Exploited Data Workers in the Global South Are “the Secret Ingredient of AI Itself”
Despite being branded as autonomous and self-sustaining, artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South. These workers “are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself,” saysContinue Reading
Civil Servants Sworn in at NASA Ames
Brandon Torres Navarrete New civil servants and guests pose for a group photo with NASA and center leadership in the National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex (NFAC) 80-by-120-foot test section, N221 on Aug. 24, 2026. The civil servants were sworn-in the same day in the largest swearing-in ceremony ever hosted at NASA’sContinue Reading
Julie McEnery: Decoding the Cosmos
Roman Space Telescope Senior Project Scientist – Goddard Space Flight Center There’s a deep intellectual satisfaction in figuring things out; it’s why people do crosswords or jigsaw puzzles, and I get to do that for the universe itself! That is one of the many reasons I have always loved myContinue Reading
9 Things to Know About NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is set to launch at 7:26 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 30. While you wait to watch the launch, brush up on some key facts about this wide-view mission. Teams inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida encapsulateContinue Reading
NASA Starts Artemis III Engine Install; Boosters, Crew Training Advance
Technicians prepare to transfer the #2 RS-25 SLS (Space Launch System) rocket engine (front) to the work stand with the #3 engine (back) for integration with the Artemis III core stage rocket on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/ClaytonContinue Reading
NASA, Northrop Grumman Complete Cygnus XL Space Station Reboost
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo craft is pictured installed to the Unity module’s Earth-facing port as the International Space Station orbited 262 miles above the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Africa. NASA Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft today fired its thrusters for 20 mins, 43 seconds boosting the International Space Station’s orbit. The CygnusContinue Reading
‘Starwashing’: The new space race has an environmental problem
As artificial intelligence devours more land and electricity, a new breed of tech companies promises that outer space holds the solutions to our problems on Earth. If data centers are so hard to find a place for down here, why not put them hundreds of miles above the planet instead? Since power demand surges inContinue Reading
Roman Space Telescope Travels to SpaceX Hangar
HQ Web Team Aug 26, 2026 NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, encapsulated in its payload fairing, travels from the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility to the SpaceX hangar at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026, ahead of mating to a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman’s science instruments areContinue Reading
Before and after satellite imagery reveals devastation of the Nepal-Tibet flood
“I started running. Then a wall of water came thundering down as if it was an earthquake,” said Bibek Kumal, a 68-year-old labourer who was working downstream from the worst-hit Rasuwa district, near Nepal’s Himalayan border with Tibet. Subscribe ► https://www.youtube.com/user/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1 “I tried to grab my wife’s hand and takeContinue Reading
Shock and devastation remain, a day after Himalayan flood disaster
Amid reports that hundreds of people are still missing in Nepal and China after a floodwater surge slammed into towns and villages on Wednesday, aid teams have been working to reach communities cut off by the disaster.Continue Reading
How California is preparing for Traitor 47’s midterm election scrutiny
The Traitor has accused the state of ‘cheating’. But election officials say they are using outreach to combat misinformation., Voting from home California’s mail-in voting system has also become a particular target for The Traitor. Voting by mail surged during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, California passed a law toContinue Reading
Obituary: Ratko Mladic, war criminal convicted of Srebrenica genocide, dies
Ratko Mladic a Bosnian Serb war criminal, has died in prison aged 84., Ratko Mladic, a war criminal convicted over the first genocide on European soil since the second world war, has died prison in The Hague at the age of 84. Earlier this year, Serbia requested that Mladic beContinue Reading











