I didn’t realize MS-DOS was training me for Linux
2026-05-27
How early DOS command-line skills helped me climb the Linux learning curve…Read MoreContinue Reading
Traveling Long Distance In A Lexus ES Is About To Get A Lot Easier
2026-05-27
If you like Lexus’ ES electric vehicles, but want to take one on a long road trip, Toyota’s new Arene system is here to help with route planning and more…Continue Reading
In more good news for Amazon, Snowflake signs $6B deal with AWS for AI CPU chips
2026-05-27
Snowflake has signed a new, enormous five-year deal with Amazon to secure chips for AI usage. Nvidia is once again being put on notice…Continue Reading
Released: NASA Goddard Issues Draft Request for Proposal for the Landsat 10 Spacecraft
2026-05-27
Landsat Project Science Support May 27, 2026 The Landsat 10 Spacecraft Draft Request for Proposal (DRFP) is available for review via SAM.gov as of May 18, 2026. This solicitation marks a major milestone in continuing the decades-long partnership between NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) to acquire, archive, and distribute multispectral imagery of Earth’sContinue Reading
Critical Insights Days Before the SPACEX IPO
2026-05-27
Elon Musk and SpaceX Have the High Ground. How much will that matter? SpaceX already has almost all of the satellites and launches. He will is making the satellites and the rockets ten to 100 times better in the year or two. Are the bears right when they say that SpaceX will only be aContinue Reading
A Closer Look At The Piper PA-47 Private Jet
2026-05-27
The Piper PA-47 PiperJet, an ambitious project from the renowned aircraft manufacturer Piper Aircraft, stands as a testament to how the evolution of the very light business jet design has evolved and how the business aviation market has evolved. Announced in the mid-2000s, the PiperJet was intended to be aContinue Reading
Air New Zealand To Expand Long-Haul Network From Christchurch By Resuming 3 Routes
2026-05-27
Air New Zealand is set to return to long-haul flying from New Zealand’s second largest city this coming October, with the flag carrier announcing its plans to resume services onboard the Boeing 787-9 from Christchurch Airport (CHC) to Perth International Airport (PER), Singapore Changi Airport (SIN), and Tokyo Narita AirportContinue Reading
Telecom Industry Covertly Funds Sleazy Attacks On Community Broadband Efforts In Massachusetts
2026-05-27
Like most of the U.S., Western Massachusetts towns and cities have spent decades dealing with expensive, spotty, and slow broadband from private telecom monopolies like Comcast and Verizon. As a result, a lot of these towns and cities have explored building their own community owned fiber networks. Community broadband hasContinue Reading
UK cyberspying chief calls AI ‘an unstoppable force’ and warns about Russia
2026-05-27
BLETCHLEY, England (AP) — Artificial intelligence is “an unstoppable force” that is being weaponized in ways that fall just short of traditional warfare, the U.K. cyberspying chief warned Wednesday. Anne Keast-Butler, director of the communications intelligence agency GCHQ, said that Britain and its allies are in “a space between peaceContinue Reading
Energy Department takes steps toward allowing plutonium for fuel
2026-05-27
The Energy Department has historically used plutonium in nuclear warheads., The Energy Department has historically used plutonium in nuclear warheads., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
Don't Expect a Raspberry Pi 6 Until At Least 2028
2026-05-27
If you’ve been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer. Eben Upton joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, James Adams, the CTO of Hardware Engineering, and Gordon Hollingworth, the CTO of Software Engineering, for a Reddit AMA on r/engineering last week, and the PiContinue Reading
I Tried Firefox Smart Window, and It Won Me Over a Little
2026-05-27
Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot. It’s been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these can be disabled, the sheer pace of theContinue Reading
Raspberry Pi 6 won’t arrive before 2028 (and won’t have an NPU)
2026-05-27
The Raspberry Pi 6 won’t be released before 2028 and it won’t feature an onboard NPU to handle AI compute tasks. Insight into plans for the Pi 6 were shared by three of the company’s key engineers and leaders in an AMA (ask me anything) session on Reddit on 21Continue Reading