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  • Scientists Finally Solved the Mystery of Earth’s ‘Great Dying.’ It’s Bad News for Our Future

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/shells-and-marine-fossils-1200×675.jpg”] Roughly 252 million years ago, nearly all life on Earth vanished. In a blink of geologic time, the Permian-Triassic mass extinction—also known as the Great Dying—wiped 96% of marine species and 70% of terrestrial species off the planet. The question that has plagued researchers for decades is, why? Well, hang on a…

  • Anker 8-in-1 Docking Station Is Just $1 Away From Its Black Friday Price, Turning Your Laptop Into a Dual-Monitor Setup With Two HDMI Ports

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Anker-Laptop-Docking-Station-Dual-Monitor-8-in-1-USB-C-Hub-1200×675.jpg”] A USB-C hub going on sale is really not all that newsworthy, but this one is worth stopping for. The Anker PowerExpand 8-in-1 USB-C PD Media Hub is down to $41 at Amazon right now. That’s 24% off its regular $54 price, and for that money it gives you a genuinely usable…

  • ‘Sugar’ Showrunner on How It’s Changed Now That the Audience Knows the Sci-Fi Twist

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Sugar_dogs-1200×675.jpg”] When Sugar debuted in 2024, audiences initially thought Colin Farrell’s character was just a regular ol’ Los Angeles private detective. Sure, he was unusually empathetic, could seemingly communicate with animals, and spoke an alarming array of languages. But most folks were not anticipating the mid-season twist that revealed John Sugar’s quirks were…

  • Forget JBL, This IPX7 Waterproof Outdoor Bluetooth Speaker Is 40% Off in Amazon’s Clearance Push

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/outdoor-speaker-1200×675.jpg”] You can now grab a portable, completely waterproof Bluetooth speaker without spending a lot of money. The Houl Zallee speaker is built to add life to outdoor parties with its durable, rugged design, and the black version is now discounted by 40% on Amazon. This drops the usual $100 price to only…

  • DHS Cybersecurity Reportedly Has an ‘I’m Sure It’s Nothing’ Problem

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2025/11/DHS-homeland-security-sign-1200×675.jpg”] Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach once? Shame on the intruder. Dismissed a valid alert about a cybersecurity breach twice? Something may be systemically wrong. Last month Nextgov/FCW reported that, per anonymous sources, an unknown attacker with as-yet unknown affiliations had compromised the Homeland Security Information Network, a database intended…

  • Anthropic Says Claude’s Values Are Different Depending on Which Language You’re Using

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/03/dario-amodei-legal-brief-1200×675.jpg”] If you’ve ever tried chatbots in multiple languages, you already know the languages have slightly different personalities. As part of a new report on behavior inconsistencies published on Monday, Anthropic researchers acknowledged this quirk. Rather unsettlingly, they note that due to differences in the attributes of texts the models are trained on,…

  • Flock Says ‘We Hope to Resume’ Work With LAPD After Getting Dropped

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/LAPD-patrol-cars-1200×675.jpg”] Flock was dropped by the Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday after a three year contract was allowed to expire without renewal. But the video surveillance company, which works with police to monitor cities across the U.S., tells Gizmodo that while it was surprised by the decision, it hopes to resume work…

  • The Long-Delayed New Siri Makes Its Public Debut

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Siri-AI-1200×675.jpg”] As my colleague Raymond Wong noted earlier today: Apple f*cking did it—Siri AI, the long-delayed Apple AI assistant with “personal context” doesn’t suck—a huge achievement when you consider how much Apple has struggled with Siri suckage over the years. He also noted that if you choose, you can join the public beta…

  • Archaeologists Just Found the Earliest Known Named Scientist in the Ancient Americas

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/Saktahnwaax-glyphs-annotated-1200×675.jpg”] In 2010, archaeologist David Stuart and colleagues ran into a painted chamber at Xultun, a Maya relic in modern-day Guatemala. Then the team noticed that the many mathematical and astronomical formulas appeared to be attributed to someone—an individual whose name has now been identified. In a paper published today in Antiquity, the…

  • Apple F*cking Did It: One Month With Siri AI

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    [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https://gizmodo.com/app/uploads/2026/07/siri-ai-hands-on-3-1200×675.jpg”] The first public beta for iOS 27 is now available for download, which means if you have a supported iPhone, you can try out the new Siri AI before it officially rolls out this fall. This public beta is equivalent to the third developer beta of the new iPhone software. While there…