What time will SpaceX launch Starship Flight 15, its 1st double landing test, on Nov. 13? (Full mission timeline)

SpaceX is just days away from what might be its most ambitious test flight yet of the company’s massive Starship megarocket, the largest launch vehicle ever built. On Friday (Nov. 13), SpaceX will launch its next Starship test flight on a mission that, if successful, will return both its Super Heavy first-stage booster and ShipContinue Reading

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Three weeks ago, I wrote that if you can reverse engineer it, it’s open source. Looks like the frontier labs didn’t love that idea. Claude Code users are hitting “safety checks” in the middle of decompiling things. Some Codex users got warnings and account restrictions for poking at their ownContinue Reading

the-bad-news-for-microsoft-in-the-blue-tsunami

Elections have consequences — and big elections have big consequences. Few have been bigger than last week’s US midterms, featuring a Blue Tsunami that swept aside Republican control of Congress and signaled the end of Trumpenführerenführerism. Those consequences will especially be felt by Big Tech and Big AI. Voters madeContinue Reading

adobe-opens-creative-cloud-apps-to-third-party-ai-assistants

Adobe will open its Creative Cloud applications to third-party AI assistants, with the ability to edit content in Photoshop, After Effects, Illustrator, and Premiere from tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, the company announced at its Max event. The model context protocol (MCP) integration, due in private beta in earlyContinue Reading

goev-launches-chargenow-prefab-ev-charging-system

Australian EV charging specialist GoEV has launched a transportable, battery-backed charging system. The ChargeNOW system combines a 640 kW DC fast charger, battery energy storage system (BESS) and electrical switchboard in a single 20-foot (6.1-meter) skid-mounted package. The system is designed to enable high-power charging at transport depots, logistics facilitiesContinue Reading

weavegrid-launches-managed-charging-program-for-north-carolina’s-electric-cooperatives

WeaveGrid, a grid orchestration software provider for electric utilities, has launched a managed charging program in partnership with North Carolina’s Electric Cooperatives, an organization that supports the state’s 26 community-based electric cooperatives. The new program, EVConnectNC, allows members of participating cooperatives to earn incentives by charging their EVs during off-peakContinue Reading