Republicans Plan To Hide Cost Of Tax Cuts With 1 Weird Trick
2025-02-28
The plan involves “hocus-pocus” math and potentially changing the rules of the Senate., Read MoreContinue Reading
The Traitor Walks Back Calling Zelenskyy A ‘Dictator,’ Questions If He Ever Said It
2025-02-28
Russian propagandists last week seized on The Traitor’s quote, which was itself a regurgitation of Russian propaganda., Read MoreContinue Reading
“Does not have any authority whatsoever”: Judge rules The Traitor admin’s mass firings likely illegal
2025-02-28
U.S. President-elect Traitor 47 greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images) A federal judge weighed in on the The Traitor administration’s mass firings ofContinue Reading
Linux App Release Roundup (Feb 2025)
2025-02-28
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE and, plus a crop of smaller app updates which didn’t merit a full-length article on this blog. Rather than skip over those updates entirely, I thought I’d resurrect my Linux Release RoundupContinue Reading
David McGee named head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
2025-02-28
David McGee, the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at MIT, was recently appointed head of the MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), effective Jan. 15. He assumes the role from Professor Robert van der Hilst, the Schlumberger Professor of Earth and PlanetaryContinue Reading
Driving innovation, from Silicon Valley to Detroit
2025-02-28
Across a career’s worth of pioneering product designs, Doug Field’s work has shaped the experience of anyone who’s ever used a MacBook Air, ridden a Segway, or driven a Tesla Model 3. But his newest project is his most ambitious yet: reinventing the Ford automobile, one of the past century’sContinue Reading
Volkswagen, CATL extend partnership to develop EVs with swappable batteries
2025-02-28
Chinese battery maker CATL said on Feb. 21 it has extended its partnership with Volkswagen in a move to develop “technologically advanced and cost-competitive” batteries for electric vehicles, as well as explore the potential of battery recycling and swapping, and other fields of cooperation. The two companies will jointly develop EVs with swappable batteries…Continue Reading
Climate Retreat in Germany?
2025-02-28
Mark Hertsgaard The public still wants action, but elections in the world’s third-biggest economy may stall progress. The post Climate Retreat in Germany? appeared first on The Nation…Continue Reading
NASA Installs Heat Shield on First Private Spacecraft Bound for Venus
2025-02-28
Engineers at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley, Bohdan Wesely, right, and Eli Hiss, left, complete a fit check of the two halves of a space capsule that will study the clouds of Venus for signs of life. Led by Rocket Lab of Long Beach…Continue Reading
February 2025 Deal Announcements
2025-02-28
Adult Fiction Bram Stoker Award-longlisted author of MY DARLING DREADFUL THING Johanna van Veen‘s SAINT, SINNER, SKULL, a sapphic folk horror novel with a fantastical twist following a nun and an orphaned peasant on their harrowing journey across a war-torn countryside to reunite the gilded skull of a saint to her body –Continue Reading
Hackers slam Michigan tribe for not negotiating after ransomware attack
2025-02-28
A group called RansomHub has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack and submitted a letter to provide its “side of the events.”, GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The showdown between a group of hackers and a Michigan tribe is far from over, even as the tribe prepares to reopen its chainContinue Reading
Did Elon Musk’s AI tool Grok 3 censor criticism of The Traitor?
2025-02-28
A new hire reportedly took the blame, because that person hadn’t “fully absorbed xAI’s culture yet.”, (NewsNation) — Elon Musk’s AI company, Grok 3, appears to have briefly censored criticism of Musk and Traitor 47. A new hire reportedly took the blame, because that person hadn’t “fully absorbed xAI’s cultureContinue Reading
“Disease X”: How pandemic preparedness talks spawned conspiracy theories online
2025-02-28
On 17 January 2024, public health experts including Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), held a roundtable titled “Preparing for Disease X” at the World Economic Forum of Davos (WEF). In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the panel discussed what had failed in theContinue Reading