School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

School shooting survivor sues AI gun detection firm after system failed to spot weapon

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

The injured teenage survivor of a January 2025 shooting at a Nashville, Tennessee high school recently sued the manufacturer of an “AI gun detection” system that failed to detect the handgun that left two dead, including the shooter.

According to the lawsuit, which was filed in Davidson County court last month, the security company Omnilert either knew or should have known that there were “significant operational limitations in its gun detection system that could result in detection failures during actual emergencies, including limitations based on camera placement, proximity of the weapon to camera sensors, camera angle, lighting, and weapon visibility.”

Omnilert cofounder Ara Bagdasarian declined Ars’ invitation to answer questions about the lawsuit. System Integrations, the other defendant in the case, which resold the Omnilert system, also did not respond to Ars’ request for comment.

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Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

Five leading scientists were ousted from the annual meeting of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) in New Orleans on Friday. Their crime: handing out copies of an editorial, published in the journal Diabetes Care on April 29, sharply criticizing the Trump administration's ongoing attacks on scientific research.

Those ousted were Steven Kahn, professor of medicine at the University of Washington and editor-in-chief of Diabetes Care, who co-authored the published editorial; former ADA President Desmond Schatz of the University of Florida, Gainesville; Aaron Kelly, pediatrics professor at the University of Minnesota; Justin Ryder of Northwestern University; and Irl Hirsch, also of the University of Washington. The five were handing out reprints of the editorial outside a room where NIH director Jay Bhattacharya had been scheduled to speak. Bhattacharya canceled and another NIH official spoke in his stead.

"They physically grabbed us, forced us out of the conference center, and now are telling us we can no longer attend this meeting," Kelly told MedPage Today, which first reported the incident. "They're taking our lanyards. It really has come to this in America. Censorship is real. America needs to stand up. Scientists, stand up. Physicians, stand up."

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Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

Some ancient microbes frozen with Ötzi the Iceman are still growing

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern.

After he died in the Ötztal Alps, the Copper Age man now known as Ötzi lay alone and forgotten for 5,300 years, until a group of hikers stumbled on his freeze-dried remains in 1991. Since then, he’s received a lot of attention from scientists, who have sequenced his DNA, pored over his last meal and the remains of his gut microbes, and examined his clothes and his broken tools. Today, Ötzi lies in a high-tech resting place at the South Tyrol Museum of Archaeology in Italy, where, it turns out, his body is still home to a handful of cold-adapted yeast species that have probably been with him since just after he died.

Slightly morbid souvenirs from the Alps

Microbiologist Mohamed S. Sarhan (of the Institute of Mummy Studies at the private Eurac Research center) and his colleagues recently sampled material from Ötzi’s stomach and meltwater from inside his body, swabbed his skin, and even sampled airborne microbes from his frozen storage room and the lab outside it. They also took samples from a block of frozen alpine soil taken from next to Ötzi’s body back in 1991.

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Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it

Baby botulism outbreak: FDA still doesn't know cause—or how to prevent it

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

The Food and Drug Administration this week posted what critics call an "underwhelming" epilogue to the devastating outbreak of botulism in babies, which was linked to spore-contaminated formula made by ByHeart. Despite clear tracking of the contamination, the regulator still doesn't know how the bacteria arrived in the formula—or how to prevent it from happening again.

"The FDA's investigation into the root cause is ongoing with a focus on ingredients," the agency reported.

In the void, three companies at the center of the investigation are left pointing fingers at each other, with none publicly taking responsibility for the contamination.

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Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

Trump admin tries again to revive dying coal industry

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced his administration's latest attempt to prop up the US coal industry during an incoherent press event that randomly oscillated between energy issues and Trump's fixation with building and renovating monuments in DC. The energy portion of the events was also frequently disconnected from reality.

"Today we're taking historic action to bring down the price of energy and the cost of living for all Americans with the power of clean, beautiful coal," said Trump, apparently unaware that coal is one of the most expensive means of generating electricity in the US.

With wind and solar power getting cheaper, coal has become the second-most expensive way of producing electricity, trailing only the cost of building a new nuclear plant. As a result, no new coal plants have been completed in over a decade, and coal has gone from powering over half the electrical grid to producing only about 15 percent of the nation's electricity. That's before the indirect costs of coal use are considered. It produces the most greenhouse gas emissions per unit of energy, releases dangerous particulates and chemicals into the atmosphere, and leaves behind ash that has high levels of toxic metals.

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Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.

Not the next R8? Audi reveals mid-engined plug-in hybrid V8 Nuvolari.

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

A couple of weeks ago, we learned from Audi CEO Gernot Döllner that the automaker was likely working on a replacement for its R8 supercar. We now know what it will probably look like, as the brand unveiled the Nuvolari concept in Southern France yesterday on the eve of the Monaco Grand Prix.

The Nuvolari's styling is a departure from Audi's current design language, though it remains consistent with the Concept C, a more compact coupe that will use the same underpinnings as Porsche's electric Boxster. Similarly, the Nuvolari leverages another of Audi's stablemates within the Volkswagen Group empire: Lamborghini. As with both generations of R8, the Nuvolari uses Lamborghini's smaller mid-engined platform.

The Nuvolari looks rather clinical in these renderings. Credit: Audi

Dare I say the carbon bodywork is a bit slab-like? Credit: Audi

The Nuvolari's interior. Credit: Audi

In the past, that meant a wonderful-sounding naturally aspirated V10 lived behind the cockpit within the aluminum space frame chassis. But the Huracán is gone now, and with it, that engine. Now it's time for the Temerario, which amazed our reviewer when we tested one in February due to the accessibility of its performance and the improvements over its predecessor. The Nuvolari may even eclipse the Lamborghini for performance; with 987 hp (736 kW), it equals the Bugatti Veyron's output.

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Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money

Rocket Report: Blue Origin explosion still making headlines; Impulse raises money

fivenewscrypto    juin 08, 2026   

Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday's explosion of Blue Origin's New Glenn on its launch pad in Florida. Blue Origin aims to resume launches at the badly damaged launch facility by the end of the year, but there's good reason to be skeptical of this timeline. With New Glenn grounded, will Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos approach Elon Musk's SpaceX to launch his Blue Moon lander to the lunar south pole? It sure sounds like NASA is pushing for that.

As always, we welcome reader submissions. If you don't want to miss an issue, please subscribe using the box below (the form will not appear on AMP-enabled versions of the site). Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.

Spaceport development moves forward in Canada. There's been a lot of talk about the Canadian government's recent commitment to invest in a sovereign launch capability. There was the announcement last year of a federal budget of 182.6 million Canadian dollars ($131 million) over three years to establish a sovereign launch program. In March, the government said it would lease a dedicated launch pad at a commercially developed spaceport in Nova Scotia for national defense purposes, committing 200 million Canadian dollars ($144 million) to the deal. The agreement is a boon for Maritime Launch Services, which is developing Spaceport Nova Scotia after years of slow progress at the coastal site, SpaceQ reports.

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