After the departures, only Manuel Kroiss—known as “Makro”—and Ross Nordeen will remain of the 11 cofounders who helped Musk set up xAI in San Francisco in March 2023. Last month,...
M5 MacBook Air review: Still the best MacBook for almost everybody
The M5 MacBook Air is a minor upgrade, but minor upgrades add up over time. Apple’s 15-inch M5 MacBook Air. Credit: Andrew Cunningham Apple’s 15-inch M5 MacBook Air. Credit: Andrew...
Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae
Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae. Some of the most extreme explosions in the universe are Type I superluminous supernovae. “They are one of the...
Measles vaccinations rose 291% among New Mexico adults during outbreak
In January 2025, a measles outbreak erupted on the western edge of Texas and soon spilled over to New Mexico and other states. The overall outbreak would become the largest...
Microsoft is working to eliminate PC gaming’s “compiling shaders” wait times
Getting everyone on board Microsoft first rolled out Advanced Shader Delivery in its SDK last September and added support to the ROG Xbox Ally as a proof of concept by...
Aliens announce their presence in latest Disclosure Day trailer
There are different marketing strategies when it comes to movie trailers. One is the Project Hail Mary approach, in which the final trailer pretty much gives away the entire movie,...
BYD’s latest EVs can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes
Targeting the likes of Porsche, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz marks the expansion of BYD’s offerings from the mass market to the high end. The Chinese group started the Denza joint venture...
Rocket Report: Pentagon needs more missile interceptors; Artemis II clears review
SpaceX has started commissioning a second launch pad at the company’s Starbase facility in Texas. Firefly Aerospace’s seventh Alpha rocket rises above its launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base,...
NASA officials sidestepped questions on Artemis II risks—there’s a reason why
“This ought to make for some good reading,” NASA’s mission management team chair said. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman joins the Artemis II crew for a press conference at Kennedy Space...
Woman sneezes out maggots after fly larvae get trapped in her deviated septum
She had surgery to remove the mucus munchers, which recovered 10 larvae at various stages and a pupa. A genetic test and DNA sequencing confirmed they were sheep bot flies,...
Slay the Spire 2 is a bit too familiar for its own good
Do you remember the joyful satisfaction you felt when you really started to understand Slay the Spire? This isn’t a totally rhetorical question. If you’re reading this piece about Slay...
Figuring out why AIs get flummoxed by some games
When winning depends on intuiting a mathematical function, AIs come up short. Oddly, the training methods that work great for chess fail on far simpler games. Credit: SimpleImages With its...
Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company
Over 7 million cable and fiber locations Astound is already the product of industry consolidation via a series of private equity deals that combined Wave Broadband, RCN, and Grande Communications....
Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
The invisible code is rendered with Public Use Areas (sometimes called Public Use Access), which are ranges in the Unicode specification for special characters reserved for private use in defining...
Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty
The DOJ alleged in its 2024 filing that Adobe’s handling of subscriptions violated the Restore Online Shoppers’ Confidence Act, which was passed in 2010 to prevent deceptive charges in online...
Doubling the voltage: What 800 V architecture really changes in EVs
According to Leapenergy, however, 800 V prices are coming down. Today, an 800 V platform costs an additional $1,180, but this is projected to fall to $420 by 2028. Where’s...
Another AT&T FirstNet user gets shocking $6,200 bill, at $2 per megabyte
If you’re an AT&T FirstNet customer and suddenly get hit with a $6,200 charge, the good news is that it’s probably a mistake and can be corrected. But actually getting...
Subscribers to Amazon Prime Video with ads lose 4K support on April 10
Starting on April 10, Amazon Prime subscribers will pay $5 per month for ad-free Prime Video without ads, up from the current $3 per month on top of their Prime...
The who, what, and why of the attack that has shut down Stryker’s Windows network
What else is known about Handala Hack? The group has existed since at least 2023. It takes its name from a character in the political cartoons of Palestinian artist Naji...
Live Nation director boasted of gouging ticket buyers, “robbing them blind”
Unsealed messages add wrinkle to trial after US agreed to settle with Live Nation. Credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg Newly unsealed documents show that a Live Nation regional director boasted...
