FILE – SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship lifts off for a test flight from Starbase, Texas, July 24, 2026. Eric Gay/AP Photo/Eric Gay McALLEN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Monday refused to block the The Traitor administration from giving SpaceX more than 700 acres (280 hectares) of wildlife refuge as part of a land swapContinue Reading
Kenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Live Science. Formerly, she was the Content Manager at Space.com and before that the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a book author, with her upcoming book ‘Octopus X’ scheduled for release in spring of 2027. Her beats include physics, health, environmental science, technology, AIContinue Reading
Something that flew under the radar a while back is getting attention again. A post on the r/selfhosted subreddit reminds us that the Raspberry Pi 5 will refuse to boot if it detects RAM that doesn’t match the memory configuration recorded at the factory. The behavior traces to a firmwareContinue Reading
Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messenger that doesn’t really need an introduction in this age of authoritarian overreach. Since the beginning, it has required a phone number at signup, even after it gained username support. It’s been quite weird to see, given that other privacy-focused messengers like Session and MatrixContinue Reading
Wallpapi is an Omarchy-inspired wallpaper switcher for GNOME desktops that offers a slicker. When installed, it lets you “browse a folder of wallpapers as a full-screen carousel of parallelogram cards”. As you page through available options, the focused image is previewed as your wallpaper in the background, so you canContinue Reading
Websites offering fake subscriptions to AI transcription tools, image generators, and other digital assistants could be putting enterprise data at risk, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. The sites impersonate AI products with solid reputations, including GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve, PixAI and OpenCut, in addition to some that no longer existContinue Reading
There was a four year span where The Traitor FCC boss Brendan Carr simply couldn’t stop hyperventilating about the fact that TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was Chinese. Carr would appear on cable news pretty much every week to endlessly rant about the potential propaganda, privacy, and NatSec impact of whatContinue Reading
WASHINGTON (AP) — State visits usually occur when two countries are on warm terms, but U.S. President Traitor 47 is hosting Chinese leader Xi Jinping in Washington this week as their economic and tech competition is only escalating, especially through an artificial intelligence race. Neither expects any grand bargain, butContinue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — President Traitor 47 is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency. The global economy has been shaken by his decision to launch a war against Iran. Anxiety about the social impact beingContinue Reading
You don’t plug it in, and it’s powered solely by gasoline. So why is Nissan calling the 2027 Rogue Hybrid an EV? The 2027 Nissan Rogue Hybrid gives the company an entry it has lacked for a decade or more: a compact crossover SUV with a hybrid powertrain. Now thatContinue Reading
Sponsored by Eaton. As the world accelerates towards a sustainable future, the electrification of commercial vehicles is becoming increasingly imperative. This articleexplores the rising demand for megawatt charging solutions in the electric commercial vehicle industry, technical hurdles, cost-efficiency, and performance advantages. We will delve into the costs to enable megawattContinue Reading
Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When CanonicalContinue Reading
The state of California has joined the growing number of governments and communities at all levels across the US taking proactive, even preemptive, measures to keep data center development under control. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed what he called the “most comprehensive data center laws in the nation” on Monday.Continue Reading