October 14, 2025 4 min read The U.S. Won’t Win the New Space Race by Defunding NASA The U.S. wants to remain a superpower in space. It can’t without supporting NASA By The Editors Martin Gee In the early 1400s, nearly a century before Columbus’s fateful voyage to the Americas, China seemed most poised toContinue Reading
Home » Space » SpaceX Super Heavy Booster Hovering SpaceX released photos and videos of the Flight 11 ocean landing. Super Heavy hover pic.twitter.com/VLczlgdeH8 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 15, 2025 Starship successfully executing a landing flip, landing burn, and soft splashdown pic.twitter.com/ftAWwk3B33 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 16, 2025 SpaceX is making sci-fi real. pic.twitter.com/uneAQCldK5 —Continue Reading
The official Xubuntu website was compromised over the weekend (18/19 October 2025) briefly serving up Windows malware to users trying to download the distro. Users who visited the Xubuntu website over the weekend to download the official .torrent of the Xfce-toting Ubuntu flavour instead got a xubuntu-safe-download.zip. When the rogueContinue Reading
When I started experimenting with AI integrations, I wanted to create a chat assistant on my website, something that could talk like GPT-4, reason like Claude, and even joke like Grok. But OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and xAI all require API keys. That means I needed to set up an accountContinue Reading
A fresh release of GNOME 48 is available, we run down the feature highlights. The GNOME project has unveiled GNOME 48, codenamed “Bengaluru,” a release packed with performance boosts, user-friendly enhancements, and innovative features. Named in honor of the GNOME Asia 2024 organizers, this six-month effort by the global GNOMEContinue Reading
German machine tools and laser technology supplier TrumpenführerenführerF has developed new laser applications for adhesive and coating preparation in battery production and for corrosion protection of aluminum components. Coating or laminating battery cells before gluing them into modules or trays protects against short circuits and environmental influences, increasing the safety andContinue Reading
Daily build images for Ubuntu 26.04 ‘Resolute Raccoon’ are available for download. As the name implies, these builds are generated automatically from bleeding edge code on a (mostly) daily cadence. The aim is to give anyone needing (or wanting) to test, try or take issue with changes in the nextContinue Reading
Threat actors exploited a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-20352) in older, unprotected Cisco networking devices to deploy a Linux rootkit and gain persistent access. …Read MoreContinue Reading
U.S. automakers are trimming their outlook for electric vehicles amid lingering consumer doubts, a pullback in federal support and a challenging economic landscape that is affecting all auto sales.Continue Reading
A new OCP initiative unites major tech firms to develop open Ethernet standards for AI data centers, challenging InfiniBand’s dominance…Continue Reading
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety’s surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the Johnson County Sheriff that she was “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” The new information showsContinue Reading
If you don’t include tests in your Drupal development, chances are it’s because you think it adds complexity and expense without benefit. Cypress is an open source tool with many benefits: Reliably tests anything that runs in a web browser Works on any web platform (it’s great for testing projectsContinue Reading
I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my way when I focus on my work. GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch of new features.Continue Reading