A NASA NIAC project will try to Mapping Alien Continents using formation-flying optical interferometer. Two hierarchical nullers ~100 km apart that first suppress the host star by ~10¹⁰ in visible light, then combine the leftover planet light as a Michelson interferometer. That baseline gives an angular resolution of order 1 µas at 500 nm. AnContinue Reading
NASA Advanced innovation study will try to enable the next generation of solar sails featuring very high characteristic acceleration–potentially up to 2 mm/s²–and large effective areas exceeding 10,000 m², to support future ultra–high delta-V missions. These advanced solar sails would significantly transform space exploration and utilization, making possible a range of missions currently beyond theContinue Reading
Amodei recommended that AI companies immediately adopt measures aimed at “pacing” the development of their models, warning of potentially dire consequences if this technology is left unchecked. , Amodei recommended that AI companies immediately adopt measures aimed at “pacing” the development of their models, warning of potentially dire consequences if thisContinue Reading
From Stephen Hawking to today’s AI researchers, warnings about artificial intelligence have grown louder as the technology advances., From Stephen Hawking to today’s AI researchers, warnings about artificial intelligence have grown louder as the technology advances., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
This Week in 2016 Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter Roger Ailes Hires Peter Thiel’s Favorite Lawyer To Threaten NY Mag For Its Stories About Him ICE Denies FOIA Request From Lawyer Because It Might Help Her Better Defend Her Client After Massive CableContinue Reading
Debian released important point updates for both its current stable and previous stable versions on July 11, with Debian 12 officially entering its Long Term Support phase. The Debian project released updated point versions for both its current stable release and the previous one on July 11, 2026. Debian 13.6Continue Reading
A laptop fingerprint sensor unlocks the laptop and usually stops there. Immurok wants to do quite a bit more than that. It is a tiny wireless box that can unlock your desktop session, approve a sudo command, authenticate via polkit, log you into a server over SSH, generate TOTP codesContinue Reading
You can now give the Ubuntu desktop a ‘Liquid Glass’ makeover using a new GNOME Shell extension that was written with ‘significant’ help from AI. Its developer, Ryosuke Watanabe, said they loved the look of Liquid Glass – Apple’s new design material that gives UI elements light-bending surfaces with depthContinue Reading
DELIVAN, a subsidiary of Chinese OEM Chery, has developed a new electric van for the European market, and plans to unveil its first production models at the upcoming IAA Transportation 2026 trade show in Birmingham. DELIVAN’s first two all-electric production vans represent two different sizes within the company’s forthcoming EuropeanContinue Reading
Nexperia and Aurobay Technologies will explore a collaboration on gallium nitride (GaN) and silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors for electrified and hybrid vehicle platforms. Aurobay Technologies is a division of Horse Powertrain, a joint venture between Renault Group and Geely, and the collaboration aims to combine Nexperia’s GaN and SiCContinue Reading
BANGKOK (AP) — China hit back Wednesday against U.S. claims that Chinese artificial intelligence developers are engaged in “aggressive, malicious” industrial-scale efforts to extract capabilities from frontier American AI systems. The FBI, National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory Tuesday that said ChineseContinue Reading
An option pick a default terminal is to GNOME Settings, as the image above, teased by developer Ignacy Kuchciński last week, shows. Those of you who don’t use the command line often enough to care about what terminal is set as your system default, may be surprised to hear youContinue Reading
How do scientists studying space with data from a telescope hundreds of thousands of miles away know that what they are seeing is real? A new NASA project, Artifact InSPECtor, invites you to find out – and by doing so, to help missions like Euclid and NASA’s new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope answer fundamentalContinue Reading