NatGeo docuseries follows Blaine around the world to learn the secrets of ordinary people doing remarkable feats. Magician David Blaine smiles while running his hand through a flame. Credit: National...
This launcher is about to displace the V-2 as Germany’s largest rocket
Isar Aerospace’s first Spectrum rocket will launch from Andøya Spaceport in Norway. Seven years ago, three classmates at the Technical University of Munich believed their student engineering project might hold...
Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher
Giulio Coppi, a senior humanitarian officer at the nonprofit Access Now who has researched the use of blockchain in humanitarian work, says that blockchain technologies, while sometimes effective, offer no...
Sometimes, it’s the little tech annoyances that sting the most
Anyone who has suffered the indignity of a splinter, a blister, or a paper cut knows that small things can sometimes be hugely annoying. You aren’t going to die from...
We probably inherited our joints from… a fish
What do we have in common with fish, besides being vertebrates? The types of joints we (and most vertebrates) share most likely originated from the same common ancestor. But it’s...
The Wheel of Time delivers on a pivotal fan-favorite moment
Andrew Cunningham and Lee Hutchinson have spent decades of their lives with Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson’s Wheel of Time books, and they previously brought that knowledge to bear as...
How the language of job postings can attract rule-bending narcissists
Why it matters Companies write job postings carefully in hopes of attracting the ideal candidate. However, they may unknowingly attract and select narcissistic candidates whose goals and ethics might not...
Why Anthropic’s Claude still hasn’t beaten Pokémon
Weeks later, Sonnet’s “reasoning” model is struggling with a game designed for children. Gotta subsume ’em all into the machine consciousness! Credit: Aurich Lawson Gotta subsume ’em all into the...
Rocket Report: Falcon 9 may smash reuse record; Relativity roving to Texas?
All the news that’s fit to lift “It is what he has always dreamt of.” The Falcon 9 booster that launched Crew 10 is seen shortly after landing near its...
Measles arrives in Kansas, spreads quickly in undervaccinated counties
On Thursday, the county on the northern border of Stevens, Grant County, also reported three confirmed cases, which were also linked to the first case in Stevens. Grant County is...
Cloudflare turns AI against itself with endless maze of irrelevant facts
On Wednesday, web infrastructure provider Cloudflare announced a new feature called “AI Labyrinth” that aims to combat unauthorized AI data scraping by serving fake AI-generated content to bots. The tool...
California bill would force ISPs to offer 100Mbps plans for $15 a month
Several states consider price requirements While the California proposal will face opposition from ISPs and is not guaranteed to become law, the amended bill has higher speed requirements for the...
Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law
Spotted by TorrentFreak, AGCOM Commissioner Massimiliano Capitanio took to LinkedIn to celebrate the ruling, as well as the existence of the Italian Piracy Shield. “The Judge confirmed the value of...
“Infantile amnesia” occurs despite babies showing memory activity
For many of us, memories of our childhood have become a bit hazy, if not vanishing entirely. But nobody really remembers much before the age of 4, because nearly all...
Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers
Caution over citations and sources Claude users should be warned that large language models (LLMs) like those that power Claude are notorious for sneaking in plausible-sounding confabulated sources. A recent...
Judge orders Musk and DOGE to delete personal data taken from Social Security
The lawsuit was filed by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees; the Alliance for Retired Americans; and American Federation of Teachers. “Never before has a group of...
Trump White House drops diversity plan for Moon landing it created back in 2019
That was then. NASA’s landing page for the First Woman comic series, where young readers could download or listen to the comic, no longer exists. Callie and her crew survived...
Boeing will build the US Air Force’s next air superiority fighter
Today, it emerged that Boeing has won its bid to supply the United States Air Force with its next jet fighter. As with the last fighter aircraft design procurement in...
CEO of AI ad-tech firm pledging “world free of fraud” sentenced for fraud
In May 2024, the website of ad-tech firm Kubient touted that the company was “a perfect blend” of ad veterans and developers, “committed to solving the growing problem of fraud”...
They Took MY Job?
No, they didn’t. Not so fast, and not quite my job. But OpenAI is trying. Consider this a marker to look back upon in the future, as a reflection. Before...