Rocket Report: Another hiccup with SpaceX upper stage; Japan’s H3 starts strong
Welcome to Edition 7.30 of the Rocket Report! The US government relies on SpaceX for...
Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode
It’s been a month since we first heard rumors that the Switch 2’s new Joy-Cons...
DeepSeek iOS app sends data unencrypted to ByteDance-controlled servers
A little over two weeks ago, a largely unknown China-based company named DeepSeek stunned the...
White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation
Sometime during the next several weeks, the directors of federal agencies will receive a draft...
ChatGPT comes to 500,000 new users in OpenAI’s largest AI education deal yet
On Tuesday, OpenAI announced plans to introduce ChatGPT to California State University’s 460,000 students and...
Meta torrented over 81.7TB of pirated books to train AI, authors say
Newly unsealed emails allegedly provide the “most damning evidence” yet against Meta in a copyright...
Protection from COVID reinfections plummeted from 80% to 5% with omicron
With the rise of omicron came the fall of long-lasting protection from reinfection with the...
The UK got rid of coal—where’s it going next?
With the closure of its last coal-fired power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, on September 30, 2024, the...
Parrots struggle when told to do something other than mimic their peers
There have been many studies on the capability of non-human animals to mimic transitive actions—actions...
Don’t panic, but an asteroid has a 1.9% chance of hitting Earth in 2032
Something in the sky captured the attention of astronomers in the final days of 2024....
US lawmakers push to quickly ban DeepSeek on government devices
Lawmakers are now pushing to immediately ban the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek on government devices, citing...
Review: 2025 Genesis Electrified GV70 is charming, but it needs updates
The Genesis Electrified GV70 continues to intrigue me. Together with the internal combustion engine version,...
Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite well-known, massive hacks
For much of the past year, the trail of destruction and mayhem left behind by...
NASA moves up target to return Butch and Suni, but not for political reasons
NASA should soon announce a new plan for the return of two of its astronauts,...
H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain
Cows in Nevada have been infected with a strain of H5N1 bird flu different from...