“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...
HP has new incentive to stop blocking third-party ink in its printers
The third option is for manufacturers to make available, such as via the manufacturer’s website, “to purchasers remanufactured cartridges, either manufacturer or nonmanufacturer branded, for, at minimum, registered products.” As...
Trump’s DOJ is not falling for Sam Bankman-Fried’s MAGA makeover on X
Filed under “random probably bad ideas” SBF is still twisting facts to hide FTX crypto losses, DOJ says to block new trial. Ever since Donald Trump took office and declared...
Lucid announces midsize EV platform, says profitability lies with SUVs
Lucid’s entry into the highly competitive, high-volume midsize SUV market will be key to achieving profitability, the company told investors today. And it’s going to do that with a trio...
Perplexity’s “Personal Computer” brings its AI agents to the, uh, Personal Computer
Last month Perplexity announced the confusingly named “Computer,” its cloud-based agent tool for completing tasks using a harness that makes use of multiple different AI models. This week, the company...
Centuries before the Inca, Peru’s wealthy imported parrots from afar
The Inca Empire’s system of roads were built on centuries-old trade routes. This large, elaborate Ychsma funerary bundle features a wooden mask painted with cinnabar and adorned with a parrot-feather...
Apple’s MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks
Apple’s MacBook Neo is the company’s first serious effort to break into the sub-$1,000 laptop business, challenging midrange Windows laptops and Chromebooks with its $599 starting price and its focus...
Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense
Valve said point-blank that transferability of in-game items “is a right we believe should not be taken away, and we refuse to do that” despite the NYAG’s request. Valve also...
Rivian reveals pricing and trim details for its R2 SUV
Between the antics particular to a certain car company and the industrial chaos that was set off by COVID (then compounded by the invasion of Ukraine) it’s easy to have...
