There’s no big rush to bring SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy to Vandenberg Space Force Base. The Department of the Air Force has approved SpaceX’s plans to launch up to 100 missions per year from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. This would continue the tectonic turnaround at the spaceport on…
Global warming is awakening sleeping giants of ice at the South Pole. As recently as the 1990s, when the Greenland Ice Sheet and the rest of the Arctic region were measurably thawing under the climatic blowtorch of human-caused global warming, most of Antarctica’s vast ice cap still seemed securely…
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is making sweeping changes to force Google’s hand. It could be a consequential act of quiet regulation. Cloudflare, a web infrastructure company, has updated millions of websites’ robots.txt files in an effort to force Google to change how it crawls them to fuel its AI…
Nikon Small World photomicrography contest is an annual reminder that science can be beautiful as well as informative. A stunning image of a rice weevil on a single grain of rice has won the 2025 Nikon Small World photomicrography contest, yielding valuable insight into the structure and behavior of—and…
Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits. Thousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach of a major maker of software, the federal government…
Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4. On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI language model that reportedly delivers performance similar to what its frontier model Claude Sonnet 4 achieved five months ago but at one-third the cost and more than twice…
But they’re still unlikely to go on sale in the US. More than half of American car buyers would consider a Chinese car brand for their next purchase, an increase of almost 25 percent compared to last year. That’s according to a survey of prospective car buyers conducted annually…
Veo 3.1 is coming to the Gemini app and the Flow filmmaking tool. It’s getting harder to know what’s real on the Internet, and Google is not helping one bit with the announcement of Veo 3.1. The company’s new video model supposedly offers better audio and realism, along with…
Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults. On Tuesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced that the company will allow verified adult users to have erotic conversations with ChatGPT starting in December. The change represents a shift in how OpenAI approaches content restrictions,…
Leaks of the new tablet from a couple weeks ago appear to have been genuine. A couple of weeks ago, a YouTuber unboxed what appeared to be a refreshed iPad Pro in full retail packaging, suggesting it would be launching imminently. Today, Apple formally announced the new tablets, and…
