Two launches this week delivered 61 more satellites to orbit for the Amazon Leo broadband network. Welcome to Edition 8.39 of the Rocket Report! There’s a lot of news to share in the universe of powerful rockets this week, and we’re delighted to sum it up in this week’s…
In addition to being full of screens, China now wants its cars to be packed with AI. The Beijing Auto Show is currently taking place in China, offering those of us behind the Trump tariff curtain a peek at what’s increasingly being dubbed the world’s most advanced car market.…
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more. Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers and on personal…
Meta said the Kenyan workers didn’t “meet our standards.” In February, numerous workers from a company that Meta contracted to perform data annotation for Ray-Ban Meta reported viewing sensitive, embarrassing, and seemingly private footage recorded by the smart glasses. About two months later, Meta ended its contract with the…
Using AI tools, the team reworked part of the ribosome to need one less amino acid. The genetic code is central to life. With minor variations, everything uses the same sets of three DNA bases to encode the same 20 amino acids. We have discovered no major exceptions to…
Beijing’s citywide ban restricts the sale, transport, and storage of drones. China’s new clampdown on drone sales and even the storage of drone components within the capital of Beijing stands out in a country that effectively built the global market for affordable commercial drones. The unprecedented citywide rules taking…
AI finds value in motorsport, multiplying limited computational fluid dynamics resources. Since the introduction of wings to racing cars halfway through the 1960s, airflow has been everything in racing. Until that point, the focus was on making a car as slippery as possible; less drag meant more top speed…
Old 86-DOS source code dates back to the time before Microsoft bought it. Several times in the last couple of decades, Microsoft has released source code for the original MS-DOS operating system that kicked off its decades-long dominance of consumer PCs. This week, the company has reached further back…
Most are keeping their subscriptions after signing up, too, research firm says. Six months after its launch, research firm Antenna estimates that the Howdy streaming service has more than 1 million subscribers. Roku debuted Howdy in August. The subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) service is $3 per month and doesn’t have…
Motorola’s foldable lineup is bigger and more spendy than ever. Motorola is crazy about foldables. With each passing year, the company has beefed up its folding phone lineup, and in 2026, there will be four devices launching on May 21. At the top end is the company’s first tablet-style…
