ISS astronaut evacuation shouldn’t interfere with upcoming Artemis 2 moon mission, NASA chief says

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman provides an update on the International Space Station and its crew on Jan. 8, 2026, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington. (Image credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky) NASA is bringing some of the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) back to Earth early due to medical concerns withContinue Reading

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A new hardware enablement (HWE) will roll out to users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS this month, ahead of the Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS point release due on February 12. Deeper dive Linux 6.17’s Key New Features Ubuntu’s engineers periodically backport the Linux kernel and graphics drivers included in interim releases toContinue Reading

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Fair use is not just an excuse to copy—it’s a pillar of online speech protection, and disregarding it in order to lash out at a critic should have serious consequences. That’s what we told a federal court in Channel 781 News v. Waltham Community Access Corporation, our case fighting copyright abuse on behalfContinue Reading

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Three Democratic senators sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday asking them to remove X and Grok, arguing the apps directly violate the two tech companies’ “terms of service.”, Three Democratic senators sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday asking them to remove X and Grok,Continue Reading