Scientists think one of the most important events in the early solar system was a colossal collision between the young Earth and a Mars-sized body known as Theia. The impact likely vaporized huge quantities of rock and hurled material into space. Some of that debris eventually came together to form the Moon, where NASA’s ArtemisContinue Reading
Alaska Airlines has quietly begun selling selected Breeze Airways flights, an unusual tie-up that looks far more significant on a route map than it currently is in practice. Alaska has confirmed to Cranky Flier that it has an interline agreement with Breeze, but the initial test is limited to standaloneContinue Reading
Private jets often cruise above the traffic used by commercial airlines, but the reason is not simply that business aviation has access to a higher layer of sky. The aircraft themselves are optimized for a different mission. A Gulfstream G650, for example, can climb to an initial cruise altitude ofContinue Reading
Some of the guardrails that OpenAI included in its ChatGPT for Teens product don’t work as intended and the chatbot poses an “unacceptable risk” to children, according to a report Wednesday by Common Sense Media. The watchdog group urged OpenAI to restrict the chatbot to adults “until it can offerContinue Reading
“From our experience, we really want that hospitality to be human to human.”, “From our experience, we really want that hospitality to be human to human.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process. Ubuntu 26.10’s signed build of GRUB, which is only used on systems if Secure Boot is turned on, no longer supports /boot on Btrfs, XFS,Continue Reading
Cisco is adding AI agents to Webex group chats so colleagues can assign them work and share the results, part of a wider revamp of the Webex app. Announced at the WebexOne conference Wednesday, users will soon be able to @mention agents in Webex “spaces” to help schedule meetings, takeContinue Reading
Learn what’s new in the LibreOffice 26.8 release across Writer, Calc, Impress and the rest of the suite. LibreOffice 26.8 was released on 26 August 2026 for Windows, macOS and Linux. The updates are heavier on Writer than on Base or Draw, which is the usual pattern. The useful workContinue Reading
How does an operating system that isn’t proprietary or powered by the Linux kernel manage to run Docker, you ask? Well, it would need features like namespaces and cgroups. That’s exactly what Vinix did, adding its own implementations of those plus overlayfs and seccomp, allowing the stock Alpine Linux DockerContinue Reading
Since 2022, Google’s Open Source Software Vulnerability Reward Program (OSS VRP) has been the path for outside researchers to get paid for reporting security flaws in the company’s open source code, including projects like Flutter, Angular, Go, and Fuchsia. With an announcement on X, they have now decided to discontinueContinue Reading
Months after revealing its Surface Laptop Ultra, Microsoft has announced that the Nvidia RTX Spark-equipped device will launch on October 16th. Pricing starts at $2,599 for the base configuration, featuring an 18-core CPU, 24GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. The Surface Laptop Ultra ships with a 15-inch HDR touchscreen display with up to 2,000Continue Reading
On one hand, it’s great to see a ruling like this. On the other hand, it’s not going to set any precedent, not even in its own jurisdiction. But it does push this conversation forward, judicially speaking, which means other cases reliant on ALPR tech have some new reference materialContinue Reading
LONDON, United Kingdom, October 1, 2026, ZEX PR WIRE — Tesla’s European sales recovery showed further signs of progress in September, with new vehicle registrations increasing in several major markets and giving investors another data point on demand for the electric vehicle maker. Registrations rose 61.9% year over year in France…Continue Reading