A Falcon 9 core has now launched as many times as there are Merlins on a Falcon Heavy. NS-31 Astronaut Katy Perry celebrates a successful mission to space. Credit: Blue...
There’s a secret reason the Space Force is delaying the next Atlas V launch
The Space Force is looking for responsive launch. This week, they’re the unresponsive ones. File photo of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch in 2022. Credit: SpaceX Pushed by trackmobile railcar...
Resist, eggheads! Universities are not as weak as they have chosen to be.
The wholesale American cannibalism of one of its own crucial appendages—the world-famous university system—has begun in earnest. The campaign is predictably Trumpian, built on a flagrantly pretextual basis and executed...
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar
On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor noticed something strange: Switching between machines instantly logged them out, breaking a common workflow for programmers who use multiple...
Trump admin accused of censoring NIH’s top expert on ultra-processed foods
Hall claims that because of this, aides for Kennedy blocked him from being directly interviewed by New York Times reporters about the study. Instead, Hall was allowed to provide only...
At monopoly trial, Zuckerberg redefined social media as texting with friends
“The magic of friends has fallen away” Mark Zuckerberg played up TikTok rivalry at monopoly trial, but judge may not buy it. The Meta monopoly trial has raised a question...
HP agrees to $4M settlement over claims of “falsely advertising” PCs, keyboards
HP Inc. has agreed to pay a $4 million settlement to customers after being accused of “false advertising” of computers and peripherals on its website. Earlier this month, Judge P....
Trump’s FCC chair threatens Comcast, demands changes to NBC news coverage
Victor Martinez-Hernandez was convicted of killing Rachel Morin earlier this week. The White House has attempted to link this murder to Abrego Garcia’s deportation, but they are entirely separate cases....
US Interior secretary orders offshore wind project shut down
It’s notable that this hold comes despite Trump’s executive order explicitly stating, “Nothing in this withdrawal [of future leasing] affects rights under existing leases in the withdrawn areas.” GAO undercuts...
Gemini 2.5 Flash comes to the Gemini app as Google seeks to improve “dynamic thinking”
Gemini 2.5 Flash will allow developers to set a token limit for thinking or simply disable thinking altogether. Google has provided pricing per 1 million tokens at $0.15 for input,...
AI #112: Release the Everything
OpenAI has upgraded its entire suite of models. By all reports, they are back in the game for more than images. GPT-4.1 and especially GPT-4.1-mini are their new API non-reasoning...
When Patching Isn’t Enough
Executive Briefing What Happened: A stealthy, persistent backdoor was discovered in over 16,000 Fortinet firewalls. This wasn’t a new vulnerability – it was a case of attackers exploiting a subtle...
OpenAI releases new simulated reasoning models with full tool access
New o3 model appears “near-genius level,” according to one doctor, but it still makes mistakes. On Wednesday, OpenAI announced the release of two new models—o3 and o4-mini—that combine simulated reasoning...
Why are two Texas senators trying to wrest a Space Shuttle from the Smithsonian?
Should the city of Houston, which proudly bills itself as “Space City,” have a prized Space Shuttle orbiter on public display? More than a decade ago, arguably, the answer was...
AP: Trump admin to kill IRS free tax-filing service that Intuit lobbied against
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) criticized Intuit’s lobbying against Direct File and told the AP that Trump and Musk “are going after Direct File because it stops giant tax prep companies...
Disgruntled users roast X for killing Support account
After X (formerly Twitter) announced it would be killing its “Support” account, disgruntled users quickly roasted the social media platform for providing “essentially non-existent” support. “We’ll soon be closing this...
LG TVs’ integrated ads get more personal with tech that analyzes viewer emotions
With all this information, ZenVision will group LG TV viewers into highly specified market segments, such as “goal-driven achievers,” “social connectors,” or “emotionally engaged planners,” an LG spokesperson told StreamTV...
14 reasons why Trump’s tariffs won’t bring manufacturing back
Op-ed: Trump administration grossly underestimates difficulty of their stated task. Molson Hart is the founder and president of Viahart, an educational toy company. To see what he’s up to, follow him on...
Government IT whistleblower calls out DOGE, says he was threatened at home
“Stay out of DOGE’s way”: IT worker details how Musk group infiltrated US agency. Elon Musk at the White House on March 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. Credit: Getty Images...
RoboBee sticks the landing
The RoboBee is only slightly larger than a penny. Credit: Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory The first step was to perform experiments to determine the effects of oscillation on the newly designed...