New observations from NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft reveal that the Zwan-Wolf effect — a phenomenon once thought unique to Earth’s magnetosphere, in which charged particles are squeezed like toothpaste coming out of a tube along magnetic structures called flux tubes — is also reshaping the Red Planet’s upper atmosphere. An artisticContinue Reading
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU This view of the Martian surface, captured by NASA’s Psyche spacecraft on May 15, 2026, shows streaks that have formed due to wind blowing over impact craters in the Syrtis Major region. The image scale is nearly 1,200 feet (360 meters) per pixel. The wind streaks extend to about 30 miles (50 kilometers)Continue Reading
For a lot of people, Bitwarden became the go-to password manager after the LastPass fiasco. Free, open source, and trustworthy, it has gained a reputation by offering a free tier, keeping the code open, and not pulling the rug. But that comes at a cost; any hit to its imageContinue Reading
New details from federal investigators have revealed the final cockpit exchanges aboard a UPS Airlines cargo flight that crashed shortly after takeoff in Louisville, Kentucky, killing 15 people, including all three pilots on board. The new information, released on Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board, was made public duringContinue Reading
The next-generation Northrop Grumman B-21 Raider is now test flying with the United States Air Force and is expected to enter service in 2027. The first bomber the B-21 is expected to replace is the B-1B, before eventually replacing the B-2 Spirit and operating alongside the B-52 into the 2050s.Continue Reading
A UK consortium has completed an end-to-end circular rare earth supply chain for electric vehicle motor magnets, with Ford validating the results at its R&D facility in Dunton, UK. The chain ran as follows: Ionic Technologies, a Belfast-based subsidiary of Australia’s Ionic Rare Earths (ASX: IXR), recycled scrap NdFeB magnetsContinue Reading
The House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee has released its latest version of the Surface Transportation Reauthorization bill, popular known as the highway bill. As it stands, the bill would not reauthorize funding for the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) program. It would also repeal the DOT’s Reduction of Truck EmissionsContinue Reading
A couple weeks back, Supreme Court watcher Steve Vladeck pointed out a fascinating “tell” by Justice Samuel Alito in dealing with stays that he will issue on shadow docket requests. If he is prone to agree with the underlying claim, he’ll issue an unbounded stay on a lower court’s ruling.Continue Reading
NEW YORK (AP) — Call him the Trader in Chief. Recent presidents have stayed away from trading stocks in companies whose fortunes they could lift or scuttle with the stroke of a pen, but Traitor 47 smashed that precedent in the first quarter of this year with more than 3,600Continue Reading
“SpaceX’s operations and workplace matters are not within the City’s purview.”, “SpaceX’s operations and workplace matters are not within the City’s purview.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
At the Open Source Summit this week, Microsoft announced a range of open source-focused updates, ranging from new Linux distro releases to agentic AI tooling. Brendan Burns, co-founder of Kubernetes and Corporate VP for Azure OSS and Cloud Native at Microsoft, delivered a keynote on their technological shift from cloudContinue Reading
It is a matter of preference to use system cleanup utilities on a computer or smartphone. On Linux, we have many such tools that handle everything from clearing browser caches and old package archives to shredding files and wiping free space. They range from quick CLI scripts to full-blown graphicalContinue Reading
Electric trucks have passed an inflection point—in many cases, their total cost of ownership is lower than that of legacy trucks. But for a fleet operator, evaluating the economic case for electrification involves some complex calculations involving fuel costs, projected maintenance costs, duty cycles, CapEx vs Opex, etc. Or doesContinue Reading