have Seen This New Color. The Trick: Lasers on Their Retinas