There are defamation lawsuits designed to win, and then there are defamation lawsuits designed to generate headlines for your fans on social media, punish journalists, and maybe — if you’re lucky — force a settlement or intimidate future reporting. FBI Director Kash Patel’s brand new defamation lawsuit against The AtlanticContinue Reading
Ubuntu has announced the codename for Ubuntu 26.10 is… “Stonking Stingray”. As codenames go it’s certainly unique. The distro gives each release a codename: an alliterative pairing of adjective and animal, the latter of which becomes the release mascot. The tradition dates back to the first Ubuntu release in 2004Continue Reading
President Traitor 47 unexpectedly opened the door to a Spirit Airlines bailout on Tuesday, floating federal support for the troubled Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier during an interview that was otherwise centered on airline consolidation. The Traitor said he opposed a potential United-American merger, but drew a distinction with Spirit, saying he wouldContinue Reading
Pratt & Whitney has revealed that it is investing more than $100 million across three American sites in order to support an expansion initiative that will see it grow its Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) capacity, particularly for its GTF (Geared Turbofan) family of aircraft engines. While Texas will seeContinue Reading
Here’s which Android users qualify and how much money they could receive from the settlement., Here’s which Android users qualify and how much money they could receive from the settlement., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
LONDON (AP) — Apple’s next CEO John Ternus is a company veteran who rose through the iPhone maker’s hardware engineering ranks but until now has maintained a low profile. Ternus will take over as chief executive in September for Tim Cook, who turned Apple into a $4 trillion tech colossusContinue Reading
Samsung Electro-Mechanics is mass-producing a new set of ultra-high-voltage multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) rated from 1000 V to 1500 V, extending its C0G and X8G temperature-stable series to cover 800 V EV inverter systems and next-generation onboard chargers. All four devices share a 1210 package (3.2×2.5 mm) and hold capacitanceContinue Reading
AYK Energy’s 6 MWh battery system has passed sea trials aboard the Svitzer Balder, a harbor tug built by Uzmar shipyard in Türkiye, now heading to the Port of Gothenburg in Sweden. AYK describes it as the world’s most powerful electric escort tug and the first battery-methanol harbor tug everContinue Reading
An $899 CPU? In this economy? Review Ever since AMD’s cache-stacked Ryzen 7 5800X3D closed the gap with Intel in gaming, folks have wondered: if one V-Cache chiplet is good, surely two must be better. With the launch of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition (DE), we finally have ourContinue Reading
90% of schools already compliant, but at least now there’s paperwork Ministers are moving to turn England’s patchwork of school phone bans into law, after peers backed fresh changes to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill in a Monday vote.…, Read MoreContinue Reading
If you plan to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, you’re going to inherit two years’ worth of improvements. As an LTS-to-LTS jump, you don’t simply benefit from what’s new in Ubuntu 26.04, but everything else added in the 3 interim releases prior, namely UbuntuContinue Reading
Voyager 1, launched in September 1977, is currently exploring the farthest edges of the solar system. (Image credit: NASA) NASA engineers have shut down another instrument on Voyager 1 to preserve the power of the most distant spacecraft ever sent into space. The Low-energy Charged Particles experiment (LECP) was turned off on Friday (April 17)Continue Reading
(Image credit: NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center Follow/ Flickr, CC BY-NC) It turns out that living in space can have a lasting impact on how your brain works, researchers have found. In space, astronauts have to learn to live without gravity — whether they’re aboard the International Space Station (ISS) or on a journey toContinue Reading