Starship is about to launch on its fifth flight, and this time there’s a catch
Early Sunday morning, SpaceX will try something no one has ever done before. If all...
October 2024
Can walls of oysters protect shores against hurricanes? Darpa wants to know.
On October 10, 2018, Tyndall Air Force Base on the Gulf of Mexico—a pillar of...
SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality
BOCA CHICA BEACH, Texas—SpaceX accomplished a groundbreaking engineering feat Sunday when it launched the fifth...
Two comets will be visible in the night skies this month
The human mind may find it difficult to conceptualize: a cosmic cloud so colossal it...
Musk’s X blocked links to JD Vance dossier after hearing from Trump campaign
Elon Musk’s X blocked links to the JD Vance dossier after hearing directly from the...
Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff one year from today
One year from today, on October 14, 2025, Microsoft will stop releasing security updates for...
Rebellion brews underground in Silo S2 trailer
Rebecca Ferguson returns as Juliette in the second season of Apple TV’s Silo. Apple TV’s...
Smart gardening firm’s shutdown a reminder of Internet of Things’ fickle nature
AeroGarden, which sells Wi-Fi-connected indoor gardening systems, is going out of business on January 1....
People think they already know everything they need to make decisions
The world is full of people who have excessive confidence in their own abilities. This...
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing.
What if there was a way to sneak malicious instructions into Claude, Copilot, or other...
Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence—experts want it to stop
Has your dentist ever told you that it’s recommended to get routine dental X-rays every...
The Internet Archive and its 916 billion saved web pages are back online
The Internet Archive has brought its Wayback Machine back online “in a provisional, read-only manner”...
Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78
On Friday, Ward Christensen, co-inventor of the computer bulletin board system (BBS), died at age...
Expert witness used Copilot to make up fake damages, irking judge
A New York judge recently called out an expert witness for using Microsoft’s Copilot chatbot...
Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities
For a while now, companies like OpenAI and Google have been touting advanced “reasoning” capabilities...