What’s the difference between a person, an artifact, and an ecosystem? Ötzi the Iceman, Europe’s most famous mummy, is crawling with microbes, some long dead, some still eking out a living after thousands of years, and some very modern. After he died in the Ötztal Alps, the Copper Age…
Seller of the Sound Blaster Katana V2X doesn’t consider the behavior a vulnerability. Operating system makers take many steps to prevent their wares from accepting commands from remote devices. The safeguards, designed to thwart malicious attacks, typically require hackers to jump through all kinds of hoops to bypass the…
The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn’t ready to generate power yet. Just over a year ago, the Trump Administration issued an executive order meant to accelerate the development of nuclear power in the US. While an entire startup ecosystem has developed around the use of different—and typically…
Money would keep coal plants open, build the first new plants in over a decade. On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced his administration’s latest attempt to prop up the US coal industry during an incoherent press event that randomly oscillated between energy issues and Trump’s fixation with building and…
The Air succeeds as a minimalist, reliable fitness tracker, but Google’s AI Health Coach feels unnecessary. Smartwatches can track your health stats, but they also do a lot of other things you might not always want or need. The $100 Fitbit Air tracker ditches the screens that have become…
The Huracan gave us the R8s, now the Temerario lends itself to a new Audi. A couple of weeks ago, we learned from Audi CEO Gernot Döllner that the automaker was likely working on a replacement for its R8 supercar. We now know what it will probably look like,…
NASA expects to begin stacking the SLS rocket this summer for next year’s Artemis III launch. Welcome to Edition 8.44 of the Rocket Report! The news this week is decidedly weighted in favor of heavy-lift rockets, largely due to the fallout from last Thursday’s explosion of Blue Origin’s New…
Overpressure from the Blue Origin blast shattered windows at a hangar about a mile away from the pad. Last week’s explosion of a New Glenn rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida, was clearly a setback for Blue Origin and NASA, but it was a learning experience for safety officials looking to…
The superior RX 9070 also launched for $549 just over a year ago. At some point during the fog of 2021 or 2022, I noticed that my son’s preferred brand of fruit snacks had switched from including 0.9 ounces per pouch to 0.8 ounces per pouch. Most shrinkflation is…
By targeting large numbers of users, attackers increased their chances of success. Dashlane said that attackers mounted a coordinated hacking campaign against a large base of its users in an attempt to recover as many encrypted password vaults as possible. The password manager provider said fewer than 20 personal…
