What the nostalgic throwback lacks in complexity it makes up for in repetitive charm. If you were working a retail job at a movie rental store in the early ’90s, there’s a decent chance you couldn’t wait to clock out for the day and escape from the daily grind…
Cellular modems are complex black boxes of legacy code, but Google is making them safer with Rust. Modern smartphone operating systems have myriad systems in place to improve security, but none of that helps when attackers target the modem. Google’s Project Zero team has shown it’s possible to get…
NZXT will forgive up to $5,000 in debt for customers of the Flex program. PC hardware company NZXT and its billing partner, Fragile, have agreed to a $3,450,000 settlement in response to a class-action complaint regarding NZXT’s Flex PC rental program. NZXT announced Flex in August 2024, saying that…
The Slate Truck will start in the “mid-$20,000s” when it goes on sale in late 2026. The electric pickup startup Slate Auto started the week well. This morning, it announced it has raised $650 million in its latest funding round. Slate is a refreshing outlier among the aspiring new…
LLM use is the most demoralizing problem I’ve faced as a college instructor. I’ve been teaching college Earth science courses as a part-time faculty member for a long time now, all while juggling other jobs. I started because it was enjoyable; no one gets into this line of work…
Record domestic oil and gas production hasn’t saved US drivers from price spikes. In President Donald Trump’s telling, the United States has fuel enough to hover above the chaos that his attack on Iran has triggered in global energy markets. “We’re in great shape for the future,” Trump said…
“I can’t imagine a better crew that just completed a perfect mission right now.” Slamming into the atmosphere at more than 30 times the speed of sound, NASA’s Orion spacecraft blazed a trail over the Pacific Ocean on Friday, returning home with four astronauts and safely capping humanity’s first…
A now-vanished plate under North America may open the crust below Yellowstone. North America wouldn’t look much like it currently does without a tectonic plate that has largely been lost to the Earth’s geological history. The Farallon plate, which has since largely vanished underneath North America, helped build the…
Algorithms, not drivers, are deciding how hard to accelerate, and that’s no good. Formula 1 is enjoying something of an unexpected break right now. The war in the Middle East saw the cancellation of F1 races that were due to be held this month in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.…
Windows Insider builds remain confusing, but they should be more predictable. Microsoft says it hears the complaints people have about the current state of Windows, and it wants to fix them. One of those fixes is another overhaul for its Windows Insider Program, the public beta system that Microsoft…
