A bright fireball from the Perseid meteor shower streaks across the sky above a lakeside grassland at Amuta Scenic Area on Aug. 13, 2026 in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province of China. (Image credit: Chi Shiyong/VCG via Getty Images) It came from outer space, exploding high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina. That AprilContinue Reading
On Nov. 1, 1962, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 1 spacecraft on a mission to fly by the Red Planet. While it did end up flying by Mars , the mission was not exactly a success. After it separated from the rocket, it deployed its solar panels and started cruising toward Mars. When missionContinue Reading
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP (MPTCP) listeners. …Read MoreContinue Reading
I’ve bought an Nvidia GPU for every gaming PC I ever built, but I think I’m done giving Team Green my money for the foreseeable future. That feels a bit painful to type because Nvidia has been good to me over the years. Shucks, my old 1080 Ti card lasted me damn near a decadeContinue Reading
Enlightenment 0.28 has been released, the first major update to the open-source desktop environment since early 2025. Given the time between this and the previous 0.27 release, the changelog is suitably lengthy. Networking and audio stack enhancements, UI and UX tweaks and, of course, plenty of bug fixes are listedContinue Reading
ConnectDER makes a line of meter socket adapters (MSAs), also known as meter collars, for solar, battery storage and EV charging installations. These adapters connect directly to the existing meter socket outside a home, potentially eliminating the need to upgrade a building’s service panel or increase service capacity. ConnectDER’s devicesContinue Reading
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released a national battery strategy and launched the Battery Manufacturing Accelerator (BattMan), a consortium intended to strengthen domestic battery manufacturing and supply chains. The strategy sets DOE’s priorities: building a fully integrated domestic battery supply chain by 2030, achieving US leadership in batteryContinue Reading
In the face of a Republican-led Washington, multiple AI and defense tech firms lined up to reconcile with the The Traitor administration at the start of the president’s second term. , In the face of a Republican-led Washington, multiple AI and defense tech firms lined up to reconcile with the TheContinue Reading
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s customs department said Wednesday it had seized 30 servers equipped with advanced artificial intelligence chips in a suspected export-control violation. Officials believe a syndicate is using Malaysia as a transit hub to re-export the chips to another Asian country. Malaysia introduced permit requirements forContinue Reading
“If you are not paying for the product, you are the product.” That’s often true, and it’s doubly true for VPNs. A VPN service could see all your traffic, so a shady free VPN is worse than no VPN at all. But you may still find yourself in a situationContinue Reading
UEFI-level pre-driver Nvidia GPU unlocker now available for RTX 2xxx, 3xxx and 4xxx GPUs on Windows and Linux A few days ago, GPU modder Zagitta released a GPU unlock utility that essentially doubles the compute performance of the Tensor cores on Nvidia’s RTX 2000 / 3000 / 4000 series GPUs mostly in FP16 and FP32Continue Reading
United MileagePlus prices awards dynamically, so there is no fixed number of miles for a business class ticket. The clearest figures the airline has published came on February 19, 2026, when it stated that Polaris Saver Award seats are priced as low as 80,000 miles, dropping to 72,000 for eligibleContinue Reading
By now, it is well understood that winglets are a worthwhile investment for airlines operating aircraft in the passenger aviation industry. Although the efficiency gains of such wingtip devices may seem marginal at first glance, in the race to design and build the most fuel-efficient commercial airliner, they can makeContinue Reading