Jake Peterson
Jake Peterson
Senior Technology Editor
Experience
Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, and subscriptions.
Industrial action within the Assassin's Creed company continues
Staff at Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege support studio Ubisoft Barcelona are going on strike across July in response to mass layoffs. They'll be downing tools every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon from June 30th to July 17th, and are calling for protection against future "collective dismissals", together with the reinstatement of previously agreed promotion packages.
Beth Skwarecki
Beth Skwarecki
Senior Health Editor
Experience
Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years.
6/29/26 UPDATE: This review has been updated with instrumented test results.
Amid the electrification boom in 2023, the Chevrolet Bolt and Bolt EUV were the two least expensive electric vehicles in the marketplace. Then one day—poof—they were gone. General Motors had a whole legion of flashy new battery-powered SUVs and trucks waiting in the wings, leaving little room for the company's lowest-hanging fruit, so the Bolt's Michigan-based assembly line was packed up and shoved to the side. But there was a reason for it: The Little Chevy That Could's hardware and electrical architecture had maximized its potential—and little did we know, Chevrolet had already begun work on the 2027 Bolt before the last sheetmetal stamp was put away.
Jake Peterson
Jake Peterson
Senior Technology Editor
Experience
Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Tech Editor, and has been covering tech news and how-tos for nearly a decade. His team covers all things technology, including AI, smartphones, computers, game consoles, and subscriptions.
Enterprise investment in AI is booming. Gartner is calling 2026 an “inflection year” for organizations to align their AI projects with strategic business objectives. As the pressure to prove ROI mounts, executives and technology leaders are looking to agentic AI to drive the measurable financial outcomes their businesses seek.
Vaccines can be life-saving, but a woman’s immune response may be affected by her menstrual cycle
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The degree of protection that women get from vaccines may vary depending on when in their menstrual cycle they receive them. The concept of #cyclesynching suggests that women of reproductive age should vary their diet and lifestyle around where they are in their cycle, which isn’t supported by robust research. But evidence is mounting that the fluctuation of hormones that occurs during the menstrual cycle impacts a woman’s immune response, with the latest research suggesting it could affect how soon after being vaccinated against covid-19 they catch the infection.
Travelers Championship final round
-21 V Hovland (Nor), S Scheffler (US); -20 C Morikawa (US); -19 M Fitzpatrick (Eng); -18 W Clark (US), A Bhatia (US)
Selected others: -17 J.J. Spaun (US), A Fitzpatrick (Eng); -16 R MacIntyre (Sco); -14 N Hoejgaard (Den), K Bradley (US), T Fleetwood (Eng)
Earlier in May, the Texas Attorney General’s office sued Meta for deceiving users on the level of security offered by end-to-end encryption on WhatsApp.
Meanwhile, Apple and Google just announced that rich text messaging between Android and iOS users will now support end-to-end encryption. But that only works if you have RCS enabled on your smartphone, it does not apply to traditional SMS or MMS texting. With apps like Telegram, too, E2EE is not enabled by default on all messages and you need to start a “Secret Chat” each time you want true end-to-end encryption in a text chain.
Arcade shmuck
Picture the kind of spannerhead who would leave their starfighter's charging cable unplugged, the day before the big Mission to Save the Galaxy. Picture the absolute wellington who'd lift off with that cable dangling behind their ship like a ribbon of bogroll flapping from the heel of a pub drunk. Picture the consummate cheesewinkle who'd then have to keep latching onto random satellites to replenish their ship's batteries, while avoiding enemy fire.