NASA’s SpaceX 35th Commercial Resupply Services Launch – YouTube Watch On SpaceX will launch its latest cargo mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), and you can watch the action live. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch a robotic Dragon capsule to the orbiting lab from Florida’s Cape CanaveralContinue Reading
An illustration of a supermassive black hole blasting out a jet of plasma (Image credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva)) Using the NASA X-ray spacecraft Swift combined with radio observations, astronomers have observed a supermassive black hole burping radio jets 300 days after a heavy cosmic meal. The team was also able to roughly estimateContinue Reading
Canonical has confirmed the codename of next year’s Ubuntu 27.04 release as Tenacious T-Rex. It follows Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray, which is out on 15 October, both sequentially and alphabetically. The previous T release was Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr. Quite a contrast in creature between the two, no? AsContinue Reading
ONLYOFFICE is rolling out AI tools across every editor in its suite, but the open source versions do not have them built in. The company says the choice came in response to user feedback, making it so that those versions would require separate AI tool installations. If you didn’t know,Continue Reading
A Fixes tag in a kernel patch points to the commit that introduced the bug, but the last commit to touch a buggy line may only have moved the code to a new file. Sasha Levin, who co-maintains the stable and long-term support kernel trees, wants AI coding assistants toContinue Reading
The big Meta multi-state settlement got most of the headlines, and there’s been plenty of discussion about how it’s a bad deal for kids and pretty clearly anti-competitive. That’s thanks to a very strange clause that encourages Meta to make its own required feature changes the “industry standard” by convincingContinue Reading
This article was updated on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, to include additional context on the Lufthansa Boeing 747-8’s landing. It was originally published on Monday, October 12, 2026.Continue Reading
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner beat the Airbus A350-900 to the market, which has made it a much more popular widebody in the era of next-generation composite jetliners. However, the two planes share many technical features in common, with novel differences. In particular, comparing the 787-10, which is the closest inContinue Reading
“The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.”, “The policy update is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose.”, from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading
The front lines of electrification have spread to some seemingly-unlikely parts of the world, for various reasons. In Russia, the country’s war on Ukraine has resulted in major disruptions to the supply of refined oil products, boosting the demand for EVs. And, as elsewhere in the world, it’s mostly ChineseContinue Reading
Carrier Blaguss and FlixBus have deployed eight electric coaches made by Chinese manufacturer Yutong on a cross-border route connecting Vienna, Vienna Airport and Bratislava. The vehicles are being used in daily scheduled service between Austria and Slovakia— 90% of the scheduled kilometers on the service are now operated electrically. TheContinue Reading
Almost 12,000 books were banned between 2025 and 2026, a 5,000-book jump from the previous year, according to a Monday report by PEN America., Almost 12,000 books were banned between 2025 and 2026, a 5,000-book jump from the previous year, according to a Monday report by PEN America., from NewsnationContinue Reading
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